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MA CHARACTERS WILL TMAN PORTRAYED BY: ERIC MCCORMACKA GAY LAWYER WHO SHAR AN APARTMENT WH HIS STRAIGHT BT IEND GRACE. ATHLETILLY CHALLENGED: SHOWN DIFFERENT EPISOS. HE N'T SWIM, HE'S EQUALLY EPT AT SOCCER, AND HE N'T EVEN W A BASKETBALL GAME AGAST A LTLE KID. IRONILLY, JACK HAS BETTER ATHLETIC SKILLS THAN HIM. BUT NOT TOO GAY: A MON CRICISM OF THIS SHOW REGARDG WILL'S LACK OF LOVE LIFE. IRONIC BEE ERIC MCCORMACK IS STRAIGHT BUT JOHN BARROWMAN, WHO IS GAY, TTED FOR THE CHARACTER OF WILL AND WAS SAID TO BE "NOT GAY ENOUGH," WHICH IS ASTONISHG TO ANYONE WHO HAS MET HIM PERSON. BUTT-MONKEY: SOMETIM, PECIALLY LATER SEASONS. HE TENDS TO SUFFER BAD LUCK AND GETS MA FUN OF A LOT. CHARACTERIZATN MARCH ON: IN EARLY SEASONS, HE NSTANTLY MOCKS AND BELTL JACK FOR BEG TOO GIRLY AND EFFEMMATE (PECIALLY SEASON 1, WHERE 'S EQUENTLY LAMPSHAD). THIS GETS MUCH LS PRONOUNCED AS THE SEASONS GO ON. CLOUDCUCKOOLANR'S MR: BEG THE SANT CHARACTER, HE OFTEN ACTS LIKE THIS TO ALL HIS IENDS. CONTROL FREAK: HE IS PECIALLY NTROLLG WHEN TO GRACE AND HER LIFE, AND OFTEN LAMPSHAD.WILL: I'M RIGID, I'M PASSIVE-AGGRSIVE, I'M NTROLLG.GRACE: NEWS FLASH— WILL'S NTROLLG. YEAH, GOT THAT HMAN YEAR OF LLEGE WHEN YOU TOLD ME WHAT ELECTIV TO TAKE. FUNNY, 13 YEARS LATER, AND I'M STILL HERE. DEADPAN SNARKER: PROBABLY THE BIGGT ONE THE GROUP. HE HAS A DRY SENSE OF HUMOR AND NOT AAID TO SHOW . FLANRIZATN: HE BEME MUCH WHIER, AND HIS CAMP GAY TENNCI CREASED.FOUR-TEMPERAMENT ENSEMBLE: MELANCHOLIC.--> GAY BT FRIEND: TO GRACE. HELLO, ATTORNEY!: MANY CHARACTERS MENT HOW GOOD-LOOKG HE IS (THE ONLY EXCEPTN IS JACK WHO ALWAYS MAK FUN OF WILL'S APPEARANCE). INPATIBLE ORIENTATN: IT'S WHY HE AND GRACE AREN'T A ROMANTIC UPLE EVEN THOUGH THEY RE EPLY FOR EACH OTHER.GRACE: I WANTED TO RAISE THE KIDS JEWISH, YOU WANTED TO SLEEP WH MEN. WILL: I DO ENJOY THAT. MASCULE GIRL, FEME BOY: FEME BOY TO GRACE'S MASCULE GIRL. GRACE IS A BRASH, LAZY, SLOVENLY, BIG EATER WHO FDS GAY PORN TO BE EXCG THE SAME WAY A LOT OF MEN FEEL ABOUT LBIANS. WILL'S IALLY STRAIGHT GAY BUT LATER FLANRIZED TO CAMP GAY, IS MUCH MORE LM AND RATNAL (IALLY,) UPTIGHT AND RATED THEIR ENTIRE APARTMENT AND DO ALL THE OKG AND CLEANG. NEAT FREAK: HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO R ABOUT CLEANG THE HOE, NTRAST TO THE MSY GRACE. NICE GUY: AS WELL AS BEG THE MOST MATURE, HE'S ALSO THE NICT THE MA ST. WHILE HE N BE SNARKY, HE'S A SURPRISGLY LOYAL AND RG IEND. THE NOT-LOVE INTERT: TO GRACE, S THE PREMISE OF THE SHOW. ONLY SANE MAN: BETWEEN JACK, KAREN AND GRACE, WILL IS THE STRAIGHT MAN OF THE GROUP. PLATONIC CO-PARENTG: THE REVIVAL ENDS WH HIM AND GRACE BUYG A HOE THE 'BURBS TOGETHER, SO THEY N MOVE THERE AND RAISE GRACE'S SON AND WILL'S DGHTER UNR ONE ROOF. THEY KNOW OTHERS MIGHT THK 'S WEIRD, BUT 'S THE BT, MOST STABLE LIFE THEY N PROVI. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: THIS TROPE WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AS "THE STRAIGHT WILL & GRACE." RED ONI, BLUE ONI: THE BLUE ONI BIG TIME TO ANY CHARACTER HE TERACTS WH (MOSTLY GRACE OR JACK). SAVVY GUY, ENERGETIC GIRL: THE LEVELHEAD, UPTIGHT SAVVY GUY TO GRACE'S NROTIC, OVEREMOTNAL ENERGETIC GIRL. SCREAMS LIKE A LTLE GIRL: WHEN GRACE'S APARTMENT GOT BURGLED.WILL: DID I JT SCREAM LIKE A WOMAN? GRACE: DON'T FLATTER YOURSELF. YOU SCREAMED LIKE A GIRL. SENSIVE GUY AND MANLY MAN: THE MANLY MAN TO JACK'S FEME GUY, BUT ONLY BEE PRETTY MUCH ANYONE IS MANLY PARED TO JACK. HE ALSO MOCKS JACK FOR BEG TOO IN TOUCH WH HIS FEME SI. STRAIGHT GAY: AT FIRST WILL WAS A MOSTLY-S-NORMAL GUY WHO HAD THE OCSNAL MP ELEMENT POP UP FOR LGHS - DURG A TIME WHEN THE WORLD HEARD GAY AND THOUGHT OF SOMEONE LIKE JACK. FAST FORWARD A , THOUGH, AND HE'S A CAMP GAY WHOSE BUDDY JT HAPPENS TO BE DOUBLY SO. STRAIGHT MAN: HE'S MOST OFTEN THE SER FOIL TO THE OTHERS' ANTICS. SUBVERTED AT THE SAME TIME. YOU ARE FAT: JACK REGULARLY LLS WILL FAT, BUT IS THE ONLY ONE TO DO SO (MOSTLY BEE 'S VERY OBV WILL IS ANYTHG BUT). GRACE ADLER PORTRAYED BY: DEBRA MSGWILLS BT IEND AND ROOMMATE, SHES A STRAIGHT TERR SIGNER. A-CUP ANGST: AS OFTEN MOCKED BY KAREN. AAID OF NEEDL: GRACE IS SO AAID OF THEM THAT SHE N'T EVEN SAY "RGO," BEE HE WAS A BEATLE AND THAT SOUNDS LIKE "NEEDLE." ALL JEWS ARE CHEAPSKAT: SHE IS VERY CHEAP, OFTEN HOARDS ON EE STUFF, AND EVEN STEALS. BIG EATER: GRACE LOV TO EAT, TO THE POT WHERE HER LARGE APPETE IS A RUNNG GAG. BUTT-MONKEY: LIKE WILL, SHE IS THE BUTT OF MANY JOK ALL THE TIME, PECIALLY BY KAREN. COMPETN FREAK: IN A FIRST-SEASON EPISO, GRACE IS SHOWN TO BE SO PETIVE THAT HER IENDS STOP G OVER TO HER AND WILL'S GAME NIGHTS. DEADPAN SNARKER: IN A SHOW WHERE EVERYONE IS FOND OF SARSM AND SULTG EBACKS, GRACE HAS A FEW MOMENTS AS WELL. FAG HAG: FOR WILL. FIERY REDHEAD: OFTEN WHEN SHE GETS UPSET. SHE GENERALLY TENDS TO BE VERY LOUD AND EMOTNAL. FLANRIZATN: SHE BEME MUCH MORE NROTIC AND SELF-OBSSEDFOUR-TEMPERAMENT ENSEMBLE: PHLEGMATIC.--> FRDIAN EXCE: HER SELF-CENTERED NATURE IS IMPLIED TO BE THE RULT OF HER MOTHER'S OWN EGO AND SIRE FOR THE SPOTLIGHT. HOLLYWOOD TONE-DEAF: SUBVERTED. IN REAL LIFE, DEBRA MSG HAS A PERFECTLY SERVICEABLE, IF NOT GEO, SGG VOICE. HER CHARACTER GRACE KEPT TO THE TUN RELATIVELY WELL, BUT ALWAYS STARTED OUT WAY TOO HIGH, AND WHEN THE KEY OF A SONG WAS SUPPOSED TO CHANGE, SHE CHANGED TOO FAR. A LOT OF POOR SGERS ACTUALLY DO SG THIS WAY. GRACE WAS ALSO CREDIBLY LOUD. INFORMED JUDAISM: SHE'S JEWISH BUT NOT OBSERVANT. IT VERY OCSNALLY UP, SUCH AS IF SHE EVER HAS TO PARTICIPATE ANYTHG RELATED TO CHRISTIANY AND SHE MAK A HASH OF THGS BEE SHE HAS NO IA WHAT'S GOG ON. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: ESPECIALLY LATER SEASONS WHERE SHES ALMOST AS BAD AS JACK. WHILE JACK DONT EVEN TRY TO HI HIS SELF-ABSORBED NATURE, GRACE OFF MORE AS A BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG. IN "THE UNSKABLE MOMMY ADLER," GRACE LOOKS BACK ON HER OLD JOURNALS AND DISVERS THAT SHE'S MAND TO THE CENTER OF ATTENTN EVERY RELATNSHIP SHE'S EVER BEEN , AND BE UPSET (THOUGH DON'T STICK). THE LAD-ETTE: SHE'S A BRASH, LAZY, SLOVENLY BIG EATER WHO FDS GAY PORN TO BE EXCG THE SAME WAY A LOT OF MEN FEEL ABOUT LBIANS. LAST HET ROMANCE: TO WILL. MASCULE GIRL, FEME BOY: MASCULE GIRL TO WILL'S FEME BOY. GRACE IS THE LAD-ETTE. WILL IALLY STRAIGHT GAY BUT LATER FLANRIZED TO CAMP GAY, IS MUCH MORE LM AND RATNAL (IALLY,) UPTIGHT AND RATED THEIR ENTIRE APARTMENT AND DO ALL THE OKG AND CLEANG. MIDDLE CHILD SYNDROME: PLAYED WH. DPE HER SECURI ABOUT BEG THE UN-FAVOURE, SHE NSIRS HERSELF THE BT ONE OF THE ADLER SISTERS.GRACE: YOU ARE THE SCREW-UP OLR SISTER. JOYCE IS THE HEAVY YOUNGER SISTER. AND I AM THE PERFECT ONE THE MIDDLE. I AM THE GLUE THAT HOLDS YOU TWO LOSERS TOGETHER. MOR FLAW, MAJOR BREAKUP: SHE TRIED REALLY HARD TO AVOID THIS WHEN SHE FOUND OUT HER BOYIEND HAD SIX TO (MOSTLY BEE HE WAS ABLE TO LOOK PAST A FUNNY MOLE ON HER LIP, AND SHE DIDN'T WANT TO APPEAR MORE SHALLOW THAN HIM,) BUT WHEN HE REVEALED HE HAD SIX TO AND WAS A CELTICS FAN, SHE THREW HIM OUT. WILL ALSO LLED HER OUT ON THIS DURG ONE OF THEIR MORE SER FIGHTS, POTG OUT THAT SHE'LL LOOK FOR ANY EXCE, SUCH AS A "WEIRD CHT HAIR PATTERN," TO BREAK UP WH A GUY. MY FRIENDS... AND ZOIDBERG: JACK WOULD MONLY ADDRS THE OTHER THREE AS "LADI... AND GRACE." THE NOT-LOVE INTERT: TO WILL, S THE PREMISE OF THE SHOW. PLATONIC CO-PARENTG: THE REVIVAL ENDS WH HER AND WILL BUYG A HOE THE 'BURBS TOGETHER, SO THEY N MOVE THERE AND RAISE GRACE'S SON AND WILL'S DGHTER UNR ONE ROOF. THEY KNOW OTHERS MIGHT THK 'S WEIRD, BUT 'S THE BT, MOST STABLE LIFE THEY N PROVI. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: THIS TROPE WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AS "THE STRAIGHT WILL & GRACE." RED ONI, BLUE ONI: RED TO WILL'S BLUE. SAVVY GUY, ENERGETIC GIRL: THE NROTIC, OVEREMOTNAL ENERGETIC GIRL TO WILL'S LEVELHEAD, UPTIGHT SAVVY GUY. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: SHE N BE VERY VA. TOMBOY AND GIRLY GIRL: TOMBOY TO KARENS GIRLY GIRL. GRACE IS BRASH, UNLADYLIKE AND GLUTTONO WHILE KAREN IS A STYLISH RICH BCH WHO ALWAYS SULTS GRACES CLOTHG CHOIC. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: SHE WAS ORIGALLY NROTIC BUT WELL MEANG, BUT LATER SEASONS SHE BE MUCH MORE SHALLOW AND SELFISH. THE UN-FAVOURE: SHE VELOPS A PLEX OVER THIS WH BOTH HER FATHER AND HER MOTHER DIFFERENT EPISOS. UNSYMPATHETIC COMEDY PROTAGONIST: SOMETIM. JT BARELY HAS ENOUGH MORALS TO NOT BE A JERKASS, BUT STILL BROKE UP WH SOMEONE FOR HAVG AN EXTRA TOE, ADMTED THAT WAS BEE SHE WAS SHALLOW, THEN ASKED FOR SYMPATHY. THE SHOW TRIED TO GIVE HER A FRDIAN EXCE LATER ON WHEN 'S REVEALED THAT HER FATHER'S BT IEND MOLTED HER AS A TEENAGER WHICH ATTEMPTED TO EXPLA WHY SHE'S ALWAYS LOOKG FOR EXC TO BREAK UP WH GUYS-BEE SHE'S AAID OF THE SAME THG HAPPENG TO HER AGA. KAREN WALKER PORTRAYED BY: MEGAN MULLALLYA RICH, PERPETUALLY DNK SOCIALE WHO "WORKS" AS GRACE'S ASSISTANT. THE ALHOLIC: SHE'S PERPETUALLY DNK, AND N RARELY BE SEEN WHOUT A GLASS HER HAND. AMBIGUO GENR INTY: SHE DROPS THE OCSNAL JOKE THAT SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN BORN MALE OR THAT SHE MIGHT BE TERSEX. AW, LOOK! THEY REALLY DO LOVE EACH OTHER: WHILE NEVER FULLY SEEN, DUE TO HIM BEG THE GHOST, KAREN MAY HAVE MARRIED STANLEY FOR HIS MONEY, 'S OFTEN SHOWN THAT SHE DO GENUELY LOVE HIM, AND WAS PLETELY VASTATED AND BETRAYED WHEN WAS REVEALED HE HAD FAKED HIS ATH. SHE ALSO HAS HER NICE MOMENTS TO GRACE AND EVEN HER MAID ROSAR, SPE HER UAL VRLIC BT BUDS RELATNSHIP WH THEM. BAD BOSS: TO ROSAR AND ALL HER EMPLOYE, BUT S PLAYED FOR LGHS. BOOB-BASED GAG: THERE ARE SEVERAL JOK ABOUT HER BREASTS AND 'S MENTNED THEY ARE THE ONLY PART OF HER THAT SHE DIDN'T NEED TO HAVE SURGILLY ALTERED. BREAKOUT CHARACTER: BY FAR THE MOST MEMORABLE AND POPULAR CHARACTER ON THE SHOW. ORIGALLY A SUPPORTG CHARACTER, SHE BE A MORE PROMENT PART OF THE SHOW BASED ON VIEWER REACTN. BTAL HONTY: A FIRM PRACTNER OF THIS. CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: SHE'S ALSO PERPETUALLY STONED OUT OF HER MD, SO SHE'S GOT A SOMEWHAT UNORTHODOX WORLD-VIEW. COOL AND UNUAL PUNISHMENT: KAREN THROWS A WILD PARTY AND TRASH WILL'S APARTMENT. HER PUNISHMENT? WILL NI KAREN HER AFTERNOON MARTI (A.K.A. "LUNCH") — AND MAK HER LOOK AT GRACE'S ENDLS HONEYMOON PHOTOS.KAREN: (TO WILL) I HATE YOU! GRACE: ROLL ONE: MY LUGGAGE! IN ANOTHER EPISO, KAREN AND JACK ARE G UP WH SOME TYPE OF REVENGE AGAST THE ENGLISH LORRAE FSTER FOR STEALG KAREN'S HBAND. JACK'S IA? MAKE HER WATCH THE AMERIN VERSN OF ANYTHG BRISH. ANOTHER TIME, GRACE FORC KAREN (WHO JT WENT ON A SEVERAL-THOAND-DOLLAR SHOPPG SPREE) TO CUT BACK ON HER SPENDG HABS BY THREATENG TO CUT UP PART OF THE SWEATER SET SHE JT BOUGHT.KARAN: NO! YOU KILL ONE PIECE AND THE WHOLE ENSEMBLE DI! GRACE: MAYBE I'LL JT START LABEL. KAREN: NO! HONEY THAT'S THE BEST PART! (VERS MOUTH ABJECT HORROR) NO.... GRACE: (MOVG SCISSORS A CUTTG MOTN) DAH DAH! DAH DAH! DAH NAH DAH NAH DAH NAH... CUTE, BUT CAPHONIC: KAREN'S VOICE IS PHYSILLY PAFUL. HER VOICE WAS RELATIVELY NORMAL THE FIRST FEW EPISOS, BEFORE FLANRIZATN TURNED KAREN OM A DEADPAN SNARKER TO THE MOST OUTLANDISH CHARACTER ON THE SHOW. DEADPAN SNARKER: "HONEY, TACT IS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARENT WTY ENOUGH TO BE SARSTIC." DEPRAVED BISEXUAL: THIS IS PLAYED FOR LGHS RATHER THAN ED FOR ANY SER PLOTS, THOUGH. SHE SEEMS TO BE MORE ALONG THE L OF ANYTHG THAT MOV. DID YOU THK I CAN'T FEEL?: SCE KAREN SNARKS ALL THE TIME, THE OTHER CHARACTERS ALMOST NEVER TAKE HER SERLY, EVEN WHEN SHE'S GENUELY TRYG TO HELP THEM. SHE BE FUR AND UPSET WHENEVER THIS OCCURS, AND ON ONE OCSN EVEN QU WORKG FOR GRACE AFTER THE LATTER REFED TO GIVE HER CRED FOR AN TERR SIGN SHE HAD DONE AFTER GRACE BAILED ON . THE DZ: JTIFIED, AS SHES UALLY DNK AND AT LEAST SOME OF IS OBFTG STUPIDY. EVEN THE GIRLS WANT HER: KAREN HAS A GREAT RACK. NO, LIKE, A REALLY GREAT RACK. GAY, STRAIGHT, WHATEVER, NO ONE IS IMMUNE TO KAREN'S BOOBS AND THE SHOW TAK FULL ADVANTAGE OF THIS FACT. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: SHE IS A GOLD DIGGER, BUT NOT A HOOKER. SEX FOR LUXURI, BUT NOT MONEY. FAG HAG: FOR JACK. THE FASHNISTA: OFTEN SULTS GRACE'S FASHN STYLE. FLANRIZATN: HER SHRILLNS AND ADDICTNS.FOUR-TEMPERAMENT ENSEMBLE: CHOLERIC.--> FRDIAN EXCE: SHE HAD A BAD CHILDHOOD DUE TO A DIFFICULT RELATNSHIP WH HER MOTHER, A N ARTIST WHO VOLVED HER HER SCHEM. THE FRIEND NOBODY LIK: SHE HAS A GOOD IENDSHIP WH WILL AND GRACE (PECIALLY THE LATTER) BUT THEY OFTEN FD HER ANNOYG AND JT PUT UP WH HER. FUNCTNAL ADDICT: KAREN IS BY FAR THE MOST HEAVILY ADDICTED DNK ON TELEVISN. GOLD DIGGER: SHE MARRIED STAN FOR HIS MONEY. HIDN DEPTHS: IN A FEW EPISOS, KAREN MONSTRAT THAT SHE'S NOT PLETELY SELF-CENTERED. IN ONE STANCE, GRACE BLEW OFF HER MARAL ADVICE WHOUT EVEN ACKNOWLEDGG THAT SHE MIGHT HAVE A POT, WHICH UPSET HER EPLY. SHE ALSO VALU GRACE, JACK, AND EVEN WILL AS HER CLOST IENDS, AND DO LOVE STAN. HUGE GUY, TY GIRL: WH HER HBAND, THE MORBIDLY OBE STAN. IF YOU EVER DO ANYTHG TO HURT HIM: IN THE REVIVAL, SHE GIV THIS SPEECH TO JACKS SOON-TO-BE-HBAND ESTEFAN RIGHT BEFORE THEIR WEDDG. INSULT BACKFIRE:JACK: YOU'RE EVIL AND SHALLOW. KAREN: COMPLIMENTS? SO EARLY THE DAY? I WAS YOUNG AND NEED THE MONEY: SHE ONCE STARRED A FETISH FILM LLED NEXT TO GODLS BEE SHE WAS SPERATE FOR MONEY. APPARENTLY SHE DIDN'T ACTUALLY GET NAKED, JT ACTED AS THE DOMATRIX. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: IN A RATHER TWISTED WAY. LADY DNK: DEPENDG ON IF SHE'S DNK OR ON PILLS, SHE N BE THIS OR HAPPY-GO-LUCKY. MASCULE GIRL, FEME BOY: MASCULE GIRL TO JACK'S FEME BOY. THEY ARE WILL AND GRACE UP TO ELEVEN (JACK IS OBSSED WH FASHN AND JEWELRY, KAREN IS A VLENT DNK.) MISTAKEN FOR PROSTUTE: IN PART ONE OF "A.I.: ARTIFICIAL INSEMATN", A MAN AT A BAR NAMED LNEL ASSUM SHE IS A PROSTUTE BASED ON HER BODY AND DRS. NARCISSIST: VERY MUCH SO, AND ONE OF THE REASONS SHE GETS ALONG WH THE EQUALLY NARCISSISTIC JACK. OLD SHAME: IN-UNIVERSE, HER DOMATRIX PORNSTAR TURN. PARENTAL NEGLECT: TOWARDS HER STEP-CHILDREN MASON AND OLIVIA. SHE DONT EVEN REMEMBER THEIR NAM AND WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE. PET THE DOG: A FEW EPISOS SHOW THAT THERE'S MORE TO HER THAN SNARK AND SEX: IN A SEASON ONE EPISO, KAREN MISS HER PERD AND FEARS SHE MIGHT BE PREGNANT. SHE'S NOT, BUT IS CLEARLY UPSET ABOUT THE FACT (THOUGH SHE TRI TO HI ), PROMPTG JACK TO GIVE HER A FORTG HUG. AFTER HE LEAV, SHE LLS STAN AND GENUELY ASKS TO SPEAK TO HER STEPCHILDREN. ONE EPISO HAD GRACE STGGLG WH LEO'S CISN TO STAY AI TO NTUE HIS WORK. KAREN IS THE ONE WHO ENDS UP GIVG HER THE BT ADVICE POSSIBLE, AND EVEN TELLS GRACE THAT WHILE SHE MAK FUN OF HER, SHE DO LOVE HER. A LATE EPISO HAS KAREN SIGN A NURSERY FOR A PAIR OF CLIENTS, PROVG THAT SHE'S PICKED UP SOME KNOWLEDGE OF TERR RATG WH HER WORK OVER THE YEARS. WHEN GRACE STEALS THE CRED FOR THE NURSERY, KAREN IS GENUELY UPSET. A CHRISTMAS EPISO REVEALS THAT AT GRACE ADLER DIGNS, KAREN GIV THE HOLIDAY BON TO GRACE! THE EPISO WHICH FOCED ON KAREN'S BIRTHDAY REVEALS THAT SHE'S NEVER VED WILL, GRACE, OR JACK TO ANY OF THE LAVISH PARTI THAT MARK THE OCSN. WHEN THEY FALLY PRS HER AS TO WHY, SHE NFS THAT IF SHE VED THEM, THEY MIGHT NOT TAKE HER TO A CHEAP, LOY RTRANT TO CELEBRATE THEIR OWN WAY—AND THAT'S THE THG SHE LOOKS MOST FORWARD TO ON HER BIRTHDAYS EVERY YEAR. PLASTIC BCH: SHE HAS BEEN MENTNED TO HAVE UNRGONE SMETIC SURGERY A FEW TIM AND IS A SHALLOW, GOLD-DIGGG JERK. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: WH JACK. PRETTY MK: LOVED TO WEAR FURS. HER VERY FIRST SCENE WAS HER SHOWG UP A MK AT. RICH BCH: SHE'S FILTHY RICH AND UALLY NOT VERY NICE, THOUGH MORE BEE SHE'S TOTALLY TACTLS THAN OUTRIGHT MALIC. SASSY SECRETARY: SHE'S THIS TO GRACE, THOUGH GRACE RARELY REQUIR HER TO DO ANY ACTUAL WORK BEE HER BS NTACTS ARE THE ONLY THG KEEPG GRACE'S BS AFLOAT. SEXY SECRETARY: SHE'S ATTRACTIVE, CHARISMATIC, STYLISH, AND NO ONE IS IMMUNE TO KAREN'S BOOBS. SERIAL SPOE: SHE HAS BEEN MARRIED FOUR TIM. S ARCH-NEMIS: CANDICE BERGEN, LORRAE FSTER, BEVERLEY LLIE, ETC. TOMBOY AND GIRLY GIRL: GIRLY GIRL TO GRACES TOMBOY. GRACE IS BRASH, UNLADYLIKE AND GLUTTONO WHILE KAREN IS A STYLISH RICH BCH WHO ALWAYS SULTS GRACES CLOTHG CHOIC. TOO KKY TO TORTURE: IN SEASON 9 SHE SAYS THAT TAK SO MUCH TO EAK HER OUT THAT SHE'S NEVER HAD TO E HER SAFE WORD DURG KKY SEX GAM WH STAN.GRACE: HOW ULD YOU NOT REMEMBER YOUR SAFE WORD?! KAREN: WELL, HONEY, I'VE NEVER ED ! IT TAK A LOT FOR THIS LTLE LAMB CHOP TO FEEL UNSAFE! UGLY GUY, HOT WIFE: HOT WIFE TO STAN'S UGLY GUY (OR SO WE'RE TOLD). UNSYMPATHETIC COMEDY PROTAGONIST: A DNKEN, FILTHY RICH JERK WHO NEVERTHELS LIVERS THE MOST LGHS OM THE DIENCE. UPPER-CLASS TW: SHES A MULTI-LNAIRS AND APPEARS TO BE PLETELY CLUELS ABOUT HOW NORMAL PEOPLE LIVE. VAGUE AGE: AS PART OF HER FLANRIZATN. IN EARLY EPISOS, KAREN SIMPLY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT SHE EQUENTLY HAD PLASTIC SURGERY. AS TIME WENT BY, THOUGH, THE WRERS STARTED DROPPG HTS THAT SHE WAS SOMEHOW HER EIGHTI AT LEAST (SHE MENTED ABOUT REMEMBERG WAG ON BREADL DURG THE GREAT DEPRSN), AND ED BOOZE AND PILLS TO SOMEHOW STOP THE AGG PROCS ALTOGETHER. VOL EVOLUTN: HER VOICE BE MORE SHRILL AND HIGH-PCHED AS TIME GO ON. JACK MCFARLAND PORTRAYED BY: SEAN HAYA CLOSE IEND OF WILLS, HES AN ECCENTRIC AND FLAMBOYANTLY GAY WANNABE ACTOR. ALL GAYS ARE PROMISCUO: HE SLEEPS AROUND A LOT. ALL GAYS LOVE THEATER: ALSO A PERFORMANCE ARTIST SOMETIM. ATTENTN WHORE: HE CERTALY LOV TO BE THE CENTER OF ATTENTN. BREAKOUT CHARACTER: THE 2ND MOST POPULAR AFTER KAREN. MANY FANS NSIR THE SHOW BEG LLED JACK AND KAREN. BRILLIANT, BUT LAZY: HE HAS MANY TALENTS IF JT APPLIED HIMSELF SUCH AS THE TIME HE BEME A MALE NURSE. HE'S ACTUALLY A TALENTED MICIAN WHEN HE BOTHERS TO BE. HE N ALSO WRE REALLY GOOD HOMO-EROTIC NOVELS BUT ONLY WHEN HE'S PRSED. HE ALSO N BE FAIRLY GOOD AT SPORTS, AT LEAST PARED TO WILL. CAMP GAY: SHAMELSLY FLAMBOYANT AND MPY EVERY WAY POSSIBLE. WILL ACTUALLY SAID ONCE, "IS THERE ANY PART OF THE STEREOTYPE YOU DON'T F?" CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: SOMETIM. JACK: WHO NEEDS BRAS WHEN YOU N LICK YOUR OWN EYEBROWS. DEADPAN SNARKER: TENDS TO MAKE SASSY WISECRACKS QUE REGULARLY. THE DZ: A MALE EXAMPLE OF A HYPERACTIVE AIRHEAD. FICTNAL FAN, REAL CELEBRY: JACK'S OBSSN WH CHER EQUENTLY UP AS A SOURCE OF HUMOR ON THE SHOW. HE HAS BEEN TRICKED TO A SUATN TWICE WH THE PROMISE OF MEETG CHER AND ONCE JUMPED DOWN A GARBAGE CHUTE AFTER HIS CHER DOLL. IRONILLY, HE NFED THE REAL CHER FOR A DRAG QUEEN WHEN HE MET HER ONE EPISO. FLANRIZATN: HIS SHRILLNS AND IDCY AND HIS CAMP GAY TENNCI CREASED.FOUR-TEMPERAMENT ENSEMBLE: SANGUE.--> GAY BT FRIEND: TO KAREN. GIFTEDLY BAD: MOSTLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE'S SO WRAPPED UP HIMSELF AND HAS TO BE THE CENTER OF ATTENTN. HIDN DEPTHS: JACK PROV TO BE MORE THAN A SPOILED MANCHILD WHEN HELPS WILL E OUT AND BARRY BEE A REAL GAY. HYPOCRE: WHEN THEY FIRST MET, JACK MOCKED WILL FOR BEG NIAL ABOUT HIS SEXUALY AND PRSURED HIM TO E OUT TO HIS PARENTS. YEARS LATER, WILL WOULD FD OUT THAT JACK HIMSELF HAD YET TO E OUT TO HIS OWN MOTHER. IF IT'S YOU, IT'S OKAY: HE'S REPULSED BY HETEROSEXUALY, BUT HE LIK EXPERIMENTG WH KAREN. IN TOUCH WH HIS FEME SI: MANY JOK ON THE SHOW ARE ABOUT HOW EFFEMATE HE IS. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: ALWAYS TRI TO MAKE EVERYTHG ABOUT HIM. HE DONT EVEN TRY TO HI . JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: ALWAYS VERY SELF-ABSORBED AND NARCISSISTIC, BUT OCSNALLY SHOWS THAT HE R ABOUT HIS IENDSHIP WH WILL AND/OR KAREN. KEET: HE'S ALWAYS CHEERFUL AND VERY VERY ENERGETIC. LARGE HAM: AS PART OF HIS MPY CHARACTER. LOVG BULLY: HE REGULARLY MOCKS AND SULTS WILL, BUT 'S ALSO IMPLIED THAT HE HAS A CSH ON HIM, AT LEAST THE ORIGAL SERI. LE, YOU ARE MY FATHER: IN SEASON 3 HE FDS OUT HE HAS A SON, ELLTT, CREATED OM SPERM HE DONATED AT THE AGE OF 17. MANCHILD: HE'S IRRPONSIBLE, DON'T HAVE A STABLE JOB, AND ACTS LIKE A SPOILED BRATTY KID. MASCULE GIRL, FEME BOY: FEME BOY TO KAREN'S MASCULE GIRL. THEY ARE WILL AND GRACE UP TO ELEVEN (JACK IS OBSSED WH FASHN AND JEWELRY, KAREN IS A VLENT DNK.) NARCISSIST: VERY MUCH SO, AND ONE OF THE REASONS HE GETS ALONG WH THE EQUALLY NARCISSISTIC KAREN. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: WH KAREN. REALLY GETS AROUND: IT'S IMPLIED HE HAS UNTLS SHORT-TERM LOVERS EVERY EPISO. RED ONI, BLUE ONI: THE RED TO WILL'S BLUE. SENSIVE GUY AND MANLY MAN: THE SENSIVE GUY TO WILL'S MANLY MAN, ALTHOUGH PRETTY MUCH ANYONE IS MANLY PARED TO JACK. WILL ALSO MOCKS JACK FOR BEG TOO IN TOUCH WH HIS FEME SI. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: ABOUT HIS ACTG REER ALTHOUGH EVERYONE TELLS HIM HE HAS NO TALENT. STRAW LOSER: HE'S OFTEN ED TO SHOW HOW BETTER WILL IS BY PARISON. 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HOW WILL & GRACE PAVED THE WAY FOR GAY CHARACTERS ON TV

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HOW ‘WILL & GRACE’S’ RELATABLE VIBE HELPED AUDIENC ACCEPT GAY CHARACTERS

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MA CHARACTERS WILL TMAN PORTRAYED BY: ERIC MCCORMACKA GAY LAWYER WHO SHAR AN APARTMENT WH HIS STRAIGHT BT IEND GRACE. ATHLETILLY CHALLENGED: SHOWN DIFFERENT EPISOS. HE N'T SWIM, HE'S EQUALLY EPT AT SOCCER, AND HE N'T EVEN W A BASKETBALL GAME AGAST A LTLE KID. IRONILLY, JACK HAS BETTER ATHLETIC SKILLS THAN HIM. BUT NOT TOO GAY: A MON CRICISM OF THIS SHOW REGARDG WILL'S LACK OF LOVE LIFE. IRONIC BEE ERIC MCCORMACK IS STRAIGHT BUT JOHN BARROWMAN, WHO IS GAY, TTED FOR THE CHARACTER OF WILL AND WAS SAID TO BE "NOT GAY ENOUGH," WHICH IS ASTONISHG TO ANYONE WHO HAS MET HIM PERSON. BUTT-MONKEY: SOMETIM, PECIALLY LATER SEASONS. HE TENDS TO SUFFER BAD LUCK AND GETS MA FUN OF A LOT. CHARACTERIZATN MARCH ON: IN EARLY SEASONS, HE NSTANTLY MOCKS AND BELTL JACK FOR BEG TOO GIRLY AND EFFEMMATE (PECIALLY SEASON 1, WHERE 'S EQUENTLY LAMPSHAD). THIS GETS MUCH LS PRONOUNCED AS THE SEASONS GO ON. CLOUDCUCKOOLANR'S MR: BEG THE SANT CHARACTER, HE OFTEN ACTS LIKE THIS TO ALL HIS IENDS. CONTROL FREAK: HE IS PECIALLY NTROLLG WHEN TO GRACE AND HER LIFE, AND OFTEN LAMPSHAD.WILL: I'M RIGID, I'M PASSIVE-AGGRSIVE, I'M NTROLLG.GRACE: NEWS FLASH— WILL'S NTROLLG. YEAH, GOT THAT HMAN YEAR OF LLEGE WHEN YOU TOLD ME WHAT ELECTIV TO TAKE. FUNNY, 13 YEARS LATER, AND I'M STILL HERE. DEADPAN SNARKER: PROBABLY THE BIGGT ONE THE GROUP. HE HAS A DRY SENSE OF HUMOR AND NOT AAID TO SHOW . FLANRIZATN: HE BEME MUCH WHIER, AND HIS CAMP GAY TENNCI CREASED.FOUR-TEMPERAMENT ENSEMBLE: MELANCHOLIC.--> GAY BT FRIEND: TO GRACE. HELLO, ATTORNEY!: MANY CHARACTERS MENT HOW GOOD-LOOKG HE IS (THE ONLY EXCEPTN IS JACK WHO ALWAYS MAK FUN OF WILL'S APPEARANCE). INPATIBLE ORIENTATN: IT'S WHY HE AND GRACE AREN'T A ROMANTIC UPLE EVEN THOUGH THEY RE EPLY FOR EACH OTHER.GRACE: I WANTED TO RAISE THE KIDS JEWISH, YOU WANTED TO SLEEP WH MEN. WILL: I DO ENJOY THAT. MASCULE GIRL, FEME BOY: FEME BOY TO GRACE'S MASCULE GIRL. GRACE IS A BRASH, LAZY, SLOVENLY, BIG EATER WHO FDS GAY PORN TO BE EXCG THE SAME WAY A LOT OF MEN FEEL ABOUT LBIANS. WILL'S IALLY STRAIGHT GAY BUT LATER FLANRIZED TO CAMP GAY, IS MUCH MORE LM AND RATNAL (IALLY,) UPTIGHT AND RATED THEIR ENTIRE APARTMENT AND DO ALL THE OKG AND CLEANG. NEAT FREAK: HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO R ABOUT CLEANG THE HOE, NTRAST TO THE MSY GRACE. NICE GUY: AS WELL AS BEG THE MOST MATURE, HE'S ALSO THE NICT THE MA ST. WHILE HE N BE SNARKY, HE'S A SURPRISGLY LOYAL AND RG IEND. THE NOT-LOVE INTERT: TO GRACE, S THE PREMISE OF THE SHOW. ONLY SANE MAN: BETWEEN JACK, KAREN AND GRACE, WILL IS THE STRAIGHT MAN OF THE GROUP. PLATONIC CO-PARENTG: THE REVIVAL ENDS WH HIM AND GRACE BUYG A HOE THE 'BURBS TOGETHER, SO THEY N MOVE THERE AND RAISE GRACE'S SON AND WILL'S DGHTER UNR ONE ROOF. THEY KNOW OTHERS MIGHT THK 'S WEIRD, BUT 'S THE BT, MOST STABLE LIFE THEY N PROVI. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: THIS TROPE WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AS "THE STRAIGHT WILL & GRACE." RED ONI, BLUE ONI: THE BLUE ONI BIG TIME TO ANY CHARACTER HE TERACTS WH (MOSTLY GRACE OR JACK). SAVVY GUY, ENERGETIC GIRL: THE LEVELHEAD, UPTIGHT SAVVY GUY TO GRACE'S NROTIC, OVEREMOTNAL ENERGETIC GIRL. SCREAMS LIKE A LTLE GIRL: WHEN GRACE'S APARTMENT GOT BURGLED.WILL: DID I JT SCREAM LIKE A WOMAN? GRACE: DON'T FLATTER YOURSELF. YOU SCREAMED LIKE A GIRL. SENSIVE GUY AND MANLY MAN: THE MANLY MAN TO JACK'S FEME GUY, BUT ONLY BEE PRETTY MUCH ANYONE IS MANLY PARED TO JACK. HE ALSO MOCKS JACK FOR BEG TOO IN TOUCH WH HIS FEME SI. STRAIGHT GAY: AT FIRST WILL WAS A MOSTLY-S-NORMAL GUY WHO HAD THE OCSNAL MP ELEMENT POP UP FOR LGHS - DURG A TIME WHEN THE WORLD HEARD GAY AND THOUGHT OF SOMEONE LIKE JACK. FAST FORWARD A , THOUGH, AND HE'S A CAMP GAY WHOSE BUDDY JT HAPPENS TO BE DOUBLY SO. STRAIGHT MAN: HE'S MOST OFTEN THE SER FOIL TO THE OTHERS' ANTICS. SUBVERTED AT THE SAME TIME. YOU ARE FAT: JACK REGULARLY LLS WILL FAT, BUT IS THE ONLY ONE TO DO SO (MOSTLY BEE 'S VERY OBV WILL IS ANYTHG BUT). GRACE ADLER PORTRAYED BY: DEBRA MSGWILLS BT IEND AND ROOMMATE, SHES A STRAIGHT TERR SIGNER. A-CUP ANGST: AS OFTEN MOCKED BY KAREN. AAID OF NEEDL: GRACE IS SO AAID OF THEM THAT SHE N'T EVEN SAY "RGO," BEE HE WAS A BEATLE AND THAT SOUNDS LIKE "NEEDLE." ALL JEWS ARE CHEAPSKAT: SHE IS VERY CHEAP, OFTEN HOARDS ON EE STUFF, AND EVEN STEALS. BIG EATER: GRACE LOV TO EAT, TO THE POT WHERE HER LARGE APPETE IS A RUNNG GAG. BUTT-MONKEY: LIKE WILL, SHE IS THE BUTT OF MANY JOK ALL THE TIME, PECIALLY BY KAREN. COMPETN FREAK: IN A FIRST-SEASON EPISO, GRACE IS SHOWN TO BE SO PETIVE THAT HER IENDS STOP G OVER TO HER AND WILL'S GAME NIGHTS. DEADPAN SNARKER: IN A SHOW WHERE EVERYONE IS FOND OF SARSM AND SULTG EBACKS, GRACE HAS A FEW MOMENTS AS WELL. FAG HAG: FOR WILL. FIERY REDHEAD: OFTEN WHEN SHE GETS UPSET. SHE GENERALLY TENDS TO BE VERY LOUD AND EMOTNAL. FLANRIZATN: SHE BEME MUCH MORE NROTIC AND SELF-OBSSEDFOUR-TEMPERAMENT ENSEMBLE: PHLEGMATIC.--> FRDIAN EXCE: HER SELF-CENTERED NATURE IS IMPLIED TO BE THE RULT OF HER MOTHER'S OWN EGO AND SIRE FOR THE SPOTLIGHT. HOLLYWOOD TONE-DEAF: SUBVERTED. IN REAL LIFE, DEBRA MSG HAS A PERFECTLY SERVICEABLE, IF NOT GEO, SGG VOICE. HER CHARACTER GRACE KEPT TO THE TUN RELATIVELY WELL, BUT ALWAYS STARTED OUT WAY TOO HIGH, AND WHEN THE KEY OF A SONG WAS SUPPOSED TO CHANGE, SHE CHANGED TOO FAR. A LOT OF POOR SGERS ACTUALLY DO SG THIS WAY. GRACE WAS ALSO CREDIBLY LOUD. INFORMED JUDAISM: SHE'S JEWISH BUT NOT OBSERVANT. IT VERY OCSNALLY UP, SUCH AS IF SHE EVER HAS TO PARTICIPATE ANYTHG RELATED TO CHRISTIANY AND SHE MAK A HASH OF THGS BEE SHE HAS NO IA WHAT'S GOG ON. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: ESPECIALLY LATER SEASONS WHERE SHES ALMOST AS BAD AS JACK. WHILE JACK DONT EVEN TRY TO HI HIS SELF-ABSORBED NATURE, GRACE OFF MORE AS A BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG. IN "THE UNSKABLE MOMMY ADLER," GRACE LOOKS BACK ON HER OLD JOURNALS AND DISVERS THAT SHE'S MAND TO THE CENTER OF ATTENTN EVERY RELATNSHIP SHE'S EVER BEEN , AND BE UPSET (THOUGH DON'T STICK). THE LAD-ETTE: SHE'S A BRASH, LAZY, SLOVENLY BIG EATER WHO FDS GAY PORN TO BE EXCG THE SAME WAY A LOT OF MEN FEEL ABOUT LBIANS. LAST HET ROMANCE: TO WILL. MASCULE GIRL, FEME BOY: MASCULE GIRL TO WILL'S FEME BOY. GRACE IS THE LAD-ETTE. WILL IALLY STRAIGHT GAY BUT LATER FLANRIZED TO CAMP GAY, IS MUCH MORE LM AND RATNAL (IALLY,) UPTIGHT AND RATED THEIR ENTIRE APARTMENT AND DO ALL THE OKG AND CLEANG. MIDDLE CHILD SYNDROME: PLAYED WH. DPE HER SECURI ABOUT BEG THE UN-FAVOURE, SHE NSIRS HERSELF THE BT ONE OF THE ADLER SISTERS.GRACE: YOU ARE THE SCREW-UP OLR SISTER. JOYCE IS THE HEAVY YOUNGER SISTER. AND I AM THE PERFECT ONE THE MIDDLE. I AM THE GLUE THAT HOLDS YOU TWO LOSERS TOGETHER. MOR FLAW, MAJOR BREAKUP: SHE TRIED REALLY HARD TO AVOID THIS WHEN SHE FOUND OUT HER BOYIEND HAD SIX TO (MOSTLY BEE HE WAS ABLE TO LOOK PAST A FUNNY MOLE ON HER LIP, AND SHE DIDN'T WANT TO APPEAR MORE SHALLOW THAN HIM,) BUT WHEN HE REVEALED HE HAD SIX TO AND WAS A CELTICS FAN, SHE THREW HIM OUT. WILL ALSO LLED HER OUT ON THIS DURG ONE OF THEIR MORE SER FIGHTS, POTG OUT THAT SHE'LL LOOK FOR ANY EXCE, SUCH AS A "WEIRD CHT HAIR PATTERN," TO BREAK UP WH A GUY. MY FRIENDS... AND ZOIDBERG: JACK WOULD MONLY ADDRS THE OTHER THREE AS "LADI... AND GRACE." THE NOT-LOVE INTERT: TO WILL, S THE PREMISE OF THE SHOW. PLATONIC CO-PARENTG: THE REVIVAL ENDS WH HER AND WILL BUYG A HOE THE 'BURBS TOGETHER, SO THEY N MOVE THERE AND RAISE GRACE'S SON AND WILL'S DGHTER UNR ONE ROOF. THEY KNOW OTHERS MIGHT THK 'S WEIRD, BUT 'S THE BT, MOST STABLE LIFE THEY N PROVI. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: THIS TROPE WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AS "THE STRAIGHT WILL & GRACE." RED ONI, BLUE ONI: RED TO WILL'S BLUE. SAVVY GUY, ENERGETIC GIRL: THE NROTIC, OVEREMOTNAL ENERGETIC GIRL TO WILL'S LEVELHEAD, UPTIGHT SAVVY GUY. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: SHE N BE VERY VA. TOMBOY AND GIRLY GIRL: TOMBOY TO KARENS GIRLY GIRL. GRACE IS BRASH, UNLADYLIKE AND GLUTTONO WHILE KAREN IS A STYLISH RICH BCH WHO ALWAYS SULTS GRACES CLOTHG CHOIC. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: SHE WAS ORIGALLY NROTIC BUT WELL MEANG, BUT LATER SEASONS SHE BE MUCH MORE SHALLOW AND SELFISH. THE UN-FAVOURE: SHE VELOPS A PLEX OVER THIS WH BOTH HER FATHER AND HER MOTHER DIFFERENT EPISOS. UNSYMPATHETIC COMEDY PROTAGONIST: SOMETIM. JT BARELY HAS ENOUGH MORALS TO NOT BE A JERKASS, BUT STILL BROKE UP WH SOMEONE FOR HAVG AN EXTRA TOE, ADMTED THAT WAS BEE SHE WAS SHALLOW, THEN ASKED FOR SYMPATHY. THE SHOW TRIED TO GIVE HER A FRDIAN EXCE LATER ON WHEN 'S REVEALED THAT HER FATHER'S BT IEND MOLTED HER AS A TEENAGER WHICH ATTEMPTED TO EXPLA WHY SHE'S ALWAYS LOOKG FOR EXC TO BREAK UP WH GUYS-BEE SHE'S AAID OF THE SAME THG HAPPENG TO HER AGA. KAREN WALKER PORTRAYED BY: MEGAN MULLALLYA RICH, PERPETUALLY DNK SOCIALE WHO "WORKS" AS GRACE'S ASSISTANT. THE ALHOLIC: SHE'S PERPETUALLY DNK, AND N RARELY BE SEEN WHOUT A GLASS HER HAND. AMBIGUO GENR INTY: SHE DROPS THE OCSNAL JOKE THAT SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN BORN MALE OR THAT SHE MIGHT BE TERSEX. AW, LOOK! THEY REALLY DO LOVE EACH OTHER: WHILE NEVER FULLY SEEN, DUE TO HIM BEG THE GHOST, KAREN MAY HAVE MARRIED STANLEY FOR HIS MONEY, 'S OFTEN SHOWN THAT SHE DO GENUELY LOVE HIM, AND WAS PLETELY VASTATED AND BETRAYED WHEN WAS REVEALED HE HAD FAKED HIS ATH. SHE ALSO HAS HER NICE MOMENTS TO GRACE AND EVEN HER MAID ROSAR, SPE HER UAL VRLIC BT BUDS RELATNSHIP WH THEM. BAD BOSS: TO ROSAR AND ALL HER EMPLOYE, BUT S PLAYED FOR LGHS. BOOB-BASED GAG: THERE ARE SEVERAL JOK ABOUT HER BREASTS AND 'S MENTNED THEY ARE THE ONLY PART OF HER THAT SHE DIDN'T NEED TO HAVE SURGILLY ALTERED. BREAKOUT CHARACTER: BY FAR THE MOST MEMORABLE AND POPULAR CHARACTER ON THE SHOW. ORIGALLY A SUPPORTG CHARACTER, SHE BE A MORE PROMENT PART OF THE SHOW BASED ON VIEWER REACTN. BTAL HONTY: A FIRM PRACTNER OF THIS. CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: SHE'S ALSO PERPETUALLY STONED OUT OF HER MD, SO SHE'S GOT A SOMEWHAT UNORTHODOX WORLD-VIEW. COOL AND UNUAL PUNISHMENT: KAREN THROWS A WILD PARTY AND TRASH WILL'S APARTMENT. HER PUNISHMENT? WILL NI KAREN HER AFTERNOON MARTI (A.K.A. "LUNCH") — AND MAK HER LOOK AT GRACE'S ENDLS HONEYMOON PHOTOS.KAREN: (TO WILL) I HATE YOU! GRACE: ROLL ONE: MY LUGGAGE! IN ANOTHER EPISO, KAREN AND JACK ARE G UP WH SOME TYPE OF REVENGE AGAST THE ENGLISH LORRAE FSTER FOR STEALG KAREN'S HBAND. JACK'S IA? MAKE HER WATCH THE AMERIN VERSN OF ANYTHG BRISH. ANOTHER TIME, GRACE FORC KAREN (WHO JT WENT ON A SEVERAL-THOAND-DOLLAR SHOPPG SPREE) TO CUT BACK ON HER SPENDG HABS BY THREATENG TO CUT UP PART OF THE SWEATER SET SHE JT BOUGHT.KARAN: NO! YOU KILL ONE PIECE AND THE WHOLE ENSEMBLE DI! GRACE: MAYBE I'LL JT START LABEL. KAREN: NO! HONEY THAT'S THE BEST PART! (VERS MOUTH ABJECT HORROR) NO.... GRACE: (MOVG SCISSORS A CUTTG MOTN) DAH DAH! DAH DAH! DAH NAH DAH NAH DAH NAH... CUTE, BUT CAPHONIC: KAREN'S VOICE IS PHYSILLY PAFUL. HER VOICE WAS RELATIVELY NORMAL THE FIRST FEW EPISOS, BEFORE FLANRIZATN TURNED KAREN OM A DEADPAN SNARKER TO THE MOST OUTLANDISH CHARACTER ON THE SHOW. DEADPAN SNARKER: "HONEY, TACT IS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARENT WTY ENOUGH TO BE SARSTIC." DEPRAVED BISEXUAL: THIS IS PLAYED FOR LGHS RATHER THAN ED FOR ANY SER PLOTS, THOUGH. SHE SEEMS TO BE MORE ALONG THE L OF ANYTHG THAT MOV. DID YOU THK I CAN'T FEEL?: SCE KAREN SNARKS ALL THE TIME, THE OTHER CHARACTERS ALMOST NEVER TAKE HER SERLY, EVEN WHEN SHE'S GENUELY TRYG TO HELP THEM. SHE BE FUR AND UPSET WHENEVER THIS OCCURS, AND ON ONE OCSN EVEN QU WORKG FOR GRACE AFTER THE LATTER REFED TO GIVE HER CRED FOR AN TERR SIGN SHE HAD DONE AFTER GRACE BAILED ON . THE DZ: JTIFIED, AS SHES UALLY DNK AND AT LEAST SOME OF IS OBFTG STUPIDY. EVEN THE GIRLS WANT HER: KAREN HAS A GREAT RACK. NO, LIKE, A REALLY GREAT RACK. GAY, STRAIGHT, WHATEVER, NO ONE IS IMMUNE TO KAREN'S BOOBS AND THE SHOW TAK FULL ADVANTAGE OF THIS FACT. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: SHE IS A GOLD DIGGER, BUT NOT A HOOKER. SEX FOR LUXURI, BUT NOT MONEY. FAG HAG: FOR JACK. THE FASHNISTA: OFTEN SULTS GRACE'S FASHN STYLE. FLANRIZATN: HER SHRILLNS AND ADDICTNS.FOUR-TEMPERAMENT ENSEMBLE: CHOLERIC.--> FRDIAN EXCE: SHE HAD A BAD CHILDHOOD DUE TO A DIFFICULT RELATNSHIP WH HER MOTHER, A N ARTIST WHO VOLVED HER HER SCHEM. THE FRIEND NOBODY LIK: SHE HAS A GOOD IENDSHIP WH WILL AND GRACE (PECIALLY THE LATTER) BUT THEY OFTEN FD HER ANNOYG AND JT PUT UP WH HER. FUNCTNAL ADDICT: KAREN IS BY FAR THE MOST HEAVILY ADDICTED DNK ON TELEVISN. GOLD DIGGER: SHE MARRIED STAN FOR HIS MONEY. HIDN DEPTHS: IN A FEW EPISOS, KAREN MONSTRAT THAT SHE'S NOT PLETELY SELF-CENTERED. IN ONE STANCE, GRACE BLEW OFF HER MARAL ADVICE WHOUT EVEN ACKNOWLEDGG THAT SHE MIGHT HAVE A POT, WHICH UPSET HER EPLY. SHE ALSO VALU GRACE, JACK, AND EVEN WILL AS HER CLOST IENDS, AND DO LOVE STAN. HUGE GUY, TY GIRL: WH HER HBAND, THE MORBIDLY OBE STAN. IF YOU EVER DO ANYTHG TO HURT HIM: IN THE REVIVAL, SHE GIV THIS SPEECH TO JACKS SOON-TO-BE-HBAND ESTEFAN RIGHT BEFORE THEIR WEDDG. INSULT BACKFIRE:JACK: YOU'RE EVIL AND SHALLOW. KAREN: COMPLIMENTS? SO EARLY THE DAY? I WAS YOUNG AND NEED THE MONEY: SHE ONCE STARRED A FETISH FILM LLED NEXT TO GODLS BEE SHE WAS SPERATE FOR MONEY. APPARENTLY SHE DIDN'T ACTUALLY GET NAKED, JT ACTED AS THE DOMATRIX. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: IN A RATHER TWISTED WAY. LADY DNK: DEPENDG ON IF SHE'S DNK OR ON PILLS, SHE N BE THIS OR HAPPY-GO-LUCKY. MASCULE GIRL, FEME BOY: MASCULE GIRL TO JACK'S FEME BOY. THEY ARE WILL AND GRACE UP TO ELEVEN (JACK IS OBSSED WH FASHN AND JEWELRY, KAREN IS A VLENT DNK.) MISTAKEN FOR PROSTUTE: IN PART ONE OF "A.I.: ARTIFICIAL INSEMATN", A MAN AT A BAR NAMED LNEL ASSUM SHE IS A PROSTUTE BASED ON HER BODY AND DRS. NARCISSIST: VERY MUCH SO, AND ONE OF THE REASONS SHE GETS ALONG WH THE EQUALLY NARCISSISTIC JACK. OLD SHAME: IN-UNIVERSE, HER DOMATRIX PORNSTAR TURN. PARENTAL NEGLECT: TOWARDS HER STEP-CHILDREN MASON AND OLIVIA. SHE DONT EVEN REMEMBER THEIR NAM AND WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE. PET THE DOG: A FEW EPISOS SHOW THAT THERE'S MORE TO HER THAN SNARK AND SEX: IN A SEASON ONE EPISO, KAREN MISS HER PERD AND FEARS SHE MIGHT BE PREGNANT. SHE'S NOT, BUT IS CLEARLY UPSET ABOUT THE FACT (THOUGH SHE TRI TO HI ), PROMPTG JACK TO GIVE HER A FORTG HUG. AFTER HE LEAV, SHE LLS STAN AND GENUELY ASKS TO SPEAK TO HER STEPCHILDREN. ONE EPISO HAD GRACE STGGLG WH LEO'S CISN TO STAY AI TO NTUE HIS WORK. KAREN IS THE ONE WHO ENDS UP GIVG HER THE BT ADVICE POSSIBLE, AND EVEN TELLS GRACE THAT WHILE SHE MAK FUN OF HER, SHE DO LOVE HER. A LATE EPISO HAS KAREN SIGN A NURSERY FOR A PAIR OF CLIENTS, PROVG THAT SHE'S PICKED UP SOME KNOWLEDGE OF TERR RATG WH HER WORK OVER THE YEARS. WHEN GRACE STEALS THE CRED FOR THE NURSERY, KAREN IS GENUELY UPSET. A CHRISTMAS EPISO REVEALS THAT AT GRACE ADLER DIGNS, KAREN GIV THE HOLIDAY BON TO GRACE! THE EPISO WHICH FOCED ON KAREN'S BIRTHDAY REVEALS THAT SHE'S NEVER VED WILL, GRACE, OR JACK TO ANY OF THE LAVISH PARTI THAT MARK THE OCSN. WHEN THEY FALLY PRS HER AS TO WHY, SHE NFS THAT IF SHE VED THEM, THEY MIGHT NOT TAKE HER TO A CHEAP, LOY RTRANT TO CELEBRATE THEIR OWN WAY—AND THAT'S THE THG SHE LOOKS MOST FORWARD TO ON HER BIRTHDAYS EVERY YEAR. PLASTIC BCH: SHE HAS BEEN MENTNED TO HAVE UNRGONE SMETIC SURGERY A FEW TIM AND IS A SHALLOW, GOLD-DIGGG JERK. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: WH JACK. PRETTY MK: LOVED TO WEAR FURS. HER VERY FIRST SCENE WAS HER SHOWG UP A MK AT. RICH BCH: SHE'S FILTHY RICH AND UALLY NOT VERY NICE, THOUGH MORE BEE SHE'S TOTALLY TACTLS THAN OUTRIGHT MALIC. SASSY SECRETARY: SHE'S THIS TO GRACE, THOUGH GRACE RARELY REQUIR HER TO DO ANY ACTUAL WORK BEE HER BS NTACTS ARE THE ONLY THG KEEPG GRACE'S BS AFLOAT. SEXY SECRETARY: SHE'S ATTRACTIVE, CHARISMATIC, STYLISH, AND NO ONE IS IMMUNE TO KAREN'S BOOBS. SERIAL SPOE: SHE HAS BEEN MARRIED FOUR TIM. S ARCH-NEMIS: CANDICE BERGEN, LORRAE FSTER, BEVERLEY LLIE, ETC. TOMBOY AND GIRLY GIRL: GIRLY GIRL TO GRACES TOMBOY. GRACE IS BRASH, UNLADYLIKE AND GLUTTONO WHILE KAREN IS A STYLISH RICH BCH WHO ALWAYS SULTS GRACES CLOTHG CHOIC. TOO KKY TO TORTURE: IN SEASON 9 SHE SAYS THAT TAK SO MUCH TO EAK HER OUT THAT SHE'S NEVER HAD TO E HER SAFE WORD DURG KKY SEX GAM WH STAN.GRACE: HOW ULD YOU NOT REMEMBER YOUR SAFE WORD?! KAREN: WELL, HONEY, I'VE NEVER ED ! IT TAK A LOT FOR THIS LTLE LAMB CHOP TO FEEL UNSAFE! UGLY GUY, HOT WIFE: HOT WIFE TO STAN'S UGLY GUY (OR SO WE'RE TOLD). UNSYMPATHETIC COMEDY PROTAGONIST: A DNKEN, FILTHY RICH JERK WHO NEVERTHELS LIVERS THE MOST LGHS OM THE DIENCE. UPPER-CLASS TW: SHES A MULTI-LNAIRS AND APPEARS TO BE PLETELY CLUELS ABOUT HOW NORMAL PEOPLE LIVE. VAGUE AGE: AS PART OF HER FLANRIZATN. IN EARLY EPISOS, KAREN SIMPLY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT SHE EQUENTLY HAD PLASTIC SURGERY. AS TIME WENT BY, THOUGH, THE WRERS STARTED DROPPG HTS THAT SHE WAS SOMEHOW HER EIGHTI AT LEAST (SHE MENTED ABOUT REMEMBERG WAG ON BREADL DURG THE GREAT DEPRSN), AND ED BOOZE AND PILLS TO SOMEHOW STOP THE AGG PROCS ALTOGETHER. VOL EVOLUTN: HER VOICE BE MORE SHRILL AND HIGH-PCHED AS TIME GO ON. JACK MCFARLAND PORTRAYED BY: SEAN HAYA CLOSE IEND OF WILLS, HES AN ECCENTRIC AND FLAMBOYANTLY GAY WANNABE ACTOR. ALL GAYS ARE PROMISCUO: HE SLEEPS AROUND A LOT. ALL GAYS LOVE THEATER: ALSO A PERFORMANCE ARTIST SOMETIM. ATTENTN WHORE: HE CERTALY LOV TO BE THE CENTER OF ATTENTN. BREAKOUT CHARACTER: THE 2ND MOST POPULAR AFTER KAREN. MANY FANS NSIR THE SHOW BEG LLED JACK AND KAREN. BRILLIANT, BUT LAZY: HE HAS MANY TALENTS IF JT APPLIED HIMSELF SUCH AS THE TIME HE BEME A MALE NURSE. HE'S ACTUALLY A TALENTED MICIAN WHEN HE BOTHERS TO BE. HE N ALSO WRE REALLY GOOD HOMO-EROTIC NOVELS BUT ONLY WHEN HE'S PRSED. HE ALSO N BE FAIRLY GOOD AT SPORTS, AT LEAST PARED TO WILL. CAMP GAY: SHAMELSLY FLAMBOYANT AND MPY EVERY WAY POSSIBLE. WILL ACTUALLY SAID ONCE, "IS THERE ANY PART OF THE STEREOTYPE YOU DON'T F?" CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: SOMETIM. JACK: WHO NEEDS BRAS WHEN YOU N LICK YOUR OWN EYEBROWS. DEADPAN SNARKER: TENDS TO MAKE SASSY WISECRACKS QUE REGULARLY. THE DZ: A MALE EXAMPLE OF A HYPERACTIVE AIRHEAD. FICTNAL FAN, REAL CELEBRY: JACK'S OBSSN WH CHER EQUENTLY UP AS A SOURCE OF HUMOR ON THE SHOW. HE HAS BEEN TRICKED TO A SUATN TWICE WH THE PROMISE OF MEETG CHER AND ONCE JUMPED DOWN A GARBAGE CHUTE AFTER HIS CHER DOLL. IRONILLY, HE NFED THE REAL CHER FOR A DRAG QUEEN WHEN HE MET HER ONE EPISO. FLANRIZATN: HIS SHRILLNS AND IDCY AND HIS CAMP GAY TENNCI CREASED.FOUR-TEMPERAMENT ENSEMBLE: SANGUE.--> GAY BT FRIEND: TO KAREN. GIFTEDLY BAD: MOSTLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE'S SO WRAPPED UP HIMSELF AND HAS TO BE THE CENTER OF ATTENTN. HIDN DEPTHS: JACK PROV TO BE MORE THAN A SPOILED MANCHILD WHEN HELPS WILL E OUT AND BARRY BEE A REAL GAY. HYPOCRE: WHEN THEY FIRST MET, JACK MOCKED WILL FOR BEG NIAL ABOUT HIS SEXUALY AND PRSURED HIM TO E OUT TO HIS PARENTS. YEARS LATER, WILL WOULD FD OUT THAT JACK HIMSELF HAD YET TO E OUT TO HIS OWN MOTHER. IF IT'S YOU, IT'S OKAY: HE'S REPULSED BY HETEROSEXUALY, BUT HE LIK EXPERIMENTG WH KAREN. IN TOUCH WH HIS FEME SI: MANY JOK ON THE SHOW ARE ABOUT HOW EFFEMATE HE IS. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: ALWAYS TRI TO MAKE EVERYTHG ABOUT HIM. HE DONT EVEN TRY TO HI . JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: ALWAYS VERY SELF-ABSORBED AND NARCISSISTIC, BUT OCSNALLY SHOWS THAT HE R ABOUT HIS IENDSHIP WH WILL AND/OR KAREN. KEET: HE'S ALWAYS CHEERFUL AND VERY VERY ENERGETIC. LARGE HAM: AS PART OF HIS MPY CHARACTER. LOVG BULLY: HE REGULARLY MOCKS AND SULTS WILL, BUT 'S ALSO IMPLIED THAT HE HAS A CSH ON HIM, AT LEAST THE ORIGAL SERI. LE, YOU ARE MY FATHER: IN SEASON 3 HE FDS OUT HE HAS A SON, ELLTT, CREATED OM SPERM HE DONATED AT THE AGE OF 17. MANCHILD: HE'S IRRPONSIBLE, DON'T HAVE A STABLE JOB, AND ACTS LIKE A SPOILED BRATTY KID. MASCULE GIRL, FEME BOY: FEME BOY TO KAREN'S MASCULE GIRL. THEY ARE WILL AND GRACE UP TO ELEVEN (JACK IS OBSSED WH FASHN AND JEWELRY, KAREN IS A VLENT DNK.) NARCISSIST: VERY MUCH SO, AND ONE OF THE REASONS HE GETS ALONG WH THE EQUALLY NARCISSISTIC KAREN. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: WH KAREN. REALLY GETS AROUND: IT'S IMPLIED HE HAS UNTLS SHORT-TERM LOVERS EVERY EPISO. RED ONI, BLUE ONI: THE RED TO WILL'S BLUE. SENSIVE GUY AND MANLY MAN: THE SENSIVE GUY TO WILL'S MANLY MAN, ALTHOUGH PRETTY MUCH ANYONE IS MANLY PARED TO JACK. WILL ALSO MOCKS JACK FOR BEG TOO IN TOUCH WH HIS FEME SI. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: ABOUT HIS ACTG REER ALTHOUGH EVERYONE TELLS HIM HE HAS NO TALENT. STRAW LOSER: HE'S OFTEN ED TO SHOW HOW BETTER WILL IS BY PARISON. LAMPSHAD BY JACK HIMSELF THE REVIVAL: "YOU THK I'M JT YOUR SILLY, RIDICULO LOSER IEND YOU WILL ALWAYS FEEL SUPERR TO".SUPPORTG CHARACTERS

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Prr to that, there had been a smatterg of gay characters a handful of seri, though they were always a supportg role—and often they befell some great tragedy while any realistic pictn of a love life was avoid at all sts.

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