The ONE and ONLY Frasier Series Finale Thread

[Guest thebigjig]

I didnt see a thread about this so I figured I would start one...

 

I've followed this show off and on since the beginning, and I'm quite sad to see it go, because little by little, I'm noticing the quality of television decreasing... in an age of really stupid sitcoms, and ridiculous reality tv, Frasier, will be sorely missed

 

Christ... I can't believe I was in freakin' 3rd grade when this show started!

[BlackFlagg 0]

I was 12 when the show started, but I grew up watching Cheers so I already knew the charecter going in. I didn't follow it in it's prime time spot as it was always against something else I watched but I've seen just about every episode that has been aired in repeats on Fox and will surely watch the finale tonight.

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

Frasier >>> Friends. Thus this season finale is much more anticipated by me. Damn, after 11 years it ends...

[Guest thebigjig]

Pretty fucking pathetic how NBC treated them this last year...

 

Friends got ALL of the attention which is just ridiculous considering the quality of that show compared to Frasier which has always been pretty awesome

[EdwardKnoxII 0]

Well I'm watching. I never watched the show alot but, I liked what I saw in reruns and I never watch an ep of Cheers. So I'm sad to see it go. Unlike Friends which I was happy to see go.

[Steviekick 0]

It's going to be so odd not having any new episodes of a Frasier Crane related show. I've been putting following his exploits for practically my whole life.

 

I did read somewhere in a recent interveiw that Kelsey Grammer said that later on he would be interested in reprising the role of Frasier at some point, since there are still many things that they could do with him. My only fear is that after the Frasier series ends, what really is there left to do with him?

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

Well I finished the fianle and loved it. Easily one of the best finale's I've ever seen smoking both Friends and Seinfeld in that regard.

 

Bye Frasier

[Guest Anglesault]

I wanted to see Maris!

 

And no Lilith tonight?

[Guest El Satanico]

Grammar is interested in a new series and the finale set up a new series, so I'd say another series is a possibility.

[BifEverchad 0]

I never watched. Anyone wanna give a quick synopsis or a point by point rundown of what went on?

[Vern Gagne 0]

Grammar is interested in a new series and the finale set up a new series, so I'd say another series is a possibility.

I wouldn't mind an attempt at a hour long show centered around Frasier. Nothing real serious, more along the lines of the Rockford Files.

[TheFranchise 0]

I wanted to see Maris!

 

And no Lilith tonight?

I think it's one of those timeless classics about a show, probably better that we didn't get to see her.

 

Like people who always talk about 'Who shot JR' (well, maybe not to the extent where people would say 'What did Maris look like?')

 

Having not seen the finale myself, i am already sad that it's gone, Fraiser is by far better than Friends and anything else i can think of right now, i'd even say it topped Cheers*

 

 

 

*But that's a judgement call.

[Guest thebigjig]

I also find it depressing that this thread has 11 replies... while the FRIENDS series finale thread went 3 full pages

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

I also find it depressing that this thread has 11 replies... while the FRIENDS series finale thread went 3 full pages

I find that sad as well, especially considering how superior the Frasier finale was.

[Guest El Satanico]

I wouldn't mind an attempt at a hour long show centered around Frasier. Nothing real serious, more along the lines of the Rockford Files.

Frasier as a Private Investigator...I'd definitely watch that

[C Dubya 04 0]

I second the request for a quick recap. I wanted to see the episode, but was out and thus missed it.

 

Thanks in advance.

[haVoc 0]

Let this pathetic thread be a lesson to all of you.

 

Friends > Frasier

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

Let this pathetic thread be a lesson to all of you.

 

Friends > Frasier

Not even in Bizarro World...

 

This thread is more a reflection of the fact that people who appreciate Frasier tend not to watch wrestling than it is a reflection that Friends is better, particularly considering that Friends was, in fact, garbage.

[Renegade 0]

A very fitting end to an excellent series. Bravo.

 

*watches series 1 dvd*

[BlackFlagg 0]

I wanted to see Maris!

 

And no Lilith tonight?

I think it's one of those timeless classics about a show, probably better that we didn't get to see her.

 

Like people who always talk about 'Who shot JR' (well, maybe not to the extent where people would say 'What did Maris look like?')

It was also kind of a cross-over running gag from Cheers, only on Cheers it was Norm's wife we heard about but never saw...

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

I second the request for a quick recap.  I wanted to see the episode, but was out and thus missed it. 

 

Thanks in advance.

It starts with Frasier on an airplane and he tells a psychiatirst sitting beside him(Jennifer Beals) his recent past.

 

Frasier and Charlotte say goodbye and she leaves for Chicago.

 

Martin & his girlfriend get married(agfter a hilarious wedding build up featuing EVERYTHING going wrong).

 

Daphne & Niles have the baby in a vets office with help of Dr. Jason Biggs and some woman. Martin and his girlfriend are then married in the vet office.

 

Frasier gets an offer to host his own show with TV options in San Francisco while Roz becomes the new station manager when Kenny quits to be a DJ.

 

Frasier tries to tell everyone he's leaving to San Fran to take the job but everyone misinterprets and thinks he's dying(very funny part).

 

Eventually they all say goodbye and Frasier goes to take the job.

 

Then we go back to the plane from the begining and, in a twist, find out Frasier's really on his way to Chicago to win Charlotte back instead of to San Fran which the viewer assumed...

 

And it ends without finding out whether frasier got Charlotte back or not.

 

Great finale. Funny, touching and none of the overly sentimental crap that Friends had.

[Guest Flyboy]

Eventually they all say goodbye and Frasier goes to take the job.

 

I lost it here. I cried some tears -- I've watched the for shows and when Niles said, "I'll miss the coffees," I dropped a few.

[Guest Flyboy]

Grammar is interested in a new series and the finale set up a new series, so I'd say another series is a possibility.

Yeah, and I wish it would just end the way it did. Great series finale -- leave it at that.

[EdwardKnoxII 0]

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,14102,00.html

 

"Frasier" Farewell Cheers Critics

 

by Joal Ryan

May 14, 2004, 11:45 AM PT

 

In the end, Frasier was no Friends. Not that that was a bad thing.

 

Ratings-wise, Thursday's hourlong-plus series finale, in which the good Dr. Frasier Crane heads for Chicago, looking for love, if not pizza, was watched by an estimated 25.4 million, per NBC.

 

That's about half as many devotees as Friends' farewell attracted last week. But it's all relative--the Friends finale got twice as much hype and twice as much ad money ($2 million per 30-second spot, compared to Frasier's $800,000), all because the sitcom averaged twice as many viewers (22 million to 10.2 million) throughout the season. a d v e r t i s e m e n t

 

 

All things considered, Dr. Crane can hold his jaunty jaw high. The Frasier finale proved to be the comedy's most-watched episode in three-and-a-half years, and helped lead NBC to another key Thursday night win in the May sweeps.

 

An hourlong Frasier clip show, Frasier: Analyzing the Laughter, which ran prior to the final episode, was watched by an estimated 17.7 million, running second in the 8-9 p.m. time slot to Survivor's $1 million giveaway on CBS. (A similar Friends retrospective was watched by 36.9 million.)

 

One department where Frasier did not run second to Friends was reviews. If critics were sorta underwhelmed by Friends' sappy goodbye, the nation's professional TV watchers were sorta impressed by Frasier's classy goodbye.

 

"I've complained about series ending with finales that try to be grand and end up not good," R.D. Heldenfels wrote in Ohio's Akron Beacon Journal. "Frasier just tried to be good one last time. That was good enough for a grand finish."

 

On MSNBC.com, Wendell Wittler appreciated the show's lack of gimmicks (à la Newhart's Bob-wakes-up-in-bed-with-Emily twist), and, proving his TV I.Q., ranked it high with one of his all-time-fave TV goodbyes--the last episode of '60s cult series The Prisoner.

 

Frasier's swan song was "almost as good as Patrick McGoohan's automated door, and no Suzanne Pleshette in sight," Wittler wrote.

 

In USA Today, Robert Bianco found the final episode "honest and true to the series."

 

"After all, how many sitcoms could not only make room for a lengthy quote from Tennyson, but make it seem movingly appropriate?" Bianco wrote. "The answer, with Frasier now gone, is 'none.' What ever will we do without it?"

 

The good notices befit a series that scored more Emmys wins (31) than any other prime-time show in TV history. The show may yet add to its haul at the 56th Annual Emmy Awards in September.

 

Frasier's 11-season run ends at 264 episodes--one less than Murder, She Wrote, five more than Married...With Children and 28 more than Friends.

 

The show's last story found all things ending happily for Dr. Crane's neurotic bunch: Frasier followed gal-pal Charlotte (Laura Linney) to Chicago; Niles and Daphne welcomed a baby monkey, sorry, boy named David (after series creator David Angell, who was killed in the 9-11 terrorist attacks); Martin and Ronee (Wendie Malick) got married; and Roz got a promotion.

 

Dr. Crane's departure from the Seattle scene (with the on-air sign-off, "Goodnight, Seattle") may signal his arrival on another sitcom landscape.

 

Paramount, the studio behind Frasier, is said to be shopping an all-new Frasier Crane series. Kelsey Grammer, who has played the doctor continuously since 1984 (when he originated the character on Cheers), is said to be interested in starring in an all-new Frasier Crane series.

 

For now, Frasier is chilling in the Windy City. Maybe checking out a Cubs game.

[BlackFlagg 0]

"Frasier followed gal-pal Charlotte (Laura Linney) to Chicago"

"For now, Frasier is chilling in the Windy City. Maybe checking out a Cubs game."

 

Someone got there information wrong....

[Guest El Satanico]

"Frasier followed gal-pal Charlotte (Laura Linney) to Chicago"

"For now, Frasier is chilling in the Windy City. Maybe checking out a Cubs game."

 

Someone got there information wrong....

No they didn't...he did follow Charlotte to Chicago and he is in Chicago for the moment.

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

[an estimated 25.4 million viewers]' s about half as many devotees as Friends' farewell attracted last week

 

... Which only goes to prove that some people have no taste when it comes to television.

[Guest Flyboy]

[an estimated 25.4 million viewers]' s about half as many devotees as Friends' farewell attracted last week

 

... Which only goes to prove that some people have no taste when it comes to television.

You can say that again.

[BlackFlagg 0]

"Frasier followed gal-pal Charlotte (Laura Linney) to Chicago"

"For now, Frasier is chilling in the Windy City. Maybe checking out a Cubs game."

 

Someone got there information wrong....

No they didn't...he did follow Charlotte to Chicago and he is in Chicago for the moment.

Guess I missed them say that...I figured he was going to San Fran for his new job...

[Vern Gagne 0]

I wouldn't mind an attempt at a hour long show centered around Frasier. Nothing real serious, more along the lines of the Rockford Files.

Frasier as a Private Investigator...I'd definitely watch that

That's actually not a bad idea. I just using Rockford Files has an example of an hour long show that wasn't a serious drama, or just an action show.