History Frasier / TropesNToS

** The A-plot in that same episode also qualifies. Daphne looking through Niles' briefcase and reading his patient files isn't treated as a quirky bit of comedic jealousy - Niles is ''furious'' with her for breaching his patient's trust and privacy, as well as [[WhatTheHellHero giving the implication that Daphne doesn't trust him either.]]

* NamesTheSame: Daphne refers to both Frasier and Niles as "Dr. Crane". This gets them all into trouble when she overhears that "Dr. Crane" loves her and she thinks it's Frasier.

** Mild example, but in Season 8 Frasier acts exaggeratedly affronted by his boss - who has copied the look and furniture of Frasier's apartment - getting his apartment featured in a magazine. However, in Season 6 when Frasier's fans visit him in his apartment, they refer to a past magazine feature of the apartment which seems to have been quite detailed as they know the names of Daphne, Martin and Niles thanks to the article.

* RagingStiffie: In "Frasier Gotta Have It", after Daphne tells a story of naked sunbathing and having sex with a fireman, Niles carefully stands up, and cautiously leaves Frasier's apartment without a word.

* OneSteveLimit: For a while, Daphne knew the men on the show as Dr. Crane, Dr. Crane and Mr. Crane. The RunningGag of this confusion culminated in one episode, when she overhears Frasier admit that he loves her (platonically) and would miss her if she moved out and Martin confirms that he's in love with her, thinking that by 'Dr. Crane' she meant ''Niles''.\\

** Niles himself was never mentioned or even hinted at during all Frasier's time on ''Cheers''.

* StockEpisodeTitles: Frequently played with, e.g. "My Coffee With Niles" and "Guess Who's Coming to Breakfast?"

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Dr. Nora, an unusually thin and UpToEleven StrawmanPolitical parody of Dr. Laura and the small controversy about her qualifications. Dr. Nora's advice mostly consisted of telling her callers that they're sinners who are going to hell, and Frasier eventually learns her doctorate is in P.E. The station keeps her on because her polarizing personality is attracting listeners, until an attempt at goodwill by Frasier drives her away.

* RoomShuffle: A staple, in various forms. A few plots take it UpToEleven;

** Taken UpToEleven in "Daphne Does Dinner", which begins in the wreck of Frasier and Niles' latest attempt to throw a dinner party: Niles is extinguishing a man's burning hairpiece, one of Frasier's guests is storming out after Frasier pretended (falsely) to have Tourette's Syndrome, the chef tells Frasier to never contact him again, and Martin enters wearing a sash and pretending with a bad Italian accent to be a count. The audience could ask the Crane Brothers to explain [[HowWeGotHere how the hell we got here]], but then... [[YouDoNotWantToKnow they would]].

* RousingSpeech: In Frasier's mind EVERY speech and piece of advice he has given fits, but often other characters will just tell him to be quiet. Sometimes played straight.
** It's played especially straight in the last episode.

* PrimaDonnaDirector: Frasier becomes one during the "Nightmare Inn" incident. His constant critiques drive the voice actor he hired for the smaller parts to quit during the rehearsal. Niles, who predicted this would happen as soon as he heard about the play, is drafted as the actor's replacement and by the intermission is threatening to walk out because of Frasier's behavior.

* PunBasedTitle: Lots of episodes. A [[{{Feghoot}} particularly contrived example]] is the one where Roz works in a retirement home and is traumatized when two of the residents drop dead right in front of her, titled "[[Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead Roz's Krantz and Gouldenstein are Dead]]".

* ReclusiveArtist: In-universe example in "A Crane's Critique", which centers around Martin befriending an acclaimed OneBookAuthor, and his sons trying vainly to get on the man's good side (and of course, making him [[DiggingYourselfDeeper hate them more with every attempt]]). When he and Martin go to Duke's, Frasier remarks, "They'll probably bump into Creator/JDSalinger and Creator/SalmanRushdie and go out for margaritas!" Ultimately, [[spoiler:they unintentionally convince him his new book is derivative and he destroys it.]]

* RightThroughTheWall: At least twice; once when Daphne is talking about how she shut up her loud neighbors by faking sex noises, and once when Frasier ''thinks'' Lilith is having sex in the next room, so moans and jumps on the bed so she thinks his sex is hotter than hers.

--->"I have to go, or my compulsive gamblers will start betting the passive aggressive's that they can't make... the overeaters....... cry."

** In one episode, Niles recognizes the plumber who comes round to fix his toilet as a guy who bullied him at school, and Frasier advises him to settle the matter peacefully. He gives the affable ex-bully EpiphanyTherapy that reveals his FreudianExcuse and elicits a tearful apology. Meanwhile, Frasier recognizes the plumber's brother as the guy who bullied ''him'', and as the guy obliviously recounts all the pranks he played on his personal ButtMonkey at school, Frasier gets angrier and angrier until he eventually [[HypocriticalHumor dunks the guy's head down the toilet]].

* SlobsVersusSnobs: A lot of the friction between Martin and his sons comes from his down-to-earth demeanor contrasted with their haughty, status-seeking attitudes. Over time some of their differences were resolved.

* StickyFingers: In one episode, the thrill with which a kleptomaniac caller describes her, ah, hobby, inspires Frasier, bored of his routine existence, to steal a medallion from his elderly neighbor while changing a lightbulb for her.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: A mainstay throughout the serie's run.

* NoAntagonist: The show never had a BigBad and no ArcVillain due to StatusQuoIsGod and NegativeContinuity, with much of the conflict coming from the brothers' misunderstanding of things or getting into arguments with people; at best, there were VillainyFreeVillain characters and jackass and asshole-types rather than truly evil characters, perhaps due to the show's GreyVsGrey or ALighterShadeOfGrey morality it had and the fact it wasn't set in a CrapsackWorld setting, although at times it fell into WhiteAndGreyMorality or GoodVsGood depending on the season or episode.

* PhallicWeapon: See Freud Was Right above, when Frasier accuses Niles of using antique purchases to deflect his sexual frustration. Niles is defensive, but then considers that one of his purchases was a Civil War era ramrod, and concedes that Frasier may have a point.

* RightBehindMe: several variations

--->'''Frasier''': You know how she is, get her off on one of her tangents and yak-yak-yak-yak!\\''(Roz emerges from the powder room behind him and closes the door.)''\\'''Frasier''': And yet she makes every story so interesting I could listen to her for hours...

--->'''Frasier''': You're jealous that I'm having sex! You're jealous that I'm having hot, passionate, sweaty, jungle sex! What are you having?!\\
'''Niles''': ''(to the waitress standing right behind Frasier)'' I'm having a latte.\\''Cue Frasier's OhCrapFace.''