Will & Grace: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Will & Grace Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
The Third Wheel Gets the Grace
Sep 27, 2001
Will returns from vacation to discover that Grace's romantic relationship with neighbor Nathan is humming along. Nathan feels neglected when Will and Grace resume their chummy frie
Past and Presents
Oct 4, 2001
The new lawyer in Will's firm is the same lout who bullied him as a child; Nathan's birthday flusters Grace, who's outdone in the gift department by Karen.
Crouching Father, Hidden Husband
Oct 11, 2001
Jack is puffed up with paternal pride as he escorts his long-lost teenaged son Elliot to a junior high school dance but not before he coerces Grace into posing as Elliot's date â€"
Prison Blues
Oct 18, 2001
After Stan is arrested for tax evasion, Grace and Karen timidly visit him in prison. Grace is so moved to help her worried friend that she moves right into Karen's deluxe apartment
Loose Lips Sink Relationships
Oct 25, 2001
In a sneaky ploy to bum a night off from work at Barney's department store, a conniving Jack plays matchmaker and takes advantage of his geeky female supervisor's interest in Will,
Rules of Engagement
Nov 1, 2001
During an intimate moment, Nathan pops the question of marriage to Grace but she recoils simply because the situation didn't fit her childhood fantasy of a proposal. When she reali
Bed, Bath & Beyond
Nov 8, 2001
While a baleful Grace wallows in bed as she grieves over losing her boyfriend Nathan, an enterprising Will tries all his old tricks to spring her from her mattress and back into th
Star-Spangled Banter
Nov 15, 2001
Will and Grace elect to disagree when it comes to choosing sides during a mayoral election; she supports the female Jewish candidate and he's voting for the gay nominee. To settle
Moveable Feast (1)
Nov 22, 2001
Rather than be apart on Thanksgiving Day, Will and Grace join Jack and Karen for a festive holiday motor tour of their respective dysfunctional families, including Grace's domineer
Moveable Feast (2)
Nov 22, 2001
This episode is also known as "Thanksgiving." Will and Grace join Jack and Karen in a motor tour of their respective families. (Double-length Episode)
Stakin' Care of Business
Dec 6, 2001
At the gym, Will spies another guy who looks maddeningly familiar, while Jack gets a workout as he keeps repeating one of his nonsensical catchphrases in hopes of seeing it become
Jingle Balls
Dec 13, 2001
Grace is hired as seasonal help to decorate the Christmas display windows of fashionable Barney's; Will meets a ballet dancer but is too embarrassed to introduce his friends.
Whoa, Nelly
Jan 10, 2002
Will & Grace try to lure Tina, Will's dad's mistress, away from Will's father by setting her up with another man. Unfortunately the only man available is Will's gay friend, Larry.
Grace in the Hole
Jan 17, 2002
While visiting Karen's incarcerated husband, Grace re-discovers a handsome high school friend who's also doing time in prison, and despite Will's advice, she's soon dressing up and
Dyeing Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard
Jan 31, 2002
Rosie O'Donnell plays Bonnie, a no-nonsense single mom who clashes with Jack over the raising of their son, Elliot, fathered from Jack's sperm-bank donation. Bonnie's enraged becau
A Chorus Lie
Feb 7, 2002
Matt Damon makes a guest appearance as a clever charmer named Owen, who's competing against Jack for a spot in New York's Gay Men's Chorus. Truth be told, however, Owen is totally
Someone Old, Someplace New (1)
Feb 28, 2002
Will and Grace feel they need more elbow room, so they search for larger digs and find an exquisite placeâ€"despite the efforts of Sandra Bernhardâ€"but to finance the move, they i
Something Borrowed, Someone's Due (2)
Mar 7, 2002
After Will and Grace move into their expansive new dream apartment, they discover the awful pangs of separation anxiety as they pine for their smaller old digs now happily occupied
Cheatin' Trouble Blues
Mar 28, 2002
Will presents his newly reconciled parents with a cruise for their anniversary, but their individual secrets ruin his hopes.
Went to a Garden Potty
Apr 4, 2002
In the aftermath of his parents' divorce, Will salvages a beloved garden gnome â€" nicknamed ""Squatsie"" â€" and proudly plants the childhood relic in his apartment's community ar
He Shoots, They Snore
Apr 11, 2002
Teaching a design seminar challenges Grace; chaperoning Jack's son occupies Will at the youth's basketball tourney.
Wedding Balls
Apr 18, 2002
Will expects two friends to arrive in New York to plan a wedding, but when the bride-to-be falls ill, he asks a willing Grace to work with the clueless groom to work out the detail
Fagel Attraction
Apr 25, 2002
After his laptop computer is stolen, Will meets a sociable police detective who takes a special interest in his case as they go undercover â€" but Will doesn't know that the gumsho
Hocus Focus
May 2, 2002
After Will wins a portrait session at a charity auction, he takes Grace to pose for a notoriously eccentric celebrity photographer but the unfocused shooter's bizarre methods ultim
A Buncha White Chicks Sittin' Around Talkin'
May 9, 2002
When Will hears his ""biological clock"" ticking, he shocks Grace by asking her to become the mother of his baby but when they meet with a therapist, Grace reveals that she's uneas
A.I.: Artificial Insemination (1)
May 16, 2002
After Will and Grace decide to have a baby together, obstacles pile up before them, including a missing specimen sample and bungled insemination efforts that have them teetering be
A.I.: Artificial Insemination (2)
May 16, 2002
After Will and Grace decide to have a baby together, obstacles pile up before them, including a missing specimen sample and bungled insemination efforts that have them teetering be