I am here to post an excerpt of the script of the Will and Grace episode I typed about two posts ago. I'll give a brief back ground:- AA means Alcoholic Anonymous, a therapy for alcoholics who desire to stop their drinking habits
- Val is, I think, a long-time-no-see friend of Grace; they met on an AA meeting
- Rosario is Karen's maid
SCENE V: Grace Adler Designs
[GRACE IS AT HER DESK WORKING. KAREN IS TALKING TO ROSARIO ON THE PHONE.]
KAREN: [ON PHONE] Oh, Rosie. What do you mean you forgot to TiVo "One Life to Live?" [SIGHS] Damn it, woman! After my body accepts your liver, I am through with you!
[KAREN SMACKS THE PHONE ON THE DESK AND THEN SLAMS IT ON THE RECEIVER.]
GRACE: Don't get so worked up, Karen. Just take it one day at a time.
[KAREN LOOKS UP AT GRACE, AND EYES HER SUSPICIOUSLY.]
KAREN: What did you say?
GRACE: I said take it one day at a time.
KAREN: One hoo at a ha?
GRACE: You know, easy does it. Let go and let God.
KAREN: Where did you hear that? Who taught you that hate speech?
GRACE: I've been going to AA meetings.
KAREN: Grace, how could you? AA goes against everything that I believe to be good and pure in this world.
GRACE: It's just a really great place to vent, and I always feel better afterwards. It's like therapy, but instead of paying, they just ask that you give a donation, which I'm not gonna do, 'cause I'm not an alcoholic.
KAREN: Yeah. Well, it's a cult, I tell ya. Mm-hmm, just like the Moonies or the homosexuals or the elderly!
[VAL ENTERS THE OFFICE.]
VAL: Hey, Grace! You ready for our meeting? Ooh, I'm so excited, 'cause we're gonna have a special guest speaker today. I can't tell you who it is, but I'll give you a hint. He starred in the "Dick Van Dyke Show."
KAREN: [TO VAL] You. I should have known. Only a nutcase like you could be behind this.
VAL: Karen, I know that we've had some harsh words in the past, and I really do hope that you'll forgive me.
[KAREN SIGHS.]
VAL: It was the drink talking.
KAREN: Yeah. Well, now my drink's talkin'...
[KAREN HOLDS UP HER MARTINI GLASS AND WIGGLES IT AROUND.]
KAREN: and it's sayin', "Drink me. I make life more fun. Everybody from a high school kid to a bum on the street knows that."
VAL: You know what? I'm not even tempted by that.
KAREN: Hmm?
[KAREN PUSHES HER DRINK IN VAL'S FACE.]
VAL: Come on, Grace. We gotta get out of here.
[VAL RUNS OUT OF THE OFFICE.]
KAREN: Oh, come on, Grace. Please don't go. I can't afford to lose one more drinking buddy to this disease.
GRACE: I'm sorry, Karen. It's just such a set deal. Free therapy and free food? I mean, for Jews it's like hitting the lottery.
The whole script of that episode is available in: http://www.durfee.net/will/scripts/s0703.htm
