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Start Date: Sep 16, 1993; Genre: Comedy; With: Peri Gilpin, Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, John Mahoney and David Hyde Pierce See More

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Frasier

Two extremely entertaining sweeps-period episodes of Frasier explore the complex relationship between psychiatrist brothers Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and Niles (David Hyde Pierce). In the first, the two collaborate on a book and end up rolling around on a hotel bed in their underwear (don't ask; just watch). In the second, Frasier comes down with a case of the flu that leaves him weak and whiney (''Can I have the bendy kind of straw?'' he whimpers to Jane Leeves' Daphne). He prevails upon his sibling to take over his radio show for him, and the usually-shy Niles discovers he's a plummy-voiced natural (''While my brother is a Freudian, I am a Jungian,'' he says primly into the microphone, ''so there'll be no blaming Mother today''). Niles even replaces Frasier's radio tag-line-''I'm listening''- with his own, giddier one: ''Let's get better!''

Well, Frasier just gets better and better-in addition to the brilliantly nuanced, deadpan work from Pierce, Grammer does a lot of funny slapstick here. A


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Posted May 06, 1994
 

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