He’s in his 30s and past that now. I imagine he has left some mind numbing professional occupation and he has to live with his dad because he can’t afford to live on his own based on his pay as a barista or some such common job while he tries to find his own self. Mom and Dad blame each other for the way he turned out, while Uncle Niles sympathizes with him and tries to help him out he really knows nothing about an unprivileged life. Luckily his Aunt Daphne has a little more experience with real life and can help him out once in a while. Sometimes some of his dad’s old friends from Boston drop by and try to get him to stop acting like such a pompous ass and you can guess how well that works out.
Honestly, I hope they’re more clever than any of us in terms of what they write about.
Just piling on to say that, IMHO, the single funniest moment in all TV sitcom history – I know, that’s saying a lot – is when Frasier forgot the lyrics to “Buttons and Bows”.
And also to ask the OP if he was a fan of 1970’s era National Lampoon (the first place I ever saw the “threat or menace” dichotomy).
The word i bolded is absolutely not appropriate to use in this forum. Don’t do that again.
I almost certainly took the from the Lampoon without realizing.
I am unfamiliar with the word you bolded there - what does it mean?
I’d explain, but it’s absolutely not appropriate for this forum.
And so again a thread runs off in a word chase.
As far as I am concerned, you can lock this discussion.
It is a portmanteau of “white” and the “n word”. I wasn’t familiar with the word, either, but several of the mods were.
Why? One guy shits in the punch bowl and we have to lock threads? This board is crazy lock-happy lately.
Is it? I have not noticed. Enjoy the thread if you like.
Bumped.
And alas:
She was on the original British version of That Was the Week that Was, doing very biting satire; some of it definitely not safe for this thread.
I’ve seen a Civil Rights-era clip from the show. Words were used that are banned today.
Millicent was really hot, though! 
She never, ever, ever amused me as Daphne’s mom on Frasier. She just annoyed me intensely.
Daphe’s entire family was repugnant.
I suppose that with no Niles, there won’t be a Daphne.
I don’t know, it might be a fun twist if the new show treated Niles the way the old show treated Maris; always talked about but never seen.
That’d be fantastic. Plenty of opportunity for Niles to be “on the phone” and you only hear Frasier’s side of the conversation.
I’d also like to see the show as Frasier as the Martin character while Fredrick is the Frasier character but in reverse - Fredrick is annoyed at Fraiser’s pretentiousness.
I predict David will be a younger copy of his father.