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Goodnight Gracie

Cam (Eric Stonestreet) meets a few residents of the retirement community and seeing that they have some common interests, he is spending time with them, talking about books and playing Mahjong.



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God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?!

As Scallion #1 tries to re-advertise The Forgive-O-Matic as a julienne fry maker and a Chia model, Junior turns of the lights and camera telling the Scallion to say "Goodnight Gracie" (a reference to the ending line of the Burns and Allen radio and television shows).

Lloyd Schwartz

Schwartz's books of poetry include Cairo Traffic (University of Chicago Press, 2000) and the chapbook Greatest Hits 1973-2000 (Pudding House Press, 2003), which were preceded by Goodnight, Gracie (1992) and These People (1981).

Ralph Pape

Say Goodnight, Gracie ran off-Broadway for 400 performances in 1978 and was staged in 1979 by Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company with Austin Pendleton directing a cast headed by John Malkovich, Joan Allen and Glenne Headly.

In 1983, Say Goodnight, Gracie was adapted by the author for a 90-minute teleplay which was seen on Chicago's PBS affiliate WTTW with the original Steppenwolf cast of Joan Allen, Jeff Perry, Glenne Headly, Francis Guinan and John Malkovich.