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* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: In Frasier's hallucination, Diane holds a grudge towards his mother, Hester, for trying to use death threats to keep her away from her son. A fed-up Hester treats it like some empty squirmish she won't let go.

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* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: In Frasier's hallucination, Diane holds a grudge towards his mother, Hester, for trying to use death threats to keep her away from her son. A fed-up Hester treats it like some empty squirmish skirmish she won't let go.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Frasier learns an important lesson about self-destructive vacillating and nit-picking, and vows he won't let it ruin his relationships from now on... but he still has no luck with romance.

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* StatusQuoIsGod: Frasier learns an important lesson about self-destructive vacillating and nit-picking, and vows he won't let it ruin his relationships from now on... but he still has no luck with romance.romance.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: In Frasier's ImagineSpot, his mother and exes spend most of the time bickering and insulting each other, until they realise that Frasier is distracting them from his issues and ''he'' is he one they must consult.
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* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: In Frasier's hallucination, Diane holds a grudge towards his mother, Hester, for trying to use death threats to keep her away from her son. A fed-up Hester treats it like some empty squirmish she won't let go.
-->'''Hester:''' Oh, not this paranoia again!
-->'''Diane:''' You had a ''gun''!
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* EpiphanyTherapy: After having the hallucinations offer multiple ideas for why his romances always fail, they assure Frasier they'll always be with him. This causes him to realise that carrying around these four women have been the problem all along and he needs to get over them. Apparently all he needed to do was say it out loud, because he turns around and they're gone, with the end of the episode implying that he's finally past his issues.
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** The hallucinations of Diane and Hester hate one another over [[Recap/CheersS3E8 the time Hester threatened to kill Diane]]. Diane also paints a water-color of Sam.

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** The hallucinations of Diane and Hester hate one another over [[Recap/CheersS3E8 [[Recap/CheersS3E8DianeMeetsMom the time Hester threatened to kill Diane]]. Diane also paints a water-color of Sam.
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I don't know if Dianne is singing it from the then-recent Cinderella with Brandy, or the original version in The Boys from Syracuse, so moving to a broader set.


* EarWorm: At one point Frasier's vision of Diane starts singing [[Theatre/CinderellaRodgersAndHammerstein "Falling In Love With Love"]]. When the vision of Lilith gets annoyed by this and asks him to make her stop Frasier apologizes and says it's because he has that song stuck in his head.

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* EarWorm: At one point Frasier's vision of Diane starts singing [[Theatre/CinderellaRodgersAndHammerstein [[Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein "Falling In Love With Love"]]. When the vision of Lilith gets annoyed by this and asks him to make her stop Frasier apologizes and says it's because he has that song stuck in his head.



* ShoutOut: Dianne sings a song from ''Theatre/CinderellaRodgersAndHammerstein''.

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* ShoutOut: Dianne sings a song from ''Theatre/CinderellaRodgersAndHammerstein''.by Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein.

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* EarWorm: At one point Frasier's vision of Diane starts singing "Falling In Love With Love". When the vision of Lilith gets annoyed by this and asks him to make her stop Frasier apologizes and says it's because he has that song stuck in his head.

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* EarWorm: At one point Frasier's vision of Diane starts singing [[Theatre/CinderellaRodgersAndHammerstein "Falling In Love With Love".Love"]]. When the vision of Lilith gets annoyed by this and asks him to make her stop Frasier apologizes and says it's because he has that song stuck in his head.


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* ShoutOut: Dianne sings a song from ''Theatre/CinderellaRodgersAndHammerstein''.
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* TheCameo: Trying to flee the cabin, Frasier sees a vision of "every woman I've ever dated." It's not ''quite'' every woman he's disastrously dated on the show, but it is a lot of them.

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* TheCameo: CameoCluster: Trying to flee the cabin, Frasier sees a vision of "every woman I've ever dated." It's not ''quite'' every woman he's disastrously dated on the show, but it is a lot of them.
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: When Hester appears and things slowly devolve into her yelling at and insulting the other hallucinations, Frasier just sits with a strained look on his face. Lilith realizes that Frasier is making them snipe and insult each other to stop analyzing him and trying to get him to confront his issues.

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In this 2-parter, Frasier is conflicted between being with Lana and Claire and when he screws up both relationships, a retreat has him be helped by manifestations of Lilith, Diane, his first wife and his mother.

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In this 2-parter, Frasier is conflicted between being with Lana and Claire and when he screws up both relationships, a retreat has him be helped by manifestations of Lilith, Diane, his first wife Nanette and his mother.late mother Hester.



** The hallucination of Diane and Hester hate one another over the time Hester threatened to kill Diane. Diane also paints a water-color of Sam.

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** The hallucination hallucinations of Diane and Hester hate one another over [[Recap/CheersS3E8 the time Hester threatened to kill Diane.Diane]]. Diane also paints a water-color of Sam.



** "Every woman I've ever dated!" Not quite, but all 9 of the women seen in that brief shot had previously appeared in past episodes as Frasier's girlfriends.



-->'''Frasier:''' ''(to his Mother)'' What are you doing here?!\\

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-->'''Frasier:''' ''(to ''[to his Mother)'' Mother]'' What are you doing here?!\\
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* EarWorm: At one point Frasier's vision of Diane starts singing "Falling In Love With Love". When the vision of Lilith gets annoyed by this and asks him to make her stop Frasier apologizes and says it's because he has that song stuck in his head.
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-->'''Frasier:''' ''(to his Mother)'' What are you doing here?!\\
'''Lilith:''' You have to ask? You're a Freudian.
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* BottleEpisode: Most of the second part takes place either in the confines of Frasier's car or the log cabin.
* TheCameo: Trying to flee the cabin, Frasier sees a vision of "every woman I've ever dated." It's not ''quite'' every woman he's disastrously dated on the show, but it is a lot of them.
* ContinuityNod:
** The cabin is the same one the Cranes went to in "Momma Mia".
** The hallucination of Diane and Hester hate one another over the time Hester threatened to kill Diane. Diane also paints a water-color of Sam.
** Lilith brings up how the real her and Niles slept together.
* FreudianExcuse: Frasier initially tries blaming his romantic woes on his bad romantic history with Diane and Lilith, but then when Hester shows up to weigh in, he figures ''she'' must be the bad influence, the one none of his romantic partners can ever live up to.
* FromBadToWorse: First Frasier hallucinates Lilith. Then they're joined by Diane. Then Nanette joins in. At the cabin, Hester eventually shows up, and all four start bickering with one another, until the hallucination of Lilith gets them to gang up on ''him''.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Diane starts singing. Lilith tries to keep talking to Frasier, but finds Diane's singing makes this difficult.
* GranolaGirl: Nanette, being as Frasier remembers her from their college days (rather than played by Creator/EmmaThompson, as she was in ''Cheers'').
* HowWeGotHere: The first episode begins with Frasier in a car, with Lilith and Diane with him. It takes a while before we learn they're hallucinations, and he's gone for a drive to clear his head.
* NoSympathy: Thanks to Frasier's own bungling, he manages to nuke things with both Lana ''and'' Claire, and starts ranting about it. Martin and Daphne walk off mid-rant.
* PutOnABus: Frasier screws things up with Claire, and she storms off, never to be seen again.
* SanitySlippage: Poor Fras gets to the point he's hallucinating his ex-wives, ex-fiance and his mother.
* ShipperOnDeck: Niles and Martin are particularly supportive of Frasier getting with Claire. Daphne isn't, until at the last hurdle an upset Claire mentions she'd always wanted a sister, and figured Daphne could have been like that. Only daughter Daphne is therefore ''furious'' with Frasier for screwing up again.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Frasier learns an important lesson about self-destructive vacillating and nit-picking, and vows he won't let it ruin his relationships from now on... but he still has no luck with romance.
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In this 2-parter, Frasier is conflicted between being with Lana and Claire and when he screws up both relationships, a retreat has him be helped by manifestations of Lilith, Diane, his first wife and his mother.
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