As Will and Grace draws to the end of its eight year run on NBC, themes of marriage, family and parenthood figure prominently as its main characters Will Truman and Grace Adler are still trying to find functional partners and stable lives. The episode titled "Cop to it" follows Will and Grace as they are confronted with news of the split of a married couple they have been close friends with for many years and is replete with sexual content and negative attitudes towards family and marriage.

Will and Grace go to a pasta restaurant where they are meeting Rob and Ellen who met in college, married and then had five kids together. They are irritated about having to go to a restaurant that they consider to be beneath them to hear that the couple are expecting yet another child together. "It's so annoying. Another kid, another gift. I'm so tired of rewarding straight, married couples  for not wearing a condom!" complains Will. "I know right? It's like How many kids do you need? It's like they're trying for a good one and that's not going to happen! And the thought of them just going at it….just rutting like pigs!"muses Grace.

Just then, Ellen and Rob sit down. The couple is happy and excited prompting Grace to ask them if they are expecting another child. Ellen and Rob argue for a second as to who will break the big news. Together they proceed to announce that they are getting separated. "Yup! We did it! Splitsville! Sayonara Town! Separation Station!" cheers Rob while making a hand gesture suggesting a penis pulling out of a vagina.

Grace immediately tells them they are making a terrible mistake and no good can possibly come of breaking up when they have such a beautiful family together. "Grace, no. We want to be single again, okay? I want to experiment! I want to go out and buy a corvette and use a condom!" says Rob. "Yeah me too! You know I feel all hot and sassy again. I want to wear a belly shirt Grace! You know I wanna go to clubs and eat angel dust!" says Ellen. Grace is infuriated by the reasoning behind their separation. "Ellen, God love you but a belly shirt? I mean you've been pregnant like thirty times! Every shirt you own is a belly shirt!" When Rob laughs at Ellen, Grace turns her wrath towards him. "What are you laughing at Dough Boy? You think some sexy co-ed is going to want to hang out at the Pasta Village with a forty-year-old accountant whose idea of ‘sexy' is making honking sounds while squeezing them?" Grace then mimics a gesture of squeezing someone's breasts. Rob turns to Ellen and tells her he thought she liked it when he did that. "Well it's better that this!" she says imitating another gesture he makes where he puts his head between her breasts and blows on her chest.

Grace forces Ellen and Rob to go work out their differences. When they return to the table they both look strained. "Well, we're back together. We figured it was best for the kids" says Rob.  "Yeah, we might as well make it all the way to the finish line. You know, death." says Ellen. "That's a cheerful way to put it." comments Rob. "It's better than your way! ‘Best for the kids.' The kids hate you!" says Ellen. "They hate you!" shouts Rob. And the two begin bickering.

When Will and Grace began, it was aired after 9 p.m. Today, when it contains more sexual content and has a much more negative tone it airs at 8 p.m. ‘Cop to it' contained very negative attitudes towards marriage as expressed by Ellen and Rob. Their reasons for separating are as juvenile as they themselves are as they bicker and try to use their children to hurt each other. Many jokes revolve around Ellen and Rob's love life and are much too graphic for a program that airs so early in the evening. For this content it is our Worst of the Week.

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