What's your favorite episode title??

[stephenthom]

I don't understand the 'proxy prexy' title in season 10?...

[Frasiertime]

I don't understand the 'proxy prexy' title in season 10?...

proxy - acting on someone's behalf
prexy - president (usually of a college)
Martin was the acting pres. on Frasier's behalf-although the other members didn't know that

[stephenthom]

Aw that's clever, thankyou.

[Patrick]

Come Lie With Me = After the Sinatra song "come fly with me"

Three Dates And A Break Up = After Three Marriages and a Funeral

The First Temptation of Daphne = After The Last Temptation of Christ

Three Blind Dates = After Three blind mice

The Love You Fake = After the beatles' song The Love you make

Coots and Ladders = Crooks and Liars?

The Ann Who Came To Dinner = After The Man Who Came To Dinner

Coots and Ladders - There is a child's board game called "Chutes and Ladders" ( you go up the ladders and down the chutes in the game) coots is someone who does something really stupid

I think coot is what they call someone who's old.

[Eddie2012]

Yep, 'old fool' on a ladder, that describes him well
Just had a look at the Frasier transcript overview. To me it looks like pretty much all titles are/could be references to film or sayings, etc.

[Frasiertime]

Yep, 'old fool' on a ladder, that describes him well
Just had a look at the Frasier transcript overview. To me it looks like pretty much all titles are/could be references to film or sayings, etc.

Ya, just another thing that's fun about the show

[Patrick]

Yep, 'old fool' on a ladder, that describes him well
Just had a look at the Frasier transcript overview. To me it looks like pretty much all titles are/could be references to film or sayings, etc.

Or TV games with Wheels of Fortune...

[Eddie2012]

I only get the most obvious ones without help though, like Roe to Perdition or word plays like Whine Club.

Some are easy to google, like Dinner At Eight, while I probably should have known Hamlet quotations like To Thine Old Self Be True to begin with.

Some are plain weird; just found 'The Apparent Trap', a strange psychoanalytical short movie, borrowing its name from the Walt Disney movie 'The Parent Trap'.
Or Morning Becomes Entertainment. There is a radio programme called 'Morning Becomes Eclectic' and the play 'Mourning Becomes Electra'. So Frasier could have borrowed the episode names from various sources, the original ones or the already slightly amended ones.

Ok, enough now and back to real work

[Patrick]

I only get the most obvious ones without help though, like Roe to Perdition or word plays like Whine Club.

Some are easy to google, like Dinner At Eight, while I probably should have known Hamlet quotations like To Thine Old Self Be True to begin with.

Some are plain weird; just found 'The Apparent Trap', a strange psychoanalytical short movie, borrowing its name from the Walt Disney movie 'The Parent Trap'.
Or Morning Becomes Entertainment. There is a radio programme called 'Morning Becomes Eclectic' and the play 'Mourning Becomes Electra'. So Frasier could have borrowed the episode names from various sources, the original ones or the already slightly amended ones.

Ok, enough now and back to real work

If I were a betting man I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that it's 'Mourning Becomes Electra' that's the intended reference. Given the deep connection the play cycle in question has with psychology, greek mythology, Electra complex, Oedipus complex... Need I say more?

[Forever Jung]

Roz's Krantz and Gouldenstein Are Dead

[Patrick]

:twisted: Roz's Krantz and Gouldenstein Are Dead

I don't get that one. Please explain.

[CatNamedRudy]

:twisted: Roz's Krantz and Gouldenstein Are Dead

I don't get that one. Please explain.

Wordplay on a play based on Hamlet characters.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

[Patrick]

:twisted: Roz's Krantz and Gouldenstein Are Dead

I don't get that one. Please explain.

Wordplay on a play based on Hamlet characters.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Thank you!

[CatNamedRudy]

You're welcome. Sometimes my high school "Theatre Geek" days come in handy!

[Eddie2012]

If I were a betting man I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that it's 'Mourning Becomes Electra' that's the intended reference.

I agree, but I find it funny that the radio programme contains the word 'eclectic', what with Frasier's eclectic decorating style and all

[Patrick]

If I were a betting man I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that it's 'Mourning Becomes Electra' that's the intended reference.

I agree, but I find it funny that the radio programme contains the word 'eclectic', what with Frasier's eclectic decorating style and all

Yes and thanks to Martin, that word came back to bite him in the butt...

Frasier : But your chair doesn't go with anything here!

Martin: I know, it's "eclectic".

[tgirl]

No sex please we're skittish

The Dish ran away with the Spoon