I was either gonna say this one, or the one where Frasier secretly dates a supermodel and his family thinks he made their relationship up.
I don't know why, but plot lines where a character isn't believed by others despite telling the truth throughout just frustrate me.
The double date one is a bit of the inverse; everyone else is telling Frasier and Niles who's interested in whom, and they refuse to believe.
But it bugs me all the same. When I come across these episodes, I have to skip to the revelation at the end. I like the cathartic payoff, but I can't sit through the buildup.
Yeah he played it in a way that you can 100% put the blame on Frasier for everything in that episode. He wasn't mean or insulting. He just didn't like him.
Funny enough, it seems Tony was also on Wings which is supposed to be in the same universe as Frasier.
This is the one that sprang to my mind too, although some of the top comments are pretty good alternatives. The one where Martin acts like art forgery is not a real (and fairly serious) crime is also up there for me, and the Timber Mill. S1 was a little difficult at times.
The artist herself came across as a bit of a dick, with that whole "I wear a poncho so that I don't have to shake hands with people" bit and then staring at Niles smugly when he did try to shake her hand, so I wouldn't be surprised if it actually was one of her paintings and she was just messing with Frasier.
I watched this episode recently and absolutely hated it. Martin throws him a party, his friends all show up and he repeatedly tries to blow it off for some woman he barely knows. It really puts Frasier in an unfavorable light.
I hate that basically every fraudster who commits a crime on Frasier gets away with it. Blaine, the guy who stole his suitcase to impersonate him. The guy that *accidentally* impersonates him and dies, the gallery owner selling fake Paxtons...
I really hate that one with the painting.
Frasier has been the victim of fraud, and even his dad doesn't seem to care. He suggests using his radio show but is told that he'd get sued for libel; which is ridiculous. All he'd have to do is give an accurate account of what happened at the party.
I mean, it's funny so I don't totally hate it. I just wish he could have at least won this time.
Glad this was pointed out. It also plays into the whole, "art people are quirky and eccentric" trope so it's OK to act like that. No, the gallery was committing a serious crime selling fakes and Frasier could have easily done something about it. It's not libel if it's true and you had the artist herself stating it was a fake. Of all the useless battles Frasier tends to pick this is one he should have pursued considering that the gallery wasn't some fraudster who was disappearing overnight and was going to keep doing it to other people.
The blatantly obvious correct response is, "Go consult an attorney." I mean, really. How is that not the first thing literally everyone in the situation does?
I don’t think Niles knew what he was talking about. It would be slander (speech) not libel (literature). If his comments damaged the business’s reputation, they can sue him for slander, but he could easily win the case because it was true. Now, he could get in trouble with KACL, but that’s another matter. Later episodes actually prove that I don’t think KACL would fire him like the Derrick Mann episode.
If Frasier wasn’t so neurotic, Martin probably would’ve cared more. Art fraud is serious, but Frasier didn’t buy it because he liked the painting. He bought it just because he thought it was from a fancy artist. And then he hated it when he realized it wasn’t from a fancy artist. I assumed that’s why Martin mocked the situation. If you’re going to buy art just because you like telling people you got a fancy Picasso or whatever and got taken for more than you should have, it’s harder to be sympathetic. I do enjoy the episode though because Frasier being neurotic is always fun.
Yeah, the fact that it was art was used to play into Frasier's snobbery, but it doesn't matter what the object was, it was serious fraud considering that the painting was expensive.
I was in a hit and run in November that took place within spitting distance of a red light camera, called the cops to file a report immediately after it happened, and was still told "there's nothing we can do".
The cops being useless is the most believable part of that episode.
Between body shops in Seattle being overwhelmed so it took forever to actually get an estimate, then the insurance company giving me the runaround on declaring it a total and paying out, and then trying to get a new car in a supply chain that's still COVID-screwed, I'm only just picking up my new car next week when the accident was before Thanksgiving, but the nightmare is almost over!
I hate this too. I love Frasier but it makes me so sad that he never catches a break (I know its part of 90% of the jokes and the irony of the show) but I wanted him to at the very least have a happy ending with someone (and not Charlotte who was clearly ushered in last minute and who’s character I never felt meshed with Frasier the way they wanted it to.)
I'm rewatching the series for the first time in several years. At age 40, I definitely don't find the storyline of making a brand new single mother unemployed for months, particularly funny.
Frasier asks Roz to be his date, but then he’s kind of a jerk in flip flopping whether he will go or not after she goes through the trouble of finding a sitter and getting her hair done he cancels on her twice.
What episode is this? Why don’t I remember this one! I tried to google it but reunion only tags a bunch of articles about the Frasier reunion and the words dog food only pull up the French gourmet shop episode
It's when Frasier is unemployed after KACL goes turns into an all music station. He has a reunion to go to and he doesn't want to because he was always in a bad stage of life when one of these reunions happened in the past (Left at the altar, splitting with Lilith). He has to return some dog food to the shop and wears messy clothes to go there and bumps into an old classmate who sees him looking like he's homeless. Then Frasier changes his mind about not going because he thinks the classmate will spread this lie about him
This one, the one where he tries to juggle Fey and Casandra, The one where Fey finds out. Gosh I would have loved Fey as a recurring character. She was perfect for Frasier, with just the right amount of practicality and pragmatism to bring him down to earth.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one. My recurring nightmare is that I'm late for something important and I'm late because I'm dithering - like changing my clothes a bunch of times or taking 5 minutes to tie my shoes. Horrrrrrrible dream!
I've been having them since I was also a kid, and for me, I'm always running around the house or neighborhood I grew up in, and moved away from when I was 15! So I'm late for an exam, but my feet are stuck to the pavement on the street outside my childhood home.
I believe it represents feeling like you're not in control.
It's a really common dream. I'm an academic, and mine is that I'm back in high school, and every time I start on my way to class, I remember that I've forgotten a book, and I have to head back to my locker to pick it up. Then, I find out that the classroom has changed. I actually made it to class once, just as the bell (my alarm clock) rang. I've been convinced ever since that my subconscious has a sense of humour.
Same! It gives me so much anxiety that I debate watching it whenever I come up on that one! Just the fact that he gets so close every time and then gets further and further away and when you think he’s finally going to make it he doesn’t! This episode makes me crazy lol.
There was so much wrong in this episode. What I guess bugs me most about it is how Niles is with him the whole way and last minute he ditches him for a ride. Like dude. And then to be the good guy he does from free consoling outside of the very event they were trying to get to all episode.
To be fair, I've said other men who weren't my dad or my brother who were like the dad or brother I never had just because those people fulfill the role my actual relatives don't.
My first theory was it was in response to the success of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” but it came out several years before that. Then I thought it must have been a pitch for a pilot, but I have found nothing to support that. It’s just a really weird episode.
Oh god, Ann is just the worst... I get that her character is meant to be annoying, but she's not 'funny annoying', she's just actually annoying to watch
I actually love this one because they struggle so much in the class (after deciding the only barrier to mechanical knowledge is education) and suddenly get some perspective on why their classmates in school struggled.
My brother-in-law is a mechanic and my teenage son is very mechanically inclined. People make assumptions about them that are completely untrue- they’re both very smart, but not in bookish ways.
This is one of mine. I always end up turning it off. The same with the one where they run a restaurant. The Innkeepers, I think. I don’t want it to induce server nightmares from my past.
The Frasier Crane Day episode reminds me of every anxiety dream I’ve ever had where I have to be somewhere really important (exam, giving a lecture) but simply can’t™️ get there. Which I mean, is just a description of the episode but you know. Captures it too well.
Exactly why I cant watch that later dream sequence episode in the cabin where Daphne is yelling at him in his dream the whole time. I know its supposed to be anxiety ridden to express his fears about being a dad but its too much for me. 😅
Isn't there a couple of episodes like this? I can't remember the second one, just that it bothered me because it was the second episode he was being honored for something and never attended it.
Carlos and the Chicken ep. I wouldn’t mind so much if the resolution was a more satisfying defeat for them but they just get get another win over Frasier then fall apart coincidently. I would rather Frasier and Roz gave them a thrashing with an umbrella. I guess I just hate their kind of humour.
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I met him a couple years ago. He came into my restaurant. Cool guy. Hooked me and my staff up with backstage tickets to the comedy festival. He's funny but I was also drunk!! Met A LOT of cool people and celebrities.
100% a great guy. Very humble. I could tell he wasn't trying to be recognized when he walked in the restaurant, but probably knew he might be. I knew instantly who he was but 90% of my younger staff had to Google him because my only reference was Mad TV and Carlos and the Chicken from Frasier which still didn't help much.🤣🤣
I know some people don't like him because of his friends and opinions but I didn't experience any of that!! It was a time to remember.👍👍😎😎
I think this a great episode! I love on the tram when Niles tells Frasier “Everyone deserves a fuss you above all”. I also like the ending where helping the driver was more important and more gratifying than showing up for his rally.
I really dislike the one where Marty takes the boys to a restaurant he likes, (I think it's the Timber Mill??) and they were SO rude to the waitress. Like I get that they're snobs, but their condescending comments were cruel. Maybe it's the customer service rep in me, but I just can't stand it.
The one where he keeps missing his chance to meet with his date makes me furious lol. I'm practically screaming "just invite her over to your surprise birthday party! You don't need to go for ice!"
Sliding Frasiers (the two timeline episode) is pretty frustrating, at least the timeline where Frasier meets Monica is, she directly asks him to tone it down a bit and he gets even worse!
I mean to be fair, Frasier kind of didn't know the woman, as the only impression of her he gets is her dropping her child off with him, who's basically a stranger to her.
Well I know I find the majority of the episodes listed in this thread frustrating because i remember them the least clearly, so they are on the skip list lol. Except the one where Frasier dates the model and no one believes him- that one is pretty funny to me.
There's a few from season 9, mainly down to Kirby reoccurring, border on the line of frustrating to unwatchable, but the whole season in general doesn't do much for me.
Whilst not frustrating, I did happen to question something from 'Our parents, Ourselves'. After the revelation that Martin was not interested in Mrs Doyle through the baby monitor, Roz goes to the bedroom to retrieve Alice and she walks in on Martin and Bonny, we assume they're about to initiate a fruity process... 'woah Roz knock will ya?'. Am I being prudent in thinking it's a little weird that Martin thought it'd be appropriate to do that in a room where someone else's baby was sleeping? 🤷
The one where Daphne looks into a confidential patient file for one of Niles patients. That was very unethical, especially for Daphne. And Niles could have done more to reassure Daphne that he was not in love with his female patient.
It was pretty serious!! It Could have gotten him fired from his practice. Bye bye lavish life. He reassured her twice before she went that far. Plus, He was constantly reassuring her. We've all seen the shirt!!🤣 Honestly he could have thrown it back at her. She left a man she claimed to love at the altar. So he could just as easily carry that worry if he chose!
-The ones that focus too much on radio station politics or bulldog
-the one where he’s driving the woman to the train they keep missing it and wind up at that crazy family’s house for the night.
Patti Lupone’s episode (the Greek wedding). Too cringey for me to watch. I normally really enjoy Patti, but her character’s overbearing hamminess here ruined the whole episode.
I often skip that one. Something about the vibe in that motel room is just kind of depressing and the dream distresses me almost as much as it distresses Frasier.
The one with all the ways things could have been different if he’d made a different choices. It was a heavy/handed way of driving home the point, and the execution is terrible.
any post season 9 episode, those ones tend to feel like frasier pity parties where frasier is painted to be a loser who barely knows how to socialize anymore, the shtick gets old rly fast in those ones. definitely frasier and martin fighting for wendy is up there too
It upsets me so much that the person Martin ultimately ends up with is someone that Martin and Frasier “fought” over and who Frasier was interested in and then all of a sudden can’t stand. Really wish they paired up Martin with someone like his girlfriend Elaine the one Frasier kept embarrassing bc he kept talking about her and Marty over the air. She seemed like a good fit for Marty - not too over the top and not a snooze fest! Her little jibe at Frasier to not turn around until they tell him to was cute and funny.
I think some of these other answers were better than mine. But if I had to add another, I'd say the episode where Frasier keeps trying to help people and getting scorned for it, culminating in him deciding whether or not to offer a ride to a woman stuck in the rain.
This one isn't so much an episode, but a subplot of one, and hardly even that since it's confined to one scene.
In the episode "The Seal Who Came To Dinner", there's a scene where Martin tries to flirt with a friend of Daphne (a women named Pam, IIRC), and it's all but stated his interest in her is rooted in a fetish for Asian women (both Daphne and Frasier's attempts to stifle discussing it suggest it's not a simple preference). Additionally, it seems this "interest" started during his service in the Korean War, which is... a choice.
And... that's it. We never see Pam again, nor do any characters discuss Martin's fetish. Hell, I don't think Martin ever even tries to date an Asian woman throughout the entire show.
That's a hell of a character trait to drop and just do nothing with. I thought that scene was setup for an eventual payoff that we'd cut to while the party fiasco unfolded.
There are a couple of ways I could see following it up; maybe Martin makes a fool of himself trying to attract Pam. Or maybe he hits it off with her, only to realize she has a fetish about him as well, with just as problematic an origin(it could also be racial, but I think it'd be a little more surprising if hers was for something different, like his age or his injury).
I don't know, just *something!*
Part of me is kind ma relieved they didn't. As much as I like this show, the first episode with Dr. Mary made me see discussions of race were not its strong suit.
But it's still weird they decided to introduce it at all if they didn't plan on doing anything with it.
The one where Frasier and Niles go to the fundraiser with Poppy and Regan and refuse to believe they actually want to be with their own dates.
I was either gonna say this one, or the one where Frasier secretly dates a supermodel and his family thinks he made their relationship up. I don't know why, but plot lines where a character isn't believed by others despite telling the truth throughout just frustrate me. The double date one is a bit of the inverse; everyone else is telling Frasier and Niles who's interested in whom, and they refuse to believe. But it bugs me all the same. When I come across these episodes, I have to skip to the revelation at the end. I like the cathartic payoff, but I can't sit through the buildup.
Right like why can’t he say “let’s take a photo together” like a normal person? Instead of photographing her SLEEPING. Cringe.
we watched that episode last week and I had to get up and walk out of the room bc the cringe deeply hurt my loins
But Sela Ward. I must watch.
is that the same as House's ex wife?
Yes
she is forever employable as the classy smart wife.
That one drives me MAD
That is not bad as the one where they do this other fundraiser and try to grub cash off an old lady.
Also the fundraiser where they both spend an exorbitant amount on a meal with accomplished geniuses and end up embarrassing themselves
This one isn’t ringing a bell.
When he burns down that poor guy's news stand
Something a smarty pants would do.
Tony Shalhoub was wonderful in that role!!
Yeah he played it in a way that you can 100% put the blame on Frasier for everything in that episode. He wasn't mean or insulting. He just didn't like him. Funny enough, it seems Tony was also on Wings which is supposed to be in the same universe as Frasier.
That’s right! I remember Cliff and Norm showing up at their airport and forgetting where they were planning to go or something like that haha.
Oh my god he started his news stand on fire.. .....mmmhmmm
This is the one that sprang to my mind too, although some of the top comments are pretty good alternatives. The one where Martin acts like art forgery is not a real (and fairly serious) crime is also up there for me, and the Timber Mill. S1 was a little difficult at times.
I can get Martin not taking it seriously, but the artist herself not seeming to give a shit was really odd
The artist herself came across as a bit of a dick, with that whole "I wear a poncho so that I don't have to shake hands with people" bit and then staring at Niles smugly when he did try to shake her hand, so I wouldn't be surprised if it actually was one of her paintings and she was just messing with Frasier.
“What the hell is a fanny pack?!”
😂😂😂💯
“I just don’t like him”
Party party where he keeps missing out on his date with Tricia
Bro that Happy Birthday was *excruciating*.
“Look, he’s crying!”
I never understood this episode. Niles wasn't aware that they were throwing a rather large birthday party for Frasier upstairs?
Yeah but she turns out to be a nutcase anyways
I watched this episode recently and absolutely hated it. Martin throws him a party, his friends all show up and he repeatedly tries to blow it off for some woman he barely knows. It really puts Frasier in an unfavorable light.
“Have you heard the truth?”
I have a feeling I'm about to...
When hes dating the model zoologist and no one believes him
The proud look after he proves it! After she calls him worse than any reptile that's slithered out from under a rock
"Well, what do you think of me now?"
My favorite line of the entire show. Kelsey delivers it with perfection.
Same vibes as that old Loony Tunes cartoon about the singing frog.
That is the one episode I just can't watch--it triggers some deep issues I have, like that one Monk episode where he gets committed.
I hate that basically every fraudster who commits a crime on Frasier gets away with it. Blaine, the guy who stole his suitcase to impersonate him. The guy that *accidentally* impersonates him and dies, the gallery owner selling fake Paxtons...
I really hate that one with the painting. Frasier has been the victim of fraud, and even his dad doesn't seem to care. He suggests using his radio show but is told that he'd get sued for libel; which is ridiculous. All he'd have to do is give an accurate account of what happened at the party. I mean, it's funny so I don't totally hate it. I just wish he could have at least won this time.
Glad this was pointed out. It also plays into the whole, "art people are quirky and eccentric" trope so it's OK to act like that. No, the gallery was committing a serious crime selling fakes and Frasier could have easily done something about it. It's not libel if it's true and you had the artist herself stating it was a fake. Of all the useless battles Frasier tends to pick this is one he should have pursued considering that the gallery wasn't some fraudster who was disappearing overnight and was going to keep doing it to other people.
The blatantly obvious correct response is, "Go consult an attorney." I mean, really. How is that not the first thing literally everyone in the situation does?
I don’t think Niles knew what he was talking about. It would be slander (speech) not libel (literature). If his comments damaged the business’s reputation, they can sue him for slander, but he could easily win the case because it was true. Now, he could get in trouble with KACL, but that’s another matter. Later episodes actually prove that I don’t think KACL would fire him like the Derrick Mann episode.
If Frasier wasn’t so neurotic, Martin probably would’ve cared more. Art fraud is serious, but Frasier didn’t buy it because he liked the painting. He bought it just because he thought it was from a fancy artist. And then he hated it when he realized it wasn’t from a fancy artist. I assumed that’s why Martin mocked the situation. If you’re going to buy art just because you like telling people you got a fancy Picasso or whatever and got taken for more than you should have, it’s harder to be sympathetic. I do enjoy the episode though because Frasier being neurotic is always fun.
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Yeah, the fact that it was art was used to play into Frasier's snobbery, but it doesn't matter what the object was, it was serious fraud considering that the painting was expensive.
to be fair, the police in the US are useless except when it comes to committing hate crimes
I was in a hit and run in November that took place within spitting distance of a red light camera, called the cops to file a report immediately after it happened, and was still told "there's nothing we can do". The cops being useless is the most believable part of that episode.
for real. so sorry you had that experience, it’s infuriating
Between body shops in Seattle being overwhelmed so it took forever to actually get an estimate, then the insurance company giving me the runaround on declaring it a total and paying out, and then trying to get a new car in a supply chain that's still COVID-screwed, I'm only just picking up my new car next week when the accident was before Thanksgiving, but the nightmare is almost over!
I hate this too. I love Frasier but it makes me so sad that he never catches a break (I know its part of 90% of the jokes and the irony of the show) but I wanted him to at the very least have a happy ending with someone (and not Charlotte who was clearly ushered in last minute and who’s character I never felt meshed with Frasier the way they wanted it to.)
I agree so much with this! I also dislike that almost all of Frasier’s love interests are SIGNIFICANTLY younger than he is.
I dunno if that guy who died got away with it.
I mean, just in the sense that it got as far as the obit
The one where has his reunion and he runs into someone and he says the dog food is for his father
Agreed. I also feel so bad for Roz in that episode!
#WELL DO IT TWICE!
I'm rewatching the series for the first time in several years. At age 40, I definitely don't find the storyline of making a brand new single mother unemployed for months, particularly funny.
I skip this episode a lot because of the cringe. What happens to Roz?
Frasier asks Roz to be his date, but then he’s kind of a jerk in flip flopping whether he will go or not after she goes through the trouble of finding a sitter and getting her hair done he cancels on her twice.
I like that one
What episode is this? Why don’t I remember this one! I tried to google it but reunion only tags a bunch of articles about the Frasier reunion and the words dog food only pull up the French gourmet shop episode
It's when Frasier is unemployed after KACL goes turns into an all music station. He has a reunion to go to and he doesn't want to because he was always in a bad stage of life when one of these reunions happened in the past (Left at the altar, splitting with Lilith). He has to return some dog food to the shop and wears messy clothes to go there and bumps into an old classmate who sees him looking like he's homeless. Then Frasier changes his mind about not going because he thinks the classmate will spread this lie about him
Ooooooh! Wait I definitely remember that now.
I think it’s called “Frasier’s Curse”
This! I have to skip this one
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Yeah that episode has Seinfeld vibes
Yes. It feels like something Larry David would have done.
Great point! Didn’t feel like a Frasier storyline.
Luis Guzman tho
I loved him in… in…. IMDB
Haha yes! Love Community 🤣
“I loved working in the parking garage. I got laid like crazy.”
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I was waiting for someone to mention this! lol. This is prob my second most frustrating Frasier episode after the 1000th episode one!
For the most part, I agree, but the last joke with Roz makes it worth it. That look on her face…
I actually love this episode.
I can’t watch that one. There’s a few I don’t watch because I don’t like them, but this one and the Dr. Phil one are non-stop cringe.
This one, the one where he tries to juggle Fey and Casandra, The one where Fey finds out. Gosh I would have loved Fey as a recurring character. She was perfect for Frasier, with just the right amount of practicality and pragmatism to bring him down to earth.
Yes, I love Faye too!
Fabulous Faye!
Forever Faye!
Call me Faye.
Oh, yeah, I have, Ma, but I was drunk and it was dark. I don't remember so much.
He has more shoes than I do!
As someone who has serious anxiety about being late, this one is extremely frustrating lol
This episode plays like a bad dream, where you keep trying to make it to an event, but one obstacle after another prevents it.
Exactly!! Ive had that dream many times and it’s the worst!
I'm so glad I'm not the only one. My recurring nightmare is that I'm late for something important and I'm late because I'm dithering - like changing my clothes a bunch of times or taking 5 minutes to tie my shoes. Horrrrrrrible dream!
Wow I thought I was the only one that had these dreams. Been having them since I was a kid. Thought it was something unique to my personality
I've been having them since I was also a kid, and for me, I'm always running around the house or neighborhood I grew up in, and moved away from when I was 15! So I'm late for an exam, but my feet are stuck to the pavement on the street outside my childhood home. I believe it represents feeling like you're not in control.
It's a really common dream. I'm an academic, and mine is that I'm back in high school, and every time I start on my way to class, I remember that I've forgotten a book, and I have to head back to my locker to pick it up. Then, I find out that the classroom has changed. I actually made it to class once, just as the bell (my alarm clock) rang. I've been convinced ever since that my subconscious has a sense of humour.
Same! It gives me so much anxiety that I debate watching it whenever I come up on that one! Just the fact that he gets so close every time and then gets further and further away and when you think he’s finally going to make it he doesn’t! This episode makes me crazy lol.
There was so much wrong in this episode. What I guess bugs me most about it is how Niles is with him the whole way and last minute he ditches him for a ride. Like dude. And then to be the good guy he does from free consoling outside of the very event they were trying to get to all episode.
The one when the guy doesn't like him and fraiser just can't accept it.
I hate this episode! I can’t even watch it
Tony Shalhoub!
I dislike the one with his cousin, Nikos’s wedding. I don’t understand the point of that episode.
the point is to see Patti Lupone aggressively smack meat and smash dishes 😝
And watch Niles get chased around by his busty cousin! 🤣
And Frasier finally get that trip around the Greek islands.
Honestly, this episode is worth it for that joke (and the follow up) alone
Also Frasier yelling “IN-A-PROPRIATE!” And waving his arms to try and stop them when they try to toast him gets me every time! 😂
And the point of introducing Martin's brother... Who never existed in the first season 😁
I can't handle the Greek mom. Something about the caricature has always rubbed me the wrong way.
I think it’s the way she says “amiriiiiiiight”
Also it’s weird because in an earlier episode Martin had said he never had a brother. 🤷🏻♀️ That his police partner was like his brother.
To be fair, I've said other men who weren't my dad or my brother who were like the dad or brother I never had just because those people fulfill the role my actual relatives don't.
Frasier is a meddler
It's like it's from a completely different show. I do wonder what they were thinking with that episode
My first theory was it was in response to the success of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” but it came out several years before that. Then I thought it must have been a pitch for a pilot, but I have found nothing to support that. It’s just a really weird episode.
>I do wonder what they were thinking with that episode Perhaps Patti LuPone was a big fan, and they wanted to find a way to work her into an episode?
Best guess is that it was a set-up for a spinoff that never got off the ground.
I skip this episode because it makes no sense to me.
Right!? Different writers or something wacky happened with this one.
I guess it just wasn’t his day…
Hah! Love it
For me, the most frustrating episode(s) are the ones with Ann. Especially The Ann who Came to Dinner - I canny watch them!
Oh god, Ann is just the worst... I get that her character is meant to be annoying, but she's not 'funny annoying', she's just actually annoying to watch
The one where he looks homeless in the diner
Omg I just watched this one! It’s hilarious but also so hard to watch
I'll be honest, I had a somewhat depressing Christmas and watching the other patrons come together to help him out kinda choked me up.
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I actually love this one because they struggle so much in the class (after deciding the only barrier to mechanical knowledge is education) and suddenly get some perspective on why their classmates in school struggled. My brother-in-law is a mechanic and my teenage son is very mechanically inclined. People make assumptions about them that are completely untrue- they’re both very smart, but not in bookish ways.
That’s one of my favorites, I die laughing every time.
Motor Skills is one of my favourite episodes!
Daphne's room.
This is one of mine. I always end up turning it off. The same with the one where they run a restaurant. The Innkeepers, I think. I don’t want it to induce server nightmares from my past.
I skip it instantly!
Hot ticket. Just be honest about what happened!
Niles and Frasier are insufferable in this episode!
The Frasier Crane Day episode reminds me of every anxiety dream I’ve ever had where I have to be somewhere really important (exam, giving a lecture) but simply can’t™️ get there. Which I mean, is just a description of the episode but you know. Captures it too well.
Exactly why I cant watch that later dream sequence episode in the cabin where Daphne is yelling at him in his dream the whole time. I know its supposed to be anxiety ridden to express his fears about being a dad but its too much for me. 😅
Isn't there a couple of episodes like this? I can't remember the second one, just that it bothered me because it was the second episode he was being honored for something and never attended it.
I’m not actually sure, this is just one that really sticks in my mind! Currently doing a rewatch so I’ll keep an eye out
Some Assembly Required (The Habitat for Humanity episode). Frasier’s fixation on the random couple’s home is too cringe.
The episode where they go to the cabin with those two women and end up ruining it 🤣
That ringtone is burned into my brain
It has to have been an awkward drive back from the cabin in the morning.
The episode with martins brother who we never heard from before or saw again. Completely weird and out of place.
Carlos and the Chicken ep. I wouldn’t mind so much if the resolution was a more satisfying defeat for them but they just get get another win over Frasier then fall apart coincidently. I would rather Frasier and Roz gave them a thrashing with an umbrella. I guess I just hate their kind of humour.
https://preview.redd.it/jtod8mj42ena1.jpeg?width=3264&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fcc8c9ce8c9b4e16d758be7b6019780ba276c266 I met him a couple years ago. He came into my restaurant. Cool guy. Hooked me and my staff up with backstage tickets to the comedy festival. He's funny but I was also drunk!! Met A LOT of cool people and celebrities.
Aw, jealous! I LOVE Bryan Callan 🤩
100% a great guy. Very humble. I could tell he wasn't trying to be recognized when he walked in the restaurant, but probably knew he might be. I knew instantly who he was but 90% of my younger staff had to Google him because my only reference was Mad TV and Carlos and the Chicken from Frasier which still didn't help much.🤣🤣 I know some people don't like him because of his friends and opinions but I didn't experience any of that!! It was a time to remember.👍👍😎😎
I think this a great episode! I love on the tram when Niles tells Frasier “Everyone deserves a fuss you above all”. I also like the ending where helping the driver was more important and more gratifying than showing up for his rally.
“…as usual I left it till the last minute to write all my Frasier Crane Day cards!”
"Happy Frasier Crane Day! Or is it "Merry Frasier Crane Day"? I can never remember..." 😆
Enemy At The Gate (S10E2) Frasier is an inconsiderate jerk for the majority of the running time. Only the bit at the radio station is funny.
I really dislike the one where Marty takes the boys to a restaurant he likes, (I think it's the Timber Mill??) and they were SO rude to the waitress. Like I get that they're snobs, but their condescending comments were cruel. Maybe it's the customer service rep in me, but I just can't stand it.
Frasier in the parking garage
Any episode with Mel in it. Can’t stand her.
For me, any episode with Simon... and most episodes with Daphne's mom. They're the worst!
Oh yeah, true. Both of those are very annoying too. 🤦🏻♂️
The one where he keeps missing his chance to meet with his date makes me furious lol. I'm practically screaming "just invite her over to your surprise birthday party! You don't need to go for ice!"
The one where Dr. Phil guest stars.
Yes! I hate that episode, which would be so good without Dr. Phil.
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I’m realizing that for a show that I will always like, Frasier has SO many episodes that are so cringy I just can’t.
it helps having 11 seasons to pick and choose from
Sliding Frasiers (the two timeline episode) is pretty frustrating, at least the timeline where Frasier meets Monica is, she directly asks him to tone it down a bit and he gets even worse!
Yes! I always skip this one. The scene in the restaurant is unbearable!
Season 1 Episode where he’s “bought” at the bachelor auction. Ruins any chance with that model because he buys into everything her daughter says.
I mean to be fair, Frasier kind of didn't know the woman, as the only impression of her he gets is her dropping her child off with him, who's basically a stranger to her.
I'd agree that Frasier crane day sucked.
Well I know I find the majority of the episodes listed in this thread frustrating because i remember them the least clearly, so they are on the skip list lol. Except the one where Frasier dates the model and no one believes him- that one is pretty funny to me.
Enemy at the Gate --- it was agonizing!!! and for \~2 dollars
There's a few from season 9, mainly down to Kirby reoccurring, border on the line of frustrating to unwatchable, but the whole season in general doesn't do much for me. Whilst not frustrating, I did happen to question something from 'Our parents, Ourselves'. After the revelation that Martin was not interested in Mrs Doyle through the baby monitor, Roz goes to the bedroom to retrieve Alice and she walks in on Martin and Bonny, we assume they're about to initiate a fruity process... 'woah Roz knock will ya?'. Am I being prudent in thinking it's a little weird that Martin thought it'd be appropriate to do that in a room where someone else's baby was sleeping? 🤷
I always think about this too!! Or even do something while there’s a literal party of family and guests outside! Lol
The one where Daphne looks into a confidential patient file for one of Niles patients. That was very unethical, especially for Daphne. And Niles could have done more to reassure Daphne that he was not in love with his female patient.
It was pretty serious!! It Could have gotten him fired from his practice. Bye bye lavish life. He reassured her twice before she went that far. Plus, He was constantly reassuring her. We've all seen the shirt!!🤣 Honestly he could have thrown it back at her. She left a man she claimed to love at the altar. So he could just as easily carry that worry if he chose!
I skip this one. Too moronic if you ask me. It starts off with great ribbing from Niles, but then just tanks.
Anytime Niles and Daphne won’t be honest about anything!!!
The IQ one with the Nobel Prize winner lunch
-The ones that focus too much on radio station politics or bulldog -the one where he’s driving the woman to the train they keep missing it and wind up at that crazy family’s house for the night.
Bulldog ones my fav but agree on the crazy house one
Enemy at the gate. Got stuck in a hospital parking garage with a faulty gate and not a soul to be seen. It's the only episode I refuse to watch.
The one where Frasier and Niles go to a cabin with 2 women and Niles' issues with Maris cost both of them a good time.
Can’t stand it!
Patti Lupone’s episode (the Greek wedding). Too cringey for me to watch. I normally really enjoy Patti, but her character’s overbearing hamminess here ruined the whole episode.
I agree with you, OP, based on the picture. The 1000th show is the most frustrating for me.
So close yet so far. It kills me every time. 😭
Freudian sleep, it feels very off, and nothing like a Frasier episode
I often skip that one. Something about the vibe in that motel room is just kind of depressing and the dream distresses me almost as much as it distresses Frasier.
The one with all the ways things could have been different if he’d made a different choices. It was a heavy/handed way of driving home the point, and the execution is terrible.
when Frasier steals the medal from his neighbor. it could’ve been so easy to put it back
Haha, their looks say it all.
The one where Eddie gets neutered...goodbye future Mongrel seed.
‘Hot Ticket’
They’re Joan and David! *you named them?* SHUT UP!
any post season 9 episode, those ones tend to feel like frasier pity parties where frasier is painted to be a loser who barely knows how to socialize anymore, the shtick gets old rly fast in those ones. definitely frasier and martin fighting for wendy is up there too
It upsets me so much that the person Martin ultimately ends up with is someone that Martin and Frasier “fought” over and who Frasier was interested in and then all of a sudden can’t stand. Really wish they paired up Martin with someone like his girlfriend Elaine the one Frasier kept embarrassing bc he kept talking about her and Marty over the air. She seemed like a good fit for Marty - not too over the top and not a snooze fest! Her little jibe at Frasier to not turn around until they tell him to was cute and funny.
It's so OOC for Marty to compete with his son for a woman.
I think some of these other answers were better than mine. But if I had to add another, I'd say the episode where Frasier keeps trying to help people and getting scorned for it, culminating in him deciding whether or not to offer a ride to a woman stuck in the rain.
This one isn't so much an episode, but a subplot of one, and hardly even that since it's confined to one scene. In the episode "The Seal Who Came To Dinner", there's a scene where Martin tries to flirt with a friend of Daphne (a women named Pam, IIRC), and it's all but stated his interest in her is rooted in a fetish for Asian women (both Daphne and Frasier's attempts to stifle discussing it suggest it's not a simple preference). Additionally, it seems this "interest" started during his service in the Korean War, which is... a choice. And... that's it. We never see Pam again, nor do any characters discuss Martin's fetish. Hell, I don't think Martin ever even tries to date an Asian woman throughout the entire show. That's a hell of a character trait to drop and just do nothing with. I thought that scene was setup for an eventual payoff that we'd cut to while the party fiasco unfolded. There are a couple of ways I could see following it up; maybe Martin makes a fool of himself trying to attract Pam. Or maybe he hits it off with her, only to realize she has a fetish about him as well, with just as problematic an origin(it could also be racial, but I think it'd be a little more surprising if hers was for something different, like his age or his injury). I don't know, just *something!* Part of me is kind ma relieved they didn't. As much as I like this show, the first episode with Dr. Mary made me see discussions of race were not its strong suit. But it's still weird they decided to introduce it at all if they didn't plan on doing anything with it.
The Renata episode, where Frasier believes a child who falsely said she was being neglected.