It features Tony Goldwyn as Kendall Dobbs, a young gay man dying of AIDS who asks the Sugarbaker ladies to design his funeral.
A decision is made to hold a debate the following week, and Mary Jo, the only person to speak in favor of the proposal, is reluctantly drafted to argue for it.
In the background, Imogene Salinger (Camilla Carr), an acquaintance of Julia's and a client of the firm, overhears the plans for the funeral and states that gay men like Kendall are getting what they deserve.
Imogene storms out of the store, announcing that she will take her business elsewhere in the future while Julia in turn tells her that bigots like her will not be welcomed at her firm.
Later, Julia, Suzanne, Charlene, and Sugarbaker friend Bernice Clifton (Alice Ghostley) all attend Mary Jo's PTA debate.
During the debate, Mary Jo struggles to make her points but is cut off repeatedly by her opponent, Carolyn Jackson (Joan Roberts).
As Kendall enters with Anthony (Meshach Taylor), Mary Jo is finally able to articulate her closing statement: What I am saying is that I have a dear, sweet, funny friend, 24 years old, not very much older than the kids that we're talking about here, and he came to me this week and asked me to help plan his funeral, because he's dying... from AIDS...something that he got before he even knew what it was or how to prevent it.
"Killing All the Right People" was written by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the creator of Designing Women, whose own mother died after contracting AIDS from a blood transfusion.