I recently rewatched the Patrick Stewart episode - it's another variation on the "everyone thinks Frasier is gay" gag - it's a really funny episode, about gay panic without succumbing to it.
Also watched the Michael Keaton story (conman in a wheelchair) which was a little lame.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
Seasons 1 to 3 are mostly classic. Tailed off badly after that and a lot of it is unwatchable (given what came before).
― millmeister, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
xp yeah that's a fantastic ep with Stewart
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
I watched all of them a couple of years ago and can't remember the Patrick Stewart one or the Christmas one!
― kinder, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:08 (six 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
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 (nine months ago) link
Blimey.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 09:18 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight months ago) link