frasier - c/d s/d

Generally after Niles and Daphne getting it on = dud, especially when the sentimental stuff began to outweigh the perfectly-formed farcical setpieces. Plus no Bulldog, which didn't help.

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.

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.

The silent episode closers were often an interesting formalism.

I find it so annoying and wrong, yet I watch it. It comes on before "Becker" which is also annoying and wrong...

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.

Last evs Frasier next Thursday. Anybody still care?

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.

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

Fawlty Towers

Thread inspired I've been going through some of the higher rated ones (seen the complete show quite some time ago). They really hold up great. When they were good, they were really, really good.

I toyed with the idea of rating every single episode but that’s just a whole other level of commitment i wasn’t willing to take on

I usually don’t like (TV) shows anyway so

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.

Seasons 1 to 3 are mostly classic. Tailed off badly after that and a lot of it is unwatchable (given what came before).

xp yeah that's a fantastic ep with Stewart

I watched all of them a couple of years ago and can't remember the Patrick Stewart one or the Christmas one!

there's a christmas episode in most seasons of frasier.

there is also a millennium episode (where martin keeps quoting austin powers)

Also watched the Michael Keaton story (conman in a wheelchair) which was a little lame.

ISWYDT

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?)

yeah, season 8 iirc.

(conman in a wheelchair)

"Her lips said No, but her eyes said read my lips"

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.

Which is to say it's only right and natural that millennials prefer Frasier to Cheers.

(Millennials, let me know if you need me to explain what AfterCheers is in reference to.)

did anybody ever actually watch this? i only heard of it recently via AV Club.

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Afterglow?

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 decision has been made to cancel AfterM*A*S*H after the most recent episode was viewed by a paltry 63 million people.

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.

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.

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I pity the fool...

why am I legally allowed near photoshop pic.twitter.com/9L3WZvy0pU

— Goth Ms. Frizzle (@spookperson) June 16, 2018

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

Lol Bishop Brennan out of Father Ted just popped up in a one line role as a waiter in some Gentleman's Club

My bad, he got a second line

yeah I know the scene, was a bit shocked myself.

Frasier's nightmare pic.twitter.com/5ScqBpdGJG

— Baal Til You Fall (@coffinzone) September 15, 2021

My favorite Frasier bit is where he unwittingly recites the bracha in Klingon at his kid's bar mitzvah.

Some one left the complete Frazier on dvd out on the street with the trash

I'll bet it was that contemptible Cam Winston

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

Fravatar pic.twitter.com/e5AAjPVNQH

— Ben Rosen (@ben_rosen) December 1, 2022

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

Cor blimey

Frasier’ Sequel Series at Paramount+ Casts Nicholas Lyndhurst

First pic of Nicholas Lyndhurst in the Frasier reboot pic.twitter.com/PLSOdjR84n

— hoskas (@hoskas) August 22, 2023

Blimey.

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

― 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 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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— 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.

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

FRAZOR: Frasier with a Razor. Rated X. pic.twitter.com/HxMB2R5Txv

— Lukey McGarry (@lukeymcgarry) September 13, 2023