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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I think it's odd how the article writer thinks he is too young for Frasier when I'm 3 years younger than him and started watching reruns of the show in high school. Yeah this dude is 36, I'm 34 and I watched it during its original run, so wtf Glad he discovered how good Frasier is tho
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WampaLord posted:Yeah this dude is 36, I'm 34 and I watched it during its original run, so wtf Ditto, 33 and I watched it while it was still on. People will claim age before ignorance every time.
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Bust Rodd posted:Frasier isn’t even that dated compared to most shows from the 90’s, because Seattle didn’t get noticeably more diverse in the interim! that corporate hellscape is such a perfect setting for the character
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Brawnfire posted:Ditto, 33 and I watched it while it was still on. People will claim age before ignorance every time. I'm 32, and I love Frasier. Hell, my brother just turned 30 and he watches "Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz" every single December for a few years now.
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I mean at age 31 today I would’ve been between 8-14 when it was good, I wouldn’t have wasted my valuable TV on that when there were 4-5 syndicated episodes of the Simpsons to jump between!
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Being a youthful Frasier fan is probably a good amount of the reason I turned out so insufferable.
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FuhrerHat posted:thats pretty much what i expected Veneer!
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Don't worry I'm still in my 20s, watched frasier for the first time at 26, and am also insufferable There is no such thing as "too young for frasier." It moved past the weird, macho sexism that cheers had in the 80s/90s and moved on to the resigned "it sucks but what can ya do but laugh" sexism of the 90s/00s. Besides which Niles' and Frasiers' posh apartments and lifestyles are even more comically exaggerated in this day and age when nobody can afford anything The hardest part for younger folks, I assume, is understanding the class dynamics at play when it comes to things like car/cell phones and wondering how the hell an AM radio host has enough clout to move about in high society
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ChiralCondensate posted:Veneer! Drink a bottle of port every time new Frasier clickbait appears on the internet.
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my mom is a governess from liverpool my dad is a wine-swilling intellectual i identified a lot with this show
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Not a Children posted:The hardest part for younger folks, I assume, is understanding the class dynamics at play when it comes to things like car/cell phones and wondering how the hell an AM radio host has enough clout to move about in high society I thought for so long having a radio show host being a high-society roller was part of the joke, but it never seemed to be.
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im freddy and im goth
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Brawnfire posted:Ditto, 33 and I watched it while it was still on. People will claim age before ignorance every time. Brawnfire posted:Being a youthful Frasier fan is probably a good amount of the reason I turned out so insufferable.  Hell, I was getting bar mitzvah'd right before Freddy was. The show is perfect for all ages, even little kids would find the physical comedy hilarious.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Drink a  Brawnfire posted:I thought for so long having a radio show host being a high-society roller was part of the joke, but it never seemed to be. I always understood it as him already being part of higher society, but doing radio gave him more notoriety than just being another psychiatrist. Niles married into money, but I don't know if that brought him into high society, or just boosted his standing.
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Their mom was part of it and they went to all the fancy schools. Marty was the black sheep of the family, everyone else was refined.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Their mom was part of it and they went to all the fancy schools. Marty was the black sheep of the family, everyone else was refined. Fras' degree probably helped him start off with better prospects and likely didn't have to worry about poo poo like crushing student loans, either.
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Yeah well yknow what she could also enjoy a dog and a ballgame.
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She also threatened to kill Diane
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WampaLord posted:
that famous silent scene where niles prepares for dinner is basically a live-action loony tunes
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420 Gank Mid posted:that famous silent scene where niles prepares for dinner is basically a live-action loony tunes it's fantastic. i remember me and my family dying laughing watching that poo poo i always respect a good pratfall and david hyde pierce did some wonderful pratfalls
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DemoneeHo posted:She also threatened to kill Diane And Frasier did the same to Sam. Must be a Crane thing.
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WampaLord posted:it's fantastic. i remember me and my family dying laughing watching that poo poo Incredibly talented actor, the fact he 1000% looks like Kelsey Grammer's brother is pure icing.
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Not a Children posted:The hardest part for younger folks, I assume, is understanding the class dynamics at play when it comes to things like car/cell phones and wondering how the hell an AM radio host has enough clout to move about in high society To be fair, the show started either just before or right around the peak period of radio hosts being major celebrities and having a big influence on popular culture. Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, etc. So it wouldn't have been too difficult to imagine that a big city radio show psychiatrist (a profession that might be considered just respectable enough to be slightly above the "shock jocks" of the day) would be moderately famous enough to mingle with the bourgeoisie back then.
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Donny is my favorite non-main character.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Donny is my favorite non-main character. I like Saul Rubinek. Although I think I've only ever seen him in that and Stargate SG-1.
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kate costas was a good foil imho, i wish she had stuck around
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hard counter posted:kate costas was a good foil imho, i wish she had stuck around The actress was terrible, but I liked the idea of one of Frasier's girlfriends being his boss and more of an expert in their field than him.
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Not a Children posted:Don't worry I'm still in my 20s, watched frasier for the first time at 26, and am also insufferable The viewers during the show's original run probably struggled with understanding those dynamics.
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Solice Kirsk posted:The actress was terrible, but I liked the idea of one of Frasier's girlfriends being his boss and more of an expert in their field than him. not to mention the fact that she turned out to have completely pedestrian tastes in music, theater and art despite being able to run circles around him on some of those subjects
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The show's depiction of talk radio was iirc already anachronistic, being more like 80s or 70s radio before it all got political and hyper focused.
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The weird thing was that Los Angeles had an FM talk station that was kind of close to what Fraz had. Really varied, eclectic personalities covering a bunch of poo poo.
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Just have the bald bridesmaid in the party going full Furiosa Ed: wrong thread, brain even more hosed than usual today Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Jul 31, 2019 |
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MarcusSA posted:Season 1 episode 19 the girl from clueless has a bit part. Uhhh, not exactly a 'show' but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight_(1944_film)
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420 Gank Mid posted:Uhhh, not exactly a 'show' but That's the origin of the phrase, I think It would be interesting to know the moment it changed from noun/movie title to verb, Truman Capote trying to explain something in an interview or a military training for propaganda officers or something Inspector Hound fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Jul 31, 2019 |
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That episode where Frasier is sick and basically becomes a whining manchild is something that suddenly becomes all too relatable when you actually get sick and are barely able to get out of bed yourself.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The show's depiction of talk radio was iirc already anachronistic, being more like 80s or 70s radio before it all got political and hyper focused. Nah, Dr. Laura and poo poo like that was still on, Frasier would have fit in just fine in 90s radio
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Brawnfire posted:I like Saul Rubinek. Although I think I've only ever seen him in that and Stargate SG-1.
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ChiralCondensate posted:Watch TNG's "The Most Toys", he kidnaps Data for his collection. Yesss thank you, I knew there was a classic example I just wasn't thinking of.
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