"Frasier" Room Full of Heroes (2001)

User Rating:

8.0/10   

Director:

Wil Shriner

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"Frasier" (1993)

Original Air Date:

30 October 2001 (Season 9, Episode 6)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Frasier throws a Halloween party where the guests come dressed as their personal heroes: Frasier of course is Sigmund Freud...

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:
Hope Cruickshank	...	Alice May Doyle
Tess Cruickshank	...	Alice May Doyle
Soren Fulton	...	Justin
Steven Anthony Lawrence	...	Kid

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Filming Locations:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Grub Street Productions

Movie Connections:

Featured in Frasier: Analyzing the Laughter (2004) (TV)

Strange Bad Apple in the Bunch

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I'm a huge fan of Frasier, but this episode is truly awful.

For starters, it's poorly written; Martin, Daphne, Roz, and the rest are ridiculously out of character. Worst-faring is Niles, who is suddenly given to mushy tributes, beer-drinking, and ill-advised rants. Roz's dialogue is little better, and she is doomed to recite bad-greeting-card drivel about why Wonder Woman is really her hero. (No, seriously.) On top of that, the episode is neither funny nor heart-warming and ends with Martin Crane getting angry with Niles and storming out of the room - a conflict which is never resolved. The episode just ends immediately afterward! I feel really bad for the actors who had to film this. In their position, I would have been embarrassed. I imagine they probably were. David Hyde Pierce and John Mahoney do their best to put in some physical comedy when the lines are giving them nothing, and it helps . . . a little. But poor Peri Gilpin and Jane Leeves spend the entire episode sitting on a couch, so they don't even have that opportunity.

What happened here? Was it a budgetary problem? Had they spent too much money in the beginning of the season, thus necessitating a way to recoup the cash with a one-set episode? Or was it a time problem, in which no one had sufficient opportunity to revise the script? In any case, yikes! I guess a series with as many incredible episodes as Frasier can be forgiven the occasional bomb, but this . . . well, this is the atom bomb of situation comedy.

Again - those poor actors! That must have been one tough week.