Will and Grace (sitcom)

This is, really, one of the more disgusting sitcoms out there - and its sad that it's so popular.

Don't misunderstand, I have nothing against the depiction of gays in mainstream media. More power to them. But real gays have often dismissed this sitcom as a "minstrel" show - it is hardly represenative of real gays, or at least, the average gay.

All of the people on this show are amoral and immoral.

Originally it was just the two comedic foils - the self-obsessed and absorbed Jack and the self-obsessed and absorbed,and alcoholic and prescription-drug addictioned Karen. Each one of them, in real life, shouldn't have friends at all, but in the world of Will and Grace they are given prominence. Jack doesn't work, so his best friend WIll supports him, and his lifestyle where apparenlty he has a new gay guy every night. Karen will sleep with anyone who catches her fancy, and ignores her two stepchildren.

By the end of the series, it turns out Will and Grace are just as immoral. Grace, indeed, is perhaps the most reprehensible character of them all. She goes to what she thinks is her husband's cabin (he's out of town), only to find $10,000 hidden under the matress. She thinks he's hiding it from her - so she goes out and spends it all. This is supposed to be funny? Of course it turns out she had walked into the wrong cabin, and spent someone else's life savings in a fit of pique. Of course we never see how this turns out - does she then steal $10,000 from her hubby's joint savings or checking account to pay off this debt, or does she pay it off herself?

I could give other examples of the utter lack of morality on this show.

But, of course, the problem is it is funny. Seductively funny. The immoral Jack and Karen get the most laughs, and indeed, were the most popular characters on the show. That's sad.