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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Niles to Frasier, "You're not famous anymore!" Cue Frasier just bursting in tears.
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* BigEater: Frasier stuffs his face with food when he falls into a depression.
* BlatantLies: Frasier saying he put on only a pound or two, and can control his eating habits, while in "Depression". Then Roz puts on the video showing him eating baby Alice's food.
* BlatantLies: Frasier saying he put on only a pound or two, and can control his eating habits, while in "Depression". Then Roz puts on the video showing him eating baby Alice's food.
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* BigEater: Frasier stuffs his face with food when he falls into a depression.
depression. Going as far as to eat baby Alice's food when he's babysitting her.
* BlatantLies: Frasier saying he put on only a pound or two, and can control his eating habits, while in "Depression". Then Roz puts on the video showing him eating baby Alice'sfood.food and drinking her apple juice.
* BlatantLies: Frasier saying he put on only a pound or two, and can control his eating habits, while in "Depression". Then Roz puts on the video showing him eating baby Alice's
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* BrutalHonesty: As Frasier still refuses to cry, Niles delivers to Frasier the harsh truth about him losing his job and not being famous anymore. As harsh as it was, it helps Frasier finally cry and accept reality.
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* OhCrap: Everyone in the apartment when Frasier finally cries and just won't stop crying.
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* OhCrap: OhCrap:
** Everyone in the apartment when Frasier finally cries and just won't stopcrying.crying.
** When Frasier starts unleashing his fury on a pinata, all the parents and their birthday kids in attendance immediately back away.
** Everyone in the apartment when Frasier finally cries and just won't stop
** When Frasier starts unleashing his fury on a pinata, all the parents and their birthday kids in attendance immediately back away.
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* RuleOfThree: Frasier is heard beginning to sob in the kitchen, causing Martin, Daphne, Niles and Roz to question the noise. As Frasier tells them there's a freshly prepared Monty Cristo sandwich made, he begins to sob a second time as his feelings are coming to the surface. Just as he falsely assures he is fine, Niles tells Frasier that he is not famous anymore and this makes Frasier break down crying for the third time. And not stop.
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* FiveStagesOfGrief: Basically the whole episode is about Frasier going through these.
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* FiveStagesOfGrief: Basically the whole episode is about Frasier going through these. The episode ends with the implication that Niles is going through them regarding his divorce from Maris by flashing the "Denial" card after he says he thinks it's going smoothly.
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* PaintingTheFourthWall: This was the first episode to air after ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' ended, taking it's former time slot. The very first scene has Frasier looking like he's addressing the audience, but he's actually auditioning for a new job as a TV host for a show called Medical Minute.
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* PaintingTheFourthWall: This was the first episode to air after ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' ended, taking it's its former time slot. The very first scene has Frasier looking like he's addressing the audience, but he's actually auditioning for a new job as a TV host for a show called Medical Minute.
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* LoopholeAbuse: While discussing the "Bargaining" stage with Niles, Martin admits that he bargained with God that he'd never drink another bottle of Valentine's if he survived his injuries. When Niles points out that he still drinks Valentine's, Martin states that he no longer does so from bottles.
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* LoopholeAbuse: While discussing the "Bargaining" stage with Niles, Martin admits that he bargained with God that he'd never drink another bottle of Valentine's Ballentine's if he survived his injuries. When Niles points out that he still drinks Valentine's, Ballentine's, Martin states that he no longer does so from bottles.''bottles''.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: While at the picnic party he's hosting, Frasier finds out that Kenny was reappointed his old job, which leads to Kenny mentioning an old poster of a previous broadcaster that was found during the station's clean-up. When Frasier wonders what happened to said broadcaster, Kenny says that he doesn't know either, since it's so easy for people like that to be completely forgotten about the second they're no longer on the air...and then he leaves without realizing how incensed this has made Frasier.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: While at the picnic party he's hosting, Frasier finds out that Kenny was reappointed his old job, which leads to job. Kenny then gifts Frasier with a poster he removed from a bus stop, mentioning an old older poster of a previous broadcaster that was found during the station's clean-up.underneath. When Frasier wonders what happened to said broadcaster, Kenny says that he doesn't know either, since it's so easy for people like that to be completely forgotten about the second they're no longer on the air...and then he leaves without realizing how incensed this has made Frasier.
* LoopholeAbuse: While discussing the "Bargaining" stage with Niles, Martin admits that he bargained with God that he'd never drink another bottle of Valentine's if he survived his injuries. When Niles points out that he still drinks Valentine's, Martin states that he no longer does so from bottles.
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* TemptingFate: Frasier's display of "Anger" occurs when he's talking with Roz at a picnic party he's hosting about how they're at least still doing better than former coworkers like Gil, only for Gil to announce his recent hiring.
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* TemptingFate: Frasier's display of "Anger" occurs when he's talking with Roz at a picnic party he's hosting about how they're at least still doing better than former coworkers like Gil, only for Gil to announce his recent hiring.hiring (at a station Frasier had applied to himself). [[BerserkButton This immediately leads Frasier to obliterate a pinata with a stick and his bare hands]].
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* BrickJoke: At the start of the episode, Martin tried and fails to get Eddie to play dead when he aims a finger gun and says "It's all over". At the end, when Frasier admits his grief and how it's all over for him, Eddie successfully does the trick.
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* BerserkButton: Losing the talk show job to Gil causes Frasier to go nuts.
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* EarWorm: Martin gets one of the songs from Frasier's operetta stuck in his head. He doesn't realise he's been singing it to himself until Niles points it out to him.
* FatSuit: Kelsey Grammer wore padding under his costume to portray Frasier's depression-induced weight gain.
* FatSuit: Kelsey Grammer wore padding under his costume to portray Frasier's depression-induced weight gain.
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* EarWorm: Martin gets one of the songs from Frasier's operetta stuck in his head. He doesn't realise realize he's been singing it to himself until Niles points it out to him.
* FatSuit: Kelsey Grammer wore padding under hiscostume shirt to portray Frasier's depression-induced weight gain.
* FatSuit: Kelsey Grammer wore padding under his
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* PaintingTheFourthWall: This was the first episode to air after ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' ended, taking it's former time slot. The very first scene has Frasier looking like he's addressing the audience, but he's actually auditioning for a new job as a TV host for a show called Medical Minute.
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* EarWorm: Martin gets one of the songs from Frasier's operetta stuck in his head. He doesn't realise he's been singing it to himself until Niles points it out to him.
* FatSuit: Kelsey Grammer wore padding under his costume to portray Frasier's depression-induced weight gain.
* FatSuit: Kelsey Grammer wore padding under his costume to portray Frasier's depression-induced weight gain.
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* FiveStagesOfGrief: Basically the whole episode is about Frasier going through these.
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* BigEater: Frasier stuffs how s face with food when he falls into a depression.
* BlatantLies: Frasier saying he put on only a pound or two. Then Roz puts on the video showing him eating baby Alice's food.
* BlatantLies: Frasier saying he put on only a pound or two. Then Roz puts on the video showing him eating baby Alice's food.
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* BigEater: Frasier stuffs how s his face with food when he falls into a depression.
* BlatantLies: Frasier saying he put on only a pound ortwo.two, and can control his eating habits, while in "Depression". Then Roz puts on the video showing him eating baby Alice's food.
* BlatantLies: Frasier saying he put on only a pound or
* InnocentlyInsensitive: While at the picnic party he's hosting, Frasier finds out that Kenny was reappointed his old job, which leads to Kenny mentioning an old poster of a previous broadcaster that was found during the station's clean-up. When Frasier wonders what happened to said broadcaster, Kenny says that he doesn't know either, since it's so easy for people like that to be completely forgotten about the second they're no longer on the air...and then he leaves without realizing how incensed this has made Frasier.
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* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: While at the picnic party he's hosting, Frasier finds out that Kenny was reappointed his old job, which leads to Kenny mentioning an old poster of a previous broadcaster that was found during the station's clean-up. When Frasier wonders what happened to said broadcaster, Kenny says that he doesn't know either, since it's so easy for people like that to be completely forgotten about the second they're no longer on the air...and then he leaves without realizing how incensed this has made Frasier.
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* BigEater: Frasier stuffs how s face with food when he falls into a depression.
* BlatantLies: Frasier saying he put on only a pound or two. Then Roz puts on the video showing him eating baby Alice's food.
* BlatantLies: Frasier saying he put on only a pound or two. Then Roz puts on the video showing him eating baby Alice's food.
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* MamaBear: Roz when Daphne insults her baby.
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* OhCrap: Everyone in the apartment when Frasier finally cries and just won't stop crying.
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* LethalChef: Gil and Kenny think so after tasting some of Frasier's cooking at the party.
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* HereWeGoAgain: Each segment of the episode is labeled with a different stage of grief. In the final scene, Frasier has finally accepted losing his job, and Niles is also happy, as he believes that his divorce with Maris is going smoothly...which cues the "Denial" title to reappear.
* LethalChef: Gil and Kenny think so after tasting some of Frasier's cooking at theparty.picnic party.
* LoonyFan: During the "Bargaining" stage, Frasier contacts his fan club in the hopes that they can help him make a comeback...only to be dismayed at not only the fact that it consists of only 3 obsessive people, but also that they already staged a "protest" that gets mocked on the news.
* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: While at the picnic party he's hosting, Frasier finds out that Kenny was reappointed his old job, which leads to Kenny mentioning an old poster of a previous broadcaster that was found during the station's clean-up. When Frasier wonders what happened to said broadcaster, Kenny says that he doesn't know either, since it's so easy for people like that to be completely forgotten about the second they're no longer on the air...and then he leaves without realizing how incensed this has made Frasier.
* LethalChef: Gil and Kenny think so after tasting some of Frasier's cooking at the
* LoonyFan: During the "Bargaining" stage, Frasier contacts his fan club in the hopes that they can help him make a comeback...only to be dismayed at not only the fact that it consists of only 3 obsessive people, but also that they already staged a "protest" that gets mocked on the news.
* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: While at the picnic party he's hosting, Frasier finds out that Kenny was reappointed his old job, which leads to Kenny mentioning an old poster of a previous broadcaster that was found during the station's clean-up. When Frasier wonders what happened to said broadcaster, Kenny says that he doesn't know either, since it's so easy for people like that to be completely forgotten about the second they're no longer on the air...and then he leaves without realizing how incensed this has made Frasier.
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* TemptingFateTemptingFate: Frasier's display of "Anger" occurs when he's talking with Roz at a picnic party he's hosting about how they're at least still doing better than former coworkers like Gil, only for Gil to announce his recent hiring.
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* StagingAnIntervention: One occurs when Frasier is depressed from losing his job and refuses to acknowledge his feelings about it.
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Frasier deals with the loss of his job as though it were a loved one, moving through the five traditional stages: denial, anger, bargaining, grief and acceptance, each with some weird results. Original airdate, September 24, 1998
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* LethalChef: Gil and Kenny think so after tasting some of Frasier's cooking at the party.
* TemptingFate
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* LethalChef: Gil and Kenny think so after tasting some of Frasier's cooking at the party.
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