Episode
Will & Grace: The Old Man and the Sea
Overview
When Jack learns that Will never learned how to swim, Jack insists that he teach Will how. Meanwhile, Karen sets Grace up on a blind date with one of Malcolm's friends.
Details
- Series
- Will & Grace
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 2005-10-13
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
The Old Man and the Sea is Episode 3 in Season 8 of Will & Grace. It aired on 2005-10-13. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 2: I Second That Emotion
Karen feels rattled by Stan's return and Will steps in to help her. Meanwhile Grace is labeled homophobic after her comments on Jack's talk show are misconstrued by gay men from all over New York.
Episode 4: Steams Like Old Times
Karen is finally forced to come to terms with her feelings for her presumed-dead husband when Jack surprisingly tells her he thinks she belongs with Stanley, not Malcolm.
More episodes from this season
Episode 1: Alive and Schticking
Grace contemplates having an affair with a married man. Elsewhere, Jack begins new career as a host of his new talk show "Jack Talk." Will gets some advice from Malcolm and tries to hide from Karen the fact that Stan is alive.
Episode 5: The Hole Truth
The day before Will's charity auction and carnival, Jack meets and begins dating Baby Glenn, who is still riding his fifteen minutes of fame from when he got trapped in a hole for three days in the eighties.
Episode 6: Love Is in the Airplane
While en route to London, Will and Grace spot Grace's ex-husband Leo on their flight. Will charms a pair of gay flight attendants, who also happen to be dating, so he can smuggle Grace into first class to talk to Leo.
Episode 7: Birds of a Feather Boa
When Jack decides on a whim to move, Will is excited at the thought of helping him look for a place. While attending Beverley's wife's memorial "celebration," Karen and Grace experience a wardrobe malfunction, which they must try to conceal.
Episode 8: Swish Out of Water
Grace finds it impossible to put up with her mother Bobbi's constant nitpicking, so Jack takes it upon himself to help her because, according to him, no one knows how to be a good daughter better than a gay son.
Episode 9: A Little Christmas Queer
While spending the holidays at Will's mother Marilyn's house, Grace gets cozy with Will's brother and old flame Sam. Sam's adopted daughter finds a fan in Karen, who is intrigued by the little girl.
Episode 10: Von Trapped
The "Sound of Music Sing-Along" has come to town and no one is more excited than Grace. She plans for her and Will to attend the musical in character-like style by dressing up in costumes.
Episode 11: Bathroom Humor
Karen celebrates her birthday with some of New York's crème de la crème, but the festivities turn sour when she ends up crammed in the bathroom with Grace, Will and Jack, who have all embarrassed themselves at the party.
Episode 12: Forbidden Fruit
Grace is concerned and confused when Will so adamantly insists that she turn down her job offer from his former boss Margot, who has asked Grace to redecorate the law firm.
Episode 13: Cop to It
Will and Grace dread a dinner date with married friends Rob and Ellen who likely called the meeting to announce Ellen is pregnant yet again, but when the couple reveals that they are separated and loving it, Grace gets depressed.