History Trivia / Frasier

** Jane Leeves' husband, Marshall Coben, played Roz's boyfriend in Season 7 episode "Big Crane on Campus".

** In Season 5's episode "Room Service", when Eddie responds to Lilith's greeting by immediately running away, Bebe Neuwirth puts her hand over her face and is clearly struggling to stifle laughter as the shot cuts away to Frasier and Niles.

** In Season 5's episode "Room Service", when Eddie responds to Lilith's greeting by immediately running away, Bebe Neuwirth puts her hand over her face and is clearly struggling to stifle laughter.

** "Dr. Nora" was pulled from syndication packages after the real Dr. Laura Schlessinger complained. Ironically, it wasn't herself being parodied that Schlessinger took issue with - rather, it was the show taking on her mother, who she viewed as being off-limits due to not being a public figure. The episode ''has'' since reappeared on cable and on Netflix.

*** Two of the other concepts for Frasier involved a workplace comedy based entirely around Frasier working at KACL, and Frasier, Lilith, and Frederick living in Boston as a family comedy.

* ReferencedBy: In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E16BrotherFromAnotherSeries "Brother from Another Series"]] constantly riffs on the fact that both Creator/KelseyGrammer and Creator/DavidHydePierce play another set of snooty, bickering brothers -- in this case, Bob and Cecil Terwilliger. Multiple references to the show dot the episode, most prominently a mock intertitle that reads "''Frasier'' is a hit show on the NBC television network."

* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/MercedesRuehl, in a case of LifeImitatesArt, did ''not'' get along with Creator/KelseyGrammer. Being primarily a stage and film actress, getting used to the rigors of a weekly sitcom production schedule was a challenge for her, and she resented the pull Grammer had with producers, which he was ''not'' shy about exercising. She once snidely remarked to him "You know, I've decided if I could be anyone in the world, I would want to be you". Some reports have Ruehl leaving the show earlier than producers had originally planned as a result of her unhappiness on-set.

* HypotheticalCasting: Creator/JuliaDuffy expressed interest in playing Maris before it was decided to have the character remain unseen, while Creator/DavidHydePierce suggested Creator/ValerieMahaffey (his co-star in ''Series/ThePowersThatBe1992'' for the part. (Mahaffey would eventually make a guest appearance, though not as Maris.)

* HypotheticalCasting: Creator/JuliaDuffy expressed interest in playing Maris before it was decided to have the character remain unseen, while Creator/DavidHydePierce suggested Creator/ValerieMahaffey for the part.

** Kate Costas was supposed to be a longer lasting character, however Mercedes Ruhl didn't want to do it long term, so she was written off the show.
** When Kate Costas (Mercedes Ruhl) was written out early in the third season, the door was left open for her possible return, which ultimately never happened.

* TheWikiRule: The [[https://frasier.fandom.com/wiki/Frasier_Wiki Frasier Wiki]].

** In the Season 6 episode where Maris attempts to woo Niles back with expensive gifts, there's a scene at Café Nervosa where Martin tells Niles that Eddie gets excited/scared of the sound of bubblewrap - which he demonstrates by saying "poppity-pop-pop-pop!" very fast. If you look at the woman (Tina Dalton) in the background, you can see that she smiles wide after each "poppity-pop-pop".
** In the episode "Roz and the Schnoz," the characters are forced to struggle desperately to keep it together to avoid offending their guests by laughing at their {{Gag Nose}}s. The episode's director Ken Levine has admitted some EnforcedMethodActing was in play: He instructed the camera crew to keep their shot rolling on any actor who started losing it. Both of the actors playing the huge-nosed characters crack up a bit when they say that they have "two giant schnauzers".

* HideYourPregnancy: Jane Leeves got pregnant late in the show's run and it was written as Daphne becoming fat due to compulsive eating, complete with a FatSuit. She left the series to have the baby, by having Daphne going away to a spa in order to lose the weight (with the in-joke that Niles went to see her there, and she had "just lost 9 pounds, 12 ounces"). Lampshaded in the episode that establishes her as a nervous overeater (before the pregnancy itself was showing);

** Frasier's brother Niles wasn't in the original concept and hadn't been mentioned on ''Cheers''. The inspiration for the character came after the producers saw a headshot of David Hyde Pierce and noted his brotherly resemblance to Kelsey Grammer. According to Christopher Lloyd, prior to discovering Pierce, they’d considered giving Frasier a sister instead. They had also considered making him an Only child, which was implied during cheers

** In his first appearance in season three, Frederick Crane was played by Luke Tarsitano. Trevor Einhorn assumed the role from season four onwards (not counting the twins who took turns playing him on ''Cheers'').

** Frasier's brother Niles wasn't in the original concept and hadn't been mentioned on ''Cheers''. The inspiration for the character came after the producers saw a headshot of David Hyde Pierce and noted his brotherly resemblance to Kelsey Grammer. According to Christopher Lloyd, prior to discovering Pierce, they’d considered giving Frasier a sister instead.

** Frederick Crane was played by two different child actors on this show (not counting the twins who took turns playing him on ''Cheers'').