This is definitely a great starting point for Will & Grace. This episode is all about how Grace and Danny's relationship turns into a marriage proposal. They get into a fight, and Will tells Grace that she can move in with him for the time being. This complicates things for Jack, who was supposed to move in with Will before all of this happened. Danny ends up proposing to Grace,and she accepts. Will is reluctant to tell her how he really feels about their relationship, but he does and Grace storms out. We later learn that Grace and Danny do not get married, and Will and Grace make up. The last scene is them in a bar full of people as they toast each other as "husband and wife." The writers were not sure what they were going to do with Karen, so she was just there to provide comic relief and she tries to help Grace decide what to do about Danny's proposal. In this episode, Jack was hilarious, but he had not reached his full potential yet. For a pilot, this was a really great episode that I enjoyed watching.
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Start of the show
loobyhandicrafts24 August 2016
Will- Gay - Lawyer - Neat freak - Grace and Jack's best friend Grace- Straight - Interior Designer, insecure, Will's best friend Jack- Gay - Unemployed - free spirit - loves to be love Karen- Straight - Assistant - Rich- love alcohol and money
We start out at Will's apartment, he is on the phone talking to Grace who is at her boyfriends Danny apartment, these's are the two main characters we are introduced to.
Next day- (Evening) Will has three guys over, two straight one gay, turns out this gay guy is Jack (the third character we are introduced to) Will offered Jack a place to stay whilst his place is getting redo up. But one of Will's friends makes a joke. Grace storms into Will apartment upset turns out she lost out to do an job for interior designing Danny was rude to her about, but only Will understands her plus he can't stand Danny. Jack is hurt that he can't stay over.
Next day- (morning into Evening) Will is at his office, helping Harlin who he represents. Will gets a call from Grace asking if she could stay other again Will of cause says yes. This means she hasn't made up with Danny, Karen comes in very smart dressed, she feels working keeps her down to earth, she tells Grace to make up with Danny but Karen doesn't understand how Grace feels. On the night Will and Grace invites they friends other, there play a game but makes Grace say she dumping Danny. Jack again is let down by Will.
Next day - Grace calls Will to tell him some news but Will breaks a pencil, On the evening Jack and Will are talking in his apartment about Grace, she later comes by to show the ring, but Will ends up telling Grace the truth how he feels. she tells him to go to hell
Next day - Karen is on the phone at Grace's office Will comes charging in finding Grace but Karen slips were she is, Grace ends up at her office very hurt and upset, she doesn't want to talk to Will but ends up at his office and there makeup.
End of the show Will and Grace share an Kiss
We start out at Will's apartment, he is on the phone talking to Grace who is at her boyfriends Danny apartment, these's are the two main characters we are introduced to.
Next day- (Evening) Will has three guys over, two straight one gay, turns out this gay guy is Jack (the third character we are introduced to) Will offered Jack a place to stay whilst his place is getting redo up. But one of Will's friends makes a joke. Grace storms into Will apartment upset turns out she lost out to do an job for interior designing Danny was rude to her about, but only Will understands her plus he can't stand Danny. Jack is hurt that he can't stay over.
Next day- (morning into Evening) Will is at his office, helping Harlin who he represents. Will gets a call from Grace asking if she could stay other again Will of cause says yes. This means she hasn't made up with Danny, Karen comes in very smart dressed, she feels working keeps her down to earth, she tells Grace to make up with Danny but Karen doesn't understand how Grace feels. On the night Will and Grace invites they friends other, there play a game but makes Grace say she dumping Danny. Jack again is let down by Will.
Next day - Grace calls Will to tell him some news but Will breaks a pencil, On the evening Jack and Will are talking in his apartment about Grace, she later comes by to show the ring, but Will ends up telling Grace the truth how he feels. she tells him to go to hell
Next day - Karen is on the phone at Grace's office Will comes charging in finding Grace but Karen slips were she is, Grace ends up at her office very hurt and upset, she doesn't want to talk to Will but ends up at his office and there makeup.
End of the show Will and Grace share an Kiss
The Concept that Started it All.
nycritic8 June 2006
Warning: Spoilers
With ELLEN creating the media stir that it did back when actress and sitcom star Ellen Degeneres "came out of the closet" and shocked only those who had either been under a hole for the past 50 years or couldn't take a hint if the truth were staring at their faces, it was now a thing as to where to go with her show. After the episodes following the "national event" involving her character's coming out became less and less funny it was only time before the network would step in and cancel the show. It seemed that everything about the show that had made it work was gone; too much emphasis on Ellen's character's sexuality almost in every other episode, and it seemed like it had run out of gas.
When cancellation occurred, there was a void. People nowadays may not see it as such back then but there was nevertheless. For gay audiences, there was nothing to hold onto. No sitcoms had any major or recurring character that was comfortable with his or her sexuality. If they were around, it had been up until then as a sight gag -- something to be laughed at and dismissed.
And then came the partnership of David Kohan and Max Mutchnick. They had had a situation comedy in which the supporting characters were a gay man and his straight best friend. Somehow the network execs decided that the secondary characters were the ones that caught their attention and wanted to go with them instead. And so, the comedy that became "Will and Grace" was born.
The pilot, I recall, tested not well, but through the roof. There was this overwhelming response to the set-up, in which Will Truman, a successful lawyer living in 155 Riverside Drive in Manhattan had a friendship with a female interior designer, Grace Adler, and who was best friends with Jack McFarland. It was as if the show everyone had been waiting for had finally arrived, and people were more than willing to accept it for what it was: a great show with not one, but two gay leading men.
The runaway bride plot that opened a show had been done successfully in "Friends" and was a success here as well, providing a near identical solution that integrated the leads within one apartment. While their living situation would become less believable as the show evolved -- particularly dealing with the events following Grace's divorce from Leo Markus -- it provided a way to blend both highly flammable personalities under one roof and see what would happen when a creative and neurotic designer and the male counterpart to Bree Van De Kamp collided under one roof.
Watching the very first episode there's a novelty in the air. It's as if everyone were experimenting with their roles and their purpose in being there. No one could guess the explosion the presentation would create. But there it was, with lines that crackled, wit that was bursting out of the TV screen, and attitude to pack.
(One of the interesting notes was that Megan Mullaly was sort of there to bring cattiness, as if the creators weren't sure where to take her character, but that proved to be quite the opposite when Karen Walker was given a whole new dimension within oncoming episodes in the First season and beyond.)
A great beginning to an excellent show that garnered not only a multitude of Emmy and Golden Globe nominations during its eight-year run but critical acclaim at a National level, and opened the doors for gay-themed shows like "Queer as Folk", "The L Word," and "Boy Meets Boy".
When cancellation occurred, there was a void. People nowadays may not see it as such back then but there was nevertheless. For gay audiences, there was nothing to hold onto. No sitcoms had any major or recurring character that was comfortable with his or her sexuality. If they were around, it had been up until then as a sight gag -- something to be laughed at and dismissed.
And then came the partnership of David Kohan and Max Mutchnick. They had had a situation comedy in which the supporting characters were a gay man and his straight best friend. Somehow the network execs decided that the secondary characters were the ones that caught their attention and wanted to go with them instead. And so, the comedy that became "Will and Grace" was born.
The pilot, I recall, tested not well, but through the roof. There was this overwhelming response to the set-up, in which Will Truman, a successful lawyer living in 155 Riverside Drive in Manhattan had a friendship with a female interior designer, Grace Adler, and who was best friends with Jack McFarland. It was as if the show everyone had been waiting for had finally arrived, and people were more than willing to accept it for what it was: a great show with not one, but two gay leading men.
The runaway bride plot that opened a show had been done successfully in "Friends" and was a success here as well, providing a near identical solution that integrated the leads within one apartment. While their living situation would become less believable as the show evolved -- particularly dealing with the events following Grace's divorce from Leo Markus -- it provided a way to blend both highly flammable personalities under one roof and see what would happen when a creative and neurotic designer and the male counterpart to Bree Van De Kamp collided under one roof.
Watching the very first episode there's a novelty in the air. It's as if everyone were experimenting with their roles and their purpose in being there. No one could guess the explosion the presentation would create. But there it was, with lines that crackled, wit that was bursting out of the TV screen, and attitude to pack.
(One of the interesting notes was that Megan Mullaly was sort of there to bring cattiness, as if the creators weren't sure where to take her character, but that proved to be quite the opposite when Karen Walker was given a whole new dimension within oncoming episodes in the First season and beyond.)
A great beginning to an excellent show that garnered not only a multitude of Emmy and Golden Globe nominations during its eight-year run but critical acclaim at a National level, and opened the doors for gay-themed shows like "Queer as Folk", "The L Word," and "Boy Meets Boy".
Never expect too much from a pilot.
jpapanone19 July 2020
Characters you come to love aren't fully formed yet, or even necessarily look anything at all like what they are to become. You can see the rough outline of what they're going for, but that's about it. This opener is just pretty blah. We got it. Jack is gay. Will is gay. Will and Grace have this co dependent relationship. Karen the assistant has money and will supply zingers.
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