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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Dec 15, 2017 11:48:39 GMT -5
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Post by Mid-Carder on Dec 15, 2017 12:48:03 GMT -5
Probably my favourite show of all time. I watch the full series run-through at least once a year. I even named my car Niles.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Dec 15, 2017 16:39:24 GMT -5
I had watched the show as a kid in its original run, but my fiancée and I rewatched the entire series from start to finish last summer.
Obviously, it was exceptionally written, but what really made the show work was the incredible chemistry amongst the cast. There was no weak link. Every pairing of characters, whether it was Roz with Frasier or Marty with Daphne or Frasier with Niles or whomever, just worked. They managed to find a cast that had no trouble playing off anybody else. Everything clicked.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2017 17:13:33 GMT -5
I had watched the show as a kid in its original run, but my fiancée and I rewatched the entire series from start to finish last summer. Obviously, it was exceptionally written, but what really made the show work was the incredible chemistry amongst the cast. There was no weak link. Every pairing of characters, whether it was Roz with Frasier or Marty with Daphne or Frasier with Niles or whomever, just worked. They managed to find a cast that had no trouble playing off anybody else. Everything clicked. Apparently guest stars loved appearing too. Whereas Tom Selleck said he felt excluded from 'the gang' on Friends, all the stories of Frasier are good. I had a chance to speak to Richard E Grant ages ago (complete coincidence, happened to be same place, same time, queuing, I think he was filming his Hotel show nearby) and during conversation I asked him about his appearance in Frasier. He said everyone was lovely and made him feel part of things. Total gent too.
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Post by SmashTV on Dec 17, 2017 13:00:56 GMT -5
One of my favourite one liners from the series is actually in the first episode. A caller on Frasier's show is saying how he doesn't feel like his life is going anywhere. Frasier opens up about how his own previous life had gotten repetitive, saying that he spent night after night at a bar in Boston and wasn't taking his work seriously and...
'...my wife had left me, which was very painful. Then she came back to me...which was excruciating...'
And that was from the first episode; a real sign of things to come.
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Post by Sephiroth on Dec 17, 2017 13:29:07 GMT -5
Probably my favourite show of all time. I watch the full series run-through at least once a year. I even named my car Niles. An appalling little vehicle. I believe they called it a hunchback.
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Post by Mid-Carder on Dec 17, 2017 13:46:45 GMT -5
Probably my favourite show of all time. I watch the full series run-through at least once a year. I even named my car Niles. An appalling little vehicle. I believe they called it a hunchback. Actually good point, Niles wouldn't approve of my car at all.
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Post by King Boo on Dec 17, 2017 14:01:12 GMT -5
I've been re-watching episodes at random - episodes I've seen multiple times already - and howling with laughter. Like, literal belly laughs.
These exchanges from my favorite episode, "The Three Faces of Frasier", will never not make me laugh:
Martin: Fras, will you let it go, it's a perfectly nice picture. Frasier: Oh, so nothing about it jumped out at you as, oh, I don't know, encephalitic! Martin: So they gave you a big forehead, who cares? It makes you look smart. Frasier: It makes me look like I discovered fire!
Daphne: They put his picture on the wall and he thinks his forehead looks a touch too big. Frasier: A touch?! I look like a fugitive from Easter Island!
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Dec 17, 2017 16:52:59 GMT -5
So I never watched the latter seasons, but I always heard there was a drop in quality or like a tonal shift to the more serious and less humorous. Can anyone speak to that?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2017 18:05:43 GMT -5
So I never watched the latter seasons, but I always heard there was a drop in quality or like a tonal shift to the more serious and less humorous. Can anyone speak to that? For me at least when Niles and Daphne finally got together it started to dip a little bit but then her mum because a full time part of the show and the quality went off a f****** cliff The last season was a little better after they got rid of her though God I really f****** hated that character
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Post by Shark on Dec 18, 2017 18:35:14 GMT -5
One of my all time favorite exchanges in a sitcom ever was when Frasier and Niles were hosting the former's radio show for their book on sibling relationships and they hear about the sisters who shaved their heads so their other sister whose hair had fallen out would feel better. "Niles, I would shave my head for you." To which Niels hilariously replies "A gesture which becomes less significant with each passing year." I hit the floor laughing every time.
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Post by Sephiroth on Dec 18, 2017 23:05:46 GMT -5
“Glenn...let your brother play.”
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Post by ookkie on Dec 18, 2017 23:30:27 GMT -5
That's gotta be... that's gotta be CRANE!
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Dec 19, 2017 20:27:32 GMT -5
One of my all time favorite exchanges in a sitcom ever was when Frasier and Niles were hosting the former's radio show for their book on sibling relationships and they hear about the sisters who shaved their heads so their other sister whose hair had fallen out would feel better. "Niles, I would shave my head for you." To which Niels hilariously replies "A gesture which becomes less significant with each passing year." I hit the floor laughing every time. Frasier: "Thanks, Niles. You are a good brother and a credit to the psychiatric profession." Niles: "You're a good brother too."
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Post by Sephiroth on Dec 20, 2017 14:44:05 GMT -5
I’ll add in my all time fave was the one where his agent tries to seduce him, with the implication she is really the devil. And as he runs out he sees the 666 on the door.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Dec 20, 2017 19:08:40 GMT -5
I’ll add in my all time fave was the one where his agent tries to seduce him, with the implication she is really the devil. And as he runs out he sees the 666 on the door. It wasn’t just that, but a pileup of coincidences to create that effect... Outdoor choir practice, nearby neon lights and a clothes steamer somehow making it look like Frasier was literally about to sell his soul or something.
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Post by Sephiroth on Dec 20, 2017 19:48:40 GMT -5
I’ll add in my all time fave was the one where his agent tries to seduce him, with the implication she is really the devil. And as he runs out he sees the 666 on the door. It wasn’t just that, but a pileup of coincidences to create that effect... Outdoor choir practice, nearby neon lights and a clothes steamer somehow making it look like Frasier was literally about to sell his soul or something. His expression was what sold it
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Dec 21, 2017 2:33:06 GMT -5
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Post by SmashTV on Dec 21, 2017 14:50:52 GMT -5
So I never watched the latter seasons, but I always heard there was a drop in quality or like a tonal shift to the more serious and less humorous. Can anyone speak to that? I noticed a drop in quality around series 5 or 6. Granted, I wasn't watching it as much but it just didn't have the same sort of 'zingers' it had in the early days. When I randomly watched an episode and Niles slept with Lillith after they both got drunk (which was out of character for both of them), I knew that the shark had been jumped.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Dec 21, 2017 22:09:48 GMT -5
So I never watched the latter seasons, but I always heard there was a drop in quality or like a tonal shift to the more serious and less humorous. Can anyone speak to that? I noticed a drop in quality around series 5 or 6. Granted, I wasn't watching it as much but it just didn't have the same sort of 'zingers' it had in the early days. When I randomly watched an episode and Niles slept with Lillith after they both got drunk (which was out of character for both of them), I knew that the shark had been jumped. It made enough sense for me. Lilith had just been dumped for another man and Niles was going through a rough divorce with Maris, they were both in fragile states of mind.
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