Season Five

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"Dolls and Dolls"

Episode #5.21 | Original Airdate 04/23/2003

Written by Kari Lizer | Directed by James Burrows | Eric McCormack (Will Truman) | Debra Messing (Grace Adler) | Sean Hayes (Jack McFarland) | Megan Mullally (Karen Walker) | GUEST CAST: Madonna (Liz) | Todd Robert Anderson (Kurt) | Melonie Mack (Naomi) |

Summary: Karen, wanting to know how real people live, decides to become roommates with Liz, a secretary at a music company and a "nitpicker supreme". Despite this, Karen and Liz hit it off and Karen moves in.

Meanwhile, after an accident on his clogs, Will becomes addicted to his pain killers. Though Grace and Jack originally like the new, laid back Will, they soon realize that he needs to get off the medication. They hide his medication, so Will runs off to find Karen, whom he is sure will have something for him.

Will finds Karen at a bar with Liz, but runs off when Grace and Jack show up. Back at Will's, he has finally admitted that he has a problem, and Grace and Jack help him through it.

At the bar, Liz and Karen find out that they're both after the same guy and try to win him over on the dance floor. Unfortunately, they just end up scaring him off and they get into a big fight. The two return home, where Liz orders Karen out. But when she tells Karen to make the cheque out to "Walker Property Management", Karen gleefully reveals that she owns the building and orders Liz out.

Quotes
JACK: It is a "laundry-mat." People come here to clean their clothes. Then, they reuse them.
KAREN: Why, poor people are just plain clever. I wonder why they can't figure out a way to make more money.

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KAREN (READING A BULLITEN BOARD): Why, there's so much real-life, I've never experienced. Sectional sofas for sale... missing cats... battered women shelters... Fun! Honey, look at me, I'm finally using the Internet!
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WILL: I tell you, you walk down Columbus Avenue with two rolls of quarters in your pocket, you get a lot of attention.
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WILL: What? They're clogs. They're good for your back.
GRACE: They're good for the back of your closet.
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GRACE: Maybe you should move your glass off the coffee table.
JACK: If we leave one more ring, she gonna snap.
[SOMEONE BEGINS FUMBLING AT THE DOOR LOCK FROM OUTSIDE...]
GRACE: Oh, my God!
JACK: Oh, my God!
GRACE: Pick up the glass! Wipe down the ring!
JACK: You're right, first he sees The Ring, and then we die!
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KAREN: You must never know if people are really liking you just for you or the '80s hits.
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LIZ: Oh, my God. I totally just bragged. Please tell me to shut up. Cut to me still talking about myself.
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WILL: I love Paula Abdul. And I love that we live in a world that would give a Paula Abdul a second chance.
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WILL: Oh, have you ever seen King of Queens? It's funny sometimes! But I don't really believe that she'd stay with him... Or do I? No, I don't think I do. Well, I don't have to settle this right now.
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LIZ: Karen! You shouldn't have bought this cheesecake. I'm, like, totally eating healthy this week. Ugh! Heh. Cut to me eating this whole cheesecake.
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LIZ: You are going to get me into so much trouble.
KAREN: If you're lucky.
LIZ: You're crazy.
KAREN: Like a fox.
LIZ: I doubt it.
KAREN: You wish.
LIZ: Don't I ever.
KAREN: You and what army? Ha ha ha ha!
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WILL: I-- Wait a minute, those aren't even my pills. Those are just old antibiotics.
GRACE: They are?
[WILL GRABS FOR THE BOTTLE AND GRACE JUMPS BACK.]
GRACE: Oh! Ooh, crack whores are sneaky!
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KAREN: God, this is great. Casual sex, mookie bartenders, dirty futons... This is the stuff of life. I'm gonna get an S.T.D. tonight!
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GRACE: Karen, have you seen Will?
LIZ: Excuse you, rude. We were talking.
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JACK: [TO LIZ] Um, I know we just met, but as a gay man, I'm oddly drawn to you.
LIZ: Yeah, I get that a lot.
GRACE: Me too.
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JACK: Come on, man! Look at yourself. Now, look at me. I am adorable. Now back to you. You look awful!
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LIZ: Me?! You scared him off with your big boobies and your weird bisexual vibe. He was into me!
KAREN: No one's into you. You're an oddly confidant 40-year-old secretary.
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LIZ: You're obviously mistaking me for somebody who cares. Look, just write the check. Make it out to the landlord, "Walker Property Management." Oh, and add on $1.09. You ate one of my yogurts.
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LIZ: Wait a minute! We're roommates. We're friends, we could be lovers. I'll take that French now.

Did You Notice...
~This is the second time Grace refers to something as a "good old fashioned party" and someone comments on how calling it a "good old fashioned party" doesn't make it a party. The first time was in the season 3 episode "An Old Fashioned Piano Party".
~40-minute Super-Size episode.
~This was Madonna's network series debut.
~Followed by a 15-minute "The Guest Star Clip Show".
~This episode marks the third appearance of "Café Jacques'."
~The song on the old-fashioned foldin' party mix tape is "Funky Cold Medina" by Tone Loc.
~The song playing at the bar is "Groove is On" by Groove Armada.
~Grace also sings a song from the Jewish Passover Hagada (which is read during the Seder), called "Ma Nishtana".
~Will has a season pass to American Idol on his TiVo.
~After filming this episode, Megan and Madonna became close friends.

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