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Will & Grace :: The Big Vent (01x10)
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| Title: | The Big Vent |
| Episode #: | 01x10 |
| Production Number: | 62811 |
| Original Airdate: | Tuesday January 05th, 1999 |
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After Will installs a new heating vent in the apartment, he and Grace become obsessed with eavesdropping on the marital problems of the couple downstairs. Meanwhile, Jack's new career this week is playwriting and he enlists Karen's help in staging a play to bring them back to reality.
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This episode was originally scheduled for 12/8/98 but pre-empted by "While You Were Sleeping." Finally rescheduled to be shown on 1/5/99.
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Jack: What do you think of my glasses? What do they say?
Will: They say, "Guys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses."
Jack: And guys don't make passes at guys with fat asses.
| Will: So now you're skipping work all together?
Grace: I called in sick.
Will: Called who? You're the boss.
Grace: I know. It was a strange conversation. If I do it again, I'm gonna fire me.
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When Will comes home and finds Grace asleep on the vent, she sits straight up on her knees and we see her face. Look closely, even though her face was sitting right on the vent itself, we see no "vent pattern" impressed upon her face.
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Grace: Evil, thy name is Ooey!
This is a pun on the line "Frailty, thy name is woman!" from William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
| Jack: I just spent three hours in the freezing cold outside a drag bar being harassed by a pair of Rosemary Clooneys.
Rosemary Clooney is one of the more famous comediennes of her time. And many consider her a gay icon.
| Grace: Oliver Wendell Holmes?
Will: Cesar Romero.
Oliver Wendell Holmes and Cesar Romero were two of the greatest "outlandish" comedians of their time.
| Will: Wow, that sounds even better than "Real World Seattle."
A quick and cheap reference to the 7th Season of the first "reality show" produced, The Real World.
| Karen: Why don't you read them that book they love? "Green Eggs and I'm Hammered."
A quick reference to the famous Dr. Seuss book "Green Eggs & Ham."
| Will: What, you come home early just to catch "Days of Our Vent?"
A cheap reference to the longest running show in NBC history (not including news), Days of Our Lives.
| Jack: Funny, funny, funny, funny. Funny!
Jack sings out a parody of David Bowie's "Money."
| Will: Ladies and gentleman, Grace: Unplugged.
A quick reference to the famous MTV series Unplugged.
| Will: Where's Mr. Kot-ter?
An impersonation of Freddie 'Boom Boom' Washington from the show "Welcome Back, Kotter."
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