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I think the bit where Niles plays one of Freddy's video games is actually one of the better depictions of video games from a TV sitcom, well aware that's an extremely low bar. Both in being believable and actually pretty funny.
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Timby posted:The better physical comedy in a Christmas episode is Perspectives on Christmas, from season 5; Pierce delivers a master class in physical comedy with the bit in the elevator. This also has Frasier & Niles as Martin's vocal coach, which is classic.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I think the bit where Niles plays one of Freddy's video games is actually one of the better depictions of video games from a TV sitcom, well aware that's an extremely low bar. Both in being believable and actually pretty funny. "This must be some sort of advanced level" "Actually this is the training area, I didn't even know you could die here!" And Lilith's effortless mastery of it is great
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Sir Lemming posted:This also has Frasier & Niles as Martin's vocal coach, which is classic. Oh, God, that's right, Martin trying to hit the high note on O Holy Night. 
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Cosmik Slop posted:It would have been better if they hadn't made the guy in the diner a weird Brooklyn stereotype. "Eyy, dis is the time a' year when even bums like us can have a merry Christmas. The rest a' da year, we're on a one-way trip to Palookaville, amirite?" And it's like, where exactly in Seattle is this taking place? A down on his luck Frasier Crane stops for a bite to eat at the Hurricane on Christmas Eve. He witnesses a heroin deal in the next booth over, is propositioned by his waitress, stops a fistfight between two transients, and later vomits up his undercooked eggs and hash browns in the parking lot. drat I miss that place.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I think the bit where Niles plays one of Freddy's video games is actually one of the better depictions of video games from a TV sitcom, well aware that's an extremely low bar. Both in being believable and actually pretty funny. Friends was actually pretty good about that, probably because that was Matthew Perry’s actual PlayStation, and any scene that involved it and him he would just actually be playing the game.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I think the bit where Niles plays one of Freddy's video games is actually one of the better depictions of video games from a TV sitcom, well aware that's an extremely low bar. Both in being believable and actually pretty funny. No for real, I'll never forget Niles interrupting himself and saying "uh!--i didn't know there was a door there" as one of the most authentic/'realistic' "actors pretending to play a video game" moments I've seen
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Inspector Hound posted:No for real, I'll never forget Niles interrupting himself and saying "uh!--i didn't know there was a door there" as one of the most authentic/'realistic' "actors pretending to play a video game" moments I've seen Non-gaming adults having trouble adjusting to video game logic is both a good joke and something very identifiable. IIRC, the controller prop we see looks like a third-party PS1 controller, or at least something not clearly identifiable as any known brand. Reminds me of the Jumanji movie, which has the Jumanji game appear in a retro-looking console that vaguely resembles an Intellivision or something but clearly isn't meant to be any particular real-world console. (despite there being product placement of real consoles and Street Fighter in the movie)
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God drat the empty suit who let Frasier disappear from Netflix. A pox on his house
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FilthyImp posted:God drat the empty suit who let Frasier disappear from Netflix. A pox on his house ViacomCBS is moving pretty much everything it can to CBS All Access as contracts expire. They're slowly pulling the Star Trek shows from Amazon Prime, too, and I'd bet they're not long for this world on Netflix, either. Same with Cheers. Timby fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Jan 1, 2020 |
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In the godawful episode where Frasier bones Roz and stalks her to her family reunion and pretends to be her ex-bf roger did the writers get too horny to remember that roz’s mom knows frasier pretty well and has been to his penthouse more than once
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That was super creepy. Might be the creepiest thing Frasier ever did. I mean besides threatening Sam with a gun.
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Let's all go to a taco show!
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Solice Kirsk posted:That was super creepy. Might be the creepiest thing Frasier ever did. I mean besides threatening Sam with a gun. definitely the creepiest thing he’s ever done iirc the gun wasn’t even loaded and there were like two other times sam got threatened with a gun in that same season, he even got shot in the butt (which is why in the expanded Cheersiverse Sam canonically has a second b-hole)
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it was like Cheers: The Packing Heat Year
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Cheers went to the "threaten with a gun" well a lot. Frasiers mom threatened Diane with a gun too I believe.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Cheers went to the "threaten with a gun" well a lot. Frasiers mom threatened Diane with a gun too I believe. Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot!
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yeah, and she finally calls Hester our over that in a fantasy scenario where Frasier is imagining all of the important women in his life telling him why he’s a romantic fuckup, which was a nice joke after like eight seasons practically canonizing her as a saint another dumb thing about the “oh they finally hooked up even though nobody wanted them to and it was a terrible idea” episode is that even the writers can’t come up with a convincing way to get them in bed. they start clicking through tv channels looking for a good movie and then smash cut to waking up together, as if picking a movie with Dr. Frasier “Harvard” Crane wouldn’t be a frustrating and unsexy experience.
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Then they had that weird season where it seemed like they were writing Roz as being in love with Frasier and she quits her job because he chooses to stay with the finance lady. And then they walked all that right back in the first two episodes of the next season.
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Last night we were watching the RDWRER episode Then I realized that was literally 20 years ago 
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Red wearer?
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And now it'll be another decade before it gets picked up by a streaming service I use, so I'll start to forget all the episodes again.
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I’m glad I got to show my roommate the greatest hits before they went behind a paywall.
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Jan 2, 2020 04:58
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It's all on Hulu right now.
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Solice Kirsk posted:And now it'll be another decade before it gets picked up by a streaming service I use, so I'll start to forget all the episodes again. So glad I have it all on my NAS+Plex. I've began to entertain the streaming demon for current poo poo but I wont be running around signing up for more services for individual shows
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JK Fresco posted:Red wearer? Rid worrier.
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gently caress is off of Amazon too. It is on hulu like the other poster said so I can confirm that for US crane boys and girls and theys
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It's still on Hulu as of this morning
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I'm not buying Hulu because they have commercials and that's stupid for a pay service. 
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I got the $2/month version a couple months ago so it's a nice extra now
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If anyone is weirdly Frasier desperate and has a VPN, for 10$ a month Canadian you can watch all of Frasier and Cheers on crave.ca
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Also buttons and bows and hot and foamy will be on youtube forever and really what more do you need??
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He was a detective, you know.
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Another Bill posted:If anyone is weirdly Frasier desperate and has a VPN, for 10$ a month Canadian you can watch all of Frasier and Cheers on crave.ca Huh, at a glance you get Seinfeld, 30 Rock and South Park too, that's not half bad. (disclaimer: I was not paid 1/8th of a cent to make this post.)
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Huh, at a glance you get Seinfeld, 30 Rock and South Park too, that's not half bad. Man the canadian dollar just keeps going down
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Huh, at a glance you get Seinfeld, 30 Rock and South Park too, that's not half bad. It's pretty great tbh. Ten bucks gets you the basics and another 10/month gets HBO/Showtime on demand.
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Frasier freaks because Daphne had a dude over one night, but she's on the weekly serving toast to some opera floozy with half a tit out talking about Die Fledermaus. Oh and Martin has a widow over, scrambling her eggs all night, and he's like "oh PaPa! How wonderfully picaresque!"
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that episode does unequivocally pose frase as the villain, though, it's not like his weird hangups are presented as valid at any point it's like twenty minutes of other characters dunking on him just like your post
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i mean the whole show in macrocosm is that frasier is a genuinely kind, sensitive, intelligent man who frequently makes a mess of the simplest things because he's also prone to snobbishness, over-thinking and extreme fussiness until either the good in him lets him see the error of his ways or he just ends the episode with everyone laughing at him for snowballing a gaffe into a catastrophe that episode's no different in that it does depict frasier's excessive concern for the sex life of his father's careworker to be every bit as goony as it sounds
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The family is dealing with some poo poo, and part of our coping strategy involved buying a season of Frasier since we couldn't watch it on Netflix/Amazon
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