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* [[Characters/CheersFrasierCrane Frasier Crane]]

!!Frasier Winslow Crane, M.D.

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->'''Played by''': Creator/KelseyGrammer
->''"Sam, everyone at this bar is on a connecting flight to “Beyond Loony”."''

On ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', Dr. Frasier Crane first appeared in the third season as a new love interest for Diane Chambers. Meeting during her time as a patient in a psychiatric institution, they quickly fall in love and within a year head to Europe for their wedding. However, Diane leaves him at the altar and Frasier returns to Boston humiliated and miserable. After a string of dates that go nowhere, Dr. Crane shares one fateful TV appearance alongside one of those previous bad dates Dr. Lilith Sternin, and after seeing her in a new light, begin a romance that lasts the rest of the series, and they start a family together with their son Frederick.

See [[Characters/{{Frasier}} here]] for his subsequent character development in his SpinOff series, ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' and [[Characters/Frasier2023 here]] for his further development in ''Series/Frasier2023''.

* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: As ''Frasier'' would later reveal, Freud is his childhood hero.
* AllTheOtherReindeer: He gets very tetchy when the subject of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer comes up, insisting that the bullying continued afterwards in a way that's [[SayingTooMuch very suspicious]]...
* AscendedExtra: He was originally meant to be a brief, barely used character. He became so famous that not only did they make him a regular, but he earned himself a spinoff which lasted a whole eleven seasons.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Tries to invoke this by holding Sam up at gunpoint after Diane leaves him at the altar for him. Sam sees right through this though because the gun was visibly not loaded.
* BlatantLies: Insists he's over Diane. Thoroughly over her. ''Completely'' over her.
-->'''Diane:''' ''(as Frasier grips her shoulders)'' Frasier, you're hurting me!\\
'''Frasier:''' Well, you never hurt me, did you?!
* BreakoutCharacter: Holy moly, is he ever. He shows up midway into the series as a clear romantic obstacle for Sam and is a pretty flat character. After Diane breaks up with him, he actually sticks around, and slowly gets fleshed out into the lovable nervous wreck we know and love today. His romance with Lilith forms a major backround StoryArc that lasts several seasons, to the point that their romance arguably takes precedent over Sam's. Of all the characters on the show ''he'' is the one who ends up getting his own spinoff, which in many ways eclipses ''Cheers'' itself in popularity! And all this from a guy who begins his first scene as a background extra before revealing himself!
* ButtMonkey: Getting dumped by Diane at the altar begins a chain of romantic bad luck which lasted (depending on whether you count the marriage to Lilith, and Frasier probably ''does'') through the turn of the millennium.
* CarpetOfVirility: Seen when he takes his shirt off. Frasier's got a very hairy chest on him.
* CharacterisationClickMoment: He begins the series as a stuffy and pompous jerk, and it's not until "Second Time Around" when the Frasier we know and love starts to solidify properly.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** When first introduced, he's got severe problems showing affection in public. By the time he's taken up with Lilith, this is not remotely a problem.
** Similarly, he has a tendency to give off forced laughter. It's not until "Second Time Around" this stops.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Tries to give Carla advice on how to handle [[spoiler:Eddie's]] death, only for it to become clear the good doctor has his own issues with grief he isn't dealing with.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: When Frasier goes out to get revenge, he gets creative. After Diane dumped him, one of his responses was to apparently sign her up to every tape and record club in Boston [[note]]this would be the ones that charge small prices for the first few instalments, then jacked up the prices[[/note]]. And when his fellow psychiatrist Simon Finch-Royce deliberately overcharges him, Frasier makes certain to send Diane in full IRejectYourReality mode after him.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Rare gender inverted version. Hester Crane did ''not'' like Diane, regarding her as a "pseudo-intellectual barmaid", even seriously considering shooting her.
* DodgyToupee: Briefly considers donning one for a date in season 11.
* TheDogBitesBack: In "The Heart Is a Lonely Snipe-Hunter." It is his EstablishingCharacterMoment, and he doesn't do it because he is mean or angry--he accepts being a victim of a snipe hunt because that's what guys ''do'', but screwing the others would also be what guys ''do''. At that moment, Frasier earns some HiddenDepths.
* DrinkBasedCharacterization: Starting off, wine, to show he's classier than the usual clientele of Cheers. He switches to more casual drinks when he's a regular (his spin-off has him switch almost exclusively to sherry).
%%* {{Facepalm}}: All. The. Freaking. ''Time''.
* GreenEyedMonster: For a while, he resented Sam because Diane left Frasier for him--this jealousy even started before the ill-fated marriage proposal, knowing their prior relationship. He got over it though, after hooking up with Lilith.
* HappyEndingOverride: The show ends with him and Lilith tentatively reconciling. By the time ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' begins, they proved unable to work it out and divorced, with Frasier's only word on what happened being that it was "excruciating".
* HatesTheirParent: Through a little {{Retcon}} in his spin-off show, it’s [[Recap/FrasierS02E16TheShowWhereSamShowsUp later revealed]] that Frasier and his father Martin Crane were on extremely poor terms during the later half of this series, which explains his occasional references to his (metaphorically) dead father.
* HenpeckedHusband: Lilith will get her way. No questions asked.
* HeroicBSOD: For the first handful of episodes in Season 4, Frasier is pretty broken up following Diane leaving him. He gets better in "Triangle."
* INeedAFreakingDrink: His first reaction to seeing Diane again? Terror. Then anger. Then demanding hard liquor from Woody.
* IconicSequelCharacter: He is one of the best-known characters on the show, thanks in no small part to his own series that spun off from it, but doesn't appear until the third season. Ironically Frasier was not hugely popular with audiences during his run on ''Cheers'' itself - viewer polls taken after the series finale had aired showed that only 1% of viewers were interested in watching a Frasier-centric spinoff.
* InformedAttribute: At one point Lilith pegs him as having obsessive tendencies. Aside from holding a grudge against Diane, for what even his brother eventually points out is about the most humiliating way to dump a person, this doesn't come up much here. It gets a ''lot'' more focus when he gets his own show.
* InsufferableGenius: Less so than Diane, but it's there. It's part of the reason why he was embraced by the bar patrons (and perhaps the fans as well) much more quickly than Diane was.
* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: Amusingly, the reason Sam knows Frasier isn't about to shoot him isn't because he thinks he's a wimp- it's because he's using a revolver and Sam can easily see that the chambers are empty.
* HiddenDepths: A large part of why the crowd at the bar comes to love him. While on the surface he's a stuck up know-it-all dilletnate with a serious ego problem, on the inside he's just as lonely and desperate for connections as the others. As well, his high-class background also betrays a pretty solid knowledge of men's culture, so once the guys pick up that he's into all the same things they are, they let him into their social circle and he becomes "one of the guys".
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While Frasier is a bit of an InsufferableGenius and was quite bitter after Diane left him at the altar, he does care about his friends and tries to give them legitimate advice for free, such as helping Sam with his sex addiction.
* LargeHam: Not quite as much as he becomes in his own show, but when he gets worked up, sure.
* NotSoAboveItAll: He's got class, but he takes part in his fair share of bar pranks and tomfoolery and no one respects him less for it.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Invokes it when talking about Lilith's mother to the others, much to Lilith's irritation. Then, in season 10, she turns out to be one for real.
* OccidentalOtaku: likes Japanese food and Kurosawa films (at least in his earliest appearances)
* PrimaDonnaDirector: Woe unto he who lets Frasier have a camera. He manages to reduce Kelly to tears after just one take (and this was after several hours dealing with ''Cliff'' being one already).
* RomanticFalseLead: What he starts off as, only intended to be a roadblock for Sam and Diane, but he sticks around and even gets his own SpinOff that lasted 11 seasons.
** When his character was created, the producers envisioned Frasier as "The Creator/RalphBellamy" character who would eventually compete and lose the girl to Sam's Creator/CaryGrant
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: It's his main language, such as using the old yuppie term for shacking up, "POSSLQ".[[note]]'''P'''ersons of '''O'''pposite '''S'''ex '''S'''haring '''L'''iving '''Q'''uarters for those who don't know. It [[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-11-17-tm-6681-story.html originated]] with the 1980 US Census Form, and caught on in the mid-80's.[[/note]]
* ShipTease: Often shown to have an attraction to Rebecca, who doesn't notice him. He actually does nearly sleep with her... [[MomentKiller then Lilith returns]].
* TheShrink: His profession, which he eventually [[Series/{{Frasier}} makes a radio career out of]].
* SophisticatedAsHell: His way of clarifying himself for the lesser-erudite bar patrons.
* {{Spinoff}}: ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' moves to Seattle, where his antics would go on for 11 years.
* StalkerWithACrush: Lilith mentions that between their utterly disastrous first date and their getting together, he stalked her. Fras is unapologetic about this.
* StepfordSmiler: After Lilith leaves him, he pretends to be happy, but can only keep up the façade so long, and it becomes apparent Frasier is actually ''deeply'' heartbroken without her.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Embodies this trope for 20 years.
* TookALevelInBadass: His arc in "The Heart Is A Lonely Snipehunter". This is the episode where he transforms from a kind of lovable goof into "one of the guys".
* TookALevelInJerkass: Diane leaving him at the altar left him quite bitter for a very long time, most notably in Season 4--as indicated by his first exchange with Woody--
--> "Just get me a whiskey, ''punk''!"
* WeightWoe: Starts getting worried about his weight at one point, and hires Sam as a physical trainer. This lasts until Frasier ties Sam up with a jump rope and makes a break for it.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He's jittery about bees. Carla exploits this for maximum evil.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Frasier's mind starts to unravel when he's not getting any. It starts to ''really'' unravel. He even starts getting turned on by wine glasses (it's the curves).
* YouWouldntShootMe: A broken Frasier threatens to kill Sam for ruining his life, but it was really just an attempt to see him quake in his boots.
* {{Yuppie}}: Once he settles into the ensemble, Frasier basically becomes the show's resident yuppie, to contrast with the mostly working-class (Cliff) or older (Norm) clientele of ''Cheers''. His eventual wife Lilith is also a yuppie (though she despises being called that), allowing them to explore many yuppie couple stereotypes (most notably the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSSLQ POSSLQ]] phenomenon in "Dinner at Eight-ish").

!!! Series/{{Wings}} Tropes

* CharacterTitle: “Planes, Trains and Visiting Cranes” is named after both him and Lilith.

!!! ''Mickey’s 60th Birthday'' Tropes

* BirthdayHater: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] when mentioning Rebecca’s sour mood over her birthday, Frasier points out how some people dislike them and would prefer the practice of celebrating it to be abolished.
* ThePianoPlayer: Frasier doesn’t do much in the special beyond accompanying Mickey on piano, playing a ragtime version of “Happy Birthday”.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Frasier doesn’t seem phased at seeing ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' walking into Cheers and ordering a root beer float.
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!!Woodrow Huckleberry Tiberius "Woody" Boyd

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->'''Played by:''' Creator/WoodyHarrelson

Sam's assistant-bartender after Coach passed away. Born and raised in rural Indiana.
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* CoolLoser: Fat, lazy, unmotivated, never pays his tab. Everybody at the bar (and every other bar in Boston) loves the guy.

See [[Characters/{{Frasier}} here]] for his subsequent character development in his SpinOff series, ''Series/{{Frasier}}''.

* OldShame: InUniverse, Diane has many, from PokeThePoodle incidents ("I'll never forget the day I brought home a ''[[DirtyCommunists utopian socialist]]''. Unbelievable--I know! Unbelievable. I was a rebel, then....") to her skill at bowling, which she fears would threaten her "refined" image ("If you utter a ''word'' of this to ''anyone'' who matters, I will ''find'' you--and kill you.").

Former [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} relief-pitcher]] for the [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Boston Red Sox]] and also a recovering alcoholic. Sam bought the bar during his alcoholism and kept running it since. He's in love with Diane and can't admit it.

* HiddenDepths: Carla's a pretty good dancer. Back when she was a teenager, she was even on a TV show about it, and is still a little angry that she was handed her walking papers just for trying to still perform while pregnant.

* BreakoutCharacter: Got his own spinoff, which itself lasted for 11 years.

* CharacterisationClickMoment: It's not until "Second Time Around" when the Frasier we know and love starts to solidify properly.

* {{Manchild}}: As her {{Flanderization}} increases, her emotional and intellectual maturity drop dramatically. In season 11 she has a screaming tantrum in the middle of the bar like a toddler... and her father's only comment is that this was a ''lot'' better than he'd been expecting.

* FraternalTwins: Elvis and Jesse are nonidentical twins.

See [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/Frasier here]] for his subsequent character development in his SpinOff series, ''Series/{{Frasier}}''.

* OffTheWagon: He relapses after he and Diane break up at the end of season two. After several months of drinking, Coach reaches out to Diane to tlak Sam into sobering up again.

* BreakoutCharacter: He's arguably the most popular character on the series after Frasier.

See [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/Frasier here]] for his subsequent character development in ''Series/{{Frasier}}''.

On ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', Dr. Frasier Crane first appeared in the third season as a new love interest for Diane Chambers. Meeting during her time as a patient in a psychiatric institution, they quickly fall in love and within a year head to Europe for their wedding. However, Diane leaves him at the altar and Frasier returns to Boston humiliated and miserable. After a string of dates that go nowhere, Dr. Crane shares one fateful TV appearance alongside one of those previous bad dates Dr. Lilith Sternin, and after seeing her in a new light, begin a romance that lasts the rest of the series, and they start a family together with their son Fredrick.

!!Gui "Eddie" [=LeBec=]

* EmbarrassingFirstName: It's revealed that his first name is Gui (pronounced "gee" with a hard "g") - everyone calls him Eddie because his real name is "too weenie."

--> '''Frasier:''' Well, that's what it's there for, baby...!

--> ''"My father built me an elaborate rec room when I was a child." ''(Sweet smile)'' "My daddy liked me!"''

--> '''Diane:''' ''[SMACKS counter]'' '''''[[DeathGlare Love...bunny?!?]]'''''\\

--> "How ''could'' you? After ''all we've been through''...! What we had together was ''real''--and ''special''--and now you've...''cheapened it'' for--all eternity--by broadcasting to the entire Boston Metropolitan ''Area''!--that I was...nothing but--[[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness an odelisk! In your...seraglio!]]"

--> '''Sam:''' ''(On why their Season 2 relationship "never worked")'' It's because you always had to have the last say. You always had to be on top--and you're still doing it! You know, you are just as competitive as I am.
--> '''Diane:''' ''ME''? I'm not ''competitive''! ...I'm intense.

-->'''Diane:''' Well... No, I would never prostitute my talents that way.\\

-->'''Carla:''' There's only been one form of birth control that's ever worked for me and it makes me sick to my stomach.\\

--> "Oh, it's a dog-eat-dog world, Sammy. And I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear."

--->'''Cliff:''' How was I?\\

* RatedMForManly: The reason the male patrons look up to him as their inspiration.

* WomenAreDelicate: For better and for worse. Practically everything about Diane is ''immensely'' feminine. So naturally she falls for a tall, [[RatedMForManly strong-built and stronger-willed sports jock]] [[OppositesAttract who's the opposite of her]] [[MarsAndVenusGenderContrast in so many ways]]...