David Hy Pierce Talks Gay Jok on Frasier

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• 20 STRAIGHT CHARACTERS WE DIDN'T KNOW WERE OPENLY GAY IN REAL LIFE
• MA CHARACTERS    IN GENERAL I HAVE NEVER MET A FAY THAT WORKED SO HARD AT BEG UNFORTABLE WH EACH OTHER!—DAPHNE, "DE'S, WE HARDLY KNEW YE"TROP THAT APPLY TO ALL OF THE RE GROUP BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: ALL OF THEM ARE QUIRKY DIVIDUALS WH VAR DYSFUNCTNS (CLUDG THE DOG). DPE THIS, THEY ALL ARE GREAT AT THEIR JOBS: FRASIER AND NIL ARE SUCCSFUL PSYCHIATRISTS, ROZ IS A GREAT PRODUCER (AND LATER, THE GENERAL MANAGER OF KACL), MART WAS A REER P WH A GREAT TRACK RERD, AND DAPHNE IS A SUCCSFUL PHYSIL THERAPIST. CLOUD CUCKOOLANR: ALL OF THEM HAVE SHAS OF THIS TO VARYG GRE. FRASIER TENDS TOWARD LARGE HAM MONOLOGU, NIL N ACT ALMOST OBLIV TO THE DYSFUNCTN HAPPENG AROUND HIM (PECIALLY VOLVG MARIS), AND DAPHNE FANCI HERSELF A PSYCHIC (AND MAY VERY WELL BE). EVEN ROZ AND MART, THE TWO MORE GROUND OF THE GROUP, HAVE THEIR OWN QUIRKS. THE COMILLY SER: MALY FRASIER AND NIL AS THEY ARE BOTH SOPHISTITED TELLECTUALS WHO MANAGE TO BE QUIRKY AND EDIC BEE OF THEIR OVER-THE-TOP SNOOTS. DEADPAN SNARKER: ALL OF THEM THRIVE ON SARSM TO VARYG GRE. EVEN DAPHNE, WHO'S PROBABLY THE SWEETT OF THE FIVE, ISN'T IMMUNE, PECIALLY AS SHE GETS MORE FORTABLE WH THE CRAN (AND LATER BE ONE). HELL, EVEN EDDIE ULD BE A SILENT SNARKER AT POTS. MISTAKEN FOR GAY: FRASIER, NIL, AND DAPHNE HAVE ALL BEEN MISTAKEN FOR GAY OR LBIAN DURG THE SERI, FRASIER AND NIL MORE THAN ONCE. MART HAS PRETEND TO BE GAY, WHICH B HIM THE ASS. RAGTAG BUNCH OF MISFS: THEY NSIST OF TWO POMPO, HIGH CLASS PSYCHIATRISTS, THEIR BLUE LLAR P FATHER, A SPACEY BRISH PHYSIL THERAPIST, A SNARKY, SEX-CRAZED RAD PRODUCER, AND A JACK RSELL TERRIER. TE COMPANNS: MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT : THE FIVE NSIR THEMSELV FAY (AND BY THE END, ARE ALL RELATED EXCEPT FOR ROZ) AND ARE VERY CLOSELY VOTED TO EACH OTHER. TWO GIRLS TO A TEAM: ROZ AND DAPHNE TO FRASIER, NIL, AND MART (AND EDDIE). VRLIC BT BUDS: THE GROUP ALL ENJOYS POKG AND PRODDG AT ONE ANOTHER, BUT THEY DON'T HI THE FACT THAT THEY ALL RE ABOUT EACH OTHER ALL THE SAME.     FRASIER CRANE FRASIER WSLOW CRANE, M.D."IT MAY BE AN UNWISE MAN WHO DON’T LEARN OM HIS OWN MISTAK, BUT ’S AN ABSOLUTE IDT THAT DON’T LEARN OM OTHER PEOPLE’S."PLAYED BY: KELSEY GRAMMER"IF LS IS MORE, THEN JT THK OF HOW MUCH MORE ‘MORE’ WILL BE!"ON FRASIER, DR. CRANE HAS RETURNED ALONE TO HIS HOMETOWN OF SEATTLE, RNG HIM WH HIS BROTHER NIL AND THEIR FATHER MART. AFTER MART IS JURED DURG THE URSE OF HIS POLICE WORK, HE IS FORCED TO MOVE WH FRASIER AND THE BROTHERS HIRE A PHYSTHERAPIST TO HELP MART WH HIS JURY. FRASIER SPENDS HIS TIME SEATTLE WORKG AS A RAD PSYCHIATRIST FOR A LOL RAD STATN, GOG ON DAT, AND SUFFERG THOUGH VISS OM HIS EX-WIFE LILH.SEE HERE FOR HIS CHARACTERIZATN ON PARENT SERI CHEERS, WHERE HE ORIGATED. ALLEGEDLY DATELS: PEOPLE POKE JABS AT HIM NOT BEG ABLE TO GET A GIRL AND HE SPENDS SUPPOSEDLY MONTHS DATELS, BUT HE'S GETTG DAT LEFT AND RIGHT -SHOW. IT'S PLAYED WH THAT HE GETS DAT ALL THE TIME, BUT 90% OF THEM NEVER GO PAST THE FIRST ONE.FRASIER: I'M A ONE-WOMAN MAN. IF THAT. ALL PSYCHOLOGY IS FRDIAN: AVERTED AND NSTCTED. FRASIER'S HERO WORSHIP OF SIGMUND FRD (RRIED OVER OM CHEERS) IS MOCKED -UNIVERSE AS OUTDATED BY OTHER THERAPISTS WHO PRACTICE MORE MORN THEORI, CLUDG HIS OWN BROTHER NIL, WHO IS A JUNGIAN. HOWEVER, FRASIER'S RELIANCE ON FRD'S LONG-OUTDATED THEORI AND METHODOLOGI ARE PROBABLY A MAJOR REASON HE'S SO SUCCSFUL AS A RAD POP-PSYCH RATHER THAN A PRIVATE DOCTOR, AS MAK HIS DIAGNOS MORE ACCSIBLE TO THE MASS WHO BY-AND-LARGE BELIEVE THE TROPE THEMSELV, AND WHO HAVE SIMPLE ISSU THAT N BE SOLVED QUICKLY WH A LTLE B OF SIGHT. ADDNALLY, FRASIER BEG A FRDIAN LENDS IC IRONY TO HIS OWN NROS; HE DON'T GET ALONG WH HIS FATHER, IDOLIZ HIS MOTHER SCE SHE'S THE ONE WHO SPURRED HIS TERT PSYCHIATRY, AND HAS TROUBLE FORMG AND MATAG ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS THAT GO BEYOND THE SEXUAL. AMIBLE EX: WH LILH. EVENTUALLY. ANNOYG PATIENT: WHEN ILL WH FLU, HE DRIV DAPHNE MAD WH NSTANT, CSANT WHG ABOUT EVERY LTLE THG, UNTIL SHE FALLY SNAPS AND YELLS AT HIM FOR , SAYG SHE'S KNOWN PEOPLE ON THEIR ATH BEDS WHO WERE LS FSY. HE NEVER APOLOGIZ, BUT SHE GETS HER OWN BACK AT HIM BY MSG WH HIS HEAD.NIL: IS HE PA? DAPHNE: NOT ENOUGH. ANSWERS TO THE NAME OF GOD: FRASIER OFTEN DO THIS BY ACCINT.(LILH HAS JT SLEPT WH NIL, WHEN FRASIER SHOWS UP WH NIL THE BATHROOM.) LILH: [SEEG FRASIER JT A BATHROBE, HORRIFIED] MY GOD! FRASIER: [HUNGRILY] MY GODSS! AROED BY THEIR VOICE: IS REGULARLY PLIMENTED ON HIS SEXY BARONE VOICE, WHICH JT ENURAG HIM TO DIAL THE CHARM UP FURTHER. BAD LIAR: LYG GIV HIM NSEA ONE EPISO. LATER ON, THOUGH, HE'S GOT NO PROBLEM LYG TO WOMEN ORR TO SCHMOOZE, 'S JT QUICKLY REWARD WH A KARMIC BACKLASH. BELLIGERENT SEXUAL TENSN: WH KATE COSTAS "SLEEPG WH THE ENEMY". HE SISTS HE AND JULIA WILX HAVE THIS. NIL' TIMATE IS THAT 'S NOT, BUT RATHER FRASIER OVER-PENSATG FOR HIS PREV FAILED RELATNSHIPS. BERSERK BUTTON: NEVER CHALLENGE HIS TELLIGENCE, BE WH PSYCHIATRY OR ANYTHG ELSE HE NSIRS HIMSELF TED .FRASIER: CHICKEN! I BELIEVE WAS LAROSHE-FOULT, THE GREAT THKER, WHO SAID... THE CHICKEN: HEY, GIVE A RT, DOUBLE WI! I WENT TO GRAD SCHOOL TOO, AND P.S.- 'S PRONOUNCED "LA ROCHEFOUULD". FRASIER: THAT'S IT! NO ONE CORRECTS MY FRENCH PRONOUNCIATION, YOU SON-OF-A-BITCH! BIG BROTHER INSTCT: AS MUCH AS THEY SQUABBLE AND SNARK AT EACH OTHER, HE R EPLY FOR NIL AND ALWAYS TAK SERLY WHEN OTHERS (UALLY MARIS OR MEL) ARE EMOTNALLY ABIVE TO HIM. BOOK DUMB: ANYBODY WHOUT AN IVY LEAGUE TN, ACRDG TO HIM AND NIL. ONCE, HE SNIFFED HGHTILY AT HIS GIRL OF THE WEEK'S STANFORD TN, SAYG, "WELL, IF YOU HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL ON THE WT COAST..." BREAKG THE CYCLE OF BAD PARENTG: HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS OWN FATHER WASN'T THE BT NSIRG MART'S ABILY TO NNECT WH HIM AND NIL BEE OF THEIR VASTLY DIFFERENT PERSONALY AND TERTS. MEANWHILE, HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS OWN SON FRERICK IS MUCH HEALTHIER. IT HELPS THAT THEY OFTEN HAVE THE SAME TERTS. BUT EVEN WHEN THERE IS SOME PROBLEM WH MUNITG WH ONE ANOTHER, FRASIER DO ATTEMPT TO NNECT WH FRERICK. BREAK THE HGHTY: A BIG PART OF THE HUMOR OF THE SHOW IS SEEG IF 'S FRASIER'S OR NIL'S TURN TO GET BROKEN, OR IF THEY'LL SHARE , AND HOW 'S GOG TO HAPPEN. SUBVERTED THAT WHILE HE DO GET OVER MUCH OF HIS STUFFS AND HGHTS OVER THE URSE OF THE SERI, THE ACTUAL "BREAKG" RARELY STICKS FOR LONG. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: HE IS A VERY EFFECTIVE AND SUCCSFUL PSYCHIATRIST, BUT MORE THAN A HANDFUL OF TIM ARE THE STANC WHERE HE HELPS PEOPLE NEED BY SCREAMG AT THEM AND PLAYG ON THEIR SECURI OR VULNERABILI TO MAKE THEM SEE HIS POT. CAMP STRAIGHT: THE SHOW TAK OCSNAL JABS AT HIS METROSEXUAL AND OPERA LOVG HABS AS BEG HOMOSEXUAL CANNOT KEEP A SECRET: IF HE'S EVER TOLD SOMETHG SECRETIVE, YOU N BE SURE HE'LL ACCINTALLY END UP BLURTG OUT TO HALF OF SEATTLE BY THE END OF THE EPISO. CAN'T TAKE CRICISM: EVEN SOMEONE SAYG THEY SIMPLY DON'T LIKE HIM, A GENERAL "NOT VERY TERTED" SENSE, WILL SEND HIM TO AN OBSSIVE SPIRAL THAT WILL LAST DAYS, IF NOT LONGER. ACTUAL NEGATIVE CRICISM IS WORSE. DAPHNE EVEN MENTNS AT ONE POT THAT IF SHE WANTS HIM OUT OF THE WAY, SHE'LL MAKE AN NOCUO MENT ABOUT HIM GAG WEIGHT, AND HE'LL SULK FOR THE RT OF THE EVENG. CARPET OF VIRILY: WHILE NOT AS THICK AS SOME PEOPLE'S, KELSEY GRAMMER DO HAVE A FAIRLY GOOD THATCH. LAMPSHAD "SLOW TANGO IN SOUTH SEATTLE" WHEN DAPHNE SAYS HE REFERS TO HIS CHT HAIR AS HIS "G OF LOVE." THE CASANOVA: DENSTCTED. FRASIER IS A CHARMG, HANDSOME MAN, WHO HAS NO PROBLEM TCHG THE EYE OF WOMEN. HOWEVER, WHENEVER HE TRI TO JUGGLE MULTIPLE RELATNSHIPS EVABLY FALLS APART WHEN HIS PARTNERS FD OUT WHAT HE'S DOG AND THEY ALL BREAK UP WH HIM, UNRSTANDABLY FUR AT HIM."I'M A ONE WOMAN MAN. IF THAT." CATCHPHRASE: "OH AR GOD!" "OH, FOR GOD'S SAKE!" AND "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?" AND OF URSE, HIS RAD GREETG AND SIGN-OFF: "HELLO <LLER>, I'M LISTENG" AND "THIS IS DOCTOR FRASIER CRANE, WISHG YOU GOOD MENTAL HEALTH." CHARACTER FILIBTER: HE LOV TO GIVE SPEECH, AND THE RT OF THE CHARACTERS KNOW AND PLA ABOUT . LAMPSHAD AS EARLY AS THE SEND EPISO. CHARACTERIZATN MARCH ON: AN TERTG VERSN, GIVEN FRAS HAD EXISTED FOR SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE HIS SHOW BEGAN, BUT STILL, THERE ARE A FEW DIFFERENC BETWEEN HIS PICTN CHEERS AND HERE. HIS OBSSIVE TENNCI WERE MENTNED EQUENTLY ON THAT SHOW, MOST OFTEN BY LILH, BUT HARDLY EVER DISPLAYED (DIANE DUMPG HIM AND AN CINT WH HIS GOLD RD ASI). HERE, THEY'RE ON FULL DISPLAY. HIS HAMMS. FRASIER DID GET WORKED UP, BUT NOT QUE AS EASILY AS HE DO THIS SHOW. BACK CHEERS, FRASIER HAD TWO DIFFERENT PHOBIAS ON SEPARATE OCSNS - FEAR OF DOGS (STILLED BY HTER OF ALL PEOPLE), AND FEAR OF BE. IN ELEVEN YEARS, HIS PROBLEMS WH EDDIE ARE NEVER ONCE EVEN SUGGTED TO BE THE RULT OF A PHOBIA, JT ANNOYANCE WH THE LTLE GUY. MEANWHILE, NIL HERS THE BUG PHOBIA, WHICH FRASIER TREATS WH IRRATN. HIS LOVE OF SHERRY. IN CHEERS, HE GENERALLY PREFERRED BRANDY AT HOME, AND EVEN IF HE DID DRK SHERRY, WAS NOWHERE NEAR TO THE EXTENT HE DO HERE. IT'S TABLISHED A FLASHBACK EPISO THAT HE AND NIL STARTED DULGG SHERRY NOT LONG AFTER FRASIER RETURNED OM BOSTON.FRASIER: SHERRY? WHAT AN TRIGUG IA! THE CHEW TOY: NOTHG EVER SEEMS TO GO HIS WAY. A GREAT EXAMPLE IS HOW EVERYONE REACTS TO HIM "BAD DOG." DPE BULLDOG G ROZ AS A HUMAN SHIELD WHEN THE FFEE SHOP IS HELD UP BY AN ARMED ROBBER, FRASIER'S FAY IS ANNOYED BY HIM TRYG TO PROVE TO EVERYONE ELSE, AND ARE MORE OR LS DIFFERENT TO BULLDOG G A PREGNANT WOMAN AS A HUMAN SHIELD. CHRONIC SELF-DEPRETN: ALTHOUGH HE IS UALLY QUE VA, POMPO, AND FULL OF HIMSELF, AND QUE WILLG TO B EVERYONE'S FACE, THIS ARROGANCE IS LARGELY A VER FOR HIS SECURY, AND WHEN FAILS HIM, HIS SELF-LOATHG BLACK MOODS ARE MISERABLE. HIS BROTHER NIL UALLY HAS TO FLIP THEIR VRLIC BT BUDS BICKERG ON S HEAD AND DO THE SAME THG TO HIMSELF TO GET FRASIER OUT OF :FRASIER: I WANTED MY DAY. I WANTED HOOPLA AND FS, I PRACTILLY PLANNED THE WHOLE THG MYSELF. SAYS A LOT ABOUT ME AS A PSYCHIATRIST, DON'T ? I'M A SMALL MAN. NIL: WELL, WHAT DO SAY ABOUT ME THAT I WAS HAPPY SEEG YOU MISS YOUR DAY? I WAS JEALO ALL WEEK! I'M A TY MAN. FRASIER: NEXT TO ME, YOU'RE A GIANT! NIL: I STARE UP AT YOUR ANKL! FRASIER: I NEED A STEPLADR JT TO — NIL: OH, LET'S NOT DO THIS AGA. THE COBBLER'S CHILDREN HAVE NO SHO: A HIGHLY SUCCSFUL PRACTICG PSYCHOLOGIST... AND ALSO AN IMPULSIVE, OBSSIVE, EGOTISTIL, OFT-UNREASONG, EMOTNALLY AGILE BALL OF NROS. FRASIER OFTEN ENDS UP NOT TAKG THE CLIL, DIPLOMATIC APPROACH TO HIS PERSONAL PROBLEMS SIMPLY BEE HIS ALL-TOO-HUMAN PRI WON'T LET HIM. COMPLEXY ADDICTN: HE N'T REALLY DO ANYTHG SIMPLY. WHEN HE'S ASKED TO WRE A SHORT JGLE FOR HIS SHOW, HE ENDS UP HIRG A FULL ORCHTRA. IT GETS TO THE POT WHERE, AFTER AGONIZG OVER A BIZARRE DREAM HE HAS, HE FALLY TO THE NCLN THAT HE WAS SO BORED AT HIS JOB THAT HIS SUBNSC VENTED A PROBLEM FOR HIM TO WORK ON. MART NOT THAT ISN'T THAT FRASIER DON'T LIKE "SIMPLE", NOTG HE WENT ON AND ON ABOUT A PATG OF A RED SQUARE (FRASIER: "THAT WAS CEPTIVELY SIMPLE!"); 'S JT THAT FRASIER NEEDS TO BE A SHOW OFF. COMPRSED VICE: ONE EPISO CLAIMS HE HAS A SEVERE AVERSN TO HUGGG. YOU'D NEVER KNOW OM THE TIM HE'S QUICK TO OFFER DAPHNE AND ROZ HUGS WHEN THEY'RE DOWN. CONTROL FREAK: ON OCSN, IS VERY TERMED TO DO THGS HIS WAY. WHEN HE ADVERTENTLY IS PUT CHARGE OF DAPHNE'S WEDDG, HE QUICKLY TAK CHARGE, MAKG EVERY CISN REGARDLS OF WHAT DAPHNE THKS, UNTIL HE FALLY HS HER TRMA BUTTON AND SHE EXPLOS AT HIM FOR . AFTERWARD, FRASIER ADMS THIS SE WAS BEE OF ISSU RELATED TO HIS OWN FAILED MARRIAG. HE AND ROZ EVEN HAVE A FALLG OUT OVER AT ONE POT, SCE SHE LETS HIM BE A PART OF HER NEW RAD SHOW, AND WH MUT OF WALKG IS ACTG LIKE 'S HIS SHOW. WHEN ROZ BOOTS HIM OUT, HE SPENDS DAYS SULKG AND PLOTTG OBSSIVE REVENGE. COOL LOSER: DPE ALL THE BAD LUCK HE SUFFERS OM AND HIS SLIGHTLY ECCENTRIC HOBBI, FRASIER IS A CHARMG, HIGHLY TELLIGENT, CULTURED AND REASONABLY WEALTHY MAN. THE DANDY: TENDS TOWARDS OVERLY FLASHY SUS AND BOLD LOURS. DEADPAN SNARKER: HAS A VERY DRY SENSE OF HUMOUR. DIGGG YOURSELF DEEPER: THANKS TO HIS QUIRK OF HAVG TO ELUCIDATE EVERYTHG HE SAYS, FRASIER FDS HIMSELF GETTG HIMSELF MORE TROUBLE THE MORE HE TRI TO EXPLA HIMSELF. NOTABLE EXAMPL CLU: "THE DOCTOR IS OUT": FRASIER TRI TO EXPLA WHY HE WAS A GAY BAR WH NIL BUT N'T SAY NIL IS HIS BROTHER BEE HE PROMISED NOT TO REVEAL NIL WAS BREAKG A PROMISE TO DAPHNE. AT THE SAME TIME, ROZ REALIZ FRASIER WAS TRYG TO PROVE HER METROSEXUAL DATE WAS GAY, AND FRASIER JT "OUTED" HIMSELF TO ALL OF SEATTLE. "THE FIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS": FRASIER KEEPS TRYG TO PATCH THGS WH MEL, ONLY TO MAKE HER MADR AND MADR AT NIL OVER MARIS.FRASIER: WELL, ACTUALLY I WAS JT APOLOGIZG FOR MY PART YOUR LTLE MISUNRSTANDG. NIL: WELL, THEN OF URSE YOU WERE DISCSG THE PRENT.NOTE MEANG THE GIFT HE WAS GIVG MEL. FRASIER: OH, Y, THE PRENT. [LIFTS GLASS] AND THE FUTURE, MARIS IS ALL THE PAST! MEL: [TRANQUIL FURY] MARIS? FRASIER: OH, AR. MEL: YOU WERE WH MARIS LAST NIGHT? HOW DARE YOU! [MEL STORMS OFF] NIL: [TO FRASIER] ANYTHG ELSE THE BOX, PANDORA? "MURR MOST MARIS": FRASIER FENDG NIL TO THE PRS ABOUT NIL' ROLE THE MURR THAT MARIS MED, MAKG AN UNFORTUNATE SLIP: "IF THERE IS ANY JTICE THE WORLD, MARIS CRANE AND NIL CRANE WILL SOON BE EXECUTED!" WHEN HE TEND TO SAY "EXONERATED". AND KEEPS TRYG TO TELL PEOPLE HE MEANT "EXONERATED", JT MAKG PEOPLE ANGRIER.MART: [WATCHG TV] THAT'S FOUR TIM ONE NEWSST. MT BE SOME KD OF RERD. "RAD WARS": EVERY TIME FRASIER NONTS CARLOS AND THE CHICKEN, WHETHER AMIABLY OR THREATENG, JT MAK THEM TURN UP THE MOCKG, LEADG TO THEM HOLDG A "FRASIER CRANE'S BIG ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS CONTT". EVERYONE TELLS FRASIER THE BT WAY TO AL WH PRANKSTERS IS TO IGNORE , BUT HE N'T HELP BUT TRY TO ATTACK THEM BACK... WH PHY QUOT. DISAPPEARED DAD: HE IS TERRIFIED HE IS THIS TO FRERICK, HAVG LOST A BTER CTODY BATTLE WH LILH AND MOVED TERSTATE AS A RULT. HE CLEARLY LOV AND DOT ON HIS SON WHEN THEY'RE TOGETHER (WHICH BE ANNOYG TO FRERICK WHEN HE'S 13 AND AN EMO TEEN GOTH), AND STILL SPENDS A LOT OF TIME ON THE PHONE WH HIM. IN "CRAN UNPLUGGED":FRASIER: GOOD LORD. HE DON'T SEEM VERY HAPPY TO BE HERE. HE HARDLY SAID TWO WORDS TO ME. MART: OH, 'S PERFECTLY NORMAL. YOU'RE HIS DAD. KIDS THAT AGE DON'T WANT TO TALK TO THEIR DAD. FRASIER: I NEVER STOPPED TALKG TO YOU. MART: [SIGHG] I KNOW, BUDDY. DO NOT LIKE SPAM: HE GMBL ABOUT RED MEAT OFTEN. A PROBLEM FOR HIM, SCE MART'S PREFERRED MEAT IS STEAK. DRAMA QUEEN: WHEN HIS EGO AND/OR SOCIAL POSN IS ON THE LE, HE CRANKS UP THE HAM. ELE SCHOOL MEANS ELE BRA: FRASIER FELY BELIEV THIS, NSTANTLY RATTLG OFF HIS AMIC RUME (HARVARD, OXFORD) TO ANYONE WHO DOUBTS HIS TELLIGENCE. WHEN NIL IS GOG FOR HEART SURGERY, FRASIER SNIFFS AT NIL' DOCTOR GETTG HIS GREE AT TULANE, THEN REASSUR NIL THAT HIS ANTHLOGIST WENT TO DE. FAY MAN: HE LIV WH HIS ELRLY FATHER, IS BT IENDS WH HIS BROTHER, CLEARLY MISS HIS SON WHO HE DO NOT HAVE CTODY OVER, AND EVENTUALLY BE CLOSE IENDS WH HIS EX-WIFE. FATAL FLAW: HIS OBSSIVE TENNCI TEND TO BE WHAT S ANY CHANCE OF ROMANTIC HAPPS HE HAS. HIS EGO. DEAR GOD, HIS EGO. RARE IS THE EPISO WHERE DON’T GET HIM TO TROUBLE. MORE THAN ONCE, THE PLOT STARTS WHEN HE'S SUCKERED BY PEOPLE MANIPULATG HIM WH FLATTERY, OR WHERE HE ACROSS A SIMPLE PROBLEM THAT HE OVERPLIT BY BELIEVG HE KNOWS BETTER. FRIENDLY RIVALRY: WH NIL. THEY AGREE THAT THEIR MUTUAL PETIVENS HAS BEEN HEALTHY FOR THEIR VELOPMENT THE LONG N, AND THEY RE ABOUT EACH OTHER A LOT. "FRIENDS" RENT CONTROL: DPE ONLY BEG A RAD PERSONALY ON A LOL STATN, FRASIER MAK ENOUGH MONEY TO AFFORD A THREE BEDROOM APARTMENT DOWNTOWN SEATTLE AND HAVE A HIGH-CLASS SOCIAL LIFE THAT CLUS REGULAR OPERA TICKETS, THE WE CLUB, AND A NICE R. WORD OF GOD ADMTED WHEN ASKED ON TWTER THAT THE QUTN OF HOW FRASIER AFFORD ALL THIS WAS SOMETHG THE WRERS THEMSELV JOKED ABOUT TERNALLY, AND HE QUIPPED THAT FRASIER MAY HAVE JT VTED THE MONEY OM HIS BOSTON PRACTICE VERY WISELY. EPISOS WH BEBE SHOW THAT, FOR ALL OF HER EVIL AND SANY, SHE'S A VERY GOOD AGENT, AND HAS NOT ONLY NEGOTIATED SEVERAL RAIS FOR FRASIER, BUT ALSO AT LEAST ONE SYNDITN AL OUTSI OF SEATTLE, SO FRASIER PROBABLY MAK A FAIR B OF MONEY. GASP!: PRONE TO THIS WHEN ENAMORED OF SOMETHG. MOCKED "OUT WH DAD" WHEN MART MENTNS AS ONE OF THE MORE UNREALISTIC TROP OF OPERA, AND FRASIER IMMEDIATELY OBLIG. MART GASPS HIMSELF WHEN HE REALIZ THE OLD CRONE OF A MOTHER IS WAVG AT HIM. GENTLEMAN AND A SCHOLAR: WHILE FRASIER CERTALY N BE ARROGANT AND SNOBBISH, HE IS NEVERTHELS A WELL-TENTNED AND RG MAN. EVEN GOG AS FAR AS MISSG OUT ON A CEREMONY TO HONOUR HIM, JT TO HELP A MAN HE HAD JT MET PE WH HIS EX-WIFE GETTG REMARRIED. HE’S ALSO WELL-TED AND VERY WELL READ. GET OUT!: IT'S ALMOST CATCHPHRASE STAT FOR FRASIER, WHO WILL SAY THIS OF ANYONE SNARKG AFTER ONE OF HIS EPIC FAILS OR PRS HIS BERSERK BUTTON. GLORY HOUND: FRASIER HAS A SPERATE NEED TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FOR HIS ACHIEVEMENTS. HOWEVER MOR THEY MAY BE.NIL: OH PLEASE, YOUR SIXTH GRA PRODUCTN OF OKLAHOMA! YOU TOOK SO MANY CURTA LLS MRS. VAN RAPHORST HAD TO LASSO YOU AND PULL YOU OM THE STAGE. FRASIER: THAT WOMAN NEVER UNRSTOOD ME OR THE ROLE OF FARMER NUMBER THREE! GOOD PARENTS: HE IS ONE TO FRERICK—EVEN WHEN THE BOY STARTS ACTG OUT AGAST HIM. GOSSIPY HENS: FRASIER IS PRETTY BAD AT KEEPG SECRETS. NOT MALICLY, BUT HIS ABILY TO TELL LI AND ATTENTN ISSU UALLY MEANS HE'LL BLAB QUICKLY. GUILTY PLEASUR: IN "DAPHNE'S ROOM," FRASIER STARTS PLAYG THE UAL CLASSIL MIC THAT HE LIK ON THE PIANO, AND THEN, REALIZG THAT HE HAS THE PLACE TO HIMSELF, HE GLADLY AND ENTHIASTILLY PLAYS AND SGS JERRY LEE LEWIS'S "GREAT BALLS OF FIRE." HAIR-TRIGGER TEMPER: DOWNPLAYED. WHILE NOT AGGRSIVE, FRASIER ISN’T A HARD MAN TO IRRATE OR ANGER. GENERALLY, ANNOYANC MOUNTG UP ON HIM WILL E HIM TO SUDNLY EXPLO AND START RANTG ABOUT EVERY LTLE THG THAT ANNOYS HIM. HAS A TYPE: INSISTS HE'S DRAWN TO SMART, PABLE, SOPHISTITED WOMEN. JUDGG BY HIS DATG RERD, HIS TYPE SEEMS MORE LIKE ANY WOMAN WHO'S REMOTELY TERTED HIM. ROZ STAT HIS TYP ARE TOTAL BCH, WHOM HE'S ATTRACTED TO SOLELY SO HE N "FIX" THEM. BY "DON JUAN HELL" FRAISER FALLY REALIZ HIS TYPE IS HIS MOTHER. IRONILLY, FRASIER IS A FRDIAN. HEROIC BSOD: GO THROUGH A IL VERSN OF THIS AFTER HE TEMPORARILY LOS HIS JOB AT KACL. HE ALSO GO TO SPASMS OF "OH MY GOD!" EXCLAMATNS WHEN HE FDS OUT NIL SLEPT WH LILH. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH NIL. HONORARY UNCLE: TO ROZ'S DGHTER ALICE. HORRIBLE JUDGE OF CHARACTER: LARGELY DUE TO JUDGG PEOPLE BASED ON APPEARANC. I GAVE MY WORD: ONE OF THE SHOW'S UAL MEANS OF TORTURG HIM. FRASIER STANDS BY HIS WORD, OFTEN UALLY MAKG HIM FALL TO SUATNS WHERE HE'D REALLY, REALLY LIKE TO BREAK , BUT N'T, AND TRI LOOKG FOR A LOOPHOLE OR WAY OUT. IGNORED EPIPHANY: NO MATTER HOW MANY TIM HIS OBSSIVE NPICKG BRGS MISERY TO HIS LIFE, EHER ROMANTILLY OR JT GENERAL, HE NEVER LEARNS TO JT LET GO OF THGS. INCREDIBLY LAME FUN: MALY BEE HE'S SO SNOBBISH, BUT SOME OF FRASIER'S IAS OF FUN N FALL HERE, TO THE EXTENT HIS KACL WORKERS DCH HIS PARTI. NIL IS ABOUT THE ONLY ONE WHO ENJOYS FRASIER'S PARTY GAM, AND EVEN HE HAS HIS LIMS, AS SEEN "ROOM FULL OF HERO", WHERE FRASIER'S PLAN FOR HALLOWEEN NIGHT IS DISCSG THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT. MYSTERLY, ALL THE PEOPLE HE VED WHO WEREN'T ROZ ME DOWN WH SUDN PLAGUE. INSUFFERABLE GENI: HE IS VERY TELLIGENT, AND HE'LL LET YOU KNOW IF HE FDS A CHANCE TO SHOW OFF. I REMBLE THAT REMARK!: "POMPOUS AND SANCTIMONIOUS, AM I?!" IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: PLAYED FOR LGHS MOST TIM. FRASIER N BE MONUMENTALLY SELF-ABSORBED, SUCH AS ASSUMG NIL AND LILH SLEPT TOGETHER WHILE DNK SOLELY TO GET AT HIM, OR WHEN NIL AND DAPHNE HAVE AN ARGUMENT, AND HE FOC ON SOME SULT THROWN AT HIM. IVY LEAGUE FOR EVERYONE: HE WENT TO HARVARD, AS HE OFTEN LIK TO REMD PEOPLE. IT'S SOMETHG KATE SNARKS AT HIM ABOUT, NOTG HE SEEMS PABLE OF GOG A SENTENCE WHOUT NAME-DROPPG HIS ALMA MATER. WHEN BRIEFG THE GANG ABOUT HIS BROTHER'S HEART SURGEON, HE EXPRS HIS DISSATISFACTN AT THE SURGEON HAVG GONE TO TULANE'S MEDIL SCHOOL, BUT APPROVED OF NIL' AHLOGIST BEG OM DE. JERKASS BALL: OFTEN TREATS DAPHNE LIKE A SERVANT, MANDG SHE GET THE DOOR FOR HIM WHENEVER RGS. GO AS FAR AS MAKG HER DO HOEWORK HIS FLAT AFTER SHE'S MARRIED NIL, ALL THE MORE AWFUL BEE AT THE TIME SHE WAS PREGNANT. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: AS EGOCENTRIC, ARROGANT AND SELF-SERVG AS HE N BE, FRASIER IS A GOOD MAN AT HEART AND TLY R ABOUT THE PEOPLE HIS LIFE. LAME PUN REACTN: HE'S FOND OF THE JOKE "FRDIAN SLIP" REFERENCE TO A PSYCHIATRIST TRIPPG OR FALLG SOMEHOW. NO ONE EVER LGHS WHEN HE MAK , NOT EVEN THOSE WHO PROBABLY UNRSTAND . LARGE HAM: LOUD, PRETENT, AND A TOTAL DRAMA QUEEN. LIMED SOCIAL CIRCLE: SEVERAL EPISOS DRAW ATTENTN TO THE FACT THAT HE DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY CLOSE IENDS SEATTLE BIS NIL OR ROZ. THIS IS OFTEN NTRASTED WH HIS MUCHER LARGER SOCIAL CIRCLE OM CHEERS. HIS ATTEMPTS TO RECTIFY THIS BY MAKG NEW IENDS ALWAYS END UP FAILG AND SENDG HIM BACK TO NIL. LONG RUNNER: INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER VERSN. BY THE END OF FRASIER KELSEY GRAMMER HAD PLAYED DR. CRANE FOR TWENTY YEARS, TYG THE RERD WH MATT DILLON AS PORTRAYED BY JAM ARNS ON GUNSMOKE, UNTIL THE RERD WAS SURPASSED BY JOHN MUNCH (FOR LIVE-ACTN TV) AND THE SIMPSONS (FOR TV OVERALL). MIRROR CHARACTER: THE RECURRG GAG WH FRASIER'S S COM ARCH NEMIS, CAM WSTON, WAS THAT CAM WAS ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE FRASIER, JT SLIGHTLY MORE SUCCSFUL AT . MISSG MOM: FRASIER'S MOTHER HTER CRANE, HAS BEEN AD FOR SEVERAL YEARS BY THE TIME THE SERI STARTS. MOMMA'S BOY: IT'S PRETTY CLEAR HE GOT ON BETTER WH HTER FAR MORE THAN HE EVER DID WH MART. POSSIBLY TOO BETTER, SCE FRASIER - EVER THE FRDIAN FANBOY - IS NVCED HE'S GOT OEDIPAL ISSU, EVEN THKG AT ONE POT HIS LOVE FOR HIS MOTHER IS WHY ALL HIS RELATNSHIPS HAVE GONE BELLY-UP, SCE NONE OF HIS WIV ULD EVER MATCH UP TO MOM. MORAL MYOPIA: WHEN NNG FOR PRINT OF THEIR WE CLUB, FRASIER SISTS NIL SUPPORT HIS NDIDACY, BUT IS OUTRAGED WHEN NIL DON'T, EVEN THOUGH HE HAD NO TENTN OF DOG THE SAME FOR HIM. THOUGH TO BE ENTIRELY FAIR TO HIM, THE ISSUE WAS MALY BEE NIL HAD EARLIER PROMISED TO SUPPORT HIS NDIDACY, ONLY TO GO BACK ON HIS WORD AND N FOR THE PRINCY HIMSELF, BETRAYG FRASIER THE PROCS. NEVER MY FLT: ZIG-ZAGGED OM TIME TO TIME AS WHENEVER FRASIER CREAT A PROBLEM (ALBE SOMETIM DIRECTLY), HE JT NNOT BRG HIMSELF TO OWN UP TO . FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN HE MAK THE LUDICROLY OVER-DONE SONG FOR AN INT, HE SISTS KENNY DIDN'T TELL HIM NOT TO, EVEN THOUGH THE WORD "JGLE" SHOULD'VE BEEN A TIP-OFF. NICE TO THE WAER: WELL, HE TRI. MOST OF THE TIME, HE'S ACTUALLY VERY RDIAL AND POLE TO SERVG STAFF AND SERVICE WORKERS, 'S JT THAT HIS NEED FOR EVERYTHG TO BE JT SO OFTEN MEANS THAT HE WDS UP ANNOYG THEM WH HIS REQUTS WHEN SOMETHG ISN'T EXACTLY HOW HE WANTS . BT SHOWN THE SEASON 1 FALE "MY COFFEE WH NIL" WHERE HE SPENDS AN ENTIRE EPISO SENDG A FFEE ORR BACK BEE OF SOME SMALL PLAT. NOT SO ABOVE IT ALL: THOUGH 'S LS MON ON HIS OWN SHOW THAN ON CHEERS, FRASIER IS FELY PABLE OF CUTTG LOOSE AND HANGG OUT WH THE BOYS. WHEN ALONE THE APARTMENT AND PLAYG PIANO, HE SHIFTS OM PLAYG A CLASSIC PIECE TO A BOISTERO RENDN OF "GREAT BALLS OF FIRE", THEN BACK TO CLASSIL WHEN MART AND PANY E . WHEN WOODY DROPS BY, FRASIER GO TO HIS BEER-SWILLG CHEERS PERSONA. MART IS AMAZED. IN ANOTHER EPISO WHEN GOG THROUGH A STT OF LONELS, HE STARTS VISG A BAR THAT DAPHNE EQUENTS AND FS RIGHT WH THE OTHER PATRONS. IN SEASON 2'S "LOVE B DOG" WHEN BULLDOG BE A LADYKILLER LOVE AND IS HEARTBROKEN WHEN HE'S DUMPED, FRASIER TRI TO E HIS UAL PSYCHIATRY TO MAKE HIM FEEL BETTER UNTIL BULLDOG ASKS HIM TO BE "LIKE A GUY". CUE FRASIER GIVG A LOUD TTOSTERONE POISONG RANT ABOUT HOW SHE WAS NO GOOD FOR HIM AND HE N DO BETTER, AND HE'S GOG TO GO OUT TOMORROW AND HAVE A ONE-NIGHT FLG WH SOMEONE EVEN HOTTER AND WON'T FEEL BAD ABOUT G HER, "BEE WE'RE GUYS, AND THAT'S WHAT GUYS DO!" HE GETS SO TO CHARACTER THAT HE KEEPS TALKG THAT WAY TO NIL AND HAS TO BE SLAPPED TO HIS SENS. ZIGZAGGED WHEN TO RIVALRI WH THOSE WHO TRY TO EMBARRASS HIM OR SHOW HIM UP — ON OCSN HE'LL SK TO THEIR LEVEL AND GET THEM BACK AT THEIR OWN GAME, OTHER TIM HE'LL BE SATISFIED WH MAKG SURE THEY KNOW HE N GET THEM BACK BUT LETS THEM OFF THE HOOK. NOT THAT KD OF DOCTOR: DOWNPLAYED. WHILE HE DO HAVE A MEDIL GREE (OM HARVARD, THANK YOU) AND THE FACT BOTH HE AND NIL ARE QUALIFIED PHYSICIANS GETS BROUGHT UP ALL THE TIME, FRASIER'S PRACTICE THIS SHOW IS LIMED TO DISPENSG ADVICE ON THE RAD — SOMETHG FOR WHICH NIL, WHO HAS ACTUAL PATIENTS, EQUENTLY MOCKS HIM. DON'T STOP HIM TRYG TO BOSS ACTUAL HOSPAL DOCTORS AROUND WHEN NIL GO FOR SURGERY.DOCTOR: WELL, IF YOU'RE SUCH AN EXPERT, MAYBE YOU SHOULD PERFORM THE SURGERY YOURSELF! FRASIER: MAYBE I SHOULD! NIL: [WEAKLY] DAAAAAAD! MART: FRASIER, YOU'RE NOT OPERATG ON YOUR BROTHER. PRIMA DONNA DIRECTOR: IN "HAM RAD", NIL STAT HE HAS AN ORSON WELL COMPLEX, BEG UNABLE TO STOP DIRECTG. NIL IS RIGHT ON THE MONEY, AS OVER THE URSE OF THE EPISO FRASIER'S OBSSIVE POMPOSY DRIV ONE OF THE ST MEMBERS TO QU AFTER AN ENTIRE EVENG OF BEG BADGERED BY FRASIER OVER HIS ACCENTS. AT THE CLIMAX OF THE EPISO, FRASIER'S OVER-DIRECTG NIL TO SNAP AND SABOTAGE THE ENTIRE SHOW OM TRATN. AGA "THEY'RE PLAYG OUR SONG", HE NPICKS AND OVERDIRECTS AN ORCHTRA MUCH THE SAME WAY. AND THERE'S THAT TIME HE TRI TO MICRO-MANAGE A STRIPPER. THIS ONE SOMEHOW ENDS UP WH THEM HANDCUFFED TO ONE ANOTHER. ROSE WAS RIGHT: FRASIER THKS SO — HE NOT A FEW EPISOS CENTERG ON EXPLORG THE IA THAT HE BELIEV EVERYONE IS A GOOD PERSON EP DOWN, AND IF YOU JT GIVE THEM A CHANCE AND BELIEVE THEM, THEY WILL DO THE RIGHT THG. PROVED WRONG WHEN BULLDOG IS A PLETE KARMA HOUDI FOR DOG A REPREHENSIBLE ACT, EVEN GETTG REWARD. HOWEVER, HIS SELFISHNS IS SHOWN UP BY THE END OF THE EPISO WHERE HE HIS OWN MOTHER AS A HUMAN SHIELD. SCREAMS LIKE A LTLE GIRL: ON ONE OCSN PARTICULAR, MART SR HIM AND NIL THKG WAS A WOMAN. SELF-SERVG MEMORY: NOT SURPRISGLY, FRASIER'S RELLECTNS TEND TO OVERLOOK HIS FLTS, FLAWS AND MISTAK. SQUIPEDALIAN LOQUACNS: A HAB THAT OFTEN IRRAT THOSE AROUND HIM.FRASIER: (TO A LLER) YOU HAVE MY SYMPATHI, THERE IS NOTHG WORSE THAN PRETENT AND POTLS EDN. SHARP-DRSED MAN: HE'S ALMOST ALWAYS WEARG A VERY EXPENSIVE SU. THE SHRK: BEFORE THE SERI, FRASIER WAS A PRACTICG PSYCHIATRIST; HOWEVER UPON MOVG TO SEATTLE, HE GOT A JOB AS AND SPENT THE SERI WORKG AS A RAD SHRK. HOWEVER, TOWARDS THE END HE BEGAN TO REALISE HE MISSED BEG ABLE TO DO MORE FOR HIS PATIENTS. SIBLG RIVALRY: WH NIL. THE TWO NSTANTLY TRY TO OUTDO THE OTHER WHEN ONE OF THEM GETS SOME SORT OF REGNN OR POSN THE OTHER LACKS, OR OUTDO THE OTHER A PETN. RENSTCTED QUE WELL WHEN THE TWO OPENLY DISCS THEIR NSTANT NEED TO ONE-UP THE OTHER AND REALIZE THAT THEIR MUTUAL FEAR OF BEG OUTDONE PROBABLY HELPED MOTIVATE THEM TO BEE AS SUCCSFUL AND TELLIGENT AS THEY ARE, MAKG THEIR RIVALRY AN ULTIMATELY POSIVE FLUENCE ON THEIR LIV. SIBLG TEAM: WH NIL, PECIALLY MON THE EARLIER SEASONS. THEY NEVER WORK OUT THOUGH—WHENEVER THE TWO LLABORATE ON ANYTHG, THEIR RIVALRY SPLS THEM BACK UP. LAMPSHAD BY JULIA:JULIA: BYE, FRASIER. BYE, EMERGENCY FRASIER. NIL: [SEETHG] OOO, I DON'T LIKE HER. SOPHISTITED AS HELL: HE'S AN TED AND URTEO MAN (AND WANTS TO BE SEEN AS SUCH), BUT ON RARE OCSNS HE'LL LIBERATELY BE VULGAR. SORE LOSER: PART AND PARCEL OF HIS OBSSIVE TENNCI. AND THAT'S IF HE NCES FEAT THE FIRST PLACE. WHEN HE AND NIL N FOR PRINT OF THEIR WE CLUB, FRASIER MANDS NO LS THAN FOUR REUNTS WHEN NIL WS, AND STILL TRI TO UNRME HIM AFTERWARD ANYWAY. THE TELL: WHEN FRASIER HAS KNOWGLY BROKEN HIS ETHIL , HE STARTS HAVG ATTACKS OF NSEA. TRAMARK FAVORE DRK: SHERRY. SO MUCH SO THAT HIS ACUNTANT HAS TO HIRE AN ASSISTANT SPECIFILLY TO LCULATE FRASIER'S SHERRY EXPENS. TROPHY WIFE: INVERTED DURG HIS RELATNSHIP WH SUCCSFUL LAWYER SAMANTHA PIERCE, WHERE HE'S THE TROPHY BOYIEND, EVEN GETTG SURROUND BY ALL THE TROPHY GIRLIENDS WHEN LEFT ALONE AT A PARTY, WHO START OFFERG SYMPATHY, AND RECG THE UAL EXC OM MEMORY. UNRELIABLE NARRATOR: WAS GIL TRYG TO STEAL FRASIER'S TIME SLOT THE FORMER'S FIRST APPEARANCE? FRASIER WAS PARANOID AND EHER SICK OR HIGH AS A KE DURG THE EPISO, AND LATER APPEARANC GIL WASN'T THE NNIVG SMUG SNAKE HE WAS PORTRAYED AS. (WELL, SMUG, Y, BUT NOT AN ANTAGONIST.) UNROLVED SEXUAL TENSN: SEVERAL EPISOS HIGHLIGHT THAT FRASIER AND LILH BOTH HAVE SHAS OF THIS. UNSYMPATHETIC COMEDY PROTAGONIST: NOT ALWAYS- HE'S OFTEN QUE SYMPATHETIC. BUT THIS FELY TO PLAY DURG SOME OF HIS MORE JERKASS MOMENTS, OR WHEN HE'S MANAGG TO TOTALLY SCREW UP YET ANOTHER PROMISG RELATNSHIP. UNWANTED ASSISTANCE: HE'S OBVLY POPULAR AND HELPFUL ON THE RAD, SCE THEY KEEP HIM ON THE AIR AND HE UALLY HAS A GOOD FLUX OF LLERS. HOWEVER HIS ATTEMPTS TO GIVE ADVICE TO HIS IENDS AND FAY OFTEN BACKFIRE HORRIBLY, AND THEY LL HIM OUT ON .FRASIER: WELL NIL, IF YOU WANT MY ADVICE- NIL: [DLY THREATENG] OOO, YOU KNOW, YOU REALLY NEED TO STOP SAYG THAT. VRLIC BT BUDS: WH NIL AND ROZ.     NIL CRANE NIL CRANE, M.D."ALL MY LIFE I HAVE DREAMED OF ONE THG: THE DAY I ULD GO TO A LIBRARY AND GO TO THE RD TALOG AND SEE MY NAME UNR 'MENTAL ILLNS'."PLAYED BY: DAVID HY PIERCE"I'VE GOT MY PULSIVE SPENDG SEMAR, AND I'M HOPG TO UNLOAD THE RT OF THE RAFFLE TICKETS."FRASIER'S BROTHER, EVEN MORE UPTIGHT AND SNOOTY THAN HE IS. INIALLY MARRIED TO A MANIPULATIVE BCH NAMED MARIS AND AN EXTREME DOORMAT, HE FALLS LOVE WH DAPHNE AT FIRST SIGHT. HIS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT OVER THE SERI HAS HIM GROW A BACKBONE AS HE TRI TO PE HIS CREASGLY UNHEALTHY MARRIAGE AND SOME DAY NFS HIS FEELGS TO DAPHNE. ABORTED DECLARATN OF LOVE: THE FEW TIM HE FALLY WORKS UP THE URAGE TO TELL DAPHNE HOW HE FEELS, SOMETHG HAPPENS THAT MAK APPROPRIATE OR OTHERWISE SR HIM OFF. ALWAYS SEND BT: EARLY ON, 'S TABLISHED NIL FEELS THIS WAY ABOUT FRASIER, EVEN THOUGH ON PAPER NIL IS THE MORE SUCCSFUL OF THE TWO - STILL MARRIED, AN EMENT PSYCHIATRIST WH HIS OWN PRACTICE AND HIGH TEEM AMONG HIS PEERS - SIMPLY BEE OF FRASIER BEG THE FIRST-BORN. AWFUL WEDD LIFE: WHILE IALLY SEEMS LIKE HE AND MARIS ARE LARGELY NTENT, THERE ARE A FEW HTS RIGHT OM THE OFF 'S NOT AS PERFECT AS NIL CLAIMS (HE ALREADY HAD BROCHUR FOR A RETIREMENT HOME READY TO GO). AS THE SEASONS GO BY, 'S MA CLEAR NIL WAS TREATED SHABBILY THROUGH THE WHOLE THG, PULATG TO MARIS'S EVERY MAND OR WHIM, NEVER ONCE BEG ALLOWED ANY LEEWAY OR NSIRATN, HAVG TO BUY HER EXPENSIVE GIFTS AS APOLOGI FOR ANY GAFFE, SUCH AS TRYG TO GROW A MTACHE (THOUGH FRASIER SNARKS HE OWED EVERYONE AN APOLOGY FOR THAT). BEAT: ONE OF NIL' TRAMARKS, UALLY FOLLOWED BY A ADPAN SNARK. BERSERK BUTTON: STAY AWAY OM DAPHNE WHEN HE'S AROUND. HTG ON HER MAK HIM ANGRY AND HURTG HER FEELGS JT MAK WORSE. THOUGH FRASIER AND MART HOLD HIM BACK AND TALK HIM DOWN WHEN HE GETS TEMPTED TO E VLENCE THE SUATNS, HE WON'T HATE TO THROW OUT AN ARTICULATE "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH.BREAKOUT CHARACTER--> BREAK THE CUTIE: AS MUCH EDY AS THEY ME OM HIS AWFUL WEDD LIFE WH MARIS, ALSO N BE PLAYED FOR DRAMA WHEN THEY SHOW JT HOW BADLY HER EMOTNAL ABE HAS AFFECTED HIM. MORE THAN ONCE FRASIER HAS TO REASSURE HIM THAT THE MARRIAGE FAILG WASN'T ACTUALLY HIS FLT. HE GETS BETTER WHEN HE'S WH DAPHNE, AS SHE'S STILL DOMATG BUT THEY'RE HAPPILY MARRIED. BREAK THE HGHTY: AS WH FRASIER, A MAJOR THEME IS THAT ONE OR BOTH OF THEM GET BROKEN OVER THE URSE OF AN EPISO. NIL'S BREAKG HOWEVER TAK PLACE OVER SEVERAL SEASONS AS HIS DIVORCE STS HIM HIS HOME, HIS LIFTYLE, AND HIS REPUTATN. BULLY MAG: IN AN EPISO, NIL NONTS HIS FORMER JUNR HIGH SCHOOL BULLY, DANNY KREASEL. DANNY EXPRS REGRET OVER HIS PAST ACTNS, BUT POTS OUT HIS FENSE THAT NIL SHOWED UP TO SCHOOL A TWEED BLAZER WH ELBOW PATCH RRYG A VALISE. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: NIL SUFFERS OM MULTIPLE NROS OF HIS OWN, RANGG OM ECCENTRIC, LIKE HIS GERMAPHOBIA, TO SER, FOR EXAMPLE THE MANY SRS THAT HIS MARAL PROBLEMS HAVE ED. NEVERTHELS HE IS AN ACPLISHED AND QUE PABLE PSYCHIATRIST. CAMP STRAIGHT: LIKE HIS BROTHER, OFTEN MISTAKEN FOR GAY DUE TO HIS REFED TAST. CANNOT SP IT OUT: IT TAK HIM SEVEN YEARS TO NFS TO DAPHNE HE HAS A THG FOR HER. AND EVEN THEN 'S ONLY BEE FRASIER HAS ALREADY ACCINTALLY SP OUT TO HER. LAMPSHAD THE SEND EPISO OF SEASON EIGHT, "THE BAD SON", WHEN NIL ENURAG FRASIER TO BE BOLD AND PURSUE A WOMAN HE WAS ATTRACTED TO:NIL: TAKE A CHAPTER OM MY BOOK! FRASIER: EXACTLY WHICH CHAPTER WOULD THAT BE? NIL: .. LAST CHAPTER. CATCHPHRASE: IN RPONSE TO AN SULTG SCRIPTN OF HIM OR SOMETHG HE DO—"GASP! I—AM/DO—NOT!" IN A SIAR VE: "HOW! DARE YOU!!!" ALSO WELL I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY! AND THE POOR THG (THE LATTER GENERALLY REFERRG TO MARIS). REFERRG TO MARIS AS "MY MARIS". CHARACTER TICS: HE HAS A PARTICULAR STAGGER HE BREAKS OUT WHENEVER HE'S EMOTNALLY DISTRSED. CHICK MAG: NOT TO QUE THE SAME EXTENT AS FRASIER, THOUGH WH THE OBV JTIFITN THAT HE SPENDS A LOT OF THE SERI MARRIED, BUT NIL HAS SEVERAL WOMEN DRAWN TO HIM OVER THE SERI. COMPRSED VICE: IS SUBJECT TO THIS. FOR EXAMPLE, ONE TWO-PART EPISO, HE BE AN ARNT NUDIST. HE CUR HIMSELF OF THAT KK BY THE END. CONSPICUO CONSUMPTN: EVEN WHEN DUMPED BY MARIS AND SUFFERG SEVERE SH-FLOW PROBLEMS WH THE LAWYERS, NIL FDS SANELY DIFFICULT TO RTRICT HIS BUDGET. IN FACT, HE FDS DIFFICULT TO OPERATE ON A BUDGET THE FIRST PLACE, REQUIRG FRASIER TO STEP AND TELL HIM TO START DOWNSIZG. COVERT PERVERT: CHECKG OUT DAPHNE'S BEHD—NSTANTLY... GETS LAMPSHAD WHEN DAPHNE LOOKS AT OLD PHOTOS AND NOTIC HOW MANY SHOW HIM STARG AT HER BUM. THOUGH SHE LGHS OFF BEE THEY'RE NOW MARRIED. WHEN FRASIER SCRIB A FLIRTATN WH A POLICEWOMAN HE'D MET, NIL SUDNLY BEGS PROJECTG A RATHER STARTLG WAY: NIL: IT'S OBV WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO HER. THE GLEAM OF HER BADGE; THE SWG OF HER NIGHTSTICK... DAMNED BY FAT PRAISE: NIL IS OFTEN ON BOTH THE RECEIVG AND GIVG END OF THIS.BULLDOG: HEY, DR. DOOLTLE! I HEARD YOUR SHOW. IT DIDN'T SUCK! NIL: AH. "DEAR DIARY..." THE DANDY: HIS SUS TEND TO BE EVEN TRENDIER THAN FRASIER'S. DEADPAN SNARKER: FRASIER'S W TENDS TO BE MORE DRY, NIL' TENDS TO BE MORE POLELY FACET. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: COM PRETTY CLOSE TO THIS AFTER DAPHNE GETS ENGAGED TO DONNY. DTERAGONIST: WHILE EARLIER SEASONS FOCED MOSTLY ON FRASIER, THE FOC GRADUALLY SHIFTED UNTIL NIL WAS EASILY AS IMPORTANT TO THE SERI AS HIS BROTHER. DOGGED NICE GUY: TOWARDS DAPHNE. DOUBLE TAKE: NIL IS A MASTER AT THIS. IN "THE MATCHMAKER", NIL THKS TOM, THE NEW STATN MANAGER, IS CHASG DAPHNE, WHO HAS A THG FOR HIM.TOM: OH. IT MT BE ALL MY HEAD, BUT I SENSED THAT YOU HAD A PROBLEM WH ME DATG FRASIER. NIL: [HGHTY] WELL, IF YOU MT KNOW... [DOUBLE TAKE, PSE] I'M SORRY, WHAT WAS THE QUTN? TOM: DO YOU HAVE SOME PROBLEM WH ME DATG YOUR BROTHER? NIL: [SERENE AND SMUG] NO. DRAMA QUEEN: FOR THE SAME REASONS AS FRASIER. DRK-BASED CHARACTERIZATN: SAME AS FRAS, THE MAN LIK HIS SHERRY. IT'S A SIGN OF JT HOW RATTLED HE IS WHEN THGS WH MARIS GO TO MELTDOWN THAT HE'S SWIGGG BEER. FROM A N, NO LS. DROP-IN CHARACTER: USUALLY TO APPARENTLY RETURN SOMETHG OF FRASIER'S, TO PICK HIM UP FOR SOMETHG, OR JT TO GET AWAY OM MARIS, BUT UALLY THERE'S THE UNRLYG SIRE JT TO SEE DAPHNE. LAMPSHAD ONCE HE AND DAPHNE FALLY GET TOGETHER.NIL: [TO DAPHNE] A PATIENT NCELED, SO I THOUGHT I'D... DROP BY AND SEE YOU. OH MY GOD, YOU HAVE NO IA HOW GOOD FEELS TO SAY THAT. I'M HERE TO SEE YOU! NO MORE FLIMSY PRETENS. NO MORE MAKG TED SMALL TALK WH DAD! MART: HEY NIL, 'S 82 FLORIDA! NIL: HERE TO SEE DAPHNE, DAD! EMBARRASSG NICKNAME: PIL, AS A KID. THE COYOTE, WHEN HE MOV TO THE SHANGRI-LA. FATG: ESPECIALLY AT THE SIGHT OF BLOOD. FLAT "WHAT": DO THIS QUE A LOT, WHENEVER HE'S SERVG AS THE STRAIGHT MAN. FOIL: PLAYED WH; NIL OFTEN HIGHLIGHTS AND UNRSR A LOT OF FRASIER'S OWN CHARACTER TRAS, BUT LS BY DIRECT NTRAST AND MORE BEE HE'S EVEN MORE LIKE FRASIER THAN FRASIER IS.FRASIER: I'M A TEAMSTER PARED TO YOU! FRDIAN SLIP: ON OCSN WILL LET THE OUT, PECIALLY ABOUT HIS TE FEELGS REGARDG HIS WIFE AND DAPHNE. NIL: IT IS POSSIBLE TO MOVE A RELATNSHIP ALONG TOO FAST, AND ULTIMATELY MARRY TOO HASTILY. YOU ULD FD THAT A FEW YEARS DOWN THE LE ISN'T REALLY RIGHT FOR YOU, AND THEN WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU MEET THE RIGHT PERSON? SOMEONE WHO REALLY EXC YOU AND MAK YOU FEEL ALIVE? YOU N'T ACT UPON , BEE YOU'RE TRAPPED A STALE, ALBE FORTABLE, MARIS! [PS WHILE EVERYONE STAR] MARRIAGE. I HAVE TO GO NOW. GENTLEMAN AND A SCHOLAR: JT LIKE HIS BROTHER, WHILE NIL N BE ARROGANT AND ELIST, HE IS BOTH HIGHLY TED AND WELL-READ, BUT ALSO VERY RG AND PASSNATE TOWARDS HIS PATIENTS. GENTLEMAN SNARKER: HE N BE VICLY SARSTIC WHILE STILL SPEAKG AN EXTREMELY POLE FASHN. GOLD DIGGER: EVENTUALLY ANSWERED ONE EPISO, WHICH NIL ADDRS THE BIG UNSPOKEN QUTN: DID HE MARRY MARIS FOR HER MONEY? HE SAYS NO, BUT WAS A LIGHTFUL BON. GREEN-EYED MONSTER: HE SEETH AT THE THOUGHT OF SOMEONE TAKG DAPHNE'S ATTENTN, EVEN WHEN THAT SOMEONE IS HIS PRE-TEEN NEPHEW (THOUGHT 'S SUGGTED FRERICK N SEE AND KNOWS FULL WELL WHAT HE'S DOG). THE SAME WH MARIS. HE GETS TRATED WHEN FRASIER MENTNS HAVG ACCINTALLY SEEN HER NAKED THE SHOWER. THAT'S MORE THAN NIL TENDS TO SEE EVEN WHEN THEY WERE MARRIED. HE NSTANTLY MOCKS FRASIER BEG A LL- RAD HOST, BUT HE JT LOV BEG THE SPOTLIGHT, SUCH AS SUBBG FOR FRASIER OR BEG ON A TELEVISED URT SE. HAPPILY MARRIED: IN THE FIRST SEASON THE DIENCE WAS LED TO BELIEVE THIS OF HIM AND MARIS, SPE HER SELFISH MOMENTS—ALTHOUGH 'S SUBVERTED BY THE TIME OF THEIR DIVORCE. AFTER BREAKG UP WH MEL, ANOTHER WIFE HE DIDN'T LOVE, HE PLAYS STRAIGHT WH DAPHNE. HENPECKED HBAND: AN EXTREME DOORMAT FOR MARIS, THOUGH HE'S QUICK TO STAND ON HIS DIGNY WH ANYONE ELSE. THIS ENDS UP BEG NSTCTED AS THE SERI GO ON—HOW EASILY HE'S NTROLLED HIS ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS ENDS UP BEG THE SOURCE OF A GREAT AL OF SELF-TEEM ISSU AND UNHAPPS HIS LIFE, AND PART OF HIS VELOPMENT IS LEARNG TO STAND UP FOR HIMSELF. HEROIC BSOD: HE HAS MANY OF THE THROUGHOUT THE SERI, PROBABLY MORE THAN ANY OTHER CHARACTER, BUT MOST NOTABLY WHEN DAPHNE GETS ENGAGED TO DONNY. BEG FORCED TO S THROUGH THEIR ENGAGEMENT BREAKFAST THE NEXT EPISO CERTALY DIDN'T HELP. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH FRASIER. HONORARY UNCLE: TO ROZ'S DGHTER ALICE. HUIATN CONGA: ESPECIALLY SEASON 6. INSUFFERABLE GENI: HE'S THIS TO FRASIER, MUCH TO HIS OLR BROTHER'S NSTERNATN. HYPOCRE: IN THE SHOW'S EARLY SEASONS, NIL HAD A TENNCY TO MAKE BALD JOK AIMED AT FRASIER, EVEN THOUGH NIL' HAIR IS ALSO NOTICEABLY THNG. HE STILL HAS MORE HAIR THAN FRASIER, HOWEVER. HIS MANY JIB AT FRASIER'S RAD SHOW ARE CLEARLY DRIVEN BY ENVY OVER THE ATTENTN SUBSEQUENTLY GAS FRASIER, FOR ALL THAT HE TRI TO DRS UP AS BEG ABOUT THE SANCTY OF THE PSYCHIATRIC PROFSN. I WANT MY BELOVED TO BE HAPPY: DPE HOW MUCH HURTS HIM, NIL STEPS ASI WHEN WHEN DAPHNE GETS ENGAGED TO DONNY. HOWEVER, NIL ULTIMATELY ENDS UP WH DAPHNE THE END. I'LL PRETEND I DIDN'T HEAR THAT: JT AS PRONE AS FRASIER TO SUFFER BRA BLEACH, BUT HE'LL EXPRS WH THIS TROPE STEAD.[BEBE OPENS THE DOOR TO NIL A BATHROBE, AFTER HAVG SEX WH FRASIER THE NIGHT BEFORE] BEBE: GOOD MORNG, NIL! WHAT A LOVELY SURPRISE! WE WERE JT ABOUT TO S DOWN TO A BIG FAY BREAKFAST. WON'T YOU JO ? [NIL GIV A VERY OZEN SE, AND RGS THE DOORBELL AGA.] JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: HE N BE SNOOTY TO PEOPLE HE THKS LSER THAN HIM TASTE, BUT HE'S REALLY A KD MAN EVEN TO PEOPLE WHO AREN'T HIS IENDS—LOOKG AT HOW HE TREATS HIS PATIENTS IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS. THE KLUTZ: ON OCSN, NIL N TURN SOMETHG AS SIMPLE AS TCHG A PENNY HE TOSSED TO A CRGE-DUCG DISASTER, ENDG WH HIM LYG ON THE FLOOR SURROUND BY BRIS.MART: MAK YOU WONR WHAT GO ON AT THAT SQUASH URT. LETHAL KLUTZ: SHOWS SHAS OF THIS ON A UPLE OF OCSNS WHEN HE REPEATEDLY ACCINTALLY HURTS FRERICK AND KEEPS ALMOST ACCINTALLY JURG HIS FATHER. LONGG LOOK: HE SENT SO MANY OF THE AT DAPHNE THAT THEY PROVI THE TROPE IMAGE. FRASIER, AND OCSNALLY MART, EQUENTLY HAD TO TELL HIM OFF FOR STARG AT HER SO MUCH WHEN HE WAS "HAPPILY" MARRIED TO MARIS. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT: CLAIMS AS MUCH ABOUT MARIS, HAVG APPARENTLY FIRST SEEN HER TRYG SPERATELY TO GET BACK TO HER MANSN WHEN THE GATE WASN'T WORKG, THOUGH LATER MENTS SUGGT SPERATN ON NIL'S PART PLAYED A ROLE AS WELL. IT WAS AT LEAST THIS WAY FOR NIL WHEN HE FIRST MET DAPHNE. MISSG MOM: HIS MOTHER IS CEASED BY THE TIME OF THE SHOW. NEAT FREAK: INPABLE OF STG DOWN ON A SEAT WHOUT WIPG DOWN FIRST. A FLASHBACK SEASON 3 HAS FRASIER MENTN HE'S BEEN LIKE THIS SCE THEY WERE FOUR, AT THE VERY LEAST. NERVO WRECK: AS THE SHOW GO ON, AND HIS PROBLEMS WH MARIS GET WORSE, HE BE MORE AND MORE PRONE TO PANIC ATTACKS. NICE TO THE WAER: HE'S MENTNED AS GIVG VERY GENERO TIPS TO THE STAFF AT CAFE NERVOSA, WHICH BE A PLOT POT WHEN HE HAS A HEROIC BSOD AT ONE POT, STRIPS HIS CLOTH OFF, AND ONE OF SAID WAERS THREATENS TO LL THE PS:ROZ: THE HELL YOU ARE! THIS MAN’S TIPS ALONE HAVE PROBABLY PAID FOR ALL THE POT YOU’LL EVER SMOKE! HE ALSO APPEARS TO HAVE TREATED HIS AND MARIS'S SERVANTS MUCH BETTER THAN MARIS DID, IF THIS LTLE EXCHANGE WHEN HE'S BIDDG FAREWELL TO THEM IS AN DITN:MARTA: THE STAFF, THEY HAVE A QUTN: N WE E WH YOU? [EVERYONE ASSEMBLED STEPS FORWARD HOPEFULLY] THAT SAID, HE N BE JT AS POMPO AS FRASIER, 'S JT BEHD THEIR BACKS RATHER THAN THEIR FACE LIKE FRASIER TENDS TO BE. AT ONE POT, FRAS EVEN ACC HIM OF PUTTG THIS ON AS A PRETENSE AROUND DAPHNE, CG A TIME HE MA A SCENE AT THE GROCERY STORE SIMPLY BEE THE BAG BOY PUT ICE CREAM ON TOP OF HIS VEGGI.NIL: THAT YOUNG MAN WAS ON DGS AND EVERYONE KNEW ! OBLIV TO LOVE: AFTER MOVG ON OM DAPHNE SEASON 7, 'S NIL' TURN TO BE CLUELS TO HER FEELGS FOR HIM. PUNGEON MASTER: ESPECIALLY WHEN HE'S LIVERED A SILLY PUN AND N BARELY KEEP OM GIGGLG. REMEMBER THE NEW GUY?: DPE BEG FRASIER'S BROTHER, AT NO POT DURG FRAS'S TIME ON CHEERS DID HE EVER MENTN OR HT THAT HE HAD A BROTHER. GETS A LAMPSHA HANGG "THE ONE WHERE SAM SHOWS UP", AND NIL IS MIFFED TO LEARN FRASIER NEVER TOLD THE GANG ABOUT HIM.NIL: FRASIER, I DON'T MD TELLG YOU I'M A LTLE OFFEND THAT ALL THE TIME YOU SPENT SWAPPG BON MOTS WH THE BEER-NUT SET, YOU NEVER ONCE MENTNED YOU HAD A BROTHER?! SAM: WELL, YOU KNOW, THE TTH IS, I BET HE SAID SOMETHG, 'S JT THAT WHEN FRASIER GETS GOG YOU KD OF HAVE TO TUNE HIM OUT. NIL: [ALMOST GIGGLG] THAT'S A GOOD SLOGAN FOR HIS RAD SHOW — "DR. FRASIER CRANE: WHEN HE GETS GOG, YOU HAVE TO TUNE HIM OUT." REPLACEMENT FLAT CHARACTER: THE FORMER TROPE NAMER — NIL IS SENTIALLY WHAT FRASIER WAS ON CHEERS WH FRASIER VELOPG TO A MORE ROUND CHARACTER. NIL THEN GO ON TO VELOP TO HIS OWN DISTCT CHARACTER SEPARATE OM BOTH THE CURRENT FRASIER AND HIS ORIGAL CHEERS PERSONA.FRASIER: [SNARKG] I'M A TEAMSTER PARED TO YOU! LAMPSHAD BY SAM MALONE WHEN HE FIRST MEETS NIL:SAM: WOW... MAN, THIS IS EAKY. HE LOOKS JT LIKE YOU DID WHEN I MET YOU. [NUDG FRASIER] WHAT HAPPENED, HUH? FRASIER: [SG] WASN'T EXACTLY A HEALTH CLUB YOU WERE NNG THERE, SAM. ACRDG TO THE WRERS, MUCH OF THE HUMOR OM THEM BEG SO SIAR, WHEN MOST SS WOULD HAVE THEM BEG DIAMETRILLY OPPOSE. (OF URSE, MART PROVIS THAT NFLICT - WH BOTH OF THEM.) SQUIPEDALIAN LOQUACNS: LIKE FRASIER, HE'S VERY VERBOSE AND HAS AN EXTENSIVE VOBULARY. SEX GOD: AFTER HE AND DAPHNE FALLY HAVE SEX, SHE TELLS ROZ THAT "HE'S SPOILED ME FOR ANY OTHER MAN". THIS SURPRIS ROY WHO ASSUMED HE WAS THE OPPOSE. SEXLS MARRIAGE: EVEN THE FIRST SEASON 'S MA CLEAR NIL AND MARIS DO NOT SLEEP TOGETHER OFTEN. NOT LEAST BEE NIL HAS TO SLEEP A SEPARATE BED. IN ANOTHER ROOM. OBVLY LS SO WH DAPHNE.NIL: WE PHED OUR BEDS TOGETHER THAT NIGHT, WHICH TAK SOME DOG. AS YOU KNOW, MARIS'S ROOM IS ACROSS THE HALL. SHADOW ARCHETYPE: ACRDG TO DAVID HY PIERCE, HE'S WHAT FRASIER WOULD BE IF HE NEVER MET THE ST OF CHEERS. SHARP-DRSED MAN: HE WEARS SUS EVEN MORE OFTEN THAN FRASIER DO. USUALLY, IF HE ISN'T, 'S A SIGN SOMETHG IS TERRIBLY WRONG, LIKE WHEN FRASIER AND MART FD HIM LOUNGG AROUND A HAWAIIAN SHIRT. ONCE HE MARRI DAPHNE HE STARTS DRSG MORE SUALLY, ALTHOUGH MORE TASTEFULLY THAN THE AFOREMENTNED HAWAIIAN SHIRT, WHEN NOT AT WORK IMPLYG SHE'S FALLY HELPED HIM TO LOOSEN UP. THE SHRK: NIL IS A WELL-RPECTED PSYCHIATRIST AND EVEN FRASIER ONCE ACKNOWLEDG HE MIGHT BE THE BETTER OF THE TWO. SIBLG RIVALRY: WH HIS BROTHER, FRASIER, WHICH PARTICULARLY SMARTS WH HIM AS THE YOUNGER CHILD. IT'S THIS RIVALRY THAT DROVE HIM TO BEE SUCH A SUCCS HIS PRACTICE. SIBLG TEAM: OCSNALLY WH FRASIER, AS THE TWO SOMETIM LLABORATE ON ISSU OF PSYCHIATRY OR PERSONAL PROJECTS (LIKE OWNG A RTRANT.) IT VARIABLY ENDS DISASTER. SOPHISTITED AS HELL: WHILE ELOQUENT AND WELL-SPOKEN, HE WON'T HATE TO E PROFANY OR SLANG WHEN THE SUATN LLS FOR .NIL: LOOK, I KNOW I DON'T HAVE YOUR TOTAL SUPPORT THIS, BUT — HOW SHALL I PUT THIS? FRASIER: YOU DON'T RE? NIL: IF YOU ULD WORK THE PHRASE "RAT'S ASS" TO THERE, YOU'D HAVE . STEPFORD SER: AS HIS MARRIAGE WH MARIS BE MORE AND MORE STRAED, BE CLEAR NIL IS REPRSG MORE THAN A LTLE ANGER OVER HIS TREATMENT, UNTIL HE FALLY LETS ALL OUT. CUE MANY, MANY SMASHED VAS. AFTER GOG FOR HEART SURGERY, HE SPENDS SEVERAL WEEKS AFTERWARDS RHAPSODIZG ABOUT HOW WONRFUL EVERYTHG FEELS, EVEN THOUGH 'S CLEAR TO EVERYONE ELSE HE'S RIGHT HERE. EVENTUALLY, MART MANAG TO LL HIM ON . SYMPATHETIC ADULTERER: HE TELLS DAPHNE ON WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE HER WEDDG DAY THAT HE'D DUMP MEL, WHO HE'S JT MARRIED HIMSELF, A HEARTBEAT TO BE WH HER. OF URSE, BY THIS STAGE THE DIENCE HAS SEEN NIL'S FEELGS FOR DAPHNE ARE GENUE, AND HE'S BE HEARTBROKEN OVER PREV FAILUR TO SAY AS MUCH TO HER, WHILE MEL IS NTROLLG, CLGY, AND ONLY SLIGHTLY NICER THAN MARIS. JT TO MAKE THGS EASIER FOR GAG SYMPATHY, MEL TAK SEVERAL LEVELS JERKASS AFTERWARDS. THE TELL: NIL' NOSE BLEEDS WHEN HE'S BROKEN HIS ETHIL , AND OCSNALLY HE N BE SEEN SNIFFG TO CHECK FOR WHEN DOG SOMETHG DUB. THE THG THAT WOULD NOT LEAVE: VERY BRIEFLY FOR HIS BROTHER AFTER MOVG OUT OF HIS FANCY APARTMENT, DUE TO HIS STRANGE QUIRKS AND HABS, AND HIS REFAL TO TRY AND FD ANOTHER APARTMENT (NOT BEE OF PROXIMY TO DAPHNE, JT HIS OWN REFAL TO ADM HOW BAD THGS HAVE GOTTEN). TROLL: WHILE HE MAY BE A DEADPAN SNARKER TOWARDS PEOPLE LIKE ROZ AND HIS FATHER, HE OUT AND OUT LOV TO TROLL HIS BROTHER DUE TO SIBLG RIVALRY. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN HE BEME A CULTURE CRIC AND HAD ACCS TO THE MOST EXCLIVE CULTURAL EVENTS AND THEATRE, HE BBED HIS BROTHER'S FACE TO NO END. TRAMARK FAVORE FOOD: SHERRY. UNREQUED LOVE SWCHEROO: HE FALLY MOV ON OM DAPHNE AND ENTERS TO A NEW RELATNSHIP AROUND THE SAME TIME THAT SHE FALLY FDS OUT ABOUT HIS FEELGS FOR HER, AFTERWARDS SHE PROCEEDS TO VELOP FEELGS FOR HIM RETURN. VRLIC BT BUDS: WH FRASIER, AND EVENTUALLY ROZ AFTER THE TWO GET OVER THEIR IAL DISLIKE OF EACH OTHER. BY THE END OF THE SERI, THEY'RE CLOSE IENDS, EVEN IF THEY DO MAKE IENDLY SNIP AT ONE ANOTHER. WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE SNAK?: HE'S ATHLY AAID OF SECTS, THOUGH HE SISTS 'S PERFECTLY RATNAL FEAR. YOU NEED TO GET LAID: WHEN HE GO WHOUT SEX FOR TOO LONG, HE STARTS TO MENTALLY UNRAVEL, AND MAY WELL BEE ATTRACTED TO ANY WOMAN THAT WALKS PAST. SOMETHG OF A PROBLEM WHEN MARRIED TO MARIS, WHO NIL PAR TO A "SEXUAL MEL" (I.E., PABLE OF STAG HERSELF FOR LONG PERDS ON A MERE TEN MUT LOVEMAKG), AND WHO N AND DO WHHOLD SEX AS PUNISHMENT.     MART CRANE MART CRANE"I ED TO THK THERE WAS SOME SORT OF MIX-UP AT THE HOSPAL WHEN FRASIER WAS BORN. OF URSE, WHEN NIL ME ALONG, SHOT THAT THEORY ALL TO HELL."PLAYED BY: JOHN MAHONEY"THE WORLD WOULD BE A HAPPIER PLACE IF EVERYBODY WOULD REMEMBER TWO LTLE WORDS: 'PEOPLE STK'."FRASIER AND NIL'S FATHER WHO MOV WH FRASIER, HE'S AN EX-P WHO WAS FORCED TO RETIRE WHEN HE TOOK A BULLET TO THE HIP. HAS LTLE PATIENCE FOR HIS SONS' ANTICS AND TRI (UALLY WH THEM NOT LISTENG) TO GIVE THEM VALUABLE ADVICE TO MAKE THEM REALIZE HOW THGS ARE MUCH SIMPLER THAN THEY PERCEIVE. AW, LOOK! THEY REALLY DO LOVE EACH OTHER: THOUGH HE IS SOMETIM EXASPERATED WH HOW SNOOTISH THEY N BE, MART TLY DO LOVE HIS SONS. IN "A ROOM FULL OF HERO", NIL DRS LIKE MART FOR HALLOWEEN AND CHARACTER BEGS TO SAY FRASIER AND NIL WERE DISAPPOTMENTS TO HIM, ONLY FOR MART TO SHARPLY CUT HIM OFF AND TELL HIM HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN PROUD OF THEM. SIARLY, WH DAPHNE. THE TWO OFTEN BICKER AND ARGUE WH ONE ANOTHER, AND MART'S ALWAYS UP FOR SULTG HER OKG, BUT MART MAK CLEAR HE LIK HAVG HER AROUND. BOOK DUMB: HE'S NOT AS BOOK SMART AS FRASIER OR NIL, BUT HAS FAR MORE MON SENSE AND N OUTSMART THEM BY TCHG THGS THEY OVERLOOK THEIR ARROGANCE. AND, AS HE NEVER HAT TO REMD THEM, HE WAS A TECTIVE FOR SEVERAL YEARS, AND HE OCSNALLY MONSTRAT HE'S PICKED UP A B OF PSYCHIATRY OM LISTENG TO THEM AND THEIR MOTHER. BTAL HONTY: MART IS OFTEN PRETTY BLUNT HIS OPN ABOUT FRASIER AND NIL'S ANTICS, HELPED BY HIS FEELG THAT PSYCHIATRY IS OVERRATED. OF URSE, MART'S ASSSMENTS, SUCH AS FRASIER OVER-ANALYZG EVERYTHG, OFTEN TEND TO BE PRETTY ACCURATE, AND FRASIER DON'T HAVE ANY GOOD UNTERARGUMENT TO THEM. BY-THE-BOOK COP: WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER, AND IS OFTEN REFERENCED BY HIS SONS AS THE SOURCE OF THEIR OWN RIGID SENSE OF ETHICS AND TEGRY. ALTHOUGH, SOMETIM MENTS POP UP TO SUGGT HE WASN'T QUE THAT STRAIGHT-LACED, WH THE MOST NOTABLE STANCE BEG ADMTG TO FRASIER THAT HE LIED UNR OATH ABOUT READG THE MIRANDA RIGHTS TO A MULTIPLE OFFENR THAT SHOT SOMEONE, AND WHOSE HAD HIS RIGHTS READ MANY TIM BEFORE, SO HE WOULDN'T GET OFF ON A HYPER-TECHNILY. CANNOT SP IT OUT: ONE EPISO FOCED MART'S ABILY TO VERBALLY SAY "I LOVE YOU" TO HIS SONS. WHILE HIS SONS ASSURE HIM THAT THEY KNOW HE DO REALLY LOVE THEM, MART RETORTS THAT HE'S DISTURBED BY HIS ABILY TO OPENLY EXPRS TO THEM, AND MANAG TO WH SOME EFFORT.FRASIER: DAD, LISTEN, YOU KNOW YOU N SAY . I MEAN, I HEARD YOU SAY TO DE. MART: OH, THAT'S DIFFERENT, I SAID, "I LOVE YA!" YA! FRASIER: WE'D TAKE "YA." NIL: YA. CAREER-ENDG INJURY: MART'S BULLET TO THE HIP, WHICH END HIS REER AS A P. CATCHPHRASE: "OH, JEEZ." COMPANN CUBE: HIS TATTY-BUT-BELOVED EASY CHAIR, WHICH IS HIS OLST PIECE OF FURNURE AND WHICH HOLDS MANY HAPPY MEMORI FOR HIM. COOL OLD GUY: HE'S QUE AFFABLE, WISE TO THE WAYS OF THE WORLD, AND HAS MORE EMPATHY THAN HIS PSYCHIATRIST SONS. DAD THE VETERAN: HE SOMETIM REFERS TO HIS SERVICE KOREA. DEADPAN SNARKER: HE'S NOT AVERSE TO SNAPPY REMARKS. MT BE WHERE HIS CHILDREN GOT OM. DISABILY AS AN EXCE FOR JERKASSERY: HIS CHARACTERIZATN THE EARLIT EPISOS ARE OF A TREMENDO JERK. FLASHBACKS SHOW MART PRE-RETIREMENT ARE MORE LIKE HE IS LATER ON THE SHOW. THE LOSS OF HIS JOB, AND THE HUIATN OF NOT BEG ABLE TO LOOK AFTER HIMSELF ANY MORE E HIM TO BEE MUCH CSTIER, RULTG THE MART WE'RE FIRST TRODUCED TO. FANBOY: OLR THAN THE UAL EXAMPL, BUT BEG A SPORTS FAN, HE'S A BIG ADMIRER OF EX-RED SOX PLAYER SAM MALONE WHEN HE TO VIS FRASIER. MAKG FUNNIER IS THAT CHEERS MA REPEATEDLY CLEAR OVER THE YEARS THAT EVEN HIS HEYDAY, SAM WAS NOT THE CREAM OF THE SOX CROP. FATAL FLAW: AS HAS BEEN POTED OUT TO HIM QUE A FEW TIM, AND AS HE EVEN ACKNOWLEDG HIMSELF, MART HAS TROUBLE ACKNOWLEDGG AND HONTLY EXPRSG HIS EMOTNS. FX YAY: IN THE EPISO "OUT WH DAD", HE TELLS A WOMAN HE'S GAY, SO AS NOT TO OFFEND HER BY TURNG HER DOWN, AND SUBSEQUENTLY OFFERS TO "GAY UP A LTLE" SO HER DGHTER DON'T SPECT HE'S STRAIGHT WHEN SHE SETS HIM UP WH A IEND. FOIL: MART IS A STUDY NTRASTS OM HIS SONS, FRASIER AND NIL; MART IS A RETIRED P AND WAR VETERAN WHO ENJOYS BEER, SPORTS, AND ACTN MOVI, AND HE N BE GFF AND EMOTNALLY DISTANT, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY IS A DOWN-TO-EARTH AND IENDLY FELLOW. UNLIKE THEIR FATHER, FRASIER AND NIL ARE OXFORD-CERTIFIED PSYCHIATRISTS AND HIGH-SOCIETY EL WHO ENJOY OPERA, FE WE, AND CLASSIC LERATURE AND MIC; THEY ARE ALSO VERY KD AND RG SPE SOMETIM G ACROSS AS STUFFY AND PRETENT. FRIEND ON THE FORCE: MART STILL HAS PLENTY OF NNECTNS AND IENDS THE SEATTLE PD. HE OFTEN LLS ON THE NNECTNS TO GET QUICKER OR PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT. THE GADFLY: WHEN SOMEBODY THE HOEHOLD HAS SUCCUMBED TO COMPLEXY ADDICTN, HE'LL GLEEFULLY MAKE THGS WORSE. IN "THE TWO MRS. CRAN" WHEN DAPHNE HAS NVCED EVERYBODY TO LIE TO HER ABHORRENT ADMIRER CLIVE, FRASIER AND NIL ACCINTALLY SUGGT HE MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO MATA THE LIE AS " VOLV QUICK THKG AND IMPROVISATNAL SKILLS, AND A KNACK FOR REMEMBERG TAILS", WHICH MART (AN EX-POLICE TECTIVE) FDS OFFENSIVE. SO HE PIL ON AN EXTRA LIE JT TO SEE THEIR REACTNSCLIVE: ARE YOU A PSYCHIATRIST TOO, MR. CRANE? MART: OH, NO. I'M RETIRED... [BIG GR] I WAS AN ASTRONT. [FRASIER, NIL AND DAPHNE GIVE HIM A DEATH GLARE. IN RPONSE, HE JT SMIRKS.] HAPPILY MARRIED: TO RONEE, AND OTHERWISE TO HTER WH A FEW BUMPS THEIR MARRIAGE. HERO OF ANOTHER STORY: WHAT RMATN WE GET ABOUT HIS TIME ON THE FORCE MAK FOR A FASCATG SAGA, PARTICULARLY HIS ROMANCE WH HTER, WHICH HAS ALL THE MAKGS OF A BUDDY COP-LOVE STORY ABOUT A CULTURED AND BOOKISH LADY FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIST AND A GFF, STREETWISE TECTIVE. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: HE'S VERY CLOSE WH HIS BAR BUDDY DE; THEY EVEN ONCE GOT MARRIED BY ACCINT. HIDN DEPTHS: HE REVEALS HE'S A HUGE FRANK SATRA FAN, AND HE'D WRE SONGS DURG STAKE-OUTS AND BREAKS AT THE STATN THE HOP SATRA WOULD SG ONE. BOTH HIS SONS SPEND A WHOLE NIGHT TO HELP HIM WORK OUT THE ONLY ONE HE REALLY LIKED. HE'S ALSO PABLE OF OUTPLAYG FRASIER AT CHS, REPEATEDLY. EVENTUALLY HE HAS TO POT OUT TO FRAS THAT ALL THOSE YEARS AS A TECTIVE MIGHT JT BE A HELP THAT ARENA. HONORARY UNCLE: TO ROZ'S DGHTER ALICE. HYPOCRE: IN "DAD LOV SHERRY, THE BOYS JT WHE", MART RIPS TO FRASIER AND NIL FOR NOT MAKG A WOMAN HE R FOR FEEL WELE AFTER THEY ADM THAT THEY'RE NOT FOND OF HIS NEW GIRLIEND SHERRY. FRASIER AND NIL ARE HUMBLED AND ASHAMED... FOR ABOUT FIVE SENDS, UNTIL THEY REMEMBER A VERY IMPORTANT POT THAT MART IS NVENIENTLY LEAVG OUT HERE:FRASIER: WA A MUTE! WHEN DID YOU EVER MAKE ANY OF THE WOMEN WE WERE VOLVED WH FEEL WELE?! NIL: OOH, FRASIER, YOU'RE RIGHT! HE ALMOST GOT AWAY WH THAT! HYPOCRIL HUMOR: IS EXTREMELY FENSIVE ABOUT ANY PERCEIVED SULT TO EDDIE'S DIGNY, BUT HE'S GOT NO PROBLEM STICKG THE LTLE GUY HUIATG OUTFS WHEN HE'S THE ONE DOG . INIC ITEM: HIS ANCIENT EASY CHAIR IS THE ONE THG THAT STANDS OUT THE APARTMENT'S LIVG ROOM, AND 'S UNIQUELY HIS. HE'S ALSO (BY NECSY) NEVER SEEN WHOUT HIS SIGNATURE FOUR-PRONGED METAL NE; THE FAL SEASON, HE TRAS FOR A MUCH MORE ELEGANT BLACK NE. INFORMED ATTRIBUTE: BOTH FRASIER AND NIL EQUENTLY CE HIM AS THE PERSON THAT SPIRED THEIR OWN RIGID SENSE OF ETHICS AND MORALY. HOWEVER, THROUGHOUT THE SHOW HE’S OFTEN THE ONE ADVISG THEM TO IGNORE ANY ETHIL DILEMMAS IF BENEFS THEM, IS SHAMELS HOW HE HIS STAT AS A RETIRED P TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PERKS, AND EQUENTLY MAK MENTS ON PAST CINTS WHILE HE WAS ON THE FORCE TO SUGGT HE WAS NEVER AS ETHIL AS HIS SONS CLAIM. I TOLD YOU SO: HE'S NOT SHY ABOUT POTG OUT WHEN HE'S RIGHT ABOUT SOMETHG, UALLY WH SOME VARIATN ON "WELL, MAYBE NEXT TIME YOU'LL LISTEN TO YOUR OLD MAN," WHEN FRASIER AND/OR NIL GET TO STRIFE AFTER DISREGARDG HIS ADVICE. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: IN A VERY DIFFERENT WAY THAN HIS SONS. WHILE FRASIER AND NIL ARE STUCK-UP AND HGHTY ON THE SURFACE BUT HAVE SWEETER SIS THAT BEE APPARENT LATER, MART IS RDIAL AND IENDLY AT FIRST WH SOME JERKS THAT BE APPARENT WHEN YOU LIVE WH HIM. HE'S STILL A GOOD MAN UNRNEATH ALL. MALAPROPER: CONSTANTLY MANGLG THE NAM OF VAR "CLASSY" THGS HIS SONS ARE TO, SUCH AS THE TIME HE THOUGHT "AN EVENG WH NOëL COWARD" WAS ABOUT THE THREE STOOG. AND THEN THERE WAS THE TIME HE TRIED SGG ALONG TO GILBERT AND SULLIVAN WH THE BOYS AND MISTOOK "MANY CHEERFUL FACTS ABOUT THE SQUARE OF THE HYPOTENE" FOR "THE MANY-DIMPLED BACKSI OF A SRY HIPPOPOTAM". MAY–DECEMBER ROMANCE: WH RONEE. AND MREEN BEFORE THAT, ALBE MOSTLY OFFSCREEN. NOT SO ABOVE IT ALL: FOR ALL HIS GMBLG AT FRASIER'S ROMANTIC WO, SEVERAL EPISOS HAVE MARTY DOG MUCH THE SAME, SUCH AS TRYG TO PULL SOME TWO-TIMG DATE ACTN, WHILE CLAIMG HE'S BETTER AT THAN HIS SONS. WHICH HE A'T. OBNOX IN-LAWS: IT'S MA CLEAR HE DON'T LIKE MARIS OR LILH VERY MUCH. WH MARIS, HE AT LEAST ACTS CIVIL TO HER FACE, BUT WASN'T ABOVE G HIS NNECTNS TO HAVE HER R BOOTED JT TO MS WH HER. WH LILH, THE TWO N'T STAND ONE ANOTHER, AND MAKE NO SECRET OF HIDG . HE ALSO WASN'T TERRIBLY FOND OF FRASIER'S FIRST WIFE NATE EHER, STILL HOLDG A GRIEVANCE OVER TWO S ON OVER THE WEDDG. OBVLY AVERTED WH DAPHNE, ONCE SHE MARRI NIL. ODD FRIENDSHIP: INIALLY, HE AND ROZ GET ALONG FAR BETTER THAN HE DO WH HIS OWN CHILDREN, DUE TO HER MORE BLUE LLAR MDSET. ONLY SANE MAN: NOT ALWAYS, BUT OFTEN ENOUGH. ESPECIALLY WHEN BOTH FRASIER AND NIL ARE THE SAME ROOM. OLD SOLDIER: TELLS NSTANT STORI ABOUT KOREA. PAPA WOLF: IRONILLY, IS AT TIM THIS TO DAPHNE, WHO IS NOT HIS ACTUAL CHILD. OFTEN SUBVERTED WH HIS OWN SONS, HOWEVER, AS HE IS EQUENTLY CLED TO TAKE THE SI OF THE PEOPLE THEY GET TO NFLICT WH OVER THEIRS (SUCH AS "RAD WARS", WHERE HE POTS OUT THAT FRASIER AND NIL TEND TO MAKE THEMSELV TARGETS FOR BULLI) ALTHOUGH HE N ALSO BE FENSIVE TOWARDS THEM AT TIM AS WELL. PL, SHOULD BE NOTED THAT FRASIER AND NIL N OFTEN BRG THE NFLICTS ON THEMSELV AND HE'S OFTEN RIGHT TO POT OUT THEIR RPONSIBILY DOG SO. PARENTS AS PEOPLE: WHILE HE CLEARLY LOV HIS SONS, HE'S NOT EXACTLY FATHER OF THE YEAR MATERIAL; 'S MA CLEAR AT SEVERAL POTS THAT THERE'S PLENTY OF RPONSIBILY ON HIS PART FOR THE DIFFICULT RELATNSHIP HE HAS WH FRASIER AND NIL, HAVG RARELY MA MUCH OF AN EFFORT TO NNECT WH THEM BEFORE THE SERI STARTED AND SPENDG MORE TIME AT HIS FAVOURE BAR THAN WH HIS SONS. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: HIS RELATNSHIP WH DAPHNE HAS SHAS OF THIS THE EARLIER SEASONS, UNTIL HER SER RELATNSHIPS WH DONNY, THEN NIL. RACE FETISH: IN THE EPISO "THE SEAL WHO CAME TO DNER," 'S REVEALED HE HAS A SECRET FONDNS FOR ASIAN WOMEN (THANKS TO HIS TOUR OF DUTY DURG THE KOREAN WAR), WHICH DAPHNE LLS HIM OUT ON WHEN HE TRI TO FLIRT WH HER IEND.DAPHNE: MISTAKE MY FANNY. YOU ORRED THE JOY LUCK CLUB. REAL MEN HATE AFFECTN: MART OFTEN REACTS TO EMOTNAL EXPRSNS OM OTHERS WH AN "AW, JEEZ". HOWEVER, "BREAKG THE ICE", HE NSTCTS THE TROPE, AND ADMS BOTHERS HIM HE N'T JT OUT AND OUT TELL HIS KIDS HE LOV THEM, AND 'S SOMETHG HTER PTERED HIM ABOUT. HE MANAG TO DO SCERELY, AND AFTER THAT EPISO, HE SLOWLY GETS MORE AND MORE EMOTNAL TOWARDS HIS KIDS, SUCH AS "OUR FATHER WHOSE ART A'T HEAVEN", WHEN HE CRI BEE HE N'T PLEASE FRASIER. REAL MEN WEAR PK: ONE OF HIS EPT SECRETS IS THAT HE'LL CRY, PROPERLY CRY, WATCHG THE SOUND OF MIC. RETIRED BADASS: HE'S ONLY RETIRED THE FIRST PLACE BEE HE GOT SHOT THE HIP. SCREW THE RUL, I HAVE CONNECTNS!: HE'S NOT ABOVE G HIS OLD NTACTS THE FORCE FOR FAVORS SHOULD THE NEED ARISE, OR TRYG TO GET NIL TO WRE HIM A PRCRIPTN. THE STOIC: HE N'T EXPRS HIS FEELGS SO EASILY. AT LEAST HE HAS PROBLEMS GETTG MOVED AND SAYG "I LOVE YOU". FRASIER: YOU SAID TO THE DOG! TRAMARK FAVORE FOOD: HE ONLY DRKS BALLANTE BEER, AND EVEN THEN ONLY NS (HE ED TO ALSO DRK BOTTL, BUT NOT SCE GETTG SHOT THE HIP). WHEN MEETG NORM PETERSON, MART PLIMENTS HIS "MUG LLO" WHILE SHAKG HIS HAND, WHILE NORM SIARLY INTIFI MART AS A "N MAN". UNGRATEFUL BASTARD: ESPECIALLY THE EARLY SEASONS, HIS GFF, STOIC AND RERVED NATURE, UPLED WH TENSN WH HIS SONS AND BTERNS AT HOW HIS LIFE HAS WORKED OUT N SEE HIM END UP AS THIS. IN THE FIRST EPISO, FOR EXAMPLE, HE REACTS TO ALMOST EVERYTHG FRASIER DO TO TRY AND MAKE HIM FEEL FORTABLE WH UNNCEALED HOSTILY AND DISDA, AND PRETTY MUCH HAS TO BE GUILTED TO SAYG "THANK YOU" TO FRASIER FOR GIVG UP HIS SPACE AND EEDOM TO ACMODATE MART. HOWEVER, THIS IS DUE TO HIM BEG ANGRY AND PANICKED ABOUT LOSG HIS PENNCE. IN THE FAL EPISO, MART TELLS FRASIER, "THANK YOU... FOR EVERYTHG."NOTE REALY SUBTEXT: JOHN MAHONEY WAS THANKG KELSEY GRAMMER FOR A GREAT ROLE THAT LASTED 11 YEARS."     ROZ DOYLE ROSALDA "ROZ" DOYLE"WOMEN NEED TO SEE THE MEN THEY MAKE LOVE TO AS EXCG, ROMANTIC FIGUR. SO I SAY, IF YOU WANT TO KEEP THIS WOMAN TERTED, TRY CREATG A FANTASY FOR AN EVENG."PLAYED BY: PERI GILP"THE WHOLE POT OF GOSSIP IS TO TALK BEHD THE PERSON'S BACK, NOT ONT OF THEM! I DIDN'T REALIZE YOU WERE UNCLEAR ON THE NCEPT!"FRASIER'S PRODUCER AND CLOSE IEND. HER VERY ACTIVE SEX LIFE IS THE BUTT OF MANY JOK, BUT DO ALSO MAKE HER A PRIMARY SOURCE OF DATG ADVICE. ARCH-ENEMY: INIALLY SHE'S A D EXAMPLE OF THIS TOWARD NIL. WHILE THE TWO DIDN'T EXACTLY GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO E TROUBLE FOR EACH OTHER, THEY DID NOT GET ON WELL AT ALL, AND SULTS WOULD OFTEN FLY WHENEVER THEY MET. ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH THE SHOW'S N THE TWO START GETTG ALONG MUCH BETTER HOWEVER, NO SMALL PART DUE TO HER TRODUCG NIL TO DONNY, WHO HELPS HIM GET A HEALTHY DIVORCE SETTLEMENT. BETTER AS FRIENDS: WH FRASIER—EVEN WHEN THEY SLEPT TOGETHER ROLVED THEM REMAG IENDS. BIG "OMG!": "OH MY GOD!" IS PRACTILLY HER CATCHPHRASE. BTAL HONTY: SHE DO NOT HOLD BACK WH HER OPNS. CASE POT, WHEN LETTG FRASIER KNOW ABOUT HER FEELGS RE: THEIR HAVG SEX.FRASIER: SO... YOU'RE NOT LOVE WH ME? ROZ: GOD, NO! WEREN'T YOU THERE? THE BUTCHER: ROZ GETS THE NICKNAME OF "THE ANGEL OF DEATH" OM A NVALCENT HOME BY THE RETIRE, BEE HER CHARG ALMOST IMMEDIATELY DIE AFTER SHE'S ASSIGNED TO THEM.NORMAN: AH, THE ANGEL OF DEATH! NICE GIRL. THE CASANOVA: ROZ WAS ALWAYS PLAYED AS A FEMALE VERSN OF THIS TROPE PARTICULAR, RATHER THAN JT REALLY GETS AROUND. WHILE THE CHARACTERS OFTEN CRACKED JOK ABOUT HER PROMISCUY, THEY NEARLY ALWAYS IMPLIED A PREDATORY AND PERPETUALLY LTFUL PERSON WHO LOVED THE CHASE AND WOULD JUMP THROUGH RIDICULO HOOPS (CLUDG NSTCT ELABORATE LI AND HOOK HER IENDS TO FACILATG HOOK-UPS) ORR TO GET LAID, RATHER THAN MISOGYNISTIC JOK DITIVE OF A CHEAP SLUT, AS WOULD BE EXPECTED A EDY FEATURG A PROMISCUO WOMAN. ALSO, ROZ WAS ALWAYS PORTRAYED A FAR BETTER LIGHT THAN BULLDOG BEE WHILE ROZ WOULD SLEEP WH LOADS OF GUYS, SHE ALSO HAD VERY CLEAR STANDARDS THAT SHE RARELY PROMISED (WHICH IS PERHAPS THE REASON HER DAT WERE SO OFTEN MEN WHO REQUIRED HER TO E UP WH HILAR SCHEM ORR TO GET THEM TO PUT OUT). DEADPAN SNARKER: ACRDG TO THE WRERS, SHE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO N REALLY PUT FRASIER HIS PLACE, AND DO WH GREAT LIGHT. DOUBLE ENTENDRE: IF SHE MEETS AN ATTRACTIVE MAN, AT LEAST ONE WILL BE DROPPED BEFORE THE SCENE ENDS. ONE OF THE BT EXAMPL: WHEN SHE MEETS SAM MALONE OF CHEERS—AND GIV HIM HER RD. FRASIER: Y. IT GLOWS THE DARK. ROZ: [GRNG TO SAM] SO DO I. ETHIL SLUT: ROZ HAS A VERY PROMISCUO SEX LIFE, BUT IS ALWAYS RPONSIBLE AND TAK A DIM VIEW OF CHEATG. AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE IS WH THE FATHER OF HER CHILD, A YOUNG LLEGE STUNT. RATHER THAN PRS HIM FOR CHILD SUPPORT OR ACCEPT HIS OBLIGATORY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL, SHE TELLS HIM TO TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNI AHEAD OF HIM AND LIVE A GOOD LIFE. FALLG TO THE COCKP: "YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGA" SHOWS SHE WASN'T FRASIER'S FIRST CHOICE FOR PRODUCER. THAT GUY QU AFTER JT ONE DAY OF ALG WH FRASIER'S EXCSIVELY LONG LIST OF MANDS. AND THAT WAS BEFORE HE ACTUALLY STARTED RERDG. FIERY REDHEAD: SHE'S GOT A STRONG BACKBONE AND ISN'T AAID TO TAKE FRASIER DOWN A PEG WHEN HE'S BEG TOO ELIST. GIRL FRIDAY: ESSENTIALLY IS THIS TO FRASIER, AS THE SNARKY PRODUCER TO A POPULAR LL- RAD SHOW HE HOSTS. GOOD BAD GIRL: SHE'S AS IENDLY AS SHE IS PROMISCUO. HYPOCRE: PLAYED FOR LGHS. ONE EPISO HAS HER NVCE FRASIER TO FIRE BEBE AS HIS AGENT AFTER SHE TORPEDO ROZ’S TERVIEW FOR HER OWN RAD SHOW FOR FRASIER’S SAKE, AND JT FOR ALL THE OTHER UNSCPULO THGS BEBE DO FRASIER’S NAME. BY THE END OF THE EPISO FRASIER DO ED FIRE BEBE, BUT ROZ HIR HER AFTER BEG PERSUAD WH THE POTENTIAL FOR BEBE TO GET HER OTHER GIGS. AN EPISO THE FOLLOWG SEASON SHOWS HER STILL AS BEBE’S CLIENT, AND TRYG TO NVCE FRASIER TO REHIRE HER WHEN FACG A TOUGH RENEGOTIATN TO HIS NTRACT. THE "I LOVE YOU" STIGMA: DISCSED "BREAKG THE ICE" WHEN ROZ TALKS ABOUT A GUY SHE WAS HAVG SUAL SEX WH:ROZ: WE'VE BEEN DATG A UPLE OF WEEKS, AND LAST NIGHT HE STARTED LICKG ME BEHD MY EAR. SEE, I HAVE THIS SWEET LTLE SPOT THERE... FRASIER: UH, ROZ, IS THIS -—? ROZ: Y, YOU DO NEED TO KNOW THIS. SO ANYWAY, WHAT I MEANT TO SAY WAS, "OH, I LOVE THAT!" BUT I GOT SO UGHT UP THAT I YELLED OUT, "OH, I LOVE YOU!" AND THEN ALL OF A SUDN HE GOT THIS LOOK ON HIS FACE LIKE INDIANA JON NNG OM THE BIG BALL! FRASIER: WELL, UH, ROZ, DO YOU LOVE HIM? ROZ: NO! BUT I SAID , SO HE SHOULD HAVE SAID BACK, 'S JT POLE. THE LAD-ETTE: WHILE CERTALY NOT UN-FEME, ROZ HAS A STRONG MASCULE SI. IT’S REVEALED ONE STORY THAT SHE IS NOT ONLY ONE OF MART’S POKER BUDDI, BUT SHE APPARENTLY KNOWS MORE DIRTY JOK THAN THE RT OF THEM. LAW OF INVERSE FERTILY: GETS SMACKED WH DUE TO EXECUTIVE MEDDLG, THOUGH SHE ACKNOWLEDG THAT WH HER LIFTYLE, WAS FAIRLY EVABLE."EVEN THE BT BIRTH NTROL IS ONLY EFFECTIVE NETY-NE OUT OF A HUNDRED TIM. I N'T BEAT THOSE ODDS." LIKE BROTHER AND SISTER: WH FRASIER DESPITE THE FACT THAT THEY SLEPT TOGETHER! AND BY EXTENSN THE WHOLE CRANE CLAN. SHE IS A PERMANENT FIXTURE AT "FAY ONLY" EVENTS AND BY THE END OF THE SERI IS AS CLOSE TO DAPHNE, MART AND TO A LSER EXTENT EVEN NIL AS SHE IS WH FRASIER. LOOSE LIPS: SHE FULLY ENGAG OFFICE GOSSIP, AND WILL ALMOST NEVER KEEP ANY SECRET WHEN FRASIER TELLS HER SOMETHG EMBARRASSG ABOUT HIMSELF. ONE NOTABLE STANCE HAD HER TRYG TO GET HIM TO REVEAL THE WOMAN HE SLEPT WH ACCINTALLY ON THE AIR; SWEARG NOT TO TELL ANYONE. SHE THEN PICKS UP A RGG PHONE AND IMPLI SHE’LL REVEAL EVERYTHG TO THE LLER AS SOON AS SHE LEARNS THE SECRET. RIGHT ONT OF FRASIER. LOVABLE SEX MANIAC: RARE FEMALE VERSN. MA'AM SHOCK: INVOKED "ROZ'S KRANTZ & GOULNSTE ARE DEAD", WHEN MOIRA TALKS ABOUT GETTG OLR AND BEG LLED "MA'AM" FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND ROZ SYMPATHIZ. MS. FANSERVICE: WHILE DRSED AS O, OR WONR WOMAN. MT HAVE CAFFEE: SHE GETS PRETTY UPSET WHEN BREASTFEEDG MEANS SHE N'T HAVE ANY. THE MUTE SHE'S ALLOWED TO GET BACK ON THE BEAN... THE PREDICTABLE HAPPENS. OOH, ME ACCENT'S SLIPPG: PERI GILP IS OM TEXAS. ROZ IS SUPPOSED TO BE OM WISNS, AND GENERALLY DON'T HAVE MUCH OF AN ACCENT. ONCE A WHILE, THOUGH, THE TEXAN SLIPS OUT, OR IS LLED UPON FOR THE SAKE OF THE PLOT. REALLY GETS AROUND: LOV REMISCG ON HER PAST AND PRENT EXPERIENC WH MEN. HER ACTIVE SEX LIFE IS ONE OF HER RUNNG GAGS, PARTICULARLY HOW SHE SEEKS OUT MEN YOUNGER THAN SHE IS AND "NEVER SAYS NO". WHEN SHE GETS PREGNANT SHE REMARKS THAT EVEN THE BT BIRTH NTROL IS "ONLY" 99% EFFECTIVE, SO WAS PRETTY MUCH EVABLE. REFUGE AUDACY: HOW SHE GETS HER JOB AT KACL BACK SEASON 11. HAVG PREVLY QU TO WORK FOR A RIVAL PANY, SHE JT MARCH BACK TO THE OFFICE AND ACTS LIKE SHE NEVER LEFT, EVEN QUE LERALLY SHOVG HER REPLACEMENT OUT OF THE BOOTH. SASSY SECRETARY: NOT ACTUALLY ONE, BUT FS THE CHARACTER TYPE. TROLL: SHE ENJOYS HAVG SOME GOOD-NATURED FUN AT HER IENDS' EXPENSE, EVEN ON THE JOB.[FRASIER IS FUR THAT ROZ LET A LL OM LILH GET ON THE AIR] FRASIER: ROZ, WHAT EXACTLY DO "LL SCREENG" MEAN?! ROZ: IT MEANS I GET TO PUT ON THE AIR THE LLS I WANT TO HEAR. ULTIMATE JOB SECURY: RELATED TO THE ABOVE TROPE, LATER THE SAME NVERSATN, SHE GLEEFULLY SUGGTS, ON AIR, THAT FRASIER TAKE LILH OUT TO DNER. FRASIER, WHILE MATAG AN AIR OF CIVILY ON AIR, IMMEDIATELY WR DOWN ON A NOTE, "YOU'RE FIRED" AND SHOWS TO ROZ. ROZ RPONDS WH A PRE-PREPARED "I'M UNN" SIGN, FURIATG FRASIER. IT'S ALSO SHOWN SEVERAL TIM THROUGH THE SERI THAT ROZ IS PROBABLY THE ONLY PETENT PRODUCER KACL HAS WHO N ALSO PUT UP WH FRASIER. VETARI JOB SECURY: ANY TIME SHE GETS REPLACED AS FRASIER'S PRODUCER, THEY'RE VARIABLY A DISASTER. VRLIC BT BUDS: WH FRASIER AND NIL. WOMEN ARE WISER: PLAYED WH; WHILE SHE MAY BE MORE REASONABLE AND SOCIALLY CLUED-UP THAN FRASIER OR NIL, SO ARE MART AND SEVERAL OTHER OF THE MALE CHARACTERS. PLAYED STRAIGHT WHEN TO HER JOB HOWEVER, AS ALL THE MALE PRODUCERS AND RAD PERSONALI SEEN AT THE STATN (WH THE POSSIBLE EXCEPTN OF GIL) ARE PLETELY EPT AT THEIR JOBS AND/OR HAVE MAJOR PERSONALY ISSU. IT'S ONLY NATURAL, THEN, THAT SHE BE THE STATN MANAGER AT THE END OF THE SERI. WORD OF GOD STATED THE OTHER PURPOSE OF ROZ IS TO BE THE ONE PERSON MORE EXPERIENCED THAN FRASIER HIS PROFSNAL LIFE.     DAPHNE MOON DAPHNE MOON"I'M SORRY, DR. CRANE. I'M FORCED TO DO THE LNDRY DOWNSTAIRS, AND I GUS YOUR SOCKS ARE JT TOO TEMPTG TO THE NEIGHBORS. OF URSE, YOU'RE WELE TO GO DOWN THERE YOURSELF AND STAND GUARD."PLAYED BY: JANE LEEV"I MT NFS I'M A B PSYCHIC. IT'S NOTHG BIG. JT LTLE THGS I SENSE ABOUT PEOPLE. I MEAN, 'S NOT LIKE I ULD PICK THE LOTTERY. IF I ULD, I WOULDN'T BE TALKG TO THE LIK OF [FRASIER AND MART] NOW, WOULD I?"MART'S PHYSIL THERAPIST WHO LIV WH HIM AND FRASIER, SHE'S OM ENGLAND AND SERV AS A WORKG-CLASS PRENCE A S OF MOSTLY HIGH-CLASS CHARACTERS. IS THE SUBJECT OF AFFECTN FOR NIL, THOUGHT SHE HAS NO IA FOR THE FIRST SIX SEASONS. AMBIGUOLY BI: SEEN EYEG FRASIER'S HALF-NAKED AGENT'S LEGS WH AN APPARENT LOOK OF SATISFACTN, SPE NOT HAVG AN AMIABLE RELATNSHIP WH HER. IN ANOTHER EPISO, SCRIB A NCUPISCENT DREAM ABOUT A FEMALE GYMNAST WHO ED TO LIVE NEXT TO HER. ONCE MISTAKEN FOR A LBIAN BY A GAY SKI STCTOR TO WHOM SHE WAS ATTRACTED.DAPHNE: I BETTER GO OK FOR HIM. I KNOW HOW THE CRANE MEN LIKE THEIR LEGS... EGGS! BERSERK BUTTON: THE PHRASE "YOU'LL THANK ME FOR THIS LATER", AFTER YEARS OF HEARG OM HER MOTHER. BEWARE THE NICE ON: DAPHNE'S EASILY THE NICT OF THE MA CHARACTERS, BUT WHEN SHE DO GET ANGRY, SHE OFTEN LASH OUT WAYS THAT WOULD GIVE EVEN THE CRAN A N FOR THEIR MONEY. ESPECIALLY WHEN HER MOTHER OR SIMON ARE AROUND, OR WHEN FRASIER OR NIL' SNOOTS GETS OUT OF NTROL. IN ONE EPISO, SHE SEEMS TO BE SERLY NSIRG PREMEDATED MURR OF THE TYRANNIL HEAD OF THE NDO BOARD. BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: A RELATIVELY TAME EXAMPLE. WHILE PERFECTLY NICE WHEN SHE GETS HER WAY, SHE HAS ALSO PROVEN TO BE SELFISH, MANIPULATIVE, PETTY, AND A HUGE HYPOCRE WHO IS QUICK TO BLAME OTHERS FOR MOST OF THE PROBLEMS SHE . THIS IS ACTUALLY LAMPSHAD SHORTLY AFTER SHE GETS TOGETHER WH NIL, WHEN SHE BELIEV THAT HER OVEREATG BGE WAS ED PARTLY BY ANXIETY OVER THE FACT THAT SHE KNOWS SHE'S NOT AS SWEET AS SHE ACTS AND DON'T THK SHE N LIVE UP TO NIL'S EXPECTATNS OF HER AFTER HE HAS BUILT HER UP AND WORSHIPPED THE GROUND BENEATH HER FEET DURG SEVEN YEARS OF UNREQUED LOVE. IT TURNS OUT THAT NIL IS PERFECTLY PABLE OF G UP WH A LONG LIST OF THGS HE HAT ABOUT DAPHNE, BUT LOV HER ALL THE SAME. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: SHE'S A GOOD PHYSIL THERAPIST, BUT SHE ALSO THKS SHE'S PSYCHIC AND HAS A LOT OF ECCENTRICI, PECIALLY EARLIER SEASONS. CLOUD CUCKOOLANR: HER TRODUCTN HAD HER ADMTG RIGHT OUT "I'M A B PSYCHIC", AND SHE OFTEN GO ON LONG TANGENTS ABOUT CRAZY THGS. SHE DOWN TO EARTH A B OVER THE SHOW N, HOWEVER.THE CUTIE--> DEADPAN SNARKER: NOT AS MUCH AS THE OTHERS, BUT EVEN SHE HAS HER MOMENTS, PARTICULARLY TOWARD HER MOTHER GERT.MART: WELL, SHE WAS FLIRTG RIGHT BACK. I SAW HER GIVG ME THE ONCE-OVER. DAPHNE: YEAH, SHE LOOKED ONCE AND WAS OVER. DON'T YOU DARE PY ME!: SHE GETS CREDIBLY ANGRY WHEN SHE THKS NIL IS NSCENDG AT HER. FIRST-NAME BASIS: SHIFTS TO THIS WH THE CRAN WHEN SHE GETS TOGETHER WH NIL. LAMPSHAD.DAPHNE: OH, FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE DR. CRANE! [SHE KISS HIM] NIL: I THK YOU N LL ME NIL NOW. SUBVERTED WH MART, WHEN HE'S NOW HER FATHER--LAW.DAPHNE: THANK YOU... MART / DAPHNE: *SIMULTANEOLY* DAD. / MART. DAPHNE: UH, DAD. MART: OR MART. WHATEVER MAK YOU FEEL FORTABLE. DAPHNE: [HUGGG HIM] OH, THANK YOU, MR. CRANE! SHE DO LL HIM "MART" AFTER THIS THOUGH. FLANRIZATN: SUBVERTED WH DAPHNE. SHE STARTS OFF AS A CLOUDCUCKOOLANR, BUT VELOPS TO A MUCH LS ECCENTRIC CHARACTER. FOREIGN QUEASE: HER ABILY TO OK PLEX MEALS IS EXACERBATED BY HER SISTENCE ON OKG ENGLISH FOOD, WHICH NOT A SGLE CHARACTER (OUTSI OF HER IMMEDIATE FAY) N STAND EVEN WHEN OKED RRECTLY. SHE SEEMS TO WEAPONIZE WHEN SHE WANTS THE APARTMENT TO HERSELF, SUCH AS CLAIMG SHE WAS GOG TO MAKE SHEEP'S HEAD STEW FOR DNER, WH THE MA GREDIENT ALLEGEDLY A PAPER BAG. (IT'S HER CLEAN LNDRY.) HAPPILY MARRIED: WH NIL, EVENTUALLY. HILARLY ABIVE CHILDHOOD: NOT ONLY WAS HER MOTHER EMOTNALLY ABIVE AND THERE BEG MENTN OF HER FATHER BEATG HER BROTHERS (BUT NOT HER, "AS LONG AS SHE BEHAVED PERFECTLY"), BUT HER FAY WAS SO BIZARRE 'S AMAZG SHE ONLY END UP AN ECCENTRIC CLOUD CUCKOOLANR AND NOT AN OUTRIGHT LUNATIC. I DIDN'T MEAN TO TURN YOU ON: ALMOST EVERYTHG SHE DO NIL' PRENCE. I HAVE BROTHERS: SHE OCSNALLY CLAIMS THAT SHE PICKED UP RANDOM SKILLS, SUCH AS FIRST AID OR ENGE MATENANCE, OM GROWG UP WH EIGHT BROTHERS. LAD-ETTE: DOWNPLAYED, BUT 'S FELY THERE. SHE'S A WRENCH WENCH, A RPENTER, A CHAMPN BILLIARDS PLAYER, AND OFTEN DO PHYSIL LABOR. IT'S JTIFIED BY HAVG TO GROW UP WH A BEVY OF ROWDY OOP NORTH BROTHERS. (IT'S NO WONR SHE HAD FONDNS FOR HER CAMP GAY BROTHER.) LETHAL CHEF: WHILE SHE'S APPARENTLY OKAY AT PUTTG TOGETHER SIMPLE MEALS AND SNACKS, HER CULARY ABILY SHARPLY DROPS AS THE MEALS GET MORE PLEX. IT DON'T HELP THAT SHE OKS LOTS OF BRISH DISH. LIKE AN OLD MARRIED COUPLE: MOMENTARILY DIPS TO THIS ON OCSN WH MART, SUCH AS "SECRET ADMIRER".MART: [AS THEY'RE PREPARG TO LEAVE] I WANNA LISTEN TO MY RAD. DAPHNE: FE, IF MEANS I DON'T HAVE TO LISTEN TO YOU TALK'! LOVE EPIPHANY: TOWARD NIL SEASON 7. LOVE REVELATN EPIPHANY: AFTER HEARG THAT HE LOVED HER, ANYWAY. MALE GAZE: NIL HAS QUE AN AFFECTN FOR HER REAR END. LAMPSHAD ONE OF THE LAST EPISOS "COOTS AND LADRS" WHILE LOOKG AT PHOTOS OF THEM EARLY THE SERI.DAPHNE: WHY ARE YOU ALL HUNCHED OVER THIS ONE? NIL: [UNFORTABLY] UH... DAPHNE: YOU WERE LOOKG AT MY BUM, WEREN'T YOU? NIL: OH, HEAVENS, NO! DAPHNE: OH, 'S ALL RIGHT, NIL, WE'RE MARRIED NOW. NIL: ALL RIGHT, Y. I MIGHT ONCE A MOMENT OF WEAKNS HAVE PERMTED MYSELF A FLEETG GLANCE. [DAPHNE SHOWS HIM ANOTHER PHOTO] OR TWICE. [YET ANOTHER PHOTO] MANY, MANY TIM. DAPHNE: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE REAR WH YOU, ISN'T ? NIL: OH, NO, DARLG... DAPHNE: NO, SERLY... [SHE STANDS UP AND TURNS AWAY OM HIM] WHAT LOR ARE MY EY? NIL: UM... DAPHNE: [ALMOST LGHG] YOU'RE LOOKG AT AGA, AREN'T YOU? MAYBE MAGIC, MAYBE MUNDANE: THE QUTN OF WHETHER SHE'S REALLY PSYCHIC OR 'S JT A BELIEF STILLED BY HER GRANDMOTHER AS A PG MECHANISM THAT SHE HAS "THE FEMALE MOON GIFT" IS NEVER ANSWERED. WHEN GIVEN A CHANCE TO FD OUT IF SHE'S REALLY PSYCHIC, NIL CIS TO THROW AWAY HER TT RULTS.DAPHNE: I KNEW YOU'D DO THAT! MS. FANSERVICE: A FEW TIM—MUCH TO NIL'S LIGHT. OBSERVE. NICE GIRL: DAPHNE'S THE IENDLIT OF THE RE ST. OBLIV TO LOVE: DIDN'T SEEM TO NOTICE NIL' CSH ON HER AT ALL SPE NIL NOT BEG AT ALL SUBTLE ABOUT . JANE LEEV CLAIMED DAPHNE KNEW ALL ALONG, BUT THAT'S JT HER TERPRETATN. OOP NORTH: MANCHTER, ALTHOUGH SEEMS TO BE A RUNNG GAG THAT SPE SUPPOSEDLY ALL G OM MANCHTER, THE RT OF HER FAY HAVE ACCENTS SPANNG THE WIDTH AND BREADTH OF THE ENTIRE UK. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: WH MART, AT LEAST UNTIL SHE GETS TOGETHER WH NIL. PSYCHIC POWERS: SHE CLAIMS TO BE "A LTLE B PSYCHIC" THE PILOT. THIS IS PHASED OUT AFTER A FEW SEASONS—THOUGH 'S EVENTUALLY BROUGHT BACK AFTER SHE AND NIL GET TOGETHER. HOW WELL HER SUPPOSED POWERS WORK VARI. SOMETIM SHE MISTERPRETS HER VISNS, AS WHEN DIVG JEROME BELAS'S LE OF WORK "A WORD TO THE WISEGUY".DAPHNE: YOU'RE...A DOCTOR. AN OSTEOPATH, PERHAPS? JEROME: NO, SORRY. DAPHNE: THAT'S FUNNY...I SEE YOU HOVERG OVER PEOPLE WH BROKEN BON. IT TO A HEAD WH THIS EXCHANGE:NIL: I N'T READ MDS, YOU KNOW. AND BY THE WAY, NEHER N YOU! DAPHNE: [SHOCKED] ARE YOU SAYG YOU DON'T THK I'M PSYCHIC?! NIL: NOT IF YOU THOUGHT I LOVED YOUR OKG! RENTFUL OUTNUMBERED SIBLG: THE ONLY GIRL A HOE OF BOYS. SHE ADMS SEVERAL TIM THAT WHILE SHE LOV HER BROTHERS THEY WEREN'T ALWAYS EASY TO GET ALONG WH AND HAD LTLE RPECT FOR HER PRIVACY. IT'S IMPLIED THAT GRAMMY MOON TOLD HER THAT MOON WOMEN WERE "PSYCHIC" TO MAKE HER FEEL BETTER ABOUT BEG THE ONLY GIRL. RUNAWAY BRI: SHE ABANDONS DONNY AND EXS WH NIL A WNEBAGO DURG THE SEND PART OF THE TWO-PART EPISO "SOMETHG BORROWED, SOMEONE BLUE". THEY DO GO BACK TO THE WEDDG PROPERLY, HOWEVER, AND SHE BREAKS UP WH DONNY FACE TO FACE RATHER THAN LEAVG HIM LD. SCREAMG BIRTH: IN "GOODNIGHT SEATTLE" SERVILE SNARKER: SHE'S MART'S LIVE- THERAPIST, AND HAS A WICKED SENSE OF HUMOUR. STATUQUE STUNNER: DAPHNE IS 5'10" AND QUE BETIFUL (AS NIL OFTEN POTS OUT). TALKATIVE LOON: IN SPAS, OFTEN ABOUT HER HILARLY ABIVE CHILDHOOD. IN FACT, THE CRAN EVENTUALLY START FEARG SOME OF HER STORI.DAPHNE: [ABOUT HER BROTHERS' PETIVENS] WHO ULD THE N THE FASTT, JUMP THE HIGHT. THEY EVEN THIS STRANGE ONE WHERE THEY'D TAKE LTLE BROTHER MICHAEL, PUT HIM A POTATO SACK AND SEE WHO ULD ROLL HIM THE FARTHT OVER THE OZEN LAKE OUT BACK. THEY LOVED THAT GAME! UNTIL THAT YEAR THE SPRG THAW SET EARLY AND POOR MICHAEL WENT RIGHT THROUGH THE ICE. OOH, THEY UGHT HELL FOR THAT ONE, THEY DID. CGHT WORSE A WEEK LATER WHEN MICHAEL'S TOE FALLY FELL OFF. MICHAEL CRIED AND CRIED UNTIL THEY TOLD HIM TO PUT UNR HIS PILLOW FOR THE TOE FAIRY! AND THEN WHEN HE GOT FIVE QUID FOR , WHY WAS ALL THEY ULD DO TO STOP HIM OM SAWG OFF THE RT OF THEM! [LGHS] MART: [ON EDGE, SHOUTG TO THE CRANE BOYS] WHAT'S KEEPG YOU GUYS WH THAT BOX?! THE UN-FAVOURE: DEFELY THIS TO HER MOTHER. RARELY DID HER MOTHER OFFER ANYTHG BUT CRICISMS, SULTS, AND PUT-DOWNS TO DAPHNE EVEN BEFORE HER FIRST ON-SCREEN APPEARANCE. THOUGH 'S IMPLIED SHE HAD A MUCH WARMER RELATNSHIP WH HER FATHER THAN PARED TO HER BROTHERS. UNREQUED LOVE SWCHEROO: SHE FALLY FDS OUT THAT NIL IS LOVE WH HER AROUND THE SAME TIME THAT HE FALLY GETS OVER HER, NOT LONG AFTERWARDS SHE STARTS FALLG LOVE WH HIM.     EDDIE EDDIE PLAYED BY: MOOSE (SEASONS 1-7); ENZO (SEASONS 8-11)MART'S FAHFUL JACK RSELL TERRIER, FRASIER AND NIL N'T STAND HIM AND HE SEEMS TO KNOW , AS ONE OF HIS FAVORE PASTIM IS STARG AT THEM TO ANNOY THEM. IS MORE A CHARACTER THAN A PET, BEE HE'S CREDIBLY EXPRSIVE AND TELLIGENT. AMPLIFIED ANIMAL APTU: EDDIE'S ACTOR, MOOSE, AND HIS SON ENZO WHO TOOK OVER THE PART LATER SEASONS, WERE CREDIBLY WELL-TRAED. JOHN MAHONEY HAS STATED THAT HE NSIRED THEM ANIMAL ACTORS RATHER THAN TOKEN PETS. ANIMAL REACTN SHOT: HE'S VERY EMOTIVE. CHARACTER TIC: STG WH HIS TONGUE STICKG OUT. CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: AS FRASIER SUMS UP THE FIRST TIME WE EVER HEAR ABOUT HIM, HE'S WEIRD. AND THAT FELY IS TE. LIKE THE STARG... DEPENDG ON THE WRER: HOW TELLIGENT HE IS N PEND ON WHAT'S FUNNIT. DPE BEG SHOWN TO BE VERY SMART FOR A DOG, ONE EPISO SHOWS HIS P.O.V., AND 'S EVERYONE SPEAKG GIBBERISH WH "EDDIE" BEG THE ONLY TELLIGIBLE WORD. EVEN THE DOG IS ASHAMED: EDDIE BURYG HIS HEAD UNR THE SOFA CHNS WAS A POPULAR POSE, THOUGH SOMETIM 'S BEE HE'S SENTIALLY SAYG, "PLEASE SHUT UP NOW."FRASIER: THERE ARE SUBTLER WAYS TO TELL THE PATIENT THEIR TIME IS UP! HEROIC BSOD: SPENDS MUCH OF "DEATH AND THE DOG" A FUNK. TURNS OUT 'S BEE HE LOST HIS FAVORE TOY. ONCE HE FDS , HE PERKS BACK UP AGA. KLEPTOMANIAC HERO: IT'S A NNG GAG THAT EDDIE, BEG A DOG, WILL STEAL ANY FOOD LEFT LYG AROUND. THAT CLUS LEFT ON THE TABLE. NEARLY NORMAL ANIMAL: OVERALL A NORMAL DOG, BUT SOMETIM HE SHOWS LEVELS OF TELLIGENCE AND UNRSTANDG THAT NO REAL WORLD DOG WOULD POSSS. ALSO DISPLAYS A FEW HUMANLIKE PERSONALY TRAS. BOTH LARGELY A RULT OF RULE OF FUNNY. SILENT SNARKER: HE'S A CRANE BOY ALL RIGHT. S ARCHNEMIS: ONE-SI. FRASIER HAT HIM, BUT SEEMS EDDIE ADOR HIM. OR IS WELL AWARE FRASIER HAT HIM AND IS JT GETTG HIS OWN BACK. FRASIER HAS A FEW MOMENTS OF AWW THEY REALLY DO LOVE EACH OTHER WHEN HE HELPS MART FD EDDIE WHEN HE'S LOST AND LETS HIM E HIS FANCY SWEATER TO WARM UP A WET AND SHIVERG EDDIE. STARG CONTT: IN THE EARLY SEASONS PECIALLY, HE ED TO JT STARED FIXEDLY AT FRASIER, MUCH TO FRASIER'S IRRATN. ON AT LEAST ONE OCSN, FRASIER TRIED STARG BACK ORR TO BREAK EDDIE, ONLY TO END UP BROKEN HIMSELF:FRASIER: IT'S LIKE HIS EY TURNED TO SORCERER'S PWHEELS AND STARTED SPNG!SUPPORTG CHARACTERS     BOB "BULLDOG" BRISE BOB "BULLDOG" BRISE PLAYED BY: DAN BUTLERTHE HOST OF THE GONZO SPORTS SHOW AT FRASIER'S RAD STATN, HIS SHOW UALLY ON AFTER FRASIER'S. HAS AN ON AND OFF RELATNSHIP WH ROZ DUE TO THE FACT SHE'S PHYSILLY ATTRACTED TO HIM BUT OTHERWISE FDS HIM A DISGTG PIG (AND HE IS). ARMOURED CLOSET GAY: HE'S NOT, BUT THE IA WAS SUGGTED TO FRASIER BY A PSYCHOLOGY STUNT HE WAS TERTED , AND FRASIER SAID DRYLY THAT HE'D LIKE TO N THE IA BY BULLDOG. IN REALY HIS ACTOR IS OPENLY GAY, MAKG EVEN FUNNIER. ASCEND EXTRA: WEIRDLY VERTED. AFTER HE GOT PROMOTED TO THE MA ST FOR SEASONS 4 THROUGH 6 HE STARTED APPEARG LS THAN BEFORE. CANNOT SP IT OUT: BY THE TIME HE'S ACTUALLY LOVE WH ROZ HE N'T TELL HER AND SO SETTL FOR SRG OFF HER DAT AND PLAYG BABYSTER TO ALICE TO SPEND TIME WH HER. HE DO SP OUT ONCE SHE TCH ON THOUGH. CATCHPHRASE: WHENEVER HE THKS HE'S LOST SOMETHG (AND REALLY HASN'T)—(POUND!) "THIS STINKS!!! THIS IS TOTAL B.S.!!! THIS IS—OH, HERE IS...." GIVEN AN IRONIC ECHO OCSNALLY WHERE HE LIVERS TEARS WHEN UTTERLY CSHED. CHUCK CUNNGHAM SYNDROME: KDA DOWNPLAYED AS HIS LAST APPEARANCE IS THE FAL SEASON ("FRASIER-LE"). STILL, HE IS NSPICUOLY ABSENT THE SERI FALE, EVEN THOUGH HIS BUDDY GIL AND NOEL SHOW UP, DUE TO DAN BUTLER TOURG HIS ONE MAN SHOW, THE ONLY THG WORSE YOU COULD HAVE TOLD ME... AT THE TIME. DIRTY COWARD: IN "BAD DOG," UPON SEEG A MAN WH A GUN AT THE FE, HE TRIED TO E A PREGNANT ROZ AS A HUMAN-SHIELD. THG IS, ACTUALLY APPEARED AS IF HE WAS TRYG TO PULL HER TO SAFETY, SO HE IS DUBBED A HERO BY ALL - EXCEPT FRASIER, WHO KNOWS THE TTH AND SPENDS THE RT OF THE EPISO OBSSG OVER . FRIDGE LOGIC: TWO -UNIVERSE EXAMPL OCCUR WHEN FRASIER'S SON VISS THE STATN AND ASKS BULLDOG WHY HE'S NICKNAMED "BULLDOG", AND WHY HE SO MANY SOUND EFFECTS ON HIS SHOW. BULLDOG REALIZ HE DON'T KNOW THE REASON FOR EHER. THE REASON HE'S NICKNAMED "BULLDOG" IS ANSWERED QUICKLY WHEN HE LERALLY BARKS AT A SEXY WOMAN WALKG BY. HEROIC BSOD: HE HAS A BRIEF ONE LOVE B DOG WHEN HE IS DUMPED ON THE PHONE BY SOMEONE HE GENUELY FALLS LOVE WH. HIDN DEPTHS: HE GENUELY FALLS LOVE WH ROZ, AND WAS ONCE SO PASSNATE ABOUT A RELATNSHIP THAT WHEN SHE DUMPED HIM HE WAS RCED TO TEARS. JERK JOCK: A SPORTS SHOW HOST AND A MASSIVELY EGOTISTIL JERK. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: HAS HIS MOMENTS. MOST NOTABLY THAT HE'S RPECTFUL AROUND KIDS, SUCH AS TALKG UP FRASIER ONCE WHEN FREDDIE VISED OR TAKG RE OF ALICE FOR ROZ. HE ALSO DO OFFER TO ROZ TO BE THERE FOR HER IF SHE NEEDS HIM WHEN SHE'S TURNED DOWN FOR A PROMOTN. JERK WH A HEART OF JERK: SOMEHOW HE HAS THIS AND JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD; THERE ARE OCSNS WHERE HE DO SOMETHG NICE JT FOR HIS OWN PROF, SUCH AS GIVG ROZ A GIFT FOR HER NOT-YET-BORN BABY AND HUGGG HER SO HE N FEEL HER PREGNANCY-ENLARGED BREASTS. AFTER HE ADMS HE'S LOVE WH ROZ, ROZ VOK THIS AS A WAY OF LETTG HIM DOWN EASY BY LETTG HIM PLAY OFF AS JT A WAY TO GET HER TO BED. KAVORKA MAN: HE'S SHORT, BALD, AND ANNOYGLY LOUD-MOUTHED. THE FIRST TWO ULD PROBABLY BE EXCED IF NOT FOR THE LAST TWO. HE'S NOT PHYSILLY REPULSIVE, BUT HIS PERSONALY IS REPELLANT. AND YET, HE SLEEPS WH A LOT OF WOMEN. (IT DON'T HURT, HOWEVER, THAT HE HAD A ROCK-HARD MCULAR BODY THAT HE SHOWED OFF ONCE OR TWICE.) LADYKILLER LOVE: HAPPENS TWICE, FIRST WH ROZ'S IEND SHANNON AND LATER ON ROZ. NO INDOOR VOICE: SHOUTS, LOUD NOIS, AND BARKS NEARLY ALL HIS APPEARANC. NOT STAYG FOR BREAKFAST: IN THE FIRST EPISO OF SEASON 3, HE SAYS THIS IS HIS UAL PRACTICE. OUT OF FOC: IN LATER SEASONS, PECIALLY ONCE HE'S FIRED. PERVERTED SNIFFG: ONE OF HIS ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENTS EARLY THE SHOW HAS HIM SUDNLY EEZG, AND SNIFFG THE AIR—AND THIS SE, HIS SNIFFG SOUNDS VERY NVCGLY LIKE...A DOG. THE FACT THAT HE FOLLOWS UP WH HIS CHARACTERISTIC BARKG WHEN HE SE THE "CHICK" QUTN TAK THE DARNED TROPE UP TO ELEVEN.SIXTH RANGER: TO THE MA ST.-->THE SOCPATH: AT LEAST "BAD DOG", HE ADMS HE PROBABLY DON'T HAVE A NSCIENCE, AND WHILE FRASIER FDS THAT HARD TO BELIEVE, HE'S CERTALY UNABLE TO PROVE OTHERWISE.--> TTOSTERONE POISONG: A SUBTLE -JOKE, AS ACTOR DAN BUTLER IS GAY REAL LIFE.     MARIS CRANE MARIS CRANE PLAYED BY: N/ANIL'S IAL WIFE, SHE'S AN CREDIBLY BIZARRE AND ECCENTRIC RICH BCH WHO IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE, AND YET NIL BENDS OVER BACKWARDS FOR HER ANYWAY. THEIR MARRIAGE DISSOLV OVER THE URSE OF THE SHOW, AND MARIS MAK AS PAFUL FOR HIM AS SHE N. ANNOYG PATIENT: IN ONE EPISO WHEN SHE'S THE HOSPAL FOR A SMETIC PROCRE, NIL SEEN ON THE PHONE ASSURG HER THAT THE IV FLUID IS "LOW-LORIE". HE'S LATER SEEN BUYG GIFTS FOR THE HOSPAL STAFF AS AN APOLOGY FOR HAVG TO AL WH HER—WHEN ONE NURSE TELLS HIM "I WORKED THE NIGHT SHIFT", HE IMMEDIATELY PLEMENTS THE SMALL BOX HE GAVE HER WH A MUCH LARGER ONE. BABY DON'T GOT BACK: ACRDG TO NIL, CERTA DANC ARE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HER TO DO BEE "SHE HAS NO BOOTY TO SHAKE". BAD BOSS: SHE'S OFTEN MENTNED AS NAGGG, HARANGUG AND OUTRIGHT BULLYG HER HOEHOLD STAFF. WHEN NIL GATHERS THEM TOGETHER TO BID THEM FAREWELL WHEN HE SEPARAT OM MARIS, THEIR IMMEDIATE RPONSE IS TO BEG TO GO WH HIM. BIG EATER: NORMALLY BARELY PABLE OF EATG ANYTHG, BUT WHEN SHE'S STRSED OUT, MARIS EATS... AND EATS... AND EATS. SUCH AS WHEN SHE FOUND OUT NIL WAS DATG MEL.ROZ: WELL, SHE MOVED NEXT DOOR TO THE ITALIAN LI. THE GUY JT TOOK THE TWO-FOOT SALAMI OUT THE WDOW. IN THE SAME EPISO:MART: MY GOD, HAVE YOU SEEN MARIS? FRASIER: Y, DAD, I KNOW. DID NIL LM HER DOWN? MART: YEAH, HE TOOK HER TO YOUR ROOM BUT HE HAD TO BUTTER HER UP A LTLE. FRASIER: I WAS AAID THAT NARROW DOORWAY MIGHT POSE A PROBLEM. CAN'T TAKE CRICISM: AS A RULT OF HER SELFISHNS, MARIS IS VERY FENSIVE AGAST ANYONE WHO READS HER THE RT ACT. SHE UTTERLY FIR HER MARRIAGE UNSELORS WHENEVER THEY POT OUT HER FLAWS OR FOR SIMPLY ASKG HER NOT TO TALOG SHOP AND SHE ONCE LOCKED HERSELF HER BASEMENT TO SULK WHEN FRASIER MERELY QUTNS HER SERVG VEAL'S SENSIVY. AS FRASIER STAT, SHE DON'T AL WH NONTATN WELL. CHILD HATER: GIVEN THAT SHE APPARENTLY HAD A LOOK OF JOY ON HER FACE WHEN THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHILDREN DISVERED HER ELECTRIC FENCE, MARIS APPARENTLY ISN'T FOND OF KIDS. CLGY JEALO GIRL: EVEN AFTER SHE AND NIL HAVE DIVORCED, SHE STILL TRI TO SABOTAGE MEL'S REER OUT OF SPE WHEN SHE FDS OUT THEY'RE DATG. CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: EVEN WHOUT HER DISORRS AND SPOILED UPBRGG, THE PICTURE PATED OF MARIS IS SOMEONE WHO IS HIGHLY ECCENTRIC TO BEG WH. WHEN PEGGED AS A FLIGHT RISK BY POLICE BEE SHE'S RRYG THOANDS SH, AND A WIG HER PURSE, NIL JT SHGS THIS OFF BEE MARIS ALWAYS HAS THOSE HER PURSE. DADDY'S GIRL: IS APPARENTLY ED TO HAVG HER FATHER JT BUY HER WAY OUT OF ANY TROUBLE SHE GETS TO. A B OF PROBLEM GIVEN HE'S AD BEFORE THE SERI BEGS. DARK SECRET: PLAYED FOR LGHS THE EPISO WHEN NIL FALLY DIVORC HER, AS DONNY'S DIRT-DIGGG REVEALS THAT HER FAY FORTUNE OM URAL K, NOT TIMBER AS SHE SUPPOSEDLY CLAIMED. TO MOST PEOPLE THIS WOULDN'T BE A BIG AL, BUT KNOWG THAT SHE MOV ULTRA-SNOBBY SOCIAL CIRCL, NIL AND DONNY LEVERAGE THIS TO MAKE HER AGREE NOT TO LEAVE NIL FANCIALLY STUTE. DOMTIC ABE: HER TREATMENT OF NIL. OCSNALLY SHE ENGAG PHYSIL ABE, LIKE THROWG THGS AT NIL, BUT PRIMARILY HER ABE IS EMOTNAL AND FANCIAL (PECIALLY AS THEIR RELATNSHIP BEGS TO BREAK DOWN). DRAMA QUEEN: AS ONE OF HER ECCENTRICI, EVEN A SUAL QUIRY OR DISPLAY OF EMOTN HER DIRECTN HAS MARIS NNG OFF EHER FOR HER PILLS OR THE PLASTIC SURGEONS. EARLY-INSTALLMENT WEIRDNS: IN LILH'S FIRST APPEARANCE, MART CLAIMS LILH IS WEIRR THAN MARIS. THAT PROV TO BE LGHABLY SO UNTE, 'S PROBABLE MART WAS JT TRYG TO GET UNR FRASIER'S SK. ENTLED BCH: SHE JT DO WHATEVER SHE WANTS AS IF SHE BELIEV SHE HAS A RIGHT TO. NOT EVEN THE LONG-ARM OF THE LAW IS EXEMPT OM THIS. SHE ONCE PARKED A HANDIPPED ZONE G HER CHOLATE ALLERGY AS AN EXCE, BLEW OFF A URT SUMMONS FOR PARKG VLATNS, HAD AN AFFAIR WH ONE OF HER MARRIAGE UNSELORS AND ALSO PLANNED ON WEDDG HIM, TRIED TO BRIBE NIL WH GIFTS SO THAT HE MAY TAKE HER BACK SPE THE AFOREMENTNED AFFAIR AND WILLGNS TO M POLYGAMY ED HIM TO BE DRIVEN AWAY. EPIC FAIL: MANY IS THE STORY NIL REUNTS OF MARIS TRYG TO ENGAGE SOME SORT OF PHYSIL ACTIVY AND FAILG MISERABLY, SUCH AS GETTG STUCK A REVOLVG DOOR. EVIL CANNOT COMPREHEND GOOD: DPE CLAIMG TO BE AN ANIMAL LOVER, MARIS NEVER ADOPTED A PET BEE, ACRDG TO NIL, SHE DON'T TST UNNDNAL LOVE. WHICH, E TO THK OF , EXPLAS A LOT OF HER RELATNSHIP WH NIL... THE FACELS: THE WRG TEAM DID TOY WH THE IA OF REVEALG HER, BUT BY THAT TIME THEY HAD CREATED SO MANY BIZARRE SCRIPTNS OF HER THAT THEY EVENTUALLY CID NO HUMAN ACTRS WOULD BE ABLE TO PORTRAY HER AQUATELY.ROZ: I DON'T SEE HER, MAYBE SHE WENT BACK OUT. OH, WA. I SEE HER AT ON A HAT RACK. FRASIER: LOOK CLOSER. IS THE HAT RACK MOVG? ROZ: ... OH MY GOD! PLAYED WH WHEN WE DO ACTUALLY GET TO SEE HER ON-SCREEN A FLASH-BACK... BUT HER FACE IS VERED BANDAG OM HER LATT SURGERY. FOOT-DRAGGG DIVORCEE: SHE MAK EXTREMELY DIFFICULT FOR NIL TO GET AWAY OM HER. WHEN BEGGG HIM TO TAKE HER BACK DON'T WORK SHE CIS TO HIM FANCIALLY BY DRAGGG THGS OUT FOR OVER A YEAR. IF ROZ HADN'T SET NIL UP WH DONNY THEN THE PROCS WOULD HAVE GONE ON EVEN LONGER. THE GHOST: SHE'S NEVER SEEN, ALTHOUGH OCSNALLY THE CREATORS TROLLED THE VIEWERS WH THE POSSIBILYNOTE THE CLOST WE GET IS THE SHADOW OF HER HAIR SEEN THROUGH THE SHOWER CURTA SEASON 5'S "VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED". ULTIMATELY, HOWEVER, THEY CID NO HUMAN BEG ULD AQUATELY PORTRAY HER. FOR EXAMPLE, SHE WAS SO TH THAT SHE WAS GENUELY MISTAKEN FOR A AT RACK AND SHE WAS SO LIGHT SHE ULD S ON A WHOOPIE CHN WHOUT SETTG OFF. GRAN DAME: NIL REFERS TO HER AS THE DOYEN OF THE SEATTLE ELE. HER DAT EVEN MAKE THE SEATTLE NEWSPAPER AFTER SHE AND NIL ARE SEPARATED. HIDN DEPTHS: RELATED TO THE BIG EATER POST. SHE WAS FORMERLY FAT AS A CHILD AND IS TERRIFIED OF BEG SO AGA, TH EXPLAG HER OBSSN WH STAYG TH. IN FACT, THE SCRIPTNS OF HER BODY, HER DIETARY HABS, AND HER PLASTIC SURGERY ADDICTN DITE THAT SHE'S BEEN STGGLG WH EATG DISORRS AND BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORR MOST OF HER LIFE, MAKG HER JT A TEENY B SYMPATHETIC SPE ALL THE AWFUL THGS SHE DO. WHILE THROUGHOUT THE SERI SHE'S PORTRAYED AS LACKG MON SENSE OR HAVG MUCH W DUE TO HER ULTRA SPOILED AND ELIST LIFE, THE FAL SEASON SHE SHOWS HERSELF TO BE QUE CLEVER WHEN SHE PLAC A POLICE TRACKER AN EMBARRASSG SELF-PORTRA OF NIL THAT SHE KNEW HE WOULD RETAKE WHEN SELLG OFF HER PERSONAL POSSSNS AND HIM TO LEAD THE POLICE AWAY SO THAT SHE ULD FLEE TO A NON-EXTRADN PRIVATE ISLAND SHE OWNS ORR TO AVOID PRISON AFTER SHE ACCINTALLY KILLS HER ABIVE BOYIEND. I CAN'T DANCE: CAN'T AND WON'T. PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF RHYTHM MAKE HER UNFORTABLE, AND DUE TO CERTA QUIRKS OF HER ANATOMY, SHE'S PABLE OF DOG MOST FORMS OF DANCG ANYHOW. ICE QUEEN: NIL EVEN PAR HER WH SAID SUBSTANCE A FEW TIM.NIL: IT WAS PCH DARK, I THOUGHT HE WAS MARIS. FRASIER: IT'S A NATURAL MISTAKE. WHAT TIPPED YOU OFF? NIL: .. HEAT OM HER SI OF THE BED! [BURSTS OUT LGHG] WHEN NIL WAS STILL MARRIED TO MARIS, HE AND FRASIER WOULD ARGUE WHICH WOMAN WAS THE BIGGER ICE QUEEN, SUCH AS THIS HILAR EXCHANGE WHEN LILH'S HBAND, A SEISMOLOGIST, WON'T BE WH THEM AT THANKSGIVG BEE HE IS STUDYG A VOLNO.MART: WHY ULDN'T SHE [LILH] GO WH HIM? NIL: WELL, BEE IF SHE ACCINTALLY FELL , THE SHOCK WAVE OM THE HOTTT THG NATURE MEETG THE LST WOULD ACTUALLY CRACK THE EARTH TWO. FRASIER: AS IF A SE OM MARIS ULDN'T EEZE MERCURY. MART: GUYS, LET GO. NOBODY'S GOG TO W THIS ONE. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: ULTIMATELY THE REASON THAT HER MARRIAGE WH NIL DIDN'T WORK, SHE ONLY RED ABOUT HERSELF. IT EVEN APPLI AFTER THEY'VE LONG DIVORCED - SHE STILL EXPECTS NIL TO ATTEND TO HER EVERY NEED. JERKASS: IS CEL, SELFISH, AND TREATED NIL LIKE A PERSONAL SLAVE AS MUCH AS A HBAND. KARMA HOUDI: HER ULTIMATE FATE. IN THE FAL SEASON, SEEMS THAT ALL HER EMOTNALLY ABIVE AND GENERALLY UNPLEASANT ATTU WILL FALLY TCH UP TO HER WHEN SHE'S ARRTED AND CHARGED FOR MURRG HER BOYIEND; THOUGH 'S EMPHASIZED THAT WAS A HIGHLY CIRCUMSTANTIAL ACCINT, AND THE MAN WAS BOTH ABIVE AND LARGELY CULPABLE BY HIS OWN EDS. HOWEVER, SHE MANAG TO PERFORM A SUCCSFUL BATMAN GAMB WH NIL LEADG THE POLICE AWAY ORR TO FLEE TO A PRIVATE ISLAND WH NO EXTRADN. A LETTER TO NIL EXPLAS THAT LIVG EXILE, ALBE STILL LUXURY, WILL BE HER FATE FOR THE RT OF HER LIFE. NIL, FRASIER AND MART ALL GIVE HER ONE LAST TOAST TO HER AND HER REFUGE AUDACY. KAVORKA MAN: A RARE FEMALE EXAMPLE. MARIS IS OFT MENTNED TO BE EMOTNALLY DISTANT AT BT, GENERALLY UNPLEASANT TO BE AROUND, AND NOT WHAT WOULD BE NSIRED NVENTNALLY ATTRACTIVE, AND YET NIL AND LATER DR. SCHENKMAN GH ABOUT HER APPARENT BETY. WH THE LATER SE, NIL IS ACTUALLY DUMBFOUND (SCE SCHENKMAN IS THEIR MARRIAGE UNSELLOR, AND YET HE'S TALKG ABOUT HER BEG "WARM AND RG", TWO TRAS THAT ULD NEVER BE ASCRIBED TO HER). LACK OF EMPATHY: FIRST POTED OUT THE BEGNG OF NIL' MARRIAGE MELTDOWN, WHERE SHE GO ON A SHOPPG SPREE NEW YORK WHOUT SO MUCH AS A PHONE LL. WHEN NIL LLS HER OUT ON , SHE IMMEDIATELY MANDS A DIVORCE. LEAN AND MEAN: SHE'S A PRETTY TERRIBLE PERSON WHO TREATS EVERYONE AROUND HER WH SNEERG NTEMPT, AND SHE'S SO LIGHT AND TH THAT SHE DON'T LEAVE FOOTPRTS THE SNOW. LYSISTRATA GAMB: HOW SHE NTROLS NIL AT TIM. EVEN WHEN NIL AND MARIS IS SEPARATED, AS SEEN "LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP".NIL: [EXCED] WHEN MARIS SAYS "GET TOGETHER," SHE MEANS, "YOU WEAR THE CREME AICHE. I'LL LICK OFF," SENSE. MANIPULATIVE BCH: HER RELATNSHIP WH NIL NSISTED OF ALMOST NOTHG BUT THIS. WHEN WASN'T OUTRIGHT DOMTIC ABE. THE NAPOLEON: OFTEN MENTNED TO BE ON THE TY SIZE, BOTH WEIGHT AND HEIGHT WISE. NIL FDS HORSE JOCKEYS ALARMG BEE TY, WELL-DRSED PEOPLE RRYG RIDG CROPS REMD HIM A LTLE TOO MUCH OF MARIS. NERVO WRECK: SHE'S VERY EASILY STARTLED AND ALARMED, ALONG WH A POSSIBLE SE OF PARANOIA. WHILE THEY'RE MARRIED, NIL IS OFTEN SHOWN HAVG PHONE LLS TRYG TO REASSURE HER ABOUT SOMETHG LUDICRO (LIKE BEG NVCED ONE OF HER SERVANTS GOT WALLED DURG A REMOLLG). NEVER MY FLT: SHE END UP FIRG EVERY UPLE'S THERAPIST THAT ACKNOWLEDGED HER PART THE MARRIAGE'S SELF-STCTN. DURG THE CULMATN OF THEIR DIVORCE, MARIS MA CLEAR SHE'D ONLY TAKE NIL BACK IF HE ACCEPTED EVERYTHG THAT WENT WRONG WAS HIS FLT. NO SOCIAL SKILLS: DPE BEG ONE OF SEATTLE'S TOP SOCIAL, MARIS ISN'T MUCH FOR SOCIALIZG BEE, TO QUOTE NIL, "SHE EXHSTS EASILY UNR THE PRSURE TO BE TERTG." NOTHG BUT SK AND BON: SHE'S OFTEN SCRIBED AS BEG UNHEALTHILY OR EVEN IMPOSSIBLY SKNY. FRASIER EVEN REMARKED UPON LEARNG OF HER WEIGHT THAT NO HUMAN ULD WEIGH THAT LTLE AND LIVE. THE PARANOIAC: PARANOIA IS JT ANOTHER OF HER CHARMG QUIRKS... SHE IALLY REFED TO GET A PET, SPE AN APPARENT FONDNS FOR ANIMALS GENERAL, BEE SHE FEARS UNNDNAL LOVE. ANOTHER STANCE HAS NIL MENTNG SHE ONCE HAD ONE OF HER TOPIARY BH BURNT BEE SHE THOUGHT WAS LGHG AT HER LATT ATTEMPT AT WEIGHT LOSS. YEAH... PATHETILLY WEAK: AS A RULT OF HER OBSSN WH STAYG TH, SHE'S EXTREMELY AIL; FRASIER CLAIMS SHE ONCE SPRAED HER WRIST OM PUTTG TOO MUCH DIP ON A CRACKER, AND NIL CLAIMS SHE N'T WEAR EARRGS BEE THEY WEIGH TOO MUCH FOR HER HEAD TO SUPPORT. PET THE DOG: IT MAY HAVE BEEN AN EXAMPLE OF EARLY-INSTALLMENT WEIRDNS, BUT NIL MENTNS A SEASON 1 EPISO THAT SHE DONAT HER OLD PARTY DRS TO THE HOMELS. LATER THE SERI, SHE LLS NIL TO CHECK ON HIM BEFORE HIS HEART SURGERY. WHILE THE LL SELF TURNS TO A D SQUABBLE, 'S STILL THE ONE TIME MARIS SHOWS GENUE NCERN FOR NIL' WELL-BEG. RED RIGHT HAND: ACRDG TO NIL, MARIS HAD A SLIGHT WEBBG BETWEEN HER FGERS THAT MA HER SELF-NSC ENOUGH TO REFE TO HOLD HANDS WH ANYONE. RICH BCH: SHE'S ENORMOLY WEALTHY BUT A HORRIBLE PERSON. RUN FOR THE BORR: HER FATE THE FAL SEASON. AFTER ACCINTALLY (OR SO SHE CLAIMS) KILLG HER BOYIEND, SHE CIS SHE WON'T GET A FAIR TRIAL IF SHE STAYS THE STAT. SHE SLIPS OFF HER ANKLE MONOR AND HAS MARTA ATTACH TO A PATG NIL IS RECLAIMG. WHILE THE POLICE FOLLOW NIL, ASSUMG MARIS IS WH HIM, SHE SLIPS OUT OF THE MANSN AND FLE TO HER FAY'S PRIVATE ISLAND WHICH SHE N'T BE EXTRADED OM. SOMETHG ONLY THEY WOULD SAY: NON-VERBAL VARIANT, WHEN NIL IS ABLE TO REGNIZE MARIS WAS CAFé NERVOSA WHEN A BARISTA TELLS HIM A TH WOMAN ME , ORRED A FFEE AND MERELY SNIFFED BEFORE SENDG AWAY. HE'D BEEN UNCERTA BEFOREHAND, BUT THIS NFIRMS 'S HER. ALSO HAPPENS "THE LAST TIME I SAW MARIS." MARIS HAS GONE MISSG, AND NIL IS WORRIED SICK AS MART'S POLICE BUDDI TELL HIM THAT MARIS' CRED RD HAS BEEN ED AT SEVERAL BS NEW YORK. IT'S NOT UNTIL MART REPORTS THAT THE RD HAD ONLY BEEN ED AT UPSLE CLOTHG BOUTIQU AND NOT A SGLE RTRANT THAT NIL REALIZ THAT MARIS IS SAFE AND SOUND. SPOILED BRAT: MARIS IS OF A VERY RICH FAY. SHE LIKEWISE DISPLAYS MULTIPLE SIGNS OF ARROGANCE, SELFISHNS AND ENTLEMENT THROUGHOUT THE SERI. TRANQUIL FURY: INSTEAD OF HER UAL MELODRAMA, WHEN NIL NONTS HER OVER HER TRYG TO BRIBE HIM BACK "SECRET ADMIRER", SHE APPARENTLY JT STARED AT HIM WHILE STROKG HER OCELOT ("I THK THEY'VE GOT A CREAM FOR THAT.") THEN WHEN NIL GETS BACK TO HIS APARTMENT, HE FDS ANOTHER GIFT OM MARIS - A NICKEL, A POEM CLARG SHE'S GOG TO FANCIALLY STROY HIM, AND THE SHREDD REMAS OF THEIR DIVORCE SETTLEMENT. UNTTY REMBLANCE: THE CLOST THE DIENCE GETS TO SEEG MARIS IS WHEN NIL GETS A NEW DOG, A WHIPPET NAMED GIRL, WHO EVERYONE ELSE SE AS THE NE IMAGE OF HER. NIL IS EP NIAL ABOUT THIS, UNTIL FRASIER FORC THE PARISON.FRASIER: SHE'S HIGH-STNG, LD TO THE TOUCH, AND IGNOR YOU! MY GOD, STAND HER UPRIGHT, TAKE TEN POUNDS OFF HER, PUT HER A CHANEL SU, WHAT YA GOT? THE VOICELS: IN ADDN TO NEVER HAVG A FACE. SHE IS QUE VOL, BUT WE ONLY HEAR OM SENDARY SOURCE. WEIGHT WOE: SHE VICLY EXERCIS IF SHE GAS SO MUCH AS A POUND, SO SPERATE IS SHE TO REMA TH. THIS, SPE BEG CREDIBLY TH TO BEG WH. ACRDG TO NIL SHE WAS MUCH HEAVIER AS A CHILD, AND AFTER HE STARTS DATG MEL SHE RELAPS AND GAS A LOT OF WEIGHT. WOMANCHILD: DPE BEG HAILED AS THE CREME LA CREME OF SEATTLE'S UPPER CST, SHE'S ULTIMATELY NOTHG MORE THAN AN OVERGROWN CHILD THE BODY OF AN ADULT; SHE IS PETTY, VA, SELFISH, IMPULSIVE, UNFIVG, QUICK TO ANGER, LUDICROLY SELF-DULGENT, PABLE OF ADMTG WHEN SHE'S AT FLT, HAS NO EMPATHY FOR ANYONE BUT HERSELF, AND IS KNOWN TO THROW THGS WHEN ANGRY. WOMAN SRNED: WHEN NIL REJECTS HER ATTEMPTS TO RENCILE SHE ARRANG FOR HER LAWYERS TO PLETELY HIM FANCIALLY OUT OF SPE FOR HIS REBUFFG HER. WHEN NIL IS ROMANTILLY VOLVED WH MEL, HER FORMER PLASTIC SURGEON, SHE STARTS MAKG UP LI ON MEL'S PETENCE THAT PEOPLE BELIEVE.     LILH STERN  LILH STERN, M.D. PLAYED BY: BEBE NWIRTHFRASIER'S EX-WIFE, SHE DROPS ON OCSN AS THEY HAVE A SON TOGETHER (FRERICK) AND STILL MATA A IENDSHIP. THE RT OF THE FAY IS TERRIFIED OF HER. TROP OM ''CHEERS'' STILL APPLY TO HER. ACTOR ALLN: BEBE NWIRTH IS AN ACPLISHED BROADWAY MIL ACTRS, SO IF THE WRERS N FD AN EXCE TO UTILIZE HER TALENTS, THEY WILL. AMIBLE EX: SHE AND FRASIER, MOST OF THE TIME. AFTER SHE AND NIL SLEEP TOGETHER, THEY TRY TO ACT AMIBLE TOWARD ONE ANOTHER. FRASIER FDS THIS TOO DISTURBG, AND ASKS THEY GO BACK TO VIC SNIPG. BRAY BTE: LILH IS AN ACPLISHED REARCHER AND PSYCHIATRIST, AS WELL AS BEG A VERY WELL READ WOMAN, WHO HAS LONG DARK BROWN HAIR. DEOSTG ICE QUEEN: EASIER TO NOTICE WHEN PARED TO HER FIRST APPEARANCE CHEERS, BUT BE MUCH MORE RELAXED AND SOCIABLE BY THE END OF FRASIER. DIVORCE IS TEMPORARY: TEASED SEVERAL TIM BUT ULTIMATELY AVERTED. SHE AND FRASIER HAVE TRIED TO GET BACK TOGETHER, EVEN SLEEPG WH EACH OTHER A UPLE OF TIM, BUT THEY ARE JT TOO DIFFERENT TO MAKE A FUNCTNAL UPLE AND ARE TH BETTER AS FRIENDS. THE DREAD: NONE OF THE CRAN LIKE HER. MART AND DAPHNE (AND EDDIE!) WILL N AWAY AND HI THEIR ROOMS IF THEY THK SHE'S AROUND, AND THAT'S IF THEY HAVEN'T BEEN FOREWARNED OF HER PRENCE. EARLY-INSTALLMENT WEIRDNS: IN THE FIRST SEASON, MART SAYS LILH IS WEIRR THAN MARIS. THAT PROV TO BE A HILAR LIE. EERIE PALE-SKNED BTE: SUPERNATURAL REFERENC TEND TO POP UP WHEN SHE HS TOWN, AND NOT ONLY OM NIL AND MART. GOOD PARENTS: TO FRERICK; HE GROWS UP PRETTY WELL, EVEN IF BRATTY AT TIM, UNR HER RE. ICE QUEEN: ALTHOUGH SHE LATER EVOLV TO A DEOSTG ICE QUEEN AS THE SERI PROGRS. MS. FANSERVICE: SHOWS OFF HER LEGS ON MORE THAN ONE OCSN. ONCE SHOWS UP AT FRASIER'S DOOR A SHORT-CUT DRS WH CLEAVAGE:FRASIER: OH, BABY! LILH: THANKS, FRASIER, I NEED THAT.... OBNOX IN-LAWS: OR OBNOX EX IN-LAWS, WH NIL, WHO AT THE BEGNG OF THE SERI IS STILL HOLDG A GDGE AGAST LILH SNICKERG DURG HIS WEDDG WHEN MARIS READ OUT HER OWN VOWS (WHICH VOLVED SUCH STATEMENTS AS "SAILG THE TRANSPLENNT RIVER OF [OUR] LOVE"). IT LASTS UNTIL LILH, GENUELY NFED AS TO HOW NIL ULD'VE TAKEN OFFENSE, APOLOGIZ. RAVEN HAIR, IVORY SK: HER SK BEG PALE IS A RUNNG GAG FOR THE SERI, TO A POT THAT WHEN AIDG THE VICTIM OF AN ACCINT THE PARAMEDICS TRIED TO GIVE HER A BLOOD TRANSFN. SNARK-TO-SNARK COMBAT: WH NIL. WHICH MIGHT ALSO EDGE TO BELLIGERENT SEXUAL TENSN. SOPHISTITED AS HELL: HER REBUTTAL TO FRASIER'S HYPOTHIS AS TO THE MOTIVATN FOR HER AND NIL SLEEPG TOGETHER BEG A TRANSPARENT ATTEMPT TO GET BACK AT HIM.LILH: ALLOW ME TO REBUT: WHAT A CROCK! THE SPOCK: HER EMOTNS E OUT CLEARLY MOMENTS WHERE SHE LETS HER HAIR DOWN, BUT OTHERWISE SHE'S A VERY LCULATG AND EFFICIENT WOMAN, WHOSE IA OF AN EMOTNAL ROLLERASTER IS GETTG CHOKED UP FOR TWO SENDS. SUGAR-AND-ICE PERSONALY: SHE'S OSTY, BUT SHE HAS HER KD SI, PECIALLY AS THE SEASONS PROGRS.     FRERICK CRANE  FRERICK 'FREDDIE' GAYLORD CRANE PLAYED BY: LE TARSANO (SEASON 3); TREVOR EHORN (SEASONS 4-11); JACK CUTMORE-STT (REVIVAL)FRASIER'S SON WH LILH. CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: INIALLY A CHILD PRODIGY, HE VELOPS TO A NORMAL KID AS HE GROWS UP, TRATG FRASIER AS THEY GROW APART. EMBARRASSG MIDDLE NAME: GAYLORD, WHICH IS REVEALED ONT OF EVERYONE AT HIS BAR MZVAH, MUCH TO HIS EMBARRASSMENT. FROM THE MOUTHS OF BAB: IN SEASON 4, HE MANAG TO DO THIS SEVERAL TIM TO FRAISER AND MART. GOTH: AS A TEEN, HE HAD A STEREOTYPIL GOTH PERD. IT'S IMPLIED HE DID FOR A GIRL. HILARLY ABIVE CHILDHOOD: HIS REGULAR CHILDHOOD IS FE, BUT HE'S IMPLIED TO HAVE HAD AN FANCY THAT WAS LIKE THIS "THE APPARENT TRAP."LILH: IF HE WANTS SOMETHG BADLY ENOUGH, HE WILL FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GET . REMEMBER WHEN HE WAS A BABY, THE BOTTLE AT THE END OF THE MAZE? FRASIER: YOU KNOW, I KDA REGRET DOG THAT. HYPOCRIL HUMOR: AFTER A NDID NVERSATN WHERE HE AND FRASIER TALK ABOUT FRASIER LETTG HIM DOWN, HE THEN GETS OUTRAGED AT THE IA THAT MART, WHOM HE PREVLY BEEN GETTG ON WH, N'T DO MENTAL ARHMETIC. LIKE PARENT, LIKE SPOE: THERE'S SOMETHG ODDLY OEDIPAL ABOUT HIM BEG TO GOTH GIRLS AS A TEENAGER. MANIPULATIVE BASTARD: IS THIS A THANKSGIVG EPISO WHERE HE MANIPULAT FRASIER AND LILH TO THKG HE WANTS THEM TO GET BACK TOGETHER, PLANNG TO ACT EMOTNALLY CSHED SO THEY BUY HIM A MIBIKE. THE TWO SURMISE THIS MEANS HE'S A TYPIL GROWG KID. PREC CSH: HE HAD A CSH ON DAPHNE WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER, BUT SOON GREW OUT OF . IT WAS PLAYED FOR LGHS... AS WAS NIL' RAMPANT JEALOY. SOAP OPERA RAPID AGG SYNDROME: AVERTED. THE TRANSN OM LE TARSANO TO TREVOR EHORN WAS A BELIEVABLE ONE, AND THE LATTER OWNED THE ROLE THE RT OF THE SERI.     BEBE GLAZER  BEBE GLAZER PLAYED BY: HARRIET SANSOM HARRISFRASIER'S AGENT WHO WILL RORT TO ANYTHG TO GET HER CLIENTS FAME AND FORTUNE, LARGELY BEE SHE LIK BASKG HERSELF. BLACKMAIL: SHE BLACKMAILS DR. PHIL TO PRETENDG HE'S ONE OF HER CLIENTS TO GET FRASIER TO RE-SIGN WH HER. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: SHE'S AN OVER THE TOP DRAMA QUEEN, AND QUE POSSIBLE SANE GIVEN THE LENGTHS SHE GO TO, BUT SHE NSISTENTLY GETS FRASIER SIGNIFINT RAIS WHEN S TIME TO RENEGOTIATE HIS NTRACT AND EVEN GETS HIM A SYNDITN AL SAN FRANCIS, WHICH IS ONE OF THE REASONS FRASIER NEVER FIR HER (THE OTHER BEG HE'S SRED TO ATH SHE'D KILL HIM.) CATCHPHRASE: "I ULD MAKE YOU A STAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" OR SOME SUCH VARIANT. USUALLY SAID WH BULGG EY.... "WK!" EVIL CAN NOT COMPREHEND GOOD: WHEN ROZ TERVIEWS FOR HER OWN RAD SHOW, AND FRASIER OFFHANDLY EXPRS HIS HOP HER BEG TURNED DOWN, BEBE IMMEDIATELY TERPRETS THIS AS A SIGNAL FOR HER TO SABOTAGE ROZ, RATHER THAN JT VENTG MIXED EMOTNS. AFTER FRASIER BE GENUELY OUTRAGED ON DISVERG THIS, SHE THKS ’S JT HIM BEG Y. SEVERAL TIM. GLORY HOUND: WHEN SHE BE A MORNG TALK SHOW HOST WH FRASIER, SHE BE THIS, HAVG BEE ADDICTED TO FAME. GOLD DIGGER: ATTEMPTED TO MARRY "BIG WILLY" BOONE, ONE OF THE MANY STATN OWNERS OF KACL, BUT HE DIED BEFORE THEY ULD MAKE TO THE END OF THE AISLE. SHE WAS CLEARLY ONLY FOR HIS MONEY BUT HAD HIM NVCED SHE GENUELY LOVED HIM.BEBE: ISN'T WONRFUL? WE MET LAST MONTH AND WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT! ROZ: FIRST SIGHT OF WHAT? HIS BANKBOOK AND A RDGRAM!? [BEBE GRS BROADLY.] GOOD SMOKG, EVIL SMOKG: SHE'S BOTH UTTERLY THLS AND UTTERLY ADDICTED TO CIGARETT. THE ONE EPISO WHERE SHE TRIED TO QU LED TO THE MOST MAGNIFICENTLY OVER THE TOP MT HAVE NITE SCENE IMAGABLE. HAM-TO-HAM COMBAT: WH FRASIER, MOST OFTEN WHEN SHE TRI TO W HIM BACK. I DID WHAT I HAD TO DO: HER EXCE FOR THE UHIL THGS SHE DO AS AN AGENT. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: AS DITED, HARDWORKG AND CHARISMATIC AS SHE IS, SHE ADMS THAT THE MA REASON SHE PH HER CLIENTS TO SUCCEED IS SO SHE N BASK THEIR RIDUAL GLORY. LARGE HAM: IF ANYONE ON THE SHOW ULD OUT-HAM FRASIER, 'S HER. MANIPULATIVE BCH: ONE OF HER TABLISHG EPISOS HAS HER LYG TO FRASIER ABOUT HOW HOT A PRODUCT HE IS RAD SO HE'LL NEGOTIATE FOR MORE MONEY AND THEN, AFTER FORCG THE STATN TO RENEGOTIATE HIS NTRACT OM SCRATCH, SHE CREAS HIS VALUE BY FAKG A SUICI ATTEMPT FOR HIM TO TALK HER DOWN OM. MILKG THE GIANT COW: WHEN SHE REALLY GETS GOG.... OLR THAN THEY LOOK: THE FALE OF THE SHOW SUGGTS THAT SHE'S GOT A MIDDLE-AGED SON AND THAT SHE LOOKS SO YOUNG BEE OF A SMETIC SURGEON SHE RELI ON. ALTHOUGH SCE 'S BEBE, AND SHE WAS TRYG TO NVCE FRASIER TO E THE SURGEON, THE TTH OF THIS IS A LTLE MUDDIED. ONCE A SEASON: JTIFIED, AS SHE SHOWS UP WHEN 'S TIME FOR FRASIER TO NEGOTIATE HIS NTRACT. SATANIC ARCHETYPE: PLAYED FOR LGHS. MOST JABS ABOUT HER OM NIL ARE ON-PAR WH HIS ATTU TOWARDS LILH, AND FRASIER TENDS TO ASCRIBE A BATN OF STRAIGHT SOCPATHIC AND SUPERNATURAL TRAS TO HER WHENEVER HE'S TRYG TO DISSUA SOMEONE ELSE OM MAKG A AL WH HER. THEN THERE WAS THAT ONE TIME SHE TRIED TO SLEEP WH FRASIER WH THE ROOM GLOWG RED, STEAM G OM OFF-SCREEN, AND A MONIC CHOIR CHANTG THE BACKGROUND, WH HER ROOM EVENTUALLY REVEALED AS ROOM 666.ROZ: WHAT!? IT'S NOT LIKE SHE WORSHIPS THE VIL... FRASIER: WELL, SHE DON'T HAVE TO, HE WORSHIPS HER! [...] ROZ, LISTEN TO ME, FOR GOD'S SAKE, IF YOU'VE GOT THE TIT SHRED OF DIGNY OR SENSE YOU, YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER WHAT THIS WOMAN DID TO YOU THIS AFTERNOON AND RENOUNCE HER! SHE HAS NO SCPL, NO ETHICS, AND NO REFLECTN! SEX FOR SERVIC: SLEEPS WH FRASIER ONCE JT AS A TOOL TO KEEP HIM AS A CLIENT, KNOWG FRASIER'S GUILT PLEX. SMOOTH-TALKG TALENT AGENT: BEBE MAY AS WELL BE THE PATRON VIL OF THIS TROPE, WH HER UNFATHOMABLY ABSURD THLSNS (WHICH, BY THE TIME OF THE GRAND FALE, CLUD OUTRIGHT (ALTHOUGH UNPROVEN) MURR). SOCPATHIC HERO: BEBE LIK TO PORTRAY HERSELF AS THIS. THE SELF-PORTRAYAL IS UP FOR BATE, HOWEVER, WHEN SHE FEEDS FRASIER THE CRANE A JAWBREAKER AND CHOK TO ATH.BEBE: [AFTER FRASIER FIR HER] NEXT TIME YOU NEED A AL MA, LL THE DALAI LAMA. A LONG TIME AGO, I HAD TO MAKE A CHOICE BETWEEN BEG A GOOD AGENT AND A GOOD PERSON, BEE TST ME, YOU N'T BE BOTH! SO FIVE ME IF I DON'T HAVE TIME TO MAKE EVERYBODY WARM AND FUZZY. I AM JT TOO BY SPENDG EVERY WAKG MUTE POURG ANY DRK, PULLG ANY SHAMELS TRICKS I N TO MAKE MY CLIENTS' DREAMS E TE! I AM A STARMAKER! IT'S HEAVILY IMPLIED THE LAST EPISO THAT SHE MAY HAVE KILLED THE PERSON FRASIER WAS REPLACG SAN FRANCIS.[AFTER FRASIER IALLY TURNS DOWN THE JOB...] BEBE: WELL, THAT'S GRATU FOR YOU. DO YOU HAVE ANY IA THE LENGTHS I WENT TO TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN? FRASIER: [HORRIFIED] WA A MUTE... YOU WERE SAN FRANCIS LAST WEEK! DON'T TELL ME! BEBE: I WAS NOWHERE NEAR THAT AIR NDNER. [LGHS] YOU'RE WORSE THAN THE POLICE! THE UNFETTERED: TREATS HELPG HER CLIENTS AS SER BS - BUT MORAL AND LEGAL ISSU ARE IRRELEVANT. SHE ONCE FAKED A SUICIDAL 'STANDG ON A LEDGE' MOMENT JT TO GET FRASIER ON THE EVENG NEWS AS A HERO (TO ENSURE HE GOT A BETTER NTRACT.)FRASIER: MY GOD, WOMAN! YOU'VE SHAMELSLY MANIPULATED ME - MY EMPLOYERS - EVERYONE AT KACL AND THE ENTIRE CY OF SEATTLE! WHAT ULD YOU POSSIBLY HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF!? BEBE: [AFTER A MOMENT'S THOUGHT] AREN'T YOU GLAD I'M ON YOUR SI? FRASIER: Y, I... SUPPOSE I AM.     GIL CHTERTON  GIL CHTERTON PLAYED BY: EDWARD HIBBERTANOTHER RAD PERSONALY AT KACL, WHO ACTS AS A FOOD CRIC. AMBIGUOLY GAY: FULFILLS ALL OF THE STEREOTYP AND OCSNALLY MAK SUGGTIVE STATEMENTS ABOUT MALE WORKERS. IT'S NEVER NFIRMED, THOUGH EVERYONE THE STATN APPEARS TO THK SO. MORE NFGLY, HE'S WHAT SOUNDS LIKE A BUTCH LBIAN WHO NEVER APPEARS ONSCREEN. NOTABLY, HIS WORKERS ARE SURPRISED HE DIDN'T NOTICE HOW GOOD LOOKG A NEW MALE EMPLOYEE IS, HE STANTLY REALIZ WHAT THEY'RE SUATG AND GETS VERY FENSIVE VERY FAST. THIS IS ALSO WHEN HIS POSSIBLY-LBIAN WIFE GETS BROUGHT UP FOR THE FIRST TIME. CAMP GAY: EVERYONE THE STATN AT LEAST ASSUM HE'S GAY BEE OF THE WAY HE ACTS; SOME EPISOS ALSO HAVE HIM PRETTY MUCH ADMTG THAT HE IS. CAMP STRAIGHT: ASSUMG HE ISN'T LYG ABOUT BEG MARRIED TO A WOMAN AND BEG STRAIGHT, HE SURE ACTS THE STEREOTYPIL GAY MAN. COOL CAR: OWNS A RED FERRARI WH A RED TERR. DEADPAN SNARKER: PARTICULARLY WHEN CRICIZG FOOD. HAVE I MENTNED I AM HETEROSEXUAL TODAY?: GIL HS ON WOMEN AND CLAIMS TO BE MARRIED TO A WOMAN NAMED DEB, BUT NTEXT LOOKS MORE LIKE OVERPENSATG THAN ANYTHG. MISTAKEN FOR GAY: HE SISTS THIS IS THE SE IF ANYONE BRGS UP. ODD FRIENDSHIP: APPEARS TO HAVE ONE OF THE WH THE TTOSTERONE FUELED BULLDOG, UALLY ENTERG OR LEAVG THE SCENE ALONGSI HIM AND EXCHANGG QUIPS BETWEEN THEMSELV.[BULLDOG AND GIL ARE READG PASSAG OM A ROMANCE NOVEL, "SLOW TANGO SOUTH SEATTLE".] BULLDOG: [LGHG] "I WEPT AS OUR BODI MA THE MIC OF LOVE." GIL: [LGHG] "I'M YOUR RHAPSODY, PLAY ME!" BULLDOG: (LGHG) "CRCENDO, MY YOUNG MATRO, CRCENDO!" GIL: [TO BULLDOG] MY VSEL YEARNS TO DOCK THE MAGNIFICENCE OF YOUR HARBOR. BULLDOG: [BEGS TO LGH, THEN STOPS, PUZZLED] HEY, THAT'S NOT THE BOOK! IN THE ONE WHERE WOODY SHOWS UP, HE STARTS ONE WH NOEL AS WELL. REALY SUBTEXT: VOKED IN THE SHOW WHERE WOODY SHOWS UP, EDWARD HIBBERT IS STILL VERY TAN OM DOG THE PILOT TO THE FANTASY ISLAND REBOOT. THE RIVAL: IN HIS FIRST APPEARANCE ONLY, WHERE HE TRI TO STEAL FRASIER'S TIMLOT. AFTER THAT THE TWO ARE PICTED AS BEG REASONABLY IENDLY TOWARDS EACH OTHER. SQUIPEDALIAN LOQUACNS: EMPLOYS FLOWERY AND PLEX LANGUAGE AS HE SCRIB FOOD AND RTRANTS. SHARP-DRSED MAN: IS NEVER SEEN NOT WEARG A SU. SHOUT-OUT: HIS NAME IS ONE TO BRISH THOR G. K. CHTERTON. SMUG SNAKE: HOW GIL OFF HIS FIRST APPEARANCE.     NOEL SHEMPSKY NOEL SHEMPSKY

20 STRAIGHT CHARACTERS WE DIDN'T KNOW WERE OPENLY GAY IN REAL LIFE

In the past, celebri who were gay would tend to keep to themselv, not wantg their personal life aired out for the public to have an opn on. Here are 20 straight characters who were played by actors so amazgly, we didn’t know they’re gay real life. Mart has been open about beg gay sce the 2000s.

MA CHARACTERS    IN GENERAL I HAVE NEVER MET A FAY THAT WORKED SO HARD AT BEG UNFORTABLE WH EACH OTHER!—DAPHNE, "DE'S, WE HARDLY KNEW YE"TROP THAT APPLY TO ALL OF THE RE GROUP BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: ALL OF THEM ARE QUIRKY DIVIDUALS WH VAR DYSFUNCTNS (CLUDG THE DOG). DPE THIS, THEY ALL ARE GREAT AT THEIR JOBS: FRASIER AND NIL ARE SUCCSFUL PSYCHIATRISTS, ROZ IS A GREAT PRODUCER (AND LATER, THE GENERAL MANAGER OF KACL), MART WAS A REER P WH A GREAT TRACK RERD, AND DAPHNE IS A SUCCSFUL PHYSIL THERAPIST. CLOUD CUCKOOLANR: ALL OF THEM HAVE SHAS OF THIS TO VARYG GRE. FRASIER TENDS TOWARD LARGE HAM MONOLOGU, NIL N ACT ALMOST OBLIV TO THE DYSFUNCTN HAPPENG AROUND HIM (PECIALLY VOLVG MARIS), AND DAPHNE FANCI HERSELF A PSYCHIC (AND MAY VERY WELL BE). EVEN ROZ AND MART, THE TWO MORE GROUND OF THE GROUP, HAVE THEIR OWN QUIRKS. THE COMILLY SER: MALY FRASIER AND NIL AS THEY ARE BOTH SOPHISTITED TELLECTUALS WHO MANAGE TO BE QUIRKY AND EDIC BEE OF THEIR OVER-THE-TOP SNOOTS. DEADPAN SNARKER: ALL OF THEM THRIVE ON SARSM TO VARYG GRE. EVEN DAPHNE, WHO'S PROBABLY THE SWEETT OF THE FIVE, ISN'T IMMUNE, PECIALLY AS SHE GETS MORE FORTABLE WH THE CRAN (AND LATER BE ONE). HELL, EVEN EDDIE ULD BE A SILENT SNARKER AT POTS. MISTAKEN FOR GAY: FRASIER, NIL, AND DAPHNE HAVE ALL BEEN MISTAKEN FOR GAY OR LBIAN DURG THE SERI, FRASIER AND NIL MORE THAN ONCE. MART HAS PRETEND TO BE GAY, WHICH B HIM THE ASS. RAGTAG BUNCH OF MISFS: THEY NSIST OF TWO POMPO, HIGH CLASS PSYCHIATRISTS, THEIR BLUE LLAR P FATHER, A SPACEY BRISH PHYSIL THERAPIST, A SNARKY, SEX-CRAZED RAD PRODUCER, AND A JACK RSELL TERRIER. TE COMPANNS: MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT : THE FIVE NSIR THEMSELV FAY (AND BY THE END, ARE ALL RELATED EXCEPT FOR ROZ) AND ARE VERY CLOSELY VOTED TO EACH OTHER. TWO GIRLS TO A TEAM: ROZ AND DAPHNE TO FRASIER, NIL, AND MART (AND EDDIE). VRLIC BT BUDS: THE GROUP ALL ENJOYS POKG AND PRODDG AT ONE ANOTHER, BUT THEY DON'T HI THE FACT THAT THEY ALL RE ABOUT EACH OTHER ALL THE SAME.     FRASIER CRANE FRASIER WSLOW CRANE, M.D."IT MAY BE AN UNWISE MAN WHO DON’T LEARN OM HIS OWN MISTAK, BUT ’S AN ABSOLUTE IDT THAT DON’T LEARN OM OTHER PEOPLE’S."PLAYED BY: KELSEY GRAMMER"IF LS IS MORE, THEN JT THK OF HOW MUCH MORE ‘MORE’ WILL BE!"ON FRASIER, DR. CRANE HAS RETURNED ALONE TO HIS HOMETOWN OF SEATTLE, RNG HIM WH HIS BROTHER NIL AND THEIR FATHER MART. AFTER MART IS JURED DURG THE URSE OF HIS POLICE WORK, HE IS FORCED TO MOVE WH FRASIER AND THE BROTHERS HIRE A PHYSTHERAPIST TO HELP MART WH HIS JURY. FRASIER SPENDS HIS TIME SEATTLE WORKG AS A RAD PSYCHIATRIST FOR A LOL RAD STATN, GOG ON DAT, AND SUFFERG THOUGH VISS OM HIS EX-WIFE LILH.SEE HERE FOR HIS CHARACTERIZATN ON PARENT SERI CHEERS, WHERE HE ORIGATED. ALLEGEDLY DATELS: PEOPLE POKE JABS AT HIM NOT BEG ABLE TO GET A GIRL AND HE SPENDS SUPPOSEDLY MONTHS DATELS, BUT HE'S GETTG DAT LEFT AND RIGHT -SHOW. IT'S PLAYED WH THAT HE GETS DAT ALL THE TIME, BUT 90% OF THEM NEVER GO PAST THE FIRST ONE.FRASIER: I'M A ONE-WOMAN MAN. IF THAT. ALL PSYCHOLOGY IS FRDIAN: AVERTED AND NSTCTED. FRASIER'S HERO WORSHIP OF SIGMUND FRD (RRIED OVER OM CHEERS) IS MOCKED -UNIVERSE AS OUTDATED BY OTHER THERAPISTS WHO PRACTICE MORE MORN THEORI, CLUDG HIS OWN BROTHER NIL, WHO IS A JUNGIAN. HOWEVER, FRASIER'S RELIANCE ON FRD'S LONG-OUTDATED THEORI AND METHODOLOGI ARE PROBABLY A MAJOR REASON HE'S SO SUCCSFUL AS A RAD POP-PSYCH RATHER THAN A PRIVATE DOCTOR, AS MAK HIS DIAGNOS MORE ACCSIBLE TO THE MASS WHO BY-AND-LARGE BELIEVE THE TROPE THEMSELV, AND WHO HAVE SIMPLE ISSU THAT N BE SOLVED QUICKLY WH A LTLE B OF SIGHT. ADDNALLY, FRASIER BEG A FRDIAN LENDS IC IRONY TO HIS OWN NROS; HE DON'T GET ALONG WH HIS FATHER, IDOLIZ HIS MOTHER SCE SHE'S THE ONE WHO SPURRED HIS TERT PSYCHIATRY, AND HAS TROUBLE FORMG AND MATAG ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS THAT GO BEYOND THE SEXUAL. AMIBLE EX: WH LILH. EVENTUALLY. ANNOYG PATIENT: WHEN ILL WH FLU, HE DRIV DAPHNE MAD WH NSTANT, CSANT WHG ABOUT EVERY LTLE THG, UNTIL SHE FALLY SNAPS AND YELLS AT HIM FOR , SAYG SHE'S KNOWN PEOPLE ON THEIR ATH BEDS WHO WERE LS FSY. HE NEVER APOLOGIZ, BUT SHE GETS HER OWN BACK AT HIM BY MSG WH HIS HEAD.NIL: IS HE PA? DAPHNE: NOT ENOUGH. ANSWERS TO THE NAME OF GOD: FRASIER OFTEN DO THIS BY ACCINT.(LILH HAS JT SLEPT WH NIL, WHEN FRASIER SHOWS UP WH NIL THE BATHROOM.) LILH: [SEEG FRASIER JT A BATHROBE, HORRIFIED] MY GOD! FRASIER: [HUNGRILY] MY GODSS! AROED BY THEIR VOICE: IS REGULARLY PLIMENTED ON HIS SEXY BARONE VOICE, WHICH JT ENURAG HIM TO DIAL THE CHARM UP FURTHER. BAD LIAR: LYG GIV HIM NSEA ONE EPISO. LATER ON, THOUGH, HE'S GOT NO PROBLEM LYG TO WOMEN ORR TO SCHMOOZE, 'S JT QUICKLY REWARD WH A KARMIC BACKLASH. BELLIGERENT SEXUAL TENSN: WH KATE COSTAS "SLEEPG WH THE ENEMY". HE SISTS HE AND JULIA WILX HAVE THIS. NIL' TIMATE IS THAT 'S NOT, BUT RATHER FRASIER OVER-PENSATG FOR HIS PREV FAILED RELATNSHIPS. BERSERK BUTTON: NEVER CHALLENGE HIS TELLIGENCE, BE WH PSYCHIATRY OR ANYTHG ELSE HE NSIRS HIMSELF TED .FRASIER: CHICKEN! I BELIEVE WAS LAROSHE-FOULT, THE GREAT THKER, WHO SAID... THE CHICKEN: HEY, GIVE A RT, DOUBLE WI! I WENT TO GRAD SCHOOL TOO, AND P.S.- 'S PRONOUNCED "LA ROCHEFOUULD". FRASIER: THAT'S IT! NO ONE CORRECTS MY FRENCH PRONOUNCIATION, YOU SON-OF-A-BITCH! BIG BROTHER INSTCT: AS MUCH AS THEY SQUABBLE AND SNARK AT EACH OTHER, HE R EPLY FOR NIL AND ALWAYS TAK SERLY WHEN OTHERS (UALLY MARIS OR MEL) ARE EMOTNALLY ABIVE TO HIM. BOOK DUMB: ANYBODY WHOUT AN IVY LEAGUE TN, ACRDG TO HIM AND NIL. ONCE, HE SNIFFED HGHTILY AT HIS GIRL OF THE WEEK'S STANFORD TN, SAYG, "WELL, IF YOU HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL ON THE WT COAST..." BREAKG THE CYCLE OF BAD PARENTG: HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS OWN FATHER WASN'T THE BT NSIRG MART'S ABILY TO NNECT WH HIM AND NIL BEE OF THEIR VASTLY DIFFERENT PERSONALY AND TERTS. MEANWHILE, HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS OWN SON FRERICK IS MUCH HEALTHIER. IT HELPS THAT THEY OFTEN HAVE THE SAME TERTS. BUT EVEN WHEN THERE IS SOME PROBLEM WH MUNITG WH ONE ANOTHER, FRASIER DO ATTEMPT TO NNECT WH FRERICK. BREAK THE HGHTY: A BIG PART OF THE HUMOR OF THE SHOW IS SEEG IF 'S FRASIER'S OR NIL'S TURN TO GET BROKEN, OR IF THEY'LL SHARE , AND HOW 'S GOG TO HAPPEN. SUBVERTED THAT WHILE HE DO GET OVER MUCH OF HIS STUFFS AND HGHTS OVER THE URSE OF THE SERI, THE ACTUAL "BREAKG" RARELY STICKS FOR LONG. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: HE IS A VERY EFFECTIVE AND SUCCSFUL PSYCHIATRIST, BUT MORE THAN A HANDFUL OF TIM ARE THE STANC WHERE HE HELPS PEOPLE NEED BY SCREAMG AT THEM AND PLAYG ON THEIR SECURI OR VULNERABILI TO MAKE THEM SEE HIS POT. CAMP STRAIGHT: THE SHOW TAK OCSNAL JABS AT HIS METROSEXUAL AND OPERA LOVG HABS AS BEG HOMOSEXUAL CANNOT KEEP A SECRET: IF HE'S EVER TOLD SOMETHG SECRETIVE, YOU N BE SURE HE'LL ACCINTALLY END UP BLURTG OUT TO HALF OF SEATTLE BY THE END OF THE EPISO. CAN'T TAKE CRICISM: EVEN SOMEONE SAYG THEY SIMPLY DON'T LIKE HIM, A GENERAL "NOT VERY TERTED" SENSE, WILL SEND HIM TO AN OBSSIVE SPIRAL THAT WILL LAST DAYS, IF NOT LONGER. ACTUAL NEGATIVE CRICISM IS WORSE. DAPHNE EVEN MENTNS AT ONE POT THAT IF SHE WANTS HIM OUT OF THE WAY, SHE'LL MAKE AN NOCUO MENT ABOUT HIM GAG WEIGHT, AND HE'LL SULK FOR THE RT OF THE EVENG. CARPET OF VIRILY: WHILE NOT AS THICK AS SOME PEOPLE'S, KELSEY GRAMMER DO HAVE A FAIRLY GOOD THATCH. LAMPSHAD "SLOW TANGO IN SOUTH SEATTLE" WHEN DAPHNE SAYS HE REFERS TO HIS CHT HAIR AS HIS "G OF LOVE." THE CASANOVA: DENSTCTED. FRASIER IS A CHARMG, HANDSOME MAN, WHO HAS NO PROBLEM TCHG THE EYE OF WOMEN. HOWEVER, WHENEVER HE TRI TO JUGGLE MULTIPLE RELATNSHIPS EVABLY FALLS APART WHEN HIS PARTNERS FD OUT WHAT HE'S DOG AND THEY ALL BREAK UP WH HIM, UNRSTANDABLY FUR AT HIM."I'M A ONE WOMAN MAN. IF THAT." CATCHPHRASE: "OH AR GOD!" "OH, FOR GOD'S SAKE!" AND "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?" AND OF URSE, HIS RAD GREETG AND SIGN-OFF: "HELLO <LLER>, I'M LISTENG" AND "THIS IS DOCTOR FRASIER CRANE, WISHG YOU GOOD MENTAL HEALTH." CHARACTER FILIBTER: HE LOV TO GIVE SPEECH, AND THE RT OF THE CHARACTERS KNOW AND PLA ABOUT . LAMPSHAD AS EARLY AS THE SEND EPISO. CHARACTERIZATN MARCH ON: AN TERTG VERSN, GIVEN FRAS HAD EXISTED FOR SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE HIS SHOW BEGAN, BUT STILL, THERE ARE A FEW DIFFERENC BETWEEN HIS PICTN CHEERS AND HERE. HIS OBSSIVE TENNCI WERE MENTNED EQUENTLY ON THAT SHOW, MOST OFTEN BY LILH, BUT HARDLY EVER DISPLAYED (DIANE DUMPG HIM AND AN CINT WH HIS GOLD RD ASI). HERE, THEY'RE ON FULL DISPLAY. HIS HAMMS. FRASIER DID GET WORKED UP, BUT NOT QUE AS EASILY AS HE DO THIS SHOW. BACK CHEERS, FRASIER HAD TWO DIFFERENT PHOBIAS ON SEPARATE OCSNS - FEAR OF DOGS (STILLED BY HTER OF ALL PEOPLE), AND FEAR OF BE. IN ELEVEN YEARS, HIS PROBLEMS WH EDDIE ARE NEVER ONCE EVEN SUGGTED TO BE THE RULT OF A PHOBIA, JT ANNOYANCE WH THE LTLE GUY. MEANWHILE, NIL HERS THE BUG PHOBIA, WHICH FRASIER TREATS WH IRRATN. HIS LOVE OF SHERRY. IN CHEERS, HE GENERALLY PREFERRED BRANDY AT HOME, AND EVEN IF HE DID DRK SHERRY, WAS NOWHERE NEAR TO THE EXTENT HE DO HERE. IT'S TABLISHED A FLASHBACK EPISO THAT HE AND NIL STARTED DULGG SHERRY NOT LONG AFTER FRASIER RETURNED OM BOSTON.FRASIER: SHERRY? WHAT AN TRIGUG IA! THE CHEW TOY: NOTHG EVER SEEMS TO GO HIS WAY. A GREAT EXAMPLE IS HOW EVERYONE REACTS TO HIM "BAD DOG." DPE BULLDOG G ROZ AS A HUMAN SHIELD WHEN THE FFEE SHOP IS HELD UP BY AN ARMED ROBBER, FRASIER'S FAY IS ANNOYED BY HIM TRYG TO PROVE TO EVERYONE ELSE, AND ARE MORE OR LS DIFFERENT TO BULLDOG G A PREGNANT WOMAN AS A HUMAN SHIELD. CHRONIC SELF-DEPRETN: ALTHOUGH HE IS UALLY QUE VA, POMPO, AND FULL OF HIMSELF, AND QUE WILLG TO B EVERYONE'S FACE, THIS ARROGANCE IS LARGELY A VER FOR HIS SECURY, AND WHEN FAILS HIM, HIS SELF-LOATHG BLACK MOODS ARE MISERABLE. HIS BROTHER NIL UALLY HAS TO FLIP THEIR VRLIC BT BUDS BICKERG ON S HEAD AND DO THE SAME THG TO HIMSELF TO GET FRASIER OUT OF :FRASIER: I WANTED MY DAY. I WANTED HOOPLA AND FS, I PRACTILLY PLANNED THE WHOLE THG MYSELF. SAYS A LOT ABOUT ME AS A PSYCHIATRIST, DON'T ? I'M A SMALL MAN. NIL: WELL, WHAT DO SAY ABOUT ME THAT I WAS HAPPY SEEG YOU MISS YOUR DAY? I WAS JEALO ALL WEEK! I'M A TY MAN. FRASIER: NEXT TO ME, YOU'RE A GIANT! NIL: I STARE UP AT YOUR ANKL! FRASIER: I NEED A STEPLADR JT TO — NIL: OH, LET'S NOT DO THIS AGA. THE COBBLER'S CHILDREN HAVE NO SHO: A HIGHLY SUCCSFUL PRACTICG PSYCHOLOGIST... AND ALSO AN IMPULSIVE, OBSSIVE, EGOTISTIL, OFT-UNREASONG, EMOTNALLY AGILE BALL OF NROS. FRASIER OFTEN ENDS UP NOT TAKG THE CLIL, DIPLOMATIC APPROACH TO HIS PERSONAL PROBLEMS SIMPLY BEE HIS ALL-TOO-HUMAN PRI WON'T LET HIM. COMPLEXY ADDICTN: HE N'T REALLY DO ANYTHG SIMPLY. WHEN HE'S ASKED TO WRE A SHORT JGLE FOR HIS SHOW, HE ENDS UP HIRG A FULL ORCHTRA. IT GETS TO THE POT WHERE, AFTER AGONIZG OVER A BIZARRE DREAM HE HAS, HE FALLY TO THE NCLN THAT HE WAS SO BORED AT HIS JOB THAT HIS SUBNSC VENTED A PROBLEM FOR HIM TO WORK ON. MART NOT THAT ISN'T THAT FRASIER DON'T LIKE "SIMPLE", NOTG HE WENT ON AND ON ABOUT A PATG OF A RED SQUARE (FRASIER: "THAT WAS CEPTIVELY SIMPLE!"); 'S JT THAT FRASIER NEEDS TO BE A SHOW OFF. COMPRSED VICE: ONE EPISO CLAIMS HE HAS A SEVERE AVERSN TO HUGGG. YOU'D NEVER KNOW OM THE TIM HE'S QUICK TO OFFER DAPHNE AND ROZ HUGS WHEN THEY'RE DOWN. CONTROL FREAK: ON OCSN, IS VERY TERMED TO DO THGS HIS WAY. WHEN HE ADVERTENTLY IS PUT CHARGE OF DAPHNE'S WEDDG, HE QUICKLY TAK CHARGE, MAKG EVERY CISN REGARDLS OF WHAT DAPHNE THKS, UNTIL HE FALLY HS HER TRMA BUTTON AND SHE EXPLOS AT HIM FOR . AFTERWARD, FRASIER ADMS THIS SE WAS BEE OF ISSU RELATED TO HIS OWN FAILED MARRIAG. HE AND ROZ EVEN HAVE A FALLG OUT OVER AT ONE POT, SCE SHE LETS HIM BE A PART OF HER NEW RAD SHOW, AND WH MUT OF WALKG IS ACTG LIKE 'S HIS SHOW. WHEN ROZ BOOTS HIM OUT, HE SPENDS DAYS SULKG AND PLOTTG OBSSIVE REVENGE. COOL LOSER: DPE ALL THE BAD LUCK HE SUFFERS OM AND HIS SLIGHTLY ECCENTRIC HOBBI, FRASIER IS A CHARMG, HIGHLY TELLIGENT, CULTURED AND REASONABLY WEALTHY MAN. THE DANDY: TENDS TOWARDS OVERLY FLASHY SUS AND BOLD LOURS. DEADPAN SNARKER: HAS A VERY DRY SENSE OF HUMOUR. DIGGG YOURSELF DEEPER: THANKS TO HIS QUIRK OF HAVG TO ELUCIDATE EVERYTHG HE SAYS, FRASIER FDS HIMSELF GETTG HIMSELF MORE TROUBLE THE MORE HE TRI TO EXPLA HIMSELF. NOTABLE EXAMPL CLU: "THE DOCTOR IS OUT": FRASIER TRI TO EXPLA WHY HE WAS A GAY BAR WH NIL BUT N'T SAY NIL IS HIS BROTHER BEE HE PROMISED NOT TO REVEAL NIL WAS BREAKG A PROMISE TO DAPHNE. AT THE SAME TIME, ROZ REALIZ FRASIER WAS TRYG TO PROVE HER METROSEXUAL DATE WAS GAY, AND FRASIER JT "OUTED" HIMSELF TO ALL OF SEATTLE. "THE FIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS": FRASIER KEEPS TRYG TO PATCH THGS WH MEL, ONLY TO MAKE HER MADR AND MADR AT NIL OVER MARIS.FRASIER: WELL, ACTUALLY I WAS JT APOLOGIZG FOR MY PART YOUR LTLE MISUNRSTANDG. NIL: WELL, THEN OF URSE YOU WERE DISCSG THE PRENT.NOTE MEANG THE GIFT HE WAS GIVG MEL. FRASIER: OH, Y, THE PRENT. [LIFTS GLASS] AND THE FUTURE, MARIS IS ALL THE PAST! MEL: [TRANQUIL FURY] MARIS? FRASIER: OH, AR. MEL: YOU WERE WH MARIS LAST NIGHT? HOW DARE YOU! [MEL STORMS OFF] NIL: [TO FRASIER] ANYTHG ELSE THE BOX, PANDORA? "MURR MOST MARIS": FRASIER FENDG NIL TO THE PRS ABOUT NIL' ROLE THE MURR THAT MARIS MED, MAKG AN UNFORTUNATE SLIP: "IF THERE IS ANY JTICE THE WORLD, MARIS CRANE AND NIL CRANE WILL SOON BE EXECUTED!" WHEN HE TEND TO SAY "EXONERATED". AND KEEPS TRYG TO TELL PEOPLE HE MEANT "EXONERATED", JT MAKG PEOPLE ANGRIER.MART: [WATCHG TV] THAT'S FOUR TIM ONE NEWSST. MT BE SOME KD OF RERD. "RAD WARS": EVERY TIME FRASIER NONTS CARLOS AND THE CHICKEN, WHETHER AMIABLY OR THREATENG, JT MAK THEM TURN UP THE MOCKG, LEADG TO THEM HOLDG A "FRASIER CRANE'S BIG ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS CONTT". EVERYONE TELLS FRASIER THE BT WAY TO AL WH PRANKSTERS IS TO IGNORE , BUT HE N'T HELP BUT TRY TO ATTACK THEM BACK... WH PHY QUOT. DISAPPEARED DAD: HE IS TERRIFIED HE IS THIS TO FRERICK, HAVG LOST A BTER CTODY BATTLE WH LILH AND MOVED TERSTATE AS A RULT. HE CLEARLY LOV AND DOT ON HIS SON WHEN THEY'RE TOGETHER (WHICH BE ANNOYG TO FRERICK WHEN HE'S 13 AND AN EMO TEEN GOTH), AND STILL SPENDS A LOT OF TIME ON THE PHONE WH HIM. IN "CRAN UNPLUGGED":FRASIER: GOOD LORD. HE DON'T SEEM VERY HAPPY TO BE HERE. HE HARDLY SAID TWO WORDS TO ME. MART: OH, 'S PERFECTLY NORMAL. YOU'RE HIS DAD. KIDS THAT AGE DON'T WANT TO TALK TO THEIR DAD. FRASIER: I NEVER STOPPED TALKG TO YOU. MART: [SIGHG] I KNOW, BUDDY. DO NOT LIKE SPAM: HE GMBL ABOUT RED MEAT OFTEN. A PROBLEM FOR HIM, SCE MART'S PREFERRED MEAT IS STEAK. DRAMA QUEEN: WHEN HIS EGO AND/OR SOCIAL POSN IS ON THE LE, HE CRANKS UP THE HAM. ELE SCHOOL MEANS ELE BRA: FRASIER FELY BELIEV THIS, NSTANTLY RATTLG OFF HIS AMIC RUME (HARVARD, OXFORD) TO ANYONE WHO DOUBTS HIS TELLIGENCE. WHEN NIL IS GOG FOR HEART SURGERY, FRASIER SNIFFS AT NIL' DOCTOR GETTG HIS GREE AT TULANE, THEN REASSUR NIL THAT HIS ANTHLOGIST WENT TO DE. FAY MAN: HE LIV WH HIS ELRLY FATHER, IS BT IENDS WH HIS BROTHER, CLEARLY MISS HIS SON WHO HE DO NOT HAVE CTODY OVER, AND EVENTUALLY BE CLOSE IENDS WH HIS EX-WIFE. FATAL FLAW: HIS OBSSIVE TENNCI TEND TO BE WHAT S ANY CHANCE OF ROMANTIC HAPPS HE HAS. HIS EGO. DEAR GOD, HIS EGO. RARE IS THE EPISO WHERE DON’T GET HIM TO TROUBLE. MORE THAN ONCE, THE PLOT STARTS WHEN HE'S SUCKERED BY PEOPLE MANIPULATG HIM WH FLATTERY, OR WHERE HE ACROSS A SIMPLE PROBLEM THAT HE OVERPLIT BY BELIEVG HE KNOWS BETTER. FRIENDLY RIVALRY: WH NIL. THEY AGREE THAT THEIR MUTUAL PETIVENS HAS BEEN HEALTHY FOR THEIR VELOPMENT THE LONG N, AND THEY RE ABOUT EACH OTHER A LOT. "FRIENDS" RENT CONTROL: DPE ONLY BEG A RAD PERSONALY ON A LOL STATN, FRASIER MAK ENOUGH MONEY TO AFFORD A THREE BEDROOM APARTMENT DOWNTOWN SEATTLE AND HAVE A HIGH-CLASS SOCIAL LIFE THAT CLUS REGULAR OPERA TICKETS, THE WE CLUB, AND A NICE R. WORD OF GOD ADMTED WHEN ASKED ON TWTER THAT THE QUTN OF HOW FRASIER AFFORD ALL THIS WAS SOMETHG THE WRERS THEMSELV JOKED ABOUT TERNALLY, AND HE QUIPPED THAT FRASIER MAY HAVE JT VTED THE MONEY OM HIS BOSTON PRACTICE VERY WISELY. EPISOS WH BEBE SHOW THAT, FOR ALL OF HER EVIL AND SANY, SHE'S A VERY GOOD AGENT, AND HAS NOT ONLY NEGOTIATED SEVERAL RAIS FOR FRASIER, BUT ALSO AT LEAST ONE SYNDITN AL OUTSI OF SEATTLE, SO FRASIER PROBABLY MAK A FAIR B OF MONEY. GASP!: PRONE TO THIS WHEN ENAMORED OF SOMETHG. MOCKED "OUT WH DAD" WHEN MART MENTNS AS ONE OF THE MORE UNREALISTIC TROP OF OPERA, AND FRASIER IMMEDIATELY OBLIG. MART GASPS HIMSELF WHEN HE REALIZ THE OLD CRONE OF A MOTHER IS WAVG AT HIM. GENTLEMAN AND A SCHOLAR: WHILE FRASIER CERTALY N BE ARROGANT AND SNOBBISH, HE IS NEVERTHELS A WELL-TENTNED AND RG MAN. EVEN GOG AS FAR AS MISSG OUT ON A CEREMONY TO HONOUR HIM, JT TO HELP A MAN HE HAD JT MET PE WH HIS EX-WIFE GETTG REMARRIED. HE’S ALSO WELL-TED AND VERY WELL READ. GET OUT!: IT'S ALMOST CATCHPHRASE STAT FOR FRASIER, WHO WILL SAY THIS OF ANYONE SNARKG AFTER ONE OF HIS EPIC FAILS OR PRS HIS BERSERK BUTTON. GLORY HOUND: FRASIER HAS A SPERATE NEED TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FOR HIS ACHIEVEMENTS. HOWEVER MOR THEY MAY BE.NIL: OH PLEASE, YOUR SIXTH GRA PRODUCTN OF OKLAHOMA! YOU TOOK SO MANY CURTA LLS MRS. VAN RAPHORST HAD TO LASSO YOU AND PULL YOU OM THE STAGE. FRASIER: THAT WOMAN NEVER UNRSTOOD ME OR THE ROLE OF FARMER NUMBER THREE! GOOD PARENTS: HE IS ONE TO FRERICK—EVEN WHEN THE BOY STARTS ACTG OUT AGAST HIM. GOSSIPY HENS: FRASIER IS PRETTY BAD AT KEEPG SECRETS. NOT MALICLY, BUT HIS ABILY TO TELL LI AND ATTENTN ISSU UALLY MEANS HE'LL BLAB QUICKLY. GUILTY PLEASUR: IN "DAPHNE'S ROOM," FRASIER STARTS PLAYG THE UAL CLASSIL MIC THAT HE LIK ON THE PIANO, AND THEN, REALIZG THAT HE HAS THE PLACE TO HIMSELF, HE GLADLY AND ENTHIASTILLY PLAYS AND SGS JERRY LEE LEWIS'S "GREAT BALLS OF FIRE." HAIR-TRIGGER TEMPER: DOWNPLAYED. WHILE NOT AGGRSIVE, FRASIER ISN’T A HARD MAN TO IRRATE OR ANGER. GENERALLY, ANNOYANC MOUNTG UP ON HIM WILL E HIM TO SUDNLY EXPLO AND START RANTG ABOUT EVERY LTLE THG THAT ANNOYS HIM. HAS A TYPE: INSISTS HE'S DRAWN TO SMART, PABLE, SOPHISTITED WOMEN. JUDGG BY HIS DATG RERD, HIS TYPE SEEMS MORE LIKE ANY WOMAN WHO'S REMOTELY TERTED HIM. ROZ STAT HIS TYP ARE TOTAL BCH, WHOM HE'S ATTRACTED TO SOLELY SO HE N "FIX" THEM. BY "DON JUAN HELL" FRAISER FALLY REALIZ HIS TYPE IS HIS MOTHER. IRONILLY, FRASIER IS A FRDIAN. HEROIC BSOD: GO THROUGH A IL VERSN OF THIS AFTER HE TEMPORARILY LOS HIS JOB AT KACL. HE ALSO GO TO SPASMS OF "OH MY GOD!" EXCLAMATNS WHEN HE FDS OUT NIL SLEPT WH LILH. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH NIL. HONORARY UNCLE: TO ROZ'S DGHTER ALICE. HORRIBLE JUDGE OF CHARACTER: LARGELY DUE TO JUDGG PEOPLE BASED ON APPEARANC. I GAVE MY WORD: ONE OF THE SHOW'S UAL MEANS OF TORTURG HIM. FRASIER STANDS BY HIS WORD, OFTEN UALLY MAKG HIM FALL TO SUATNS WHERE HE'D REALLY, REALLY LIKE TO BREAK , BUT N'T, AND TRI LOOKG FOR A LOOPHOLE OR WAY OUT. IGNORED EPIPHANY: NO MATTER HOW MANY TIM HIS OBSSIVE NPICKG BRGS MISERY TO HIS LIFE, EHER ROMANTILLY OR JT GENERAL, HE NEVER LEARNS TO JT LET GO OF THGS. INCREDIBLY LAME FUN: MALY BEE HE'S SO SNOBBISH, BUT SOME OF FRASIER'S IAS OF FUN N FALL HERE, TO THE EXTENT HIS KACL WORKERS DCH HIS PARTI. NIL IS ABOUT THE ONLY ONE WHO ENJOYS FRASIER'S PARTY GAM, AND EVEN HE HAS HIS LIMS, AS SEEN "ROOM FULL OF HERO", WHERE FRASIER'S PLAN FOR HALLOWEEN NIGHT IS DISCSG THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT. MYSTERLY, ALL THE PEOPLE HE VED WHO WEREN'T ROZ ME DOWN WH SUDN PLAGUE. INSUFFERABLE GENI: HE IS VERY TELLIGENT, AND HE'LL LET YOU KNOW IF HE FDS A CHANCE TO SHOW OFF. I REMBLE THAT REMARK!: "POMPOUS AND SANCTIMONIOUS, AM I?!" IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: PLAYED FOR LGHS MOST TIM. FRASIER N BE MONUMENTALLY SELF-ABSORBED, SUCH AS ASSUMG NIL AND LILH SLEPT TOGETHER WHILE DNK SOLELY TO GET AT HIM, OR WHEN NIL AND DAPHNE HAVE AN ARGUMENT, AND HE FOC ON SOME SULT THROWN AT HIM. IVY LEAGUE FOR EVERYONE: HE WENT TO HARVARD, AS HE OFTEN LIK TO REMD PEOPLE. IT'S SOMETHG KATE SNARKS AT HIM ABOUT, NOTG HE SEEMS PABLE OF GOG A SENTENCE WHOUT NAME-DROPPG HIS ALMA MATER. WHEN BRIEFG THE GANG ABOUT HIS BROTHER'S HEART SURGEON, HE EXPRS HIS DISSATISFACTN AT THE SURGEON HAVG GONE TO TULANE'S MEDIL SCHOOL, BUT APPROVED OF NIL' AHLOGIST BEG OM DE. JERKASS BALL: OFTEN TREATS DAPHNE LIKE A SERVANT, MANDG SHE GET THE DOOR FOR HIM WHENEVER RGS. GO AS FAR AS MAKG HER DO HOEWORK HIS FLAT AFTER SHE'S MARRIED NIL, ALL THE MORE AWFUL BEE AT THE TIME SHE WAS PREGNANT. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: AS EGOCENTRIC, ARROGANT AND SELF-SERVG AS HE N BE, FRASIER IS A GOOD MAN AT HEART AND TLY R ABOUT THE PEOPLE HIS LIFE. LAME PUN REACTN: HE'S FOND OF THE JOKE "FRDIAN SLIP" REFERENCE TO A PSYCHIATRIST TRIPPG OR FALLG SOMEHOW. NO ONE EVER LGHS WHEN HE MAK , NOT EVEN THOSE WHO PROBABLY UNRSTAND . LARGE HAM: LOUD, PRETENT, AND A TOTAL DRAMA QUEEN. LIMED SOCIAL CIRCLE: SEVERAL EPISOS DRAW ATTENTN TO THE FACT THAT HE DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY CLOSE IENDS SEATTLE BIS NIL OR ROZ. THIS IS OFTEN NTRASTED WH HIS MUCHER LARGER SOCIAL CIRCLE OM CHEERS. HIS ATTEMPTS TO RECTIFY THIS BY MAKG NEW IENDS ALWAYS END UP FAILG AND SENDG HIM BACK TO NIL. LONG RUNNER: INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER VERSN. BY THE END OF FRASIER KELSEY GRAMMER HAD PLAYED DR. CRANE FOR TWENTY YEARS, TYG THE RERD WH MATT DILLON AS PORTRAYED BY JAM ARNS ON GUNSMOKE, UNTIL THE RERD WAS SURPASSED BY JOHN MUNCH (FOR LIVE-ACTN TV) AND THE SIMPSONS (FOR TV OVERALL). MIRROR CHARACTER: THE RECURRG GAG WH FRASIER'S S COM ARCH NEMIS, CAM WSTON, WAS THAT CAM WAS ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE FRASIER, JT SLIGHTLY MORE SUCCSFUL AT . MISSG MOM: FRASIER'S MOTHER HTER CRANE, HAS BEEN AD FOR SEVERAL YEARS BY THE TIME THE SERI STARTS. MOMMA'S BOY: IT'S PRETTY CLEAR HE GOT ON BETTER WH HTER FAR MORE THAN HE EVER DID WH MART. POSSIBLY TOO BETTER, SCE FRASIER - EVER THE FRDIAN FANBOY - IS NVCED HE'S GOT OEDIPAL ISSU, EVEN THKG AT ONE POT HIS LOVE FOR HIS MOTHER IS WHY ALL HIS RELATNSHIPS HAVE GONE BELLY-UP, SCE NONE OF HIS WIV ULD EVER MATCH UP TO MOM. MORAL MYOPIA: WHEN NNG FOR PRINT OF THEIR WE CLUB, FRASIER SISTS NIL SUPPORT HIS NDIDACY, BUT IS OUTRAGED WHEN NIL DON'T, EVEN THOUGH HE HAD NO TENTN OF DOG THE SAME FOR HIM. THOUGH TO BE ENTIRELY FAIR TO HIM, THE ISSUE WAS MALY BEE NIL HAD EARLIER PROMISED TO SUPPORT HIS NDIDACY, ONLY TO GO BACK ON HIS WORD AND N FOR THE PRINCY HIMSELF, BETRAYG FRASIER THE PROCS. NEVER MY FLT: ZIG-ZAGGED OM TIME TO TIME AS WHENEVER FRASIER CREAT A PROBLEM (ALBE SOMETIM DIRECTLY), HE JT NNOT BRG HIMSELF TO OWN UP TO . FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN HE MAK THE LUDICROLY OVER-DONE SONG FOR AN INT, HE SISTS KENNY DIDN'T TELL HIM NOT TO, EVEN THOUGH THE WORD "JGLE" SHOULD'VE BEEN A TIP-OFF. NICE TO THE WAER: WELL, HE TRI. MOST OF THE TIME, HE'S ACTUALLY VERY RDIAL AND POLE TO SERVG STAFF AND SERVICE WORKERS, 'S JT THAT HIS NEED FOR EVERYTHG TO BE JT SO OFTEN MEANS THAT HE WDS UP ANNOYG THEM WH HIS REQUTS WHEN SOMETHG ISN'T EXACTLY HOW HE WANTS . BT SHOWN THE SEASON 1 FALE "MY COFFEE WH NIL" WHERE HE SPENDS AN ENTIRE EPISO SENDG A FFEE ORR BACK BEE OF SOME SMALL PLAT. NOT SO ABOVE IT ALL: THOUGH 'S LS MON ON HIS OWN SHOW THAN ON CHEERS, FRASIER IS FELY PABLE OF CUTTG LOOSE AND HANGG OUT WH THE BOYS. WHEN ALONE THE APARTMENT AND PLAYG PIANO, HE SHIFTS OM PLAYG A CLASSIC PIECE TO A BOISTERO RENDN OF "GREAT BALLS OF FIRE", THEN BACK TO CLASSIL WHEN MART AND PANY E . WHEN WOODY DROPS BY, FRASIER GO TO HIS BEER-SWILLG CHEERS PERSONA. MART IS AMAZED. IN ANOTHER EPISO WHEN GOG THROUGH A STT OF LONELS, HE STARTS VISG A BAR THAT DAPHNE EQUENTS AND FS RIGHT WH THE OTHER PATRONS. IN SEASON 2'S "LOVE B DOG" WHEN BULLDOG BE A LADYKILLER LOVE AND IS HEARTBROKEN WHEN HE'S DUMPED, FRASIER TRI TO E HIS UAL PSYCHIATRY TO MAKE HIM FEEL BETTER UNTIL BULLDOG ASKS HIM TO BE "LIKE A GUY". CUE FRASIER GIVG A LOUD TTOSTERONE POISONG RANT ABOUT HOW SHE WAS NO GOOD FOR HIM AND HE N DO BETTER, AND HE'S GOG TO GO OUT TOMORROW AND HAVE A ONE-NIGHT FLG WH SOMEONE EVEN HOTTER AND WON'T FEEL BAD ABOUT G HER, "BEE WE'RE GUYS, AND THAT'S WHAT GUYS DO!" HE GETS SO TO CHARACTER THAT HE KEEPS TALKG THAT WAY TO NIL AND HAS TO BE SLAPPED TO HIS SENS. ZIGZAGGED WHEN TO RIVALRI WH THOSE WHO TRY TO EMBARRASS HIM OR SHOW HIM UP — ON OCSN HE'LL SK TO THEIR LEVEL AND GET THEM BACK AT THEIR OWN GAME, OTHER TIM HE'LL BE SATISFIED WH MAKG SURE THEY KNOW HE N GET THEM BACK BUT LETS THEM OFF THE HOOK. NOT THAT KD OF DOCTOR: DOWNPLAYED. WHILE HE DO HAVE A MEDIL GREE (OM HARVARD, THANK YOU) AND THE FACT BOTH HE AND NIL ARE QUALIFIED PHYSICIANS GETS BROUGHT UP ALL THE TIME, FRASIER'S PRACTICE THIS SHOW IS LIMED TO DISPENSG ADVICE ON THE RAD — SOMETHG FOR WHICH NIL, WHO HAS ACTUAL PATIENTS, EQUENTLY MOCKS HIM. DON'T STOP HIM TRYG TO BOSS ACTUAL HOSPAL DOCTORS AROUND WHEN NIL GO FOR SURGERY.DOCTOR: WELL, IF YOU'RE SUCH AN EXPERT, MAYBE YOU SHOULD PERFORM THE SURGERY YOURSELF! FRASIER: MAYBE I SHOULD! NIL: [WEAKLY] DAAAAAAD! MART: FRASIER, YOU'RE NOT OPERATG ON YOUR BROTHER. PRIMA DONNA DIRECTOR: IN "HAM RAD", NIL STAT HE HAS AN ORSON WELL COMPLEX, BEG UNABLE TO STOP DIRECTG. NIL IS RIGHT ON THE MONEY, AS OVER THE URSE OF THE EPISO FRASIER'S OBSSIVE POMPOSY DRIV ONE OF THE ST MEMBERS TO QU AFTER AN ENTIRE EVENG OF BEG BADGERED BY FRASIER OVER HIS ACCENTS. AT THE CLIMAX OF THE EPISO, FRASIER'S OVER-DIRECTG NIL TO SNAP AND SABOTAGE THE ENTIRE SHOW OM TRATN. AGA "THEY'RE PLAYG OUR SONG", HE NPICKS AND OVERDIRECTS AN ORCHTRA MUCH THE SAME WAY. AND THERE'S THAT TIME HE TRI TO MICRO-MANAGE A STRIPPER. THIS ONE SOMEHOW ENDS UP WH THEM HANDCUFFED TO ONE ANOTHER. ROSE WAS RIGHT: FRASIER THKS SO — HE NOT A FEW EPISOS CENTERG ON EXPLORG THE IA THAT HE BELIEV EVERYONE IS A GOOD PERSON EP DOWN, AND IF YOU JT GIVE THEM A CHANCE AND BELIEVE THEM, THEY WILL DO THE RIGHT THG. PROVED WRONG WHEN BULLDOG IS A PLETE KARMA HOUDI FOR DOG A REPREHENSIBLE ACT, EVEN GETTG REWARD. HOWEVER, HIS SELFISHNS IS SHOWN UP BY THE END OF THE EPISO WHERE HE HIS OWN MOTHER AS A HUMAN SHIELD. SCREAMS LIKE A LTLE GIRL: ON ONE OCSN PARTICULAR, MART SR HIM AND NIL THKG WAS A WOMAN. SELF-SERVG MEMORY: NOT SURPRISGLY, FRASIER'S RELLECTNS TEND TO OVERLOOK HIS FLTS, FLAWS AND MISTAK. SQUIPEDALIAN LOQUACNS: A HAB THAT OFTEN IRRAT THOSE AROUND HIM.FRASIER: (TO A LLER) YOU HAVE MY SYMPATHI, THERE IS NOTHG WORSE THAN PRETENT AND POTLS EDN. SHARP-DRSED MAN: HE'S ALMOST ALWAYS WEARG A VERY EXPENSIVE SU. THE SHRK: BEFORE THE SERI, FRASIER WAS A PRACTICG PSYCHIATRIST; HOWEVER UPON MOVG TO SEATTLE, HE GOT A JOB AS AND SPENT THE SERI WORKG AS A RAD SHRK. HOWEVER, TOWARDS THE END HE BEGAN TO REALISE HE MISSED BEG ABLE TO DO MORE FOR HIS PATIENTS. SIBLG RIVALRY: WH NIL. THE TWO NSTANTLY TRY TO OUTDO THE OTHER WHEN ONE OF THEM GETS SOME SORT OF REGNN OR POSN THE OTHER LACKS, OR OUTDO THE OTHER A PETN. RENSTCTED QUE WELL WHEN THE TWO OPENLY DISCS THEIR NSTANT NEED TO ONE-UP THE OTHER AND REALIZE THAT THEIR MUTUAL FEAR OF BEG OUTDONE PROBABLY HELPED MOTIVATE THEM TO BEE AS SUCCSFUL AND TELLIGENT AS THEY ARE, MAKG THEIR RIVALRY AN ULTIMATELY POSIVE FLUENCE ON THEIR LIV. SIBLG TEAM: WH NIL, PECIALLY MON THE EARLIER SEASONS. THEY NEVER WORK OUT THOUGH—WHENEVER THE TWO LLABORATE ON ANYTHG, THEIR RIVALRY SPLS THEM BACK UP. LAMPSHAD BY JULIA:JULIA: BYE, FRASIER. BYE, EMERGENCY FRASIER. NIL: [SEETHG] OOO, I DON'T LIKE HER. SOPHISTITED AS HELL: HE'S AN TED AND URTEO MAN (AND WANTS TO BE SEEN AS SUCH), BUT ON RARE OCSNS HE'LL LIBERATELY BE VULGAR. SORE LOSER: PART AND PARCEL OF HIS OBSSIVE TENNCI. AND THAT'S IF HE NCES FEAT THE FIRST PLACE. WHEN HE AND NIL N FOR PRINT OF THEIR WE CLUB, FRASIER MANDS NO LS THAN FOUR REUNTS WHEN NIL WS, AND STILL TRI TO UNRME HIM AFTERWARD ANYWAY. THE TELL: WHEN FRASIER HAS KNOWGLY BROKEN HIS ETHIL , HE STARTS HAVG ATTACKS OF NSEA. TRAMARK FAVORE DRK: SHERRY. SO MUCH SO THAT HIS ACUNTANT HAS TO HIRE AN ASSISTANT SPECIFILLY TO LCULATE FRASIER'S SHERRY EXPENS. TROPHY WIFE: INVERTED DURG HIS RELATNSHIP WH SUCCSFUL LAWYER SAMANTHA PIERCE, WHERE HE'S THE TROPHY BOYIEND, EVEN GETTG SURROUND BY ALL THE TROPHY GIRLIENDS WHEN LEFT ALONE AT A PARTY, WHO START OFFERG SYMPATHY, AND RECG THE UAL EXC OM MEMORY. UNRELIABLE NARRATOR: WAS GIL TRYG TO STEAL FRASIER'S TIME SLOT THE FORMER'S FIRST APPEARANCE? FRASIER WAS PARANOID AND EHER SICK OR HIGH AS A KE DURG THE EPISO, AND LATER APPEARANC GIL WASN'T THE NNIVG SMUG SNAKE HE WAS PORTRAYED AS. (WELL, SMUG, Y, BUT NOT AN ANTAGONIST.) UNROLVED SEXUAL TENSN: SEVERAL EPISOS HIGHLIGHT THAT FRASIER AND LILH BOTH HAVE SHAS OF THIS. UNSYMPATHETIC COMEDY PROTAGONIST: NOT ALWAYS- HE'S OFTEN QUE SYMPATHETIC. BUT THIS FELY TO PLAY DURG SOME OF HIS MORE JERKASS MOMENTS, OR WHEN HE'S MANAGG TO TOTALLY SCREW UP YET ANOTHER PROMISG RELATNSHIP. UNWANTED ASSISTANCE: HE'S OBVLY POPULAR AND HELPFUL ON THE RAD, SCE THEY KEEP HIM ON THE AIR AND HE UALLY HAS A GOOD FLUX OF LLERS. HOWEVER HIS ATTEMPTS TO GIVE ADVICE TO HIS IENDS AND FAY OFTEN BACKFIRE HORRIBLY, AND THEY LL HIM OUT ON .FRASIER: WELL NIL, IF YOU WANT MY ADVICE- NIL: [DLY THREATENG] OOO, YOU KNOW, YOU REALLY NEED TO STOP SAYG THAT. VRLIC BT BUDS: WH NIL AND ROZ.     NIL CRANE NIL CRANE, M.D."ALL MY LIFE I HAVE DREAMED OF ONE THG: THE DAY I ULD GO TO A LIBRARY AND GO TO THE RD TALOG AND SEE MY NAME UNR 'MENTAL ILLNS'."PLAYED BY: DAVID HY PIERCE"I'VE GOT MY PULSIVE SPENDG SEMAR, AND I'M HOPG TO UNLOAD THE RT OF THE RAFFLE TICKETS."FRASIER'S BROTHER, EVEN MORE UPTIGHT AND SNOOTY THAN HE IS. INIALLY MARRIED TO A MANIPULATIVE BCH NAMED MARIS AND AN EXTREME DOORMAT, HE FALLS LOVE WH DAPHNE AT FIRST SIGHT. HIS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT OVER THE SERI HAS HIM GROW A BACKBONE AS HE TRI TO PE HIS CREASGLY UNHEALTHY MARRIAGE AND SOME DAY NFS HIS FEELGS TO DAPHNE. ABORTED DECLARATN OF LOVE: THE FEW TIM HE FALLY WORKS UP THE URAGE TO TELL DAPHNE HOW HE FEELS, SOMETHG HAPPENS THAT MAK APPROPRIATE OR OTHERWISE SR HIM OFF. ALWAYS SEND BT: EARLY ON, 'S TABLISHED NIL FEELS THIS WAY ABOUT FRASIER, EVEN THOUGH ON PAPER NIL IS THE MORE SUCCSFUL OF THE TWO - STILL MARRIED, AN EMENT PSYCHIATRIST WH HIS OWN PRACTICE AND HIGH TEEM AMONG HIS PEERS - SIMPLY BEE OF FRASIER BEG THE FIRST-BORN. AWFUL WEDD LIFE: WHILE IALLY SEEMS LIKE HE AND MARIS ARE LARGELY NTENT, THERE ARE A FEW HTS RIGHT OM THE OFF 'S NOT AS PERFECT AS NIL CLAIMS (HE ALREADY HAD BROCHUR FOR A RETIREMENT HOME READY TO GO). AS THE SEASONS GO BY, 'S MA CLEAR NIL WAS TREATED SHABBILY THROUGH THE WHOLE THG, PULATG TO MARIS'S EVERY MAND OR WHIM, NEVER ONCE BEG ALLOWED ANY LEEWAY OR NSIRATN, HAVG TO BUY HER EXPENSIVE GIFTS AS APOLOGI FOR ANY GAFFE, SUCH AS TRYG TO GROW A MTACHE (THOUGH FRASIER SNARKS HE OWED EVERYONE AN APOLOGY FOR THAT). BEAT: ONE OF NIL' TRAMARKS, UALLY FOLLOWED BY A ADPAN SNARK. BERSERK BUTTON: STAY AWAY OM DAPHNE WHEN HE'S AROUND. HTG ON HER MAK HIM ANGRY AND HURTG HER FEELGS JT MAK WORSE. THOUGH FRASIER AND MART HOLD HIM BACK AND TALK HIM DOWN WHEN HE GETS TEMPTED TO E VLENCE THE SUATNS, HE WON'T HATE TO THROW OUT AN ARTICULATE "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH.BREAKOUT CHARACTER--> BREAK THE CUTIE: AS MUCH EDY AS THEY ME OM HIS AWFUL WEDD LIFE WH MARIS, ALSO N BE PLAYED FOR DRAMA WHEN THEY SHOW JT HOW BADLY HER EMOTNAL ABE HAS AFFECTED HIM. MORE THAN ONCE FRASIER HAS TO REASSURE HIM THAT THE MARRIAGE FAILG WASN'T ACTUALLY HIS FLT. HE GETS BETTER WHEN HE'S WH DAPHNE, AS SHE'S STILL DOMATG BUT THEY'RE HAPPILY MARRIED. BREAK THE HGHTY: AS WH FRASIER, A MAJOR THEME IS THAT ONE OR BOTH OF THEM GET BROKEN OVER THE URSE OF AN EPISO. NIL'S BREAKG HOWEVER TAK PLACE OVER SEVERAL SEASONS AS HIS DIVORCE STS HIM HIS HOME, HIS LIFTYLE, AND HIS REPUTATN. BULLY MAG: IN AN EPISO, NIL NONTS HIS FORMER JUNR HIGH SCHOOL BULLY, DANNY KREASEL. DANNY EXPRS REGRET OVER HIS PAST ACTNS, BUT POTS OUT HIS FENSE THAT NIL SHOWED UP TO SCHOOL A TWEED BLAZER WH ELBOW PATCH RRYG A VALISE. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: NIL SUFFERS OM MULTIPLE NROS OF HIS OWN, RANGG OM ECCENTRIC, LIKE HIS GERMAPHOBIA, TO SER, FOR EXAMPLE THE MANY SRS THAT HIS MARAL PROBLEMS HAVE ED. NEVERTHELS HE IS AN ACPLISHED AND QUE PABLE PSYCHIATRIST. CAMP STRAIGHT: LIKE HIS BROTHER, OFTEN MISTAKEN FOR GAY DUE TO HIS REFED TAST. CANNOT SP IT OUT: IT TAK HIM SEVEN YEARS TO NFS TO DAPHNE HE HAS A THG FOR HER. AND EVEN THEN 'S ONLY BEE FRASIER HAS ALREADY ACCINTALLY SP OUT TO HER. LAMPSHAD THE SEND EPISO OF SEASON EIGHT, "THE BAD SON", WHEN NIL ENURAG FRASIER TO BE BOLD AND PURSUE A WOMAN HE WAS ATTRACTED TO:NIL: TAKE A CHAPTER OM MY BOOK! FRASIER: EXACTLY WHICH CHAPTER WOULD THAT BE? NIL: .. LAST CHAPTER. CATCHPHRASE: IN RPONSE TO AN SULTG SCRIPTN OF HIM OR SOMETHG HE DO—"GASP! I—AM/DO—NOT!" IN A SIAR VE: "HOW! DARE YOU!!!" ALSO WELL I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY! AND THE POOR THG (THE LATTER GENERALLY REFERRG TO MARIS). REFERRG TO MARIS AS "MY MARIS". CHARACTER TICS: HE HAS A PARTICULAR STAGGER HE BREAKS OUT WHENEVER HE'S EMOTNALLY DISTRSED. CHICK MAG: NOT TO QUE THE SAME EXTENT AS FRASIER, THOUGH WH THE OBV JTIFITN THAT HE SPENDS A LOT OF THE SERI MARRIED, BUT NIL HAS SEVERAL WOMEN DRAWN TO HIM OVER THE SERI. COMPRSED VICE: IS SUBJECT TO THIS. FOR EXAMPLE, ONE TWO-PART EPISO, HE BE AN ARNT NUDIST. HE CUR HIMSELF OF THAT KK BY THE END. CONSPICUO CONSUMPTN: EVEN WHEN DUMPED BY MARIS AND SUFFERG SEVERE SH-FLOW PROBLEMS WH THE LAWYERS, NIL FDS SANELY DIFFICULT TO RTRICT HIS BUDGET. IN FACT, HE FDS DIFFICULT TO OPERATE ON A BUDGET THE FIRST PLACE, REQUIRG FRASIER TO STEP AND TELL HIM TO START DOWNSIZG. COVERT PERVERT: CHECKG OUT DAPHNE'S BEHD—NSTANTLY... GETS LAMPSHAD WHEN DAPHNE LOOKS AT OLD PHOTOS AND NOTIC HOW MANY SHOW HIM STARG AT HER BUM. THOUGH SHE LGHS OFF BEE THEY'RE NOW MARRIED. WHEN FRASIER SCRIB A FLIRTATN WH A POLICEWOMAN HE'D MET, NIL SUDNLY BEGS PROJECTG A RATHER STARTLG WAY: NIL: IT'S OBV WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO HER. THE GLEAM OF HER BADGE; THE SWG OF HER NIGHTSTICK... DAMNED BY FAT PRAISE: NIL IS OFTEN ON BOTH THE RECEIVG AND GIVG END OF THIS.BULLDOG: HEY, DR. DOOLTLE! I HEARD YOUR SHOW. IT DIDN'T SUCK! NIL: AH. "DEAR DIARY..." THE DANDY: HIS SUS TEND TO BE EVEN TRENDIER THAN FRASIER'S. DEADPAN SNARKER: FRASIER'S W TENDS TO BE MORE DRY, NIL' TENDS TO BE MORE POLELY FACET. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: COM PRETTY CLOSE TO THIS AFTER DAPHNE GETS ENGAGED TO DONNY. DTERAGONIST: WHILE EARLIER SEASONS FOCED MOSTLY ON FRASIER, THE FOC GRADUALLY SHIFTED UNTIL NIL WAS EASILY AS IMPORTANT TO THE SERI AS HIS BROTHER. DOGGED NICE GUY: TOWARDS DAPHNE. DOUBLE TAKE: NIL IS A MASTER AT THIS. IN "THE MATCHMAKER", NIL THKS TOM, THE NEW STATN MANAGER, IS CHASG DAPHNE, WHO HAS A THG FOR HIM.TOM: OH. IT MT BE ALL MY HEAD, BUT I SENSED THAT YOU HAD A PROBLEM WH ME DATG FRASIER. NIL: [HGHTY] WELL, IF YOU MT KNOW... [DOUBLE TAKE, PSE] I'M SORRY, WHAT WAS THE QUTN? TOM: DO YOU HAVE SOME PROBLEM WH ME DATG YOUR BROTHER? NIL: [SERENE AND SMUG] NO. DRAMA QUEEN: FOR THE SAME REASONS AS FRASIER. DRK-BASED CHARACTERIZATN: SAME AS FRAS, THE MAN LIK HIS SHERRY. IT'S A SIGN OF JT HOW RATTLED HE IS WHEN THGS WH MARIS GO TO MELTDOWN THAT HE'S SWIGGG BEER. FROM A N, NO LS. DROP-IN CHARACTER: USUALLY TO APPARENTLY RETURN SOMETHG OF FRASIER'S, TO PICK HIM UP FOR SOMETHG, OR JT TO GET AWAY OM MARIS, BUT UALLY THERE'S THE UNRLYG SIRE JT TO SEE DAPHNE. LAMPSHAD ONCE HE AND DAPHNE FALLY GET TOGETHER.NIL: [TO DAPHNE] A PATIENT NCELED, SO I THOUGHT I'D... DROP BY AND SEE YOU. OH MY GOD, YOU HAVE NO IA HOW GOOD FEELS TO SAY THAT. I'M HERE TO SEE YOU! NO MORE FLIMSY PRETENS. NO MORE MAKG TED SMALL TALK WH DAD! MART: HEY NIL, 'S 82 FLORIDA! NIL: HERE TO SEE DAPHNE, DAD! EMBARRASSG NICKNAME: PIL, AS A KID. THE COYOTE, WHEN HE MOV TO THE SHANGRI-LA. FATG: ESPECIALLY AT THE SIGHT OF BLOOD. FLAT "WHAT": DO THIS QUE A LOT, WHENEVER HE'S SERVG AS THE STRAIGHT MAN. FOIL: PLAYED WH; NIL OFTEN HIGHLIGHTS AND UNRSR A LOT OF FRASIER'S OWN CHARACTER TRAS, BUT LS BY DIRECT NTRAST AND MORE BEE HE'S EVEN MORE LIKE FRASIER THAN FRASIER IS.FRASIER: I'M A TEAMSTER PARED TO YOU! FRDIAN SLIP: ON OCSN WILL LET THE OUT, PECIALLY ABOUT HIS TE FEELGS REGARDG HIS WIFE AND DAPHNE. NIL: IT IS POSSIBLE TO MOVE A RELATNSHIP ALONG TOO FAST, AND ULTIMATELY MARRY TOO HASTILY. YOU ULD FD THAT A FEW YEARS DOWN THE LE ISN'T REALLY RIGHT FOR YOU, AND THEN WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU MEET THE RIGHT PERSON? SOMEONE WHO REALLY EXC YOU AND MAK YOU FEEL ALIVE? YOU N'T ACT UPON , BEE YOU'RE TRAPPED A STALE, ALBE FORTABLE, MARIS! [PS WHILE EVERYONE STAR] MARRIAGE. I HAVE TO GO NOW. GENTLEMAN AND A SCHOLAR: JT LIKE HIS BROTHER, WHILE NIL N BE ARROGANT AND ELIST, HE IS BOTH HIGHLY TED AND WELL-READ, BUT ALSO VERY RG AND PASSNATE TOWARDS HIS PATIENTS. GENTLEMAN SNARKER: HE N BE VICLY SARSTIC WHILE STILL SPEAKG AN EXTREMELY POLE FASHN. GOLD DIGGER: EVENTUALLY ANSWERED ONE EPISO, WHICH NIL ADDRS THE BIG UNSPOKEN QUTN: DID HE MARRY MARIS FOR HER MONEY? HE SAYS NO, BUT WAS A LIGHTFUL BON. GREEN-EYED MONSTER: HE SEETH AT THE THOUGHT OF SOMEONE TAKG DAPHNE'S ATTENTN, EVEN WHEN THAT SOMEONE IS HIS PRE-TEEN NEPHEW (THOUGHT 'S SUGGTED FRERICK N SEE AND KNOWS FULL WELL WHAT HE'S DOG). THE SAME WH MARIS. HE GETS TRATED WHEN FRASIER MENTNS HAVG ACCINTALLY SEEN HER NAKED THE SHOWER. THAT'S MORE THAN NIL TENDS TO SEE EVEN WHEN THEY WERE MARRIED. HE NSTANTLY MOCKS FRASIER BEG A LL- RAD HOST, BUT HE JT LOV BEG THE SPOTLIGHT, SUCH AS SUBBG FOR FRASIER OR BEG ON A TELEVISED URT SE. HAPPILY MARRIED: IN THE FIRST SEASON THE DIENCE WAS LED TO BELIEVE THIS OF HIM AND MARIS, SPE HER SELFISH MOMENTS—ALTHOUGH 'S SUBVERTED BY THE TIME OF THEIR DIVORCE. AFTER BREAKG UP WH MEL, ANOTHER WIFE HE DIDN'T LOVE, HE PLAYS STRAIGHT WH DAPHNE. HENPECKED HBAND: AN EXTREME DOORMAT FOR MARIS, THOUGH HE'S QUICK TO STAND ON HIS DIGNY WH ANYONE ELSE. THIS ENDS UP BEG NSTCTED AS THE SERI GO ON—HOW EASILY HE'S NTROLLED HIS ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS ENDS UP BEG THE SOURCE OF A GREAT AL OF SELF-TEEM ISSU AND UNHAPPS HIS LIFE, AND PART OF HIS VELOPMENT IS LEARNG TO STAND UP FOR HIMSELF. HEROIC BSOD: HE HAS MANY OF THE THROUGHOUT THE SERI, PROBABLY MORE THAN ANY OTHER CHARACTER, BUT MOST NOTABLY WHEN DAPHNE GETS ENGAGED TO DONNY. BEG FORCED TO S THROUGH THEIR ENGAGEMENT BREAKFAST THE NEXT EPISO CERTALY DIDN'T HELP. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH FRASIER. HONORARY UNCLE: TO ROZ'S DGHTER ALICE. HUIATN CONGA: ESPECIALLY SEASON 6. INSUFFERABLE GENI: HE'S THIS TO FRASIER, MUCH TO HIS OLR BROTHER'S NSTERNATN. HYPOCRE: IN THE SHOW'S EARLY SEASONS, NIL HAD A TENNCY TO MAKE BALD JOK AIMED AT FRASIER, EVEN THOUGH NIL' HAIR IS ALSO NOTICEABLY THNG. HE STILL HAS MORE HAIR THAN FRASIER, HOWEVER. HIS MANY JIB AT FRASIER'S RAD SHOW ARE CLEARLY DRIVEN BY ENVY OVER THE ATTENTN SUBSEQUENTLY GAS FRASIER, FOR ALL THAT HE TRI TO DRS UP AS BEG ABOUT THE SANCTY OF THE PSYCHIATRIC PROFSN. I WANT MY BELOVED TO BE HAPPY: DPE HOW MUCH HURTS HIM, NIL STEPS ASI WHEN WHEN DAPHNE GETS ENGAGED TO DONNY. HOWEVER, NIL ULTIMATELY ENDS UP WH DAPHNE THE END. I'LL PRETEND I DIDN'T HEAR THAT: JT AS PRONE AS FRASIER TO SUFFER BRA BLEACH, BUT HE'LL EXPRS WH THIS TROPE STEAD.[BEBE OPENS THE DOOR TO NIL A BATHROBE, AFTER HAVG SEX WH FRASIER THE NIGHT BEFORE] BEBE: GOOD MORNG, NIL! WHAT A LOVELY SURPRISE! WE WERE JT ABOUT TO S DOWN TO A BIG FAY BREAKFAST. WON'T YOU JO ? [NIL GIV A VERY OZEN SE, AND RGS THE DOORBELL AGA.] JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: HE N BE SNOOTY TO PEOPLE HE THKS LSER THAN HIM TASTE, BUT HE'S REALLY A KD MAN EVEN TO PEOPLE WHO AREN'T HIS IENDS—LOOKG AT HOW HE TREATS HIS PATIENTS IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS. THE KLUTZ: ON OCSN, NIL N TURN SOMETHG AS SIMPLE AS TCHG A PENNY HE TOSSED TO A CRGE-DUCG DISASTER, ENDG WH HIM LYG ON THE FLOOR SURROUND BY BRIS.MART: MAK YOU WONR WHAT GO ON AT THAT SQUASH URT. LETHAL KLUTZ: SHOWS SHAS OF THIS ON A UPLE OF OCSNS WHEN HE REPEATEDLY ACCINTALLY HURTS FRERICK AND KEEPS ALMOST ACCINTALLY JURG HIS FATHER. LONGG LOOK: HE SENT SO MANY OF THE AT DAPHNE THAT THEY PROVI THE TROPE IMAGE. FRASIER, AND OCSNALLY MART, EQUENTLY HAD TO TELL HIM OFF FOR STARG AT HER SO MUCH WHEN HE WAS "HAPPILY" MARRIED TO MARIS. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT: CLAIMS AS MUCH ABOUT MARIS, HAVG APPARENTLY FIRST SEEN HER TRYG SPERATELY TO GET BACK TO HER MANSN WHEN THE GATE WASN'T WORKG, THOUGH LATER MENTS SUGGT SPERATN ON NIL'S PART PLAYED A ROLE AS WELL. IT WAS AT LEAST THIS WAY FOR NIL WHEN HE FIRST MET DAPHNE. MISSG MOM: HIS MOTHER IS CEASED BY THE TIME OF THE SHOW. NEAT FREAK: INPABLE OF STG DOWN ON A SEAT WHOUT WIPG DOWN FIRST. A FLASHBACK SEASON 3 HAS FRASIER MENTN HE'S BEEN LIKE THIS SCE THEY WERE FOUR, AT THE VERY LEAST. NERVO WRECK: AS THE SHOW GO ON, AND HIS PROBLEMS WH MARIS GET WORSE, HE BE MORE AND MORE PRONE TO PANIC ATTACKS. NICE TO THE WAER: HE'S MENTNED AS GIVG VERY GENERO TIPS TO THE STAFF AT CAFE NERVOSA, WHICH BE A PLOT POT WHEN HE HAS A HEROIC BSOD AT ONE POT, STRIPS HIS CLOTH OFF, AND ONE OF SAID WAERS THREATENS TO LL THE PS:ROZ: THE HELL YOU ARE! THIS MAN’S TIPS ALONE HAVE PROBABLY PAID FOR ALL THE POT YOU’LL EVER SMOKE! HE ALSO APPEARS TO HAVE TREATED HIS AND MARIS'S SERVANTS MUCH BETTER THAN MARIS DID, IF THIS LTLE EXCHANGE WHEN HE'S BIDDG FAREWELL TO THEM IS AN DITN:MARTA: THE STAFF, THEY HAVE A QUTN: N WE E WH YOU? [EVERYONE ASSEMBLED STEPS FORWARD HOPEFULLY] THAT SAID, HE N BE JT AS POMPO AS FRASIER, 'S JT BEHD THEIR BACKS RATHER THAN THEIR FACE LIKE FRASIER TENDS TO BE. AT ONE POT, FRAS EVEN ACC HIM OF PUTTG THIS ON AS A PRETENSE AROUND DAPHNE, CG A TIME HE MA A SCENE AT THE GROCERY STORE SIMPLY BEE THE BAG BOY PUT ICE CREAM ON TOP OF HIS VEGGI.NIL: THAT YOUNG MAN WAS ON DGS AND EVERYONE KNEW ! OBLIV TO LOVE: AFTER MOVG ON OM DAPHNE SEASON 7, 'S NIL' TURN TO BE CLUELS TO HER FEELGS FOR HIM. PUNGEON MASTER: ESPECIALLY WHEN HE'S LIVERED A SILLY PUN AND N BARELY KEEP OM GIGGLG. REMEMBER THE NEW GUY?: DPE BEG FRASIER'S BROTHER, AT NO POT DURG FRAS'S TIME ON CHEERS DID HE EVER MENTN OR HT THAT HE HAD A BROTHER. GETS A LAMPSHA HANGG "THE ONE WHERE SAM SHOWS UP", AND NIL IS MIFFED TO LEARN FRASIER NEVER TOLD THE GANG ABOUT HIM.NIL: FRASIER, I DON'T MD TELLG YOU I'M A LTLE OFFEND THAT ALL THE TIME YOU SPENT SWAPPG BON MOTS WH THE BEER-NUT SET, YOU NEVER ONCE MENTNED YOU HAD A BROTHER?! SAM: WELL, YOU KNOW, THE TTH IS, I BET HE SAID SOMETHG, 'S JT THAT WHEN FRASIER GETS GOG YOU KD OF HAVE TO TUNE HIM OUT. NIL: [ALMOST GIGGLG] THAT'S A GOOD SLOGAN FOR HIS RAD SHOW — "DR. FRASIER CRANE: WHEN HE GETS GOG, YOU HAVE TO TUNE HIM OUT." REPLACEMENT FLAT CHARACTER: THE FORMER TROPE NAMER — NIL IS SENTIALLY WHAT FRASIER WAS ON CHEERS WH FRASIER VELOPG TO A MORE ROUND CHARACTER. NIL THEN GO ON TO VELOP TO HIS OWN DISTCT CHARACTER SEPARATE OM BOTH THE CURRENT FRASIER AND HIS ORIGAL CHEERS PERSONA.FRASIER: [SNARKG] I'M A TEAMSTER PARED TO YOU! LAMPSHAD BY SAM MALONE WHEN HE FIRST MEETS NIL:SAM: WOW... MAN, THIS IS EAKY. HE LOOKS JT LIKE YOU DID WHEN I MET YOU. [NUDG FRASIER] WHAT HAPPENED, HUH? FRASIER: [SG] WASN'T EXACTLY A HEALTH CLUB YOU WERE NNG THERE, SAM. ACRDG TO THE WRERS, MUCH OF THE HUMOR OM THEM BEG SO SIAR, WHEN MOST SS WOULD HAVE THEM BEG DIAMETRILLY OPPOSE. (OF URSE, MART PROVIS THAT NFLICT - WH BOTH OF THEM.) SQUIPEDALIAN LOQUACNS: LIKE FRASIER, HE'S VERY VERBOSE AND HAS AN EXTENSIVE VOBULARY. SEX GOD: AFTER HE AND DAPHNE FALLY HAVE SEX, SHE TELLS ROZ THAT "HE'S SPOILED ME FOR ANY OTHER MAN". THIS SURPRIS ROY WHO ASSUMED HE WAS THE OPPOSE. SEXLS MARRIAGE: EVEN THE FIRST SEASON 'S MA CLEAR NIL AND MARIS DO NOT SLEEP TOGETHER OFTEN. NOT LEAST BEE NIL HAS TO SLEEP A SEPARATE BED. IN ANOTHER ROOM. OBVLY LS SO WH DAPHNE.NIL: WE PHED OUR BEDS TOGETHER THAT NIGHT, WHICH TAK SOME DOG. AS YOU KNOW, MARIS'S ROOM IS ACROSS THE HALL. SHADOW ARCHETYPE: ACRDG TO DAVID HY PIERCE, HE'S WHAT FRASIER WOULD BE IF HE NEVER MET THE ST OF CHEERS. SHARP-DRSED MAN: HE WEARS SUS EVEN MORE OFTEN THAN FRASIER DO. USUALLY, IF HE ISN'T, 'S A SIGN SOMETHG IS TERRIBLY WRONG, LIKE WHEN FRASIER AND MART FD HIM LOUNGG AROUND A HAWAIIAN SHIRT. ONCE HE MARRI DAPHNE HE STARTS DRSG MORE SUALLY, ALTHOUGH MORE TASTEFULLY THAN THE AFOREMENTNED HAWAIIAN SHIRT, WHEN NOT AT WORK IMPLYG SHE'S FALLY HELPED HIM TO LOOSEN UP. THE SHRK: NIL IS A WELL-RPECTED PSYCHIATRIST AND EVEN FRASIER ONCE ACKNOWLEDG HE MIGHT BE THE BETTER OF THE TWO. SIBLG RIVALRY: WH HIS BROTHER, FRASIER, WHICH PARTICULARLY SMARTS WH HIM AS THE YOUNGER CHILD. IT'S THIS RIVALRY THAT DROVE HIM TO BEE SUCH A SUCCS HIS PRACTICE. SIBLG TEAM: OCSNALLY WH FRASIER, AS THE TWO SOMETIM LLABORATE ON ISSU OF PSYCHIATRY OR PERSONAL PROJECTS (LIKE OWNG A RTRANT.) IT VARIABLY ENDS DISASTER. SOPHISTITED AS HELL: WHILE ELOQUENT AND WELL-SPOKEN, HE WON'T HATE TO E PROFANY OR SLANG WHEN THE SUATN LLS FOR .NIL: LOOK, I KNOW I DON'T HAVE YOUR TOTAL SUPPORT THIS, BUT — HOW SHALL I PUT THIS? FRASIER: YOU DON'T RE? NIL: IF YOU ULD WORK THE PHRASE "RAT'S ASS" TO THERE, YOU'D HAVE . STEPFORD SER: AS HIS MARRIAGE WH MARIS BE MORE AND MORE STRAED, BE CLEAR NIL IS REPRSG MORE THAN A LTLE ANGER OVER HIS TREATMENT, UNTIL HE FALLY LETS ALL OUT. CUE MANY, MANY SMASHED VAS. AFTER GOG FOR HEART SURGERY, HE SPENDS SEVERAL WEEKS AFTERWARDS RHAPSODIZG ABOUT HOW WONRFUL EVERYTHG FEELS, EVEN THOUGH 'S CLEAR TO EVERYONE ELSE HE'S RIGHT HERE. EVENTUALLY, MART MANAG TO LL HIM ON . SYMPATHETIC ADULTERER: HE TELLS DAPHNE ON WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE HER WEDDG DAY THAT HE'D DUMP MEL, WHO HE'S JT MARRIED HIMSELF, A HEARTBEAT TO BE WH HER. OF URSE, BY THIS STAGE THE DIENCE HAS SEEN NIL'S FEELGS FOR DAPHNE ARE GENUE, AND HE'S BE HEARTBROKEN OVER PREV FAILUR TO SAY AS MUCH TO HER, WHILE MEL IS NTROLLG, CLGY, AND ONLY SLIGHTLY NICER THAN MARIS. JT TO MAKE THGS EASIER FOR GAG SYMPATHY, MEL TAK SEVERAL LEVELS JERKASS AFTERWARDS. THE TELL: NIL' NOSE BLEEDS WHEN HE'S BROKEN HIS ETHIL , AND OCSNALLY HE N BE SEEN SNIFFG TO CHECK FOR WHEN DOG SOMETHG DUB. THE THG THAT WOULD NOT LEAVE: VERY BRIEFLY FOR HIS BROTHER AFTER MOVG OUT OF HIS FANCY APARTMENT, DUE TO HIS STRANGE QUIRKS AND HABS, AND HIS REFAL TO TRY AND FD ANOTHER APARTMENT (NOT BEE OF PROXIMY TO DAPHNE, JT HIS OWN REFAL TO ADM HOW BAD THGS HAVE GOTTEN). TROLL: WHILE HE MAY BE A DEADPAN SNARKER TOWARDS PEOPLE LIKE ROZ AND HIS FATHER, HE OUT AND OUT LOV TO TROLL HIS BROTHER DUE TO SIBLG RIVALRY. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN HE BEME A CULTURE CRIC AND HAD ACCS TO THE MOST EXCLIVE CULTURAL EVENTS AND THEATRE, HE BBED HIS BROTHER'S FACE TO NO END. TRAMARK FAVORE FOOD: SHERRY. UNREQUED LOVE SWCHEROO: HE FALLY MOV ON OM DAPHNE AND ENTERS TO A NEW RELATNSHIP AROUND THE SAME TIME THAT SHE FALLY FDS OUT ABOUT HIS FEELGS FOR HER, AFTERWARDS SHE PROCEEDS TO VELOP FEELGS FOR HIM RETURN. VRLIC BT BUDS: WH FRASIER, AND EVENTUALLY ROZ AFTER THE TWO GET OVER THEIR IAL DISLIKE OF EACH OTHER. BY THE END OF THE SERI, THEY'RE CLOSE IENDS, EVEN IF THEY DO MAKE IENDLY SNIP AT ONE ANOTHER. WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE SNAK?: HE'S ATHLY AAID OF SECTS, THOUGH HE SISTS 'S PERFECTLY RATNAL FEAR. YOU NEED TO GET LAID: WHEN HE GO WHOUT SEX FOR TOO LONG, HE STARTS TO MENTALLY UNRAVEL, AND MAY WELL BEE ATTRACTED TO ANY WOMAN THAT WALKS PAST. SOMETHG OF A PROBLEM WHEN MARRIED TO MARIS, WHO NIL PAR TO A "SEXUAL MEL" (I.E., PABLE OF STAG HERSELF FOR LONG PERDS ON A MERE TEN MUT LOVEMAKG), AND WHO N AND DO WHHOLD SEX AS PUNISHMENT.     MART CRANE MART CRANE"I ED TO THK THERE WAS SOME SORT OF MIX-UP AT THE HOSPAL WHEN FRASIER WAS BORN. OF URSE, WHEN NIL ME ALONG, SHOT THAT THEORY ALL TO HELL."PLAYED BY: JOHN MAHONEY"THE WORLD WOULD BE A HAPPIER PLACE IF EVERYBODY WOULD REMEMBER TWO LTLE WORDS: 'PEOPLE STK'."FRASIER AND NIL'S FATHER WHO MOV WH FRASIER, HE'S AN EX-P WHO WAS FORCED TO RETIRE WHEN HE TOOK A BULLET TO THE HIP. HAS LTLE PATIENCE FOR HIS SONS' ANTICS AND TRI (UALLY WH THEM NOT LISTENG) TO GIVE THEM VALUABLE ADVICE TO MAKE THEM REALIZE HOW THGS ARE MUCH SIMPLER THAN THEY PERCEIVE. AW, LOOK! THEY REALLY DO LOVE EACH OTHER: THOUGH HE IS SOMETIM EXASPERATED WH HOW SNOOTISH THEY N BE, MART TLY DO LOVE HIS SONS. IN "A ROOM FULL OF HERO", NIL DRS LIKE MART FOR HALLOWEEN AND CHARACTER BEGS TO SAY FRASIER AND NIL WERE DISAPPOTMENTS TO HIM, ONLY FOR MART TO SHARPLY CUT HIM OFF AND TELL HIM HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN PROUD OF THEM. SIARLY, WH DAPHNE. THE TWO OFTEN BICKER AND ARGUE WH ONE ANOTHER, AND MART'S ALWAYS UP FOR SULTG HER OKG, BUT MART MAK CLEAR HE LIK HAVG HER AROUND. BOOK DUMB: HE'S NOT AS BOOK SMART AS FRASIER OR NIL, BUT HAS FAR MORE MON SENSE AND N OUTSMART THEM BY TCHG THGS THEY OVERLOOK THEIR ARROGANCE. AND, AS HE NEVER HAT TO REMD THEM, HE WAS A TECTIVE FOR SEVERAL YEARS, AND HE OCSNALLY MONSTRAT HE'S PICKED UP A B OF PSYCHIATRY OM LISTENG TO THEM AND THEIR MOTHER. BTAL HONTY: MART IS OFTEN PRETTY BLUNT HIS OPN ABOUT FRASIER AND NIL'S ANTICS, HELPED BY HIS FEELG THAT PSYCHIATRY IS OVERRATED. OF URSE, MART'S ASSSMENTS, SUCH AS FRASIER OVER-ANALYZG EVERYTHG, OFTEN TEND TO BE PRETTY ACCURATE, AND FRASIER DON'T HAVE ANY GOOD UNTERARGUMENT TO THEM. BY-THE-BOOK COP: WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER, AND IS OFTEN REFERENCED BY HIS SONS AS THE SOURCE OF THEIR OWN RIGID SENSE OF ETHICS AND TEGRY. ALTHOUGH, SOMETIM MENTS POP UP TO SUGGT HE WASN'T QUE THAT STRAIGHT-LACED, WH THE MOST NOTABLE STANCE BEG ADMTG TO FRASIER THAT HE LIED UNR OATH ABOUT READG THE MIRANDA RIGHTS TO A MULTIPLE OFFENR THAT SHOT SOMEONE, AND WHOSE HAD HIS RIGHTS READ MANY TIM BEFORE, SO HE WOULDN'T GET OFF ON A HYPER-TECHNILY. CANNOT SP IT OUT: ONE EPISO FOCED MART'S ABILY TO VERBALLY SAY "I LOVE YOU" TO HIS SONS. WHILE HIS SONS ASSURE HIM THAT THEY KNOW HE DO REALLY LOVE THEM, MART RETORTS THAT HE'S DISTURBED BY HIS ABILY TO OPENLY EXPRS TO THEM, AND MANAG TO WH SOME EFFORT.FRASIER: DAD, LISTEN, YOU KNOW YOU N SAY . I MEAN, I HEARD YOU SAY TO DE. MART: OH, THAT'S DIFFERENT, I SAID, "I LOVE YA!" YA! FRASIER: WE'D TAKE "YA." NIL: YA. CAREER-ENDG INJURY: MART'S BULLET TO THE HIP, WHICH END HIS REER AS A P. CATCHPHRASE: "OH, JEEZ." COMPANN CUBE: HIS TATTY-BUT-BELOVED EASY CHAIR, WHICH IS HIS OLST PIECE OF FURNURE AND WHICH HOLDS MANY HAPPY MEMORI FOR HIM. COOL OLD GUY: HE'S QUE AFFABLE, WISE TO THE WAYS OF THE WORLD, AND HAS MORE EMPATHY THAN HIS PSYCHIATRIST SONS. DAD THE VETERAN: HE SOMETIM REFERS TO HIS SERVICE KOREA. DEADPAN SNARKER: HE'S NOT AVERSE TO SNAPPY REMARKS. MT BE WHERE HIS CHILDREN GOT OM. DISABILY AS AN EXCE FOR JERKASSERY: HIS CHARACTERIZATN THE EARLIT EPISOS ARE OF A TREMENDO JERK. FLASHBACKS SHOW MART PRE-RETIREMENT ARE MORE LIKE HE IS LATER ON THE SHOW. THE LOSS OF HIS JOB, AND THE HUIATN OF NOT BEG ABLE TO LOOK AFTER HIMSELF ANY MORE E HIM TO BEE MUCH CSTIER, RULTG THE MART WE'RE FIRST TRODUCED TO. FANBOY: OLR THAN THE UAL EXAMPL, BUT BEG A SPORTS FAN, HE'S A BIG ADMIRER OF EX-RED SOX PLAYER SAM MALONE WHEN HE TO VIS FRASIER. MAKG FUNNIER IS THAT CHEERS MA REPEATEDLY CLEAR OVER THE YEARS THAT EVEN HIS HEYDAY, SAM WAS NOT THE CREAM OF THE SOX CROP. FATAL FLAW: AS HAS BEEN POTED OUT TO HIM QUE A FEW TIM, AND AS HE EVEN ACKNOWLEDG HIMSELF, MART HAS TROUBLE ACKNOWLEDGG AND HONTLY EXPRSG HIS EMOTNS. FX YAY: IN THE EPISO "OUT WH DAD", HE TELLS A WOMAN HE'S GAY, SO AS NOT TO OFFEND HER BY TURNG HER DOWN, AND SUBSEQUENTLY OFFERS TO "GAY UP A LTLE" SO HER DGHTER DON'T SPECT HE'S STRAIGHT WHEN SHE SETS HIM UP WH A IEND. FOIL: MART IS A STUDY NTRASTS OM HIS SONS, FRASIER AND NIL; MART IS A RETIRED P AND WAR VETERAN WHO ENJOYS BEER, SPORTS, AND ACTN MOVI, AND HE N BE GFF AND EMOTNALLY DISTANT, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY IS A DOWN-TO-EARTH AND IENDLY FELLOW. UNLIKE THEIR FATHER, FRASIER AND NIL ARE OXFORD-CERTIFIED PSYCHIATRISTS AND HIGH-SOCIETY EL WHO ENJOY OPERA, FE WE, AND CLASSIC LERATURE AND MIC; THEY ARE ALSO VERY KD AND RG SPE SOMETIM G ACROSS AS STUFFY AND PRETENT. FRIEND ON THE FORCE: MART STILL HAS PLENTY OF NNECTNS AND IENDS THE SEATTLE PD. HE OFTEN LLS ON THE NNECTNS TO GET QUICKER OR PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT. THE GADFLY: WHEN SOMEBODY THE HOEHOLD HAS SUCCUMBED TO COMPLEXY ADDICTN, HE'LL GLEEFULLY MAKE THGS WORSE. IN "THE TWO MRS. CRAN" WHEN DAPHNE HAS NVCED EVERYBODY TO LIE TO HER ABHORRENT ADMIRER CLIVE, FRASIER AND NIL ACCINTALLY SUGGT HE MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO MATA THE LIE AS " VOLV QUICK THKG AND IMPROVISATNAL SKILLS, AND A KNACK FOR REMEMBERG TAILS", WHICH MART (AN EX-POLICE TECTIVE) FDS OFFENSIVE. SO HE PIL ON AN EXTRA LIE JT TO SEE THEIR REACTNSCLIVE: ARE YOU A PSYCHIATRIST TOO, MR. CRANE? MART: OH, NO. I'M RETIRED... [BIG GR] I WAS AN ASTRONT. [FRASIER, NIL AND DAPHNE GIVE HIM A DEATH GLARE. IN RPONSE, HE JT SMIRKS.] HAPPILY MARRIED: TO RONEE, AND OTHERWISE TO HTER WH A FEW BUMPS THEIR MARRIAGE. HERO OF ANOTHER STORY: WHAT RMATN WE GET ABOUT HIS TIME ON THE FORCE MAK FOR A FASCATG SAGA, PARTICULARLY HIS ROMANCE WH HTER, WHICH HAS ALL THE MAKGS OF A BUDDY COP-LOVE STORY ABOUT A CULTURED AND BOOKISH LADY FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIST AND A GFF, STREETWISE TECTIVE. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: HE'S VERY CLOSE WH HIS BAR BUDDY DE; THEY EVEN ONCE GOT MARRIED BY ACCINT. HIDN DEPTHS: HE REVEALS HE'S A HUGE FRANK SATRA FAN, AND HE'D WRE SONGS DURG STAKE-OUTS AND BREAKS AT THE STATN THE HOP SATRA WOULD SG ONE. BOTH HIS SONS SPEND A WHOLE NIGHT TO HELP HIM WORK OUT THE ONLY ONE HE REALLY LIKED. HE'S ALSO PABLE OF OUTPLAYG FRASIER AT CHS, REPEATEDLY. EVENTUALLY HE HAS TO POT OUT TO FRAS THAT ALL THOSE YEARS AS A TECTIVE MIGHT JT BE A HELP THAT ARENA. HONORARY UNCLE: TO ROZ'S DGHTER ALICE. HYPOCRE: IN "DAD LOV SHERRY, THE BOYS JT WHE", MART RIPS TO FRASIER AND NIL FOR NOT MAKG A WOMAN HE R FOR FEEL WELE AFTER THEY ADM THAT THEY'RE NOT FOND OF HIS NEW GIRLIEND SHERRY. FRASIER AND NIL ARE HUMBLED AND ASHAMED... FOR ABOUT FIVE SENDS, UNTIL THEY REMEMBER A VERY IMPORTANT POT THAT MART IS NVENIENTLY LEAVG OUT HERE:FRASIER: WA A MUTE! WHEN DID YOU EVER MAKE ANY OF THE WOMEN WE WERE VOLVED WH FEEL WELE?! NIL: OOH, FRASIER, YOU'RE RIGHT! HE ALMOST GOT AWAY WH THAT! HYPOCRIL HUMOR: IS EXTREMELY FENSIVE ABOUT ANY PERCEIVED SULT TO EDDIE'S DIGNY, BUT HE'S GOT NO PROBLEM STICKG THE LTLE GUY HUIATG OUTFS WHEN HE'S THE ONE DOG . INIC ITEM: HIS ANCIENT EASY CHAIR IS THE ONE THG THAT STANDS OUT THE APARTMENT'S LIVG ROOM, AND 'S UNIQUELY HIS. HE'S ALSO (BY NECSY) NEVER SEEN WHOUT HIS SIGNATURE FOUR-PRONGED METAL NE; THE FAL SEASON, HE TRAS FOR A MUCH MORE ELEGANT BLACK NE. INFORMED ATTRIBUTE: BOTH FRASIER AND NIL EQUENTLY CE HIM AS THE PERSON THAT SPIRED THEIR OWN RIGID SENSE OF ETHICS AND MORALY. HOWEVER, THROUGHOUT THE SHOW HE’S OFTEN THE ONE ADVISG THEM TO IGNORE ANY ETHIL DILEMMAS IF BENEFS THEM, IS SHAMELS HOW HE HIS STAT AS A RETIRED P TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PERKS, AND EQUENTLY MAK MENTS ON PAST CINTS WHILE HE WAS ON THE FORCE TO SUGGT HE WAS NEVER AS ETHIL AS HIS SONS CLAIM. I TOLD YOU SO: HE'S NOT SHY ABOUT POTG OUT WHEN HE'S RIGHT ABOUT SOMETHG, UALLY WH SOME VARIATN ON "WELL, MAYBE NEXT TIME YOU'LL LISTEN TO YOUR OLD MAN," WHEN FRASIER AND/OR NIL GET TO STRIFE AFTER DISREGARDG HIS ADVICE. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: IN A VERY DIFFERENT WAY THAN HIS SONS. WHILE FRASIER AND NIL ARE STUCK-UP AND HGHTY ON THE SURFACE BUT HAVE SWEETER SIS THAT BEE APPARENT LATER, MART IS RDIAL AND IENDLY AT FIRST WH SOME JERKS THAT BE APPARENT WHEN YOU LIVE WH HIM. HE'S STILL A GOOD MAN UNRNEATH ALL. MALAPROPER: CONSTANTLY MANGLG THE NAM OF VAR "CLASSY" THGS HIS SONS ARE TO, SUCH AS THE TIME HE THOUGHT "AN EVENG WH NOëL COWARD" WAS ABOUT THE THREE STOOG. AND THEN THERE WAS THE TIME HE TRIED SGG ALONG TO GILBERT AND SULLIVAN WH THE BOYS AND MISTOOK "MANY CHEERFUL FACTS ABOUT THE SQUARE OF THE HYPOTENE" FOR "THE MANY-DIMPLED BACKSI OF A SRY HIPPOPOTAM". MAY–DECEMBER ROMANCE: WH RONEE. AND MREEN BEFORE THAT, ALBE MOSTLY OFFSCREEN. NOT SO ABOVE IT ALL: FOR ALL HIS GMBLG AT FRASIER'S ROMANTIC WO, SEVERAL EPISOS HAVE MARTY DOG MUCH THE SAME, SUCH AS TRYG TO PULL SOME TWO-TIMG DATE ACTN, WHILE CLAIMG HE'S BETTER AT THAN HIS SONS. WHICH HE A'T. OBNOX IN-LAWS: IT'S MA CLEAR HE DON'T LIKE MARIS OR LILH VERY MUCH. WH MARIS, HE AT LEAST ACTS CIVIL TO HER FACE, BUT WASN'T ABOVE G HIS NNECTNS TO HAVE HER R BOOTED JT TO MS WH HER. WH LILH, THE TWO N'T STAND ONE ANOTHER, AND MAKE NO SECRET OF HIDG . HE ALSO WASN'T TERRIBLY FOND OF FRASIER'S FIRST WIFE NATE EHER, STILL HOLDG A GRIEVANCE OVER TWO S ON OVER THE WEDDG. OBVLY AVERTED WH DAPHNE, ONCE SHE MARRI NIL. ODD FRIENDSHIP: INIALLY, HE AND ROZ GET ALONG FAR BETTER THAN HE DO WH HIS OWN CHILDREN, DUE TO HER MORE BLUE LLAR MDSET. ONLY SANE MAN: NOT ALWAYS, BUT OFTEN ENOUGH. ESPECIALLY WHEN BOTH FRASIER AND NIL ARE THE SAME ROOM. OLD SOLDIER: TELLS NSTANT STORI ABOUT KOREA. PAPA WOLF: IRONILLY, IS AT TIM THIS TO DAPHNE, WHO IS NOT HIS ACTUAL CHILD. OFTEN SUBVERTED WH HIS OWN SONS, HOWEVER, AS HE IS EQUENTLY CLED TO TAKE THE SI OF THE PEOPLE THEY GET TO NFLICT WH OVER THEIRS (SUCH AS "RAD WARS", WHERE HE POTS OUT THAT FRASIER AND NIL TEND TO MAKE THEMSELV TARGETS FOR BULLI) ALTHOUGH HE N ALSO BE FENSIVE TOWARDS THEM AT TIM AS WELL. PL, SHOULD BE NOTED THAT FRASIER AND NIL N OFTEN BRG THE NFLICTS ON THEMSELV AND HE'S OFTEN RIGHT TO POT OUT THEIR RPONSIBILY DOG SO. PARENTS AS PEOPLE: WHILE HE CLEARLY LOV HIS SONS, HE'S NOT EXACTLY FATHER OF THE YEAR MATERIAL; 'S MA CLEAR AT SEVERAL POTS THAT THERE'S PLENTY OF RPONSIBILY ON HIS PART FOR THE DIFFICULT RELATNSHIP HE HAS WH FRASIER AND NIL, HAVG RARELY MA MUCH OF AN EFFORT TO NNECT WH THEM BEFORE THE SERI STARTED AND SPENDG MORE TIME AT HIS FAVOURE BAR THAN WH HIS SONS. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: HIS RELATNSHIP WH DAPHNE HAS SHAS OF THIS THE EARLIER SEASONS, UNTIL HER SER RELATNSHIPS WH DONNY, THEN NIL. RACE FETISH: IN THE EPISO "THE SEAL WHO CAME TO DNER," 'S REVEALED HE HAS A SECRET FONDNS FOR ASIAN WOMEN (THANKS TO HIS TOUR OF DUTY DURG THE KOREAN WAR), WHICH DAPHNE LLS HIM OUT ON WHEN HE TRI TO FLIRT WH HER IEND.DAPHNE: MISTAKE MY FANNY. YOU ORRED THE JOY LUCK CLUB. REAL MEN HATE AFFECTN: MART OFTEN REACTS TO EMOTNAL EXPRSNS OM OTHERS WH AN "AW, JEEZ". HOWEVER, "BREAKG THE ICE", HE NSTCTS THE TROPE, AND ADMS BOTHERS HIM HE N'T JT OUT AND OUT TELL HIS KIDS HE LOV THEM, AND 'S SOMETHG HTER PTERED HIM ABOUT. HE MANAG TO DO SCERELY, AND AFTER THAT EPISO, HE SLOWLY GETS MORE AND MORE EMOTNAL TOWARDS HIS KIDS, SUCH AS "OUR FATHER WHOSE ART A'T HEAVEN", WHEN HE CRI BEE HE N'T PLEASE FRASIER. REAL MEN WEAR PK: ONE OF HIS EPT SECRETS IS THAT HE'LL CRY, PROPERLY CRY, WATCHG THE SOUND OF MIC. RETIRED BADASS: HE'S ONLY RETIRED THE FIRST PLACE BEE HE GOT SHOT THE HIP. SCREW THE RUL, I HAVE CONNECTNS!: HE'S NOT ABOVE G HIS OLD NTACTS THE FORCE FOR FAVORS SHOULD THE NEED ARISE, OR TRYG TO GET NIL TO WRE HIM A PRCRIPTN. THE STOIC: HE N'T EXPRS HIS FEELGS SO EASILY. AT LEAST HE HAS PROBLEMS GETTG MOVED AND SAYG "I LOVE YOU". FRASIER: YOU SAID TO THE DOG! TRAMARK FAVORE FOOD: HE ONLY DRKS BALLANTE BEER, AND EVEN THEN ONLY NS (HE ED TO ALSO DRK BOTTL, BUT NOT SCE GETTG SHOT THE HIP). WHEN MEETG NORM PETERSON, MART PLIMENTS HIS "MUG LLO" WHILE SHAKG HIS HAND, WHILE NORM SIARLY INTIFI MART AS A "N MAN". UNGRATEFUL BASTARD: ESPECIALLY THE EARLY SEASONS, HIS GFF, STOIC AND RERVED NATURE, UPLED WH TENSN WH HIS SONS AND BTERNS AT HOW HIS LIFE HAS WORKED OUT N SEE HIM END UP AS THIS. IN THE FIRST EPISO, FOR EXAMPLE, HE REACTS TO ALMOST EVERYTHG FRASIER DO TO TRY AND MAKE HIM FEEL FORTABLE WH UNNCEALED HOSTILY AND DISDA, AND PRETTY MUCH HAS TO BE GUILTED TO SAYG "THANK YOU" TO FRASIER FOR GIVG UP HIS SPACE AND EEDOM TO ACMODATE MART. HOWEVER, THIS IS DUE TO HIM BEG ANGRY AND PANICKED ABOUT LOSG HIS PENNCE. IN THE FAL EPISO, MART TELLS FRASIER, "THANK YOU... FOR EVERYTHG."NOTE REALY SUBTEXT: JOHN MAHONEY WAS THANKG KELSEY GRAMMER FOR A GREAT ROLE THAT LASTED 11 YEARS."     ROZ DOYLE ROSALDA "ROZ" DOYLE"WOMEN NEED TO SEE THE MEN THEY MAKE LOVE TO AS EXCG, ROMANTIC FIGUR. SO I SAY, IF YOU WANT TO KEEP THIS WOMAN TERTED, TRY CREATG A FANTASY FOR AN EVENG."PLAYED BY: PERI GILP"THE WHOLE POT OF GOSSIP IS TO TALK BEHD THE PERSON'S BACK, NOT ONT OF THEM! I DIDN'T REALIZE YOU WERE UNCLEAR ON THE NCEPT!"FRASIER'S PRODUCER AND CLOSE IEND. HER VERY ACTIVE SEX LIFE IS THE BUTT OF MANY JOK, BUT DO ALSO MAKE HER A PRIMARY SOURCE OF DATG ADVICE. ARCH-ENEMY: INIALLY SHE'S A D EXAMPLE OF THIS TOWARD NIL. WHILE THE TWO DIDN'T EXACTLY GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO E TROUBLE FOR EACH OTHER, THEY DID NOT GET ON WELL AT ALL, AND SULTS WOULD OFTEN FLY WHENEVER THEY MET. ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH THE SHOW'S N THE TWO START GETTG ALONG MUCH BETTER HOWEVER, NO SMALL PART DUE TO HER TRODUCG NIL TO DONNY, WHO HELPS HIM GET A HEALTHY DIVORCE SETTLEMENT. BETTER AS FRIENDS: WH FRASIER—EVEN WHEN THEY SLEPT TOGETHER ROLVED THEM REMAG IENDS. BIG "OMG!": "OH MY GOD!" IS PRACTILLY HER CATCHPHRASE. BTAL HONTY: SHE DO NOT HOLD BACK WH HER OPNS. CASE POT, WHEN LETTG FRASIER KNOW ABOUT HER FEELGS RE: THEIR HAVG SEX.FRASIER: SO... YOU'RE NOT LOVE WH ME? ROZ: GOD, NO! WEREN'T YOU THERE? THE BUTCHER: ROZ GETS THE NICKNAME OF "THE ANGEL OF DEATH" OM A NVALCENT HOME BY THE RETIRE, BEE HER CHARG ALMOST IMMEDIATELY DIE AFTER SHE'S ASSIGNED TO THEM.NORMAN: AH, THE ANGEL OF DEATH! NICE GIRL. THE CASANOVA: ROZ WAS ALWAYS PLAYED AS A FEMALE VERSN OF THIS TROPE PARTICULAR, RATHER THAN JT REALLY GETS AROUND. WHILE THE CHARACTERS OFTEN CRACKED JOK ABOUT HER PROMISCUY, THEY NEARLY ALWAYS IMPLIED A PREDATORY AND PERPETUALLY LTFUL PERSON WHO LOVED THE CHASE AND WOULD JUMP THROUGH RIDICULO HOOPS (CLUDG NSTCT ELABORATE LI AND HOOK HER IENDS TO FACILATG HOOK-UPS) ORR TO GET LAID, RATHER THAN MISOGYNISTIC JOK DITIVE OF A CHEAP SLUT, AS WOULD BE EXPECTED A EDY FEATURG A PROMISCUO WOMAN. ALSO, ROZ WAS ALWAYS PORTRAYED A FAR BETTER LIGHT THAN BULLDOG BEE WHILE ROZ WOULD SLEEP WH LOADS OF GUYS, SHE ALSO HAD VERY CLEAR STANDARDS THAT SHE RARELY PROMISED (WHICH IS PERHAPS THE REASON HER DAT WERE SO OFTEN MEN WHO REQUIRED HER TO E UP WH HILAR SCHEM ORR TO GET THEM TO PUT OUT). DEADPAN SNARKER: ACRDG TO THE WRERS, SHE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO N REALLY PUT FRASIER HIS PLACE, AND DO WH GREAT LIGHT. DOUBLE ENTENDRE: IF SHE MEETS AN ATTRACTIVE MAN, AT LEAST ONE WILL BE DROPPED BEFORE THE SCENE ENDS. ONE OF THE BT EXAMPL: WHEN SHE MEETS SAM MALONE OF CHEERS—AND GIV HIM HER RD. FRASIER: Y. IT GLOWS THE DARK. ROZ: [GRNG TO SAM] SO DO I. ETHIL SLUT: ROZ HAS A VERY PROMISCUO SEX LIFE, BUT IS ALWAYS RPONSIBLE AND TAK A DIM VIEW OF CHEATG. AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE IS WH THE FATHER OF HER CHILD, A YOUNG LLEGE STUNT. RATHER THAN PRS HIM FOR CHILD SUPPORT OR ACCEPT HIS OBLIGATORY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL, SHE TELLS HIM TO TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNI AHEAD OF HIM AND LIVE A GOOD LIFE. FALLG TO THE COCKP: "YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGA" SHOWS SHE WASN'T FRASIER'S FIRST CHOICE FOR PRODUCER. THAT GUY QU AFTER JT ONE DAY OF ALG WH FRASIER'S EXCSIVELY LONG LIST OF MANDS. AND THAT WAS BEFORE HE ACTUALLY STARTED RERDG. FIERY REDHEAD: SHE'S GOT A STRONG BACKBONE AND ISN'T AAID TO TAKE FRASIER DOWN A PEG WHEN HE'S BEG TOO ELIST. GIRL FRIDAY: ESSENTIALLY IS THIS TO FRASIER, AS THE SNARKY PRODUCER TO A POPULAR LL- RAD SHOW HE HOSTS. GOOD BAD GIRL: SHE'S AS IENDLY AS SHE IS PROMISCUO. HYPOCRE: PLAYED FOR LGHS. ONE EPISO HAS HER NVCE FRASIER TO FIRE BEBE AS HIS AGENT AFTER SHE TORPEDO ROZ’S TERVIEW FOR HER OWN RAD SHOW FOR FRASIER’S SAKE, AND JT FOR ALL THE OTHER UNSCPULO THGS BEBE DO FRASIER’S NAME. BY THE END OF THE EPISO FRASIER DO ED FIRE BEBE, BUT ROZ HIR HER AFTER BEG PERSUAD WH THE POTENTIAL FOR BEBE TO GET HER OTHER GIGS. AN EPISO THE FOLLOWG SEASON SHOWS HER STILL AS BEBE’S CLIENT, AND TRYG TO NVCE FRASIER TO REHIRE HER WHEN FACG A TOUGH RENEGOTIATN TO HIS NTRACT. THE "I LOVE YOU" STIGMA: DISCSED "BREAKG THE ICE" WHEN ROZ TALKS ABOUT A GUY SHE WAS HAVG SUAL SEX WH:ROZ: WE'VE BEEN DATG A UPLE OF WEEKS, AND LAST NIGHT HE STARTED LICKG ME BEHD MY EAR. SEE, I HAVE THIS SWEET LTLE SPOT THERE... FRASIER: UH, ROZ, IS THIS -—? ROZ: Y, YOU DO NEED TO KNOW THIS. SO ANYWAY, WHAT I MEANT TO SAY WAS, "OH, I LOVE THAT!" BUT I GOT SO UGHT UP THAT I YELLED OUT, "OH, I LOVE YOU!" AND THEN ALL OF A SUDN HE GOT THIS LOOK ON HIS FACE LIKE INDIANA JON NNG OM THE BIG BALL! FRASIER: WELL, UH, ROZ, DO YOU LOVE HIM? ROZ: NO! BUT I SAID , SO HE SHOULD HAVE SAID BACK, 'S JT POLE. THE LAD-ETTE: WHILE CERTALY NOT UN-FEME, ROZ HAS A STRONG MASCULE SI. IT’S REVEALED ONE STORY THAT SHE IS NOT ONLY ONE OF MART’S POKER BUDDI, BUT SHE APPARENTLY KNOWS MORE DIRTY JOK THAN THE RT OF THEM. LAW OF INVERSE FERTILY: GETS SMACKED WH DUE TO EXECUTIVE MEDDLG, THOUGH SHE ACKNOWLEDG THAT WH HER LIFTYLE, WAS FAIRLY EVABLE."EVEN THE BT BIRTH NTROL IS ONLY EFFECTIVE NETY-NE OUT OF A HUNDRED TIM. I N'T BEAT THOSE ODDS." LIKE BROTHER AND SISTER: WH FRASIER DESPITE THE FACT THAT THEY SLEPT TOGETHER! AND BY EXTENSN THE WHOLE CRANE CLAN. SHE IS A PERMANENT FIXTURE AT "FAY ONLY" EVENTS AND BY THE END OF THE SERI IS AS CLOSE TO DAPHNE, MART AND TO A LSER EXTENT EVEN NIL AS SHE IS WH FRASIER. LOOSE LIPS: SHE FULLY ENGAG OFFICE GOSSIP, AND WILL ALMOST NEVER KEEP ANY SECRET WHEN FRASIER TELLS HER SOMETHG EMBARRASSG ABOUT HIMSELF. ONE NOTABLE STANCE HAD HER TRYG TO GET HIM TO REVEAL THE WOMAN HE SLEPT WH ACCINTALLY ON THE AIR; SWEARG NOT TO TELL ANYONE. SHE THEN PICKS UP A RGG PHONE AND IMPLI SHE’LL REVEAL EVERYTHG TO THE LLER AS SOON AS SHE LEARNS THE SECRET. RIGHT ONT OF FRASIER. LOVABLE SEX MANIAC: RARE FEMALE VERSN. MA'AM SHOCK: INVOKED "ROZ'S KRANTZ & GOULNSTE ARE DEAD", WHEN MOIRA TALKS ABOUT GETTG OLR AND BEG LLED "MA'AM" FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND ROZ SYMPATHIZ. MS. FANSERVICE: WHILE DRSED AS O, OR WONR WOMAN. MT HAVE CAFFEE: SHE GETS PRETTY UPSET WHEN BREASTFEEDG MEANS SHE N'T HAVE ANY. THE MUTE SHE'S ALLOWED TO GET BACK ON THE BEAN... THE PREDICTABLE HAPPENS. OOH, ME ACCENT'S SLIPPG: PERI GILP IS OM TEXAS. ROZ IS SUPPOSED TO BE OM WISNS, AND GENERALLY DON'T HAVE MUCH OF AN ACCENT. ONCE A WHILE, THOUGH, THE TEXAN SLIPS OUT, OR IS LLED UPON FOR THE SAKE OF THE PLOT. REALLY GETS AROUND: LOV REMISCG ON HER PAST AND PRENT EXPERIENC WH MEN. HER ACTIVE SEX LIFE IS ONE OF HER RUNNG GAGS, PARTICULARLY HOW SHE SEEKS OUT MEN YOUNGER THAN SHE IS AND "NEVER SAYS NO". WHEN SHE GETS PREGNANT SHE REMARKS THAT EVEN THE BT BIRTH NTROL IS "ONLY" 99% EFFECTIVE, SO WAS PRETTY MUCH EVABLE. REFUGE AUDACY: HOW SHE GETS HER JOB AT KACL BACK SEASON 11. HAVG PREVLY QU TO WORK FOR A RIVAL PANY, SHE JT MARCH BACK TO THE OFFICE AND ACTS LIKE SHE NEVER LEFT, EVEN QUE LERALLY SHOVG HER REPLACEMENT OUT OF THE BOOTH. SASSY SECRETARY: NOT ACTUALLY ONE, BUT FS THE CHARACTER TYPE. TROLL: SHE ENJOYS HAVG SOME GOOD-NATURED FUN AT HER IENDS' EXPENSE, EVEN ON THE JOB.[FRASIER IS FUR THAT ROZ LET A LL OM LILH GET ON THE AIR] FRASIER: ROZ, WHAT EXACTLY DO "LL SCREENG" MEAN?! ROZ: IT MEANS I GET TO PUT ON THE AIR THE LLS I WANT TO HEAR. ULTIMATE JOB SECURY: RELATED TO THE ABOVE TROPE, LATER THE SAME NVERSATN, SHE GLEEFULLY SUGGTS, ON AIR, THAT FRASIER TAKE LILH OUT TO DNER. FRASIER, WHILE MATAG AN AIR OF CIVILY ON AIR, IMMEDIATELY WR DOWN ON A NOTE, "YOU'RE FIRED" AND SHOWS TO ROZ. ROZ RPONDS WH A PRE-PREPARED "I'M UNN" SIGN, FURIATG FRASIER. IT'S ALSO SHOWN SEVERAL TIM THROUGH THE SERI THAT ROZ IS PROBABLY THE ONLY PETENT PRODUCER KACL HAS WHO N ALSO PUT UP WH FRASIER. VETARI JOB SECURY: ANY TIME SHE GETS REPLACED AS FRASIER'S PRODUCER, THEY'RE VARIABLY A DISASTER. VRLIC BT BUDS: WH FRASIER AND NIL. WOMEN ARE WISER: PLAYED WH; WHILE SHE MAY BE MORE REASONABLE AND SOCIALLY CLUED-UP THAN FRASIER OR NIL, SO ARE MART AND SEVERAL OTHER OF THE MALE CHARACTERS. PLAYED STRAIGHT WHEN TO HER JOB HOWEVER, AS ALL THE MALE PRODUCERS AND RAD PERSONALI SEEN AT THE STATN (WH THE POSSIBLE EXCEPTN OF GIL) ARE PLETELY EPT AT THEIR JOBS AND/OR HAVE MAJOR PERSONALY ISSU. IT'S ONLY NATURAL, THEN, THAT SHE BE THE STATN MANAGER AT THE END OF THE SERI. WORD OF GOD STATED THE OTHER PURPOSE OF ROZ IS TO BE THE ONE PERSON MORE EXPERIENCED THAN FRASIER HIS PROFSNAL LIFE.     DAPHNE MOON DAPHNE MOON"I'M SORRY, DR. CRANE. I'M FORCED TO DO THE LNDRY DOWNSTAIRS, AND I GUS YOUR SOCKS ARE JT TOO TEMPTG TO THE NEIGHBORS. OF URSE, YOU'RE WELE TO GO DOWN THERE YOURSELF AND STAND GUARD."PLAYED BY: JANE LEEV"I MT NFS I'M A B PSYCHIC. IT'S NOTHG BIG. JT LTLE THGS I SENSE ABOUT PEOPLE. I MEAN, 'S NOT LIKE I ULD PICK THE LOTTERY. IF I ULD, I WOULDN'T BE TALKG TO THE LIK OF [FRASIER AND MART] NOW, WOULD I?"MART'S PHYSIL THERAPIST WHO LIV WH HIM AND FRASIER, SHE'S OM ENGLAND AND SERV AS A WORKG-CLASS PRENCE A S OF MOSTLY HIGH-CLASS CHARACTERS. IS THE SUBJECT OF AFFECTN FOR NIL, THOUGHT SHE HAS NO IA FOR THE FIRST SIX SEASONS. AMBIGUOLY BI: SEEN EYEG FRASIER'S HALF-NAKED AGENT'S LEGS WH AN APPARENT LOOK OF SATISFACTN, SPE NOT HAVG AN AMIABLE RELATNSHIP WH HER. IN ANOTHER EPISO, SCRIB A NCUPISCENT DREAM ABOUT A FEMALE GYMNAST WHO ED TO LIVE NEXT TO HER. ONCE MISTAKEN FOR A LBIAN BY A GAY SKI STCTOR TO WHOM SHE WAS ATTRACTED.DAPHNE: I BETTER GO OK FOR HIM. I KNOW HOW THE CRANE MEN LIKE THEIR LEGS... EGGS! BERSERK BUTTON: THE PHRASE "YOU'LL THANK ME FOR THIS LATER", AFTER YEARS OF HEARG OM HER MOTHER. BEWARE THE NICE ON: DAPHNE'S EASILY THE NICT OF THE MA CHARACTERS, BUT WHEN SHE DO GET ANGRY, SHE OFTEN LASH OUT WAYS THAT WOULD GIVE EVEN THE CRAN A N FOR THEIR MONEY. ESPECIALLY WHEN HER MOTHER OR SIMON ARE AROUND, OR WHEN FRASIER OR NIL' SNOOTS GETS OUT OF NTROL. IN ONE EPISO, SHE SEEMS TO BE SERLY NSIRG PREMEDATED MURR OF THE TYRANNIL HEAD OF THE NDO BOARD. BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: A RELATIVELY TAME EXAMPLE. WHILE PERFECTLY NICE WHEN SHE GETS HER WAY, SHE HAS ALSO PROVEN TO BE SELFISH, MANIPULATIVE, PETTY, AND A HUGE HYPOCRE WHO IS QUICK TO BLAME OTHERS FOR MOST OF THE PROBLEMS SHE . THIS IS ACTUALLY LAMPSHAD SHORTLY AFTER SHE GETS TOGETHER WH NIL, WHEN SHE BELIEV THAT HER OVEREATG BGE WAS ED PARTLY BY ANXIETY OVER THE FACT THAT SHE KNOWS SHE'S NOT AS SWEET AS SHE ACTS AND DON'T THK SHE N LIVE UP TO NIL'S EXPECTATNS OF HER AFTER HE HAS BUILT HER UP AND WORSHIPPED THE GROUND BENEATH HER FEET DURG SEVEN YEARS OF UNREQUED LOVE. IT TURNS OUT THAT NIL IS PERFECTLY PABLE OF G UP WH A LONG LIST OF THGS HE HAT ABOUT DAPHNE, BUT LOV HER ALL THE SAME. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: SHE'S A GOOD PHYSIL THERAPIST, BUT SHE ALSO THKS SHE'S PSYCHIC AND HAS A LOT OF ECCENTRICI, PECIALLY EARLIER SEASONS. CLOUD CUCKOOLANR: HER TRODUCTN HAD HER ADMTG RIGHT OUT "I'M A B PSYCHIC", AND SHE OFTEN GO ON LONG TANGENTS ABOUT CRAZY THGS. SHE DOWN TO EARTH A B OVER THE SHOW N, HOWEVER.THE CUTIE--> DEADPAN SNARKER: NOT AS MUCH AS THE OTHERS, BUT EVEN SHE HAS HER MOMENTS, PARTICULARLY TOWARD HER MOTHER GERT.MART: WELL, SHE WAS FLIRTG RIGHT BACK. I SAW HER GIVG ME THE ONCE-OVER. DAPHNE: YEAH, SHE LOOKED ONCE AND WAS OVER. DON'T YOU DARE PY ME!: SHE GETS CREDIBLY ANGRY WHEN SHE THKS NIL IS NSCENDG AT HER. FIRST-NAME BASIS: SHIFTS TO THIS WH THE CRAN WHEN SHE GETS TOGETHER WH NIL. LAMPSHAD.DAPHNE: OH, FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE DR. CRANE! [SHE KISS HIM] NIL: I THK YOU N LL ME NIL NOW. SUBVERTED WH MART, WHEN HE'S NOW HER FATHER--LAW.DAPHNE: THANK YOU... MART / DAPHNE: *SIMULTANEOLY* DAD. / MART. DAPHNE: UH, DAD. MART: OR MART. WHATEVER MAK YOU FEEL FORTABLE. DAPHNE: [HUGGG HIM] OH, THANK YOU, MR. CRANE! SHE DO LL HIM "MART" AFTER THIS THOUGH. FLANRIZATN: SUBVERTED WH DAPHNE. SHE STARTS OFF AS A CLOUDCUCKOOLANR, BUT VELOPS TO A MUCH LS ECCENTRIC CHARACTER. FOREIGN QUEASE: HER ABILY TO OK PLEX MEALS IS EXACERBATED BY HER SISTENCE ON OKG ENGLISH FOOD, WHICH NOT A SGLE CHARACTER (OUTSI OF HER IMMEDIATE FAY) N STAND EVEN WHEN OKED RRECTLY. SHE SEEMS TO WEAPONIZE WHEN SHE WANTS THE APARTMENT TO HERSELF, SUCH AS CLAIMG SHE WAS GOG TO MAKE SHEEP'S HEAD STEW FOR DNER, WH THE MA GREDIENT ALLEGEDLY A PAPER BAG. (IT'S HER CLEAN LNDRY.) HAPPILY MARRIED: WH NIL, EVENTUALLY. HILARLY ABIVE CHILDHOOD: NOT ONLY WAS HER MOTHER EMOTNALLY ABIVE AND THERE BEG MENTN OF HER FATHER BEATG HER BROTHERS (BUT NOT HER, "AS LONG AS SHE BEHAVED PERFECTLY"), BUT HER FAY WAS SO BIZARRE 'S AMAZG SHE ONLY END UP AN ECCENTRIC CLOUD CUCKOOLANR AND NOT AN OUTRIGHT LUNATIC. I DIDN'T MEAN TO TURN YOU ON: ALMOST EVERYTHG SHE DO NIL' PRENCE. I HAVE BROTHERS: SHE OCSNALLY CLAIMS THAT SHE PICKED UP RANDOM SKILLS, SUCH AS FIRST AID OR ENGE MATENANCE, OM GROWG UP WH EIGHT BROTHERS. LAD-ETTE: DOWNPLAYED, BUT 'S FELY THERE. SHE'S A WRENCH WENCH, A RPENTER, A CHAMPN BILLIARDS PLAYER, AND OFTEN DO PHYSIL LABOR. IT'S JTIFIED BY HAVG TO GROW UP WH A BEVY OF ROWDY OOP NORTH BROTHERS. (IT'S NO WONR SHE HAD FONDNS FOR HER CAMP GAY BROTHER.) LETHAL CHEF: WHILE SHE'S APPARENTLY OKAY AT PUTTG TOGETHER SIMPLE MEALS AND SNACKS, HER CULARY ABILY SHARPLY DROPS AS THE MEALS GET MORE PLEX. IT DON'T HELP THAT SHE OKS LOTS OF BRISH DISH. LIKE AN OLD MARRIED COUPLE: MOMENTARILY DIPS TO THIS ON OCSN WH MART, SUCH AS "SECRET ADMIRER".MART: [AS THEY'RE PREPARG TO LEAVE] I WANNA LISTEN TO MY RAD. DAPHNE: FE, IF MEANS I DON'T HAVE TO LISTEN TO YOU TALK'! LOVE EPIPHANY: TOWARD NIL SEASON 7. LOVE REVELATN EPIPHANY: AFTER HEARG THAT HE LOVED HER, ANYWAY. MALE GAZE: NIL HAS QUE AN AFFECTN FOR HER REAR END. LAMPSHAD ONE OF THE LAST EPISOS "COOTS AND LADRS" WHILE LOOKG AT PHOTOS OF THEM EARLY THE SERI.DAPHNE: WHY ARE YOU ALL HUNCHED OVER THIS ONE? NIL: [UNFORTABLY] UH... DAPHNE: YOU WERE LOOKG AT MY BUM, WEREN'T YOU? NIL: OH, HEAVENS, NO! DAPHNE: OH, 'S ALL RIGHT, NIL, WE'RE MARRIED NOW. NIL: ALL RIGHT, Y. I MIGHT ONCE A MOMENT OF WEAKNS HAVE PERMTED MYSELF A FLEETG GLANCE. [DAPHNE SHOWS HIM ANOTHER PHOTO] OR TWICE. [YET ANOTHER PHOTO] MANY, MANY TIM. DAPHNE: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE REAR WH YOU, ISN'T ? NIL: OH, NO, DARLG... DAPHNE: NO, SERLY... [SHE STANDS UP AND TURNS AWAY OM HIM] WHAT LOR ARE MY EY? NIL: UM... DAPHNE: [ALMOST LGHG] YOU'RE LOOKG AT AGA, AREN'T YOU? MAYBE MAGIC, MAYBE MUNDANE: THE QUTN OF WHETHER SHE'S REALLY PSYCHIC OR 'S JT A BELIEF STILLED BY HER GRANDMOTHER AS A PG MECHANISM THAT SHE HAS "THE FEMALE MOON GIFT" IS NEVER ANSWERED. WHEN GIVEN A CHANCE TO FD OUT IF SHE'S REALLY PSYCHIC, NIL CIS TO THROW AWAY HER TT RULTS.DAPHNE: I KNEW YOU'D DO THAT! MS. FANSERVICE: A FEW TIM—MUCH TO NIL'S LIGHT. OBSERVE. NICE GIRL: DAPHNE'S THE IENDLIT OF THE RE ST. OBLIV TO LOVE: DIDN'T SEEM TO NOTICE NIL' CSH ON HER AT ALL SPE NIL NOT BEG AT ALL SUBTLE ABOUT . JANE LEEV CLAIMED DAPHNE KNEW ALL ALONG, BUT THAT'S JT HER TERPRETATN. OOP NORTH: MANCHTER, ALTHOUGH SEEMS TO BE A RUNNG GAG THAT SPE SUPPOSEDLY ALL G OM MANCHTER, THE RT OF HER FAY HAVE ACCENTS SPANNG THE WIDTH AND BREADTH OF THE ENTIRE UK. PLATONIC LIFE-PARTNERS: WH MART, AT LEAST UNTIL SHE GETS TOGETHER WH NIL. PSYCHIC POWERS: SHE CLAIMS TO BE "A LTLE B PSYCHIC" THE PILOT. THIS IS PHASED OUT AFTER A FEW SEASONS—THOUGH 'S EVENTUALLY BROUGHT BACK AFTER SHE AND NIL GET TOGETHER. HOW WELL HER SUPPOSED POWERS WORK VARI. SOMETIM SHE MISTERPRETS HER VISNS, AS WHEN DIVG JEROME BELAS'S LE OF WORK "A WORD TO THE WISEGUY".DAPHNE: YOU'RE...A DOCTOR. AN OSTEOPATH, PERHAPS? JEROME: NO, SORRY. DAPHNE: THAT'S FUNNY...I SEE YOU HOVERG OVER PEOPLE WH BROKEN BON. IT TO A HEAD WH THIS EXCHANGE:NIL: I N'T READ MDS, YOU KNOW. AND BY THE WAY, NEHER N YOU! DAPHNE: [SHOCKED] ARE YOU SAYG YOU DON'T THK I'M PSYCHIC?! NIL: NOT IF YOU THOUGHT I LOVED YOUR OKG! RENTFUL OUTNUMBERED SIBLG: THE ONLY GIRL A HOE OF BOYS. SHE ADMS SEVERAL TIM THAT WHILE SHE LOV HER BROTHERS THEY WEREN'T ALWAYS EASY TO GET ALONG WH AND HAD LTLE RPECT FOR HER PRIVACY. IT'S IMPLIED THAT GRAMMY MOON TOLD HER THAT MOON WOMEN WERE "PSYCHIC" TO MAKE HER FEEL BETTER ABOUT BEG THE ONLY GIRL. RUNAWAY BRI: SHE ABANDONS DONNY AND EXS WH NIL A WNEBAGO DURG THE SEND PART OF THE TWO-PART EPISO "SOMETHG BORROWED, SOMEONE BLUE". THEY DO GO BACK TO THE WEDDG PROPERLY, HOWEVER, AND SHE BREAKS UP WH DONNY FACE TO FACE RATHER THAN LEAVG HIM LD. SCREAMG BIRTH: IN "GOODNIGHT SEATTLE" SERVILE SNARKER: SHE'S MART'S LIVE- THERAPIST, AND HAS A WICKED SENSE OF HUMOUR. STATUQUE STUNNER: DAPHNE IS 5'10" AND QUE BETIFUL (AS NIL OFTEN POTS OUT). TALKATIVE LOON: IN SPAS, OFTEN ABOUT HER HILARLY ABIVE CHILDHOOD. IN FACT, THE CRAN EVENTUALLY START FEARG SOME OF HER STORI.DAPHNE: [ABOUT HER BROTHERS' PETIVENS] WHO ULD THE N THE FASTT, JUMP THE HIGHT. THEY EVEN THIS STRANGE ONE WHERE THEY'D TAKE LTLE BROTHER MICHAEL, PUT HIM A POTATO SACK AND SEE WHO ULD ROLL HIM THE FARTHT OVER THE OZEN LAKE OUT BACK. THEY LOVED THAT GAME! UNTIL THAT YEAR THE SPRG THAW SET EARLY AND POOR MICHAEL WENT RIGHT THROUGH THE ICE. OOH, THEY UGHT HELL FOR THAT ONE, THEY DID. CGHT WORSE A WEEK LATER WHEN MICHAEL'S TOE FALLY FELL OFF. MICHAEL CRIED AND CRIED UNTIL THEY TOLD HIM TO PUT UNR HIS PILLOW FOR THE TOE FAIRY! AND THEN WHEN HE GOT FIVE QUID FOR , WHY WAS ALL THEY ULD DO TO STOP HIM OM SAWG OFF THE RT OF THEM! [LGHS] MART: [ON EDGE, SHOUTG TO THE CRANE BOYS] WHAT'S KEEPG YOU GUYS WH THAT BOX?! THE UN-FAVOURE: DEFELY THIS TO HER MOTHER. RARELY DID HER MOTHER OFFER ANYTHG BUT CRICISMS, SULTS, AND PUT-DOWNS TO DAPHNE EVEN BEFORE HER FIRST ON-SCREEN APPEARANCE. THOUGH 'S IMPLIED SHE HAD A MUCH WARMER RELATNSHIP WH HER FATHER THAN PARED TO HER BROTHERS. UNREQUED LOVE SWCHEROO: SHE FALLY FDS OUT THAT NIL IS LOVE WH HER AROUND THE SAME TIME THAT HE FALLY GETS OVER HER, NOT LONG AFTERWARDS SHE STARTS FALLG LOVE WH HIM.     EDDIE EDDIE PLAYED BY: MOOSE (SEASONS 1-7); ENZO (SEASONS 8-11)MART'S FAHFUL JACK RSELL TERRIER, FRASIER AND NIL N'T STAND HIM AND HE SEEMS TO KNOW , AS ONE OF HIS FAVORE PASTIM IS STARG AT THEM TO ANNOY THEM. IS MORE A CHARACTER THAN A PET, BEE HE'S CREDIBLY EXPRSIVE AND TELLIGENT. AMPLIFIED ANIMAL APTU: EDDIE'S ACTOR, MOOSE, AND HIS SON ENZO WHO TOOK OVER THE PART LATER SEASONS, WERE CREDIBLY WELL-TRAED. JOHN MAHONEY HAS STATED THAT HE NSIRED THEM ANIMAL ACTORS RATHER THAN TOKEN PETS. ANIMAL REACTN SHOT: HE'S VERY EMOTIVE. CHARACTER TIC: STG WH HIS TONGUE STICKG OUT. CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: AS FRASIER SUMS UP THE FIRST TIME WE EVER HEAR ABOUT HIM, HE'S WEIRD. AND THAT FELY IS TE. LIKE THE STARG... DEPENDG ON THE WRER: HOW TELLIGENT HE IS N PEND ON WHAT'S FUNNIT. DPE BEG SHOWN TO BE VERY SMART FOR A DOG, ONE EPISO SHOWS HIS P.O.V., AND 'S EVERYONE SPEAKG GIBBERISH WH "EDDIE" BEG THE ONLY TELLIGIBLE WORD. EVEN THE DOG IS ASHAMED: EDDIE BURYG HIS HEAD UNR THE SOFA CHNS WAS A POPULAR POSE, THOUGH SOMETIM 'S BEE HE'S SENTIALLY SAYG, "PLEASE SHUT UP NOW."FRASIER: THERE ARE SUBTLER WAYS TO TELL THE PATIENT THEIR TIME IS UP! HEROIC BSOD: SPENDS MUCH OF "DEATH AND THE DOG" A FUNK. TURNS OUT 'S BEE HE LOST HIS FAVORE TOY. ONCE HE FDS , HE PERKS BACK UP AGA. KLEPTOMANIAC HERO: IT'S A NNG GAG THAT EDDIE, BEG A DOG, WILL STEAL ANY FOOD LEFT LYG AROUND. THAT CLUS LEFT ON THE TABLE. NEARLY NORMAL ANIMAL: OVERALL A NORMAL DOG, BUT SOMETIM HE SHOWS LEVELS OF TELLIGENCE AND UNRSTANDG THAT NO REAL WORLD DOG WOULD POSSS. ALSO DISPLAYS A FEW HUMANLIKE PERSONALY TRAS. BOTH LARGELY A RULT OF RULE OF FUNNY. SILENT SNARKER: HE'S A CRANE BOY ALL RIGHT. S ARCHNEMIS: ONE-SI. FRASIER HAT HIM, BUT SEEMS EDDIE ADOR HIM. OR IS WELL AWARE FRASIER HAT HIM AND IS JT GETTG HIS OWN BACK. FRASIER HAS A FEW MOMENTS OF AWW THEY REALLY DO LOVE EACH OTHER WHEN HE HELPS MART FD EDDIE WHEN HE'S LOST AND LETS HIM E HIS FANCY SWEATER TO WARM UP A WET AND SHIVERG EDDIE. STARG CONTT: IN THE EARLY SEASONS PECIALLY, HE ED TO JT STARED FIXEDLY AT FRASIER, MUCH TO FRASIER'S IRRATN. ON AT LEAST ONE OCSN, FRASIER TRIED STARG BACK ORR TO BREAK EDDIE, ONLY TO END UP BROKEN HIMSELF:FRASIER: IT'S LIKE HIS EY TURNED TO SORCERER'S PWHEELS AND STARTED SPNG!SUPPORTG CHARACTERS     BOB "BULLDOG" BRISE BOB "BULLDOG" BRISE PLAYED BY: DAN BUTLERTHE HOST OF THE GONZO SPORTS SHOW AT FRASIER'S RAD STATN, HIS SHOW UALLY ON AFTER FRASIER'S. HAS AN ON AND OFF RELATNSHIP WH ROZ DUE TO THE FACT SHE'S PHYSILLY ATTRACTED TO HIM BUT OTHERWISE FDS HIM A DISGTG PIG (AND HE IS). ARMOURED CLOSET GAY: HE'S NOT, BUT THE IA WAS SUGGTED TO FRASIER BY A PSYCHOLOGY STUNT HE WAS TERTED , AND FRASIER SAID DRYLY THAT HE'D LIKE TO N THE IA BY BULLDOG. IN REALY HIS ACTOR IS OPENLY GAY, MAKG EVEN FUNNIER. ASCEND EXTRA: WEIRDLY VERTED. AFTER HE GOT PROMOTED TO THE MA ST FOR SEASONS 4 THROUGH 6 HE STARTED APPEARG LS THAN BEFORE. CANNOT SP IT OUT: BY THE TIME HE'S ACTUALLY LOVE WH ROZ HE N'T TELL HER AND SO SETTL FOR SRG OFF HER DAT AND PLAYG BABYSTER TO ALICE TO SPEND TIME WH HER. HE DO SP OUT ONCE SHE TCH ON THOUGH. CATCHPHRASE: WHENEVER HE THKS HE'S LOST SOMETHG (AND REALLY HASN'T)—(POUND!) "THIS STINKS!!! THIS IS TOTAL B.S.!!! THIS IS—OH, HERE IS...." GIVEN AN IRONIC ECHO OCSNALLY WHERE HE LIVERS TEARS WHEN UTTERLY CSHED. CHUCK CUNNGHAM SYNDROME: KDA DOWNPLAYED AS HIS LAST APPEARANCE IS THE FAL SEASON ("FRASIER-LE"). STILL, HE IS NSPICUOLY ABSENT THE SERI FALE, EVEN THOUGH HIS BUDDY GIL AND NOEL SHOW UP, DUE TO DAN BUTLER TOURG HIS ONE MAN SHOW, THE ONLY THG WORSE YOU COULD HAVE TOLD ME... AT THE TIME. DIRTY COWARD: IN "BAD DOG," UPON SEEG A MAN WH A GUN AT THE FE, HE TRIED TO E A PREGNANT ROZ AS A HUMAN-SHIELD. THG IS, ACTUALLY APPEARED AS IF HE WAS TRYG TO PULL HER TO SAFETY, SO HE IS DUBBED A HERO BY ALL - EXCEPT FRASIER, WHO KNOWS THE TTH AND SPENDS THE RT OF THE EPISO OBSSG OVER . FRIDGE LOGIC: TWO -UNIVERSE EXAMPL OCCUR WHEN FRASIER'S SON VISS THE STATN AND ASKS BULLDOG WHY HE'S NICKNAMED "BULLDOG", AND WHY HE SO MANY SOUND EFFECTS ON HIS SHOW. BULLDOG REALIZ HE DON'T KNOW THE REASON FOR EHER. THE REASON HE'S NICKNAMED "BULLDOG" IS ANSWERED QUICKLY WHEN HE LERALLY BARKS AT A SEXY WOMAN WALKG BY. HEROIC BSOD: HE HAS A BRIEF ONE LOVE B DOG WHEN HE IS DUMPED ON THE PHONE BY SOMEONE HE GENUELY FALLS LOVE WH. HIDN DEPTHS: HE GENUELY FALLS LOVE WH ROZ, AND WAS ONCE SO PASSNATE ABOUT A RELATNSHIP THAT WHEN SHE DUMPED HIM HE WAS RCED TO TEARS. JERK JOCK: A SPORTS SHOW HOST AND A MASSIVELY EGOTISTIL JERK. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: HAS HIS MOMENTS. MOST NOTABLY THAT HE'S RPECTFUL AROUND KIDS, SUCH AS TALKG UP FRASIER ONCE WHEN FREDDIE VISED OR TAKG RE OF ALICE FOR ROZ. HE ALSO DO OFFER TO ROZ TO BE THERE FOR HER IF SHE NEEDS HIM WHEN SHE'S TURNED DOWN FOR A PROMOTN. JERK WH A HEART OF JERK: SOMEHOW HE HAS THIS AND JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD; THERE ARE OCSNS WHERE HE DO SOMETHG NICE JT FOR HIS OWN PROF, SUCH AS GIVG ROZ A GIFT FOR HER NOT-YET-BORN BABY AND HUGGG HER SO HE N FEEL HER PREGNANCY-ENLARGED BREASTS. AFTER HE ADMS HE'S LOVE WH ROZ, ROZ VOK THIS AS A WAY OF LETTG HIM DOWN EASY BY LETTG HIM PLAY OFF AS JT A WAY TO GET HER TO BED. KAVORKA MAN: HE'S SHORT, BALD, AND ANNOYGLY LOUD-MOUTHED. THE FIRST TWO ULD PROBABLY BE EXCED IF NOT FOR THE LAST TWO. HE'S NOT PHYSILLY REPULSIVE, BUT HIS PERSONALY IS REPELLANT. AND YET, HE SLEEPS WH A LOT OF WOMEN. (IT DON'T HURT, HOWEVER, THAT HE HAD A ROCK-HARD MCULAR BODY THAT HE SHOWED OFF ONCE OR TWICE.) LADYKILLER LOVE: HAPPENS TWICE, FIRST WH ROZ'S IEND SHANNON AND LATER ON ROZ. NO INDOOR VOICE: SHOUTS, LOUD NOIS, AND BARKS NEARLY ALL HIS APPEARANC. NOT STAYG FOR BREAKFAST: IN THE FIRST EPISO OF SEASON 3, HE SAYS THIS IS HIS UAL PRACTICE. OUT OF FOC: IN LATER SEASONS, PECIALLY ONCE HE'S FIRED. PERVERTED SNIFFG: ONE OF HIS ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENTS EARLY THE SHOW HAS HIM SUDNLY EEZG, AND SNIFFG THE AIR—AND THIS SE, HIS SNIFFG SOUNDS VERY NVCGLY LIKE...A DOG. THE FACT THAT HE FOLLOWS UP WH HIS CHARACTERISTIC BARKG WHEN HE SE THE "CHICK" QUTN TAK THE DARNED TROPE UP TO ELEVEN.SIXTH RANGER: TO THE MA ST.-->THE SOCPATH: AT LEAST "BAD DOG", HE ADMS HE PROBABLY DON'T HAVE A NSCIENCE, AND WHILE FRASIER FDS THAT HARD TO BELIEVE, HE'S CERTALY UNABLE TO PROVE OTHERWISE.--> TTOSTERONE POISONG: A SUBTLE -JOKE, AS ACTOR DAN BUTLER IS GAY REAL LIFE.     MARIS CRANE MARIS CRANE PLAYED BY: N/ANIL'S IAL WIFE, SHE'S AN CREDIBLY BIZARRE AND ECCENTRIC RICH BCH WHO IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE, AND YET NIL BENDS OVER BACKWARDS FOR HER ANYWAY. THEIR MARRIAGE DISSOLV OVER THE URSE OF THE SHOW, AND MARIS MAK AS PAFUL FOR HIM AS SHE N. ANNOYG PATIENT: IN ONE EPISO WHEN SHE'S THE HOSPAL FOR A SMETIC PROCRE, NIL SEEN ON THE PHONE ASSURG HER THAT THE IV FLUID IS "LOW-LORIE". HE'S LATER SEEN BUYG GIFTS FOR THE HOSPAL STAFF AS AN APOLOGY FOR HAVG TO AL WH HER—WHEN ONE NURSE TELLS HIM "I WORKED THE NIGHT SHIFT", HE IMMEDIATELY PLEMENTS THE SMALL BOX HE GAVE HER WH A MUCH LARGER ONE. BABY DON'T GOT BACK: ACRDG TO NIL, CERTA DANC ARE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HER TO DO BEE "SHE HAS NO BOOTY TO SHAKE". BAD BOSS: SHE'S OFTEN MENTNED AS NAGGG, HARANGUG AND OUTRIGHT BULLYG HER HOEHOLD STAFF. WHEN NIL GATHERS THEM TOGETHER TO BID THEM FAREWELL WHEN HE SEPARAT OM MARIS, THEIR IMMEDIATE RPONSE IS TO BEG TO GO WH HIM. BIG EATER: NORMALLY BARELY PABLE OF EATG ANYTHG, BUT WHEN SHE'S STRSED OUT, MARIS EATS... AND EATS... AND EATS. SUCH AS WHEN SHE FOUND OUT NIL WAS DATG MEL.ROZ: WELL, SHE MOVED NEXT DOOR TO THE ITALIAN LI. THE GUY JT TOOK THE TWO-FOOT SALAMI OUT THE WDOW. IN THE SAME EPISO:MART: MY GOD, HAVE YOU SEEN MARIS? FRASIER: Y, DAD, I KNOW. DID NIL LM HER DOWN? MART: YEAH, HE TOOK HER TO YOUR ROOM BUT HE HAD TO BUTTER HER UP A LTLE. FRASIER: I WAS AAID THAT NARROW DOORWAY MIGHT POSE A PROBLEM. CAN'T TAKE CRICISM: AS A RULT OF HER SELFISHNS, MARIS IS VERY FENSIVE AGAST ANYONE WHO READS HER THE RT ACT. SHE UTTERLY FIR HER MARRIAGE UNSELORS WHENEVER THEY POT OUT HER FLAWS OR FOR SIMPLY ASKG HER NOT TO TALOG SHOP AND SHE ONCE LOCKED HERSELF HER BASEMENT TO SULK WHEN FRASIER MERELY QUTNS HER SERVG VEAL'S SENSIVY. AS FRASIER STAT, SHE DON'T AL WH NONTATN WELL. CHILD HATER: GIVEN THAT SHE APPARENTLY HAD A LOOK OF JOY ON HER FACE WHEN THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHILDREN DISVERED HER ELECTRIC FENCE, MARIS APPARENTLY ISN'T FOND OF KIDS. CLGY JEALO GIRL: EVEN AFTER SHE AND NIL HAVE DIVORCED, SHE STILL TRI TO SABOTAGE MEL'S REER OUT OF SPE WHEN SHE FDS OUT THEY'RE DATG. CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: EVEN WHOUT HER DISORRS AND SPOILED UPBRGG, THE PICTURE PATED OF MARIS IS SOMEONE WHO IS HIGHLY ECCENTRIC TO BEG WH. WHEN PEGGED AS A FLIGHT RISK BY POLICE BEE SHE'S RRYG THOANDS SH, AND A WIG HER PURSE, NIL JT SHGS THIS OFF BEE MARIS ALWAYS HAS THOSE HER PURSE. DADDY'S GIRL: IS APPARENTLY ED TO HAVG HER FATHER JT BUY HER WAY OUT OF ANY TROUBLE SHE GETS TO. A B OF PROBLEM GIVEN HE'S AD BEFORE THE SERI BEGS. DARK SECRET: PLAYED FOR LGHS THE EPISO WHEN NIL FALLY DIVORC HER, AS DONNY'S DIRT-DIGGG REVEALS THAT HER FAY FORTUNE OM URAL K, NOT TIMBER AS SHE SUPPOSEDLY CLAIMED. TO MOST PEOPLE THIS WOULDN'T BE A BIG AL, BUT KNOWG THAT SHE MOV ULTRA-SNOBBY SOCIAL CIRCL, NIL AND DONNY LEVERAGE THIS TO MAKE HER AGREE NOT TO LEAVE NIL FANCIALLY STUTE. DOMTIC ABE: HER TREATMENT OF NIL. OCSNALLY SHE ENGAG PHYSIL ABE, LIKE THROWG THGS AT NIL, BUT PRIMARILY HER ABE IS EMOTNAL AND FANCIAL (PECIALLY AS THEIR RELATNSHIP BEGS TO BREAK DOWN). DRAMA QUEEN: AS ONE OF HER ECCENTRICI, EVEN A SUAL QUIRY OR DISPLAY OF EMOTN HER DIRECTN HAS MARIS NNG OFF EHER FOR HER PILLS OR THE PLASTIC SURGEONS. EARLY-INSTALLMENT WEIRDNS: IN LILH'S FIRST APPEARANCE, MART CLAIMS LILH IS WEIRR THAN MARIS. THAT PROV TO BE LGHABLY SO UNTE, 'S PROBABLE MART WAS JT TRYG TO GET UNR FRASIER'S SK. ENTLED BCH: SHE JT DO WHATEVER SHE WANTS AS IF SHE BELIEV SHE HAS A RIGHT TO. NOT EVEN THE LONG-ARM OF THE LAW IS EXEMPT OM THIS. SHE ONCE PARKED A HANDIPPED ZONE G HER CHOLATE ALLERGY AS AN EXCE, BLEW OFF A URT SUMMONS FOR PARKG VLATNS, HAD AN AFFAIR WH ONE OF HER MARRIAGE UNSELORS AND ALSO PLANNED ON WEDDG HIM, TRIED TO BRIBE NIL WH GIFTS SO THAT HE MAY TAKE HER BACK SPE THE AFOREMENTNED AFFAIR AND WILLGNS TO M POLYGAMY ED HIM TO BE DRIVEN AWAY. EPIC FAIL: MANY IS THE STORY NIL REUNTS OF MARIS TRYG TO ENGAGE SOME SORT OF PHYSIL ACTIVY AND FAILG MISERABLY, SUCH AS GETTG STUCK A REVOLVG DOOR. EVIL CANNOT COMPREHEND GOOD: DPE CLAIMG TO BE AN ANIMAL LOVER, MARIS NEVER ADOPTED A PET BEE, ACRDG TO NIL, SHE DON'T TST UNNDNAL LOVE. WHICH, E TO THK OF , EXPLAS A LOT OF HER RELATNSHIP WH NIL... THE FACELS: THE WRG TEAM DID TOY WH THE IA OF REVEALG HER, BUT BY THAT TIME THEY HAD CREATED SO MANY BIZARRE SCRIPTNS OF HER THAT THEY EVENTUALLY CID NO HUMAN ACTRS WOULD BE ABLE TO PORTRAY HER AQUATELY.ROZ: I DON'T SEE HER, MAYBE SHE WENT BACK OUT. OH, WA. I SEE HER AT ON A HAT RACK. FRASIER: LOOK CLOSER. IS THE HAT RACK MOVG? ROZ: ... OH MY GOD! PLAYED WH WHEN WE DO ACTUALLY GET TO SEE HER ON-SCREEN A FLASH-BACK... BUT HER FACE IS VERED BANDAG OM HER LATT SURGERY. FOOT-DRAGGG DIVORCEE: SHE MAK EXTREMELY DIFFICULT FOR NIL TO GET AWAY OM HER. WHEN BEGGG HIM TO TAKE HER BACK DON'T WORK SHE CIS TO HIM FANCIALLY BY DRAGGG THGS OUT FOR OVER A YEAR. IF ROZ HADN'T SET NIL UP WH DONNY THEN THE PROCS WOULD HAVE GONE ON EVEN LONGER. THE GHOST: SHE'S NEVER SEEN, ALTHOUGH OCSNALLY THE CREATORS TROLLED THE VIEWERS WH THE POSSIBILYNOTE THE CLOST WE GET IS THE SHADOW OF HER HAIR SEEN THROUGH THE SHOWER CURTA SEASON 5'S "VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED". ULTIMATELY, HOWEVER, THEY CID NO HUMAN BEG ULD AQUATELY PORTRAY HER. FOR EXAMPLE, SHE WAS SO TH THAT SHE WAS GENUELY MISTAKEN FOR A AT RACK AND SHE WAS SO LIGHT SHE ULD S ON A WHOOPIE CHN WHOUT SETTG OFF. GRAN DAME: NIL REFERS TO HER AS THE DOYEN OF THE SEATTLE ELE. HER DAT EVEN MAKE THE SEATTLE NEWSPAPER AFTER SHE AND NIL ARE SEPARATED. HIDN DEPTHS: RELATED TO THE BIG EATER POST. SHE WAS FORMERLY FAT AS A CHILD AND IS TERRIFIED OF BEG SO AGA, TH EXPLAG HER OBSSN WH STAYG TH. IN FACT, THE SCRIPTNS OF HER BODY, HER DIETARY HABS, AND HER PLASTIC SURGERY ADDICTN DITE THAT SHE'S BEEN STGGLG WH EATG DISORRS AND BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORR MOST OF HER LIFE, MAKG HER JT A TEENY B SYMPATHETIC SPE ALL THE AWFUL THGS SHE DO. WHILE THROUGHOUT THE SERI SHE'S PORTRAYED AS LACKG MON SENSE OR HAVG MUCH W DUE TO HER ULTRA SPOILED AND ELIST LIFE, THE FAL SEASON SHE SHOWS HERSELF TO BE QUE CLEVER WHEN SHE PLAC A POLICE TRACKER AN EMBARRASSG SELF-PORTRA OF NIL THAT SHE KNEW HE WOULD RETAKE WHEN SELLG OFF HER PERSONAL POSSSNS AND HIM TO LEAD THE POLICE AWAY SO THAT SHE ULD FLEE TO A NON-EXTRADN PRIVATE ISLAND SHE OWNS ORR TO AVOID PRISON AFTER SHE ACCINTALLY KILLS HER ABIVE BOYIEND. I CAN'T DANCE: CAN'T AND WON'T. PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF RHYTHM MAKE HER UNFORTABLE, AND DUE TO CERTA QUIRKS OF HER ANATOMY, SHE'S PABLE OF DOG MOST FORMS OF DANCG ANYHOW. ICE QUEEN: NIL EVEN PAR HER WH SAID SUBSTANCE A FEW TIM.NIL: IT WAS PCH DARK, I THOUGHT HE WAS MARIS. FRASIER: IT'S A NATURAL MISTAKE. WHAT TIPPED YOU OFF? NIL: .. HEAT OM HER SI OF THE BED! [BURSTS OUT LGHG] WHEN NIL WAS STILL MARRIED TO MARIS, HE AND FRASIER WOULD ARGUE WHICH WOMAN WAS THE BIGGER ICE QUEEN, SUCH AS THIS HILAR EXCHANGE WHEN LILH'S HBAND, A SEISMOLOGIST, WON'T BE WH THEM AT THANKSGIVG BEE HE IS STUDYG A VOLNO.MART: WHY ULDN'T SHE [LILH] GO WH HIM? NIL: WELL, BEE IF SHE ACCINTALLY FELL , THE SHOCK WAVE OM THE HOTTT THG NATURE MEETG THE LST WOULD ACTUALLY CRACK THE EARTH TWO. FRASIER: AS IF A SE OM MARIS ULDN'T EEZE MERCURY. MART: GUYS, LET GO. NOBODY'S GOG TO W THIS ONE. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: ULTIMATELY THE REASON THAT HER MARRIAGE WH NIL DIDN'T WORK, SHE ONLY RED ABOUT HERSELF. IT EVEN APPLI AFTER THEY'VE LONG DIVORCED - SHE STILL EXPECTS NIL TO ATTEND TO HER EVERY NEED. JERKASS: IS CEL, SELFISH, AND TREATED NIL LIKE A PERSONAL SLAVE AS MUCH AS A HBAND. KARMA HOUDI: HER ULTIMATE FATE. IN THE FAL SEASON, SEEMS THAT ALL HER EMOTNALLY ABIVE AND GENERALLY UNPLEASANT ATTU WILL FALLY TCH UP TO HER WHEN SHE'S ARRTED AND CHARGED FOR MURRG HER BOYIEND; THOUGH 'S EMPHASIZED THAT WAS A HIGHLY CIRCUMSTANTIAL ACCINT, AND THE MAN WAS BOTH ABIVE AND LARGELY CULPABLE BY HIS OWN EDS. HOWEVER, SHE MANAG TO PERFORM A SUCCSFUL BATMAN GAMB WH NIL LEADG THE POLICE AWAY ORR TO FLEE TO A PRIVATE ISLAND WH NO EXTRADN. A LETTER TO NIL EXPLAS THAT LIVG EXILE, ALBE STILL LUXURY, WILL BE HER FATE FOR THE RT OF HER LIFE. NIL, FRASIER AND MART ALL GIVE HER ONE LAST TOAST TO HER AND HER REFUGE AUDACY. KAVORKA MAN: A RARE FEMALE EXAMPLE. MARIS IS OFT MENTNED TO BE EMOTNALLY DISTANT AT BT, GENERALLY UNPLEASANT TO BE AROUND, AND NOT WHAT WOULD BE NSIRED NVENTNALLY ATTRACTIVE, AND YET NIL AND LATER DR. SCHENKMAN GH ABOUT HER APPARENT BETY. WH THE LATER SE, NIL IS ACTUALLY DUMBFOUND (SCE SCHENKMAN IS THEIR MARRIAGE UNSELLOR, AND YET HE'S TALKG ABOUT HER BEG "WARM AND RG", TWO TRAS THAT ULD NEVER BE ASCRIBED TO HER). LACK OF EMPATHY: FIRST POTED OUT THE BEGNG OF NIL' MARRIAGE MELTDOWN, WHERE SHE GO ON A SHOPPG SPREE NEW YORK WHOUT SO MUCH AS A PHONE LL. WHEN NIL LLS HER OUT ON , SHE IMMEDIATELY MANDS A DIVORCE. LEAN AND MEAN: SHE'S A PRETTY TERRIBLE PERSON WHO TREATS EVERYONE AROUND HER WH SNEERG NTEMPT, AND SHE'S SO LIGHT AND TH THAT SHE DON'T LEAVE FOOTPRTS THE SNOW. LYSISTRATA GAMB: HOW SHE NTROLS NIL AT TIM. EVEN WHEN NIL AND MARIS IS SEPARATED, AS SEEN "LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP".NIL: [EXCED] WHEN MARIS SAYS "GET TOGETHER," SHE MEANS, "YOU WEAR THE CREME AICHE. I'LL LICK OFF," SENSE. MANIPULATIVE BCH: HER RELATNSHIP WH NIL NSISTED OF ALMOST NOTHG BUT THIS. WHEN WASN'T OUTRIGHT DOMTIC ABE. THE NAPOLEON: OFTEN MENTNED TO BE ON THE TY SIZE, BOTH WEIGHT AND HEIGHT WISE. NIL FDS HORSE JOCKEYS ALARMG BEE TY, WELL-DRSED PEOPLE RRYG RIDG CROPS REMD HIM A LTLE TOO MUCH OF MARIS. NERVO WRECK: SHE'S VERY EASILY STARTLED AND ALARMED, ALONG WH A POSSIBLE SE OF PARANOIA. WHILE THEY'RE MARRIED, NIL IS OFTEN SHOWN HAVG PHONE LLS TRYG TO REASSURE HER ABOUT SOMETHG LUDICRO (LIKE BEG NVCED ONE OF HER SERVANTS GOT WALLED DURG A REMOLLG). NEVER MY FLT: SHE END UP FIRG EVERY UPLE'S THERAPIST THAT ACKNOWLEDGED HER PART THE MARRIAGE'S SELF-STCTN. DURG THE CULMATN OF THEIR DIVORCE, MARIS MA CLEAR SHE'D ONLY TAKE NIL BACK IF HE ACCEPTED EVERYTHG THAT WENT WRONG WAS HIS FLT. NO SOCIAL SKILLS: DPE BEG ONE OF SEATTLE'S TOP SOCIAL, MARIS ISN'T MUCH FOR SOCIALIZG BEE, TO QUOTE NIL, "SHE EXHSTS EASILY UNR THE PRSURE TO BE TERTG." NOTHG BUT SK AND BON: SHE'S OFTEN SCRIBED AS BEG UNHEALTHILY OR EVEN IMPOSSIBLY SKNY. FRASIER EVEN REMARKED UPON LEARNG OF HER WEIGHT THAT NO HUMAN ULD WEIGH THAT LTLE AND LIVE. THE PARANOIAC: PARANOIA IS JT ANOTHER OF HER CHARMG QUIRKS... SHE IALLY REFED TO GET A PET, SPE AN APPARENT FONDNS FOR ANIMALS GENERAL, BEE SHE FEARS UNNDNAL LOVE. ANOTHER STANCE HAS NIL MENTNG SHE ONCE HAD ONE OF HER TOPIARY BH BURNT BEE SHE THOUGHT WAS LGHG AT HER LATT ATTEMPT AT WEIGHT LOSS. YEAH... PATHETILLY WEAK: AS A RULT OF HER OBSSN WH STAYG TH, SHE'S EXTREMELY AIL; FRASIER CLAIMS SHE ONCE SPRAED HER WRIST OM PUTTG TOO MUCH DIP ON A CRACKER, AND NIL CLAIMS SHE N'T WEAR EARRGS BEE THEY WEIGH TOO MUCH FOR HER HEAD TO SUPPORT. PET THE DOG: IT MAY HAVE BEEN AN EXAMPLE OF EARLY-INSTALLMENT WEIRDNS, BUT NIL MENTNS A SEASON 1 EPISO THAT SHE DONAT HER OLD PARTY DRS TO THE HOMELS. LATER THE SERI, SHE LLS NIL TO CHECK ON HIM BEFORE HIS HEART SURGERY. WHILE THE LL SELF TURNS TO A D SQUABBLE, 'S STILL THE ONE TIME MARIS SHOWS GENUE NCERN FOR NIL' WELL-BEG. RED RIGHT HAND: ACRDG TO NIL, MARIS HAD A SLIGHT WEBBG BETWEEN HER FGERS THAT MA HER SELF-NSC ENOUGH TO REFE TO HOLD HANDS WH ANYONE. RICH BCH: SHE'S ENORMOLY WEALTHY BUT A HORRIBLE PERSON. RUN FOR THE BORR: HER FATE THE FAL SEASON. AFTER ACCINTALLY (OR SO SHE CLAIMS) KILLG HER BOYIEND, SHE CIS SHE WON'T GET A FAIR TRIAL IF SHE STAYS THE STAT. SHE SLIPS OFF HER ANKLE MONOR AND HAS MARTA ATTACH TO A PATG NIL IS RECLAIMG. WHILE THE POLICE FOLLOW NIL, ASSUMG MARIS IS WH HIM, SHE SLIPS OUT OF THE MANSN AND FLE TO HER FAY'S PRIVATE ISLAND WHICH SHE N'T BE EXTRADED OM. SOMETHG ONLY THEY WOULD SAY: NON-VERBAL VARIANT, WHEN NIL IS ABLE TO REGNIZE MARIS WAS CAFé NERVOSA WHEN A BARISTA TELLS HIM A TH WOMAN ME , ORRED A FFEE AND MERELY SNIFFED BEFORE SENDG AWAY. HE'D BEEN UNCERTA BEFOREHAND, BUT THIS NFIRMS 'S HER. ALSO HAPPENS "THE LAST TIME I SAW MARIS." MARIS HAS GONE MISSG, AND NIL IS WORRIED SICK AS MART'S POLICE BUDDI TELL HIM THAT MARIS' CRED RD HAS BEEN ED AT SEVERAL BS NEW YORK. IT'S NOT UNTIL MART REPORTS THAT THE RD HAD ONLY BEEN ED AT UPSLE CLOTHG BOUTIQU AND NOT A SGLE RTRANT THAT NIL REALIZ THAT MARIS IS SAFE AND SOUND. SPOILED BRAT: MARIS IS OF A VERY RICH FAY. SHE LIKEWISE DISPLAYS MULTIPLE SIGNS OF ARROGANCE, SELFISHNS AND ENTLEMENT THROUGHOUT THE SERI. TRANQUIL FURY: INSTEAD OF HER UAL MELODRAMA, WHEN NIL NONTS HER OVER HER TRYG TO BRIBE HIM BACK "SECRET ADMIRER", SHE APPARENTLY JT STARED AT HIM WHILE STROKG HER OCELOT ("I THK THEY'VE GOT A CREAM FOR THAT.") THEN WHEN NIL GETS BACK TO HIS APARTMENT, HE FDS ANOTHER GIFT OM MARIS - A NICKEL, A POEM CLARG SHE'S GOG TO FANCIALLY STROY HIM, AND THE SHREDD REMAS OF THEIR DIVORCE SETTLEMENT. UNTTY REMBLANCE: THE CLOST THE DIENCE GETS TO SEEG MARIS IS WHEN NIL GETS A NEW DOG, A WHIPPET NAMED GIRL, WHO EVERYONE ELSE SE AS THE NE IMAGE OF HER. NIL IS EP NIAL ABOUT THIS, UNTIL FRASIER FORC THE PARISON.FRASIER: SHE'S HIGH-STNG, LD TO THE TOUCH, AND IGNOR YOU! MY GOD, STAND HER UPRIGHT, TAKE TEN POUNDS OFF HER, PUT HER A CHANEL SU, WHAT YA GOT? THE VOICELS: IN ADDN TO NEVER HAVG A FACE. SHE IS QUE VOL, BUT WE ONLY HEAR OM SENDARY SOURCE. WEIGHT WOE: SHE VICLY EXERCIS IF SHE GAS SO MUCH AS A POUND, SO SPERATE IS SHE TO REMA TH. THIS, SPE BEG CREDIBLY TH TO BEG WH. ACRDG TO NIL SHE WAS MUCH HEAVIER AS A CHILD, AND AFTER HE STARTS DATG MEL SHE RELAPS AND GAS A LOT OF WEIGHT. WOMANCHILD: DPE BEG HAILED AS THE CREME LA CREME OF SEATTLE'S UPPER CST, SHE'S ULTIMATELY NOTHG MORE THAN AN OVERGROWN CHILD THE BODY OF AN ADULT; SHE IS PETTY, VA, SELFISH, IMPULSIVE, UNFIVG, QUICK TO ANGER, LUDICROLY SELF-DULGENT, PABLE OF ADMTG WHEN SHE'S AT FLT, HAS NO EMPATHY FOR ANYONE BUT HERSELF, AND IS KNOWN TO THROW THGS WHEN ANGRY. WOMAN SRNED: WHEN NIL REJECTS HER ATTEMPTS TO RENCILE SHE ARRANG FOR HER LAWYERS TO PLETELY HIM FANCIALLY OUT OF SPE FOR HIS REBUFFG HER. WHEN NIL IS ROMANTILLY VOLVED WH MEL, HER FORMER PLASTIC SURGEON, SHE STARTS MAKG UP LI ON MEL'S PETENCE THAT PEOPLE BELIEVE.     LILH STERN  LILH STERN, M.D. PLAYED BY: BEBE NWIRTHFRASIER'S EX-WIFE, SHE DROPS ON OCSN AS THEY HAVE A SON TOGETHER (FRERICK) AND STILL MATA A IENDSHIP. THE RT OF THE FAY IS TERRIFIED OF HER. TROP OM ''CHEERS'' STILL APPLY TO HER. ACTOR ALLN: BEBE NWIRTH IS AN ACPLISHED BROADWAY MIL ACTRS, SO IF THE WRERS N FD AN EXCE TO UTILIZE HER TALENTS, THEY WILL. AMIBLE EX: SHE AND FRASIER, MOST OF THE TIME. AFTER SHE AND NIL SLEEP TOGETHER, THEY TRY TO ACT AMIBLE TOWARD ONE ANOTHER. FRASIER FDS THIS TOO DISTURBG, AND ASKS THEY GO BACK TO VIC SNIPG. BRAY BTE: LILH IS AN ACPLISHED REARCHER AND PSYCHIATRIST, AS WELL AS BEG A VERY WELL READ WOMAN, WHO HAS LONG DARK BROWN HAIR. DEOSTG ICE QUEEN: EASIER TO NOTICE WHEN PARED TO HER FIRST APPEARANCE CHEERS, BUT BE MUCH MORE RELAXED AND SOCIABLE BY THE END OF FRASIER. DIVORCE IS TEMPORARY: TEASED SEVERAL TIM BUT ULTIMATELY AVERTED. SHE AND FRASIER HAVE TRIED TO GET BACK TOGETHER, EVEN SLEEPG WH EACH OTHER A UPLE OF TIM, BUT THEY ARE JT TOO DIFFERENT TO MAKE A FUNCTNAL UPLE AND ARE TH BETTER AS FRIENDS. THE DREAD: NONE OF THE CRAN LIKE HER. MART AND DAPHNE (AND EDDIE!) WILL N AWAY AND HI THEIR ROOMS IF THEY THK SHE'S AROUND, AND THAT'S IF THEY HAVEN'T BEEN FOREWARNED OF HER PRENCE. EARLY-INSTALLMENT WEIRDNS: IN THE FIRST SEASON, MART SAYS LILH IS WEIRR THAN MARIS. THAT PROV TO BE A HILAR LIE. EERIE PALE-SKNED BTE: SUPERNATURAL REFERENC TEND TO POP UP WHEN SHE HS TOWN, AND NOT ONLY OM NIL AND MART. GOOD PARENTS: TO FRERICK; HE GROWS UP PRETTY WELL, EVEN IF BRATTY AT TIM, UNR HER RE. ICE QUEEN: ALTHOUGH SHE LATER EVOLV TO A DEOSTG ICE QUEEN AS THE SERI PROGRS. MS. FANSERVICE: SHOWS OFF HER LEGS ON MORE THAN ONE OCSN. ONCE SHOWS UP AT FRASIER'S DOOR A SHORT-CUT DRS WH CLEAVAGE:FRASIER: OH, BABY! LILH: THANKS, FRASIER, I NEED THAT.... OBNOX IN-LAWS: OR OBNOX EX IN-LAWS, WH NIL, WHO AT THE BEGNG OF THE SERI IS STILL HOLDG A GDGE AGAST LILH SNICKERG DURG HIS WEDDG WHEN MARIS READ OUT HER OWN VOWS (WHICH VOLVED SUCH STATEMENTS AS "SAILG THE TRANSPLENNT RIVER OF [OUR] LOVE"). IT LASTS UNTIL LILH, GENUELY NFED AS TO HOW NIL ULD'VE TAKEN OFFENSE, APOLOGIZ. RAVEN HAIR, IVORY SK: HER SK BEG PALE IS A RUNNG GAG FOR THE SERI, TO A POT THAT WHEN AIDG THE VICTIM OF AN ACCINT THE PARAMEDICS TRIED TO GIVE HER A BLOOD TRANSFN. SNARK-TO-SNARK COMBAT: WH NIL. WHICH MIGHT ALSO EDGE TO BELLIGERENT SEXUAL TENSN. SOPHISTITED AS HELL: HER REBUTTAL TO FRASIER'S HYPOTHIS AS TO THE MOTIVATN FOR HER AND NIL SLEEPG TOGETHER BEG A TRANSPARENT ATTEMPT TO GET BACK AT HIM.LILH: ALLOW ME TO REBUT: WHAT A CROCK! THE SPOCK: HER EMOTNS E OUT CLEARLY MOMENTS WHERE SHE LETS HER HAIR DOWN, BUT OTHERWISE SHE'S A VERY LCULATG AND EFFICIENT WOMAN, WHOSE IA OF AN EMOTNAL ROLLERASTER IS GETTG CHOKED UP FOR TWO SENDS. SUGAR-AND-ICE PERSONALY: SHE'S OSTY, BUT SHE HAS HER KD SI, PECIALLY AS THE SEASONS PROGRS.     FRERICK CRANE  FRERICK 'FREDDIE' GAYLORD CRANE PLAYED BY: LE TARSANO (SEASON 3); TREVOR EHORN (SEASONS 4-11); JACK CUTMORE-STT (REVIVAL)FRASIER'S SON WH LILH. CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: INIALLY A CHILD PRODIGY, HE VELOPS TO A NORMAL KID AS HE GROWS UP, TRATG FRASIER AS THEY GROW APART. EMBARRASSG MIDDLE NAME: GAYLORD, WHICH IS REVEALED ONT OF EVERYONE AT HIS BAR MZVAH, MUCH TO HIS EMBARRASSMENT. FROM THE MOUTHS OF BAB: IN SEASON 4, HE MANAG TO DO THIS SEVERAL TIM TO FRAISER AND MART. GOTH: AS A TEEN, HE HAD A STEREOTYPIL GOTH PERD. IT'S IMPLIED HE DID FOR A GIRL. HILARLY ABIVE CHILDHOOD: HIS REGULAR CHILDHOOD IS FE, BUT HE'S IMPLIED TO HAVE HAD AN FANCY THAT WAS LIKE THIS "THE APPARENT TRAP."LILH: IF HE WANTS SOMETHG BADLY ENOUGH, HE WILL FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GET . REMEMBER WHEN HE WAS A BABY, THE BOTTLE AT THE END OF THE MAZE? FRASIER: YOU KNOW, I KDA REGRET DOG THAT. HYPOCRIL HUMOR: AFTER A NDID NVERSATN WHERE HE AND FRASIER TALK ABOUT FRASIER LETTG HIM DOWN, HE THEN GETS OUTRAGED AT THE IA THAT MART, WHOM HE PREVLY BEEN GETTG ON WH, N'T DO MENTAL ARHMETIC. LIKE PARENT, LIKE SPOE: THERE'S SOMETHG ODDLY OEDIPAL ABOUT HIM BEG TO GOTH GIRLS AS A TEENAGER. MANIPULATIVE BASTARD: IS THIS A THANKSGIVG EPISO WHERE HE MANIPULAT FRASIER AND LILH TO THKG HE WANTS THEM TO GET BACK TOGETHER, PLANNG TO ACT EMOTNALLY CSHED SO THEY BUY HIM A MIBIKE. THE TWO SURMISE THIS MEANS HE'S A TYPIL GROWG KID. PREC CSH: HE HAD A CSH ON DAPHNE WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER, BUT SOON GREW OUT OF . IT WAS PLAYED FOR LGHS... AS WAS NIL' RAMPANT JEALOY. SOAP OPERA RAPID AGG SYNDROME: AVERTED. THE TRANSN OM LE TARSANO TO TREVOR EHORN WAS A BELIEVABLE ONE, AND THE LATTER OWNED THE ROLE THE RT OF THE SERI.     BEBE GLAZER  BEBE GLAZER PLAYED BY: HARRIET SANSOM HARRISFRASIER'S AGENT WHO WILL RORT TO ANYTHG TO GET HER CLIENTS FAME AND FORTUNE, LARGELY BEE SHE LIK BASKG HERSELF. BLACKMAIL: SHE BLACKMAILS DR. PHIL TO PRETENDG HE'S ONE OF HER CLIENTS TO GET FRASIER TO RE-SIGN WH HER. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: SHE'S AN OVER THE TOP DRAMA QUEEN, AND QUE POSSIBLE SANE GIVEN THE LENGTHS SHE GO TO, BUT SHE NSISTENTLY GETS FRASIER SIGNIFINT RAIS WHEN S TIME TO RENEGOTIATE HIS NTRACT AND EVEN GETS HIM A SYNDITN AL SAN FRANCIS, WHICH IS ONE OF THE REASONS FRASIER NEVER FIR HER (THE OTHER BEG HE'S SRED TO ATH SHE'D KILL HIM.) CATCHPHRASE: "I ULD MAKE YOU A STAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" OR SOME SUCH VARIANT. USUALLY SAID WH BULGG EY.... "WK!" EVIL CAN NOT COMPREHEND GOOD: WHEN ROZ TERVIEWS FOR HER OWN RAD SHOW, AND FRASIER OFFHANDLY EXPRS HIS HOP HER BEG TURNED DOWN, BEBE IMMEDIATELY TERPRETS THIS AS A SIGNAL FOR HER TO SABOTAGE ROZ, RATHER THAN JT VENTG MIXED EMOTNS. AFTER FRASIER BE GENUELY OUTRAGED ON DISVERG THIS, SHE THKS ’S JT HIM BEG Y. SEVERAL TIM. GLORY HOUND: WHEN SHE BE A MORNG TALK SHOW HOST WH FRASIER, SHE BE THIS, HAVG BEE ADDICTED TO FAME. GOLD DIGGER: ATTEMPTED TO MARRY "BIG WILLY" BOONE, ONE OF THE MANY STATN OWNERS OF KACL, BUT HE DIED BEFORE THEY ULD MAKE TO THE END OF THE AISLE. SHE WAS CLEARLY ONLY FOR HIS MONEY BUT HAD HIM NVCED SHE GENUELY LOVED HIM.BEBE: ISN'T WONRFUL? WE MET LAST MONTH AND WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT! ROZ: FIRST SIGHT OF WHAT? HIS BANKBOOK AND A RDGRAM!? [BEBE GRS BROADLY.] GOOD SMOKG, EVIL SMOKG: SHE'S BOTH UTTERLY THLS AND UTTERLY ADDICTED TO CIGARETT. THE ONE EPISO WHERE SHE TRIED TO QU LED TO THE MOST MAGNIFICENTLY OVER THE TOP MT HAVE NITE SCENE IMAGABLE. HAM-TO-HAM COMBAT: WH FRASIER, MOST OFTEN WHEN SHE TRI TO W HIM BACK. I DID WHAT I HAD TO DO: HER EXCE FOR THE UHIL THGS SHE DO AS AN AGENT. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: AS DITED, HARDWORKG AND CHARISMATIC AS SHE IS, SHE ADMS THAT THE MA REASON SHE PH HER CLIENTS TO SUCCEED IS SO SHE N BASK THEIR RIDUAL GLORY. LARGE HAM: IF ANYONE ON THE SHOW ULD OUT-HAM FRASIER, 'S HER. MANIPULATIVE BCH: ONE OF HER TABLISHG EPISOS HAS HER LYG TO FRASIER ABOUT HOW HOT A PRODUCT HE IS RAD SO HE'LL NEGOTIATE FOR MORE MONEY AND THEN, AFTER FORCG THE STATN TO RENEGOTIATE HIS NTRACT OM SCRATCH, SHE CREAS HIS VALUE BY FAKG A SUICI ATTEMPT FOR HIM TO TALK HER DOWN OM. MILKG THE GIANT COW: WHEN SHE REALLY GETS GOG.... OLR THAN THEY LOOK: THE FALE OF THE SHOW SUGGTS THAT SHE'S GOT A MIDDLE-AGED SON AND THAT SHE LOOKS SO YOUNG BEE OF A SMETIC SURGEON SHE RELI ON. ALTHOUGH SCE 'S BEBE, AND SHE WAS TRYG TO NVCE FRASIER TO E THE SURGEON, THE TTH OF THIS IS A LTLE MUDDIED. ONCE A SEASON: JTIFIED, AS SHE SHOWS UP WHEN 'S TIME FOR FRASIER TO NEGOTIATE HIS NTRACT. SATANIC ARCHETYPE: PLAYED FOR LGHS. MOST JABS ABOUT HER OM NIL ARE ON-PAR WH HIS ATTU TOWARDS LILH, AND FRASIER TENDS TO ASCRIBE A BATN OF STRAIGHT SOCPATHIC AND SUPERNATURAL TRAS TO HER WHENEVER HE'S TRYG TO DISSUA SOMEONE ELSE OM MAKG A AL WH HER. THEN THERE WAS THAT ONE TIME SHE TRIED TO SLEEP WH FRASIER WH THE ROOM GLOWG RED, STEAM G OM OFF-SCREEN, AND A MONIC CHOIR CHANTG THE BACKGROUND, WH HER ROOM EVENTUALLY REVEALED AS ROOM 666.ROZ: WHAT!? IT'S NOT LIKE SHE WORSHIPS THE VIL... FRASIER: WELL, SHE DON'T HAVE TO, HE WORSHIPS HER! [...] ROZ, LISTEN TO ME, FOR GOD'S SAKE, IF YOU'VE GOT THE TIT SHRED OF DIGNY OR SENSE YOU, YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER WHAT THIS WOMAN DID TO YOU THIS AFTERNOON AND RENOUNCE HER! SHE HAS NO SCPL, NO ETHICS, AND NO REFLECTN! SEX FOR SERVIC: SLEEPS WH FRASIER ONCE JT AS A TOOL TO KEEP HIM AS A CLIENT, KNOWG FRASIER'S GUILT PLEX. SMOOTH-TALKG TALENT AGENT: BEBE MAY AS WELL BE THE PATRON VIL OF THIS TROPE, WH HER UNFATHOMABLY ABSURD THLSNS (WHICH, BY THE TIME OF THE GRAND FALE, CLUD OUTRIGHT (ALTHOUGH UNPROVEN) MURR). SOCPATHIC HERO: BEBE LIK TO PORTRAY HERSELF AS THIS. THE SELF-PORTRAYAL IS UP FOR BATE, HOWEVER, WHEN SHE FEEDS FRASIER THE CRANE A JAWBREAKER AND CHOK TO ATH.BEBE: [AFTER FRASIER FIR HER] NEXT TIME YOU NEED A AL MA, LL THE DALAI LAMA. A LONG TIME AGO, I HAD TO MAKE A CHOICE BETWEEN BEG A GOOD AGENT AND A GOOD PERSON, BEE TST ME, YOU N'T BE BOTH! SO FIVE ME IF I DON'T HAVE TIME TO MAKE EVERYBODY WARM AND FUZZY. I AM JT TOO BY SPENDG EVERY WAKG MUTE POURG ANY DRK, PULLG ANY SHAMELS TRICKS I N TO MAKE MY CLIENTS' DREAMS E TE! I AM A STARMAKER! IT'S HEAVILY IMPLIED THE LAST EPISO THAT SHE MAY HAVE KILLED THE PERSON FRASIER WAS REPLACG SAN FRANCIS.[AFTER FRASIER IALLY TURNS DOWN THE JOB...] BEBE: WELL, THAT'S GRATU FOR YOU. DO YOU HAVE ANY IA THE LENGTHS I WENT TO TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN? FRASIER: [HORRIFIED] WA A MUTE... YOU WERE SAN FRANCIS LAST WEEK! DON'T TELL ME! BEBE: I WAS NOWHERE NEAR THAT AIR NDNER. [LGHS] YOU'RE WORSE THAN THE POLICE! THE UNFETTERED: TREATS HELPG HER CLIENTS AS SER BS - BUT MORAL AND LEGAL ISSU ARE IRRELEVANT. SHE ONCE FAKED A SUICIDAL 'STANDG ON A LEDGE' MOMENT JT TO GET FRASIER ON THE EVENG NEWS AS A HERO (TO ENSURE HE GOT A BETTER NTRACT.)FRASIER: MY GOD, WOMAN! YOU'VE SHAMELSLY MANIPULATED ME - MY EMPLOYERS - EVERYONE AT KACL AND THE ENTIRE CY OF SEATTLE! WHAT ULD YOU POSSIBLY HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF!? BEBE: [AFTER A MOMENT'S THOUGHT] AREN'T YOU GLAD I'M ON YOUR SI? FRASIER: Y, I... SUPPOSE I AM.     GIL CHTERTON  GIL CHTERTON PLAYED BY: EDWARD HIBBERTANOTHER RAD PERSONALY AT KACL, WHO ACTS AS A FOOD CRIC. AMBIGUOLY GAY: FULFILLS ALL OF THE STEREOTYP AND OCSNALLY MAK SUGGTIVE STATEMENTS ABOUT MALE WORKERS. IT'S NEVER NFIRMED, THOUGH EVERYONE THE STATN APPEARS TO THK SO. MORE NFGLY, HE'S WHAT SOUNDS LIKE A BUTCH LBIAN WHO NEVER APPEARS ONSCREEN. NOTABLY, HIS WORKERS ARE SURPRISED HE DIDN'T NOTICE HOW GOOD LOOKG A NEW MALE EMPLOYEE IS, HE STANTLY REALIZ WHAT THEY'RE SUATG AND GETS VERY FENSIVE VERY FAST. THIS IS ALSO WHEN HIS POSSIBLY-LBIAN WIFE GETS BROUGHT UP FOR THE FIRST TIME. CAMP GAY: EVERYONE THE STATN AT LEAST ASSUM HE'S GAY BEE OF THE WAY HE ACTS; SOME EPISOS ALSO HAVE HIM PRETTY MUCH ADMTG THAT HE IS. CAMP STRAIGHT: ASSUMG HE ISN'T LYG ABOUT BEG MARRIED TO A WOMAN AND BEG STRAIGHT, HE SURE ACTS THE STEREOTYPIL GAY MAN. COOL CAR: OWNS A RED FERRARI WH A RED TERR. DEADPAN SNARKER: PARTICULARLY WHEN CRICIZG FOOD. HAVE I MENTNED I AM HETEROSEXUAL TODAY?: GIL HS ON WOMEN AND CLAIMS TO BE MARRIED TO A WOMAN NAMED DEB, BUT NTEXT LOOKS MORE LIKE OVERPENSATG THAN ANYTHG. MISTAKEN FOR GAY: HE SISTS THIS IS THE SE IF ANYONE BRGS UP. ODD FRIENDSHIP: APPEARS TO HAVE ONE OF THE WH THE TTOSTERONE FUELED BULLDOG, UALLY ENTERG OR LEAVG THE SCENE ALONGSI HIM AND EXCHANGG QUIPS BETWEEN THEMSELV.[BULLDOG AND GIL ARE READG PASSAG OM A ROMANCE NOVEL, "SLOW TANGO SOUTH SEATTLE".] BULLDOG: [LGHG] "I WEPT AS OUR BODI MA THE MIC OF LOVE." GIL: [LGHG] "I'M YOUR RHAPSODY, PLAY ME!" BULLDOG: (LGHG) "CRCENDO, MY YOUNG MATRO, CRCENDO!" GIL: [TO BULLDOG] MY VSEL YEARNS TO DOCK THE MAGNIFICENCE OF YOUR HARBOR. BULLDOG: [BEGS TO LGH, THEN STOPS, PUZZLED] HEY, THAT'S NOT THE BOOK! IN THE ONE WHERE WOODY SHOWS UP, HE STARTS ONE WH NOEL AS WELL. REALY SUBTEXT: VOKED IN THE SHOW WHERE WOODY SHOWS UP, EDWARD HIBBERT IS STILL VERY TAN OM DOG THE PILOT TO THE FANTASY ISLAND REBOOT. THE RIVAL: IN HIS FIRST APPEARANCE ONLY, WHERE HE TRI TO STEAL FRASIER'S TIMLOT. AFTER THAT THE TWO ARE PICTED AS BEG REASONABLY IENDLY TOWARDS EACH OTHER. SQUIPEDALIAN LOQUACNS: EMPLOYS FLOWERY AND PLEX LANGUAGE AS HE SCRIB FOOD AND RTRANTS. SHARP-DRSED MAN: IS NEVER SEEN NOT WEARG A SU. SHOUT-OUT: HIS NAME IS ONE TO BRISH THOR G. K. CHTERTON. SMUG SNAKE: HOW GIL OFF HIS FIRST APPEARANCE.     NOEL SHEMPSKY NOEL SHEMPSKY

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