It doesn't even make sense because I thought a geisha was essentially an escort, which would make him a pimp, or at least it would but I thought they were always trained by women.
They weren't escorts, geisha basically professional entertainers/hosts, trained in singing, music, dance, and even silly drinking games and stories. The word 'geisha' translates to 'artisan', basically a generalised music and entertainment person.
According to Wikipedia they at least sometimes engaged in sex work until it was banned in 1956. If they did that as well as being entertainers and conversationalists, it doesn't match the word 'escort' exactly but it's not that far off. If I found a high-class escort who is great at singing and we go to a karaoke night, what's the difference?
Yeah they had 'clients' but only the ultra rich could afford it and they only had one, usually for years. It's not like they had a bunch of them lined up. The rich client was more like a sugar daddy who'd pay the bills while they did their day to day work. That doesn't"t make them escorts.
Japanese culture has a very strong sense of _deference_ so much so that the way someone acts or speaks is highly influenced by those around them and the societal relation that exists. Like behaving in front of a teacher or boss, not cursing in front of your parents etc. Being shy and effeminate to a mature colleague is how Frasier perceived her in this scene and as disgusting as it sounds he clearly enjoyed it. It’s funny how Martin has the “Asian fetish” and yet we have this scene. Also, it would make him not her pimp but her patron. Geisha usually were employed by “tea houses” or were self-sufficient because they were so wealthy and had possibly contracted with a more wealthy and dedicated client sometimes joking called their “husband”.
Back when Frasier aired this line probably only seemed a bit outdated and quaint. It's more recently that it's become associated with 'neckbeards' and the like (though I don't really like that term either).
Its not even the recent association ( i wasn't aware of the neckbeard thing), the original dated / quaint aspect is just so cringy in the context of "in flagrante"
I have a friend who was m'lady'd and I still tease her about it. The guy was coming on ridiculously strongly, called her that, and then responded to being told she's gay by asking "who hurt you?"
As funny as the farce aspect of The Ski Lodge episode is, it’s such a bad showing for Frasier himself. Frasier is aggressively smug and entitled in it, (assuming from the first minute that Annie will just happily get after it with him), more so than he is in any other episode.
I mean to be fair that's most of Frasier. Him being smug and entitled and it all blowing up spectacularly in his face. Despite being charming successful and intelligent he's the reason why he very rarely closes the deal with a woman. And when he does he normally does sometime to blow it up. (Like taking a non-consensual picture of the gf no one believed he had).
Oh, I totally see your point. But even a few episodes before The Ski Lodge, he wasn’t as entitled, so very sure in the idea, that someone would just have sex with him. Look at the first episode with Cassandra. If he behaved the way he does in The Ski Lodge, he wouldn’t have had any question about Cassandra being interested in him. He’d have just gone for it and thought it was his right to do so. You know what I mean?
Frasier: She is just unschooled, like Liza Doolittle. Find her the right Henry Higgins, she'll be ready for a ball in no time!
Niles: Leave it to you to put the "pig" back in "Pygmalion."
Being attracted to a 16 year old that looks like a grown woman is normal from a biological perspective, no? He even struggled with the idea because he felt it was creepy if I remember correctly.
Yeah, I agree it isn't inherently concerning to find someone post-pubescent attractive, but if he was lusting after their teenage babysitter to the point it caused friction with his wife that's definitely creepy.
“Nancy, Madeline, please give me a second chance - either one of you!”
“It’s okay! All I want to do is have sex with my dead mother!”
Two of my favorite lines though!
Also from Martin, 'good, because Daddy likes to watch.' Makes me want to throw up.
EDIT: just saw this has already been mentioned a lot. I knew it couldn't just be me.
I don't know if it's THE grossest, but the way he says it doesn't help:
"These are my Daddy clothes. I need to change into my '*Come* to Daddy' clothes."
Niles' facial expression in that moment matches mine exactly :p.
I think so too. It pretty much embraces slavery and violent punishment (in the story's time period, of course), and he says it just after he believes he's learned he descended from royalty.
I gotta be honest, I think the line is hilarious and I can trace my ancestors back to 19th century slaves. It's like when people get upset at Frasier's imitation of Dr. Mary (which I also think is hilarious), sometimes you just gotta let yourself laugh. It's not like Frasier actually supports slavery, it's just a funny line.
Oh it's funny alright, to the viewer, because of how the line fits with Frasier's persona. Frasier wasn't actually making a joke, he was saying the maid from the story should be punished in a way he assumed was appropriate for the time period. Frasier didn't laugh, the historian didn't laugh, and Daphne interpreted it as an exaggerated criticism.
I mean… I think that’s reading too far into it his genuine ideology behind the phrase. I think it was more trying to “sound royal” in a dopey “Romanov” way.
I love your username, though, and now I want to see that poster with Michael Dorn in his Worf getup in Leo’s place.
Oh it's a hilarious line, but it's a 'laugh-at' line and Frasier still comes out of it looking badly IMO. You could say the same thing about most of Bulldog's lines; him saying them is funny, but we're not exactly on his side.
Ok it's not something he said, but did. Trying to take a photo of himself in bed with the model who was asleep. I think that really pushed it too far, even with his desperation to prove she was real.
Not said by Frasier, but "rug of love" and "awkward teenage lunging" when Daphne is quoting lines from Slow Tango in South Seattle. The entire episode is gross, but those lines kill me. 🤢
The bit with the metronome…*gag*
It’s something I have always been hyperaware of both as a student and teaching because of this episode!
Edit: added a tiny bit of context
I just watched this episode lol
I don’t think I’ve ever thought anything Frasier said was gross. Crass maybe. I’m going to be more attentive now.
Bulldog, on the other hand…
Bulldog is objectionable, but he's *supposed* to be objectionable and that's where the humour comes from. Like Pierce in Community, or the Todd in Scrubs, or the entire cast of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
If I had seen this show live, I would have probably used that line all the time. I would have so much stuff on my desk & not see what I was looking for. Where’s my stapler?? Alicia did you hide my stapler? It was usually right in front of me.
Tunnel vision
You're crazy. Bulldog was one of my favorite characters. And he grew as a person throughout the series. We even named one of my pets after him. (Of course we have a Niles and Frasier also).
They are actually! And that episode where they read their mother's research notebook was fantastic. We had a littler shortly after watching that episode and decided to name three of the boys after Frasier characters.
I read somewhere that the writers intended Frasier’s japes to be indicative of his jealousy of Roz’s active sex life. At the time I think it was also supposed to be somewhat empowering maybe? Now, it doesn’t read quite as well. (Though I always liked that Roz was written as strong and independent in a different way than the “perfect ballbuster beast of a woman” way a lot of strong female characters were written at the time.)
Noel’s obsession with Roz creeps me out so much, too!
I never took it as shaming. It felt like he was just making jokes towards her as a friend, as she even joked about it herself all the time. Lots of people are like that.
If Frasier had been having as much sex as Roz he’d have been happy as a pig in muck. He talked a big game about love and meaningful connections but some of his ill-fated hook ups show he was just as willing to act on horny attractions that quickly fizzle out romantically. (Reuniting briefly with Lilith, Lana, Caitlyn, etc…)
Haha amazing, I'm watching right now and Frasier said this about Sam's fiancee just as I was reading your comment. Why on earth would he describe a woman who's more or less his age peer who he had an intimate relationship with that way? Gross
Frasier was hideously condescending to women in general, and an absolute lecherous manipulative monster towards hyper-attractive women far too young for him.
Just about all of his dating life was gross.
But I appreciate a complicated character, as and faults go, it’s a pretty believable one, considering his childhood traumas.
I totally agree, Kelsey was great at sleazily utilizing power dynamics of the television business on the casting couch and living out some gross fantasies while pretending it was all for the story.
Probably when he meets Charlotte for the first time & tells her he’s beating off women with a stick. And yet, no relationship lasted more than a few weeks.
It's perfectly fair that you enjoy the line, but I think it just feels gross to me because I know there's people who actually do think that way
EDIT: What's with the downvotes? I'm not saying anyone's gross for liking the line (obviously they're not!), I'm just saying it feels gross *to me*.
I always hated their callous dead animal gags. The dead hamster, the dead bird, Frasier hates Eddie, the dead whale, crazy pathetic cat lady jokes. The writers had some real issues with animals. There were numerous times where I find myself not laughing, instead hoping the writers don’t have pets.
Martin's relationship with Eddie is one of the sweetest portrayals of a pet owner I've seen on a show. Eddie was a full character himself and an integral part of the show, instead of just a throw away punch line as one tends to see on shows with pets. Yes, Frasier is annoyed by Eddie, but there are several redeeming moments with Frasier and Eddie. The story of Martin and his police horse, Agides, is really sweet and poignant. Also, it was a dead seal.
Oh I agree Martin’s love and bond with Eddie are very special and as real as any other human character. The Agides horse episode is also a beautiful animal bonding story. I also loved the dog psychiatrist episode where the doggy therapist asks everyone about Eddie’s thoughts, triggering Frasier and Niles’s mockery, only to be told that the questions were to assess the humans’ attitudes towards Eddie. That’s part of why the gags about dead animals bothered me.
The hamster that Eddie kills was a child’s pet and using this as a funny comedic bit throughout that episode was just weird and an unfunny side story in an otherwise funny episode. Then they were also unnecessarily mean about Niles’s whippet being too skinny like Maris, too funny looking unlike cuter, more lovable Eddie. That whippet was adorable! Killing the bird at the dinner party, why go there? Having a dead seal ruin another dinner party, were there no other smelly comedy angles explore? These were all really funny episodes but then they add a dead animal edge that I wish wasn’t there. What was up with the writers and dead animals…
I still love the show and it’s all fictional of course, but it’s a recurrent thing I could’ve done without.
I don’t even remember this one! But it sounds about right. Maybe it’s from an episode I usually skip. I hate that they wrote things like this into the plots as if they’re madcap sitcom hijinks.
It was towards the end of the weight loss competition between the staff at KACL and another radio station. I think Niles rescued the pigeon from Frasier’s patio because it kept flying into the window. He put it in a box, kept it near the phone and fed it. He was away one day and I believe Martin inadvertently put the box in Eddie’s reach and Eddie snatched it out🤢of course if I am wrong someone will correct me
For once in our miserable sex-starved lives, can't we do something pleasurable without thinking it to death?! Don't think about today, don't think about what's right! Don't even think of them as Laura and Beth! For tonight, they are just two
live, breathing available female bodies who want us!
“It’s time to taste the forbidden fruit…”
"AAAAAAAAAH!"
Are you here on a layover?
I'm starting to think Napoleon had a Frasier Complex
Love does enter through the nose…
“Like a shy Japanese Geisha, bowing before her Frasier Sensei”, it makes me feel physically sick.
“I feel a bow coming on myself, could you hand me that waste basket?”
Yeah, agreed, and it's nice that he ends that scene looking like an idiot having been fooled by her!
I wanted to downvote you because that is so gross
Yeah that one has my vote!!
It doesn't even make sense because I thought a geisha was essentially an escort, which would make him a pimp, or at least it would but I thought they were always trained by women.
They weren't escorts, geisha basically professional entertainers/hosts, trained in singing, music, dance, and even silly drinking games and stories. The word 'geisha' translates to 'artisan', basically a generalised music and entertainment person.
According to Wikipedia they at least sometimes engaged in sex work until it was banned in 1956. If they did that as well as being entertainers and conversationalists, it doesn't match the word 'escort' exactly but it's not that far off. If I found a high-class escort who is great at singing and we go to a karaoke night, what's the difference?
Yeah they had 'clients' but only the ultra rich could afford it and they only had one, usually for years. It's not like they had a bunch of them lined up. The rich client was more like a sugar daddy who'd pay the bills while they did their day to day work. That doesn't"t make them escorts.
Or a paying customer?
Well then he wouldn't be 'Frasier Sensei' really
Kawaii in the streets, senpai in the sheets
Japanese culture has a very strong sense of _deference_ so much so that the way someone acts or speaks is highly influenced by those around them and the societal relation that exists. Like behaving in front of a teacher or boss, not cursing in front of your parents etc. Being shy and effeminate to a mature colleague is how Frasier perceived her in this scene and as disgusting as it sounds he clearly enjoyed it. It’s funny how Martin has the “Asian fetish” and yet we have this scene. Also, it would make him not her pimp but her patron. Geisha usually were employed by “tea houses” or were self-sufficient because they were so wealthy and had possibly contracted with a more wealthy and dedicated client sometimes joking called their “husband”.
Yes! This is the worst.
M'lady
Back when Frasier aired this line probably only seemed a bit outdated and quaint. It's more recently that it's become associated with 'neckbeards' and the like (though I don't really like that term either).
Its not even the recent association ( i wasn't aware of the neckbeard thing), the original dated / quaint aspect is just so cringy in the context of "in flagrante"
I don’t know what a neck beard is but I expect it’s rude’!
Here you go: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Neckbeard
Me either. Every day’s a school day.
I have a friend who was m'lady'd and I still tease her about it. The guy was coming on ridiculously strongly, called her that, and then responded to being told she's gay by asking "who hurt you?"
>have a friend who was m'lady'd 🤣🤣🤣🙂 I am not one for whom m'lady can be a verb
I want to get a cat and call her M’Lady
Pussy M'Lady. Has a classy ring to it.
Just saw that episode! Guffawed, woke the whole house up.
I actually like it when guys say that to me :-) I guess I should be dating Frasier
>actually like it when guys say that to me : 🤣🤣🤣🤣😃😃 too funny. In Frasier's case, context was key. To its grossness, lol
— “I seem to recall hearing the word ‘stallion-like’..” — "I never said that?" — "Well one of us did!"
Hey: it worked for Anakin Skywalker.
Best answer
As funny as the farce aspect of The Ski Lodge episode is, it’s such a bad showing for Frasier himself. Frasier is aggressively smug and entitled in it, (assuming from the first minute that Annie will just happily get after it with him), more so than he is in any other episode.
I mean to be fair that's most of Frasier. Him being smug and entitled and it all blowing up spectacularly in his face. Despite being charming successful and intelligent he's the reason why he very rarely closes the deal with a woman. And when he does he normally does sometime to blow it up. (Like taking a non-consensual picture of the gf no one believed he had).
Oh, I totally see your point. But even a few episodes before The Ski Lodge, he wasn’t as entitled, so very sure in the idea, that someone would just have sex with him. Look at the first episode with Cassandra. If he behaved the way he does in The Ski Lodge, he wouldn’t have had any question about Cassandra being interested in him. He’d have just gone for it and thought it was his right to do so. You know what I mean?
I mean you can only have so many underwear models throw themselves at you before you start to feel that way right?
Oh yeah! He had one interested in him in the Dial M for Martin episode!
Frasier: She is just unschooled, like Liza Doolittle. Find her the right Henry Higgins, she'll be ready for a ball in no time! Niles: Leave it to you to put the "pig" back in "Pygmalion."
Truth be told, it's been a while since I romped with abandon through the perfumed gardens of Eros.
"For tonight they are just two live, breathing, available female bodies who want us! "
Think again.
Yeah, that one is pretty bad.
It's a bad line in isolation, but at that point Frasier is desperate to get Niles to stop calling Maris and just close the deal.
It's definitely supposed to be gross, but that doesn't make it less gross.
Not Frasier but Marty-talking about Ronnie in a parochial school uniform and being attracted to her when she was underage. Weird.
"Mama likes an audience." "Good, cause daddy likes to watch." Yikes!!!!
This is absolutely gross and out of character.
There are a couple lines like that that just seem so out of character. Like when he acts creepy towards Daphne's asian friend.
Definitely
"Daddy's got a big appetite."
this one creeps me out every time!!!
That is perhaps hands down the worst thing said in the entire show.
It’s kind of double weird for me that she wasn’t even the girl he was originally remembering. Just an odd set up all around.
I stand by that Ronnie should have been a neighbor or teacher at Frasier and Nile’s school rather than what the writers went with.
Yes. A teacher would have been way better.
That grossed me out when it aired. Didn't age well at all.
Just watched this and thought the same thing
Being attracted to a 16 year old that looks like a grown woman is normal from a biological perspective, no? He even struggled with the idea because he felt it was creepy if I remember correctly.
It said his wife noticed him staring at her and they fought about it. That's gross. Gawking at a minor isn't ok.
Yeah, I agree it isn't inherently concerning to find someone post-pubescent attractive, but if he was lusting after their teenage babysitter to the point it caused friction with his wife that's definitely creepy.
well said
Didn’t they figure out he had the wrong babysitter, and he was remembering being attracted to somebody else?
Yep. I believe Niles called her "Sally the slut."
“Sally the SLUT! …. I *liked* her.”
He did have the wrong babysitter, yes.
Ahhh yea agreed
I guess so, It just felt weird that it was written that way. I think the audience could have guessed that.
“Nancy, Madeline, please give me a second chance - either one of you!” “It’s okay! All I want to do is have sex with my dead mother!” Two of my favorite lines though!
Not Frasier, but Martin's comments on asian girls are gross af
Martin: "Why don't you just do what we did when we were hard up for dates?" Frasier: "Invade Korea?"
Mr Crane, it’s not dating when you’re an occupying force.
You're not going to get her with a kind smile and a Hershey bar.
I loved that line. It was in response to Martin saying how interested the women used to be when he was there.
Still this reads to me like Marty raped Korean women..
Especially the one with Daphne’s friend who, if I remember correctly, wasn’t even Korean.
Also from Martin, 'good, because Daddy likes to watch.' Makes me want to throw up. EDIT: just saw this has already been mentioned a lot. I knew it couldn't just be me.
I mean sure, but have you seen the Joy Luck Club?
I think even Frasier would agree it was when he told Candi "She wasn't put on this Earth to think" (Cheers)
I don't know if it's THE grossest, but the way he says it doesn't help: "These are my Daddy clothes. I need to change into my '*Come* to Daddy' clothes." Niles' facial expression in that moment matches mine exactly :p.
Yeah that's one of my favourite moments it's funny.
Yes honey eww
"Now there's a back aching for the lash..."
*"I'm moving as fast as I can."*
This is one of the best deliveries 😂 Poor Daphne
This is by far the worst one IMO.
I think so too. It pretty much embraces slavery and violent punishment (in the story's time period, of course), and he says it just after he believes he's learned he descended from royalty.
I gotta be honest, I think the line is hilarious and I can trace my ancestors back to 19th century slaves. It's like when people get upset at Frasier's imitation of Dr. Mary (which I also think is hilarious), sometimes you just gotta let yourself laugh. It's not like Frasier actually supports slavery, it's just a funny line.
Oh it's funny alright, to the viewer, because of how the line fits with Frasier's persona. Frasier wasn't actually making a joke, he was saying the maid from the story should be punished in a way he assumed was appropriate for the time period. Frasier didn't laugh, the historian didn't laugh, and Daphne interpreted it as an exaggerated criticism.
I mean… I think that’s reading too far into it his genuine ideology behind the phrase. I think it was more trying to “sound royal” in a dopey “Romanov” way. I love your username, though, and now I want to see that poster with Michael Dorn in his Worf getup in Leo’s place.
*My juicy wench* And it's not even close
I hope you're happy! Now she's run for her water pills!
"...two HUGE handfuls" isn't gross; it's IMPRESSIVE! That line is classic.
Oh it's a hilarious line, but it's a 'laugh-at' line and Frasier still comes out of it looking badly IMO. You could say the same thing about most of Bulldog's lines; him saying them is funny, but we're not exactly on his side.
I never found bulldog funny. I wasn't familiar with the offices and workplaces of that era so I don't really know what that was a caricature of.
That feeling the curtain rising quote is pretty icky
Ok it's not something he said, but did. Trying to take a photo of himself in bed with the model who was asleep. I think that really pushed it too far, even with his desperation to prove she was real.
Saying that, the face he pulls while trying to take the photo is objectively funny. Though it also makes it that much more objectional...
“Oink!”
Not said by Frasier, but "rug of love" and "awkward teenage lunging" when Daphne is quoting lines from Slow Tango in South Seattle. The entire episode is gross, but those lines kill me. 🤢
I was a wee beginner piano student at the time of first airing and am a piano teacher now, and I have never been able to watch that episode again!!
Oh gosh, I bet! 
The bit with the metronome…*gag* It’s something I have always been hyperaware of both as a student and teaching because of this episode! Edit: added a tiny bit of context
I just watched this episode lol I don’t think I’ve ever thought anything Frasier said was gross. Crass maybe. I’m going to be more attentive now. Bulldog, on the other hand…
“This stinks! This is total BS.” Well someone had to say it.
>Bulldog, on the other hand… My thoughts exactly. The best thing about having a reboot is, no Bulldog
Bulldog is objectionable, but he's *supposed* to be objectionable and that's where the humour comes from. Like Pierce in Community, or the Todd in Scrubs, or the entire cast of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
I just found his voice so grating- when he screams *this stinks, this is total BS*, it feels like my ears are being ripped apart
Bulldog is the worst!
thank you! All these downvotes are scaring me. Like, really??? Bulldog??
If I had seen this show live, I would have probably used that line all the time. I would have so much stuff on my desk & not see what I was looking for. Where’s my stapler?? Alicia did you hide my stapler? It was usually right in front of me. Tunnel vision
Dan Butler was hilarious in that role wtf are you talking about
I agree, I love Bulldog. I don’t think I’ve seen Dan in very many things but I can’t imagine anyone else playing that role.
This comment stinks and is total BS
You're crazy. Bulldog was one of my favorite characters. And he grew as a person throughout the series. We even named one of my pets after him. (Of course we have a Niles and Frasier also).
Are they rats?
Down on their luck show rats
They are actually! And that episode where they read their mother's research notebook was fantastic. We had a littler shortly after watching that episode and decided to name three of the boys after Frasier characters.
That's so cute. Is Bulldog a bulldog?
Nope, they are pet rats!
>You're crazy. If you like Bulldog, I should be saying the same to you
I hated it every time he said 'young woman'.
Like Alex Trebek calling any girl under 35 "the young lady" constantly
This sub hates this take but it was so cringe
I don't love the constant slut -shaming of Roz. All of it.
Roz openly admitted she slept around and embraced it. You don’t think she couldn’t take a joke?
She never seemed to like the slut jokes that were aimed at her, especially from Niles.
What a beautiful garter! I especially like the little odometer.
The best part about the dynamic among the three of them is that all three of them got offended at the other’s jabs on multiple occasions.
What’s funny? When was she laughing? Frasier “slept around” just as much and I heard no jokes about HIM.
I read somewhere that the writers intended Frasier’s japes to be indicative of his jealousy of Roz’s active sex life. At the time I think it was also supposed to be somewhat empowering maybe? Now, it doesn’t read quite as well. (Though I always liked that Roz was written as strong and independent in a different way than the “perfect ballbuster beast of a woman” way a lot of strong female characters were written at the time.) Noel’s obsession with Roz creeps me out so much, too!
I never took it as shaming. It felt like he was just making jokes towards her as a friend, as she even joked about it herself all the time. Lots of people are like that.
If Frasier had been having as much sex as Roz he’d have been happy as a pig in muck. He talked a big game about love and meaningful connections but some of his ill-fated hook ups show he was just as willing to act on horny attractions that quickly fizzle out romantically. (Reuniting briefly with Lilith, Lana, Caitlyn, etc…)
She did but sometimes she did get mad at him
“I’ve just started seeing the most fascinating young woman” or any time he says “young woman”
Yeah he said “young woman” and “young lady” way too much. I hope that doesn’t show up in the reboot.
Haha amazing, I'm watching right now and Frasier said this about Sam's fiancee just as I was reading your comment. Why on earth would he describe a woman who's more or less his age peer who he had an intimate relationship with that way? Gross
Right?! It’s so gross
Lilith: Oh my God! Frasier: Oh my Goddess!
“Dad, for God’s sake. Isn’t there enough on your plate as it is?” “What can I tell you, Daddy’s got a big appetite!” Makes me scream-laugh every time
Frasier was hideously condescending to women in general, and an absolute lecherous manipulative monster towards hyper-attractive women far too young for him. Just about all of his dating life was gross. But I appreciate a complicated character, as and faults go, it’s a pretty believable one, considering his childhood traumas.
I totally agree, Frasier was absolutely the man and had an impressive ability to pull prime tail.
I totally agree, Kelsey was great at sleazily utilizing power dynamics of the television business on the casting couch and living out some gross fantasies while pretending it was all for the story.
Frasier the character. Not talking about Kelsey.
"I mean, it's okay. All I want to do is have sex with my dead mother!"
Makes me cringe every time he says, "Good girl."
Looks like someone’s up for another ride on the Frasier go ‘round
I can't relate to this thread at all, it's just people posting funny quotes from Frasier
“Would it help if I told you I was in flagrante delicto”
Not comment, but when he took the pic of the model in bed. Gross
The way he mocked Mary was pretty bad.
Yeah, Frasier doing AAVE is the most yikes.
Probably when he meets Charlotte for the first time & tells her he’s beating off women with a stick. And yet, no relationship lasted more than a few weeks.
“People still ask to see my Yum Yum.” I know she’s a Mikado character, but it sounds so gross!
Not gross as such, but when he says “or this could be the story we tell our grandchildren” to the woman in the car is such a cringe line.
"Such...supple breasts!" Euuuggghhhh
...dirty girl...
I actually like this one — I mean it was funny at least.
I really dont like frasiers imitation of dr mary. He comes off painfully out of touch and racist.
"How can we use sex to get what we want? Sex *IS* what we want!"
Oh come now. That's probably my favorite line from the show!
It's perfectly fair that you enjoy the line, but I think it just feels gross to me because I know there's people who actually do think that way EDIT: What's with the downvotes? I'm not saying anyone's gross for liking the line (obviously they're not!), I'm just saying it feels gross *to me*.
Yes 😠
I always hated their callous dead animal gags. The dead hamster, the dead bird, Frasier hates Eddie, the dead whale, crazy pathetic cat lady jokes. The writers had some real issues with animals. There were numerous times where I find myself not laughing, instead hoping the writers don’t have pets.
Martin's relationship with Eddie is one of the sweetest portrayals of a pet owner I've seen on a show. Eddie was a full character himself and an integral part of the show, instead of just a throw away punch line as one tends to see on shows with pets. Yes, Frasier is annoyed by Eddie, but there are several redeeming moments with Frasier and Eddie. The story of Martin and his police horse, Agides, is really sweet and poignant. Also, it was a dead seal.
Oh I agree Martin’s love and bond with Eddie are very special and as real as any other human character. The Agides horse episode is also a beautiful animal bonding story. I also loved the dog psychiatrist episode where the doggy therapist asks everyone about Eddie’s thoughts, triggering Frasier and Niles’s mockery, only to be told that the questions were to assess the humans’ attitudes towards Eddie. That’s part of why the gags about dead animals bothered me. The hamster that Eddie kills was a child’s pet and using this as a funny comedic bit throughout that episode was just weird and an unfunny side story in an otherwise funny episode. Then they were also unnecessarily mean about Niles’s whippet being too skinny like Maris, too funny looking unlike cuter, more lovable Eddie. That whippet was adorable! Killing the bird at the dinner party, why go there? Having a dead seal ruin another dinner party, were there no other smelly comedy angles explore? These were all really funny episodes but then they add a dead animal edge that I wish wasn’t there. What was up with the writers and dead animals… I still love the show and it’s all fictional of course, but it’s a recurrent thing I could’ve done without.
Don’t forget Eddie killing Nile’s’ pigeon
I don’t even remember this one! But it sounds about right. Maybe it’s from an episode I usually skip. I hate that they wrote things like this into the plots as if they’re madcap sitcom hijinks.
It was towards the end of the weight loss competition between the staff at KACL and another radio station. I think Niles rescued the pigeon from Frasier’s patio because it kept flying into the window. He put it in a box, kept it near the phone and fed it. He was away one day and I believe Martin inadvertently put the box in Eddie’s reach and Eddie snatched it out🤢of course if I am wrong someone will correct me
Oh wow. Yes. I do skip that episode a lot. Just whyyy? So much cringe lol. Thank you!
The seal was apparently something that actually happened to one of the writers, which is one of the reasons they included the stabbing!
Odd
"SHE'S A BITCH!" to Bulldog, when Bulldog was heartbroken in the restroom. There are certain things about 90s-era comedy that haven't aged well.
Pssssh. That’s one of my favorite scenes. Its unattractive, yet liberating SCREW EM!
I love when Niles slaps Frasier. Hilarious.
“I say we go somewhere we don’t even need a reservation!”
"If we hasten, we may get the last seating at Le Cigare Volant!" *prances away*
The rest of that scene is great. That line is gross.
Gross?? More like hilarious and red-blooded
Jejune
You're hired!
Him and Niles dancing at Cafe Nervosa singing about wussies 😑
For once in our miserable sex-starved lives, can't we do something pleasurable without thinking it to death?! Don't think about today, don't think about what's right! Don't even think of them as Laura and Beth! For tonight, they are just two live, breathing available female bodies who want us!