I know I know, this has been done before, but I just love the show.
My current fave scene of all time is the one where Frasier goes for the worst interview of his life. highlights -
“hello mr ugly!”
On realising that he said ‘ugly’
“No, sorry, it’s mr RUG-ly RUG-ly RUG-ly”
Sees that the guy is wearing a toupe (a rug).
next - he’s over at the shelf. He gets hold of a clay giraffe. he breaks it (this little sequence - trying to prop the giraffes head on using a book etc… is very funny)
he turns round with the two giraffe pieces clamped in his armpits.
the guy wants to shake hands or something - frasier tries to do this without dropping the giraffe pieces. eventually they drop.
Frasier says something like “it’s ok. I am sure you can get your son to make it again”
The guy says “my father made it - after he had his stroke”
frasier then reaches over to shake hands or something - and spills the guys coffee on his trousers.
I would love to see the scene where frasier unwittingly gives a speech at his son’s barmitzfa in klingon
Try this: [Squats, 'ah’ing lowering note] [Rises, 'ah’ing rising note] [ect]
Niles: That looks fun. [Squats, 'ah’ing rising note] [etc]
Frasier: Martin, you try.
Martin: No, it’d look stupid with three of us doing it.
I like when Frasier, Niles and Martin all discovered that they unwittingly liked the same television show - “Antiques Roadshow”. They even invented a drinking game - you had to take a swig whenever the host said “veneer.”
I love the episode where Niles is thinking about adopting a child. He carries around a bag of flour as a test to see if he can take care of a child.
My favorite scene is where he sets the bag down next to Frasier, and it has burn marks on it!
Thunder - I’m also crazy about “Radio Days.” I love Martin’s comments about how “unexpected” the plot twists are - of course they’re not really twists, they’re mistakes.
When Gil wouldn’t “die” from the gunshots (Frasier popping a balloon) in the play, Frasier popped one more balloon, took the mike and said “And the last shot blew the back of his head clean off”, and shut him up.
The beginning of a valentine show several years ago had a completely silent scene of Niles noticing something (the pleat on his pants, maybe) needed ironing, trying to iron it, cutting his finger, which made him almost faint because he can’t stand the sight of blood, hegets blood on Frazier’s couch, tries to clean it (all while getting his hand elevated) with something that made him lightheaded again, causing him to look at his finger again, etc. Meanwhile, in the back ground, smoke is starting to be seen rising from the ironing board. I’m not explaining it well, but it was roll on the floor funny (and BTW, deserves to have ROFL spelled out).
After Frasier and Roz slept together, Frasier is late to his show because he takes a moral stand in a parking lot (he came in to pull a U-turn, and won’t pay to get out, or even sign a waiver saying he’s not going to pay, because after all it’s an insult that he should be expected to pay at all!). Roz, alone on the air, lets it slip to the audience that she and Frasier had sex. Frasier bursts into the studio at the last moment.
Roz begins to tell Frasier “Oh, I was just talking about what happened,” and Frasier begins his spiel with “Yes, and it was no easy task either, with all those people in line behind me shouting, but it had to be done!” It all goes downhill from there.
One scene on that show that always gets me laughing for 10 minutes straight is the episode where Niles is looking for a new apartment and is sleeping in Frasier’s room. Niles needs a bunch of air filters and nature tapes to sleep, and still complains about the rain noise coming from outside. The sound of screeching monkeys is more than Frasier can bear.
When Frasier’s playing Martin at chess in the middle of the night. Trying to put his dad off his game he nonchalantly says “Oh by the way dad. The cemetary called. Apparently they’re going to have to run a sewer right by your plot.”
When Niles is depressed cause Marius is leaving him, goes into the bathroom, and the sound of an apparent gunshot is heard.
And Niles comes out of the bathroom covered with foam, totally straight faced. Martin says “My Hot and Foamy (shaving cream) must have exploded.” And Daphne delivers this immortal line:
“He used to be a detective you know.”
I don’t know how David Hyde Pierce kept a straight face through all that.
I love the episode where Frasier and Niles buy the restaurant.
I like the bit when Niles has to kill the eel, but can’t do it. He chops his cleaver ineffectively into the water, until Daphne grabs the eel it and flings it head-first against the counter to kill it.
The other funny scene is when Frasier brings back a chicken dish and tells Niles that it’s the wrong chicken dish. Niles throws the piece of chicken backwards over his shoulder to Daphne, who catches it one-handed, rinses it off in the dishwashing sink, throws it back to Niles, who also catches it one-handed and then douses it in the correct sauce and re-plates it for Frasier.
Also, when Roz goes to light the Cherries Jubilee, that both Niles and Frasier have been adding too much liquor to, there’s a huge off-screen boom, then Roz comes back into the kitchen, blackened by smoke, hair standing on end, and explaining: “Bright blue flash. Cherries everywhere.”