Season Two

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"To Serve And Disinfect"

Episode #2.07 | Original Airdate 11/23/1999

Written by Katie Palmer | Directed by James Burrows | Eric McCormack (Will Truman) | Debra Messing (Grace Adler) | Sean Hayes (Jack McFarland) | Megan Mullally (Karen Walker) | GUEST CAST: Terry Kiser (Carl) | Brian Palermo (Brian Kelly) | Kim Robillard (Brent) | Alex Boling (Stuart) | Brian Jacobs (Cater-Waiter #5) |

Summary: Will, now out of a job, is challenged by Jack to become a cater-waiter on his staff and he accepts. But when the big night comes to strut his stuff, Will is panicked when he finds out he'll be serving ABA, the American Bar Association. Will feels too embarrassed to let his colleagues know that he's been reduced to waiting tables, so he quickly joins them and leaves Jack short one man. As a result, Jack's serving time is slow and one of the lawyers at Will's table begins picking on him. Finally, Will has enough and announces that he, too, is a waiter. Jack forgives Will.

Meanwhile, Grace learns that Karen is the star of the adult film "Next To Godliness", which she made when she had just left college. Grace at first taunts Karen with the news, but when Karen leaves upset, Grace makes it her mission to go to all the dirty video stores in town and round up all 50 copies of the film that are in circulation, which she presents to Karen. Karen is thrilled, but little does she know that Grace kept a copy for her and Will to watch together.


Quotes
GRACE: "The window was open, and we thought it smelled like wet wool on a dead man."
WILL: "Ah, yes. The new scent by Decay-NY."

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GRACE: "Maybe this'll help. No matter how bad you're doing, chances are Jack's doing much worse."
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JACK: [ENTERING, SLAMMING THE DOOR OPEN, KNOCKING GRACE BEHIND THE DOOR] "Huge promotion!"
GRACE: "Ow! You crushed my nose." [GRACE EXITS]
JACK: "Sorry! If it's broken, we'll get it fixed." [TO WILL] "For the second time."
GRACE: [IN THE WINDOW] "I heard that, you bitch. And this nose has never been touched."
JACK: "I'm sorry, ma'am, you can pick up your fries at the next window." [JACK CLOSES THE WINDOW AND WAVES BYE-BYE]
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GRACE: "You must have her confused with someone else. It happens. People confuse me for Julia Roberts all the time."
BRENT: "Why?"
GRACE: "Well, the hair...the smile...and, uh... Ahem. " [IMITATING JULIA ROBERTS FROM NOTTING HILL] "'I'm just a girl... standing in front of a boy...asking him to love me.' Trust me. That is dead on."
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GRACE: "Adult? Adult like Merchant-Ivory, or adult like..." [IMITATING BAD ACTING] "'Gee, thank god you two plumbers arrived.'"
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JACK: "The napkin fold du jour will be winter cranes, and mind the beaks! Sidebar." [POINTING TO HIS MICROPHONE] "How Madonna is this?!" [THE CATER-WAITERS GIGGLE.]
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KAREN'S VOICE [ON VIDEOTAPE]: "This room is a pigsty, and you're a dirty pig boy."
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KAREN: "Honey, what's going on? What's happening? What's with the TV?"
GRACE: "Oh, I'm watching what I would call... the feel-good movie of my life."
KAREN: "Did you rent Pretty Woman again? Come on. Give it up, honey. The only thing you two have in common is horse teeth and bad taste in men. Ha ha ha ha!"
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GRACE: "Karen...something you want to tell me?"
KAREN: "That's not me."
KAREN'S VOICE [ON VIDEOTAPE]: "What's going on, honey? What's happening? Why aren't you licking that floor?"
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KAREN: "Well, I was just out of college. I was broke. It's the oldest story in the world. Boy meets girl, boy wants girl to do dominatrix film, girl says, 'naked?' Boy says, 'yeah.' Girl says, 'forget it.' Boy says, 'ok, then just wear this rubber dress and beat the old guy with a scrub brush.' Girl says, 'how hard?'"
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WILL: "Abba? The band? That's all we need is more dancing queens."
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JACK: "Keeping your dignity when you're peppering Matt Damon's salad is what's hard."
WILL: "Why Matt Damon?"
JACK: "He has my career!"
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CARL: "Karen Delaney, right? How long has it been, 20 years? Age has done nothing to you."
KAREN: "Yeah, well, it's whacked you in the face with a shovel and left you for dead. You look like hell." [BEAT] "Honey, I need a favor. Ha ha ha!"
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WILL: "I just wish there was some way to get back at him."
JACK: "You mean like putting a laxative in his soup?"
WILL: "Oh, that would be so good!"
JACK: "Already done."
WILL: "You are awesome."
JACK: "Don't be so cheery. I put one in yours, too."


Did You Notice...
~Karen's maiden name is Delaney.
~Karen went to college. I wonder what she studied there....
~Jack mentions to Will that Matt Damon "has my career". Matt would later guest-star on "Will & Grace" as Owen in the episode "A Chorus Lie".
~Scenes for Karen's adult video, "Next To Godliness", were filmed but not shown because they were considered too risqué for the censors to allow.

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