The essential episodes of Frasier
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Frasier — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Frasier moves to Seattle, and his irascible father moves in with him.
- 02
Niles and a distraught, post-breakup Daphne get stuck at Niles' house during a rainstorm while Maris is away.
- 03
Not knowing that the new station manager is gay, Frasier tries to fix him up with Daphne, but the man thinks Frasier wants to go out with him.
- 04
Wondering if fatherhood might be his bag, Niles simulates the experience by lugging around a sack of flour.
- 05
Frasier has little room to maneuver when Daphne catches him in her bedroom.
- 06
The Adventures of Bad Boy and Dirty Girl (2)
Just when Frasier and Kate think they can control their desires, they lose it again---in the radio studio.
- 07
Frasier's son, Frederick, comes to town for the holidays, and a mail-order snafu leaves dad with no presents to give.
- 08
Niles poses as Daphne's husband when her ex-fiancé arrives to win her back.
- 09
All but Roz are amused by the prominent proboscises of the parents of her baby's father.
- 10
Something stinks about the gourmet dinner party Niles throws at Maris's beach house: a putrefied seal carcass on the sand below the deck.
- 11
Something Borrowed, Someone Blue (2)
Niles and Daphne reckon with their true feelings for one another at her wedding to Donny.
- 12
Daphne's therapist suggests her compulsive eating is rooted in the fear of not living up to Niles's years of fantasy. Frasier confronts Niles and leads him on a tour through his memories of her. Roz sells a children's book to a publisher, but Martin wants her to write a new one about Eddie.
- 13
On Halloween, Frasier hosts a come-as-your-hero costume party. He impersonates Freud; Roz is Wonder Woman; and Niles is...Martin, who's masquerading as Joe DiMaggio.
- 14
Niles undergoes heart-bypass surgery in an episode that blends humor and poignancy, and interweaves telling flashbacks to the Crane brothers' youth.
- 15
Daphne's delivery highlights the conclusion of a two-parter that also resolves Frasier's dilemma with Charlotte and with his job at KACL.
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