Line #58 Series/Frasier


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5	[[caption-width-right:350:Ever wonder why he became a psychiatrist? Spend a day with his family.[[note]]Top to bottom behind [[ProtagonistTitle Frasier]]'s door: [[ReallyGetsAround Roz]], [[CampStraight Niles]], [[NiceGirl Daphne]], [[RetiredBadass Martin]], [[SilentSnarker Eddie]]. Not pictured: [[TheGhost Maris]].[[/note]]]]
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7	->''"Hey baby, I hear the blues a-calling''\
8	''Tossed salads and scrambled eggs''\
9	''Mercy!/Oh, my!/Quite stylish...!''\
10	''And maybe I seem a bit confused''\
11	''Yeah, maybe--but I got you pegged!''\
12	''Ha-ha-haa!''\
13	''But I don't know what to do''\
14	''With those tossed salads and scrambled eggs....''\
15	''They're calling again.''"
16	-->-- '''Creator/KelseyGrammer''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DeQDv7P3QY "Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs"]], [[DoItYourselfThemeTune closing theme]]
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18	A SpinOff of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' airing on Creator/{{NBC}} from 1993–2004, in which psychiatrist [[Characters/CheersFrasierCrane Dr. Frasier Crane]] (Creator/KelseyGrammer) has moved back to his home town of UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} to take a job as a radio shrink on KACL in order to put his life back together after divorcing his wife Lilith (Creator/BebeNeuwirth).
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20	In the pilot, Frasier's father Martin (Creator/JohnMahoney), a down-to-earth, blue-collar, easygoing man [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon as different from his pompous, stuffy, intellectual son as it is possible to be]], is forced to move in with Frasier following his retirement from the Seattle police force after being shot in the hip, providing the setting for the rest of the show.
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22	In addition to Frasier and Martin, the rest of the main cast includes Roz Doyle (Creator/PeriGilpin), Frasier's sharp-tongued, upbeat producer, who is notorious for her [[GoodBadGirl healthy sex life]] and who soon becomes [[LikeBrotherAndSister his best friend]]; Frasier's brother Niles (Creator/DavidHydePierce), also a psychiatrist with a personality and line of interests very similar to those of his brother, with whom he shares a [[HeterosexualLifePartners close-knit]] but [[SiblingRivalry intensely competitive]] relationship, who was a frequent visitor to the apartment and a companion in most of Frasier's complicated escapades; and Martin's physical therapist and housekeeper, [[TheCutie cheerful]], eccentric [[TheHeart young Englishwoman]] Daphne Moon (Creator/JaneLeeves). Martin's deceptively intelligent Jack Russell terrier Eddie, Frasier's coworkers at KACL, and Niles's [[TheGhost unseen but outlandish]] wife Maris were the final touches to the core cast, which remained intact and unchanged throughout all eleven seasons of the show's run. Dan Butler, who played [[TestosteronePoisoning Testosterone Poisoned]] sports show host Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe, was listed in the opening credits for seasons 4 through 6, but was billed as a guest star for all other appearances.
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24	The series was able to run contrary to almost every other sitcom ever made by having two wealthy, snobbish milquetoasts as its main characters, who clash with the Average Joes and blue-collar slobs that make up the rest of the ensemble. The emphasis was on understatement and taste: the show used title cards in place of establishing shots, was one of the first sitcoms to completely dispose of the SentimentalMusicCue, had an opening theme[[note]] Or, rather, several different opening themes used on a rotating basis.[[/note]] only ''a few seconds long'' (with the cast credits running amid the opening sequence)[[note]]which, back then, was seen as novel, but these days, is fairly common[[/note]], and wasn't afraid to mix up highbrow wordplay and regular old humor. The show's brand of humor was wry and highly {{farc\|e}}ical, delighting in turning regular situations into ludicrously convoluted disasters while making hay out of the clash of inflexible opinions, class and cultural stereotypes, and strong, differing personalities. Also contributing to the show's enjoyability is that fact that many episodes end happily, with all confusion totally cleared up -- although there are plenty of disastrous and bittersweet endings as well.
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26	The show ran on {{Irony}} in all its forms, especially in the premise of a brilliant psychiatrist who can analyze and solve anyone's problems, but [[TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes cannot for the life of him deal with his familial relationships]], the bizarre situations he always gets himself into, or his own personal neuroses. For obvious reasons, psychological issues, mind games and behavioral patterns were major themes throughout the show and a source of much humor, as were the presence of family and the dynamics of parental and sibling relationships. The plots of the episodes usually revolved around Frasier or the other main characters accidentally overcomplicating their own or each other's crises, powered by a sitcom-standard mix-and-match of SnowballLie, FawltyTowersPlot, ContrivedCoincidence, and the entire gamut of MistakenForIndex; but usually developed in a far more intricate, subtle and sophisticated manner than most sitcoms, frequently subverting the very tropes they made heavy use of.
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28	Over the years, notable CharacterDevelopment occurred for all five main characters. The cast became more understanding and close-knit, Frasier's relationship with Martin improved drastically after they started living together, Frasier started a quest for a meaningful relationship, Niles and Maris divorced, and Roz got pregnant and became a single mother halfway through the show. However, the most notable story arc was the drawn-out, heartfelt WillTheyOrWontThey between a blissfully ObliviousToLove Daphne and a shyly adoring Niles who carried a silent torch for her for seven years. They had to go through a whole cavalcade of complications and roadblocks before finally confessing their love for each other and getting together at the end of season 7.
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30	The show won 37 Emmy Awards, a record bested only by ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' (50) and ''Series/GameOfThrones'' (38), and notably ran for a grand-slam ''eleven'' seasons, matching or exceeding its predecessor ''Cheers'' in length and acclaim. Other than ''Entertainment Tonight'', ''Frasier'' was the last show produced by Creator/{{Paramount}} Television in production from when the studio's parent company was Paramount Communications, much like how its parent series was the last show other than ''ET'' from the "[[Main/VanityPlate Blue Mountain]]" era still producing new episodes when it ended in 1993.
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32	A [[Series/Frasier2023 sequel series]], released October 13th, 2023 on Creator/ParamountPlus, has Frasier return to Boston and move in with his since-estranged son Frederick, now a down-to-earth, blue-collar, easygoing man who goes by Freddy. Grammer reprises his role, making him the only regular cast member to do so, though Bebe Neuwirth and Peri Gilpin have made guest appearances.
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35	!!TV Tropes all ''over'' my face! What ''is'' a Troper to do?
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37	[[index]]
38	* [[Frasier/TropesAtoG Tropes A to G]]
39	* [[Frasier/TropesHtoM Tropes H to M]]
40	* [[Frasier/TropesNtoS Tropes N to S]]
41	* [[Frasier/TropesTtoZ Tropes T to Z]]
42	[[/index]]
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