"Frasier" Cheerful Goodbyes (2002)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Sheldon Epps

Writers:

David Angell (creator) &
Peter Casey (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Frasier" (1993)

Original Air Date:

30 April 2002 (Season 9, Episode 21)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Frasier returns to Boston to give a speech, and Niles, Daphne and Martin come along to see the city...

Plot Keywords:

Psychiatrist | Radio | Apartment | Seattle Washington | Dating

Cast

Kelsey Grammer	...	Dr. Frasier Crane
Jane Leeves	...	Daphne Moon
David Hyde Pierce	...	Dr. Niles Crane
Peri Gilpin	...	Roz Doyle
John Mahoney	...	Martin Crane
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Raye Birk	...	Walt Twitchell
Philip Perlman	...	Phil
Rhea Perlman	...	Carla Tortelli LeBec
John Ratzenberger	...	Cliff Clavin
Rufus Wainwright	...	Jeremy (voice)
George Wendt	...	Norm Peterson
Paul Willson	...	Paul Krapence

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Trivia:

Marks the exact 20 year period since "Cheers" (1982) began back in 1982.

Goofs:

Factual errors: One of the well wishers who Cliff accidentally calls Al says that he has been dead for 14 years. Al Rosen, the man who played Al passed away in 1990, meaning that he had been dead for 12 years instead of 14.

Quotes:

[speeches at Cliff's retirement party]
Carla: I'd like to say that I'll miss you... but it sticks in my throat like your rotten deviled eggs. I hate your guts! The way you talk and talk and talk about nothing. The way you walk, your stupid white socks...
Frasier: Carla!
Carla: Back off, I'm toasting! The 20 years I have known you would have been less painful if I were covered with open sores and thrown into a pit with a bunch of diseased rats! But now, finally you're leaving! I know I am not as young as I used to be, but I can live again! I can live again! Finally, I can live!
[...]

What everyone has been waiting for.

This is the episode of Frasier every Cheers fan has been waiting for. This is the one that brings back the Cheers gang. Ted Danson(Sam) Shelley Long(Diane) and Woody Harrelson(Woody) have all had their episode of Frasier and Bebe Neuwirth(Lillith) became a recurring character but the core gang had yet to appear. Well here they are Cheers mainstays Carla, Cliff, and Norm appear along with background characters like Paul and Phil. Even one of Cliff's postal buddies appears. For those concerned about the plot Frasier is in Boston to give a speech and brings his family along. At the airport he runs into Cliff who invites Frasier and his family to his retirement party.