Karen Walker (Will & Grace) - Other Aspects of Karen

Other Aspects of Karen

• In the very first Will & Grace episode, Karen did not speak with her usual high and squeaky voice. Her voice did not change until subsequent episodes. (Megan Mullally mentioned in an interview that she wanted to do the high voice early on as she felt it would work for that style of comedy; she was able to slowly work it in.)

• Karen's bra size is 34C.

• Karen has a sister named Gin (Virginia, played by Bernadette Peters), whom she injured during a game of Twister in 1963.

• She once said that she's almost 200 years old.

• Karen’s "drag" name is Shu Shu Fontana.

• Karen and Jack once owned a horse named Lamar, who turned out to be gay.

• While Karen was backpacking through Japan, Viet Nam and Boutan between her second and third marriage, she was spotted by an advertising company while worshiping in the golden temple of Kyoto. She did a commercial for a drink made of 22% nicotine in Japan. When people discovered that nicotine was lethal, they replaced it with baby laxative and asked Karen to do the second commercial. She refused and has regretted it ever since because "You're never closer to God than when you're on TV." She's still very popular amongst the Japanese people.

• Karen has had salespeople fired for various reasons, such as "She had a gray tooth."

• Karen once reported that there were pictures printed in Penthouse of herself and Vanessa L. Williams making out.

• Karen eats her morning cereal with Bailey's.

• Karen has an alias, "Anastasia Beaverhausen", which she uses when she wishes not to identify herself in suggestive areas, such as taco restaurants and a Banana Republic where she passed a bad check.

• Karen calls every waiter who serves her in bars "Smitty".

• Karen was cloned, but none of the clones survived. ("Prison Blues" S4)

• She is often out of touch with reality and tells stories from her past that are actually plots of famous books or movies, including Heidi; Speed; To Sir, With Love; and Norma Rae.

• Whenever she becomes worried, confused, or panicked, she has a tendency to ask three questions at the same time. The three questions could be: "Honey, what's that? What's going on? What's happening?" or "What's going on? What's happening?" (question relating to situation), or in one instance, "¿Qué? ¿Quí? ¿Dónde?"

• Karen divorced her fourth husband, Lyle Finster, at their wedding reception because she had to give up too much for him (a list of which he presented in a toast) and she didn't like being called "Mrs. Finster". She later found out her third husband Stanley Walker was still alive, thus ruling her marriage to Lyle invalid.

• Karen has fake hair that gets ripped off in many episodes, always shocking Karen. She then fights to get it back.

• Megan Mullally has said in interviews that she has frequently been approached by fans while grocery shopping, some of whom tell her, "My friends tell me I'm just like Karen," to which she said she replies, "Oh, honey, take stock of your life, because that's not a compliment!"

• Grace discovers and shares with Will a sado-masochist pornographic movie starring Karen. Although no images are shown, the movie seems to feature Karen humiliating and whipping a man in a sexual manner. Karen later concedes that she starred in the movie because she needed money after college, and Grace retrieves and returns to Karen nearly all 50 copies of the movie from adult video stores around Manhattan (although Grace keeps a copy for herself).

• She likes mint Milanos, and allows herself to have one a day.

• Karen does not do her own laundry and probably never wears the same thing twice. She once claimed that "poor people are clever" after seeing a laundromat for the first time.

• She once thought she was pregnant and had a liquor storage closet (one of many in the Walker penthouse) turned into a baby's room.