|
Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Dec 11, 2017 6:36:59 GMT -5
I've been bingeing the ever-loving f*** out of this show recently. I'm talking like a high-tens/low-twenties number of run-throughs of the entire series since the middle of the year.
Funny thing is, when I was younger, I couldn't stand it. It was boring and stuffy and not funny, because I was a kid that didn't get the references to opera and art and coffee and other fancy shit. Thankfully I got older and gave it another shot, and now it's f***ing hilarious.
But I am curious about one thing, and this might just be me and my own social media timelines... How did it become such a popular source of meme-ery recently? Not a day goes past now when I don't stumble across someone making some kind of Frasier reference to something. Is it just us younger people finally getting the jokes all at once?
|
|
Futureraven: Beelzebruv
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
The Ultimate Arbiter of Right And Wrong
Spent half my life here, God help me
Posts: 15,019
|
Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Dec 11, 2017 6:53:10 GMT -5
I think part of it is that it's a little more timeless.
Take Friends for example, biggest hit of the decade. But because it's about the lives of young people in the 90s it dates more quickly. Outside of a couple of things, it doesn't get mentioned that much compared to the juggernaut it was at the time.
Being about older, high class people gives Frasier a bit of distance between the audience, the humour doesn't come from relating to them, more the situations they're in. Also, having that slightly different cast, the references are less timely because those characters aren't into popular 90s culture. A reference to an opera or wine isn't going to date after 20 years.
|
|
|
Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Dec 11, 2017 9:03:09 GMT -5
You watched the entire series between let’s say conservatively 15 times in the last 6 months? The show had 264 episodes! They usually run between 21 and 23 minutes. Let’s be conservative again and take the lower number.
264 x 21 = 5,544 minutes
Now multiply that by 15 and you get:
5,544 x 15 = 83,160 minutes
That’s... 1,386 hours 57.75 days 8.25 weeks
About 2 months of nothing but Frasier!
|
|
|
Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Dec 11, 2017 9:54:05 GMT -5
I recently watched the entire run of the series with my wife.
I think it is, without a doubt, the best sitcom there is. Possibly #2 with I Love Lucy, but I'd probably flip them depending on what day you asked me. It walks the line between witty, high brown humor and low brow slapstick so masterfully. (Roz and the Schnoz, in which there are numerous puns about the size of her boyfriend's/boyfriend's parents noses comes to mind)
I love the episode where Niles and Frasier go crazy about the wine club meeting and it turns out in the end they don't really care about the wine so much as parliamentary procedure.
Another great moment (There's really too many to list in any post)
|
|
|
Post by King Boo on Dec 11, 2017 10:26:19 GMT -5
Frasier is amazing.
|
|
mizerable
Fry's dog Seymour
You're the lowest on the totem pole here, Alva. The lowest.
Posts: 23,475
|
Post by mizerable on Dec 11, 2017 10:32:07 GMT -5
I love it. Just great performances all around.
I also thought that Fraiser was by far the best character on Cheers, which in and of itself is a very good show.
|
|
Malcolm
Grimlock
Wanted something done about the color of his ring.
Eternally Confused
Posts: 13,478
|
Post by Malcolm on Dec 11, 2017 12:21:46 GMT -5
My favorite episode from the series has to be "Ham Radio".
From the ice cream truck gag to Gil constantly trying to say his dying monologue to the ending where Niles kills everyone's character out of frustration. It never fails to make me laugh.
|
|
Bobeddy
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Made a Terrible Mistake
Posts: 15,149
|
Post by Bobeddy on Dec 11, 2017 12:50:45 GMT -5
My favorite episode from the series has to be "Ham Radio". From the ice cream truck gag to Gil constantly trying to say his dying monologue to the ending where Niles kills everyone's character out of frustration. It never fails to make me laugh. Look out, he's got a nug!
|
|
Futureraven: Beelzebruv
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
The Ultimate Arbiter of Right And Wrong
Spent half my life here, God help me
Posts: 15,019
|
Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Dec 11, 2017 12:57:01 GMT -5
My favorite episode from the series has to be "Ham Radio". From the ice cream truck gag to Gil constantly trying to say his dying monologue to the ending where Niles kills everyone's character out of frustration. It never fails to make me laugh. Look out, he's got a nug! "Sound of changing Wangs to Wongs"
|
|
|
Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 11, 2017 13:18:18 GMT -5
Some men go to college But we think they're all wussies Cause they get all the knowledge And we get all the- [banned]
|
|
Sephiroth
Wade Wilson
Surviving
Posts: 28,888
|
Post by Sephiroth on Dec 11, 2017 13:39:47 GMT -5
1. I remember watching the pilot episode and thinking my mom and dad were both going to wet their pants because of how hard they were laughing at the first part with Eddie 2. I thought the entire freaking family (Mom, Dad, brother, and me) were going to wet out pants during the restaurant episode 4. I do have to admit, that tango between Niles and Daffney was smoking hot
|
|
|
Post by Larryhausen on Dec 11, 2017 13:59:26 GMT -5
At least once a year I binge all of Cheers immediately followed by Frasier.
|
|
|
Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Dec 11, 2017 14:25:55 GMT -5
1. I remember watching the pilot episode and thinking my mom and dad were both going to wet their pants because of how hard they were laughing at the first part with Eddie 2. I thought the entire freaking family (Mom, Dad, brother, and me) were going to wet out pants during the restaurant episode 4. I do have to admit, that tango between Niles and Daffney was smoking hot By restaurant episode, I assume you mean the one where Frasier and Niles buy a restaurant? Very, very funny
|
|
Shark
Hank Scorpio
The world's only Samurai Ninja Pirate
Posts: 7,045
|
Post by Shark on Dec 11, 2017 14:58:34 GMT -5
Niles and the hot n foamy is still such a huge laugh
|
|
Sephiroth
Wade Wilson
Surviving
Posts: 28,888
|
Post by Sephiroth on Dec 11, 2017 15:18:02 GMT -5
1. I remember watching the pilot episode and thinking my mom and dad were both going to wet their pants because of how hard they were laughing at the first part with Eddie 2. I thought the entire freaking family (Mom, Dad, brother, and me) were going to wet out pants during the restaurant episode 4. I do have to admit, that tango between Niles and Daffney was smoking hot By restaurant episode, I assume you mean the one where Frasier and Niles buy a restaurant? Very, very funny “Who is this?” “ITS THE VOICE OF GOD!!!”
|
|
SmashTV
Dennis Stamp
Big Money, Big Prizes, I Love It!
The Excellence of Allocation
Posts: 4,480
|
Post by SmashTV on Dec 11, 2017 15:22:34 GMT -5
I loved the first three or four series but then I thought it suffered the same fate as a lot of sitcoms; a victim of its own success. Audiences were high, ratings were good, but slowly the writers ran out of ideas and it began to suffer. Frasier was that wonderful blend of sitcom that could be laugh out loud funny and then quietly reflective five minutes later. It's repeated daily here in the UK (along with Everybody Loves Raymond beforehand), and every so often I'll catch one of the earlier episodes and marvel at how good it was.
Just for the record, however; as an Englishman, Daphne's Manchester accent doesn't reflect Manchester, and all of the other English accents sound Australian. We don't sound like that. Bloody Dick van Dyke and his 'Cockney' chimney sweep...
|
|
|
Post by Kevin Hamilton on Dec 11, 2017 15:45:06 GMT -5
Great sitcom that coulda been trimmed by a couple of seasons, cuz they really ran outta steam the last 2 or so. Still high quality.
|
|
|
Post by Cela on Dec 11, 2017 16:13:29 GMT -5
Caught it for the first time earlier this year, still haven't made it quite all the way through, but very enjoyable.
The show does comedy of errors really well. The Winter Cabin was especially a highlight.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2017 16:27:10 GMT -5
Murder!
|
|
|
Post by karl100589 on Dec 11, 2017 16:35:28 GMT -5
Great sitcom that coulda been trimmed by a couple of seasons, cuz they really ran outta steam the last 2 or so. Still high quality. And yet the final season has two of my favourite episodes ("The Doctor Is Out" and "High Holidays")
|
|