History YMMV / Frasier

* TearJerker: I dare you to watch the episode ''Rooms With A View'' without tearing up. I ''dare'' you.

* BetterOnDVD: The show has a lot of subtle continuity (for instance, Martin offhandedly singing a few bars of "She's Such A Groovy Lady"). Some DisContinuity as well, though. In ''{{Cheers}}'', Frasier goes ice fishing to relax. In ''Frasier'', he has no idea how to ice fish.

* DownerEnding: "Ask Me No Questions". Niles asks Frasier, in the midst of his reconciliation with Maris, if Frasier thinks they are meant to be together. Frasier realizes the huge impact this could have because Niles has always come to him for advice on big decisions and values his opinion highly, and while he believes that Maris has always be bossy, demanding and selfish, he also hears that she has become much nicer since the procedings have begun and is a better person. After agonizing over what to do, he shows up at Niles's apartment late at night to give his answer: [[spoiler:no]]. Niles thanks Frasier for his advice and tries to say goodbye, when the TwistEnding kicks in--[[spoiler:Maris is at the apartment, Niles has taken her back, and judging from the bell rings and the whistle as she calls for him, she has not changed one bit.]]
* DudeNotFunny: It's usually played for BlackComedy, but the descriptions of the severe and vicious bullying Frasier and Niles suffered in elementary and high school can be uncomfortable to those who went through similar experiences in their childhood, especially when Martin displays NoSympathy.

* MemeticBadass: Frasier's aunt Zora is a violent person feared by all, said to have joined the WWII Greek Partisans just so she could strangle Nazis.
-->'''Frasier''': I'm not afraid of her.
-->'''Niles''': Everyone is. Have you forgotten the family legend that when Hitler invaded Greece she joined the partisans just so she could strangle Nazis?
-->'''Frasier''': I have never believed that. She would have had to have been five years old at the time.
-->'''Niles''': That's why the legend says they were strangled with jumpropes.

** Even Daphne's fiance, Donny, can fit; yes, we're rooting for Niles and Daphne to end up together, but he still gets it rough, and he's a fairly decent guy. His counterpart, Mel, never gets the same sympathy, as she's portrayed as a much crueler individual.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Frasier can't tell his new producer-in-training Mary Thomas that he doesn't like how she works, [[{{ptitle73f32qzu}} because she's black and he's afraid of looking racist.]] When he and Niles roleplay a confrontation, Frasier's portrayal of Mary as a SassyBlackWoman is so ridiculously offensive it's ''hilarious''.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Yes, Martin is right in the episode ''Dinner At Eight'' that Frasier and Niles need to relax and enjoy "normal" things sometimes; but seeing as how their hostess just cut off their (presumably expensive) ties, they have a right to be angry.

* TheWoobie: Niles. Although he's in love with another woman, he stays faithful to his cold and unloving wife for years, only to discover that ''she's'' cheating on ''him''. After the brutal divorce is over, the woman he truly loves is dating his divorce lawyer. And the list goes on, and on...

** In-universe instance of FridgeLogic: Niles' season 4 attempt to get Daphne to stay at his apartment is thwarted when she has to go back to Frasier's for her medication, giving her the chance to make up with Martin and Sherry. As Frasier points out, Niles is a doctor, and could just have written her a new prescription.

CrowningMomentOfAwesome: When Frasier has failed at convincing [=Bebe=] to stop smoking, he takes a different tactic that works.

---->'''Frasier:''' For God's sake... I don't care anymore. You know, I can't help you, nobody can. You want to ruin it for both of us? Here, go ahead, knock yourself out. I only wish I could be there when it happens.
---->'''Bebe:''' When what happens?
---->'''Frasier:''' When you see that newspaper headline: "Big Willy Boone, Millionaire, Dead." Oh, how I wish I could be there when you watch the funeral on the news. Watch the casket being slipped into the ground. Only, you won't be watching that. No, no, you'll be watching... the widow Boone. Tiffany, perhaps. Oh no, better yet, "Kelli" - with an "I"!
---->'''Bebe:''' [[AnythingButThat Stop it!]]
---->'''Frasier:''' You'll picture her wearing '''YOUR''' jewels, sailing in '''YOUR''' yachts, sleeping with '''YOUR''' gigolos - but, oh, you won't be sad, no, no, no! [chuckles] Because you'll have your ''cigarette''.
---->''(Bebe looks horrified at her cigarette)''
---->'''Frasier:''' Yeah! Clutched in your nicotine-stained teeth, smoke whirling about your once-pretty, now creased, leathery, smoke-ravaged...
---->'''Bebe:''' Enough! ''(gives the cigerettes to Frasier)'' You are one ''hell'' of a therapist.

* {{Earworm}}: The closing them

--->Oh right, that's it. I've had enough of you two jackasses. I've spent all night hearing you make cracks about the food and the help. I got news for you. People like this place. I like this place. And when you insult this restaurant, you insult me. You know, I used to think you two took after your mother, liking ballet and all that. But your mother liked a good ball-game too. She even ate a hot-dog once in a while. She might have had fancy taste, but she had too much class to make me or anyone else ever feel second-rate. If she saw the way you two behaved tonight she would be ashamed. I know I am.

-->'''Niles''': Everyone is. Have you forgotten the family legend that when Hitler invaded Greece she joined the partisans just so she could strangle Nazis.
-->'''Frasier''': I have never believed that. She would have had to been five years old at the time.

* "Oh some boys go to college, but we think they're all wussies. Cuz they get all the knowledge, and we get all the--doom dodoom dududdoom dudoom dudoom."

* {{Earworm}}: The closing theme.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Yes, Martin is right in the episode ''Dinner At Eight'' that Frasier and Niles need to relax and enjoy "normal" things sometimes; but seeing as how their hostess just cut off their ties, they have a right to be angry.

* CharacterDerailment: Daphne in the last three seasons. She changes from a charming, forthright, eccentric Manchester lady to a possesive, jealous, dull and barely accented background character, whose dialogue mostly consists of complaining to (and about) Niles.
** One of the worst offenders of this case was the TV table subplot in the episode "Frasier Has Spokane." Apparently, [[CompressedVice carpentry brings out the worst in Daphne]]. Not to mention that this subplot was [[{{Filler}} so self-contained you could have pretty much ran the episode without it]].