Will, a gay lawyer, and interior designer Grace have been best friends since college. Living in the same apartment complex, they're constantly in each other's business. Stirring the pot of melodrama is Grace's `employee', Karen, and Will's flamboyant friend, Jack.
And the Horse He Rode On: Season five kicks off as Grace meets a handsome doctor but faces nine months without dating, and Karen has a moral quandary. (S5, ep 1)
Jack lands a job as Kevin Bacon's assistant through bizarre means and Grace receives an offer from Leo. (S5, ep 2)
Grace's blossoming new relationship proves troublesome for Will when it causes her to have doubts about conceiving their child. (S5, ep 3)
Karen and Jack try to reunite a feuding Will and Grace by sending them to the same child's party. (S5, ep 4)
A reluctant Will and Grace go on a Halloween bike ride with her new beau, Leo. Meanwhile, Karen attends a gay men's therapy group. (S5, ep 5)
It's shocks all round when Will finds out his boss has been released from a mental home. The gang discover Karen is living in her limo. (S5, ep 6)
The Needle and the Omelette: Leo tricks Grace into meeting his parents. Meanwhile, Jack faces an acting dilemma and Will and Karen get Botox. (S5, ep 7)
Grace and Leo plan an extravagant bash in place of their invalid park nuptials, and Will has to come to terms with giving Grace away to another man. (S5, ep 8)
Grace and Leo plan an extravagant bash in place of their invalid park nuptials, and Will has to come to terms with giving Grace away to another man. (S5, ep 9)
Karen moves into Jack's apartment and soon turns the place into a disaster zone. Jack is also in hiding from the 'Gay Mafia'. (S5, ep 10)
Grace's loyalties are divided when she has to decide between taking Will or Leo to the theatre. Will faces a similar plight with Jack and Karen. (S5, ep 11)
Will and Elliot bond over being rubbish at football, and Karen goes on a date with a handsome restaurant owner. (S5, ep 12)
Fagmalion - Part 1: Gay it Forward: Karen sets Will up on a less than satisfactory date and Grace struggles to work out her new, bohemian neighbour. (S5, ep 13)
Fagmalion - Part 2: Attack of the Clones: Will and Jack help integrate Barry into his new lifestyle, and Grace is upset when Leo goes to Africa for a month for work. (S5, ep 14)
Jack faces Karen's wrath after befriending her rival, Lorraine. Meanwhile, Will and Grace try to rekindle their friendship with a games night. (S5, ep 15)
Grace, Karen, Rosario and their neighbours have a girly night out in Brooklyn, and Jack's odd relationship with his old babysitter baffles Will. (S5, ep 16)
Fagmalion - Part 3: Bye, Bye, Beardy: Will and Jack reveal a newly transformed Barry at the HRC Gala, while Karen and her rival battle it out at a silent auction. (S5, ep 17)
Fagmailon - Part 4: The Guy Who Loved Me: Jack goes on a date with the newly re-modelled Barry and Karen poses as a maid to seduce a maintenance worker. (S5, ep 18)
Sex, Losers & Videotape: Will's plans for an anti-romance singles club dramatically backfire and Jack sneakily films Grace in her bedroom. (S5, ep 19)
Will tries to surprise Grace by flying Leo back home for her birthday, but when he arrives early, Grace ends up having to keep the secret from Will instead. (S5, ep 20)
Karen decides she wants to meet 'real people' and befriends an uncannily similar office worker, while Will gets hooked on painkillers after twisting his ankle. (S5, ep 21)
Will ends up opposing Karen in a court case but realises that her lawyer is completely inept, and Jack temporarily takes over as Grace's assistant. (S5, ep 22)
When Stan suddenly passes away during their divorce, Karen faces a war of wills with her British love rival. Grace, meanwhile, is forced to make a life-changing decision. (S5, ep 23)
The gang set off on a Caribbean cruise to scatter Stan's ashes, but Grace's mind is elsewhere, fretting about the seductive MD currently working with Leo in Guatemala. (S5, ep 24)