Frasier Appreciation Thread

[james_tigerwoods]

I do enjoy the Dinner Party episodes, they're always pure comedy - The episode with Patrick Stewart in it is entertainment too

[Marf]

james_tigerwoods said:

I do enjoy the Dinner Party episodes, they're always pure comedy - The episode with Patrick Stewart in it is entertainment too

Ha! Had forgotten about that one

[Marf]

FourWheelDrift said:

Creator and producer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Angell

Oh wow, what a way to go

[Pulse]

Marf said:

Oh wow, what a way to go

Yep, very sad. One of the episodes was dedicated to them following the events.

[Zwolf]

The Hypno-Toad said:

But another good one is when Fraiser and Roz get snowed in & nearly sleep together. Very touching and well done.

Is that the one where he ends up sharing the bed with Kenny instead? No matter how many times I've seen it and know the knock on the door is coming, I always want it not to.

As for the farcical episodes, it's hard to beat the hunting lodge one where they all keep switching rooms and Niles has the gay guy chasing him around.

[Pulse]

Ah, we've just got to the episode where 'Simon' is first introduced... Oh, the pain.

[VinceFox]

Painful isnt it? Why they didnt use an english actor is beyond me.

[Marf]

VinceFox said:

Painful isnt it? Why they didnt use an english actor is beyond me.

Yep, will never understand the casting decision there, especially when they ended up using Richard E Grant and Robbie Coltrane as her other two brothers.

[Halb]

Marf said:

Yep, will never understand the casting decision there, especially when they ended up using Richard E Grant and Robbie Coltrane as her other two brothers.

How were the accents worked there?

[VinceFox]

Halb said:

Marf said:

Yep, will never understand the casting decision there, especially when they ended up using Richard E Grant and Robbie Coltrane as her other two brothers.

How were the accents worked there?

Grant just did the right accent, bt a bit posh. Coltrane did an incomprehensible babble.

[Marf]

Halb said:

Marf said:

Yep, will never understand the casting decision there, especially when they ended up using Richard E Grant and Robbie Coltrane as her other two brothers.

How were the accents worked there?

Simon did a typically amaerican crap version of an english accent which you wouldnt be able to attribute to an area of the UK, Richard E Grant had a tiny manchester twinge, but overall IMO just sounded like Richard E Grant i.e. posh, and Robbie Coltrane as I recall spoke in an unintelligible way which Simon and Richard E Grant translated.

[Pulse]

Ignoring the accent, he is just a boring and incredibly tedious character. Almost enough to turn it off!

[FourWheelDrift]

VinceFox said:

Painful isnt it? Why they didnt use an english actor is beyond me.

You mean like having a Mancunian (but born in Blackpool) guy to play posh Bostonian Frasier and Nile's rough Seattle ex-cop dad.

You know it's a comedy.

[Marf]

FourWheelDrift said:

You mean like having a Mancunian (but born in Blackpool) guy to play posh Bostonian Frasier and Nile's rough Seattle ex-cop dad.

You know it's a comedy.

Interesting, didn't know he was originally British.

[FourWheelDrift]

The target audience (US) wouldn't know if Simon was or wasn't played by an Anerican anyway. After all they thought Hugh Laurie was.

[Pulse]

Marf said:

Interesting, didn't know he was originally British.

Me either, I have to say!

[GestapoWatch]

Pulse said:

Marf said:

Interesting, didn't know he was originally British.

Me either, I have to say!

Yep quite proud to say he comes from my home town

Once I got my head around it

[Pulse]

I'm guessing he was just born there though, and lived all his life in the US?

[FourWheelDrift]

Pulse said:

I'm guessing he was just born there though, and lived all his life in the US?

Lived in the UK until early adulthood. Went to visit his sister in the US who had married a GI decided to move out himself. Got his citizenship by serving in the US Army. Lost his accent serving in the Army. Took up acting at 40.

[Zwolf]

FourWheelDrift said:

The target audience (US) wouldn't know if Simon was or wasn't played by an Anerican anyway. After all they thought Hugh Laurie was.

He wasn't, Anthony LaPaglia's Australian.

The first time I saw House I wondered who the American guy who looked uncannily like an older Hugh Laurie was.