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Good morning. Thank you,
everybody, for coming.
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Here we go... the last
table read of "Will & Grace."
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We can all say we were
a part of something
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that made a little bit
of a difference in the world,
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and, uh, for that I think
I am the most grateful.
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We not did it again, but we did it better
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than we did it the first time. Yeah.
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Will, the baby's coming.
It's time, I can feel it.
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- It's time!
- Okay, everybody.
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Did nobody read my email?
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What's email?
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The one with the subject line:
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"Operation Baby. Read.
Important. I mean it, guys!"
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- I didn't think it was...
- I didn't read it.
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- You ready for this?
- 100% no.
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- You're gonna do great.
We are gonna do great.
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- Wow, 246 shows later.
- Yeah.
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We just jumped right back into it.
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It was within a minute
I-I responded and said,
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"I'm... I'm... I'm there."
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I jumped up, I screamed, I flipped out.
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I was traveling to London,
and when we landed,
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I had all these texts
from Sean Hayes saying,
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"Honey, have you checked your emails?"
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And I went to hit Delete,
and then I thought,
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"Oh, my God, it's from Max Mutchnick."
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Then I deleted it.
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- You haven't aged at all.
- I'm not allowed to age.
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- You're not...
- What would happen?
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Hey!
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Oh, my God, you have brown
hair, and I have red hair!
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- How are you?
- Hi!
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Oh, my God, I didn't even recognize you!
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- There it is, I got it.
- Oh, my God, my thighs.
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I mean, I laughed out loud
when I read it.
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- Oh, I did too.
- This is so exciting!
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- Did they go?
- Okay.
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- We're gonna go now.
- No, baby.
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We're going right now.
We're going right now.
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I never thought that
we would have this opportunity
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to come together again and play.
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I'm feeling just pure joy right now.
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It's so pure, how happy I am,
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knowing that I'm gonna
walk on that stage.
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And now, the cast of "Will & Grace"!
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And there it is.
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11 seasons, 246 episodes,
dozens of guest stars,
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and zero plastic surgery.
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For real!
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Probably.
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- Will, what are you doing?
- I think you've sprung a leak.
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What are you talking about?
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I think I feel a song coming on.
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Denied, denied, approved.
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Kiss, kiss, kiss!
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- Nothing?
Anything?
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- Sorry.
- Whee!
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Kiss it, kiss it, spank it.
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Stay tuned.
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- I... I'm gay.
- Are you hungry?
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What?
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- I'm gay.
- Are you hungry?
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What?
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- I'm ga...
- Are you hung...
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I'm gay.
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Grace?
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Tonight, before we turn off
the lights for good,
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we're gonna look back at some
of the most memorable on-screen
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moments from the past 20 years.
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But we're gonna share
something else with you.
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Because as much fun as we've
had sharing these stories
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from the stage,
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what's meant the most
are the stories you've told us,
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about how "Will & Grace"
has affected you.
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It was especially important to me
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when I was deployed to Afghanistan.
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"Will & Grace" was playing
on the kitchen TV
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while I was doing homework,
my mom was baking,
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and my mom stopped,
and muted the TV and said,
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"Max, you know that I'll love you
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whether you're gay or straight."
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You've really showed me who I could be,
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and to live to my full potential.
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"Will & Grace" got me through
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some of the hardest times in my life.
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The show taught me that I can
be strong and still be gay.
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It was like this big rainbow
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in an otherwise kind of cloudy sky.
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When I was pregnant,
I had some complications
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and had to go on bed rest.
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"Will & Grace" made a tough
time that much lighter.
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Thanks to you, it gave us
a platform and representation
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that we'd never
seen before on television.
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I felt like they were my friends,
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and they were a part of my life.
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And the characters are like family.
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It was funny, but also real.
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You were tortured.
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And I never even thought about that.
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You were just being who you are,
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and you were scared to death
that the world was gonna
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find out and hate you for it.
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I am sorry for not being
there when you needed me most.
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And I'm so, so sorry
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that I never said this to you before now.
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The fact that you are
a gay man did not ruin my life.
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It made it so much better.
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Mine too.
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Each of those characters
were brilliantly written, um,
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and, uh, and... and fulfilled
in the... in the performance.
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Lightning in a bottle
is a very good expression
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for how fortunate Max and David were
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to find those four people.
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Would you look at us?
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Will's mean, Grace is flat-chested.
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Jacky's pretending like
he's following this,
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and I'm high from something
I found under the sink
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in your bathroom.
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The gang is back!
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Jack, if I'm supposed
to stay away from every guy
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you've ever slept with,
that would leave me with women.
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My love for you is like this scar.
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Ugly, but permanent.
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Hey friends, lovers,
mothers, and other strangers,
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you're never gonna believe
what happened to me.
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Oh my God, did you see that?
I almost did a half nelson.
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I almost bruised my delicates,
my delicates,
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my "Domo arigato, Mr. Tomatoes."
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I can't believe I'm at a public pool.
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Why doesn't somebody just
pee directly on me?
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You better watch it, lady,
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'cause the next time you take a bath,
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it'll be, "Rub-a-dub-dub,
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I dropped a blender in the tub."
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- Let's play the Pyramid!
- Whoo!
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Driftwood. John Wayne.
Your parents' marriage.
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- Things that are dead.
- Yes.
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- Me and you.
- People who are
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- getting married.
- Correct!
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What?
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A duck. A chicken. An emu. Uma Thurman!
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He's hot, but not as hot as you.
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- Humphrey Bogart!
- Ding!
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- Our hopes and dreams.
- Things that are crushed.
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- Yes.
- Oh, you're so good at this.
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Whoo! Whoo! both: Ha!
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She's a lawyer, and she pees with men.
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Ally McBeal. Click it.
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- Melania.
- Uh, James Brolin!
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- Things that are whipped!
- Yeah!
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- Whoo!
- Each other.
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- Things that you lean on!
- That's it!
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Who's Diane?
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You know, the girl Will slept
with after you two broke up?
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- What?
- You knew that.
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You didn't know that?
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You didn't tell her?
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In 1998, Max Mutchnick and David Kohan
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pitched "Will & Grace,"
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a show about four best friends
in New York.
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They love each other,
they depend on each other,
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and two of them happen to be gay.
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It was a show about friendship,
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about regular people
navigating the ups and downs
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of their lives... nothing
revolutionary about that.
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I just wanna know how long
I'm gonna have to wait until
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I can see two gay men
kiss on network television.
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Not as long as you'd think.
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But at the time, it was
a huge risk for NBC to pick up
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a show where the lead character was gay.
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NBC took that risk, something that showed
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incredible foresight and courage.
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In a way, they had to...
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their mascot is a rainbow-tailed peacock.
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You should do stand-up. That's good.
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And that risk paid off big time,
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with 91 Emmy nominations and 18 wins.
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Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner.
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- Whoo!
- Yeah.
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Including Outstanding Comedy Series...
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I think I finally met a girl
that I want to sleep with!
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A couple of thank-yous are in order.
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Our director and partner,
the great Jimmy Burrows.
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And acting wins for all four of us.
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- This is my American dream.
- Don't give up!
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- Thanks.
- Oh, my God!
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That's what I said!
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So we started out by telling our stories.
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Stories that, for us, were
ordinary, relatable, and human.
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What we didn't expect was how
powerfully those stories
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would affect our audience
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or how big that audience would become.
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My favorite episode of
"Will & Grace" is when Nathan
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dumps Grace and she whips out
the old Bat Mitzvah slides.
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I'm gonna die alone.
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Big entrance, everybody!
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Now, my boy Jack?
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He's a man who can make an entrance.
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Still to this very day, I still use
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"Milk, milk, lemonade..."
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Around the corner, fudge is made.
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When my 95-year-old mother
was on her deathbed,
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the only thing that made her laugh was,
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actually, "Will & Grace."
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Come on, let's touch stomachs.
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Oh, my Lord. You are a complete freak.
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- We actually...
- Named our kids after the show
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- "Will & Grace."
- This is Willow.
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- Say hi, Willow.
- Yeah, hi, Willow.
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- No...
- Hi, Willow.
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And this is Grayson. Say hi.
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Hi, Grayson.
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- Will and Grace.
- Uh...
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Grace and Will.
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Now that sounds like a thing.
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- Hi, I'm Jack McFarland.
- You are?
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Wow. I mean, hi.
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- Hi.
- I'm Elliott.
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Well, what can we do for you, little man?
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I'm your son.
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See, this is the amazing
thing about television.
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It gives us characters
we become friends with.
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We invite them into our homes
or our phones,
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or our smart fridges,
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and we accept them as
part of our extended family.
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And that helped spark
conversations and changes
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we never imagined or intended.
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"Will & Grace" did more to
educate the American public
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than anybody's ever done.
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Guilty.
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"Will & Grace" was my gateway
to understanding why TV matters
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and how it can make a difference.
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You're doing this
extraordinary thing for me.
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You're giving me something
the world has told me
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for my entire life
that I could never have.
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I feel close to you too.
I've done this before.
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I've gotten invested, I've gotten hurt.
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You're just gonna move on
once the baby is born.
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Jenny, that is not who I am.
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My favorite thing about
"Will & Grace" was that
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it was a... it was a mainstream
comedy, but it also felt,
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like, excitingly subversive.
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You came up to me... we didn't
know each other that well.
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And you pulled me aside, and you said,
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"Aren't you tired yet?"
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And I was tired.
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Will, look, I appreciate
what you're trying to do,
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but this is different.
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M-My mother will fall apart!
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- She's...
- Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack.
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Aren't you tired yet?
252
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Hon, somebody needs
to get back to the gym.
253
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Can we not get into this right now?
254
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Hey, how are you? Good to see you.
255
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You haven't told these people I'm gay?
256
00:12:12,025 --> 00:12:13,569
What? Do you walk around
telling all your colleagues
257
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- I'm straight?
- I think it's implied!
258
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- I begged you not to come.
- But Dad, it...
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Okay, okay, guys, come on, come on.
260
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I'm sure this is nothing that
can't be solved by me leaving.
261
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When we talk about a... a piece
of comedy reflecting society,
262
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we're not talking about
inventing anything.
263
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We're talking about reflecting
what we see... we writers...
264
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see as the way society connects itself.
265
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I mean, everybody's
so sensitive nowadays.
266
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Sometimes I feel like
men can't be men anymore,
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not with this, uh, #NotMe stuff.
268
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- "MeToo."
- Well, we agree on something.
269
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The whole summer that I worked for Harry,
270
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I kept telling you he was creepy.
271
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- What did you think that meant?
- Uh, I don't know.
272
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He... He was a flirty guy.
273
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Oh, and... and you thought that was okay?
274
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Him flirting with your daughter?
275
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- That was a different time.
- No, no, that's not an excuse.
276
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What, just because it was a
different time, it wasn't bad?
277
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No, all that meant was that
people got away with it.
278
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- Hey, calm down...
- No don't...
279
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Do not tell me to calm down.
I can't do this.
280
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Where are you going? What did he do?
281
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- Pat you on the tushy?
- Nope, he did more than that.
282
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It was a long time ago.
Maybe you're misremembering.
283
00:13:21,928 --> 00:13:23,806
No. No! I remember!
284
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I remember every single thing
that happened that day.
285
00:13:29,452 --> 00:13:31,580
This place is pretty miserable.
286
00:13:31,604 --> 00:13:34,297
I'm sorry, is this your house?
287
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No, I'm locked up. Like you.
288
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Ah, what are you in for?
289
00:13:39,312 --> 00:13:41,490
I tried to climb your precious wall.
290
00:13:41,514 --> 00:13:44,460
Is Mexico so bad?
291
00:13:44,484 --> 00:13:46,295
I snuck across the southern border,
292
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fleeing the brutal gangs of my home.
293
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I have traveled 2,000 miles
and spent my life savings
294
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paying off the cops
and hiding from the cartels.
295
00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:58,071
For me, México has been hell.
296
00:13:59,365 --> 00:14:01,644
The beaches are nice, but...
297
00:14:01,668 --> 00:14:04,410
it sounds like you've been mostly inland.
298
00:14:05,244 --> 00:14:08,450
This place can't fix you
because you're not broken.
299
00:14:08,474 --> 00:14:11,053
- I'm confused.
- Let me tell you a story
300
00:14:11,077 --> 00:14:14,523
about another young man
who was once confused...
301
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a young man who grew up
to be a model citizen,
302
00:14:17,383 --> 00:14:20,829
and today is proud of who and what he is.
303
00:14:20,853 --> 00:14:23,399
People adore this man.
304
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- Will?
- No, not Will!
305
00:14:29,195 --> 00:14:31,040
I'm talking about me.
306
00:14:31,064 --> 00:14:34,043
It was hard for me once, too,
but when you get older,
307
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you'll understand that there's
the family you were born into,
308
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and the family that you choose.
309
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And the family I chose...
310
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Well, it doesn't get
any better than that.
311
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Almost brought a tear
to my eye, you old homo.
312
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Everything triggers it!
313
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I think we're gonna have
to slap it out of each other.
314
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Give it to me, mama.
315
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Yeah!
316
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No!
317
00:15:26,118 --> 00:15:27,852
Okay, this just got weird.
318
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Oh, man! My suit!
319
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Sorry, sir.
320
00:15:34,046 --> 00:15:36,335
Hey, it's not funny.
321
00:15:36,822 --> 00:15:39,523
It's a little bit funny.
322
00:15:41,460 --> 00:15:43,372
When I was asked
by Eric McCormack to be on
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"Will & Grace," I dropped everything.
324
00:15:45,031 --> 00:15:47,943
I think it's very, very
important in the history
325
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of comedy on television.
326
00:15:49,736 --> 00:15:51,747
When I look back on the things I've done,
327
00:15:51,771 --> 00:15:54,183
um, um... being on
"Will & Grace" was one of the...
328
00:15:54,207 --> 00:15:55,651
my proudest TV moments.
329
00:15:55,675 --> 00:15:57,620
This was an important program.
330
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Everybody wanted to be on this show!
331
00:15:59,679 --> 00:16:01,657
This man is straight!
332
00:16:01,681 --> 00:16:02,691
You're crazy.
333
00:16:02,715 --> 00:16:04,882
I'm as gay as the locker room
at the Ice Capades.
334
00:16:06,852 --> 00:16:08,664
Woof.
335
00:16:10,523 --> 00:16:13,302
People either love me, or they hate me.
336
00:16:13,326 --> 00:16:14,916
Okay.
337
00:16:16,095 --> 00:16:17,793
You're hiding something.
338
00:16:27,540 --> 00:16:29,351
If you question our president,
339
00:16:29,375 --> 00:16:31,920
then you're a dirty traitor.
340
00:16:31,944 --> 00:16:35,591
That is just F-ed up.
341
00:16:37,550 --> 00:16:39,328
- Hello.
- Well, hello.
342
00:16:39,352 --> 00:16:41,530
- Hey, sexy.
- Hello, mother.
343
00:16:41,554 --> 00:16:43,165
You know, you shouldn't make that face.
344
00:16:43,189 --> 00:16:44,533
It might freeze that way.
345
00:16:44,557 --> 00:16:46,435
Oh, my God, do you know who that is?
346
00:16:46,459 --> 00:16:48,704
I've been asking that
question since I got here.
347
00:16:48,728 --> 00:16:51,540
My family sent me to
a convent when I was three.
348
00:16:51,564 --> 00:16:52,841
Actually, they told me
I was going to the zoo.
349
00:16:52,865 --> 00:16:55,311
I was all excited, they got me
dressed up, gave me a lollipop.
350
00:16:55,335 --> 00:16:56,832
I ended up here.
351
00:16:57,570 --> 00:17:00,516
Hmm, let's see. Squeaky, rude, drunk.
352
00:17:00,540 --> 00:17:01,583
You must be Karen.
353
00:17:01,607 --> 00:17:03,218
You have a big forehead,
and that's the truth.
354
00:17:04,744 --> 00:17:07,189
Would you care to step
inside, take your clothes off,
355
00:17:07,213 --> 00:17:09,725
- and discuss it further?
- I'm going to kiss you
356
00:17:09,749 --> 00:17:12,056
like you've never been kissed before.
357
00:17:12,752 --> 00:17:15,864
Five, six, seven, eight!
358
00:17:15,888 --> 00:17:17,900
- Girl, you're hired!
- Grace Adler,
359
00:17:17,924 --> 00:17:20,135
- will you marry me?
- I love you, Will.
360
00:17:20,159 --> 00:17:21,503
Welcome back home.
361
00:17:21,527 --> 00:17:23,505
We get to be friends with a celebrity!
362
00:17:23,529 --> 00:17:25,496
I do a better Cher than you.
363
00:17:27,833 --> 00:17:29,281
You think so?
364
00:17:32,871 --> 00:17:36,841
Actually, it's, "You think so-hooo?"
365
00:17:40,379 --> 00:17:41,836
Get a life.
366
00:17:42,882 --> 00:17:46,328
It's done so much for the LGBT community.
367
00:17:46,352 --> 00:17:48,297
It was nice to see
representation in a time
368
00:17:48,321 --> 00:17:49,398
when it wasn't okay
369
00:17:49,422 --> 00:17:50,899
I live in Russia,
370
00:17:50,923 --> 00:17:53,035
and the show made it easier
to come out to my mom.
371
00:17:53,059 --> 00:17:54,737
It gave me so much hope
to see people like me
372
00:17:54,761 --> 00:17:57,406
on television... something that
was impossible in Egypt.
373
00:17:57,430 --> 00:18:00,075
I was a young gay man in the rural South,
374
00:18:00,099 --> 00:18:01,910
And y'all being on TV
375
00:18:01,934 --> 00:18:05,647
made me feel less alone
and less invisible.
376
00:18:05,671 --> 00:18:08,250
"Running late" is gay for
"I'm blowing you off."
377
00:18:08,274 --> 00:18:11,240
- What's gay for "Get out"?
- That would be "Good morning."
378
00:18:12,845 --> 00:18:15,624
Right now, I'm on stage 22
at Universal studios,
379
00:18:15,648 --> 00:18:17,359
where we shot the last three seasons.
380
00:18:17,383 --> 00:18:21,196
But a mile and a half down the
road, at CBS Radford studios,
381
00:18:21,220 --> 00:18:25,167
that's where we shot
the first 194 episodes.
382
00:18:25,191 --> 00:18:27,302
There's a plaque outside
our old stage that says,
383
00:18:27,326 --> 00:18:28,670
"The home of 'Will & Grace.'
384
00:18:28,694 --> 00:18:31,010
The love that dared speak its name."
385
00:18:31,464 --> 00:18:33,208
That's a reference to the famous quote
386
00:18:33,232 --> 00:18:34,710
about same sex relationships
387
00:18:34,734 --> 00:18:37,479
being the love that dare not
speak its name.
388
00:18:37,503 --> 00:18:39,281
The ultimate taboo.
389
00:18:39,305 --> 00:18:41,550
The plaque is meant to
commemorate how special it was
390
00:18:41,574 --> 00:18:44,286
to have a show like ours
that celebrated the ordinary
391
00:18:44,310 --> 00:18:47,055
in the lives of underrepresented people.
392
00:18:47,079 --> 00:18:48,257
That was then.
393
00:18:48,281 --> 00:18:49,425
Today, in 2020,
394
00:18:49,449 --> 00:18:53,629
LGBTQ characters represent
over 10% of all characters
395
00:18:53,653 --> 00:18:56,932
on television, and that is remarkable.
396
00:18:56,956 --> 00:18:59,935
We never set out to make a gay show.
397
00:18:59,959 --> 00:19:03,472
We set out to make a universal
show with universal themes.
398
00:19:03,496 --> 00:19:05,240
You know, it's a romantic comedy
399
00:19:05,264 --> 00:19:07,543
with an insurmountable obstacle.
400
00:19:07,567 --> 00:19:08,811
The reason the show works
401
00:19:08,835 --> 00:19:10,212
is because the central relationship
402
00:19:10,236 --> 00:19:12,114
is based on two simple things.
403
00:19:12,138 --> 00:19:14,750
Love and living your truth.
404
00:19:14,774 --> 00:19:17,519
- Sure.
- Sure.
405
00:19:17,543 --> 00:19:19,855
- You need a new place.
- Oh, my God.
406
00:19:19,879 --> 00:19:21,824
Why don't I move in with you?
407
00:19:21,848 --> 00:19:23,926
Can anyone live with
a control-freak nightmare
408
00:19:23,950 --> 00:19:24,993
like you?
409
00:19:25,017 --> 00:19:26,328
I'm gonna say no.
410
00:19:26,352 --> 00:19:28,564
When you're living with me,
I just become a crutch for you.
411
00:19:28,588 --> 00:19:30,699
So be my crutch.
412
00:19:30,723 --> 00:19:33,769
You're a roommate, so start
taking up some room!
413
00:19:33,793 --> 00:19:35,838
- Hi, Will.
- Hey.
414
00:19:35,862 --> 00:19:37,606
You know, the logical thing to do...
415
00:19:37,630 --> 00:19:38,914
I know, we need to get
separate apartments.
416
00:19:38,938 --> 00:19:40,454
That is the logical thing.
417
00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,011
- So we'll get a bigger place?
- Uh-huh.
418
00:19:43,035 --> 00:19:44,613
- So you're moving!
- You have a new apartment!
419
00:19:44,637 --> 00:19:46,381
I know!
420
00:19:46,405 --> 00:19:48,517
Eight dysfunctional feet away.
421
00:19:48,541 --> 00:19:50,185
You're not still living togeth...
422
00:19:50,209 --> 00:19:51,820
I mean, I mean, she's living
here right now.
423
00:19:51,844 --> 00:19:54,122
- That tracks.
- Is this crazy?
424
00:19:54,146 --> 00:19:55,524
I know, I know. What...
425
00:19:55,548 --> 00:19:56,658
What are people gonna say about us?
426
00:19:56,682 --> 00:19:58,794
I guess the same thing
they've been saying about us
427
00:19:58,818 --> 00:20:01,597
- for 20 years?
- Oh.
428
00:20:01,621 --> 00:20:04,633
"It's odd, but it works"?
429
00:20:04,657 --> 00:20:07,147
21 years later, we come to the end.
430
00:20:07,660 --> 00:20:09,371
On behalf of everyone at
"Will & Grace," we thank you
431
00:20:09,395 --> 00:20:14,276
from the bottom of our hearts,
and the hearts of our bottoms.
432
00:20:14,300 --> 00:20:17,179
Sorry. Old habits die hard.
433
00:20:17,203 --> 00:20:18,714
Thanks for laughing with us
all these years.
434
00:20:18,738 --> 00:20:20,911
And if some other good came of it,
435
00:20:21,607 --> 00:20:22,705
we'll take it.
436
00:20:23,543 --> 00:20:24,887
Thanks for watching.
437
00:20:28,548 --> 00:20:30,459
Whoo!
438
00:20:32,652 --> 00:20:34,296
- No!
- Gotcha!
439
00:20:38,257 --> 00:20:40,002
Wah.
440
00:20:44,697 --> 00:20:46,875
Well, well, well.
441
00:20:49,302 --> 00:20:51,513
Whoo-whoo!
442
00:20:58,578 --> 00:21:00,656
- Say good night, Gracie.
- Good night, Gracie.
443
00:21:02,648 --> 00:21:04,760
This show has been everything to me.
444
00:21:04,784 --> 00:21:06,128
It helped me be who I am today.
445
00:21:06,152 --> 00:21:07,930
Your show made me realize that
446
00:21:07,954 --> 00:21:09,398
I'm not so different after all.
447
00:21:09,422 --> 00:21:11,066
- It allowed me to come out.
- My son and I bonded over it.
448
00:21:11,090 --> 00:21:12,568
It's brought my family together.
449
00:21:12,592 --> 00:21:15,150
It helped me through some of
the lowest points of my life.