Line #15 Fridge/Frasier


1	FridgeLogic in ''Series/{{Frasier}}''.
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4	* When Creator/PatrickStewart shows up and falls for Frasier, with Frasier becoming a bit of a gold digger. When Frasier tries to clear it up Patrick Stewart tries to seduce him with time in his Villa in Capri. Patrick Stewart played Sejanus in ''Series/IClaudius'', who controlled access to the Emperor's decadent Villa in Capri.
5	* The names of two of Frasier's coworkers being Roz and Gil [[Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead suddenly became funny]].
6	* Martin's characterization as a grumpy, bitter, insecure old has-been in season 1 looks like a case of CharacterizationMarchesOn when in later seasons he was characterized as terminally cheerful, flippant and deadpan, and unwilling to let anything rattle him. But this later characterization can be explained as being his "original" personality all along — his demeanor in season 1 could easily be explained away as temporary depression due to his career-ending injury, on top of being bitter over his recently deceased wife and distant sons.
7	* In the season 10 finale, Roz hates Frasier's new girlfriend Julia and thinks she's all wrong for him, which causes Frasier and her to get into a big fight. After accusations about trust and loyalty have been hurled back and forth, Roz tells Frasier that if he doesn't trust her judgment and dump Julia, she'll walk out of his life. In response, Frasier loftily stalks over to Julia, puts his arm around her, and glares at Roz. Frasier's response seems rather out of character, but then again, Frasier is the man who sustained a close bond with his brother despite having [[ManipulativeBastard Maris]] [[RichBitch Crane]] as a sister-in-law for fifteen years -- he's the very last person in the world who you should ''ever'' try the "I don't like her, so dump her or we're through" line on.
8	* Rather unfortunate accidental shout-out -- Hester Crane cheated on Martin. She happens to share a name with one of the most famous female adulterers in literature: Hester Prynne of ''Literature/TheScarletLetter''.
9	** In fact, a sympathetic adulteress with an absent husband who's subsequently redeemed by a lifetime of good works. Martin himself points out that he "wasn't the easiest person to live with back then", and Frasier comes to terms with the fact that his mother had flaws in her past, but was still the good person he remembered.
10	** Her ImagineSpot self in "Don Juan In Hell" makes apparent her KnightTemplarParent character in ''Cheers'' was ''not'' EarlyInstalmentWeirdness, though she treats her threatening of Diane as an obviously empty threat that Diane took far too seriously. Her wording however ("I have a gun, I know how to use it!") sounds noticably similar to an iconically pathetic threat by her son, Niles in "Shrink Rap" ("I have made a fist, and I'm thinking of using it!"), just, unlike Frasier in that case, Diane isn't acquainted enough with Hester to know she was just dealing with a pompous psychiatrist trying desperately to claim territory. Indeed, Frasier imagines Diane, if given full knowledge of Hester, to simply bicker and squabble with her in the same mutually-petty manner Frasier and Niles normally do. Again, that his mother was flawed but ultimately harmless.
11	* There's a bit of poetry from the events of the episode "Liar! Liar!": In the episode, Frasier feels guilty over accidentally leading an old bully down a life of crime by, in prep school, blaming him for his and Niles setting off a fire alarm to avoid the presidential fitness test. He decides to help him with his marriage by counseling his wife, and eventually ends up trapped in the man's room while they're about to have sex. How did he get out of the situation? By setting off the fire alarm, which the former bully assumes his wife did. The irony isn't remarked upon in the episode itself, but its very clear on reflection.
12	* The episode "Dad Loves Sherry, the Boys Just Whine" ends with the three Crane men having a bitter argument over how whenever one of them has a LoveInterest the other two have never been able to stand her. The series ends with all three men in a happy relationship with a woman that each of the other two likes.
13	* "The Impossible Dream" has Frasier's subconscious invent a homoerotic dream for him to interpret because all of his calls at work are boring him so much. Once he figures this out, UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud shows up to congratulate him... then slips into bed with Frasier. Frasier may have solved the puzzle, but he's still bored overall.
14	* In the episode "Perfect Guy," Frasier is continually irritated by a coworker who appears to be perfect in every way, only to finally be satisfied to learn that the man is a [[HollywoodToneDeaf terrible singer]]. But to look at the man's actual behavior--jumping in unasked to correct Frasier's joke at a party, cutting into Frasier's conversation with his date when he heard Frasier speaking Mandarin and showing him up, ruining a months-long chess game Frasier had going by telling him (albeit accidentally) that he was already losing, and just generally overshadowing Frasier with his achievements--would be pretty rude if not for his amiable attitude through the episode. One way this can be interpreted is that the man is not only a tone deaf singer, but ''socially'' tone deaf as well.
15	* Niles's status as a [[RememberTheNewGuy New Guy]], given Frasier was at Cheers for several years and apparently never mentioned him, and he met Diane while she and Fras were engaged. Several episodes make it clear the Cheers gang tended to ignore most of what Frasier says anyhow, and as for [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Diane]]... well, the same, but more so. Knowing Diane, who never had a single unexpressed thought in her life, she probably did try to tell Sam all about her meeting with Frasier's younger brother and his bizarre sorbet-devouring girlfriend, and Sam just utterly ignored her.
16	* The jaunty seconds-long themes which open each episode sound rather like radio jingles. Fitting, for a show about a radio presenter.
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19	* In ''The Two-Hundredth Episode'', Frasier meets a man named Tom who is ''obsessed'' with him and his show, replacing his entire Seattle skyline window with his pictures, having quit his job so he wouldn't miss the show (becoming a doorman instead) and having every single one of Frasier's shows on tape. Frasier leaves without helping him. Now, the finale of the show revolves around Frasier completing his last show. Hopefully Tom has moved on by then, because otherwise he's sure going to have a rough time when he has ''nothing else in his life but Frasier's show and now it's over''.
20	* Yes, watching Niles struggle with his kite on Frasier's balcony (in the episode "Docu.Drama") is hilarious, but he comes close to being yanked onto the sidewalk from 19 stories up...
21	* No matter what your feelings are about Julia, it is worth noting that a medical doctor, a healthcare worker, and a retired police officer all sat there for several seconds unwilling to help a woman who was choking. Daphne only starts to get up after Martin and Niles pass the buck to her via eye-movement, and Frasier moves ''much'' quicker when he realizes she was actually choking. It's played for laughs as a joke on how horrible Julia is, but in a real life situation that kind of hesitation could have meant the difference between Julia storming out or leaving in an ambulance.
22	** Or that could be the exact retribution they saw fit. It's noticeable that there is a delay in any of the audience laughing at this point (which indicates they didn't refilm until another audience ''did'' end up laughing), and as a result it becomes hardly surprising how Frasier reacts at the end of the episode. [[spoiler: Frasier had been suppressing ill-feeling towards her because otherwise, he thought his standards were unrealistic. Then, it only took her insulting one of his bathroom towels for him to roar "GET OUT!!!"]].
23	* In addition to Martin and Frasier's InUniverse Fridge Horror in "Dial M for Martin" that Niles may be subconsciously trying to hurt his father, the end of the episode can be interpreted as implying that Daphne wants to stay in the Crane household so much that she unconsciously kicked away Martin's cane just as Niles may have done earlier. If Frasier's theory is correct, then that means she's subconsciously willing to ''harm a patient'' to satisfy her own emotional needs. Now consider that she specializes in providing live-in help to the elderly and infirm, that she's also spent decades repressing a HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood, and that she's apparently lost more patients than she could count...
24	* In "Room Full Of Heroes", while imitating Martin (who he's dressed as), Niles goes on and on about how "he" considers his sons "failures and disappointments". Yet he came to the party dressed as him. So despite genuinely believing that his father thinks he's a failure, Niles still considers him his hero. If he didn't dress up like Martin just to suck up to him, it says a lot about how Niles sees himself and his own life.
25	** Given that Martin often says things that indicate he ''is'' rather ashamed of his sons' CampStraight interests and activities, at one point saying "there's no way you can finish that sentence that'll make me proud," Niles is not as far off the mark as it might seem. In fact, that may very well be the point. Martin may have only gotten that upset because he's having his behavior thrown back into his face.
26	* Imagine if one of the drivers behind Frasier in "Enemy At The Gate" were on their way to the emergency room or rushing to tend to a sick/injured child. This only compounds the jerkassery of Frasier's behavior in this episode.
27	** On the other hand, Frasier's pompous and tends to make mountains out of molehills, but he's not a complete sociopath. He's demonstrated sufficient compassion and concern for others that if made aware of the fact that someone behind him was in urgent need of help or medical attention, he'd adjust his priorities and act accordingly. So since it doesn't happen, it's fairly safe to assume that the worst thing the people behind him in that queue experienced was nothing more than a frustrating delay.
28	** Frasier points out in the episode that there's another lane that's still open and that only takes an extra two seconds to drive through. If such a situation were to occur they could get past him easy, it'd just be inconvenient.
29	* Martin's dismissiveness of forgery/fraud in Season 1's "The Crucible" is a bit unnerving when you consider that he was a police detective. He basically says that white collar crime is not worth punishing, and getting ripped off is just part of life sometimes. That's certainly not an attitude I'd want my police force to espouse.
30	* ViewersAreGeniuses is taken up a notch in "Murder Most Maris" as Niles relays Maris' explanation of why she had a crossbow. Not only is it obvious that as an art appreciator ''he knows it's bullshit'', but when Frasier joins in, it's clear ''so does he''. About the only fact in the whole discussion is that there really is a ''Martyrdom of St. Ursula'' painting with Attila the Hun in it (he has an ordinary bow, and the picture was done 300 years before the Nazarene art movement existed).
31	** That Maris was being abused by her new boyfriend and accidentally murdered him is mostly sourced from her. Knowing Maris herself is an abusive spouse and reacts extremely irrationally to even the pettiest of backlash or critique of any kind, there is of course some dubious nature to this story, with either way the end result being that Maris, intentionally or not, murdered someone for giving her ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine. One has to wonder what risk Niles was in if he had been even a little more abrasive around her.
32	* When Bulldog mentions his first time was with a hooker his father hired when he was 16, and then somberly notes the irony that "all [he] wanted as a bike," it's PlayedForLaughs in contrast to Bulldog's currently very sexual lifestyle. But it can easily lend to the interpretation that Bulldog [[{{Pun}} hounds]] after women ''because'' his father [[RapeByProxy made him sleep with an older woman before he was even old enough to give consent]], as in real life hypersexuality is a trait sometimes exhibited by victims of sexual abuse. Another character early on also supposes Bulldog is overcompensating for closeted homosexuality, which combined with this ostensibly amusing anecdote can also paint an uglier picture of why Bulldog's dad got his teenaged son a hooker for his birthday.
33	** Given the age of consent in Washington State is 16, this is less RapeByProxy and more just a very inappropriate gift (c.f. The Breakfast Club)

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