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Writers off the rails in the penultimate episode


Frasier had a long and wondrous run. There was so much terrific humor, so many characters, so much to love about it. But that second-to-last episode just strained credulity too often, and was too frenetic.

The oddest happening was Daphne going into labor with no warning, and pushing the kid out in what seemed like 5 minutes. Then the ambulance comes and the medics are not given immediate access to a woman who's just given birth. Then Martin's reaction to Roni's playful "You're so busted" is a serious "Well, that was a short honeymoon". Wrong and unfunny line reading. The director clearly had too much on her/his plate for this one.

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Births are rarely handled in an even remotely realistic way on TV and even less so in sitcoms. Frasier just falls into the baby is old everything is grand grouping.

For me the show was wobbling from season 7, yes there were some fantastic episodes (my favourite episode The Show Must Go Off comes in Season 8) but you could see the writing on the wall

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We don't know how long Daphne was in labor. These shows aren't in real time. She goes into labor, Jason Biggs starts treating her like an animal is giving birth(he's a vet after all), we go to commercial, we come back, Martin and Roni are there and Niles is coming out holding the monkey. It amazes me that the logic that things happen off camera is lost on some people.

Now if you really want an episode where they literally mailed it in from this season, Freudian Dreams is the one.

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Mannnnnn Freudian Dreams was so bad, I can normally watch the "bad" ones but that's unwatchable

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Freudian Sleep was complete garbage.

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