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Classic Frasier

posted 8 years ago by jezfernandez
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Just watched the opening to Love Stinks (season 9). Frasier is downcast and Niles asks why. Frasier describes an "injurious graffito" he discovered in the KACL men's room.

A bit like, "Good afternoon, sports enthusiasts" (see my post "Hilarious throwaway lines"), this is classic Frasier. He's complaining that people see him as stuffy and aloof, yet still uses the phrase "injurious graffito"! I also like Niles' response to the limerick: "That's terrible! There's a tense shift, an approximate rhyme, the scansion leaves a lot to be desired..."

The rest of their conversation is beautifully written, showing how completely out of touch they are with "the common man".

[–] ClayGorgon 8 years ago

Yea, I like this episode quite a bit.

Frasier's obsession with being popular while still retaining his stuffiness and Martin, Daphne, and Niles' going over childhood memorabilia are hilarious.

Some more nice dialogue:

Frasier (to Roz): Flowers from your new beau?
Roz: Yea
Frasier: Must be nice to be liked.
Roz: Are you still obsessing over that limerick?
Frasier: People are making additions. Good lord, I've read anthologies
with fewer contributing authors.
Roz: I'm sure they'll all wash right off
Frasier: If only there were a solvent that could remove the stains
they've left on my spirit.

Roz: It was a joke. What's the big deal?

Frasier: Oh, yes, I know being written up on the bathroom wall is no big deal to you. But that limerick made a point, as all good limericks do, and it seems to have resonated with everyone around here. I want these people to know the real Frasier Crane. :D

[So Frasier comes up with the party idea for the whole staff)

Frasier: If being a snob is the reputation I've built around here, then this party will be the wrecking ball of congeniality that tears it down.
Roz: Yea, say stuff like that.

[–] jezfernandez 8 years ago

Yes! The spirit solvent and wrecking ball of congeniality phrases are great. Of course, Frasier later delivers that lovely "Elizabethan revenge dramas" line!