I know this farewell doesn’t have the hype on NBC that Friends did, but I will still watch it. Dateline only did a one hour retrospective, while they gave Friends a two hour show. Apparently Hagrid shows up as Daphe’s brother!
My favs:
The Valentine show, where Niles starts out trying to out a wrinkle in his pants and ends up setting the couch on fire and fainting from the sight of his own blood…
And the episode where Frasier invited the station manager to dinner, thinking to set him up with Daphne, not knowing Roz has told the gay station manager that Frasier is also gay, so GSM thinks he’s there for Frasier.
I stopped watching it for a year, because it got stupid, but I found it again after I drifted away from 24.
In the new one Frasier will be a widower named Frasier Carmichael living with his brother Niles (played by Vivian Vance) and will have constant money problems with his banker, Mr Mooney (Gale Gordon). Hilarity, reminiscent of the old show but without any of its wit and sparkle, will ensue. After a few years the show will be replaced by a nearly identical show but with Niles gone and Frasier saddled with some teenagers we’ve never seen before. Plots, or more accurately the ONLY plot, from the previous show will be recycled. This pattern will continue until the only people watching are Frasier’s most senile fans but as there are so damned many baby-boomers that will keep it in the top ten.
I, too, stopped watching much for a while a few seasons ago, but lately, this season especially, I think they’ve found their way again and it has been almost as smart and as funny as ever.
One of the things I always appreciated was that they could make opera jokes and crudish sex jokes practically in the same breath. They never talked down to the audience, but they poked fun at their own snobbishness.
I also liked that, at least once a season, they did a straight-ahead farce episode, with mistaken identities, multiple doors, and misunderstandings. And they did it well.
Turns out I kind of wish it would stick around just a little longer.
The old time murder mystery on the radio show is one of the funniest things on TV ever.
But I haven’t watched in a couple of years because it stopped being really funny and it was opposite Buffy or 24 and well, lost in the “what do I tape to watch when I come home” war.
Can someone catch me up? Obviously Niles & Daphne are going to have a baby, but what else?
HA! Nope, I just got home from work.
The favorites you mentioned are also my favorites. The bit with Niles was just the tease from an opening. Absolutely hilarious.
I also liked the one where they bought the restaurant. When Frasier brought back a chicken dish that was wrong (it was Chicken Piccata, and was supposed to be Chicken Marsala), Niles backhanded it to Daphne, she rinsed it in the dishwater, tossed it back to Niles, he dunked it in the correct sauce and re-plated it, all in something like 15 seconds. And Roz trying to light the Cherries Jubilee, that Frasier and Niles had both been dousing with liquor. “Cherries. Boom. Big blue flash.”
Somehow Martin has hooked up with Niles’ and Frasier’s old babysitter. They’re getting married.
Frasier, in desperation, hooked up with a matchmaker. She set him up with her entire portfolio, five women, who were all terrors. Frasier has fallen in love with her (Charlotte) and she has dumped her outdoorsy boyfriend. Problem: She’s purchasing her old successful matchmaking business in Chicago from her ex-husband, and will be moving back to Illinois.
Daphne and Niles are pregnant. I don’t know of any angst there.
Roz, I assume, is still sleeping around. No recent sightings of her daughter, Alice, that I know of.
Hi, Biblio! I knew the world was right after all.