― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 23 April 2004 12:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick H (Nick H), Friday, 23 April 2004 12:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Friday, 23 April 2004 12:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 23 April 2004 12:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 23 April 2004 12:14 (twenty years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 23 April 2004 12:16 (twenty years ago) link
The series leading up to Niles and Daphne hitting it off was brilliant. By the end, I wanted them to get it on, but knew that the whole was that it shouldn't happen, comedy wise, but being a romantic fule, was v pleased when they eloped.
― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 23 April 2004 12:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Friday, 23 April 2004 12:26 (twenty years ago) link
When it's clever, it's great. But I don't like all that running in and out and jumping into the wrong beds crap. I want word play, goddammit.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 23 April 2004 15:33 (twenty years ago) link
The silent episode closers were often an interesting formalism.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 12:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link
I find it so annoying and wrong, yet I watch it. It comes on before "Becker" which is also annoying and wrong...
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Daphne's brother was played by Anthony LaPaglia wasnt he? He'd be bound to sound inauthentic - he's an Australian who's been in LA far too long!
Saw an ep (new?) recently I hadnt seen before. They had new downstairs neighbour who was effectively a black Frasier and they were at loggerheads but acting exactly like each other. Very well done, it was.
I agree on it being more schmaltzy since the Niles/Daphne wedding tho.
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 02:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 04:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 04:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nellie (nellskies), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 04:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 05:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 06:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 07:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 09:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Last evs Frasier next Thursday. Anybody still care?
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 9 May 2004 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 9 May 2004 04:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 9 May 2004 05:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 9 May 2004 06:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 9 May 2004 06:59 (nineteen years ago) link
That's from a few series back.
Peri Gilpin is worthy of much love, and I can only imagine how horrible it would have been if Lisa Kudrow (the original choice to play Roz) had got the part.
I think I'm maybe the only person saddened that Frasier is finishing, and who doesn't think it's gone downhill since Niles and Daphne got married. However, I am extremely glad that they have rounded Daphne's character out more and stopped with all the kooky psychic shite.
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 9 May 2004 09:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnney B, Sunday, 9 May 2004 09:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Me too. Oh, hold on, I'm from Manchester.
The guy who plays Frasier's dad was born in Manchester too you know. Like rain on your wedding day, innit?
― JimD (JimD), Sunday, 9 May 2004 10:26 (nineteen years ago) link
The situation and characters were great; got to love John Mahoney's wonderfully contrasting performance to the brothers; and of course the brotherly relationship between Niles and Frasier... Good to see a US sitcom focusing on such untypical Americans; pompous, pedantic and very likeable as well. Quite a feat.
― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 9 May 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link
SEARCH episode where old friend of dad Crane and deceased mum Crane comes to visit, and everybody starts suspecting he's had an affair with mum Crane because he's so much like Frasier and Niles, but in the end just turns out to be gay!
great episode, old friend was played by David Ogden Stiers iirc. I even like the show after Daphne/Niles hookup. I wasn't a fan of the show until it was almost over, catching up in syndication; i already know I don't much like the relatively hackneyed first few years.
― tremendoid, Thursday, 31 January 2008 07:19 (sixteen years ago) link
never cared for the show when it was on, but i've been watching it a lot in syndication lately. the frasier/niles interplay is classic stuff.
― get bent, Thursday, 31 January 2008 08:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i just wish niles and frasier wouldn't start running in circles flapping their hands every 5 minutes. otherwise classic.
― sunny successor, Thursday, 31 January 2008 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
oh and frasiers ex with the man voice always wearing really REALLY short dresses was kind of wrong too.
― sunny successor, Thursday, 31 January 2008 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Lol, British people love Frasier. I spent NYE'98 at a B&B in York watching a Frasier marathon on BBC2.
― jaymc, Thursday, 31 January 2008 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
http://flickr.com/photos/daychokesnight/557439779/
― dan m, Thursday, 31 January 2008 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/1972/frazrl8.gif
― joygoat, Friday, 1 February 2008 00:46 (sixteen years ago) link
This show is like Three's Company with psychiatrists.
― Abbott, Friday, 1 February 2008 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I love Frasier, but all the actors playing English characters are fucking hopeless
― Ste, Saturday, 2 February 2008 08:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Who plays English on the show?
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 2 February 2008 08:51 (sixteen years ago) link
black frasier http://video.aol.com/video-detail/black-frasier/3863273664
― Gukbe, Saturday, 2 February 2008 08:58 (sixteen years ago) link
People playing Englishers that I can remember are Jane Leeves, Anthony LaPaglia, Robbie Coltrane and Richard E Grant (Daphne's brothers x 3), Millicent Martin (Daphne's mum) and Brian Cox (Daphne's dad). Some pretty good actors in that list, but all uniformly shit in Frasier. Even Brian Cox.
The worst English thing was the one where Daphne goes to the English pub and it's full of people going gorblimey and standing up for the national anthem and shit.
― ailsa, Saturday, 2 February 2008 09:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Daphne's family, especially her brother Simon. Worst character ever.
Just watched the The Focus Group episode, so funny the guy who finds Frasier 'annoying' but keeps denying it. "i think, you are a smarty pants"
― Ste, Saturday, 2 February 2008 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link
david hyde pierce is a hilarious man.
― s1ocki, Saturday, 2 February 2008 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh right, I somehow forgot all about Daphne's family.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 2 February 2008 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
me and my friends call this show 'white frasier'
― and what, Saturday, 2 February 2008 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
there's a christmas episode in most seasons of frasier.
there is also a millennium episode (where martin keeps quoting austin powers)
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
Also watched the Michael Keaton story (conman in a wheelchair) which was a little lame.
ISWYDT
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
thinking of big name guest stars, I love the one with Derek Jacobi as the hammy Shakespearean actor (that from pretty late in the shows run as well iirc?)
― soref, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
yeah, season 8 iirc.
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
(conman in a wheelchair)
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
"Her lips said No, but her eyes said read my lips"
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Thursday, 11 January 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link
Just started rewatching this from episode one after finishing Cheers, and it’s such a jarring, unwelcome transition. It’s impressive how quickly the show distanced itself from its predecessor, but the changes to Frasier’s character and temperament are so harsh. Weird to imagine what viewers must have thought at the time
― Evan R, Monday, January 8, 2018 8:06 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is pretty much OTM. I watched Cheers while it was airing (old) and tried Frasier for a while but it just felt like a wan and overly-manic AfterCheers to me.
Also the cultural products of one's childhood and adolescence will always be the best and most important so there's really nothing to be gained from arguing these things with someone from a different generation, I find.
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Thursday, 11 January 2018 13:18 (six years ago) link
Which is to say it's only right and natural that millennials prefer Frasier to Cheers.
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Thursday, 11 January 2018 13:19 (six years ago) link
(Millennials, let me know if you need me to explain what AfterCheers is in reference to.)
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Thursday, 11 January 2018 13:21 (six years ago) link
did anybody ever actually watch this? i only heard of it recently via AV Club.
https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/TV-Guide-Advert-8.jpg
― piscesx, Thursday, 11 January 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link
Afterglow?
― Frederik B, Thursday, 11 January 2018 13:34 (six years ago) link
picesx got it. And given that it lasted two seasons and there were only three things to watch on TV at the time, I guess people must have watched it.
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Thursday, 11 January 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link
The decision has been made to cancel AfterM*A*S*H after the most recent episode was viewed by a paltry 63 million people.
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Thursday, 11 January 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
Was the Radar pilot ever screened? I feel like I watched it on a dodgy realplayer stream from a MASH fan-site one time in the 90s, but perhaps I am imagining things.
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Thursday, 11 January 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
Wow, I had no idea that was a thing. And it's apparently not even called Radar but rather W*A*L*T*E*R. It's a shame that the non-Trapper John spin-offs tanked and we never got to see H*A*W*K*E*Y*E*P*I*E*R*C*E.
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Thursday, 11 January 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/uploads/JoshGoldberg/2011-08-10_111850_aftermashresized.png
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 11 January 2018 14:17 (six years ago) link
I pity the fool...
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Thursday, 11 January 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
why am I legally allowed near photoshop pic.twitter.com/9L3WZvy0pU— Goth Ms. Frizzle (@spookperson) June 16, 2018
― Stanley Therapy (stevie), Saturday, 16 June 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
also here’s a frasier script I wrote where he and niles are inspired by hannibal lecter to try cannibalismhttps://t.co/PMWDPgPiyF— Ben Rosen (@ben_rosen) June 17, 2020
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
Lol Bishop Brennan out of Father Ted just popped up in a one line role as a waiter in some Gentleman's Club
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 July 2020 08:47 (three years ago) link
My bad, he got a second line
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 July 2020 08:53 (three years ago) link
yeah I know the scene, was a bit shocked myself.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Thursday, 2 July 2020 08:58 (three years ago) link
Frasier's nightmare pic.twitter.com/5ScqBpdGJG— Baal Til You Fall (@coffinzone) September 15, 2021
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
My favorite Frasier bit is where he unwittingly recites the bracha in Klingon at his kid's bar mitzvah.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 19 September 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link
Some one left the complete Frazier on dvd out on the street with the trash
― calstars, Sunday, 19 September 2021 03:26 (two years ago) link
I'll bet it was that contemptible Cam Winston
― Sorry, but that is how I feel (Ste), Sunday, 19 September 2021 09:55 (two years ago) link
My fave episodes:
Caviar episodeWhere Frasier and Niles find an old skull and mistakenly believe foul playFrasier and Niles take a motor school classFrasier writes a jingle for his showFrasier and Niles get a free spa session and become obsessed with getting higher access
― Sorry, but that is how I feel (Ste), Saturday, 25 September 2021 23:05 (two years ago) link
Fravatar pic.twitter.com/e5AAjPVNQH— Ben Rosen (@ben_rosen) December 1, 2022
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Friday, 2 December 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
I prefer Jodorowsky's Frasier:
Many of you sent me that spectacular AI art of "Jodorowsky's TRON." I felt inspired to take a stab at the concept with some other properties. Step into a dark portrait of the human psyche in...Jodorowsky's FRASIER pic.twitter.com/EfqBY7UBPu— Rob Sheridan (Parody) (@rob_sheridan) November 29, 2022
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 2 December 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
Cor blimey Frasier’ Sequel Series at Paramount+ Casts Nicholas Lyndhurst
― Alba, Friday, 13 January 2023 19:24 (one year ago) link
First pic of Nicholas Lyndhurst in the Frasier reboot pic.twitter.com/PLSOdjR84n— hoskas (@hoskas) August 22, 2023
― honey badger drinks when he wants (stevie), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 09:13 (eight months ago) link
Blimey.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 09:18 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytRUZi9geSE
missed opportunity to turn the frasier theme into another dramatic half-time plinky piano thing with moody shots of niles glaring into the distance imo
― Florin Cuchares, Thursday, 24 August 2023 04:13 (eight months ago) link
My fave episodes:Caviar episodeWhere Frasier and Niles find an old skull and mistakenly believe foul playFrasier and Niles take a motor school classFrasier writes a jingle for his showFrasier and Niles get a free spa session and become obsessed with getting higher access― Sorry, but that is how I feel (Ste), Saturday, September 25, 2021 1:05 PM bookmarkflaglink
― Sorry, but that is how I feel (Ste), Saturday, September 25, 2021 1:05 PM bookmarkflaglink
spa ep is wonderful: "be my eyes, frasier"
i'm def a frasier millennial sigh. some faves:
frasier and niles want to join a spafrasier and niles want to join a clubfrasier and niles both want to be elected "corkmaster"frasier and niles go christmas shoppingniles suspects maris of having an affair with her fencing instructorniles hosts a society party but there is a dead seal on the beachniles hosts a society party but there is a cockatoo on his headfrasier stages a radio playfrasier and bebe host a morning showfrasier acquires a reputation as a tough guyfrasier endorses a political candidatefrasier believes he has solved his dad's decades-old cold casefrasier cannot accept that his dad is a better chess player than himfrasier cannot accept that tony shalhoub dislikes himno one believes frasier is dating a supermodel zoologistfarce in ski lodgefarce on cruise shipfarce in bora bora (ft. lilith)frasier crane day
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 24 August 2023 08:07 (eight months ago) link
the radio play episode was weird to watch as a teenager as radio plays have never gone away in the UK
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 24 August 2023 08:19 (eight months ago) link
i love the spa one and the farces, which I normally can't stand. not watched them since I was at home with my eldest when he was a baby, so about 8-9 years
― kinder, Friday, 25 August 2023 17:27 (eight months ago) link
-- actually, this is not without precedent. when he was 10, he forged letters from leonard bernstein and told everyone they were pen pals.
-- oh yeah.
-- he'd come bounding up the stairs: "got another one from lenny!" we were all agog! UNTIL mr. bernstein wrote that his broadway debut was "candide" when everyone knows that it was "on the town". that's when we knew it was a fake!
-- the sloppy kid lettering was also a clue.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 06:35 (eight months ago) link
Same Frasier. New Skyline. The first two episodes of #Frasier premiere Thursday, Oct. 12 exclusively on #ParamountPlus pic.twitter.com/xIl41160hk— Paramount+ (@paramountplus) September 14, 2023
nothing here that's particularly hilarious, but it's not obviously terrible either? Them doing the strained father-son relationship from the original series but with Frasier as the father this time seems like it could work as a concept.
― soref, Friday, 15 September 2023 10:40 (seven months ago) link
A lot of the humour in the original comes from how people tend to revert to their childhood role when around their parents and siblings no matter how old they get, so it's funny to see this fancy, educated guy bickering with his brother and his dad - I think Nicholas Lyndhurst is supposed to be an old contemporary of Frasier's from college who he reconnects with, so I guess he is taking on the role of the person who new Frasier before he was 'fully-formed', who can undermine him because he knows him to well, can see past the image he's carefully trying to project?
Would watch this if it was on any of the streaming apps I'm subbed to but no
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2023 10:55 (seven months ago) link
I didn't hate the preview clip. "Amalgamated with the hoi polloi" is classic Frasier pomposity.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Friday, 15 September 2023 13:49 (seven months ago) link
on the bright side, this will keep Kelsey Grammer contained to a soundstage for part of the day/year
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 15 September 2023 15:29 (seven months ago) link
FRAZOR: Frasier with a Razor. Rated X. pic.twitter.com/HxMB2R5Txv— Lukey McGarry (@lukeymcgarry) September 13, 2023
― soref, Friday, 15 September 2023 15:41 (seven months ago) link