Authors' Notes: This is a background script I worte, just to carry on what happened once Karen told Jack she might be pregnant, in the episode, 'The unsinkable Mommy Adler'. Of course I do not own any of the characters. Nor do I own the first few lines taken from the original script.
Karen: "Thank God they're gone. Listen. Jack, I gotta talk to ya about somethin', it's kind of important."
Jack: "I'm all ears. An' one high butt."
Karen: "Yeah, well, ah. A couple a weeks ago it Stan's birthday an' I forgot to get him present. I mean how'm I supposed to remember somethin' loke that? Anyway. Long story short. I think I might be pregnant." (lets out a nervous giggle.)
Jack: "Oh Karen. I hope you don't forget my birthday."
Karen: "I'm serious honey! I need your help? I don't know how to bring up a child."
Jack: "Well what about your step-children? You've taken care of them for years."
Karen: " You must be kidding honey! Rossario takes care a the little brats, I can't stand 'em."
Jack: "So what are you gonna do if you are pregnant?"
Karen: "Well I can't get rid of it, I'll just have to live with it.
Honey, I can't have a kid! I mean look at this body! I'd have to start over, with all the stretch marks 'n' stuff, uckh!"
Jack: "I see what you mean. But why do you need my help?"
Karen: "Well honey, yer the only person I can talk to. An' plus I don't know anything about kids, an' pregnancey?"
Jack: "Oh, an' I do?!"
Karen: "Well, honey, you did sneak those 'Mother & Baby' magazines out of the doctors' waiting room.
I just need yer advice." (Takes a small bottle of wine out of her bag.)
"All this talk about babies. I need a drink."
Jack: "Karen! What are you doing?!"
(Karen looks up innocently as she opens the bottle.)
Karen: "Toasting the baby."
Jack: "You want my advice? You don't drink when your preganant!"
Karen: "But honey!"
(Jack takes the bottle away from her.)
Jack: "No Karen. Not until we know for sure."
Karen: "Fine. I'll buy a test at lunch... Happy now?"
Jack: "Yes."
(FADE OUT: END.)
Karen: "Thank God they're gone. Listen. Jack, I gotta talk to ya about somethin', it's kind of important."
Jack: "I'm all ears. An' one high butt."
Karen: "Yeah, well, ah. A couple a weeks ago it Stan's birthday an' I forgot to get him present. I mean how'm I supposed to remember somethin' loke that? Anyway. Long story short. I think I might be pregnant." (lets out a nervous giggle.)
Jack: "Oh Karen. I hope you don't forget my birthday."
Karen: "I'm serious honey! I need your help? I don't know how to bring up a child."
Jack: "Well what about your step-children? You've taken care of them for years."
Karen: " You must be kidding honey! Rossario takes care a the little brats, I can't stand 'em."
Jack: "So what are you gonna do if you are pregnant?"
Karen: "Well I can't get rid of it, I'll just have to live with it.
Honey, I can't have a kid! I mean look at this body! I'd have to start over, with all the stretch marks 'n' stuff, uckh!"
Jack: "I see what you mean. But why do you need my help?"
Karen: "Well honey, yer the only person I can talk to. An' plus I don't know anything about kids, an' pregnancey?"
Jack: "Oh, an' I do?!"
Karen: "Well, honey, you did sneak those 'Mother & Baby' magazines out of the doctors' waiting room.
I just need yer advice." (Takes a small bottle of wine out of her bag.)
"All this talk about babies. I need a drink."
Jack: "Karen! What are you doing?!"
(Karen looks up innocently as she opens the bottle.)
Karen: "Toasting the baby."
Jack: "You want my advice? You don't drink when your preganant!"
Karen: "But honey!"
(Jack takes the bottle away from her.)
Jack: "No Karen. Not until we know for sure."
Karen: "Fine. I'll buy a test at lunch... Happy now?"
Jack: "Yes."
(FADE OUT: END.)