― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 9 May 2004 04:56 (twenty years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 9 May 2004 05:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 9 May 2004 06:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 9 May 2004 06:59 (twenty 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 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnney B, Sunday, 9 May 2004 09:27 (twenty 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 (twenty 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 (twenty 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
OH THE IRONING
― Mark C, Saturday, 2 February 2008 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
lol at Niles trying to fix the issue of seeing Daphne as a perfect woman, by telling her that her cooking is shite lol
― Ste, Thursday, 20 March 2008 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link
mind you, he does get a shag from it
― Ste, Thursday, 20 March 2008 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Saw the one recently where it's revealed (by Sarah Silverman) that Frasier has a habit of addressing his sexual partners mid-coitus as "M'Lady" - I was dying
so classic
― Savannah Smiles, Thursday, 20 March 2008 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Frasier: You know the expression "Living well is the best revenge?"Niles: It's a wonderful expression. Just don't know how true it is. Don't see it turning up in a lot of opera plots. "Ludwig, maddened by the poisoning of his entire family, wreaks vengeance on Gunther in the third act by living well."Frasier: All right, Niles.Niles: "Whereupon Woton, upon discovering his deception, wreaks vengeance on Gunther in the third act again by living even better than the Duke."
― and what, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Niles: What's the point of going to Switzerland without spending a day on the slopes? So, I ducked out of the conference, and who should I run into but Maris? She'd just flown in for her yearly goat-placenta treatments.
Frasier: Hmm... Good lord, is it placenta-treatment-time again, already?
Niles: We had a set-to on the slopes. She ran; I tried to follow her tracks in the snow but, alas, she made none.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 2 May 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i was just staring at a picture of david hyde pierce's face the other day and marveling at how much he does look like he could be kelsey grammer's brother
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Monday, 2 May 2011 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
this show is so great
― coo coo khal (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 00:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i always liked how maris was never seen, just like norm's wife from cheers
― coo coo khal (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zYN2Vpe1pk
Just watched this episode with my gf, and we both laughed so much at the punchline at 0:29. Man, when this show was good, it was so good! I could spend hours just watching Niles and Frasier spar with each other.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 08:56 (twelve years ago) link
Still love this show. Have been re-watching seasons 1-4 only recently and it's so consistent. When does it start to tail off? As I remember, the last few seasons are almost unwatchable.
― sam500, Thursday, 2 June 2011 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
it gets sappier as it goes on but even after niles and daphne get married there are occasional great episodes, including lots of unusually formalist farces.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 2 June 2011 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
or maybe that's not true. lifetime seems to run these randomly.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 2 June 2011 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
"A party thrown by whom? Caligula?"
Oh man, please tell me this is a real line uttered by Frasier.
― Ce soir je dîne sur la soupe de tortue (EDB), Wednesday, July 7, 2010 10:06 AM (10 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Still waiting on an answer to this...
― EDB, Thursday, 2 June 2011 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
We watched all these recently, got halfway through series 10 and bottled it. Just couldn't take it anymore.
― Autumn Alma Park Toilets (Schlafsack), Thursday, 2 June 2011 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
But yeah, first 4–5 years are remarkable.
Also, once on a plane ride I caught most of an episode of Frasier where part of the plot (I think) revolved around meeting a famous Dadaist artist, but I missed the name and so waited for like 3+ hours for the airline tv service to go through its cycle and repeat the episode, but it cut out right before it started.
It was a mystery until about 2 minutes ago, when I bothered to just look it up on google, and it turns out its not even a real person, just a made up name.
― EDB, Thursday, 2 June 2011 04:39 (twelve years ago) link
Frasier: I'm Dr. Frasier Crane, and this is my brother, Dr. Niles Crane, the eminent psychiatrist.
Niles: My brother is too kind. He was already eminent when my eminence was merely imminent.
big lolz every time i watch that scene.
― sam500, Thursday, 2 June 2011 06:18 (twelve years ago) link
just rewatching this
probably one of my favourite shows and on s03e06 (sleeping with the enemy)
starting at 22:05 and the bit where roz comes in with the punchline is hilarious (ending at 25:06)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBno_GfJF30
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 03:20 (seven years ago) link
LOL at "i'm going to get your 4% if i have to stay there all night"
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 13:35 (seven years ago) link
s4e18 is peak ilx
its got ilx jargonsock puppetstrollsclusterfucksa neurotic megalomaniacand an unexpected lurker
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 6 March 2017 03:47 (seven years ago) link
halfway thru the entire thing and plot/subplots get a little repetitive
the show's quality really relies on the constant zings
s06e07
niles: oh the meat paste. well i threw it out. it smelled ranciddaphne: well thats the way it's supposed to smell. it's english
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 23 March 2017 06:03 (seven years ago) link
thatd be bovril obv
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 23 March 2017 06:07 (seven years ago) link
"The Two Mrs. Cranes," the farce where Daphne is pretending to be married to Niles, is one of my favorites. Especially when Martin willfully sabotages the whole charade by claiming to be an astronaut.
Clive: Daphne, I noticed in the phone book, your surname still is Moon.Niles: That must be an old book. Now she hyphenates. It's Moon-Crane.Martin: I remember the first time I ever drove a moon crane. I nearly rolled it into the Sea of Tranquility.
― You're going to see a lot of love. Okay? Thank you. (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:39 (seven years ago) link
Show is great, but it really nosedives after Niles and Daphne get together. And the plots of those last few seasons are really dire... cool that it was on as long as Cheers, but it really limps to the finish line
― Evan R, Thursday, 23 March 2017 16:40 (seven years ago) link
xp lol
man they have such great lines
it's weird how i find myself watching just to hear martin come in with the punchline
niles too
but frasier seems to kind of fizzle out as the show progresses
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 23 March 2017 19:18 (seven 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