Vibrators, martinis, and legends being legendary: 11 things we'll miss about Grace and Frankie

All good things must come to an end, but that never makes saying goodbye to one of your favorite shows any easier.

On April 29, the final episodes of Grace and Frankie drop, making it the longest-running show at Netflix with seven seasons and 94 episodes under its belt. But this feel-good show about two rivals-turned-besties was never about endings, but beginnings. And for co-creator Marta Kauffman, she hopes viewers consider that ethos when watching the last episodes.

"I hope they feel satisfied but want to keep watching anyway," Kauffman told EW about what she wants viewers to take away from the final season. "I hope they feel like they've been on a fulfilling journey. I hope they all still love all the characters by the end. And more than anything, I just hope they don't say, 'It's over, and I'll never watch it again.'"

While Grace and Frankie will live on, available for streaming presumably until the end of days, we can still take some time to celebrate what we loved about the show in the first place and what will be impossible to replicate in the future. Here's to all the geriatric vibrators we've loved before!

Legends being legendary

At an age when most actors are retiring or doing ads for adult diapers, two Legends with a capital L, Jane F---ing Fonda and Lily F---ing Tomlin (you better put some respect on those names) came roaring back with a show that not only allowed them to be funny, sexy, and to say something about aging (namely, "suck it") but also garnered them Emmy nominations, a number of other accolades, and a new generation of fans who maybe didn't grow up idolizing Klute and Nashville (their loss, though). No one has ever slung vibrators with such style and ... grace.

Ethan Embry's full-blown zaddyhood

For anyone who was obsessed with Can't Hardly Wait, one of the most perfect teen movies of the '90s (in a decade rife with them), Ethan Embry holds a special place in your heart. As the sad-eyed Preston Meyers in love from afar with Jennifer Love Hewitt's Amanda Beckett, Embry sent teen hearts aflutter. Now, having aged like a fine wine (as has the rest of the cast), Embry is even hotter as sad-eyed Coyote Bergstein. Somebody call Entenmann's cuz Ethan Embry is out here looking like a snack.

All the scenes Tim Bagley stole

Tim Bagley has been stealing scenes since he perfected the art of the one-liner as Will and Jack's slightly dim friend Larry (of iconic couple Joe and Larry) on Will and Grace. But as the bitchy theater director Peter, who gleefully held Robert's musical theater aspirations in his maniacal jazz hands, Bagley threatened to run away with the whole damn show.

The guest stars!

The guest stars that have appeared on GaF over its seven-season run reads like a who's who of showbiz professionals: Rita Moreno, RuPaul Charles, Lisa Kudrow, Estelle Parsons, Nicole Richie, Craig T. Nelson, Ernie Hudson, Martin Mull, Michael McKean, Ed Asner, Sam Elliott, Engelbert Humperdinck, Debbie Allen, George Hamilton, and Ed Begley Jr., among others. And they saved the best for last: Dolly Parton finally makes an appearance on this, the last season, serving viewers the long-awaited 9 to 5 reunion we all assumed/hoped/prayed would eventually happen.

Brianna embodying charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent

It's no easy task being a bitch on TV, what with all the great bitches that have come before— your Alexis and Dominique on Dynasty, your Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl. How does one strike the right balance of being truly awful but still absolutely likable? You cast someone like June Diane Raphael, who has the comedic chops and bone-dry delivery to make even the cattiest of lines — "Oh, have fun with your weird mother-son vaginal lube sales team." — work.

Sol and Robert's silver loving gay-book

While it's more commonplace to see same-sex couples on TV these days, how many septuagenarian gay romances do we get? Robert (Martin Sheen) and Sol's (Sam Waterston) unconventional relationship (they divorced their wives to be together, after all) wasn't always smooth sailing, but after all they sacrificed to be together, and how long they stayed in the closet, they deserve their happy ending!

Grace's unapologetic love for a cocktail

One of the things that makes Grace and Frankie the show we love is its insistence that old age isn't the end of anything. After all, you live a long life, you should be able to do whatever the hell you want. And for Grace, that means drinking vodka like it's water and she's trapped in the desert. Grace just brushes off any attempts to dissuade her from her drinking, and why shouldn't she? It's worked for this long.

Frankie's unapologetic stonerism

Set in Southern California, where marijuana has been legal for ages (read: since 2016), Grace and Frankie has never shied away from the latter's love of the devil's lettuce. As an old, tie-dyed-in-the-wool hippie, Frankie may have left brain cells all across this great land of ours, but her emotional intelligence is as high as ever. As is she.

The most delightfully weird couple in all the land

Baron Vaughn's Nwabudike "Bud" Bergstein found love in season 3 with Allison (Lindsey Kraft) a neurotic basket-case that his family kinda hated. But once the couple revealed they were having a baby, the Bergsteins had to get onboard, and Allison has proven a fittingly quirky addition to the family and a sort of straight-man foil for jokester Bud.

The Say Grace sisters doing it for themselves

Let's be honest: Grace and Frankie initially didn't know what to do with Brooklyn Decker's Mallory. But once she got divorced from that husband we rarely saw, her relationship with Brianna was brought to the forefront and we got to enjoy their dynamic, especially as they butted heads at their mother's cosmetics company Say Grace. By the end of the very last GaF episode, you might find yourself wondering, "Now where's this spinoff?"

The celebrity standom

Miley Cyrus tweeted about how much she loved Grace and Frankie in 2015, which Kauffman credits with getting the show renewed for a second season. Over the years, many a celeb has come out of the closet as a GaF stan, but none quite as explicitly as Pete Davidson, DJ Khaled, and Paul Rudd, whose SNL rap ode to the show even featured cameos from Fonda and Tomlin wearing (naturally) Pete Davidson shirts. The love, it seems, goes both ways.

The final episodes of Grace and Frankie are now streaming on Netflix.

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