frasier - c/d s/d

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?

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.

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.

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.

i just wish niles and frasier wouldn't start running in circles flapping their hands every 5 minutes. otherwise classic.

oh and frasiers ex with the man voice always wearing really REALLY short dresses was kind of wrong too.

Lol, British people love Frasier. I spent NYE'98 at a B&B in York watching a Frasier marathon on BBC2.

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This show is like Three's Company with psychiatrists.

I love Frasier, but all the actors playing English characters are fucking hopeless

Who plays English on the show?

black frasier http://video.aol.com/video-detail/black-frasier/3863273664

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.

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"

david hyde pierce is a hilarious man.

Oh right, I somehow forgot all about Daphne's family.

me and my friends call this show 'white frasier'

OH THE IRONING

lol at Niles trying to fix the issue of seeing Daphne as a perfect woman, by telling her that her cooking is shite lol

mind you, he does get a shag from it

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

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."

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.

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

this show is so great

i always liked how maris was never seen, just like norm's wife from cheers

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.

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.

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.

or maybe that's not true. lifetime seems to run these randomly.

"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...

We watched all these recently, got halfway through series 10 and bottled it. Just couldn't take it anymore.

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.

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.

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

LOL at "i'm going to get your 4% if i have to stay there all night"

s4e18 is peak ilx

its got ilx jargon
sock puppets
trolls
clusterfucks
a neurotic megalomaniac
and an unexpected lurker

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 rancid
daphne: well thats the way it's supposed to smell. it's english

thatd be bovril obv

"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.

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

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

nosedives after Niles and Daphne get together

And how.

ya when it was originally aired i never watched past season 6 or 7 i think, before they got together

and it was still p good at that point

has the frasierverse been discussed here yet

https://twitter.com/MechaGamezilla/status/840612104948338688

christ that is wild

Rozs char makes for the most wildest of stories

Maris was good for the first 20 seasons, but it really fell off sometime around season 24

http://frasierverse.wikia.com/wiki/Maris

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

My fave episodes:

Caviar episode
Where Frasier and Niles find an old skull and mistakenly believe foul play
Frasier and Niles take a motor school class
Frasier writes a jingle for his show
Frasier and Niles get a free spa session and become obsessed with getting higher access

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spa ep is wonderful: "be my eyes, frasier"

i'm def a frasier millennial sigh. some faves:

frasier and niles want to join a spa
frasier and niles want to join a club
frasier and niles both want to be elected "corkmaster"
frasier and niles go christmas shopping
niles suspects maris of having an affair with her fencing instructor
niles hosts a society party but there is a dead seal on the beach
niles hosts a society party but there is a cockatoo on his head
frasier stages a radio play
frasier and bebe host a morning show
frasier acquires a reputation as a tough guy
frasier endorses a political candidate
frasier believes he has solved his dad's decades-old cold case
frasier cannot accept that his dad is a better chess player than him
frasier cannot accept that tony shalhoub dislikes him
no one believes frasier is dating a supermodel zoologist
farce in ski lodge
farce on cruise ship
farce in bora bora (ft. lilith)
frasier crane day

the radio play episode was weird to watch as a teenager as radio plays have never gone away in the UK

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

-- 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.

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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.

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

I didn't hate the preview clip. "Amalgamated with the hoi polloi" is classic Frasier pomposity.

on the bright side, this will keep Kelsey Grammer contained to a soundstage for part of the day/year

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