John Mahoney credited as playing...
Martin Crane
- [Niles watches Martin working out a chess problem]
- Niles: Uh-uh.
- [Martin reaches for another piece]
- Niles: Mmm-mmm.
- Martin: All right, what would you do?
- Niles: Well for starters, I'd take that corn-nut off the board.
- Martin: That corn-nut's my bishop. Eddie ate the real one.
- Niles: In that case, Corn-nut to Rook Seven.
- [Looking through a box of keepsakes from Niles' childhood]
- Martin: Oh, no one around here draws pictures anymore.
- [Looks closely]
- Martin: What the heck is this, anyway?
- Niles: Oh, that is an Egyptian battle scene from AÔda. Look, that's Radames, and that's the jealous Amneris, and -
- [laughs]
- Niles: Oh, I misspelled Amonasro. Ah, to be six again...
- Frasier: [after Frasier has just met Daphne, Martin's new kooky, live-in physiotherapist] The whole idea of getting somebody in here was to help ease my burden! Not to add to it!
- Martin: Oh, do you hear that, Eddie? We're a burden.
- Frasier: Oh Dad! Dad, you're... you're twisting my words! I meant burden in its most positive sense!
- Martin: As in, "Gee, what a lovely burden?"
- Frasier: Something like that, yes!