When Will and Grace meet Jack's mother and learn that not only is she unaware that her son is gay, but she also believes that he has had a romantic relationship with Grace, they invite her to Thanksgiving dinner with Jack hoping to force the issue into the open. But nobody is prepared for the holiday surprise that she has for them.

Eric McCormack (Will Truman)
Debra Messing (Grace Adler)
Sean Hayes (Jack McFarland)
Megan Mullally (Karen Walker)

Veronica Cartwright (Judith McFarland)

This episode was part of NBC's Must See TV Thanksgiving Thursday.
Judith tells Jack that his father is not his real father.
This episode attracted the largest audience in the show's two-year history (19.14 million viewers, topping the previous record of 19.08 million established on Thursday, April 8, 1999 with Grace, Replaced) and in adults 18-49 (a season-best 8.8/22) retained a solid 99% of its FRASIER lead-in.
This episode was the UltimateTV Best Bet for 4/25/00.

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11/25/1999 09:30 PM: 12.7/22% #13 — Special Thanksgiving 9:30 Episode
04/25/2000 09:00 PM: 09.5/14% #37 — *Highest rated NBC show of the day
07/18/2000 10:00 PM: 08.7/14% #09 — Marathon #2
11/08/2001 08:30 PM: 13.1/19% #05 — Special (beat first run #4.07 at 9:00)
11/28/2002 08:30 PM: 06.2/12% #40 — Special Time