Season Four

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"Prison Blues"

Episode #4.04 | Original Airdate 10/18/2001

Written by Adam Barr | Directed by James Burrows | Eric McCormack (Will Truman) | Debra Messing (Grace Adler) | Sean Hayes (Jack McFarland) | Megan Mullally (Karen Walker) | Shelley Morrison (Rosario Salazar) | GUEST CAST: Eileen Brennan (Zandra) | James Black (Anthony Dukane) | Margaret Scarborough | (Summers) | Brent Sexton (Guard) |

Summary: Will, Grace, Karen and Jack visit Stan in jail. While there, Will is interviewed on camera by a news crew and makes a fool out of himself. In order to help his embarrassed pal, Jack gets Will to join him at his acting class, where Will gets praise from the teacher while Jack is scorned. Later, Will delivers a wonderful interview for another news program.

Meanwhile, Karen is going through a tough time dealing with her husband's imprisonment, so Grace spends the night and is soon taking advantage of Karen's rich lifestyle.

Soon, Grace refuses to leave and Karen resorts to having Rosario push her down the stairs while Karen says her goodbyes. When Grace returns to her and Will's apartment, she has a new distasteful look at her life.


Quotes
WILL: We're not going to Swishy Pete's Camp for Feminine Boys.

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WILL: Jack, do I have to explain to you again the actual meaning of the phrase "penal system"?
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KAREN (TO PRISON GUARD): Oh, my god. I have that same gun.
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GRACE: The men are locked up. I don't want to drive them into a state of sexual frenzy.
GUARD: I wouldn't worry about it.
GRACE: "Oh, like you're so hot?"
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WILL: Please, forgive my friends. They're just, uh... They're idiots.
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WILL [IMITATING HANNIBAL LECTER]: Don't stand too close to the glass, Clarice.
GRACE: Don't joke like that! [CRYING] You promised you were never gonna do that!
WILL [IMITATING HANNIBAL LECTER]: I lied. [SUCKING BREATH IN LIKE HANNIBAL LECTER] F-F-F-F-F--
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WILL: Uh... Oy, boy. The answer to your question is--is, uh, Mr. Guilter's walk-- Mr. Guilter's alleged walk-- Wait. W-W-What--What I'm trying to say is--is-- that, yes, he's rich. He's very rich. But that doesn't mean he's--he's poor. Whosie boisie hohh...
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WILL: On my grandparents' 50th anniversary video, I blanked on their names.
JACK: Well, what were their names?
WILL: Grandma and Grandpa.
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WILL (AFTER JACK DROPS HIS PHONE DOWN HIS PANTS): I will reach in there myself and get it.
JACK: No, you won't.
WILL: No, I won't, but I will slap you like a girl.
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KAREN: You're sleeping on a $5,000 mattress with $5,000 sheets and the indentation of a 5,000-pound man.
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GRACE (TO KAREN): You know, at one point during the night I looked over at you while you were asleep. You looked so innocent and peaceful. Kind of freaked me out.
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GRACE (LOOKING AT HER TOES): Oh, wow. I love that colour. What is it?
KAREN: Grace. [SIGHS] There's no colour. They just cleaned off your toes.
GRACE: Still, it's nice.
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JACK: She's having a breakthrough. It's what we all strive for. Look at her. No inhibitions. Raw, naked, open.
WILL: I never want to hear those words come out of your mouth again.
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KAREN (TO GRACE): Ohh! Oh! honey, you scared me. I thought you were my clone, but none of them survived.
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KAREN: Hey, aren't you supposed to be at work, 'cause I know I am.
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KAREN (TO GRACE): So, honey, if you want to leave, I know you've got things to do. I mean, there's fashion mistakes to be made, and...it's probably happy hour at some gay bar.
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KAREN: Wait a minute. I've got an idea. We'll come up with a big fancy plan with lots of twists and turns, to make her understand what she's done. I'll hide somewhere, and you'll wear big shoes.


Did You Notice...
~There is a giant painted portrait of Karen hanging in her bedroom.
~Again we hear another sing-song answering machine message by Will and Grace, which replaces their "Brady Bunch"-esque song from My Uncle The Car.
~Eileen Brennan (Zandra) is the 2nd star of the movie Clue (she played Mrs. Peacock) to guest-star on "Will & Grace". The first, Lesley Ann Warren, who played Tina in the episode "Cheaters", played Ms. Scarlet in Clue. Tim Curry, who played Wadsworth in Clue, plays Lyle Finster's brother Marion in the season 7 finale, "I Do. Oh, No, You Di-in't"

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