Television Frasier TV Series

FloridaCracker said:
I love the various descriptions of Maris over the years.
"She once sprained her wrist from having too much cheese dip on her cracker."
"We had an argument at the ski resort and she stormed outside. I had a hard time following her since she leaves no footprints."
"Look closer. Is the hat rack moving?"

And Frasier putting the little hat on that skinny dog Niles got who acted just like her.

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Those were all great. I also liked when Martin would give a good zinger about Maris when Niles inadvertently set him up for it.

On the episode where Frasier worries a crazed fan is following him and he just hired a bodyguard for instance

Niles:
Niles: If anything, I’m rather jealous of you. You should have heard Maris go on all evening. ‘Why don’t we need one. Aren’t we important enough to be stalked?’ I had no idea what to say to the poor woman.

Martin: Tell her to keep being herself, her day will come.

Or when Niles worries that the novel based on Frasier’s affair with his piano instructor had inspired Maris

Niles: You know Maris started reading Slow Tango in Seattle. I think it’s starting to affect her. I saw her cooing over the college student who scrapes our koi pond.

Martin: I wouldn’t be worried.

Niles: you mean you think it’s a harmless flirtation.

Martin: No, I just wouldn’t be worried.
 
Loved it. Great show. A true “sit-com” at its best.

Fun fact.(?) Every male actor on the show was gay. Except for Frasier. And maybe Kenny.
 
The average age of Posters replying in this thread is 84. Lmao at Frasier from the 90s. You had to be like 30 in the 90s to even like that show.
 
I like Kelsey grammers voice, great playing the baddie as side show bob in the Simpson’s too
 
I really love the interactiobs between Frasier and his dad especially when they get in real life argument.
 
I actually put it as a top 6 sitcom. Cheers, M*A*S*H, Seinfeld, Married with Children, All in the Family, then probably Frasier. When the show was on, it was on, and was a fun take on the classic formula. Unfortunately it got significantly worse in the last few seasons, though to its credit it did still have some excellent episodes in those seasons. They were just a rarity.

Niles deserves a special mention. He's in the running for GOAT sitcom character, if you ask me. I don't think he wins it, but he's in the running. Astoundingly underrated performance.

So yeah, Frasier is great.
 
It's weird because its so different than almost anything i watch but i loved that show. Wish the repeats were still on
 
Frasier and Wings were both a part of the Cheers universe. Those shows all had high-tier performers and writers. Although I don't relate to Frasier the character, he had a very nice apartment and dynamic interpersonal skills.
 
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Top 5 in its era, but easily better than any sitcom I've come across in the last 20 years. Also, wood Daphne and Roz(preferably at the same time).
 
MMA since 1993 said:
Wasn't he the same pupper from the mask? I

I love this show, we've watched it three times over.
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Nice! Great show. I tend to think that the dropoff in quality from season 8 onward (once Dapnhe and Niles get together seems to be the big watershed moment people talk about) is overstated. Sure, the final few seasons are not as great as, say, the first 5-6. That could be said about many sitcoms. But, I think there are still a bunch of gems during those latter few seasons. And it's rare to find an episode that is outright poor. Even lesser Frasier is better than a lot of subsequent sitcoms at their high points.

To give example, I think the episode where they get involved in the underground beluga caviar trade and the episode where Felicity Huffman is invited to dinner/game night with Frasier's family are both hilarious late-season episodes.
 
ufcfan4 said:
Nice! Great show. I tend to think that the dropoff in quality from season 8 onward (once Dapnhe and Niles get together seems to be the big watershed moment people talk about) is overstated. Sure, the final few seasons are not as great as, say, the first 5-6. That could be said about many sitcoms. But, I think there are still a bunch of gems during those latter few seasons. And it's rare to find an episode that is outright poor. Even lesser Frasier is better than a lot of subsequent sitcoms at their high points.
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I felt the main shift was actually that it became more of a standard US sitcom as it backed off of the main concept of two snobbish brothers playing off of their working class dad. That was IMHO what made it quite unique at the time, it wasn't the standard everyman formula and instead you had someone who would normally be(and previously was) a supporting character as the lead.

I don't think its a coinsidence that Fraiser was arguably the most popular US sitcom ever(besides maybe Friends but that's a law onto itself targeting a blander market world wide) here in the UK because it actually felt more like a UK sitcom that would really commit to the concept, indeed I think it ends up being closer to Stepstone and Son than Sandford and Son actually did.
 
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moreorless87 said:
I felt the main shift was actually that it became more of a standard US sitcom as it backed off of the main concept of two snobbish brothers playing off of their working class dad. That was IMHO what made it quite unique at the time, it wasn't the standard everyman formula and instead you had someone who would normally be(and previously was) a supporting character as the lead.

I don't think its a conscience that Fraiser was arguably the best popular US sitcom ever(besides maybe Friends but that's a law onto itself targeting a blander market world wide) here in the UK because it actually felt more like a UK sitcom that would really commit to the concept, indeed I think it ends up being closer to Stepstone and Son than Sandford and Son actually did.
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I'm guessing Seinfeld didn't catch on so much in the UK...?

Just curious. Cause that's my #1 GOAT comedy series. Of those big 3 90s NBC sitcoms- Seinfeld, Frasier, Friends- I'd put the first two on a tier above Friends. I like Friends a good bit but I feel it does not have the legendary quality those others two do.

Very interesting point about Frasier being more like a UK series.
 
I really liked this show although I never watched every episode and just used to catch them as they aired reruns on TV back in the 2000s
 
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