With Kelsey Grammer back as Dr Crane on Paramount+, we celebrate some of Frasiers greatest original episodes.
Youd be into the high 90s before youd even got going.
To winnow it down to just the 50 best episodes ofFrasier?
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List the best ofFrasierin just 20 episodes?
In chronological, unranked order?
A dishevelled Frasier is left home alone and working a Christmas Day shift with a disgruntled Roz.
Then a misunderstanding (what else?)
leads to Lilith visiting Frasier to have a go at rekindle their relationship.
A lot of fun is had at everybodys expense, but underneath is real feeling.
Two Frasiers for the price of one!
Its a classic trajectory for the Crane boys, whose pride always cometh before a very funny fall.
Theres a good stinger from Marty, and a great bit with Eddie and a muffin too.
Frasier Cranes Day Off (Season 1, Episode 23)
Frasiers flu starts as youd expect.
Dont worry though, because shell get the last laugh.
As Frasiers fever ramps up, so does the episode.
When Martys old friend Duke cancels on their annual lake fishing trip, Niles volunteers to take his dad.
Luckily, its Jim Beam to the rescue.
In short: it has it all.
He asks someone to a dance, then realises he cant dance, so Daphne offers to teach him.
Its a classic sitcom set-up, employed here for laughs and poignancy.
Hes got a nug!)
Im running low on bullets.
It all ends in a big bed-hopping mess and the whole bunch picking apart the misunderstandings in their pyjamas.
Nobody, its fair to say, was satisfied.
If farce is your thing, this ones hard to beat.
As for the rest of it, its fine.
Really though, its all about that opening.
ItsValentines Dayand Niles has stood Frasier up for the opera to go on a date with Mel.
and John Mahoney hamming it up all adds up to a really fun episode.
Or maybe its Richard E. Grants in the finale.
Or Annies in the ski lodge episode so much choice!).
We all know the sitcom arc Will they?
But after years of Niles longing, seeing him and Daphne together is very sweet.
and Frasier shouting Well I never!
with Niles responding No you always!.
It can make us do things we never imagined possible.
For you see, we dont actually choose love, it chooses us.
And once it has, we are powerless to do anything about it.
it quickly becomes clear that they are the remedial students.
Does anyone here read French?
And then, Niles triumphs!
), to his other sons consternation.
Frasier: And you in your shawl-collar sweater, hammering away at the keys of that old Royal typewriter.
Niles: Gosh, when did those two crazy kids become such a pair of old fuddy-duddies?).
A great Crane Boys Mystery solved/created.
I can smile and nod but I only understand it in theory.
Its filled with fan service, and serves as a kind of rollcall of everything the show was.
