One Gay at a Time

Episode #		142 (7.03)
Season #		7
Original Airdate		9/30/2004
Writer		Sally Bradford
Producers		Alex Herschlag & Dave Flebotte and James Burrows
Director		James Burrows

Plot Synopsis

Grace has a surprise reunion with Val as she attempts to steal doughnuts at an AA meeting. She gets hooked on AA meetings for free therapy and food and Val and Karen have a confrontation which leads to Grace's exposure as a fraud. Meanwhile, Will and Jack attend a gay television focus group, only to have Will kicked out and Jack hired as Junior VP of New Programming.

Cast

• Eric McCormack (Will Truman)
• Debra Messing (Grace Adler)
• Sean Hayes (Jack McFarland)
• Megan Mullally (Karen Walker)

Guest Cast

• Molly Shannon (Val Bassett)
• Mark Harelik (Tim)
• Mathew Botuchis (Dave)
• Julie Pop (Pat)
• Marcy Goldman (Judy)
• Jodi Fleisher (Woman)
• Jon Kinnally (Mitchell)

Notes

• Writer/Producer Jon Kinnally was uncredited for his role as Mitchell.

Goodies

• Credits for this Episode.
• Transcript of this Episode.
• Divorce.wav : (JACK) "Just be grateful you have a divorce to talk about..."
• Val7.wav : (VAL) "So, Grace, long time, no... I didn't know you were a big ol' drunk."
• HateSpeech.wav : (KAREN) "Where did you hear that? Who taught you that hate speech?"
• Cult.wav : (KAREN) "It's a cult, I tell ya. Mm-hmm, just like the Moonies or the homosexuals or the elderly."
• 0703-AAMeeting-150.wmv: Grace crashes an AA meeting for free donuts
• 0703-HateSpeech-150.wmv: Grace tries to live by AA's three mantras
• 0703-FocusGroup-150.wmv: Will and Jack attend a focus group for Out TV

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Airdates & Ratings

• 09/30/2004 08:30 PM: 08.9/14% #18
• 03/17/2005 08:30 PM: 06.0/10%
• 07/07/2005 09:30 PM: 03.6/06%

Related Links

• Season 7 episodes
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• Next Episode - “Company”