Frasier (TV Series)

The Show Where Diane Comes Back (1996)

Shelley Long: Diane Chambers

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Quotes 

• Diane Chambers : So there I was on the balcony of my Malibu beach house when a pod of whales passed by. I knew I had to commune with these gentle giants, so like a flash I was on the beach scrambling to my kayak. But cruel fortune interceded when not twenty yards offshore I suddenly discovered myself entangled in an enormous bed of, of, um...

  Niles : Sea kelp.

  Diane Chambers : Exactly right. Sea kelp.

  Martin Crane : Oh ho, that's funny. I thought he said "Seek help."

• [Diane's recollections of Maris] 

  Diane Chambers : Niles, do you remember the last time I was in town and we dined together? You had just started dating this woman, she was the queerest little creature...

  [accepts a glass of wine from Frasier] 

  Diane Chambers : Thank you. She ate everyone's sorbet, and then she had to lie down in the ladies' lounge while the coat-check girl massaged her abdomen!

  [she laughs loudly, then stops when she notices Frasier's uncomfortable look] 

  Diane Chambers : Oh, I hope I haven't put my foot in it. You and she didn't get married and live happily ever after, did you?

  Niles : No, can't say as we did.

• Frasier : [Martin walks in just after Diane invites Frasier to see her play]  Are you sure you're ready for this?

  Diane Chambers : Oh yes, it's time. Tonight, I bare myself to you.

  Frasier : [Martin ducks behind the pillar]  Big step, Diane.

  Diane Chambers : Oh well, I have to say I'm a little nervous about it. But, barring any lighting or prop problems, the whole thing will be over in a couple of hours.

  Martin Crane : [heading to the kitchen]  Hello! People still in the house here!