Minor characters on Frasier
Encyclopedia
Besides the main characters Frasier Crane
, his father Martin
and brother Niles
, Daphne Moon
, Roz Doyle
and a few others, there are several minor characters who regularly appear on the American television sitcom Frasier
, or who have important but limited roles.
surround the romantic entanglements of the Crane men, several women have significant minor roles on the series. The more significant of these are listed below, excluding Daphne Moon:
) is a bartender at McGinty's, Martin's favorite bar, and, for a short time, Martin's girlfriend. Sherry is fun-loving, brash, loud and crass, and she and Martin share many interests. Frasier and Niles dislike her, but nevertheless, for the sake of family unity, they attempt to tolerate her. When they met her for the first time, it was heard that one of the Crane brothers said: "I didn't know Mae West had a daughter!". Martin and Sherry eventually break up when they decide that they both want different things out of the relationship. (Martin wants to marry, but Sherry wants to keep the relationship at a minor level.)
) is a former lawyer turned pastry chef who is a love interest to Frasier during the sixth season. While Christmas shopping with Roz, he meets Faye's mother. Thinking Frasier is Jewish because she saw him buying a menora for his son, Mrs. Moskowitz takes a liking to him and hooks him up with Faye. Despite a decent first date, Faye breaks up with him for a while when she embarks on a planned trip to Paris
. By the time Faye returns to Seattle towards the end of the season, Frasier was already dating a KACL marketing manager
named Cassandra (played by Virginia Madsen
). Almost immediately, Frasier finds himself torn between both women, and although Frasier eventually chooses Faye, he constantly calls her Cassandra by mistake. To cover this, Frasier tells her that Cassandra is his aunt. But when Faye learns the truth, she breaks up with him for good.
) is Maris Crane's plastic surgeon, and for a period, Niles Crane's girlfriend and (briefly) wife. She is fussy, neurotic, and fastidious, much like Niles. It is heavily implied in her first appearance that she is much older than she appears, probably due to her profession. Mel also has one son, and it is specifically stated she is divorced. It is hinted at that she had her son at a very young age. After Niles runs off with Daphne on the day of her intended wedding to Donny, Mel is humiliated and bitter. She pays Niles back by refusing to grant an immediate divorce; instead, she forces Niles to play along that the two remain happily married, assuring him that after he has done this on several select social occasions she will file for divorce. It quickly becomes apparent that she is deliberately prolonging the process while ensuring the maximum public humiliation for Niles. At a social event held by Frasier, Mel finally pushes Niles to the limit; Niles publicly disowns "this sham of a marriage", and the two are quickly divorced. Mel is humiliated and does not appear again in the series after this.
) is a matchmaker recently arrived from Chicago
and Frasier's final love interest on the series. Frasier initially hires her to set him up with someone following a particularly grim period regarding his romantic prospects, only to find himself falling in love with her. She eventually returns his feelings, but the relationship is forced to end prematurely when Charlotte, having bought back her old business from her ex-husband, moves back to Chicago. Frasier, initially claiming not to have any regrets about letting her go, accepts a high-paying job offer in San Francisco. The series ends with Frasier on a plane, but it is revealed at the last minute that he had chosen love over career as the plane lands in Chicago, where he hopes to reunite with Charlotte. Linney won an Emmy for her performance.
) is Niles and Frasier's old babysitter, and the first woman to break Frasier's heart (he used to watch her kiss her boyfriend through the balusters). She is also responsible for Niles' compulsive furniture-wiping, as she told him stories when he was a child about earwig
s laying eggs on all the furniture, which would hatch, crawl into his ears, and eat his brain.
In 2003 she meets Frasier by chance and eventually she and Martin fall in love (as a teenager she had a crush on him) and get married on May 15 (Eddie's birthday) the next year in the show's final episode, Goodnight, Seattle
.
She released an album called Mood Swings, and works as a lounge singer and pianist at the Wellington Club. Ronee drives a red 1959 Cadillac
Eldorado. Her traditionally-minded, prudish mother lives in Spokane, Washington
.
and Daphne's
son. He was born in the two-part episode Goodnight, Seattle
. During Daphne's pregnancy, it is implied he takes after his low-brow uncles (Daphne's brothers); for example, kicking away classical music. He was born in a veterinary clinic and is named after show creator David Angell
; Angell and his wife Lynn both died aboard American Airlines Flight 11
during the September 11, 2001 attacks
.
. Eddie was played by two dogs during the run: first by Moose
, and then by Moose's son Enzo, who first appeared as a stunt double
.
Eddie is known for responding to Martin and Daphne with human-like understanding, but often seems to taunt Frasier. In one episode, Three Dates and a Breakup, Eddie eats the meals Frasier prepared for his dates as if he, Eddie, knew that Frasier's dates would not be staying for dinner. An early recurring gag
had Eddie staring unceasingly at Frasier, often wanting something, to Frasier's increasing annoyance. Frasier's ex-wife Lilith is the only one who scares Eddie and whenever she's around Eddie does exactly as Lilith says.
Eddie is often featured in the closing sequences of a show, when the closing theme is played/ sung and the credits roll, in a short vignette generally related to a joke from earlier in the episode.
Eddie's birth date was originally given as May 7 but was then changed to May 15 in the final episode, Goodnight Seattle.
Eddie's intelligence
and capacity to learn tricks are very inconsistent, sometimes being incapable of learning to sit and at other times looking left and right on Martin's command. It was once shown that the only word he understands is his own name but other times he seems to understand exactly what he's being told.
In "The Unkindest Cut of All" a neighbor brings over a box of puppies that she claimed Eddie sired. Frasier, who had not thought that Eddie was entire
, subsequently manages to give them away, and insists that Martin have Eddie neutered
.
With 192 episodes under his belt and having worked since he was 3, Moose retired from showbiz when he was 10, in the year 2000. He was replaced by his similar-looking son Enzo for the final four seasons of Frasier; Enzo was 7 years old at the time he took over.
, Luke Tarsitano
in 1995, Trevor Einhorn
from 1996 until 2003) is the son of Frasier and Lilith Sternin
. "Freddy" made his first appearance as a baby on Cheers
, while his parents were still married; he appears in several episodes throughout the show's run. He lives with his mother in Boston but often comes to visit Frasier in Seattle on the holidays. Through his mother, he is Jewish; his bar mitzvah was most notable for his mother's emotional breakdown and his father's ill-advised attempt to make a speech in Hebrew (as seen in the tenth season episode Star Mitzvah, which reveals Freddy's middle name, Gaylord). A goof by the production team is that in his first appearance, he has Lilith's hair color but when he returns, he has Frasier's.
Frederick was born during Cheerss eighth season episode "The Stork Brings a Crane". He was delivered in a taxicab while Lilith was on her way home from the hospital after an episode of false labor. Lilith tolerated the pain by biting down on one of the cab driver's fuzzy dice. Initially his personality is very undeveloped, as he is just a small child. In early seasons he is portrayed as having numerous rather debilitating allergies and being rather inexpert when faced with a number of more or less mundane social situations (as seen in the fourth season episode A Lilith Thanksgiving). He is known to be intelligent, achieving high academic scores, and is accepted to the Marbury Academy, an exclusive Boston private school. In addition to his intelligence he shares several family traits, including a talent for chess, and his mother's talent at Machiavellian scheming based on an understanding of behaviorist psychology. He shares both his Uncle Niles
' lack of coordination and his spelling skill, becoming one of the two final contestants on the National Spelling Championship
. As he gets older more traits begin to develop. At around seven he develops a crush on Daphne, much to Niles' jealousy. As he gets older he begins to get somewhat spoiled and surly, and enjoys Frasier's company less and less, prompting Frasier to fear a growing generation gap
, particularly when Freddy becomes a goth
, but father and son are able to bond over their mutual bad luck with the opposite gender. At the end of the series he is 15 years old.
Frederick's chronologically last appearance in the Cheers/Frasier universe is during the epilogue of the tenth-season Cheers episode "I'm Okay, You're Defective", described as taking place "Many years later". It shows an older Lilith and adult Frederick (played by Rob Neukirch) sitting for the reading of Frasier's will.
Trivia: Frederick's first word was "Norm", said in season 9 of Cheers, just as Norm Peterson
enters the bar (like all the other bar patrons say when he enters the bar).
Hester Rose Crane, née Palmer (Nancy Marchand
in Cheers, Rita Wilson
in Frasier) was Martin's wife and Niles
and Frasier
's mother. By the time the series
begins, she has been dead for approximately six years; throughout the course of the series, the cause of her death is never expressly revealed although it is indicated in "Rooms with a View" she died from lung cancer. Hester appears in a dream sequence (experienced by Frasier in "Don Juan In Hell") and in 8 mm cine transferred to video (in the seventh season episode "Momma Mia" where Rita Wilson
also plays Mia Preston who is the spitting image of Hester).
Hester first appeared in a third-season episode of Cheers ("Diane Meets Mom") in which Hester threatened to kill Diane Chambers
if Diane did not stop seeing Frasier. Hester at this point was more duplicitous, manipulative and controlling than Frasier's, Niles's and Martin's recollections and descriptions of her later. However, Frasier is surprised by her threats, and says she "has always been the most gentle, rational human being [he] had ever known." Wilson would play a middle-aged version of Hester in the two-part episode "Don Juan in Hell", using prosthetic makeup and a deeper, rougher voice to symbolize a middle point between Wilson's Hester and Marchand's Hester.
Hester was a research psychiatrist
and met Martin in 1952 when she was profiling a murderer. She rejected his first marriage proposal, but the two married when she became pregnant with Frasier. Hester had an affair with a family friend when Frasier and Niles were still children, and she and Martin were subsequently separated for a time." A constant theme throughout the series, nonetheless, is that they had a long and healthy marriage.
Hester was the inspiration for both Frasier and Niles to go into the profession. She named her two sons after favorite lab rats. Both her sons take after her more than they do their father, being intellectually pompous, which causes Roz and Martin—especially given her infidelity—to consider that Hester's one-time lab assistant Leland Barton (David Ogden Stiers
) might be the boys' biological father. (Without knowing Frasier's concerns, Barton reveals he's gay, implying he is not their father.) For example, Frasier
and Niles
quote her as saying "a handshake is as good as a hug." When his snobbish sons embarrass him at "The Timber Mill", a steakhouse chosen by Martin, Martin points out that his wife "may have had fancy tastes, but she had too much class to ever make me or anybody else feel second-rate", and was willing to eat hot dogs and watch ballgames with him.
Hester Crane died in 1987,.
onscreen much like Norm Peterson
's wife Vera on Cheers
. She is the most notable of the show's never-seen characters, and often the subject of many jokes. Her family name is not revealed on the series. Maris is immensely wealthy, much wealthier than Niles, as well as spoiled, dominating and neurotic. Many of the characters pointedly dislike her (to Niles' consternation), with Frasier contributing in the show's first episode, "Maris is like the sun...except without the warmth". In a further humorous vein, David Hyde Pierce
(who portrays Niles) passively describes Maris during a Montreal comedy performance (which he performs in-character) as "...a wife who's like a refugee from '[The] Taming of the Shrew
'..."
Maris was born in 1952 in Seattle. Her father was referred to as "The Commodore"; She also has at least two sisters one of them named Brie, who was born with only one nostril; she is mentioned as Frasier's date in one episode. As a child, Maris was chubby, but started losing weight and was soon very skinny. She once stole a crucifix from the Vatican when she was young.
Maris lived in her family's mansion, which has been in the family for four generations after they made their fortune from urinal cakes (she fools everyone by telling them her fortune comes from timber
). She met her husband, Niles Crane, during his internship in Seattle when he stopped to help her as she was banging on the electric gates to get into her home. They were married three years later, in 1986.
Maris makes only two onscreen "appearances": once in the episode "Voyage of the Damned" where her shadow is seen through a shower curtain, and again in "Rooms with a View", where she appears in Niles' memory, almost completely covered by bandages after surgery. She is described as small, very pale and pathologically emaciated (Roz originally mistook her for a hat rack). In The Seal Who Came to Dinner, the pass-code to Maris's seaside home is described as her "ideal weight" and "what she weighed at her débutante ball." during her pageant years. The series of numbers that Niles punched in would mean that Maris, at that time, was either 65 lbs. or 56 lbs., depending on the order of the digits on the keypad. Aside from her low weight, Maris is subject to various medical problems: she has abnormally tight quadriceps, a rigid spine, a large number of very specific allergies, she cannot produce saliva, and has a slight webbing of her hands that made her self-conscious enough to shy away from their physical touch. She frequently travels to Europe for plastic surgery and expensive, eccentric health treatments.
In 1993 Maris and Niles refer Frasier to Daphne Moon
(Niles' future wife) as a live-in physical therapist for Martin. Two years later, Maris goes to New York without telling Niles, who worries greatly. On her return, Niles stands up to Maris and she kicks him out of the house, beginning a two-year separation. Maris eventually reunites with Niles, but immediately has an affair with their marital therapist, Dr Bernard Shenkman, in 1998. Niles finally files for divorce. In spite of the finalized divorce, Maris and Niles continue to be codependent for some time, until Niles finally breaks completely free, largely due to Daphne's aggravation.
In 2003 Maris becomes romantically involved with a violent Argentinian polo player, Esteban de Rojo, whom Maris kills in self defense. Resultingly, she is jailed for a few months on suspicion of murder. In early 2004 her defense trial is due to take place, but she escapes to her family's private island from which she cannot be extradited, effectively stranding her for life.
) is the son of Walt and Zora Crane. He is Martin's nephew, and Frasier and Niles' cousin. Nikos was originally going to attend medical school, but became a juggler after receiving some advice from Frasier, about which Zora was quite angry.
) a Greek woman, is Walt Crane's wife, and Martin's sister-in-law, and the one responsible for Walt and Martin's estrangement. Savagely domineering, she is notable for having violent outbursts. According to family lore, when the Nazis invaded Greece, the five-year-old Zora joined the partisans
and strangled at least a few German occupiers with her jumpropes.
) is the ex-wife of Frasier Crane and mother of their son, Frederick. A cold, remote woman, she is disliked by most of his family and friends. Lilith appeared as a prominent character on Cheers
, in which Frasier also first appeared. Her relationship with ex-spouse Frasier is cordial yet distant in the early seasons, becoming more warm and caring in the final seasons.
. She first appeared in the tenth season episode of Cheers
, titled "One Hugs, the Other Doesn't", played by Emma Thompson
. In the final-season Frasier
episode "Caught in the Act," Laurie Metcalf
plays Nanny G., who proclaims, "Do you have any idea what it’s like to play the same character for twenty years?!" a slighting reference to Grammer's twenty-year portrayal of Frasier Crane on Cheers and Frasier. The character also appeared in a fantasy sequence as the young hippie
from Frasier's memory (played by Dina Spybey
). Frasier and Nanette were briefly married while he was an undergraduate; the ceremony occurred at City Hall. The two experienced a strong sexual chemistry but Frasier claims that the marriage could not work, because of their youth and naïveté.
780AM (the radio station from which Frasier's show is broadcast) or has another otherwise professional relationship with.
) hosts the Gonzo Sports Show, KACL's highest-rated show among most demographics. He is a boorish, intensely macho sports fan, and the urbane Frasier is frequently annoyed by Bulldog, partly because of the other man's more 'common' attributes, and partly because Frasier is usually the butt of Bulldog's jokes. His catch phrase is to yell "THIS STINKS! THIS IS TOTAL BS!" after slamming his fist down whenever he loses something, only to find it immediately afterwards. Bulldog is incredibly sexist and appears to have racist views towards Asian-Americans, particularly the Chinese
, which he makes no attempt to hide, often expressing them on his show. Bulldog is also extremely rude and discourteous and often insults his coworkers, interviewees and even his callers, yet he is apparently very popular, and has been shown to receive at least as many calls from people expressing affection or admiration for him as the angry calls he receives. Despite his sexism and racism, Bulldog never displayed any sign of homophobia (Butler being, in fact, openly gay).
Bulldog is an intense womanizer, and has casual affairs with many women (whom he usually dumps just as casually), but has somewhat of a crush on Roz. Following a short affair with her, Bulldog reveals his feelings towards Roz to be genuine, but they prove to be unrequited. After his show is cancelled and he is fired by the station at the end of Season 6, he returns shortly thereafter to work in the station's archives vault.
Contrary to his overbearing machismo
, Bulldog has a fear of reptiles and once jumped on a desk in panic when a small lizard got loose in the studio.
) is a Vietnam War veteran who hosts KACL's Eye in the Sky traffic reports. He has a tendency to speak very loudly due to spending time trying to speak over the din of his helicopter. He has also been known to annoy his colleagues by flying his helicopter very close to their apartment windows.
Gilbert "Gil" Leslie Chesterton (Edward Hibbert
) is a food critic and host of the show "Restaurant Beat" on KACL.
A pompous, catty, effeminate, overrefined character with an upper-class English accent (which Frasier mentions on one occasion is an affected accent), believed by his coworkers to be in the closet
, Gil claims to be married to Deb, a "Sarah Lawrence
graduate and the owner of a very successful auto body repair shop" (and an Army Reservist
), whom his co-workers had believed to be merely a pet cat. Gil claims to have had no idea everyone thought he was homosexual, even mentioning (or at least claiming) that he is married (to a woman) in a Season 5 episode (The Perfect Guy), and much of the humor related to the character stems from his adamant denial of his supposed sexual orientation
, along with his general snarkiness. In one memorable episode, Frasier is disturbed to find that he is having heavily symbolic and vaguely sexual dreams about Gil. Frasier comes up with various interpretations, hoping to prove that the dreams don't actually mean he is attracted to Gil on some level, but in the end none of the interpretations is satisfactory.
Gil drives a red BMW
with a red interior and is almost always seen wearing his trademark bow tie
. It is also revealed in one episode that he wears an ankle bracelet. He claims to be a veteran of the armed services
(he once refers to having "seen some cruel pranks
in the Army
"), and his taste buds are insured.
In the final season of the show, Gil's homosexuality begins to become more apparent. After a misunderstanding results in Frasier being publicly (and falsely) outed
on the air after being spotted at a local homosexual bar, Gil attempts to coach Frasier on coming out
, congratulating him on his first steps onto "the yellow brick road
to pride and self-acceptance." During the episode's credits, Gil himself is seen covertly entering the homosexual bar in question, Bad Billy's.
His last appearance is in the show's two part finale Goodnight, Seattle
where he is seen along with Kenny Daly, Roz, Daphne, Bulldog, Bebe, Martin, Ronee, Niles and the rest of the KACL staff watching Frasier do his Farewell Speech
The character is named in honor of the real-life Gil Chesterton, a former journalism teacher (now retired) at Beverly Hills High School. One of the series' producers, Christopher Lloyd
, was Chesterton's student years ago, and Lloyd evidently felt naming a character in a hit sitcom would be a nice homage to his former teacher.
) is Frasier's agent over the course of most of the series. An intensely manipulative and seductive woman, with no apparent morals whatsoever, she is often compared to the Prince of Darkness
by most of the characters, Niles in particular, who comments "She's the devil, Frasier. Run fast, run far!". Frasier relies on her intensely in order to get the best deal he can out of his employers, whilst simultaneously frequently being horrified by her extremely flexible and questionable ethics. She harbors a deep desire to be in the limelight herself, a dream briefly realized when she and Frasier co-host a morning television show for a week. She is revealed to have a son in the final episode, whose apparent age (around 40) is used to imply the talent of Bebe's cosmetic surgeon.
) becomes the new financial
reporter for the KACL late in the series' run. She is the author of two books, Practical Applications of Econometrics and Day Trade Your Way Out of Debt, the latter of which had stirred some controversy and had eventually contributed to her being fired from CNBC
.
Her no-nonsense, all-business demeanor and arrogant and stand-offish attitude earn her the dislike of the other staff. Frasier makes an advance towards her in a moment of anger-induced passion, similar to a scene in an episode with Kate Costas, with Frasier even using some of the same insults and quoting the famous line by Sam Malone
to Diane Chambers
in Cheers
"Are you as turned on as I am?", which results in the entire station being forced to attend a sexual harassment
seminar until Julia promises not to sue Frasier or the station, after which the entire staff leave the seminar.
When Frasier discovers that his accountant and former Oxford classmate, Avery (John Hannah
), is cheating on his wife with Julia, he confronts Avery, unaware that Julia is hiding in a closet, overhearing the entire conversation. Julia's attitude towards Frasier begins to soften after this display of chivalry on his part, and she uses her connections to have Ben, a British street musician (Elvis Costello
) whom Frasier and Niles find annoying, then playing a regular gig at Café Nervosa
, offered a full-time job elsewhere.
She and Frasier have a brief romantic encounter, although her boorish and coarse behavior towards Martin, Niles, and Daphne ultimately persuades Frasier to break off their relationship.
Kenny Daly (Tom McGowan
) is a long-time radio man; little else is known about him. Apparently a successful DJ, in 1993 he was reduced to delivering pizzas as he was out of work at the time. Kenny was married with at least 3 children, but got divorced in 2003, following which he suffered a breakdown.
Kenny becomes the new station manager of KACL in 1998. A likable and relaxed manager, he soon becomes friends with all the staff there. When he took over, he gave Frasier the ultimatum of doing an ad he couldn't endorse or be fired. Kenny fires Frasier but rehires him an hour and a half later. Kenny then goes to station owner Joe Martin to tell him about Frasier's complaint and is fired (this is the time that KACL becomes an all-Salsa station as Joe Martin, inadvertently inspired by Frasier, goes back to his birth name, José Martinez, and rediscovers his Latin roots). Kenny occasionally performs the unscrupulous acts of his predecessors, such as firing and lying to the talent, but often feels guilty and admits to it shortly afterward. Kenny is fairly lowbrow and has tastes and pleasures similar to Martin Crane
, which occasionally grates against Frasier's more refined sensibilities.
Kenny resigns as station manager after deciding to go back to DJing, and Roz is appointed as his replacement.
He is last seen, along with Frasier's family, friends and KACL staff watching him do his farewell speech
) is one of several KACL station managers before Kenny. Frasier and Kate have a love-hate relationship finding themselves on opposite sides on programming decisions and union negotiations. They have a brief affair before Kate leaves to accept a management position at a Chicago
station.
) is a painfully geek
y Trekkie
who keeps an autographed picture of William Shatner
as Captain Kirk on his desk and is fluent in Klingon
. His station nickname is "Noel the Mole". He is also good friends with Bill Gates
, offering a Vulcan salute
to Gates when he appears on Frasier's show ("The Two Hundredth Episode".) Noel is such an avid Star Trek
fan that William Shatner has a restraining order
against him.
He works in sales at KACL. From early in the series he is in love with Roz Doyle, who does not feel the same way about him (Roz was even willing to date a lesbian
instead of him once). In the episode entitled 'Star Mitzvah' it is revealed that Shempsky is Jewish, and is fluent in Hebrew.
His claim to fame, as seen when he volunteers to be the station representative during contract negotiations, is that he can faint at will. It has also been mentioned in the episode "A New Position for Roz" that Noel has never missed a day of work. He was even retained by KACL when it changed formats to Salsa radio and fired most of the talk radio personnel, due to his mastery of Spanish and his never ever having a sick day. Noel shows attraction to Roz throughout the series leading to often embarrassing attempts to impress her. In the final episode, he finally kisses her after she becomes the station manager.
) was an openly homosexual station manager during the second season. In "The Matchmaker", Frasier unwittingly asks Tom out on a date, intending to fix him up with Daphne. He appears later in the year in "Agents in America, Part 3", trying to coax Bebe from jumping off the ledge of the building.
) was introduced in season 7. She was originally an intern at KACL
, working with Frasier. Her mother is the station owner (after Joe Martin—the man who changed the format). When Niles gets a job as an arts critic, Frasier is consumed by jealousy and appeals to Poppy to convince her mother to let him host his own arts critique at the station. Not only does Poppy get the show Frasier wanted, Kenny becomes angry because Frasier went over his head when he already said no. She also goes to a ball with Niles in the episode Rivals.
"Gonzo Sports Show" - Hosted by Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe
"Restaurant Beat" - Hosted by Gilbert "Gil" Leslie Chesterton
"Religion on the Line" - Hosted by Fr. Mike Mancuso.
"Pet Chat with Nanette" - Hosted by Nanette, canceled by Kate Costas.
"Amber Edwards Book Chat" - Hosted by Amber Edwards.
"Health Watch" - Hosted by Dr. Clint Weber.
"Storytime Theater" - Hosted by Tooty, the Story Lady.
"The Morning Zoo with Carlos and the Chicken" - KACL's morning show hosted by Carlos and Dwayne, AKA "The Chicken".
"Let's Go Camping" - Hosted by Dan and Jenna, disappeared inexplicably.
"Dr. Nora" - a second advice show on KACL, hosted by Dr. Nora Fairchild (recommended by Frasier), this show lasted for about two weeks.
"Dr. Mary" - a third advice show on KACL, hosted by ex-temp producer Mary Thomas.
"Car Chat with Bob and Bethany" - Hosted by Bob and Bethany; Martin mistakes Bethany for a man.
"Money Matters" - Julia Wilcox (Felicity Huffman
), financial reporter, formerly of CNBC
, with whom Frasier is forced to devote part of his show to. He has a brief affair with her later.
"The Doctor Frasier Crane Show" - Hosted by Psychiatrist, Dr. Frasier Crane
(Kelsey Grammer
)
and many other shows (the names of which were not given) but the hosts are:
Ray Schmidt, the "Green Grocer".
Bonnie Weems, the "Auto Lady".
Leo Pascali, the "Happy Chef". In season 3, episode 4, ("Leapin' Lizards") the host of "The Happy Chef" is shown on a schedule as Floyd Lovett.
Miss Judy, Arts and crafts.
Helen Grogan, "Ma Nature".
Chester Ludgate, KACL's "lovable curmudgeon" commentator.
, England
. Many of the actors who play Moon family members do not have specifically Mancunian English accents: Anthony LaPaglia
, Richard E. Grant
and Robbie Coltrane
, who portray Daphne's brothers, and Brian Cox who portrays her father, were not even born in England
(La Paglia is Australia
n, Grant was born in Swaziland
and both Coltrane and Cox are Scottish
) and this apparent discrepancy is never addressed on the show but may be taken as an in-joke (see below).
) is Daphne's mother. The two have a difficult and complex relationship, and Daphne appears to dislike her mother immensely while still remaining intensely loyal and subservient to her. Domineering and ever-complaining, Gertrude is doting and always forgiving towards her son Simon's selfish behavior but is hyper-critical of her ever-supportive and long-suffering daughter, frequently guilting Daphne into providing what she wants. When Gertrude leaves her husband she goes to Seattle. There she unsuccessfully tries to start a romance with Martin and briefly lives with Niles and Daphne, where she quickly overstays her welcome.
) is a brother of Daphne. Michael appeared in the two-part series finale, Goodnight, Seattle
, and his speech is almost entirely incomprehensible, spoken in a very fast Lancashire
accent.
He also briefly appears in Something Borrowed, Something Blue played by a different actor.
Simon Moon (Anthony LaPaglia
) is one of Daphne's brothers. An obnoxious and boorish heavy drinker and layabout, Simon has a difficult relationship with his sister, largely because of Simon's uncouth and selfish nature. He is greatly disliked by both Frasier and Niles, partly because of their class-conscious nature but also because when in Seattle he frequently stays with one of them, often taking unreasonable liberties with regard to their homes, possessions and alcohol supplies in the process. Conversely, he gets on quite well with Martin and, despite his many negative qualities, is quite a popular man who is very successful at attracting women.
Roz is quite taken with him (and he with her) at first, but she eventually catches on to his ways and rejects his advances. Simon views her as a sex object, yet always forgets her name. During the ninth season episodes in which he appears, he constantly calls her "Rose." Roz does not care enough at that point to even correct him.
Simon appears in nine episodes. Like the majority of the Moon family seen on the show, he does not share a Mancunian accent with Daphne: the Australian LaPaglia imitates a London 'cockney' accent. He does, on occasion, wear a Manchester United
t-shirt.
) is Daphne's favorite brother. He appears in person in the series finale Goodnight, Seattle (and speaks with Grant's trademark RP
'posh' accent despite the Moons being from Manchester
). The character also appears in the two-part episode And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon, where he is played by a different actor and has no speaking lines.
.
in real life.)
, and has difficulty with her English pronouns. She speaks fluent German, however, owing to her previous experience working for a German family 'who turned up
in Guatemala just after the war'. She is the only member of "Missy Crane's" household staff to be regularly seen on the show. Marta is also an avid fan of Frasier's radio show.
—Niles said 'the paramedics never had a chance.'
that never appeared on the show were Rebecca Howe
(played by Kirstie Alley
, 1987–1993) and the deceased Coach
(played by the late Nicholas Colasanto
, 1982–1985).
ran the bar (Cheers) that Frasier frequented back in Boston. He appeared on one episode of Frasier, in Season Two, called "The Show Where Sam Shows Up." He is having second thoughts about his wedding to a woman (played by Tea Leoni
) whom Frasier had slept with unknowing that she and Sam were engaged. Sam breaks off the marriage when he finds out she once slept with Cliff
.
left Frasier at the altar during their wedding. She appeared on four episodes of the series. She first appeared in a dream that Frasier had after going to a tropical island. She later appeared for a play she was doing in Seattle, but confessed to Frasier she needed help because her life was a mess. After that she appeared in a dream consisting of Frasier's ex-wives, ex-girlfriends, and mother.
appeared on an episode to visit Frasier. He and Frasier reminisce about their past days at Cheers, but realize they have nothing in common, and agree to meet once every five or ten (Frasier emphasizes ten) years.
was in an episode called "Cheerful Goodbyes" where Frasier had returned to Boston for a convention. Cliff was celebrating his retirement party, and thought Frasier came to town for the party. Frasier ends up going to the party anyway. Frasier inadvertently convinces Cliff to stay in Boston, to the outrage of Carla, who tries to kill him with a spear gun.
attends the retirement party of Cliff Clavin in "Cheerful Goodbyes." He meets up with Frasier at the party, and gets along famously with Martin
as a fellow beer drinker. Frasier telephones Norm in the episode "Three Dates and a Break Up."
was a waitress at Cheers. She returned for Cliff Clavin's retirement party, ecstatic that Cliff was finally leaving Boston. She flew into a psychotic rage when Cliff announced he'd decided to stay, thanks in part to Frasier, ready to attack Cliff with one of his gifts: a spear gun.
at various weddings, but always being prevented at the last minute. She has a mildly adversarial relationship with Daphne's mother Gertrude, and a close relationship with Roz's onetime boyfriend, Roger.
Donald Ronald Douglas (Saul Rubinek
) is Niles' divorce lawyer and, for a period, Daphne's boyfriend and fiancé. Ironically, despite his intense crush on Daphne, it is actually Niles who first introduces the two; they meet during Niles' divorce proceedings, while Donny, who is representing Niles against Maris, is helping Frasier to prepare his upcoming testimony. Although a highly successful lawyer, Donny is exceedingly boorish and brash (his antics include arriving for a meeting with Frasier and Niles in a tracksuit after a jog, and changing into his suit in front of them), and are anathema to Frasier's and Niles' refinement; his degree from the University of Las Vegas leads Yale/Cambridge-educated Niles to comment that there could have been "no problem finding tassels for those mortarboards", and although Harvard/Oxford-educated Frasier tells him to "stop being such a snob", his opinions are evidently similar. Their opinion of Donny changes when he cows a supposedly tough lawyer over the phone, greatly reducing the time Niles must wait for his day in court. Donny wins a favorable divorce settlement for Niles through his discovery that Maris' family fortune was based on urinal cakes; Niles' joy is immediately cut short when Donny starts dating Daphne.
Ultimately, Daphne leaves Donny at the altar in favor of Niles. Embittered, Donny initially sues both her and Frasier (who was responsible for Daphne and Niles getting together), but eventually drops the lawsuit. Daphne later encounters Donny in the final minutes before his court-room wedding to his new fiancée. In a later episode, he reappears with yet a different fiancée at Daphne's courtroom wedding with Niles.
, who was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of Jerome.
) is the teenage son of Lana and Bob Gardner, and sometime employee of KACL. He is briefly tutored by Frasier, with whom he develops a father-son relationship in the later portion of his appearances. He also does odd jobs for Niles. Kirby's wild hairstyle has been compared to Sideshow Bob's
. Kirby is smitten with Roz Doyle, leading Frasier to manipulate Roz into escorting Kirby to the latter's high school prom as an incentive for Kirby to study and achieve good marks.
) is the husband of Lana Gardner and father of Kirby. Having previously abandoned his wife for another woman, he later had second thoughts and debated whether to return to her—coincidentally, at an airport he met up with Frasier, who was considering whether or not pursue Lana romantically at the time, and after a brief conversation decided to remain with his wife. Frasier, who had also left the conversation with the intent to pursue Lana, decided as a consequence to withdraw and advised Lana to at least attempt to restore her marriage.
) is an old high school classmate of Frasier's, on whom both Frasier and Niles had crushes during high school. Frasier and Lana meet again as adults, and have a brief romantic relationship while Lana is estranged from her husband, Bob Gardner. Frasier calls this off owing to Lana's immensely aggressive personality. They later become friends. Lana is the mother of Kirby, and has at least one other child. In Jean Smart's first appearance as this character, she was known as Lorna Lynley—the character's name was later changed to Lana to avoid referring to a real person by that name.
who, at the age of twenty, has an affair with Roz, which results in her getting pregnant. Their child is Alice May Doyle.
) is Roz's 'pushy and opinionated' cousin who visits her in Seattle. Her judgmental attitude irritates Frasier and Roz finds she cannot maintain the all night partying that Jen prefers. She forms an unlikely friendship with Kenny Daly who is inspired by her spontaneity and passion for traveling in Kissing Cousins
) is a newspaper columnist who is one of Frasier's biggest critics. His columns often debase Frasier's program and often twists the doctor's innocent advice to make Frasier look bad in the eyes of the public. He once challenged Frasier to a fistfight after the doctor publicly ridiculed him on his radio show.
) is the deep-voiced tenant of the apartment above Frasier's and is Frasier's rival. The two frequently clash and compete over parking spaces, apartment board placement, and balcony rights. For all their rivalry, the two have near-identical tastes, mannerisms and personalities, which prompt competitiveness between them. The two have a history of trumping each other tit-for-tat via the apartment board: while Frasier convinces the board to ban Cam from parking his Humvee in the provided garage, Cam hangs an American flag in passive protest over Frasier's balcony, covering his view; as well as the obvious inconvenience, this incident also damages Frasier's standing with the board, as when he protests about the flag, Cam twists matters so as to make Frasier seem unpatriotic. When their parents feign a dating relationship to have the two come to a truce, Cam and Frasier finally end their feud and compromise with each other to please their parents. Martin and Cam's mother do eventually form a short lived relationship. Cam is exploited in the 10th season episode, Door Jam, when Frasier finds an exclusive luxury spa invitation addressed to Cam in his own mail box due to their mail box exchange as a condition of their truce. Intrigued, Frasier and Niles go to the spa, but find that they are not on the "list", prompting Niles to impersonate Cam's vocal characteristics in the charade, to get access into the spa.
The last mention of Cam Winston is in the 11th-season episode, Crock Tales: Frasier, Niles, Daphne and Roz are locked out of Frasier's apartment on the balcony and yell for Cam's help after they are unable to gain the attention of Martin, who's inside with headphones on.
) is Martin's close friend. He briefly appears in the second season episode "Dukes, We Hardly Knew You" when Martin takes Frasier and Niles to Duke's bar called "Duke's", which is demolished later in the episode. He also appears as one of Martin's poker buddies in the fifth season episode "Where Every Bloke Knows Your Name". Sometime near the beginning of the eighth season, Duke moves to Florida. Duke is frequently referenced on the show, and Martin is sometimes shown speaking to him on the phone or returning from visiting with him. Duke is divorced and has a son, as well as a daughter named Marie (played by Teri Hatcher
) who briefly dates Frasier in the sixth season episode First Do No Harm.
Since these voices were added in post-production, callers' lines were spoken during live studio filming by crewpersons or other actors—including, very often, Arleen Sorkin
, the wife of executive producer Christopher Lloyd
. Sorkin appeared in a live cameo during the series finale, "Goodnight, Seattle
."
Some performers would later appear on the show as unrelated characters. For instance, Linda Hamilton
played the final caller during the pilot episode, "The Good Son
," and later appeared in the Season Four finale.
The only performer to make a call into the show and appear later is Lilith Sternin
, Frasier's ex-wife, in the episode 'The Show Where Lilith Comes Back' when she calls in to make a criticism of his advice to a previous caller. He then makes plans to meet her after Roz, knowing all about Frasier's tumultuous relationship with his ex, suggests taking her out for dinner live on air so that he has no choice but to accept.
Occasionally, the problem mentioned by a caller served as the main plot for the show, such as Gretchen (Glenne Headly
), who worried that her husband was having an affair with a woman whom Frasier suspected of being Niles's wife, Maris. In a similar episode ('A Word to the Wiseguy'), Frasier receives a call from Brandy, the girlfriend of a shady businessman
saying she wants to leave him after Frasier promised he would counsel the woman into marrying her boyfriend.
Very often, the caller's problem is a deliberate joke on that actor's real-life. For instance, Melissa Etheridge
, who is openly gay
, played a woman unable to choose among her three boyfriends.
Frasier Crane
Frasier W. Crane, M.D., Ph.D., A.P.A. is a fictional character on the American television sitcoms Frasier and Cheers. He was played by Kelsey Grammer for 20 years, tying the record for the longest-running character on prime-time American television, which was set by James Arness, who played Marshal...
, his father Martin
Martin Crane
Det. Martin "Marty" Crane is a fictional character on the American television show Frasier. He was played by actor John Mahoney. Martin is the father of Frasier and Niles Crane.- Biography :...
and brother Niles
Niles Crane
Niles Crane, M.D., Ph.D., A.P.A. is a fictional character on the American sitcom Frasier, a spin-off of the popular show Cheers. He was portrayed by David Hyde Pierce. Niles is the younger brother of Dr. Frasier Crane, the son of Det. Martin Crane and Dr. Hester Crane, husband of Daphne Moon,...
, Daphne Moon
Daphne Moon
Daphne Crane is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Frasier, played by Jane Leeves....
, Roz Doyle
Roz Doyle
Rosalinda "Roz" Doyle is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Frasier. She is played by Peri Gilpin. Roz is the producer of Frasier Crane's Dr. Frasier Crane Show on KACL 780AM...
and a few others, there are several minor characters who regularly appear on the American television sitcom Frasier
Frasier
Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet and Paramount Network Television.A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars...
, or who have important but limited roles.
Crane men love interests
As many of the plots on FrasierFrasier
Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet and Paramount Network Television.A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars...
surround the romantic entanglements of the Crane men, several women have significant minor roles on the series. The more significant of these are listed below, excluding Daphne Moon:
Sherry Dempsey
Sherry Dempsey (Marsha MasonMarsha Mason
Marsha Mason is an American actress and television director.She received four Academy Award nominations as Best Actress for her performances in Cinderella Liberty, The Goodbye Girl, Chapter Two, and Only When I Laugh. She is also known for starring in the 1986 film Heartbreak Ridge.-Life:Mason was...
) is a bartender at McGinty's, Martin's favorite bar, and, for a short time, Martin's girlfriend. Sherry is fun-loving, brash, loud and crass, and she and Martin share many interests. Frasier and Niles dislike her, but nevertheless, for the sake of family unity, they attempt to tolerate her. When they met her for the first time, it was heard that one of the Crane brothers said: "I didn't know Mae West had a daughter!". Martin and Sherry eventually break up when they decide that they both want different things out of the relationship. (Martin wants to marry, but Sherry wants to keep the relationship at a minor level.)
Faye Moskowitz
Faye Moskowitz (Amy BrennemanAmy Brenneman
Amy Frederica Brenneman is an American actress, perhaps best known for her roles in the television series NYPD Blue, Judging Amy and Private Practice...
) is a former lawyer turned pastry chef who is a love interest to Frasier during the sixth season. While Christmas shopping with Roz, he meets Faye's mother. Thinking Frasier is Jewish because she saw him buying a menora for his son, Mrs. Moskowitz takes a liking to him and hooks him up with Faye. Despite a decent first date, Faye breaks up with him for a while when she embarks on a planned trip to Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. By the time Faye returns to Seattle towards the end of the season, Frasier was already dating a KACL marketing manager
Marketing management
Marketing management is a business discipline which is focused on the practical application of marketing techniques and the management of a firm's marketing resources and activities...
named Cassandra (played by Virginia Madsen
Virginia Madsen
Virginia Madsen is an American actress and documentary film producer. She came to fame during the 1980s, having appeared in several films aimed at a teenage audience...
). Almost immediately, Frasier finds himself torn between both women, and although Frasier eventually chooses Faye, he constantly calls her Cassandra by mistake. To cover this, Frasier tells her that Cassandra is his aunt. But when Faye learns the truth, she breaks up with him for good.
Mel Karnofsky Crane
Dr. Melinda "Mel" Karnofsky Crane (Jane AdamsJane Adams (actress)
Jane Adams is an American film, television and theatre actress.- Early life :Adams was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Janice, an administrative assistant, and William Adams, an engineer. She has a younger brother, Jonathan, and was raised in Wheaton, Illinois and Bellevue, Washington...
) is Maris Crane's plastic surgeon, and for a period, Niles Crane's girlfriend and (briefly) wife. She is fussy, neurotic, and fastidious, much like Niles. It is heavily implied in her first appearance that she is much older than she appears, probably due to her profession. Mel also has one son, and it is specifically stated she is divorced. It is hinted at that she had her son at a very young age. After Niles runs off with Daphne on the day of her intended wedding to Donny, Mel is humiliated and bitter. She pays Niles back by refusing to grant an immediate divorce; instead, she forces Niles to play along that the two remain happily married, assuring him that after he has done this on several select social occasions she will file for divorce. It quickly becomes apparent that she is deliberately prolonging the process while ensuring the maximum public humiliation for Niles. At a social event held by Frasier, Mel finally pushes Niles to the limit; Niles publicly disowns "this sham of a marriage", and the two are quickly divorced. Mel is humiliated and does not appear again in the series after this.
Charlotte Connor
Charlotte Connor (Laura LinneyLaura Linney
Laura Leggett Linney is an American actress of film, television, and theatre. Linney has won three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has been nominated for three times for an Academy Award and once for a BAFTA Award...
) is a matchmaker recently arrived from Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
and Frasier's final love interest on the series. Frasier initially hires her to set him up with someone following a particularly grim period regarding his romantic prospects, only to find himself falling in love with her. She eventually returns his feelings, but the relationship is forced to end prematurely when Charlotte, having bought back her old business from her ex-husband, moves back to Chicago. Frasier, initially claiming not to have any regrets about letting her go, accepts a high-paying job offer in San Francisco. The series ends with Frasier on a plane, but it is revealed at the last minute that he had chosen love over career as the plane lands in Chicago, where he hopes to reunite with Charlotte. Linney won an Emmy for her performance.
Ronee Lawrence Crane
Ronee Lawrence Crane (Wendie MalickWendie Malick
Wendie Malick is an American actress and former fashion model, known for her roles as Judith Tupper Stone on the HBO series Dream On , Nina Van Horn on the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me! , Ronee Lawrence on the NBC sitcom Frasier and Victoria Chase on the TV Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland .-Early...
) is Niles and Frasier's old babysitter, and the first woman to break Frasier's heart (he used to watch her kiss her boyfriend through the balusters). She is also responsible for Niles' compulsive furniture-wiping, as she told him stories when he was a child about earwig
Earwig
Earwigs make up the insect order Dermaptera, found throughout the Americas, Africa, Eurasia, Australia and New Zealand. With 1,800 species in 12 families, they are one of the smaller insect orders...
s laying eggs on all the furniture, which would hatch, crawl into his ears, and eat his brain.
In 2003 she meets Frasier by chance and eventually she and Martin fall in love (as a teenager she had a crush on him) and get married on May 15 (Eddie's birthday) the next year in the show's final episode, Goodnight, Seattle
Goodnight, Seattle
"Goodnight, Seattle" is the title of the series finale of the long-running American sitcom Frasier. It aired on May 13, 2004, in the 11th year of the series...
.
She released an album called Mood Swings, and works as a lounge singer and pianist at the Wellington Club. Ronee drives a red 1959 Cadillac
Cadillac
Cadillac is an American luxury vehicle marque owned by General Motors . Cadillac vehicles are sold in over 50 countries and territories, but mostly in North America. Cadillac is currently the second oldest American automobile manufacturer behind fellow GM marque Buick and is among the oldest...
Eldorado. Her traditionally-minded, prudish mother lives in Spokane, Washington
Spokane, Washington
Spokane is a city located in the Northwestern United States in the state of Washington. It is the largest city of Spokane County of which it is also the county seat, and the metropolitan center of the Inland Northwest region...
.
Crane family members
The following are significant members of the Crane family excluding Frasier, Martin, Niles, and Daphne Crane. Although most of the series revolves around Frasier Crane and his immediate family, occasionally members of Frasier's extended family appear. These are listed below.David Crane
David is Niles'Niles Crane
Niles Crane, M.D., Ph.D., A.P.A. is a fictional character on the American sitcom Frasier, a spin-off of the popular show Cheers. He was portrayed by David Hyde Pierce. Niles is the younger brother of Dr. Frasier Crane, the son of Det. Martin Crane and Dr. Hester Crane, husband of Daphne Moon,...
and Daphne's
Daphne Moon
Daphne Crane is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Frasier, played by Jane Leeves....
son. He was born in the two-part episode Goodnight, Seattle
Goodnight, Seattle
"Goodnight, Seattle" is the title of the series finale of the long-running American sitcom Frasier. It aired on May 13, 2004, in the 11th year of the series...
. During Daphne's pregnancy, it is implied he takes after his low-brow uncles (Daphne's brothers); for example, kicking away classical music. He was born in a veterinary clinic and is named after show creator David Angell
David Angell
David Lawrence Angell was an American producer of sitcoms. Angell won multiple Emmy Awards as the creator and executive producer, along with Peter Casey and David Lee, of the comedy series Frasier...
; Angell and his wife Lynn both died aboard American Airlines Flight 11
American Airlines Flight 11
American Airlines Flight 11 was American Airlines' daily scheduled morning transcontinental flight from Logan International Airport, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles International Airport, in Los Angeles, California...
during the September 11, 2001 attacks
September 11, 2001 attacks
The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th or 9/119/11 is pronounced "nine eleven". The slash is not part of the pronunciation...
.
Eddie
Eddie (born May 15, 1990) is the dog owned by Martin, a large Jack Russell TerrierJack Russell Terrier
The Jack Russell terrier is a small terrier that has its origins in fox hunting. It is principally white-bodied smooth, rough or broken-coated which is commonly confused with the Parson Russell terrier and the Russell terrier with the term "Jack Russell" commonly misapplied to other small white...
. Eddie was played by two dogs during the run: first by Moose
Moose (dog actor)
Moose was a veteran canine actor. He was a Jack Russell Terrier and is most famous for his portrayal of Eddie Crane on the television sitcom Frasier.-Early life:...
, and then by Moose's son Enzo, who first appeared as a stunt double
Stunt double
A stunt double is a type of body double, specifically a skilled replacement used for dangerous film or video sequences, in movies and television , and for other sophisticated stunts...
.
Eddie is known for responding to Martin and Daphne with human-like understanding, but often seems to taunt Frasier. In one episode, Three Dates and a Breakup, Eddie eats the meals Frasier prepared for his dates as if he, Eddie, knew that Frasier's dates would not be staying for dinner. An early recurring gag
Visual gag
In comedy, a visual gag or sight gag is anything which conveys its humor visually, often without words being used at all.There are numerous examples in cinema history of directors who based most of the humour in their films on visual gags, even to the point of using no or minimal dialogue...
had Eddie staring unceasingly at Frasier, often wanting something, to Frasier's increasing annoyance. Frasier's ex-wife Lilith is the only one who scares Eddie and whenever she's around Eddie does exactly as Lilith says.
Eddie is often featured in the closing sequences of a show, when the closing theme is played/ sung and the credits roll, in a short vignette generally related to a joke from earlier in the episode.
Eddie's birth date was originally given as May 7 but was then changed to May 15 in the final episode, Goodnight Seattle.
Eddie's intelligence
Intelligence
Intelligence has been defined in different ways, including the abilities for abstract thought, understanding, communication, reasoning, learning, planning, emotional intelligence and problem solving....
and capacity to learn tricks are very inconsistent, sometimes being incapable of learning to sit and at other times looking left and right on Martin's command. It was once shown that the only word he understands is his own name but other times he seems to understand exactly what he's being told.
In "The Unkindest Cut of All" a neighbor brings over a box of puppies that she claimed Eddie sired. Frasier, who had not thought that Eddie was entire
Entire (animal)
In animal fancy and animal husbandry, entire indicates an animal has not been desexed, i.e., spayed or neutered ....
, subsequently manages to give them away, and insists that Martin have Eddie neutered
Neutering
Neutering, from the Latin neuter , is the removal of an animal's reproductive organ, either all of it or a considerably large part. The process is often used in reference to males whereas spaying is often reserved for females. Colloquially, both terms are often referred to as fixing...
.
With 192 episodes under his belt and having worked since he was 3, Moose retired from showbiz when he was 10, in the year 2000. He was replaced by his similar-looking son Enzo for the final four seasons of Frasier; Enzo was 7 years old at the time he took over.
Frederick Crane
Frederick Gaylord Crane (born 1988, played by twins Christopher and Kevin Graves in CheersCheers
Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles...
, Luke Tarsitano
Luke Tarsitano
Luke Tarsitano is an American television actor, born March 18, 1990. He played the character of Fudge in the series of that name and had guest appearances on Frasier, on Suddenly Susan, and on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. During one of these visits, Leno asked if it was true that Tarsitano had...
in 1995, Trevor Einhorn
Trevor Einhorn
Trevor Elias Einhorn is an American actor who attended Pressman Academy in Los Angeles as well as El Rodeo School and Beverly Hills High School , both in Beverly Hills, California....
from 1996 until 2003) is the son of Frasier and Lilith Sternin
Lilith Sternin
Lilith Sternin, M.D., Ph.D., Ed.D., A.P.A. is a character played by Bebe Neuwirth on the American sitcom Cheers, which spans the course of her marriage to Frasier Crane, and its spinoff series Frasier, during which she made regular appearances as Frasier's ex-wife and the mother of their son...
. "Freddy" made his first appearance as a baby on Cheers
Cheers
Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles...
, while his parents were still married; he appears in several episodes throughout the show's run. He lives with his mother in Boston but often comes to visit Frasier in Seattle on the holidays. Through his mother, he is Jewish; his bar mitzvah was most notable for his mother's emotional breakdown and his father's ill-advised attempt to make a speech in Hebrew (as seen in the tenth season episode Star Mitzvah, which reveals Freddy's middle name, Gaylord). A goof by the production team is that in his first appearance, he has Lilith's hair color but when he returns, he has Frasier's.
Frederick was born during Cheerss eighth season episode "The Stork Brings a Crane". He was delivered in a taxicab while Lilith was on her way home from the hospital after an episode of false labor. Lilith tolerated the pain by biting down on one of the cab driver's fuzzy dice. Initially his personality is very undeveloped, as he is just a small child. In early seasons he is portrayed as having numerous rather debilitating allergies and being rather inexpert when faced with a number of more or less mundane social situations (as seen in the fourth season episode A Lilith Thanksgiving). He is known to be intelligent, achieving high academic scores, and is accepted to the Marbury Academy, an exclusive Boston private school. In addition to his intelligence he shares several family traits, including a talent for chess, and his mother's talent at Machiavellian scheming based on an understanding of behaviorist psychology. He shares both his Uncle Niles
Niles Crane
Niles Crane, M.D., Ph.D., A.P.A. is a fictional character on the American sitcom Frasier, a spin-off of the popular show Cheers. He was portrayed by David Hyde Pierce. Niles is the younger brother of Dr. Frasier Crane, the son of Det. Martin Crane and Dr. Hester Crane, husband of Daphne Moon,...
' lack of coordination and his spelling skill, becoming one of the two final contestants on the National Spelling Championship
Spelling bee
A spelling bee is a competition where contestants, usually children, are asked to spell English words. The concept is thought to have originated in the United States....
. As he gets older more traits begin to develop. At around seven he develops a crush on Daphne, much to Niles' jealousy. As he gets older he begins to get somewhat spoiled and surly, and enjoys Frasier's company less and less, prompting Frasier to fear a growing generation gap
Generation gap
The generational gap is and was a term popularized in Western countries during the 1960s referring to differences between people of a younger generation and their elders, especially between children and parents....
, particularly when Freddy becomes a goth
Goth subculture
The goth subculture is a contemporary subculture found in many countries. It began in England during the early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post-punk genre. The goth subculture has survived much longer than others of the same era, and has continued to diversify...
, but father and son are able to bond over their mutual bad luck with the opposite gender. At the end of the series he is 15 years old.
Frederick's chronologically last appearance in the Cheers/Frasier universe is during the epilogue of the tenth-season Cheers episode "I'm Okay, You're Defective", described as taking place "Many years later". It shows an older Lilith and adult Frederick (played by Rob Neukirch) sitting for the reading of Frasier's will.
Trivia: Frederick's first word was "Norm", said in season 9 of Cheers, just as Norm Peterson
Norm Peterson
Hillary Norman "Norm" Peterson is a character on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by George Wendt. Norm's real first name was revealed to be Hillary, named after his grandfather....
enters the bar (like all the other bar patrons say when he enters the bar).
Hester Crane
Nancy Marchand
Nancy Marchand was an American actress, whose career encompassed both stage and screen. She appeared in various theatre productions throughout the early 1950s, before being offered roles on film and television....
in Cheers, Rita Wilson
Rita Wilson
-Early life:Wilson was born Margarita Ibrahimoff in Los Angeles, California.Her father, a Bulgarian who worked at a racetrack, was born in Greece. Before immigrating to the US, he had lived in Bulgaria and Turkey....
in Frasier) was Martin's wife and Niles
Niles Crane
Niles Crane, M.D., Ph.D., A.P.A. is a fictional character on the American sitcom Frasier, a spin-off of the popular show Cheers. He was portrayed by David Hyde Pierce. Niles is the younger brother of Dr. Frasier Crane, the son of Det. Martin Crane and Dr. Hester Crane, husband of Daphne Moon,...
and Frasier
Frasier Crane
Frasier W. Crane, M.D., Ph.D., A.P.A. is a fictional character on the American television sitcoms Frasier and Cheers. He was played by Kelsey Grammer for 20 years, tying the record for the longest-running character on prime-time American television, which was set by James Arness, who played Marshal...
's mother. By the time the series
Frasier
Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet and Paramount Network Television.A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars...
begins, she has been dead for approximately six years; throughout the course of the series, the cause of her death is never expressly revealed although it is indicated in "Rooms with a View" she died from lung cancer. Hester appears in a dream sequence (experienced by Frasier in "Don Juan In Hell") and in 8 mm cine transferred to video (in the seventh season episode "Momma Mia" where Rita Wilson
Rita Wilson
-Early life:Wilson was born Margarita Ibrahimoff in Los Angeles, California.Her father, a Bulgarian who worked at a racetrack, was born in Greece. Before immigrating to the US, he had lived in Bulgaria and Turkey....
also plays Mia Preston who is the spitting image of Hester).
Hester first appeared in a third-season episode of Cheers ("Diane Meets Mom") in which Hester threatened to kill Diane Chambers
Diane Chambers
Diane Chambers is a fictional character portrayed by Shelley Long on the American television show Cheers , and on several episodes of the subsequent Cheers spin-off Frasier...
if Diane did not stop seeing Frasier. Hester at this point was more duplicitous, manipulative and controlling than Frasier's, Niles's and Martin's recollections and descriptions of her later. However, Frasier is surprised by her threats, and says she "has always been the most gentle, rational human being [he] had ever known." Wilson would play a middle-aged version of Hester in the two-part episode "Don Juan in Hell", using prosthetic makeup and a deeper, rougher voice to symbolize a middle point between Wilson's Hester and Marchand's Hester.
Hester was a research psychiatrist
Psychiatrist
A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...
and met Martin in 1952 when she was profiling a murderer. She rejected his first marriage proposal, but the two married when she became pregnant with Frasier. Hester had an affair with a family friend when Frasier and Niles were still children, and she and Martin were subsequently separated for a time." A constant theme throughout the series, nonetheless, is that they had a long and healthy marriage.
Hester was the inspiration for both Frasier and Niles to go into the profession. She named her two sons after favorite lab rats. Both her sons take after her more than they do their father, being intellectually pompous, which causes Roz and Martin—especially given her infidelity—to consider that Hester's one-time lab assistant Leland Barton (David Ogden Stiers
David Ogden Stiers
David Ogden Stiers is an American actor, director, vocal actor, and musician, noted for his roles in Disney movies, as well as his performances in the television series M*A*S*H as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III and the science fiction drama The Dead Zone as Reverend Gene Purdy...
) might be the boys' biological father. (Without knowing Frasier's concerns, Barton reveals he's gay, implying he is not their father.) For example, Frasier
Frasier
Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet and Paramount Network Television.A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars...
and Niles
Niles Crane
Niles Crane, M.D., Ph.D., A.P.A. is a fictional character on the American sitcom Frasier, a spin-off of the popular show Cheers. He was portrayed by David Hyde Pierce. Niles is the younger brother of Dr. Frasier Crane, the son of Det. Martin Crane and Dr. Hester Crane, husband of Daphne Moon,...
quote her as saying "a handshake is as good as a hug." When his snobbish sons embarrass him at "The Timber Mill", a steakhouse chosen by Martin, Martin points out that his wife "may have had fancy tastes, but she had too much class to ever make me or anybody else feel second-rate", and was willing to eat hot dogs and watch ballgames with him.
Hester Crane died in 1987,.
Maris Crane
Maris Crane is Niles Crane's wife for much of the show, though she is never fully seenUnseen character
In fiction, an unseen character is a character that is never directly observed by the audience but is only described by other characters. They are a common device in drama and have been called "triumphs of theatrical invention". They are continuing characters — characters who are currently in...
onscreen much like Norm Peterson
Norm Peterson
Hillary Norman "Norm" Peterson is a character on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by George Wendt. Norm's real first name was revealed to be Hillary, named after his grandfather....
's wife Vera on Cheers
Cheers
Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles...
. She is the most notable of the show's never-seen characters, and often the subject of many jokes. Her family name is not revealed on the series. Maris is immensely wealthy, much wealthier than Niles, as well as spoiled, dominating and neurotic. Many of the characters pointedly dislike her (to Niles' consternation), with Frasier contributing in the show's first episode, "Maris is like the sun...except without the warmth". In a further humorous vein, David Hyde Pierce
David Hyde Pierce
David Hyde Pierce is an American actor and comedian best known for playing psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier, for which he received many accolades including four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.-Early life:Pierce, the youngest of four siblings,...
(who portrays Niles) passively describes Maris during a Montreal comedy performance (which he performs in-character) as "...a wife who's like a refugee from '[The] Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1591.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself...
'..."
Maris was born in 1952 in Seattle. Her father was referred to as "The Commodore"; She also has at least two sisters one of them named Brie, who was born with only one nostril; she is mentioned as Frasier's date in one episode. As a child, Maris was chubby, but started losing weight and was soon very skinny. She once stole a crucifix from the Vatican when she was young.
Maris lived in her family's mansion, which has been in the family for four generations after they made their fortune from urinal cakes (she fools everyone by telling them her fortune comes from timber
Timber
Timber may refer to:* Timber, a term common in the United Kingdom and Australia for wood materials * Timber, Oregon, an unincorporated community in the U.S...
). She met her husband, Niles Crane, during his internship in Seattle when he stopped to help her as she was banging on the electric gates to get into her home. They were married three years later, in 1986.
Maris makes only two onscreen "appearances": once in the episode "Voyage of the Damned" where her shadow is seen through a shower curtain, and again in "Rooms with a View", where she appears in Niles' memory, almost completely covered by bandages after surgery. She is described as small, very pale and pathologically emaciated (Roz originally mistook her for a hat rack). In The Seal Who Came to Dinner, the pass-code to Maris's seaside home is described as her "ideal weight" and "what she weighed at her débutante ball." during her pageant years. The series of numbers that Niles punched in would mean that Maris, at that time, was either 65 lbs. or 56 lbs., depending on the order of the digits on the keypad. Aside from her low weight, Maris is subject to various medical problems: she has abnormally tight quadriceps, a rigid spine, a large number of very specific allergies, she cannot produce saliva, and has a slight webbing of her hands that made her self-conscious enough to shy away from their physical touch. She frequently travels to Europe for plastic surgery and expensive, eccentric health treatments.
In 1993 Maris and Niles refer Frasier to Daphne Moon
Daphne Moon
Daphne Crane is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Frasier, played by Jane Leeves....
(Niles' future wife) as a live-in physical therapist for Martin. Two years later, Maris goes to New York without telling Niles, who worries greatly. On her return, Niles stands up to Maris and she kicks him out of the house, beginning a two-year separation. Maris eventually reunites with Niles, but immediately has an affair with their marital therapist, Dr Bernard Shenkman, in 1998. Niles finally files for divorce. In spite of the finalized divorce, Maris and Niles continue to be codependent for some time, until Niles finally breaks completely free, largely due to Daphne's aggravation.
In 2003 Maris becomes romantically involved with a violent Argentinian polo player, Esteban de Rojo, whom Maris kills in self defense. Resultingly, she is jailed for a few months on suspicion of murder. In early 2004 her defense trial is due to take place, but she escapes to her family's private island from which she cannot be extradited, effectively stranding her for life.
Nikos Crane
Nikos Crane (Joseph WillJoseph Will
Joseph Will is an American actor.Will was born on November 4, 1970 in Westminster, Maryland. He attended Point Park University graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater, and later pursued his Master's degree in Acting from the Florida State University Conservatory of Actor Training, in...
) is the son of Walt and Zora Crane. He is Martin's nephew, and Frasier and Niles' cousin. Nikos was originally going to attend medical school, but became a juggler after receiving some advice from Frasier, about which Zora was quite angry.
Walter "Walt" Crane
Walter "Walt" Crane (John Mahon) is Martin's brother. He appears only once, in an episode in which he and Martin meet again, only to become separated again by the end of the episode. In the episode "Author, Author" when Frasier and Niles are having a fight, Martin tells them a story about a dispute he once had with a partner. His first words are "Now, I never had a brother..." However, the story that Martin tells the boys turns out to be a lie, which he reveals to Daphne after the boys make up and leave.Zora Crane
Zora Crane, (Patti LuPonePatti LuPone
Patti Ann LuPone is an American singer and actress, known for her Tony Award-winning performances as Eva Perón in the 1979 stage musical Evita and as Madame Rose in the 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy, and for her Olivier Award-winning performance as Fantine in the original London cast of Les...
) a Greek woman, is Walt Crane's wife, and Martin's sister-in-law, and the one responsible for Walt and Martin's estrangement. Savagely domineering, she is notable for having violent outbursts. According to family lore, when the Nazis invaded Greece, the five-year-old Zora joined the partisans
Greek Resistance
The Greek Resistance is the blanket term for a number of armed and unarmed groups from across the political spectrum that resisted the Axis Occupation of Greece in the period 1941–1944, during World War II.-Origins:...
and strangled at least a few German occupiers with her jumpropes.
Lilith Sternin
Lilith Sternin (Bebe NeuwirthBebe Neuwirth
Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth is an American actress, singer and dancer. She has worked in television and is known for her portrayal of Dr. Lilith Sternin, Dr. Frasier Crane's wife , on both the TV sitcom Cheers , and its spin-off Frasier...
) is the ex-wife of Frasier Crane and mother of their son, Frederick. A cold, remote woman, she is disliked by most of his family and friends. Lilith appeared as a prominent character on Cheers
Cheers
Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles...
, in which Frasier also first appeared. Her relationship with ex-spouse Frasier is cordial yet distant in the early seasons, becoming more warm and caring in the final seasons.
Nanette Guzman/"Nanny G"
Nanny G is Frasier's first wife and a well-known children's entertainer, in the style of RaffiRaffi (musician)
Raffi Cavoukian, CM, OBC , better known by his stage name Raffi, is a Canadian-Armenian singer-songwriter, author, essayist and lecturer...
. She first appeared in the tenth season episode of Cheers
Cheers
Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles...
, titled "One Hugs, the Other Doesn't", played by Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson is a British actress, comedian and screenwriter. Her first major film role was in the 1989 romantic comedy The Tall Guy. In 1992, Thompson won multiple acting awards, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, for her performance in the British drama Howards End...
. In the final-season Frasier
Frasier
Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet and Paramount Network Television.A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars...
episode "Caught in the Act," Laurie Metcalf
Laurie Metcalf
Lauren Elizabeth "Laurie" Metcalf is an American actress. She is widely known for her performance as Jackie Harris on the ABC sitcom Roseanne, Mary Cooper on The Big Bang Theory, the voice of Mrs. Davis in the Toy Story film series and as Debbie Salt in Scream 2...
plays Nanny G., who proclaims, "Do you have any idea what it’s like to play the same character for twenty years?!" a slighting reference to Grammer's twenty-year portrayal of Frasier Crane on Cheers and Frasier. The character also appeared in a fantasy sequence as the young hippie
Hippie
The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The etymology of the term 'hippie' is from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's...
from Frasier's memory (played by Dina Spybey
Dina Spybey
Dina Spybey is an American actress, known as Dina Waters since her 2000 wedding to director Mark Waters. She has appeared in more than 20 films, including John Q., subUrbia and The Haunted Mansion. She is perhaps best known for her role as Tracy Montrose Blair on the first season of Six Feet Under...
). Frasier and Nanette were briefly married while he was an undergraduate; the ceremony occurred at City Hall. The two experienced a strong sexual chemistry but Frasier claims that the marriage could not work, because of their youth and naïveté.
KACL staff and professionals
This section outlines the various people with whom Frasier works with at KACLKACL (Frasier)
KACL is the fictional Seattle, Washington radio station on the television show Frasier. It broadcasts many talk radio shows, including The Dr. Frasier Crane Show between 2:00pm–5:00pm each weekday, Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe's top-rated The Gonzo Sports Show, and Gil Chesterton's Restaurant Beat...
780AM (the radio station from which Frasier's show is broadcast) or has another otherwise professional relationship with.
Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe
Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe (Dan ButlerDan Butler
Daniel Eugene "Dan" Butler is an American playwright and actor known for his role as Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe on the TV series Frasier.- Life and career :...
) hosts the Gonzo Sports Show, KACL's highest-rated show among most demographics. He is a boorish, intensely macho sports fan, and the urbane Frasier is frequently annoyed by Bulldog, partly because of the other man's more 'common' attributes, and partly because Frasier is usually the butt of Bulldog's jokes. His catch phrase is to yell "THIS STINKS! THIS IS TOTAL BS!" after slamming his fist down whenever he loses something, only to find it immediately afterwards. Bulldog is incredibly sexist and appears to have racist views towards Asian-Americans, particularly the Chinese
Chinese people
The term Chinese people may refer to any of the following:*People with Han Chinese ethnicity ....
, which he makes no attempt to hide, often expressing them on his show. Bulldog is also extremely rude and discourteous and often insults his coworkers, interviewees and even his callers, yet he is apparently very popular, and has been shown to receive at least as many calls from people expressing affection or admiration for him as the angry calls he receives. Despite his sexism and racism, Bulldog never displayed any sign of homophobia (Butler being, in fact, openly gay).
Bulldog is an intense womanizer, and has casual affairs with many women (whom he usually dumps just as casually), but has somewhat of a crush on Roz. Following a short affair with her, Bulldog reveals his feelings towards Roz to be genuine, but they prove to be unrequited. After his show is cancelled and he is fired by the station at the end of Season 6, he returns shortly thereafter to work in the station's archives vault.
Contrary to his overbearing machismo
Machismo
Machismo, or machoism, is a word of Spanish and Portuguese origin that describes prominently exhibited or excessive masculinity. As an attitude, machismo ranges from a personal sense of virility to a more extreme male chauvinism...
, Bulldog has a fear of reptiles and once jumped on a desk in panic when a small lizard got loose in the studio.
Chopper Dave
Chopper Dave (Richard PoeRichard Poe
Richard Poe is an American actor. He has worked in movies, television and on Broadway....
) is a Vietnam War veteran who hosts KACL's Eye in the Sky traffic reports. He has a tendency to speak very loudly due to spending time trying to speak over the din of his helicopter. He has also been known to annoy his colleagues by flying his helicopter very close to their apartment windows.
Gil Chesterton
Edward Hibbert
Edward Hibbert is an American-born English actor and literary agent.-Biography:Hibbert was born in Long Island, New York, the son of Geoffrey Hibbert. He has one sister. He was raised in England, where he attended London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art...
) is a food critic and host of the show "Restaurant Beat" on KACL.
A pompous, catty, effeminate, overrefined character with an upper-class English accent (which Frasier mentions on one occasion is an affected accent), believed by his coworkers to be in the closet
The Closet
The Closet may refer to:* The Closet , Chinese film* The Closet , French film* The closet, referring to undisclosed homosexuality- See also :* Closet* Closet * In the closet...
, Gil claims to be married to Deb, a "Sarah Lawrence
Sarah Lawrence College
Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States, and a leader in progressive education since its founding in 1926. Located just 30 minutes north of Midtown Manhattan in southern Westchester County, New York, in the city of Yonkers, this coeducational college offers...
graduate and the owner of a very successful auto body repair shop" (and an Army Reservist
United States Army Reserve
The United States Army Reserve is the federal reserve force of the United States Army. Together, the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard constitute the reserve components of the United States Army....
), whom his co-workers had believed to be merely a pet cat. Gil claims to have had no idea everyone thought he was homosexual, even mentioning (or at least claiming) that he is married (to a woman) in a Season 5 episode (The Perfect Guy), and much of the humor related to the character stems from his adamant denial of his supposed sexual orientation
Sexual orientation
Sexual orientation describes a pattern of emotional, romantic, or sexual attractions to the opposite sex, the same sex, both, or neither, and the genders that accompany them. By the convention of organized researchers, these attractions are subsumed under heterosexuality, homosexuality,...
, along with his general snarkiness. In one memorable episode, Frasier is disturbed to find that he is having heavily symbolic and vaguely sexual dreams about Gil. Frasier comes up with various interpretations, hoping to prove that the dreams don't actually mean he is attracted to Gil on some level, but in the end none of the interpretations is satisfactory.
Gil drives a red BMW
BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...
with a red interior and is almost always seen wearing his trademark bow tie
Bow tie
The bow tie is a type of men's necktie. It consists of a ribbon of fabric tied around the collar in a symmetrical manner such that the two opposite ends form loops. Ready-tied bow ties are available, in which the distinctive bow is sewn into shape and the band around the neck incorporates a clip....
. It is also revealed in one episode that he wears an ankle bracelet. He claims to be a veteran of the armed services
Armed Services
Armed Services is a collective term that refers to the major organisational entities of national armed forces, so named because they service a combat need in a specific combat environment. In most states Armed Services include the Army also known as Land Force or Ground Force, Navy also know a...
(he once refers to having "seen some cruel pranks
Hazing
Hazing is a term used to describe various ritual and other activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group....
in the Army
United States Army
The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
"), and his taste buds are insured.
In the final season of the show, Gil's homosexuality begins to become more apparent. After a misunderstanding results in Frasier being publicly (and falsely) outed
Outing
Outing is the act of disclosing a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender person's true sexual orientation or gender identity without that person's consent. Outing gives rise to issues of privacy, choice, hypocrisy, and harm in addition to sparking debate on what constitutes common good in efforts...
on the air after being spotted at a local homosexual bar, Gil attempts to coach Frasier on coming out
Coming out
Coming out is a figure of speech for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people's disclosure of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity....
, congratulating him on his first steps onto "the yellow brick road
Yellow brick road
The road of yellow brick is an element in the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, with additional such roads appearing in The Marvelous Land of Oz and The Patchwork Girl of Oz...
to pride and self-acceptance." During the episode's credits, Gil himself is seen covertly entering the homosexual bar in question, Bad Billy's.
His last appearance is in the show's two part finale Goodnight, Seattle
Goodnight, Seattle
"Goodnight, Seattle" is the title of the series finale of the long-running American sitcom Frasier. It aired on May 13, 2004, in the 11th year of the series...
where he is seen along with Kenny Daly, Roz, Daphne, Bulldog, Bebe, Martin, Ronee, Niles and the rest of the KACL staff watching Frasier do his Farewell Speech
The character is named in honor of the real-life Gil Chesterton, a former journalism teacher (now retired) at Beverly Hills High School. One of the series' producers, Christopher Lloyd
Christopher Lloyd (screenwriter)
Christopher Lloyd is an American TV screenwriter and producer of Wings, Frasier, Out of Practice, Back to You, and Modern Family...
, was Chesterton's student years ago, and Lloyd evidently felt naming a character in a hit sitcom would be a nice homage to his former teacher.
Bebe Glazer
Bebe Glazer (Harriet Sansom HarrisHarriet Sansom Harris
Harriet Sansom Harris , often credited as "Harriet Harris" is an American actress best known for her portrayals of Bebe Glazer on Frasier and Felicia Tilman on Desperate Housewives. She won a Tony Award in 2002 as a Featured Actress in a Musical for playing the evil white slaver Mrs. Meers in...
) is Frasier's agent over the course of most of the series. An intensely manipulative and seductive woman, with no apparent morals whatsoever, she is often compared to the Prince of Darkness
Satan
Satan , "the opposer", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible...
by most of the characters, Niles in particular, who comments "She's the devil, Frasier. Run fast, run far!". Frasier relies on her intensely in order to get the best deal he can out of his employers, whilst simultaneously frequently being horrified by her extremely flexible and questionable ethics. She harbors a deep desire to be in the limelight herself, a dream briefly realized when she and Frasier co-host a morning television show for a week. She is revealed to have a son in the final episode, whose apparent age (around 40) is used to imply the talent of Bebe's cosmetic surgeon.
Julia Wilcox
Julia Wilcox (Felicity HuffmanFelicity Huffman
Felicity Kendall Huffman is an American film, stage, and television actress. She is known for her role as executive producer Dana Whitaker on the ABC television show Sports Night , which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination, and as hectic supermom Lynette Scavo on the ABC show Desperate...
) becomes the new financial
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
reporter for the KACL late in the series' run. She is the author of two books, Practical Applications of Econometrics and Day Trade Your Way Out of Debt, the latter of which had stirred some controversy and had eventually contributed to her being fired from CNBC
CNBC
CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...
.
Her no-nonsense, all-business demeanor and arrogant and stand-offish attitude earn her the dislike of the other staff. Frasier makes an advance towards her in a moment of anger-induced passion, similar to a scene in an episode with Kate Costas, with Frasier even using some of the same insults and quoting the famous line by Sam Malone
Sam Malone
Sam "Mayday" Malone is a fictional character on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by Ted Danson. The central character of the series, Sam is a former relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox Major League Baseball team who owns Cheers and tends bar there. He is a recovering alcoholic and...
to Diane Chambers
Diane Chambers
Diane Chambers is a fictional character portrayed by Shelley Long on the American television show Cheers , and on several episodes of the subsequent Cheers spin-off Frasier...
in Cheers
Cheers
Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles...
"Are you as turned on as I am?", which results in the entire station being forced to attend a sexual harassment
Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment, is intimidation, bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors. In some contexts or circumstances, sexual harassment is illegal. It includes a range of behavior from seemingly mild transgressions and...
seminar until Julia promises not to sue Frasier or the station, after which the entire staff leave the seminar.
When Frasier discovers that his accountant and former Oxford classmate, Avery (John Hannah
John Hannah (actor)
John David Hannah is a Scottish actor of film and television. He has appeared in Stephen Sommers' Mummy Series, Richard Curtis' Four Weddings and a Funeral and Sliding Doors with Gwyneth Paltrow...
), is cheating on his wife with Julia, he confronts Avery, unaware that Julia is hiding in a closet, overhearing the entire conversation. Julia's attitude towards Frasier begins to soften after this display of chivalry on his part, and she uses her connections to have Ben, a British street musician (Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...
) whom Frasier and Niles find annoying, then playing a regular gig at Café Nervosa
Café Nervosa
Café Nervosa is a fictional café featured in the American television sitcom Frasier.-Location and role in the series:It is fictitiously located on the corner of the real-world 3rd and Pike Streets in Seattle and is portrayed as being just across the street from the also fictional KACL Radio Studios...
, offered a full-time job elsewhere.
She and Frasier have a brief romantic encounter, although her boorish and coarse behavior towards Martin, Niles, and Daphne ultimately persuades Frasier to break off their relationship.
Kenny Daly
Tom McGowan
Thomas "Tom" McGowan is an American actor, known for his recurring roles on Frasier, as KACL station manager Kenny Daly; Everybody Loves Raymond, as Ray's friend Bernie; and on The War at Home, as Dave Gold's friend Joe. McGowan also appeared on Curb Your Enthusiasm as a disgruntled fan of Larry's...
) is a long-time radio man; little else is known about him. Apparently a successful DJ, in 1993 he was reduced to delivering pizzas as he was out of work at the time. Kenny was married with at least 3 children, but got divorced in 2003, following which he suffered a breakdown.
Kenny becomes the new station manager of KACL in 1998. A likable and relaxed manager, he soon becomes friends with all the staff there. When he took over, he gave Frasier the ultimatum of doing an ad he couldn't endorse or be fired. Kenny fires Frasier but rehires him an hour and a half later. Kenny then goes to station owner Joe Martin to tell him about Frasier's complaint and is fired (this is the time that KACL becomes an all-Salsa station as Joe Martin, inadvertently inspired by Frasier, goes back to his birth name, José Martinez, and rediscovers his Latin roots). Kenny occasionally performs the unscrupulous acts of his predecessors, such as firing and lying to the talent, but often feels guilty and admits to it shortly afterward. Kenny is fairly lowbrow and has tastes and pleasures similar to Martin Crane
Martin Crane
Det. Martin "Marty" Crane is a fictional character on the American television show Frasier. He was played by actor John Mahoney. Martin is the father of Frasier and Niles Crane.- Biography :...
, which occasionally grates against Frasier's more refined sensibilities.
Kenny resigns as station manager after deciding to go back to DJing, and Roz is appointed as his replacement.
He is last seen, along with Frasier's family, friends and KACL staff watching him do his farewell speech
Kate Costas
Kate Costas (Mercedes RuehlMercedes Ruehl
Mercedes J. Ruehl is an American theater, television and film actor.-Personal life:Ruehl was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, the daughter of Mercedes J., a school teacher, and Vincent Ruehl, an FBI agent. She was raised Catholic. Her father was of German and Irish descent and her...
) is one of several KACL station managers before Kenny. Frasier and Kate have a love-hate relationship finding themselves on opposite sides on programming decisions and union negotiations. They have a brief affair before Kate leaves to accept a management position at a Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
station.
Noel Shempsky
Noel Shempsky (Patrick KerrPatrick Kerr
Patrick Kerr is an American television actor. He is probably best known for his recurring role as Noel Shempsky on Frasier...
) is a painfully geek
Geek
The word geek is a slang term, with different meanings ranging from "a computer expert or enthusiast" to "a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts", with a general pejorative meaning of "a peculiar or otherwise dislikable person, esp[ecially] one who is perceived to...
y Trekkie
Trekkie
A Trekkie or Trekker is a fan of the Star Trek franchise, or of specific television series or films within that franchise.-History:In 1967, science fiction editor Arthur W...
who keeps an autographed picture of William Shatner
William Shatner
William Alan Shatner is a Canadian actor, musician, recording artist, and author. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T...
as Captain Kirk on his desk and is fluent in Klingon
Klingon language
The Klingon language is the constructed language spoken by the fictional Klingons in the Star Trek universe....
. His station nickname is "Noel the Mole". He is also good friends with Bill Gates
Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen...
, offering a Vulcan salute
Vulcan salute
The Vulcan salute is a hand gesture consisting of a raised hand, palm forward with the fingers parted between the middle and ring finger, and the thumb extended. Often, the famous line, "Live long and prosper", is said after it. The salute was devised and popularised by Leonard Nimoy, who...
to Gates when he appears on Frasier's show ("The Two Hundredth Episode".) Noel is such an avid Star Trek
Star Trek
Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
fan that William Shatner has a restraining order
Restraining order
A restraining order or order of protection is a form of legal injunction that requires a party to do, or to refrain from doing, certain acts. A party that refuses to comply with an order faces criminal or civil penalties and may have to pay damages or accept sanctions...
against him.
He works in sales at KACL. From early in the series he is in love with Roz Doyle, who does not feel the same way about him (Roz was even willing to date a lesbian
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
instead of him once). In the episode entitled 'Star Mitzvah' it is revealed that Shempsky is Jewish, and is fluent in Hebrew.
His claim to fame, as seen when he volunteers to be the station representative during contract negotiations, is that he can faint at will. It has also been mentioned in the episode "A New Position for Roz" that Noel has never missed a day of work. He was even retained by KACL when it changed formats to Salsa radio and fired most of the talk radio personnel, due to his mastery of Spanish and his never ever having a sick day. Noel shows attraction to Roz throughout the series leading to often embarrassing attempts to impress her. In the final episode, he finally kisses her after she becomes the station manager.
Thomas "Tom" Duran
Thomas "Tom" Duran (Eric LutesEric Lutes
Eric Lutes is an American actor, best known for his role of Del Cassidy on Caroline in the City and as Jake Carlson on So Little Time alongside the Olsen Twins and again with them in Switching Goals. His career started with several commercial spots...
) was an openly homosexual station manager during the second season. In "The Matchmaker", Frasier unwittingly asks Tom out on a date, intending to fix him up with Daphne. He appears later in the year in "Agents in America, Part 3", trying to coax Bebe from jumping off the ledge of the building.
Father Mike Mancuso
Father Mike is a clergyman who serves as host of "Religion on the Line" at KACL. He appears or is referenced in various episodes.Poppy Delafield
Poppy (Katie FinneranKatie Finneran
Katie Finneran is an American actress of film, stage, and television noted for her Tony Award-winning performances in the Broadway play Noises Off in 2002, and the musical Promises, Promises in 2010.-Personal life:...
) was introduced in season 7. She was originally an intern at KACL
KACL (Frasier)
KACL is the fictional Seattle, Washington radio station on the television show Frasier. It broadcasts many talk radio shows, including The Dr. Frasier Crane Show between 2:00pm–5:00pm each weekday, Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe's top-rated The Gonzo Sports Show, and Gil Chesterton's Restaurant Beat...
, working with Frasier. Her mother is the station owner (after Joe Martin—the man who changed the format). When Niles gets a job as an arts critic, Frasier is consumed by jealousy and appeals to Poppy to convince her mother to let him host his own arts critique at the station. Not only does Poppy get the show Frasier wanted, Kenny becomes angry because Frasier went over his head when he already said no. She also goes to a ball with Niles in the episode Rivals.
Other shows on KACL
There have been numerous other shows on KACL, some of which are:"Gonzo Sports Show" - Hosted by Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe
"Restaurant Beat" - Hosted by Gilbert "Gil" Leslie Chesterton
"Religion on the Line" - Hosted by Fr. Mike Mancuso.
"Pet Chat with Nanette" - Hosted by Nanette, canceled by Kate Costas.
"Amber Edwards Book Chat" - Hosted by Amber Edwards.
"Health Watch" - Hosted by Dr. Clint Weber.
"Storytime Theater" - Hosted by Tooty, the Story Lady.
"The Morning Zoo with Carlos and the Chicken" - KACL's morning show hosted by Carlos and Dwayne, AKA "The Chicken".
"Let's Go Camping" - Hosted by Dan and Jenna
"Dr. Nora" - a second advice show on KACL, hosted by Dr. Nora Fairchild (recommended by Frasier), this show lasted for about two weeks.
"Dr. Mary" - a third advice show on KACL, hosted by ex-temp producer Mary Thomas.
"Car Chat with Bob and Bethany" - Hosted by Bob and Bethany; Martin mistakes Bethany for a man.
"Money Matters" - Julia Wilcox (Felicity Huffman
Felicity Huffman
Felicity Kendall Huffman is an American film, stage, and television actress. She is known for her role as executive producer Dana Whitaker on the ABC television show Sports Night , which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination, and as hectic supermom Lynette Scavo on the ABC show Desperate...
), financial reporter, formerly of CNBC
CNBC
CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...
, with whom Frasier is forced to devote part of his show to. He has a brief affair with her later.
"The Doctor Frasier Crane Show" - Hosted by Psychiatrist, Dr. Frasier Crane
Frasier Crane
Frasier W. Crane, M.D., Ph.D., A.P.A. is a fictional character on the American television sitcoms Frasier and Cheers. He was played by Kelsey Grammer for 20 years, tying the record for the longest-running character on prime-time American television, which was set by James Arness, who played Marshal...
(Kelsey Grammer
Kelsey Grammer
Allen Kelsey Grammer is an American actor and comedian. He is most widely known for his two-decade portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the sitcoms Cheers and Frasier...
)
Other Mentioned Radio Shows
"KeKe and Mel's Drivetime Circus" - Mentioned by Opera Director Allister Berk (Patrick Stewart) via The Doctor is Out Season 11 Episode 4and many other shows (the names of which were not given) but the hosts are:
Ray Schmidt, the "Green Grocer".
Bonnie Weems, the "Auto Lady".
Leo Pascali, the "Happy Chef". In season 3, episode 4, ("Leapin' Lizards") the host of "The Happy Chef" is shown on a schedule as Floyd Lovett.
Miss Judy, Arts and crafts.
Helen Grogan, "Ma Nature".
Chester Ludgate, KACL's "lovable curmudgeon" commentator.
Moon family members
This section discusses the more significant members of Daphne Moon's family, a large, working-class clan from ManchesterManchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. Many of the actors who play Moon family members do not have specifically Mancunian English accents: Anthony LaPaglia
Anthony LaPaglia
Anthony M. LaPaglia is an Australian actor. He is known for his role as FBI agent Jack Malone on the American TV series Without a Trace, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama...
, Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant is a Swaziland-born British actor, screenwriter and director. His most notable role came in the film Withnail and I. He holds dual British and Swazi citizenship.-Early life:...
and Robbie Coltrane
Robbie Coltrane
Robbie Coltrane, OBE is a Scottish actor, comedian and author. He is known both for his role as Dr...
, who portray Daphne's brothers, and Brian Cox who portrays her father, were not even born in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
(La Paglia is Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n, Grant was born in Swaziland
Swaziland
Swaziland, officially the Kingdom of Swaziland , and sometimes called Ngwane or Swatini, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, bordered to the north, south and west by South Africa, and to the east by Mozambique...
and both Coltrane and Cox are Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
) and this apparent discrepancy is never addressed on the show but may be taken as an in-joke (see below).
Gertrude Moon
Gertrude Moon (Millicent MartinMillicent Martin
Millicent Mary Lillian Martin is an English actress, singer and comedienne.Martin was born in Romford, England. She made her Broadway debut opposite Julie Andrews in The Boy Friend in 1954...
) is Daphne's mother. The two have a difficult and complex relationship, and Daphne appears to dislike her mother immensely while still remaining intensely loyal and subservient to her. Domineering and ever-complaining, Gertrude is doting and always forgiving towards her son Simon's selfish behavior but is hyper-critical of her ever-supportive and long-suffering daughter, frequently guilting Daphne into providing what she wants. When Gertrude leaves her husband she goes to Seattle. There she unsuccessfully tries to start a romance with Martin and briefly lives with Niles and Daphne, where she quickly overstays her welcome.
Grammy Moon
Grammy Moon, Daphne's paternal grandmother, is frequently mentioned but never seen or heard from on the show (see also: Maris Crane). She and her numerous eccentricities, cooking tips and health complaints are frequently the subject of Daphne's long-winded stories.Harry Moon
Harry Moon (Brian Cox) is Daphne's father. Although he is an alcoholic and a layabout (who supports his drinking on the money given to him by men who attempt to impress their girlfriends by pretending to hit Harry after he pretends to chat up their girlfriends), his relationship with Daphne is closer than the relationship between Daphne and her mother. Seemingly trapped in a long-suffering marriage with his wife, he eventually left her. With Niles' intervention, they attempted a reconciliation, but it was short-lived, and Harry Moon eventually returned to England.Michael Moon
Michael Moon (Robbie ColtraneRobbie Coltrane
Robbie Coltrane, OBE is a Scottish actor, comedian and author. He is known both for his role as Dr...
) is a brother of Daphne. Michael appeared in the two-part series finale, Goodnight, Seattle
Goodnight, Seattle
"Goodnight, Seattle" is the title of the series finale of the long-running American sitcom Frasier. It aired on May 13, 2004, in the 11th year of the series...
, and his speech is almost entirely incomprehensible, spoken in a very fast Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
accent.
He also briefly appears in Something Borrowed, Something Blue played by a different actor.
Simon Moon
Anthony LaPaglia
Anthony M. LaPaglia is an Australian actor. He is known for his role as FBI agent Jack Malone on the American TV series Without a Trace, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama...
) is one of Daphne's brothers. An obnoxious and boorish heavy drinker and layabout, Simon has a difficult relationship with his sister, largely because of Simon's uncouth and selfish nature. He is greatly disliked by both Frasier and Niles, partly because of their class-conscious nature but also because when in Seattle he frequently stays with one of them, often taking unreasonable liberties with regard to their homes, possessions and alcohol supplies in the process. Conversely, he gets on quite well with Martin and, despite his many negative qualities, is quite a popular man who is very successful at attracting women.
Roz is quite taken with him (and he with her) at first, but she eventually catches on to his ways and rejects his advances. Simon views her as a sex object, yet always forgets her name. During the ninth season episodes in which he appears, he constantly calls her "Rose." Roz does not care enough at that point to even correct him.
Simon appears in nine episodes. Like the majority of the Moon family seen on the show, he does not share a Mancunian accent with Daphne: the Australian LaPaglia imitates a London 'cockney' accent. He does, on occasion, wear a Manchester United
Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.The 1958...
t-shirt.
Stephen Moon
Stephen Moon (Richard E. GrantRichard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant is a Swaziland-born British actor, screenwriter and director. His most notable role came in the film Withnail and I. He holds dual British and Swazi citizenship.-Early life:...
) is Daphne's favorite brother. He appears in person in the series finale Goodnight, Seattle (and speaks with Grant's trademark RP
Received Pronunciation
Received Pronunciation , also called the Queen's English, Oxford English or BBC English, is the accent of Standard English in England, with a relationship to regional accents similar to the relationship in other European languages between their standard varieties and their regional forms...
'posh' accent despite the Moons being from Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
). The character also appears in the two-part episode And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon, where he is played by a different actor and has no speaking lines.
Billy Moon
Only seen briefly during Daphne and Donny Douglas' ill-fated wedding, Billy is Daphne's homosexual brother, a professional ballroom dancer. He is described as extremely promiscuous, having sneaked peeks at his brother Nigel in the shower, and getting sexually excited by going to the doctor (even undressing in the car on a visit to the dentist.)Nigel Moon
Briefly appeared in Something Borrowed, Something Blue. According to Daphne their brother Billy would spy on Nigel in the shower. He was portrayed by Cameron DyeCameron Dye
Cameron Dye is an American actor. He played "Fred" in the movie Valley Girl.Dye was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dye's family moved around the United States and in the mid-1970s he attended Sylvania High School in Sylvania, Ohio. Later, Dye moved to California and attended Mills High School in...
.
David Moon
Briefly appears in Something Borrowed, Something Blue. Coincidentally Daphne names her and Niles's son David (though in memory of David AngellDavid Angell
David Lawrence Angell was an American producer of sitcoms. Angell won multiple Emmy Awards as the creator and executive producer, along with Peter Casey and David Lee, of the comedy series Frasier...
in real life.)
Jackie
Daphne's transvestite (and possibly gay) uncle. He lives in San Francisco, so Daphne sometimes visits him during the holidays.Niles and Maris' household staff
This section discusses the significant members of Maris and Niles' household staff who are mentioned on the show. Of these, Marta is significant as the only member of the household staff to have both a recurring role in the series complete with dialogue.Marta
Marta is Niles and Maris' elderly maid. She comes from a remote mountain village in GuatemalaGuatemala
Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...
, and has difficulty with her English pronouns. She speaks fluent German, however, owing to her previous experience working for a German family 'who turned up
Pursuit of Nazi collaborators
The pursuit of Nazi collaborators refers to the post-World War II pursuit and apprehension of individuals who were not citizens of the Third Reich at the outbreak of World War II and collaborated with the Nazi regime during the war...
in Guatemala just after the war'. She is the only member of "Missy Crane's" household staff to be regularly seen on the show. Marta is also an avid fan of Frasier's radio show.
Yoshi
Yoshi is Niles and Maris' elderly and temperamental Japanese gardener. He is frequently mentioned by Niles, usually when referring to arguments over the zen garden Yoshi is keen to build. He is seen once on the series, when Niles is addressing staff before leaving Maris and dies of a heart attack while trimming Maris' elaborate hedge mazeHedge Maze
A hedge maze is an outdoor garden maze or labyrinth in which the "walls" or dividers between passages are made of vertical hedges.-History:...
—Niles said 'the paramedics never had a chance.'
Ngee
Ngee is Niles' and Maris' housekeeper. He is frequently mentioned by Niles during the beginning of the series. Given that Ngee's name seems rather hard to pronounce, Frasier constantly refers to him as "Guy", thus causing Niles to correct him.Minor staff members
Nadia is referred to as Maris' "hatchet maid" but is never seen or heard.Characters seen on Cheers
These are Frasier's old friends from Boston that guest star in certain episodes, influencing the episode's outcome (in addition to frequent guests Lilith and Frederick). The only regular characters from CheersCheers
Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles...
that never appeared on the show were Rebecca Howe
Rebecca Howe
Rebecca Howe-Santry is a fictional character on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by Kirstie Alley. She is introduced after Shelley Long, who played overeducated barmaid Diane Chambers, left to pursue a movie career...
(played by Kirstie Alley
Kirstie Alley
Kirstie Louise Alley is an American actress known for her role in the TV show Cheers, in which she played Rebecca Howe from 1987–1993, winning an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award as the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1991...
, 1987–1993) and the deceased Coach
Coach Ernie Pantusso
Ernie "Coach" Pantusso is a fictional character on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by Nicholas Colasanto for the first three seasons.Coach appeared in 70 episodes of Cheers between 1982-1985.-Character overview:...
(played by the late Nicholas Colasanto
Nicholas Colasanto
Nicholas Colasanto was an American actor and television director, known primarily for his role as Coach Ernie Pantusso on the sitcom Cheers...
, 1982–1985).
Sam Malone
Sam MaloneSam Malone
Sam "Mayday" Malone is a fictional character on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by Ted Danson. The central character of the series, Sam is a former relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox Major League Baseball team who owns Cheers and tends bar there. He is a recovering alcoholic and...
ran the bar (Cheers) that Frasier frequented back in Boston. He appeared on one episode of Frasier, in Season Two, called "The Show Where Sam Shows Up." He is having second thoughts about his wedding to a woman (played by Tea Leoni
Téa Leoni
Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni , better known by her stage name Téa Leoni, is an American actress. She has starred in a wide range of films including Jurassic Park III, The Family Man, Deep Impact, Fun with Dick and Jane, Spanglish, Bad Boys, and Ghost Town.-Early life:Leoni was born in New York City...
) whom Frasier had slept with unknowing that she and Sam were engaged. Sam breaks off the marriage when he finds out she once slept with Cliff
Cliff Clavin
Clifford C. Clavin, Jr. is a character on the American television show Cheers, co-created and portrayed by John Ratzenberger.- Character history :...
.
Diane Chambers
Diane ChambersDiane Chambers
Diane Chambers is a fictional character portrayed by Shelley Long on the American television show Cheers , and on several episodes of the subsequent Cheers spin-off Frasier...
left Frasier at the altar during their wedding. She appeared on four episodes of the series. She first appeared in a dream that Frasier had after going to a tropical island. She later appeared for a play she was doing in Seattle, but confessed to Frasier she needed help because her life was a mess. After that she appeared in a dream consisting of Frasier's ex-wives, ex-girlfriends, and mother.
Woody Boyd
Woody BoydWoody Boyd
Huckleberry Tiberius "Woody" Boyd is a lovable, albeit extremely naive and unsophisticated, character on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by Woody Harrelson. Woody came to Cheers at the beginning of the fourth season of Cheers in 1985....
appeared on an episode to visit Frasier. He and Frasier reminisce about their past days at Cheers, but realize they have nothing in common, and agree to meet once every five or ten (Frasier emphasizes ten) years.
Cliff Clavin
Cliff ClavinCliff Clavin
Clifford C. Clavin, Jr. is a character on the American television show Cheers, co-created and portrayed by John Ratzenberger.- Character history :...
was in an episode called "Cheerful Goodbyes" where Frasier had returned to Boston for a convention. Cliff was celebrating his retirement party, and thought Frasier came to town for the party. Frasier ends up going to the party anyway. Frasier inadvertently convinces Cliff to stay in Boston, to the outrage of Carla, who tries to kill him with a spear gun.
Norm Peterson
Norm PetersonNorm Peterson
Hillary Norman "Norm" Peterson is a character on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by George Wendt. Norm's real first name was revealed to be Hillary, named after his grandfather....
attends the retirement party of Cliff Clavin in "Cheerful Goodbyes." He meets up with Frasier at the party, and gets along famously with Martin
Martin Crane
Det. Martin "Marty" Crane is a fictional character on the American television show Frasier. He was played by actor John Mahoney. Martin is the father of Frasier and Niles Crane.- Biography :...
as a fellow beer drinker. Frasier telephones Norm in the episode "Three Dates and a Break Up."
Carla Tortelli
Carla TortelliCarla Tortelli
Carla Maria Victoria Angelina Teresa Apollonia Lozupone Tortelli LeBec, known as Carla Tortelli, is a waitress on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by Rhea Perlman. Outwardly, at least, Carla is a mean-spirited woman who expresses disdain for many people...
was a waitress at Cheers. She returned for Cliff Clavin's retirement party, ecstatic that Cliff was finally leaving Boston. She flew into a psychotic rage when Cliff announced he'd decided to stay, thanks in part to Frasier, ready to attack Cliff with one of his gifts: a spear gun.
Minor characters
Many of the recurring minor characters seen on Cheers also appeared in "Cheerful Goodbyes", including Paul Krapence (played by Paul Wilson), Cliff's rival Walt Twitchell (played by Raye Birk), and Phil (played by Philip Perlman).Alice Doyle
Alice May Doyle (played by Ashley Thomas, 2002–2004) is the daughter of Roz Doyle. She first appears as a newborn in the fifth season episode "Life of the Party", and by the end of the series has become a child of six. Her father, Rick Garrett, was only 20 when she was conceived, and rather than, as she thought it, ruin his life, Roz decided to raise Alice herself and not burden him with the responsibility. Alice refers to Niles, Martin and Frasier as her "uncles". A running gag in the show's later seasons involved her desperate desire to be a flower girlFlower girl
A flower girl is a participant in a wedding procession. Like ring bearers and page boys, flower girls are usually members of the bride's or groom's extended family, but may also be friends.Her male equivalent is the ring bearer or page boy...
at various weddings, but always being prevented at the last minute. She has a mildly adversarial relationship with Daphne's mother Gertrude, and a close relationship with Roz's onetime boyfriend, Roger.
Donny Douglas
Saul Rubinek
Saul Rubinek is a Canadian actor, director, producer and playwright, known for his work in TV, film and the stage.-Early life:...
) is Niles' divorce lawyer and, for a period, Daphne's boyfriend and fiancé. Ironically, despite his intense crush on Daphne, it is actually Niles who first introduces the two; they meet during Niles' divorce proceedings, while Donny, who is representing Niles against Maris, is helping Frasier to prepare his upcoming testimony. Although a highly successful lawyer, Donny is exceedingly boorish and brash (his antics include arriving for a meeting with Frasier and Niles in a tracksuit after a jog, and changing into his suit in front of them), and are anathema to Frasier's and Niles' refinement; his degree from the University of Las Vegas leads Yale/Cambridge-educated Niles to comment that there could have been "no problem finding tassels for those mortarboards", and although Harvard/Oxford-educated Frasier tells him to "stop being such a snob", his opinions are evidently similar. Their opinion of Donny changes when he cows a supposedly tough lawyer over the phone, greatly reducing the time Niles must wait for his day in court. Donny wins a favorable divorce settlement for Niles through his discovery that Maris' family fortune was based on urinal cakes; Niles' joy is immediately cut short when Donny starts dating Daphne.
Ultimately, Daphne leaves Donny at the altar in favor of Niles. Embittered, Donny initially sues both her and Frasier (who was responsible for Daphne and Niles getting together), but eventually drops the lawsuit. Daphne later encounters Donny in the final minutes before his court-room wedding to his new fiancée. In a later episode, he reappears with yet a different fiancée at Daphne's courtroom wedding with Niles.
Jerome Belasco
Jerome Belasco is an implied crime boss, whom Niles and Frasier approach to seek his help in getting one of Maris' parking tickets overturned—an action which soon comes back to haunt Frasier, as he must then provide couples counseling for Belasco's girlfriend. He was portrayed by Harris YulinHarris Yulin
Harris Yulin is an American actor who has appeared in dozens of Hollywood and television films.-Life and career:Yulin was born in...
, who was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of Jerome.
Kirby Gardner
Kirby (Brian KlugmanBrian Klugman
Brian Klugman is an American actor.Klugman was born in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father is a real estate broker, and his mother is a school teacher. Klugman's uncle is Golden Globe Award-winning actor Jack Klugman. Klugman has two brothers and one sister: Michael "Mike"...
) is the teenage son of Lana and Bob Gardner, and sometime employee of KACL. He is briefly tutored by Frasier, with whom he develops a father-son relationship in the later portion of his appearances. He also does odd jobs for Niles. Kirby's wild hairstyle has been compared to Sideshow Bob's
Sideshow Bob
Robert Underdunk Terwilliger, better known as Sideshow Bob, is a recurring character in the animated television series The Simpsons. He is voiced by Kelsey Grammer and first appeared briefly in the episode "The Telltale Head". Bob is a self-proclaimed genius who is a graduate of Yale, a member of...
. Kirby is smitten with Roz Doyle, leading Frasier to manipulate Roz into escorting Kirby to the latter's high school prom as an incentive for Kirby to study and achieve good marks.
Bob Gardner
Bob Gardner (Brian KerwinBrian Kerwin
Brian Kerwin is an American actor.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kerwin won the Theatre World Award in 1988 for the off-Broadway play Emily. His Broadway theatre credits include the 1997 revival of The Little Foxes and the Elaine May comedy After the Night and the Music in 2005...
) is the husband of Lana Gardner and father of Kirby. Having previously abandoned his wife for another woman, he later had second thoughts and debated whether to return to her—coincidentally, at an airport he met up with Frasier, who was considering whether or not pursue Lana romantically at the time, and after a brief conversation decided to remain with his wife. Frasier, who had also left the conversation with the intent to pursue Lana, decided as a consequence to withdraw and advised Lana to at least attempt to restore her marriage.
Lana Gardner
Lana Gardner, née Lynley (Jean SmartJean Smart
Jean E. Smart is an American film, television, and stage actress. She is known for her comedic roles, one of the best known being her role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS sitcom Designing Women. She later gained critical acclaim for dramatic work, with her portrayal of Martha Logan on 24...
) is an old high school classmate of Frasier's, on whom both Frasier and Niles had crushes during high school. Frasier and Lana meet again as adults, and have a brief romantic relationship while Lana is estranged from her husband, Bob Gardner. Frasier calls this off owing to Lana's immensely aggressive personality. They later become friends. Lana is the mother of Kirby, and has at least one other child. In Jean Smart's first appearance as this character, she was known as Lorna Lynley—the character's name was later changed to Lana to avoid referring to a real person by that name.
Rick Garrett
Rick Garrett (Todd Babcock) is a waiter at Cafe NervosaCafé Nervosa
Café Nervosa is a fictional café featured in the American television sitcom Frasier.-Location and role in the series:It is fictitiously located on the corner of the real-world 3rd and Pike Streets in Seattle and is portrayed as being just across the street from the also fictional KACL Radio Studios...
who, at the age of twenty, has an affair with Roz, which results in her getting pregnant. Their child is Alice May Doyle.
Jen Doyle
Jen Doyle (Zooey DeschanelZooey Deschanel
Zooey Claire Deschanel is an American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter. In 1999, Deschanel made her film debut in Mumford, followed by her breakout role as young protagonist William Miller's troubled older sister Anita in Cameron Crowe's 2000 semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous...
) is Roz's 'pushy and opinionated' cousin who visits her in Seattle. Her judgmental attitude irritates Frasier and Roz finds she cannot maintain the all night partying that Jen prefers. She forms an unlikely friendship with Kenny Daly who is inspired by her spontaneity and passion for traveling in Kissing Cousins
Kissing Cousins
Kissing Cousins may refer to:* Kissing Cousins , an American comedy film* "Kissing Cousins" , an episode of the television series Full House* Kissin' Cousins, a 1964 musical comedy film that stars Elvis Presley...
Derek Mann
Derek Mann (voiced by Joe MantegnaJoe Mantegna
Joseph Anthony "Joe" Mantegna, Jr. is an American actor, producer, writer,director, and voice actor. He is best known for his roles in box office hits such as Three Amigos , The Godfather Part III , Forget Paris , and Up Close & Personal...
) is a newspaper columnist who is one of Frasier's biggest critics. His columns often debase Frasier's program and often twists the doctor's innocent advice to make Frasier look bad in the eyes of the public. He once challenged Frasier to a fistfight after the doctor publicly ridiculed him on his radio show.
Cam Winston
Cam Winston (Brian Stokes MitchellBrian Stokes Mitchell
Brian Stokes Mitchell is an American stage, film and television actor. A powerful baritone, he has been one of the central leading men of the Broadway theatre since the early 1990s...
) is the deep-voiced tenant of the apartment above Frasier's and is Frasier's rival. The two frequently clash and compete over parking spaces, apartment board placement, and balcony rights. For all their rivalry, the two have near-identical tastes, mannerisms and personalities, which prompt competitiveness between them. The two have a history of trumping each other tit-for-tat via the apartment board: while Frasier convinces the board to ban Cam from parking his Humvee in the provided garage, Cam hangs an American flag in passive protest over Frasier's balcony, covering his view; as well as the obvious inconvenience, this incident also damages Frasier's standing with the board, as when he protests about the flag, Cam twists matters so as to make Frasier seem unpatriotic. When their parents feign a dating relationship to have the two come to a truce, Cam and Frasier finally end their feud and compromise with each other to please their parents. Martin and Cam's mother do eventually form a short lived relationship. Cam is exploited in the 10th season episode, Door Jam, when Frasier finds an exclusive luxury spa invitation addressed to Cam in his own mail box due to their mail box exchange as a condition of their truce. Intrigued, Frasier and Niles go to the spa, but find that they are not on the "list", prompting Niles to impersonate Cam's vocal characteristics in the charade, to get access into the spa.
The last mention of Cam Winston is in the 11th-season episode, Crock Tales: Frasier, Niles, Daphne and Roz are locked out of Frasier's apartment on the balcony and yell for Cam's help after they are unable to gain the attention of Martin, who's inside with headphones on.
Duke
Duke (John LaMottaJohn LaMotta
John LaMotta is an American actor best known for his role Trevor Ochmonek in the sitcom ALF, a show which he later confessed to despise.-Biography:...
) is Martin's close friend. He briefly appears in the second season episode "Dukes, We Hardly Knew You" when Martin takes Frasier and Niles to Duke's bar called "Duke's", which is demolished later in the episode. He also appears as one of Martin's poker buddies in the fifth season episode "Where Every Bloke Knows Your Name". Sometime near the beginning of the eighth season, Duke moves to Florida. Duke is frequently referenced on the show, and Martin is sometimes shown speaking to him on the phone or returning from visiting with him. Duke is divorced and has a son, as well as a daughter named Marie (played by Teri Hatcher
Teri Hatcher
Teri Lynn Hatcher is an American actress, writer, and presenter. She is known for her television roles as Susan Mayer on the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives, and Lois Lane on the ABC comedy-drama series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman...
) who briefly dates Frasier in the sixth season episode First Do No Harm.
Dr. Frasier Crane Show callers
Voices for callers who phone in to the Dr. Frasier Crane Show were provided, in many cases, by famous actors and other personalities. Very often, they would literally call in to the studio to record their parts, without having to appear in person.Since these voices were added in post-production, callers' lines were spoken during live studio filming by crewpersons or other actors—including, very often, Arleen Sorkin
Arleen Sorkin
Arleen Sorkin is an American actress, screenwriter, presenter and comedienne. Sorkin is known for portraying Calliope Jones on the NBC daytime serial Days of our Lives and for voicing Batman DC comic supervillainess Harley Quinn in Batman: The Animated Series and the many animated series and...
, the wife of executive producer Christopher Lloyd
Christopher Lloyd (screenwriter)
Christopher Lloyd is an American TV screenwriter and producer of Wings, Frasier, Out of Practice, Back to You, and Modern Family...
. Sorkin appeared in a live cameo during the series finale, "Goodnight, Seattle
Goodnight, Seattle
"Goodnight, Seattle" is the title of the series finale of the long-running American sitcom Frasier. It aired on May 13, 2004, in the 11th year of the series...
."
Some performers would later appear on the show as unrelated characters. For instance, Linda Hamilton
Linda Hamilton
Linda Carroll Hamilton is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Sarah Connor in The Terminator and its sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Catherine Chandler in the television series Beauty and the Beast, for which she was nominated for two Golden Globes and an Emmy...
played the final caller during the pilot episode, "The Good Son
The Good Son (Frasier)
"The Good Son" is the official title for the award-winning pilot episode of the television show Frasier. This first episode attempts to establish the show, introduce the primary characters, and distance itself from its parent, Cheers....
," and later appeared in the Season Four finale.
The only performer to make a call into the show and appear later is Lilith Sternin
Lilith Sternin
Lilith Sternin, M.D., Ph.D., Ed.D., A.P.A. is a character played by Bebe Neuwirth on the American sitcom Cheers, which spans the course of her marriage to Frasier Crane, and its spinoff series Frasier, during which she made regular appearances as Frasier's ex-wife and the mother of their son...
, Frasier's ex-wife, in the episode 'The Show Where Lilith Comes Back' when she calls in to make a criticism of his advice to a previous caller. He then makes plans to meet her after Roz, knowing all about Frasier's tumultuous relationship with his ex, suggests taking her out for dinner live on air so that he has no choice but to accept.
Occasionally, the problem mentioned by a caller served as the main plot for the show, such as Gretchen (Glenne Headly
Glenne Headly
Glenne Aimee Headly is an American actress of film, stage and television.-Early life:Glenne Headly was born in New London, Connecticut and her first years were spent living under the care of her mother in San Francisco and her maternal grandmother in Pennsylvania...
), who worried that her husband was having an affair with a woman whom Frasier suspected of being Niles's wife, Maris. In a similar episode ('A Word to the Wiseguy'), Frasier receives a call from Brandy, the girlfriend of a shady businessman
Mafia
The Mafia is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in Sicily, Italy. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct, and whose common enterprise is protection racketeering...
saying she wants to leave him after Frasier promised he would counsel the woman into marrying her boyfriend.
Very often, the caller's problem is a deliberate joke on that actor's real-life. For instance, Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Lou Etheridge is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.Etheridge is known for her mixture of confessional lyrics, pop-based folk-rock, and raspy, smoky vocals...
, who is openly gay
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
, played a woman unable to choose among her three boyfriends.
| Caller | Season and Episode | Portrayed by | Call Information | Notes/Jokes |
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| Marylin | 3.05 | Brooke Adams | homesick for her little hometown in Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is... |
Adams was born in New York City, but is married to actor Tony Shalhoub Tony Shalhoub Anthony Marcus "Tony" Shalhoub is an American actor of Lebanese descent. His television work includes the roles of Antonio Scarpacci on Wings and sleuth Adrian Monk on the TV series Monk. He has won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for his work in Monk... , who was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin Green Bay, Wisconsin Green Bay is a city in and the county seat of Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, located at the head of Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It has an elevation of above sea level and is located north of Milwaukee. As of the 2010 United States Census,... . |
| Jerry | 4.02 | Marv Albert Marv Albert Marv Albert is an American television and radio sportscaster. Honored for his work as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, he is commonly referred to as "the voice of basketball." From 1967–2004, he was also known as "the voice of the New York Knicks."Including Super Bowl XLII, Marv has called... |
calls in to Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe's Gonzo Sports Show with a question. | Albert is a professional sportscaster Sportscaster In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator... . |
| Lydia | 3.17 | Joan Allen Joan Allen Joan Allen is an American actress. She worked in theatre, television and film during her early career, and achieved recognition for her Broadway debut in Burn This, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in 1989.She has received three Academy Award nominations;... |
being tormented by obscene phone calls. | Frasier enters the booth as Roz hurriedly moves away to let Frasier sit down, he is late because somebody took his parking space, and on top of it all, just after Lydia has finished stating her problem, Frasier starts breathing heavily into the mic. |
| Jenny | 6.20 | Gillian Anderson Gillian Anderson Gillian Leigh Anderson is an American actress.After beginning her career in theatre, Anderson achieved international recognition for her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on the American television series The X-Files. During the show's nine seasons, Anderson won Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen... |
worried about whether her boyfriend is afraid of commitment. | Anderson plays Dana Scully Dana Scully FBI Special Agent Dana Katherine Scully, M.D. is a fictional character and protagonist on the Fox television series The X-Files , played by Gillian Anderson. She also appeared in two theatrical films based on the series... on The X-Files The X-Files The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s... , an FBI agent in a close partnership with Fox Mulder Fox Mulder FBI Special Agent Fox William Mulder is a fictional character and protagonist in the American Fox television shows The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen, two science fiction shows about a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of Alien existence. Mulder's peers consider his theories on... ; at the time of airing their relationship was still platonic. |
| Vic | 2.09 | Kevin Bacon Kevin Bacon Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Trapped, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, Tremors, Death Sentence, Frost/Nixon, Crazy, Stupid, Love.... |
has trouble meeting women. | |
| Chris | 3.17 | Billy Barty Billy Barty Billy Barty was an American film actor.-Biography:Barty, an Italian American, was born William John Bertanzetti in Millsboro, Pennsylvania... |
takes revenge on a neighbor by shoving a pound of rotten shrimp into the man's air conditioner. | |
| Betsy | 5.15 | Halle Berry Halle Berry Halle Berry is an American actress and a former fashion model. Berry received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image Award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and won an Academy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming... |
her husband wants to take her on an anniversary cruise, but she has recurring nightmares about being shipwrecked | |
| Mark | 3.01 | Matthew Broderick Matthew Broderick Matthew Broderick is an American film and stage actor who, among other roles, played the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Adult Simba in The Lion King film series, and Leo Bloom in the film and Broadway productions of The Producers.He has won two Tony Awards, one in 1983 for his... |
a clerk in an all-night convenience store Convenience store A convenience store, corner store, corner shop, commonly called a bodega in Spanish-speaking areas of the United States, is a small store or shop in a built up area that stocks a range of everyday items such as groceries, toiletries, alcoholic and soft drinks, and may also offer money order and... whose "camera self" is doing things Mark doesn't approve of |
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| Tom | 1.12 | Mel Brooks Mel Brooks Mel Brooks is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. He began his career as a stand-up comic and as a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows... |
a man traumatized as a child when his parents' Christmas Christmas Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days... present, a puppy, "wouldn't wake up" |
Brooks is Jewish |
| Jill | 3.02 | Blair Brown Blair Brown Bonnie Blair Brown is an American theater, film, and television actress. She has had a number of high profile roles, including a Tony Award-winning turn in the play Copenhagen on Broadway, as well as a run as the title character in the television comedy-drama The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd,... |
has a recurring dream that Frasier finds fascinating | |
| Carl | 9.22 | Keith Carradine Keith Carradine Keith Ian Carradine is an American actor who has had success on stage, film and television. In addition, he is a Golden Globe and Oscar winning songwriter. As a member of the Carradine family, he is part of an acting "dynasty" that began with his father, John Carradine.-Early life:Keith... |
after hearing Roz's heartbreak on air, he calls in believing that he's going to be dumped and is unsure what to do about it | |
| Polly | 3.07 | Cyd Charisse Cyd Charisse Cyd Charisse was an American actress and dancer.After recovering from polio as a child, and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s... |
says she's "lacking a certain spice," not knowing Frasier is filling in for "The Happy Chef" | |
| Gladys | 1.12 | Rosemary Clooney Rosemary Clooney Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House" written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian , which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 –... |
has fallen so many times in the shower that they can't fit any more pins in her hip | |
| Linda | 2.10 | Betty Comden Betty Comden Betty Comden was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, libretti, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th century... |
calls in asking for directions to an antique store | Comden was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green Adolph Green Adolph Green was an American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at MGM, during the genre's heyday... |
| Jake | 4.02 | Bob Costas Bob Costas Robert Quinlan "Bob" Costas is an American sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s.-Early life:... |
calls into Bulldog's show with a sports question | Costas is a professional sportscaster Sportscaster In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator... . |
| Dorothy | 5.03 | Cindy Crawford Cindy Crawford Cynthia Ann "Cindy" Crawford is an American model. Known for her trademark mole just above her lip, Crawford has adorned hundreds of magazine covers throughout her career. She was named #3 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90s... |
Roz's manicurist, whom Roz accidentally puts through to the show | Crawford later became a spokeswoman for Revlon Revlon Revlon is an American cosmetics, skin care, fragrance, and personal care company founded in 1932.-History:Revlon was founded in the midst of the Great Depression, 1932, by Charles Revson and his brother Joseph, along with a chemist, Charles Lachman, who contributed the "L" in the Revlon name... cosmetics |
| Jack | 3.04 | Billy Crystal Billy Crystal William Edward "Billy" Crystal is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the critical and box office successes... |
on Bulldog's show talking about sport and congratulate him on "getting" Frasier with pranks | |
| Jimmy | 4.03 | Kieran Culkin | calls in claiming his parents are stupid and asks how long it'll last | |
| Tom | 6.20 | Yo-Yo Ma Yo-Yo Ma Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011... |
calls in to Dr. Nora's show asking how he can deal with an annoying co-worker | |
| Elliott | 2.11 | Macaulay Culkin Macaulay Culkin Macaulay Carson Culkin is an American actor. He became widely known for his portrayal of Kevin McCallister in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. He is also known for his roles in Richie Rich, Uncle Buck, My Girl, The Pagemaster, and Party Monster... |
plays an adolescent who calls in to the show saying the problem is that he is a salesman with a young voice, causing Frasier to apologize, and Culkin replies, "Ha Gotcha Dr. Doufus." | |
| Greg | 4.08 | John Cusack John Cusack John Paul Cusack is an American film actor and screenwriter. He has appeared in more than 50 films, including The Journey of Natty Gann, Say Anything..., Grosse Point Blank, The Thin Red Line, Stand by Me, Con Air, Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity, Serendipity, Runaway Jury, The Ice Harvest,... |
a first-year graduate student in psychology who has misdiagnosed himself with every disorder he's studying | |
| Audrey | 6.13 | Beverly D'Angelo Beverly D'Angelo Beverly Heather D'Angelo is an American actress and singer.-Early life:D'Angelo was born in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of Priscilla , a violinist, and Gene D'Angelo, a bass player and television station manager. She is of part Italian ancestry... |
Seems to be discussing a serious relationship problem with her sister when Frasier states in a fed-up tone that she should just "fix the dress" that was accidentally ripped. | |
| Doug | 1.05 | Jeff Daniels Jeff Daniels Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels is an American actor, musician and playwright. He founded a non-profit theatre company, the Purple Rose Theatre Company, in his home state of Michigan... |
is getting fed up with his layabout mother | |
| Connie | 2.06 | Sandra Dee Sandra Dee Sandra Dee was an American actress. Dee began her career as a model and progressed to film. Best known for her portrayal of ingenues, Dee won a Golden Globe Award in 1959 as one of the year's most promising newcomers, and over several years her films were popular... |
angrily berates Frasier for claiming Seattle is depressing | |
| June | 3.06 | Laura Dern Laura Dern Laura Elizabeth Dern is an American actress, film director and producer. Dern has acted in such films as Smooth Talk , Blue Velvet , Fat Man and Little Boy , Wild at Heart , Jurassic Park and October Sky... |
her husband gets mad at her for eavesdropping on other diners in restaurants | |
| Larry | 6.12 | Phil Donahue Phil Donahue Phillip John "Phil" Donahue is an American media personality, writer, and film producer best known as the creator and host of The Phil Donahue Show. The television program, also known as Donahue, was the first to use a talk show format. The show had a 26-year run on U.S... |
gets pulled onto the show after an argument with his wife, Sophie, about inviting some of her friends to his Super Bowl party | Sophie is voiced by Marlo Thomas Marlo Thomas Margaret Julia “Marlo” Thomas is an American actress, producer, and social activist known for her starring role on the TV series That Girl . She also serves as National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital... , Donahue's real-life wife. |
| Tom | 3.22 | David Duchovny David Duchovny David William Duchovny is an American actor, writer and director. He has won Golden Globe awards for his work as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files and as Hank Moody on Californication.-Early life:... |
has sex with his girlfriend of six years every morning, every night, and three times a day on weekends, but isn't sure they really have anything else in common | Coincidentally, David Duchovny had a sex addiction problem later in life. |
| Britney | 11.12 | Hilary Duff Hilary Duff Hilary Erhard Duff is an American actress, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, and author. After working in local theater plays and television commercials in her childhood, she achieved fame playing the title role in the Disney Channel television series Lizzie McGuire. She also reprised her role in... |
announces she's running away from home after the rest of her family have carried their latest argument onto the air | |
| Unnamed Caller | 9.22 | Olympia Dukakis Olympia Dukakis Olympia Dukakis is an American actress. In 1987, she won an Academy Award, BAFTA, and a Golden Globe for her performance in Moonstruck... |
called to berate Frasier over the phone, but changes her mind when she hears Roz unload her heartbreak over the air | |
| Alice | 4.12 | Patty Duke Patty Duke Anna Marie "Patty" Duke is an American actress of stage, film, and television. First becoming famous as a child star, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 16, and later starring in her eponymous sitcom for three years, she progressed to more mature roles upon playing Neely... |
calls in after thinking about sad things, to which Frasier tells her a story about Eddie | |
| Jeff | 1.12 | Dominick Dunne Dominick Dunne Dominick John Dunne was an American writer and investigative journalist, whose subjects frequently hinged on the ways in which high society interacts with the judicial system... |
says he always relieves his Christmas depression watching The Sound of Music The Sound of Music The Sound of Music is a musical by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers... (at a time when Frasier has had to give up a visit with his son, Frederick, so he can take a theatre tour of Salzburg Salzburg -Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for... ). |
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| Russell | 1.01 | Griffin Dunne Griffin Dunne -Personal life:Dunne was born Thomas Griffin Dunne in New York City, New York, the son of Ellen Beatriz Dunne and Dominick Dunne. His mother founded the victims' rights organization Justice for Homicide Victims and his father was a producer, writer, and actor... |
the first caller featured in the pilot episode, who feels his life is going nowhere | Dunne later appeared in the series as Bob, a wheelchair-using photographer interested in becoming Frasier's friend. |
| Caroline | 2.24 | Shelley Duvall Shelley Duvall Shelley Alexis Duvall is an American film and television actress best known for her roles in The Shining, Popeye, Thieves Like Us and 3 Women.... |
feels like she's not making any progress with her therapist (who, unbeknownst to Frasier, turns out to be Niles) | |
| Tom | 9.04 | Anthony Edwards Anthony Edwards Anthony Charles Edwards is an American actor and director. He has appeared in various movies and television shows, including Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Top Gun, Zodiac, Revenge of the Nerds, Northern Exposure and ER.-Early life:Edwards was born in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Erika... |
calls from his wedding to say he's having second thoughts | |
| Maria | 7.16 | Gloria Estefan Gloria Estefan Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those... |
her husband has been having affairs since they were newlyweds and wants to know how to change him | |
| Cleo | 8.10 | Melissa Etheridge Melissa Etheridge Melissa Lou Etheridge is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.Etheridge is known for her mixture of confessional lyrics, pop-based folk-rock, and raspy, smoky vocals... |
unable to choose among her three gorgeous boyfriends | Etheridge is a lesbian Lesbian Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an... . |
| Phyllis | 3.01 | Carrie Fisher Carrie Fisher Carrie Frances Fisher is an American actress, novelist, screenwriter, and lecturer. She is most famous for her portrayal of Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy, her bestselling novel Postcards from the Edge, for which she wrote the screenplay to the film of the same name, and her... |
has incurable insomnia | |
| Marlene | 3.13 | Jodie Foster Jodie Foster Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, film director, producer as well as a former child actress.... |
an over-worked housewife who announced that, if her husband and she didn't find a time to themselves to have sex, she would go to a department store and pick up a stranger | |
| Chester | 2.08 | Art Garfunkel Art Garfunkel Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and actor, best known as being a member of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel... |
a laconic man whose wife is criticizing him for his lack of ambition or drive | |
| Nancy | 3.01 | Teri Garr Teri Garr -Early life:Garr was born in Lakewood, Ohio in 1947. Her father, Eddie Garr , was a vaudeville performer, comedian and actor whose career peaked when he briefly took over the lead role in the Broadway drama Tobacco Road... |
calls in proclaiming she's naked and that she'd prefer to be the spanker | |
| Walter | 2.10 | Adolph Green Adolph Green Adolph Green was an American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at MGM, during the genre's heyday... |
proclaims that he isn't lost after his wife calls into the show asking for directions | Green was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden Betty Comden Betty Comden was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, libretti, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th century... and Green |
| Lois | 1.23 | Eydie Gorme Eydie Gormé Eydie Gormé is an American singer, specializing, with her husband, Steve Lawrence, in traditional pop music, in the form of ballads and breezy swing. She has earned numerous awards, including the Grammy and the Emmy... |
Niles (filling in for Frasier) is counseling Lois and her husband over the radio simultaneously | Eydie's singing partner and real-life husband also plays her 'radio' husband |
| Claire | 1.01 | Linda Hamilton Linda Hamilton Linda Carroll Hamilton is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Sarah Connor in The Terminator and its sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Catherine Chandler in the television series Beauty and the Beast, for which she was nominated for two Golden Globes and an Emmy... |
broken-hearted about the loss of her boyfriend | Played Sarah Connor in the Terminator films, her character's boyfriend dies in the first one. She later appeared in season 4 episode 'Odd Man Out' as a Cello player who left messages on Frasier's machine by accident. |
| Unnamed Caller | 9.22 | Scott Hamilton Scott Hamilton (figure skater) Scott Scovell Hamilton is an American figure skater and Olympic gold medalist. He won four consecutive U.S. championships , four consecutive World Championships and a gold medal in the 1984 Olympics.... |
tells Frasier to go back to Seattle | |
| Unnamed Caller | 9.22 | Daryl Hannah Daryl Hannah Daryl Christine Hannah is an American film actress. After making her screen debut in 1978, Hannah starred in a number of Hollywood films throughout the 1980s, notably Blade Runner, Splash, Wall Street and Roxanne and Kill Bill.-Early life:Hannah was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Susan... |
calls in to let Sully fans know they're boycotting KQZY | |
| Rob | 3.04 | Ed Harris Ed Harris Edward Allen "Ed" Harris is an American actor, writer, and director, known for his performances in Appaloosa, Radio, The Rock, The Abyss, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, A History of Violence, and The Truman Show. Harris has also narrated commercials for The Home Depot and other companies... |
calls in to Bulldog's show to congratulate him on "getting" Frasier with pranks | Looks remarkably like Dan Butler, who plays Bulldog. |
| Gretchen | 2.21 | Glenne Headley | an Austrian woman who suspects that her husband, a fencing instructor, is having an affair with his student (whom Frasier suspects is Maris) | |
| Janice | 1.23 | Patricia Hearst | has a problem breaking through a barrier with her in-laws | |
| Robert | 1.23 | Tommy Hilfiger Tommy Hilfiger Thomas Jacob "Tommy" Hilfiger is an American fashion designer and founder of the premium lifestyle brand Tommy Hilfiger.-Early life:... |
calls in, but Frasier (who's high) disconnects him as they've already had a Robert on the show today | |
| Stephen | 6.11 | Ron Howard Ron Howard Ronald William "Ron" Howard is an American actor, director, and producer. He came to prominence as a child actor, playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later the teenaged Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for six years... |
believes a mysterious voice from his radio is telling him what to do | |
| Keith | 3.01 | Tom Hulce Tom Hulce Thomas Edward "Tom" Hulce is an American actor and theater producer. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his Oscar-nominated portrayal of Mozart in the movie Amadeus and his role as "Pinto" in National Lampoon's Animal House. Additional acting awards included a total of four Golden Globe... |
disgrees with the last two callers and says that his job is very important before leaving to go powder jelly donuts | |
| Chuck | 3.17 | Eric Idle Eric Idle Eric Idle is an English comedian, actor, author, singer, writer, and comedic composer. He was as a member of the British comedy group Monty Python, a member of the The Rutles on Saturday Night Live and author of the play, Spamalot.... |
takes revenge on an enemy by sending him 100 scorpion Scorpion Scorpions are predatory arthropod animals of the order Scorpiones within the class Arachnida. They have eight legs and are easily recognized by the pair of grasping claws and the narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back, ending with a venomous stinger... s in a FedEx parcel |
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| Lorraine | 1.04 | Judith Ivey Judith Ivey Judith Lee Ivey is an American actress and director.-Personal life:Ivey was born in El Paso, Texas, the daughter of Dorothy Lee , a teacher, and Nathan Aldean Ivey, a college instructor and dean. She spent 1965-1968 in Dowagiac, Michigan, where she attended Union High School through tenth grade... |
calls in but keeps getting interrupted with other calls on her line | |
| Polly | 9.10 | Cherry Jones Cherry Jones Cherry Jones is an American actress and recipient of the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Drama Series and the 2005 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play.-Career:... |
complains about her boring sex life with her husband | Jones is a lesbian Lesbian Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an... . |
| Brian | 8.08 | Stephen King Stephen King Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books... |
Frasier tries to squeeze Brian in before the news, however he doesn't want that and claims that he would rather wait | |
| Marco | 1.07 | Bruno Kirby Bruno Kirby Bruno Kirby was an American film and television actor. He was perhaps best known for his roles in the Hollywood films City Slickers, When Harry Met Sally..., Good Morning, Vietnam, The Godfather Part II and Donnie Brasco.-Early life:Kirby was born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu, Jr. in New York City,... |
complains about his girlfriend pressing him for a commitment, saying he wants to keep his options open "in case somebody better comes along" | |
| Gary | 1.06 | Robert Klein Robert Klein Robert Klein is an American stand-up comedian, singer and actor.-Early life:Klein was born in the Bronx, the son of Frieda and Benjamin Klein, and was raised in a "prototypical 1950s Bronx Jewish" environment. After graduating from DeWitt Clinton High School, Klein planned to study medicine... |
his wife wants to go to Italy but he thinks the money should be spent on a sump pump Sump pump A sump pump is a pump used to remove water that has accumulated in a water collecting sump basin, commonly found in the basement of homes. The water may enter via the perimeter drains of a basement waterproofing system, funneling into the basin or because of rain or natural ground water, if the... |
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| Laura | 1.22 | Christine Lahti Christine Lahti Christine Lahti is an American actress and film director. Lahti has had a successful career in television and film. Throughout her career she has garnered 2 Golden Globe Awards from 8 Nominations, An Emmy Award from 6 Nominations and 2 Academy Award nominations... |
calls in to tell Frasier and Niles about her sisters and how she lost her hair | |
| Marianne | 1.13 | Piper Laurie Piper Laurie Piper Laurie is an American actress of stage and screen known for her roles in the television series Twin Peaks and the films The Hustler, Carrie, and Children of a Lesser God, all of which brought her Academy Award nominations... |
had a fight with her grown-up daughter when she insisted that her daughter's boyfriend spend the night in a separate bedroom | Laurie later appeared in the episode "Dr. Nora." Also played the religious fanatic mother of the title character in the film Carrie. |
| Angela | 3.24 | Sherry Lansing Sherry Lansing Sherry Lansing is a former actress and American film studio executive. She is former CEO of Paramount Pictures, and when president of production at 20th Century Fox was the first woman to head a Hollywood studio In 1996, she became the first woman named Pioneer of the Year by the Foundation of... |
calls in about a problem relating to her dead husband | |
| Howard | 1.23 | Steve Lawrence Steve Lawrence Steve Lawrence is an American singer and actor, perhaps best known as a member of a duo with his wife Eydie Gormé, billed as "Steve and Eydie"... |
Niles (filling in for Frasier) is counseling Lois and her husband over the radio simultaneously | |
| Hank | 1.16 | Timothy Leary Timothy Leary Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. During a time when drugs like LSD and psilocybin were legal, Leary conducted experiments at Harvard University under the Harvard Psilocybin Project, resulting in the Concord Prison... |
complains about an overeating disorder | |
| Estelle | 9.08 | Jennifer Jason Leigh Jennifer Jason Leigh Jennifer Jason Leigh is an American film and stage actress, best known for her roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Single White Female, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Georgia and Short Cuts... |
calls in with a question for Bill Gates Bill Gates William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen... about multi-lingual user inferface add-ons |
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| Don | 1.10 | Jay Leno Jay Leno James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno is an American stand-up comedian and television host.From 1992 to 2009, Leno was the host of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Beginning in September 2009, Leno started a primetime talk show, titled The Jay Leno Show, which aired weeknights at 10:00 p.m. ,... |
complains about his inability to lose weight, when another voice cuts in and reveals that he's at a drive-through window | |
| Bob | 3.09 | Ray Liotta Ray Liotta [File:Ray Liotta is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Henry Hill in the crime-drama Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese and his role as Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams... |
calls from the airport during Christmas, unsure whether he wants to fly home, or hop on an open flight to Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of... , after Frasier counsels him, Bob says he has reached a decision, to which Frasier replies darkly "Mele Kalikimaka, Bob" |
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| Madman Martinez | 2.19 | John Lithgow John Lithgow John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor, musician, and author. Presently, he is involved with a wide range of media projects, including stage, television, film, and radio... |
pretends to be depressed, as a means of plugging his car dealership | |
| Pam | 1.03 | Patti LuPone Patti LuPone Patti Ann LuPone is an American singer and actress, known for her Tony Award-winning performances as Eva Perón in the 1979 stage musical Evita and as Madame Rose in the 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy, and for her Olivier Award-winning performance as Fantine in the original London cast of Les... |
calls in asking how to deal with her in-laws who drop by unannounced | Later appeared as Aunt Zora in the season 5 episode 'Beware of Greeks' |
| Ralph | 6.11 | William H. Macy William H. Macy William Hall Macy, Jr. is an American actor and writer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo. He is also a teacher and director in theater, film and television. His film career has been built mostly on his appearances in small, independent films, though... |
calls after Frasier has helped him change a tire, to complain about damage done to his car | |
| Maggie | 2.04 | Amy Madigan Amy Madigan Amy Marie Madigan is an American actress who is known for her role as Annie Kinsella in the 1989 film Field of Dreams and Iris Crowe in the HBO television series Carnivale... |
is unsure what to do with her clingy boyfriend | |
| Al | 1.13 | Henry Mancini Henry Mancini Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995... |
a man who can't stand the sound of his own voice | Shortly thereafter, Frasier plays Mancini's Moon River Moon River "Moon River" is a song composed by Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini in 1961, for whom it won that year's Academy Award for Best Original Song. It was originally sung in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's by Audrey Hepburn, although it has been covered by many other artists... |
| Celeste | 11.12 | Penny Marshall Penny Marshall Penny Marshall is an American actress, producer and director.After playing several small roles for television, she was cast as Laverne DeFazio in the sitcom Laverne and Shirley... |
Morrie's wife, who picks up the phone, sure he's on the phone with his mistress | |
| Eileen | 3.03 | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is an American actress and singer known for her role as Carmen in The Color of Money, as well as for her roles as Lindsey Brigman in The Abyss, Gina Montana in Scarface, and Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.-Personal life:Mastrantonio was born in Lombard,... |
fantasizes about Frasier when she is having sex with her husband | |
| Derek Mann | 1.04 | Joe Mantegna Joe Mantegna Joseph Anthony "Joe" Mantegna, Jr. is an American actor, producer, writer,director, and voice actor. He is best known for his roles in box office hits such as Three Amigos , The Godfather Part III , Forget Paris , and Up Close & Personal... |
after being attacked by Frasier on his radio show, he calls in to berate him and to arrange a fist fight | Like Grammar, Mantegna plays one of The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie... most recognizable guest characters, Springfield mob boss Fat Tony Fat Tony Marion Anthony "Fat Tony" D'Amico is a recurring character in the animated sitcom The Simpsons. He is voiced by Joe Mantegna and first appeared in the third season episode "Bart the Murderer"... |
| Gerard | 3.11 | Armistead Maupin Armistead Maupin Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. is an American writer, best known for his Tales of the City series of novels, based in San Francisco.-Early life:... |
"Called in for a different reason" when Frasier talked about the apprehension of meeting new friends, Gerard was inspired and offered to comb Frasier's hair. | |
| Vinnie | 3.08 | Paul Mazursky Paul Mazursky Paul Mazursky is an American film director, screenwriter and actor.-Personal life:He was born Irwin Mazursky in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jean , a piano player for dance classes, and David Mazursky, a laborer. Mazursky was born to a Jewish family; his grandfather was an immigrant from... |
a womanizer who calls in trying to locate a pinky ring he left in his latest conquest's house | |
| Dr. Bruga | 1.19 | Malcolm McDowell Malcolm McDowell Malcolm McDowell is an English actor with a career spanning over forty years.McDowell is principally known for his roles in the controversial films If...., O Lucky Man!, A Clockwork Orange and Caligula... |
appears on Frasier's show to discuss his book as well as hit on Roz | |
| Patrick | 5.24 | John McEnroe John McEnroe John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. During his career, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles , nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title... |
he thinks his wife is having an affair | |
| Rachel | 1.20 | Reba McEntire Reba McEntire Reba Nell McEntire is an American country music artist and actress. She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band , on local radio shows with her siblings, and at rodeos. As a solo act, she was invited to perform at a rodeo in Oklahoma... |
married to a widower who insists on keeping his late wife's ashes on a shelf in their bedroom | |
| Babette | 11.17 | Helen Mirren Helen Mirren Dame Helen Mirren, DBE is an English actor. She has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards.-Early life and family:... |
a kleptomaniac | Mirren was the last guest caller of the series. |
| Marjorie | 1.23 | Mary Tyler Moore Mary Tyler Moore Mary Tyler Moore is an American actress, primarily known for her roles in television sitcoms. Moore is best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show , in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis, and for her earlier role as... |
thinks her boss does not respect her and lacks courage to approach him | |
| Mitch | 3.17 | Jerry Orbach Jerry Orbach Jerome Bernard "Jerry" Orbach was an American actor and singer. He was well known for his starring role as Detective Lennie Briscoe in the Law & Order television series and as the voice of Lumière in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. As well, Orbach was a noted musical theatre star... |
takes revenge on an offending neighbor by smashing the man's offending leaf blower against a tree | |
| Rochelle | 3.17 | Jane Pauley Jane Pauley Margaret Jane Pauley is an American television journalist, and has been involved in news reporting since 1975... |
takes revenge on her neighbor for failing to curb her dogs, by setting the woman's lawn on fire | |
| Francesca | 2.12 | Rosie Perez Rosie Perez Rosa María "Rosie" Pérez is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, director and community activist.- Early life :... |
suffers a fear of abandonment - Frasier is cut off from her when his incompetent producer hits the wrong button | Perez later appeared during the Season Eleven episode, "Crock Tales" |
| Rachel | 8.13 | Bernadette Peters Bernadette Peters Bernadette Peters is an American actress, singer and children's book author from Ozone Park, Queens, New York. Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings... |
(while Frasier is listening to 'The Best of Crane' in his car) calls in to thank Frasier for a book recommendation and to try score a date with him | |
| Holden Thorpe | 2.07 | Sydney Pollack Sydney Pollack Sydney Irwin Pollack was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting... |
an obnoxious right-wing Congressional candidate who insults Frasier over the air, driving Frasier to film an endorsement for his opponent | |
| Brandy | 3.15 | Faith Prince Faith Prince Faith Prince is an American actress and singer known primarily for her work on Broadway. Prince has won the Tony Award as Best Actress in a Musical and received three Tony nominations.-Life and career:... |
after being told to do so by her boyfriend Jerome, she calls in to ask Frasier if she should marry him. This is pay back for Jerome helping with Maris' ticket problem and part of his plan to get Brandy to marry him | |
| Mike | 9.14 | Freddie Prinze, Jr. Freddie Prinze, Jr. Freddie James Prinze, Jr. is an American actor. He rose to fame during the late 1990s and early 2000s, after starring in several Hollywood films aimed at teenage audiences, I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer , as well as She's All That , Summer... |
calls in while Frasier is a guest speaker on the program Teen Scene | |
| Denise | 6.20 | Bonnie Raitt Bonnie Raitt Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially... |
has a poisonous relationship with her overbearing mother | |
| Leonard | 1.02 | Christopher Reeve Christopher Reeve Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, author and activist... |
an extreme agoraphobe Agoraphobia Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder defined as a morbid fear of having a panic attack or panic-like symptoms in a situation from which it is perceived to be difficult to escape. These situations can include, but are not limited to, wide-open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions... with a terror of wide, open spaces |
Reeve portrayed Superman Superman Superman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective... in a series of films. |
| Roger | 1.09 | Carl Reiner Carl Reiner Carl Reiner is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award during this career... |
arguing with his wife about what to name his brand-new cabin cruiser; Frasier responds that he couldn't locate his interest in Roger's problem with the aid of an electron microscope Electron microscope An electron microscope is a type of microscope that uses a beam of electrons to illuminate the specimen and produce a magnified image. Electron microscopes have a greater resolving power than a light-powered optical microscope, because electrons have wavelengths about 100,000 times shorter than... |
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| Bill | 5.13 | Rob Reiner Rob Reiner Robert "Rob" Reiner is an American actor, director, producer, writer, and political activist.As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence as Archie and Edith Bunker's son-in-law, Michael "Meathead" Stivic, on All in the Family. That role earned him two Emmy Awards during the 1970s... |
was a bed-wetter as a child and thinks the problem is coming back. Roz forces him to make the problem more interesting in order to get through asking him if he's wet the bed with anyone else in it (stripper, hooker, best friend's wife); he decides to pick the third option | |
| Chet | 4.15 | Eric Roberts Eric Roberts Eric Anthony Roberts is an American actor. His career began with King of the Gypsies , earning a Golden Globe nomination for best actor debut. He starred as the protagonist in the 1980 dramatisation of Willa Cather's 1905 short story, Paul's Case... |
a once-timid man who takes Frasier's advice about assertiveness too far and becomes an overbearing jerk | |
| Marie | 2.12 | Carly Simon Carly Simon Carly Elisabeth Simon is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records, and has since been the recipient of two Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for her work... |
wants to ask out a forty year old man who's never been married | |
| Andy | 8.09 | Neil Simon Neil Simon Neil Simon is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has written numerous Broadway plays, including Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and The Odd Couple. He won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Lost In Yonkers. He has written the screenplays for several of his plays that... |
unsure if he's on | |
| Sid | 2.18 | Gary Sinise Gary Sinise Gary Alan Sinise is an American actor, film director and musician. During his career, Sinise has won various awards including an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1992, Sinise directed, and played the role of George Milton in the successful film adaptation of... |
is incapable of talking on the phone with strangers unless he writes out everything he wants to say in advance | |
| Steven | 2.01 | James Spader James Spader James Todd Spader is an American actor best known for his eccentric roles in movies such as Pretty in Pink, Less Than Zero, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Crash, Stargate, and Secretary... |
has doubts about his wife's decision to have their newborn baby share their bedroom. | |
| Marjorie | 2.13 | Mary Steenburgen Mary Steenburgen Mary Nell Steenburgen is an American actress. She is best known for playing the role of Lynda Dummar in Jonathan Demme's Melvin and Howard, which earned her an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.-Early life:... |
an acrophobe Acrophobia Acrophobia is an extreme or irrational fear of heights. It belongs to a category of specific phobias, called space and motion discomfort that share both similar etiology and options for treatment.Most people experience a degree of natural fear when exposed to heights, especially if there is little... who calls in to say that she's almost conquered her fears |
In real life Steenburgen is married to actor Ted Danson Ted Danson Edward Bridge “Ted” Danson III is an American actor best known for his role as central character Sam Malone in the sitcom Cheers, and his role as Dr. John Becker on the series Becker. He also plays a recurring role on Larry David's HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm and starred alongside Glenn Close... who appears as his Cheers Cheers Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles... character, Sam Malone Sam Malone Sam "Mayday" Malone is a fictional character on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by Ted Danson. The central character of the series, Sam is a former relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox Major League Baseball team who owns Cheers and tends bar there. He is a recovering alcoholic and... , later in the series |
| Barry | 1.12 | Ben Stiller Ben Stiller Benjamin Edward "Ben" Stiller is an American comedian, actor, writer, film director, and producer. He is the son of veteran comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.... |
calls in on Christmas Day and cannot stop crying | Ben Stiller is actually Jewish |
| Don | 1.12 | Eric Stoltz Eric Stoltz Eric Hamilton Stoltz is an American actor, director and producer. He is widely known for playing the role of Rocky Dennis in the biographical drama film Mask, which earned him the nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture... |
calls in to share a feeling which put him in the spirit of Christmas | |
| Sophie | 6.12 | Marlo Thomas Marlo Thomas Margaret Julia “Marlo” Thomas is an American actress, producer, and social activist known for her starring role on the TV series That Girl . She also serves as National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital... |
arguing with her husband, Larry, about wanting to invite some of her girlfriends to his Super Bowl party | Larry is voiced by Thomas's real-life husband, Phil Donahue Phil Donahue Phillip John "Phil" Donahue is an American media personality, writer, and film producer best known as the creator and host of The Phil Donahue Show. The television program, also known as Donahue, was the first to use a talk show format. The show had a 26-year run on U.S... . |
| Rita | 2.02 | Lily Tomlin Lily Tomlin Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin is an American actress, comedienne, writer, and producer. Tomlin has been a major force in American comedy since the late 1960's when she began a career as a stand up comedian and became a featured performer on television's Laugh-in... |
an overworked housewife with seven children who's about to crack under the strain; Frasier, who's just been laden with a litter of puppies, suggests that she considers getting one. | |
| Steve | 3.15 | Randy Travis Randy Travis Randy Travis is an American country music singer and actor. Since 1985, he has recorded 20 studio albums and charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, 22 of which were number one hits... |
trying to lose weight | |
| Louis | 1.23 | Gary Trudeau | calls in to Frasier's show while Gil Chesterton is filling in for a sick Frasier to say he's forgotten his anniversary, and Gil arranges a private table at a five-star restaurant. | |
| Morrie | 11.12 | Stanley Tucci Stanley Tucci Stanley Tucci is an American actor, writer, film producer and film director. He has been nominated for several notable film awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his performance in The Lovely Bones... |
a man whose wife suspects him of cheating on her, to the point where he's locked himself in his bathroom to make the call. | |
| Hank | 1.07 | Eddie Van Halen Eddie Van Halen Edward Lodewijk "Eddie" Van Halen is a Dutch-American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter and producer, best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame... |
unsure if he's on the show due to feedback issues | |
| Stu | 10.04 | Bradley Whitford Bradley Whitford Bradley Whitford is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his roles as Deputy White House Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama The West Wing, as Danny Tripp on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, as Dan Stark in the Fox police buddy-comedy The Good Guys, as... |
his girlfriend wants him to move in | |
| Danielle | 1.08 | JoBeth Williams JoBeth Williams JoBeth Williams is an American film and television actress and director, and current President of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.-Early life:... |
is having a problem with her monsieur | |
| Brenda | 3.17 | Katarina Witt Katarina Witt Katarina Witt is a German figure skater and model. In Germany she was commonly called "Kati" in the past, but today her full name is used more often.... |
starts to tell Frasier about a dispute with her sister, but puts Frasier on hold to answer her other line. | |
| Ethan | 1.13 | Elijah Wood Elijah Wood Elijah Jordan Wood is an American actor. He made his film debut with a minor part in Back to the Future Part II , then landed a succession of larger roles that made him a critically acclaimed child actor by age 9. He is best known for his high-profile role as Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's... |
gets beat up at school for being too smart and non-athletic, and proceeds to complain about Frasier's condescending advice. | Because he was constantly appearing in films as a child, Wood was home-schooled until he enrolled in university |
| Edna | 2.06 | Alfre Woodard Alfre Woodard Alfre Ette Woodard is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has been nominated once for an Academy Award and Grammy Awards, 17 times for Emmy Awards , and has also won a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.She is known for her role in films such as Cross Creek, Miss... |
gets depressed about living in rain-washed Seattle. | |
| Blake | 1.23 | Steve Young | crashes his car after Frasier, not realizing he was on a car phone, tells him to close his eyes and imagine he's on a tropical island | |
| Jill | 6.20 | Pia Zadora Pia Zadora Pia Zadora is an American actress and singer. After working as a child actress on Broadway, in regional theater, and in the film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians , she came to national attention in 1981 when, following her starring role in the highly criticized Butterfly, she won a Golden Globe... |
her husband is gay, but Dr. Nora refuses to accept this as a reason for a divorce, telling her to "Make it work!" | |
| Garth | 9.10 | Pat Boone Pat Boone Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an American singer, actor and writer who has been a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He covered black artists' songs and sold more copies than his black counterparts... |
calls in while Frasier and Kenny are arguing over the show's advertising budget after Dr. Zach's more sexually oriented show begins dominating the ratings. When Garth mentions he's part of a couple with problems, Kenny and Frasier get their hopes up for a juicy call, only to find out Garth has budget problems | Boone owned the Oakland Oaks Oakland Oaks (ABA) The Oakland Oaks were a charter member of the original American Basketball Association. Formed in February 1967 as the Oakland Americans, the team changed its name to the Oaks prior to play that fall. Playing in the ABA during the 1967-68 and 1968-69 seasons, the team colors were green and gold.The... , an ABA American Basketball Association The American Basketball Association was a professional basketball league founded in 1967. The ABA ceased to exist with the ABA–NBA merger in 1976.-League history:... team with severe financial problems |
| Linda | 4.05 | Wendy Wasserstein Wendy Wasserstein Wendy Wasserstein was an American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University... |
While Niles is sitting in for Frasier Linda calls in to have Niles talk with her cat to get it to eat. | |
| Roger | 5.13 | John Waters John Waters (filmmaker) John Samuel Waters, Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, stand-up comedian, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films... |
thinking of changing careers as he's kind of trapped. Roz forces him make the problem more interesting in order to get through by classifying "trapped" as a woman trapped inside of a man's body who's thinking of running for political office | |
| Warren | 9.08 | Bobby Short Bobby Short Robert Waltrip "Bobby" Short was an American cabaret singer and pianist, best known for his interpretations of songs by popular composers of the first half of the 20th century such as Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Noel Coward and George and Ira Gershwin.He... |
calls in with a question for Bill Gates Bill Gates William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen... asking if he needs to make a boot disk when installing XP as an upgrade |
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| Phyllis | 9.08 | Allison Janney Allison Janney Allison Brooks Janney is an American actress, best known for her role as C.J. Cregg on the television series The West Wing.- Personal life :... |
calls in with a description of her missing cat | Appears in the episode "Three Blind Dates". |
| Joe | 9.08 | Larry Gelbart Larry Gelbart Larry Simon Gelbart was an American television writer, playwright, screenwriter and author.-Early life:... |
calls in explaining how he understands how Frasier feels losing his tape as he lost a gold cuff link a few years ago and that if anyone finds it, he'd love to have it back | |
| Mike | 4.02 | Julius Erving Julius Erving Julius Winfield Erving II , commonly known by the nickname Dr. J, is a retired American basketball player who helped launch a modern style of play that emphasizes leaping and play above the rim.... |
calls into Bulldog's show for his take on the Yankees this season | Erving was a former professional basketball player |
| Rudy | 4.03 | Christopher Durang Christopher Durang Christopher Ferdinand Durang is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s.- Life :... |
on air telling the plot of a sad movie while crying | |
| Doug | 4.19 | David Benoit David Benoit David Benoit, is an American jazz fusion/smooth jazz pianist, composer and producer from Los Angeles, California. He has been nominated for five Grammy Awards... |
explaining his unemployment situation | |
| Marie | 5.17 | Jill Clayburgh Jill Clayburgh Jill Clayburgh was an American actress. She received Academy Award nominations for her roles in An Unmarried Woman and Starting Over.-Personal life:... |
has a hard time getting out of bed every morning, and that she feels irritable when she does | |
| Gave | 7.16 | Isaac Mizrahi Isaac Mizrahi Isaac Mizrahi is an American TV presenter, fashion designer, and was the creative director of Liz Claiborne. He is best known for his eponymous fashion lines.-Early life:... |
has an addiction to shopping | Mizrahi is a famous fashion designer |
| Tom | 8.08 | Wolfgang Puck Wolfgang Puck Wolfgang Johannes Puck is an Austrian-American celebrity chef, restaurateur, businessman and occasional actor. Wolfgang Puck restaurants, catering services, cookbooks and licensed products are run by Wolfgang Puck Companies, with three divisions... |
Frasier tries to squeeze Tom in before the news, however he doesn't want that and claims that he would rather wait | Later appears in season 9 episode 'The Proposal' as himself |
| Fred | 8.16 | Hal Prince Hal Prince Harold Smith Prince is an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century... |
has a fear of intimacy | |
| Terrence | 9.11 | Andy Garcia Andy García Andrés Arturo García Menéndez , professionally known as Andy García, is a Cuban American actor. He became known in the late 1980s and 1990s, having appeared in several successful Hollywood films, including The Godfather: Part III, The Untouchables, Internal Affairs and When a Man Loves a Woman... |
is sick of being single | |
| Lillian | 9.18 | Naomi Judd Naomi Judd Naomi Judd is an American country music singer, songwriter, and activist.-Personal life:She was born Diana Ellen Judd to Charles Glen Judd and his wife Pauline Judd on January 11, 1946, in Ashland, Kentucky. Her father owned a gas station; her mother started out as a homemaker but later became a... |
has perfectionist tendencies | |
| Jeremy | 9.21 | Rufus Wainwright Rufus Wainwright Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter. He has recorded six albums of original music, EPs, and tracks on compilations and film soundtracks.-Early years:... |
teenager who has (unknown) problems | |
| Jerry | 10.02 | Billy Bean Billy Bean William Daro "Billy" Bean is a former Major League Baseball player who made news in 1999 when he made his homosexuality public.-Career:... |
wants to know what's going on with Dr. Crane (who's late) after Roz let it slip that they slept together | |
| Mark | 10.02 | Charles Busch Charles Busch Charles Louis Busch is an American actor, screenwriter, playwright and female impersonator, known for his appearances on stage in his own camp style plays and in film and television. He wrote The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, which was a success on Broadway.-Early life:Busch was born in 1954 and... |
things are uncomfortable at work after he slept with his boss | |
| Sheila | 10.02 | Leelee Sobieski Leelee Sobieski Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski , known professionally as Leelee Sobieski, is an American actress. Sobieski achieved recognition in her mid-teens for her performance in the 1998 film Deep Impact... |
originally wanted to ask something else, but questions Roz about this 'person she slept with' because it sounded like she still worked for him | |
| Grant | 10.09 | John Turturro John Turturro John Michael Turturro is an American actor, writer and director known for his roles in the films Do the Right Thing , Miller's Crossing , Barton Fink , Quiz Show , The Big Lebowski , O Brother, Where Art Thou? and the Transformers film series... |
calls in because his grandmother died two weeks ago and he never told her how much she meant to him | |
| Mindy | 10.17 | Laura Linney Laura Linney Laura Leggett Linney is an American actress of film, television, and theatre. Linney has won three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has been nominated for three times for an Academy Award and once for a BAFTA Award... |
calls in about her mother from work, causing her to pretend she's dealing with customers because of her boss | Later played Charlotte in the final season |
| Ernie | 10.23 | Bill Paxton Bill Paxton William "Bill" Paxton is an American actor and film director. He gained popularity after starring roles in the films Apollo 13, Twister, Aliens, True Lies, and Titanic... |
calls in because he's angry at his dog | |
| Kevin | 11.03 | Benjamin Bratt Benjamin Bratt Benjamin Bratt is an American actor. He is most famous for his role as Rey Curtis on the TV series Law & Order; and his appearances in the movies Blood in Blood Out, Miss Congeniality, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Traffic, and Piñero.-Early life:Bratt was born in San Francisco, California,... |
Frasier claims that he's not honest, who then turns it back around by saying that Frasier also isn't honest after he was seen entering a gay bar | |
| Celeste's Mother | 11.12 | Estelle Parsons Estelle Parsons Estelle Margaret Parsons is an American theatre, film and television actress and occasional theatrical director.After studying law, Parsons became a singer before deciding to pursue a career in acting. She worked for the television program Today and made her stage debut in 1961... |
picks up the phone saying they're all on the radio |