Shaquin posted:

lmao if you wouldn't bone down with kelgram

slave to my cravings posted:

Frasier Crane's humongous rear end contest

ProfessorMurder posted:

hard counter posted:

one neat thing is that they used to have guest stars come in as callers on frasier's show all the time

they're all pretty 90s like gilian anderson, jay leno, macaulay culkin, jodie foster and yo-yo ma

Ralph Crammed In posted:

There was the one where Martin solved a decades old cold case murder and Frasier thought he was a better detective than his cop dad, so he made a theory about how it was a trained chimp that did it and all the cops laughed him out of the room. That episode was like, the essence of Frasier.

Kelp Me! posted:

I like that episode of the Simpsons where Sideshow Bob's brother shows up and it's David Hyde Pierce basically doing Niles

There are at least two explicit Frasier references that I can think of off the top of my head in there, aside from the general snooty banter between them the whole episode

There's also an episode of 30 Rock where Kelsey Grammar helps set up an elaborate con job that involves fake cakes for the Frasier Reunion Party, worth watching in general but specifically to hear him angrily threaten to throw some tossed salad and scrambled eggs at someone

spog posted:

As a Brit, what drives me the point of saying 'tut!' is that none of those 5 people have an accent that is even vaguely like a British accent.

ArmZ posted:

he's great but the best thing was actually the palestinian chicken

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

I like the one where Roz gets a loan from Frasier, he thinks she's spending his money in all these wasteful ways, she has these very good explanations for everything and makes him feel terrible but it turns out she really was wasting the money. Kudos to you Roz gently caress that guy for being uptight.

Zesty Mordant posted:

lmao at faithfully recreating that set just for a 15 second joke, that owns

ElGroucho posted:

I think I would probably faint if I met Bebe Neuwirth

Lilith is the weird goth in my heart

cool new Polack jokes posted:

Anyone see the episode of Wings with Frasier guest starring as himself? I never watched Wings so I didn't know it was a thing.

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

Listen I started this thread okay my Frasier fan credentials are in order. I love me some Frasier! It's just hard for Newsradio not to come up in a discussion about any sitcom because it's the pinnacle of the genre.

beep by grandpa posted:

NewsRadio flipped that established trope on its head and got Dave & Lisa together on, what, the third episode?

food court bailiff posted:

that's The View

Kelp Me! posted:

I never watched that show, didn't know she was on it.

I think it's ruined for me since my primary exposure to both Jon Hamm and John Slattery were 30 Rock episodes and it'd be too ridiculous to see them being super serious after this kind of thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBMCc5a7Lwo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHVyBpWiSQk

algebra testes posted:

Another good one is Don Cheadle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD8Nd6kkWmo

ultrabindu posted:

how the gently caress did they get deNiro to emote? The guy hasn't given a poo poo about anything for years.

Sydney Bottocks posted:

It'd be like if a British sitcom had an American character who was from Boston and all their relatives had Southern USA, Stereotypical Chicagoan, and L.A. Surfer Dude accents.

Sydney Bottocks posted:

Back in the pre-Internet days, the guy producing 1980s DW tried to appeal to the USA so hard, they not only had a British actress adopt an American accent, but they made up a whole backstory about how she was actually American. Of course the minute she spoke and said things like "ad-dult" and "leave-er" people figured out she was a Brit pretty quickly.

...and the pitch! posted:

That's David Ogden Stiers you cretin

Ein cooler Typ posted:

Home Improvement was p mediocre but Tool Time owns

...and the pitch! posted:

He's very personable and funny.

And a convicted coke dealer. Probably a coincidence.

Marenghi posted:

Conservative shithead who got busted trying buy a massive amount of coke. And got off cause he ratted on all his compatriots.

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

I see and fear a dark future where Frasier is taken off all streaming services and all us superfans have left to watch is that video of Kelsey Grammer falling down.

The Wonder Weapon posted:

I'm not clear how I feel about the Moskowitz episode (aside from the fact that it was funny). There was a several minute long segment that was nothing but laughing at them pretending to be Jewish, but at the same time, it didn't feel like it preyed on any harmful stereotypes. It felt more like it was finding humor in seeing such a WASPy set of characters suddenly adopting a different culture's mannerisms. You weren't laughing at jews, nor were you laughing at how jews behaved. Instead, you were laughing at characters doing something they don't normally do.

The counterpoint, I suppose, is if it had been an African-American family it may have come across as remarkably racist? Although characters pretending to be a race is stereotyping, whereas the Moskowitz was about pretending to fit into a culture, which is a noted difference.

I don't know. I like to think I'm fairly sensitive to shows doing that type of thing (see: Chandler and his father in Friends), and it didn't set off any alarm bells for me.

Inescapable Duck posted:

I'd guess the episode is meant to be fall-down hilarious if you're Jewish. Like how the Australian national pastime is laughing at gullible foreigners believing the most ridiculous things about Australia.

Sir Lemming posted:

I'd say the ski lodge episode pretty much has everything. It even includes the obligatory "gay person thinks Frasier/Niles is also gay".

Ein cooler Typ posted:

does he have a private elevator

ContraBoss posted:

Dr. Niles Crane, Hung specialist. Servicing individuals, couples, groups. Satisfaction guaranteed.

"Tell me where it hurts."

cool new Polack jokes posted:

Local DJ, Frazer Crane

Bust Rodd posted:

Im rewatching Unbreakable Kimmy and they name drop Frasier at least 4 times in the first and second season

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

I had a horrible dream last night where I had season 1 Frasier hair. I haven't even watched an episode in weeks!

Sir Lemming posted:

Well drat, here come the waterworks.

sudonim posted:

episodes that play on the chemistry between Grammer, Mahoney, & Hyde Pierce together are the best ones which is why the Y2K Winnebago road trip one is my favorite.

Brawnfire posted:

But that engine thrum is so soothing...

Brawnfire posted:

But there's always room for discussion about Frasier: The Experience.