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Dance Cards & Greeting Cards

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Dance Cards & Greeting Cards is the 16th episode of the seventh season, and 155th overall.

For Valentine's Day, Karen finally agrees to take a chance on her former rival Scott Woolley. Grace meets and spends a romantic time with a stranger in her office. Will and Jack learn about the homophobic culture at Karen's country club.

Synopsis[]

Star-crossed lovers[]

"I Ruff You"

"I Ruff You"

While in her office resenting the festivities of Valentine's Day, Grace meets Nick, an "exceedingly handsome, chiseled" writer who makes greeting cards. She expresses condescension towards his job so he calls out Grace's bitterness towards Valentine's Day. As she throws him out, Grace accidentally hits head with the door. She apologizes and helps him by putting a bag of ice over his head. The two warm towards each other, finding sympathy in their respective divorces and agree to see each other again.

Karen's date[]

Such a pity a bottle of rum can't waltz

Such a pity a bottle of rum can't waltz

Karen goes to the annual Valentine's Day event at her country club with Will and Jack, also inviting a guy she met online. At the event, however, she finds out that the guy is her former nemesis Scott Woolley who had recently realized his infatuation with Karen and has resolved to have her as a girlfriend.

Karen expresses disinterest in Scott but after he defends her from Beverly Leslie, she gives him a chance. Karen soon realizes that Scott is expecting more than what she can give, so she gently lets him down.

The Portillo sisters[]

At Karen's country club event, Jack and Will learn that the club has a policy against gay couples and that "two men will never dance together" during its events. Appalled by the bigotry, they prepare to leave but not before learning that two "sisters" Lucille and Lenore who are also members of the club are actually lesbian lovers forced to hide their relationship because of this policy. During the ceremonial final dance, Will and Jack decide to slow dance with each other as a protest statement, prompting Lucille and Lenore to finally dance with each other in the country club.

Cast[]

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Notes[]

  • This episode features several high-profile actors including Jeff Goldblum, Michele Lee, Chita Rivera, and Edward Burns, the last of which will appear in two more episodes during the season.
  • This marks the first appearance of Grace's love interest Nick, and the final appearance of Scott Woolley.
  • This is the second time Karen and Beverly's Country Club on Shelter Island was featured. Karen previously went with Will during the episode A Chorus Lie. It is revealed in this episode that Beverly Leslie is the social chair of this club, as well as board member of the Shelter Island Republican Party.

Cultural references[]

  • Lenore remarks that Will resembles rumored gay actor Sal Mineo, who was murdered on 1976.
  • After realizing that Lenore and Lucille are actually lovers, Jack exclaims "Portia de Rossi Degeneres, you're lesbians?", referencing openly gay actress Portia de Rossi who had recently started dating Ellen Degeneres. In reality, after their wedding in 2008, de Rossi legally changed her name to Portia Lee James DeGeneres.
  • When Nick learns that the gin-soaked compress Grace is using belongs to her assistant, he asks if her assistant is grunge musician Courtney Love, who gained notoriety during the 90s for having a lifestyle of partying and substance abuse.
  • Beverly claims that he tragically lost grip on his wife's wheelchair down the "10,000 steps of Chichen-Itza", an archaeological site in Mexico. He was most likely referring to El Castillo (Temple of Kukulcan), the step-pyramid at the center of Chicken-Itza.

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Quotes[]

Grace:Wait, you're serious? You write greeting cards?
Nick:I prefer to think of them as extremely short stories.
—Grace meeting Nick

I see you boys have met the Portillo sisters. They're my favorite members of this club... who aren't completely Caucasian. — Beverly Leslie

Scott Woolley:I absolutely adore you. You are the brightest angel in all of heaven. Also, I'd like so much, so much, to get into your pants.
Karen:Honey, now, don't make me cry.

Portia de Rossi Degeneres, you're lesbians?! — Jack

It's just this whole day, it's like an evil conspiracy. Created by the greeting card people and the flower people and the candy people. Well, not the candy people. They do...God's work. — Grace

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