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Episode reviews for Episode 3.21 - Where There's Smoke There's Fired

Avg. Viewer Review: 85.8%
Number of Reviews: 4

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More Bebe! More Bebe!, Dec 06, 2011

Reviewer: Sammy J from Melbourne, Australia


Harriet Sansom Harris is a walking marvel. Here, we get a great new
side to Bebe Glazer, as she latches on to the wealthy, elderly 'Big
Willy'. It's another episode full of keen insight as the Crane clan take
Bebe in to try and help her quit smoking in 72 hours. Daphne and
Martin's increased pining for a cigarette is highly enjoyable, but the
icing on the cake is the physical confrontation between Frasier and
Bebe. The way Harris explains her lustful relationship with cigarettes
is almost seductive, and I love Frasier's description of her attempts
to keep walking Big Willy down the aisle even after his untimely
death. A classic.


Rating: 100%

 

Harriet Shines, Dec 31, 2010

Reviewer: Juli Buchanan from Atlanta, GA


Harriet Sansom Harris shows just how good she is when she explains
what she likes about smoking.


Rating: 100%

 

A let-down episode, Nov 04, 2008

Reviewer: Tid from SW England


This episode was a disappointment for me. If the show has any flaw, it is that
(compared to shows such as 'Cheers' and 'Friends') the individual plots are
sometimes a slave to the comedy instead of allowing the laughs to flow
naturally from the situation.

So it is with this one. Having an 80-year-old Texan as a one-show station
owner was unbelievable enough, but this was compounded by the even more
unlikely scenario of Bebe being his girlfriend. To cap it all, we are supposed to
believe that the entire cast are ex-smokers all of a sudden?

I would class this as an unnatural Frasier episode, putting our familiar friends
into unbelievable situations simply to garner laughs. Having said that, there
were good comic moments, my favourite ones centring on Noel's outlandish
methods of currying favour with the station boss.


Rating: 59%

 

'Where There's Smoke There's Fired' review, Jun 08, 2005

Reviewer: Jocelyn from London, UK


Another great Bebe Glazer episode as she gets engaged to KACL's new owner, eighty-five year old millionaire Texan Wilfred S. Boone. Richard Hamilton is wonderful as 'Big Willy' but this episode really belongs to Harriet Sansom Harris who gives perhaps her finest performance here - her passionate speech at the dinner table about the joys of smoking is brilliantly delivered. There are highpoints throughout here; Gil being duped into thinking the new station owner is Greek; Bebe inhaling the smoke from her handbag following the 'purse fire'; Bebe resorting to blackmail by locking Daphne out on the balcony and then the general mayhem that follows as Frasier struggles to rid her of her filthy habit. Interestingly the producers weren't happy with the original conclusion of this episode and so Joe Keenan came up with an alternative ending which was filmed some weeks later - and a deliciously dark one it is too.


Rating: 84%