Marry Me a Little, Marry Me a Little More

Marry Me a Little, Marry Me a Little More is the two-part 8th and 9th episode of the fifth season and 100th and 101st overall. Conceptually one long episode, it is split into two episodes in repeats and syndication, entitled "Marry Me a Little" and "Marry Me A Little More".

While strolling down Central Park, Grace and Leo spontaneously get married. She begins to question the decision when she realizes how much she does not know of him and after they find out the wedding is actually invalid.

Synopsis[]

Marry Me a Little[]

While at Central Park having picnic with their friends, Grace and Leo take a stroll and meet journalist Katie Couric, who is doing a mass wedding segment on the Today show. Leo impulsively ask Grace to join in and get married and she happily accepts.

When Will feels left out after learning that Grace got married without him, they decide to throw a wedding reception, where friends and family come to celebrate with them. During the cake-cutting, Grace is surprised how much she does not know about Leo, including the fact that he went to Africa with Doctors Without Borders, his birthday, and that his name is also "Marvin". Disheartened by this, she walks out.

Leo follows her and they bump into Katie Couric again, who tells them that the wedding is invalid due to a technicality. While Leo is willing to fix it by getting married at the city hall the next day, Grace is unsure and leaves. Leo sadly announces this to the reception party, but Grace comes back and agrees to marry him again.

Marry Me a Little More[]

GettyImages-115383660-1501520594 — Man, it must've cost you an arm and a leg. Or one of your patients an arm and a leg.

Before Grace and Leo's synagogue wedding, she learns that her father is unable to attend and walk her down the aisle so Karen suggests Will do it. When Grace asks Will, he refuses, saying he can't be the one to hand her off to another guy. Grace takes Will for a walk and ultimately at the rooftop of a building. Grace tells Will that it is where they actually first met, and that it was then that she decided Will is the man she is "going to spend the rest of [her] life with", reassuring Will that they will always be in each other's lives. As they slow dance, they softly sing Don't You Want Me by the Human League.

Back at the synagogue, Will walks Grace down the aisle and hands her off to Leo. The friends stay up all night and in the morning take a walk down Central Park again. Grace muses that the diamond on her wedding ring is so big it must be seen from space.

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Notes[]

This is the series' 100th episode. It originally aired as a special hour-long episode, and featured a half-hour clip outtakes and bloopers afterwards.
In syndication, the episode is split into two and several scenes were cut, including:
- a longer cake-cutting scene, where Grace finds out from her friends that she and Leo have not discussed their future thoroughly
- Karen and Jack discussing Grace leaving the reception
- Will noticing the wedding boutonnieres at the wedding
- Eleanor giving wedding advice to Grace; Karen and Grace sharing a tender moment as they get ready
- Julius comforting and hitting on Will
- Leo and Grace correcting the rabbi about Leo's name
- the friends all walk in the park and look at Grace's wedding ring, zooming out from space
During the original airing, several deleted and alternate ("never-before-seen") scenes were shown during the credits, including:
- Leo and Grace dancing and discussing his uncle
- Alternate dialog between Rob and Ellen at the reception
- Karen's response when Rosario tells her to stop trying to unhook her bra
- Grace looking for her father; her mother tells her he is still trying to look for a parking space
- Karen talking to Leo at the bar, implying he is Native American
- Jack telling Will they are the best looking ones at the reception
The episode marks the first time in television that two Jewish characters are married inside the faith.^[1]
Eleanor refers to Leo as "Marvin" in this episode. Whether this is his second name or nick name is never confirmed. In FYI: I Hurt, Too, Grace mentions that his diploma says "Dr. Leo Markus" implying his first name really is Leo.
Several characters introduced in earlier episodes appear at Grace and Leo's wedding, including her mother Bobbi Adler and her pianist Julius, Will and Grace's couple friends Rob and Ellen and Joe and Larry.
Right before the wedding, Leo makes a joke that Grace has "walked out one of these before", referring to her running away from her wedding to Danny during the pilot.
Ellen is eight-months pregnant with her second child.
The disco song playing at the reception was "Fire" by Ohio Players.
Before the wedding ceremony, a frantic Will says that the boutonnieres are dead and they have made contact with psychic medium John Edward. Edward would later appear as himself in the Season 6 episode East Side Story.
The theme from the 1981 miniseries Brideshead Revisited is played as Grace walks down the aisle.

Cultural references[]

Karen refers to their group of friends as The Fag Four, a play on The Fab Four.
As a joke, Leo asks Katie Couric "if you're here, where in the world is Matt Lauer?" after the Today's segment. Lauer later appears as himself in season 8 as a guest at Karen's party.
After finding out Paradise Juice bar is now a parking lot, Will quips "they pave Paradise, and they put up a parking lot," referencing lyrics to the Joni Mitchell song Big Yellow Taxi (1970).
Karen refers to her, Will, Grace, and Jack as the Fag Four, a play on "Fab Four", the nickname for The Beatles. Interestingly, later in the episode, Will recalls thinking The Human League was going to be bigger than The Beatles when he was young. While they were slow dancing, Will and Grace sing the first lines of Don't You Want Me (1981) by The Human League.
While reminiscing on the rooftop, Grace jokes that they "keep going" and jump, allusions to the ending of Thelma & Louise (1991) where the two friends make a suicide pact.

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Quotes[]

We met in the park, let's get married in the park. — Leo

Grace Adler, I love you, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. So here, today, right now, in front of God... and Katie Couric, I'm asking you... Will you marry me? — Leo, proposing to Grace

Grace:	You're like a stranger to me... Marvin. I might as well have married my Israeli pen pal from when I was 15 who sent me love letters on Hello Kitty stationary.
Leo:	Actually over there it'd be Shalom Kitty.

So our first wedding didn't take. But we're having another one! And a real one this time. As for all these, ah, these lovely presents, I don't really know the protocol. Let's just call them engagement gifts. Bring another one at the wedding. — Grace

Have Will walk you down the aisle. Yeah, it'll be perfect.
Out with the 'mo, in with the Jew! — Karen

Grace:	I didn't think I was going to be so nervous. But I am. I'm doing the right thing, right?
Will:	Well--
Grace:	What?!
Will:	Nothing. No, I'm just saying as a friend, I want you to know that if you were thinking of calling it off, don't worry about the people out there. Don't worry about all those gifts. You do what your heart tells you is right.
Grace:	Are you freaking kidding me with this?!
Will:	"If," I said "if."
Grace:	The question was rhetorical. That means you're supposed to say "yes."
Will:	That's not what "rhetorical" means.
Grace:	Are we talking about what "rhetorical" means or about how you're freaking me out right now?
Will:	Am I supposed to answer that or is that rhetorical too?

—One last argument before she gets married

Will, I may be getting married today, but when I said I was going to spend the rest of my life with you, I wasn't wrong. — Grace

References[]

↑ Bolonik, Kera (2003-10-30). "Oy Gay!". The Nation. p. 1. Retrieved 2009-07-21.

[1] Bolonik, Kera (2003-10-30). "Oy Gay!". The Nation. p. 1. Retrieved 2009-07-21.

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