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MightyJoe36 posted:Really? I always thought they were just using the same gag they used on Cheers for Norm's wife Vera. To be fair, they realized there was no living human who could portray her as described by the end of season 1, so they moved on relatively quickly
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MightyJoe36 posted:Really? I always thought they were just using the same gag they used on Cheers for Norm's wife Vera. In a DVD bonus features, David Hyde Pierce talks about this. They weren't trying to do Vera again, she was just off screen, and then the deeper they went, the more they realized she could never be portrayed by anyone. So they just went further making her as absurd as possible. Vera was never made particularly grotesque. She even shows up a few times, she's just either a voice off camera, or she's covered with pie.
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May 26, 2022 21:42
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Wasn't there one about Niles getting her (that brand) of wristwatch but she couldn't lift her arm?
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May 27, 2022 00:03
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I liked the code on the alarm at the beach house. 'It's her ideal weight. This many pounds and that many ounces' 'My God! Nobody could weigh that and live!'
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Brawnfire posted:A privilege elemental It has been discussed that Maris is probably the final ultimate form of Karen. I love how that description of her is basically some black bars and containment procedures out of a SCP Foundation article. Then again, the containment procedure is probably just leaving a paperback behind the door so she can't get it open.
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Do not look up "skinniest woman in history". (All modern examples have 0% body fat from medical problems or unknown diseases where they can't absorb nutrients). Even birds run a density around 0.75g/cm3 (humans are about 1), but I'd like to imagine Maris has a rare hollow bone disease. They never describe Maris as "skeletal". She probably wears a number of flowy wraps that make her look like a bird, where a light breeze would "clearly blow her away". As to her inability to lift a doughnut, she's merely above making any effort. For Maris the wine glass is always half empty. That's all she can lift.
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I choose to believe she is simply a vile otherworldly monster and you cant change my mind 
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Frasier describes the whippet as heavier than Maris. D34THROW posted:I choose to believe she is simply a vile otherworldly monster and you cant change my mind A shitload makes sense if you assume she's a Grey.
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May 27, 2022 14:39
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You get a vision of my Maris, and I get a big fat eyeful of Dad
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There's probably a Slenderman joke to be made actually.
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"Niiiiiiiles...." *sniffing daphne's pillow* 'OH, erghhh.... yes Frasier?' "Niles, I assume you haven't heard of the brouhaha at the local park?" 'The one that doesn't have a member policy? No of course not' "Well, the paper's described a Cadre of children absolutely terrified by a, and I quote, hideously slender monster, that was all legs and arms, shuffling around in a black suit, face as white as bone" 'Frasier why would I ev--' *Frasier raises his eyebrow, his forehead pulses* "Didn't you say that Maris had a recent infatuation with Men's Wear?" 'Why yes she's quite over the moon with this Gatsby-esque... OH DEAR!!"
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... "Oh I had to get Maris a gift, she's just felt so tiny this week." "She's finally realized?" "No Dad, apparently the chairwoman of the Seattle Board for the Arts has asked all her friends to sit for the art students at the University of Washington, as part of the Women in Society month, and Monday was Maris's day." "That sounds like the type of thing Maris would be good at, sitting for an hour." "Well Frasier, as it turns most of the students failed their assignments. Maris, the poor dear, was so thin and white that they weren't able to add shadows for depth so they just handed in penned outlines." "Geez Niles, they should fire that professor for not understanding minimalism." "The professor actually gave one student an A for 'best realism of the quarter'. Instead of a penned outline, they cut out the shape in a piece of tissue paper and put it in a gaudy frame."
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PhantomOfTheCopier posted:... this made me  irl
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Frazier is one of those pieces of fiction with such well realized characters that they can be dropped into a situation and it almost writes itself. Seinfeld too, but it's a very different style of comedy.
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sudonim posted:Frazier is one of those pieces of fiction with such well realized characters that they can be dropped into a situation and it almost writes itself. King of the Hill comes to mind too- it's a very particular kind of character-based comedy, which isn't specific to a genre or setting. Characters that are realised just well enough, while also covering the bases of a simple comic archetype, that you could drop them in almost any situation and setting and have a reasonable idea of how things go. It's one of the reasons you see so many memes based on these characters. Put them in anywhere, Imperial Rome, 1980s Miami, Cybertron, Equestria, and you got at least a couple good jokes.
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HIJK posted:this made me
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Wow the Heros episode and a few after that, they make Frasier an absolute jerk. Like just completely out of touch. I think I'm putting Heros on my worst episodes list. 
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PhantomOfTheCopier posted:Wow the Heros episode and a few after that, they make Frasier an absolute jerk. Like just completely out of touch. I think I'm putting Heros on my worst episodes list. You mean the episode that has one of the top 10 Marty speeches of the series?
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As awful as he is I feel bad Frasier never gets to be on the opera board or wine club etc etc
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codo27 posted:As awful as he is I feel bad Frasier never gets to be on the opera board or wine club etc etc It's the same reason why Wile E Coyote never catches the road runner.
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Going through the show again, now that my partner has starting binge watching the series. I didn't realise how many of the callers to Frasier's show were celebrity guests. Also how much better the show would have been if Martin wasn't a cop.
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Why do you think there's an extended roll call at the end of a season with all the celeb voices??? Amateur Frasing, duder
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Martin could have sold propane. I tell U uwhat daphne them boys aint right
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Zeniel posted:Going through the show again, now that my partner has starting binge watching the series. I didn't realise how many of the callers to Frasier's show were celebrity guests. I still get surprised by celebrity guest callers and I've seen every episode many times
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datajugend posted:Martin could have sold propane. Believe me, Dr. Crane, I prayed on it. And God said to me "Don't do it." But you know what?? I'm a bit psychic.
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Look dad, I'm a goth! Frederick, I-- BWAAAH!
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Frasier, can't you see you're not making psychiatry better, you're just making radio worse?
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The only awful thing about The Frasier Crane Radio Network! is the occasional crazy, some wearing  and talking to their dogs, who subsequently started calling in to Joe Rogan.So I really like James the barista in the later seasons;  the one Frasier describes as "unflappable". (Apparently the actors name is James Oliver.) I know Lower Decks has been done, but they should do a remake that's just eleven years of baristas listening to the Cranes spouting their... exciting high society updates/nonsense.I mean there'd be quite a bit on Rick, hence Roz, so I guess people would be interested. ps Waaait a minute teriyaki, do you think Frasier should be replaced with an all Mexican radio programme? :tamale:
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This afternoon I said "Oh, geez" to myself and it made me wonder if someone had made a compilation of all the times Marty says it in the show. Sure enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9D5XAJoERU
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i'm more of a jeezaloo fan, myself 
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I AM GOING TO KILL YOU RAY RAMANO
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I'll ask this crowd, but is Boss https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1833285 any good? Sorry I guess I'm ten years behind on advertisements or something (I don't watch tv).
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PizzaProwler posted:This afternoon I said "Oh, geez" to myself and it made me wonder if someone had made a compilation of all the times Marty says it in the show. Sure enough:
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PhantomOfTheCopier posted:I'll ask this crowd, but is Boss https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1833285 any good? Sorry I guess I'm ten years behind on advertisements or something (I don't watch tv). Boss is very good but sadly cut short. There were some rumors a TV movie might tie it up but it never happened. I mean it doesn't end on a real cliffhanger, but didn't get as much exposure as it deserved because it appeared on the then-unheard of Starz network. I need to rewatch again soon.
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"Frasier... have you seen these tickets dad picked up for Sherri?" *leans in* 'Super Luxury Class on.... *gasp* ... THE Moneyplane?'
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ohhh docteh crane issent that the ultrahposh supahjet where you can waygeh on anythin? so you can wager on any scenario and theyll go to the ends of the earth to make it happen? ove course! i hear they wull eeven use force when abso lutelee necessary! and you wager on ANY scenario? NILES!!!
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The Saucer Hovers posted:ohhh docteh crane issent that the ultrahposh supahjet where you can waygeh on anythin? I really wish I could do impersonations better because I can hear this in my head the same as any Simpsons bit I've seen 1000 times
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