Frasier

Summary: Frasier is a situation comedy that typically portrays a radio psychologist, Dr. Frasier Crane interacting with his co-workers, and his extended family, a brother Niles also a psychologist but in private practice, his retired ex-policeman father, Frank, his father’s live-in physical therapist, Daphne, and their dog, Eddie. The typical plot revolves around the irony that even though both Crane sons are therapists and work with dysfunctional people, their interactions with each other, their co-workers, and their extended families are often more dysfunctional than many of their professional encounters.

Thesis Statement: In this episode of Frasier, the point of view or message expressed by the director is that choosing to become a parent is a complex decision, one that involves more than intellectual thought and a process that often occurs for the wrong reasons.

We can see the director’s point of view as described above expressed as we use evidence from each of the six scenes comprising this episode of Frasier. In scene one, nothing regarding the thesis message is revealed. Instead, we see Frasier at work being the bit of a condescending snob he can be. His producer, Roz, one-ups him on a radio caller, she tells him the “bowling” league mail he received she already threw out, and he will be meeting his father and Niles for

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like his mother to me.” This is important for establishing character from the writer’s/director’s point of view because it demonstrates the neurotic and somewhat eccentric nature of Niles, whose growing obsession over choosing to have a child will continue to consume him in later scenes. In scene four inside Café Nervosa, Niles meets Frasier and Roz and is becoming more absurd and obsessive with the flour sack, acting as if it is really his child. He has already skewered the baby with Maris’ chop-stick gilded hair pins and has band-aids on it. The writer/director uses this scene to show how helpless Niles is as a father, and how his Epicurean and esoteric lifestyle is not conducive to child-rearing. Roz comes in and explains to Frasier that the birthday card he thought he was signing was actually a get-well card for a kidney patient. Frasier wrote, “You’re not getting older, you’re just getting closer to death” on the card. He decides to swap it. When Niles comes back from the counter, Frasier has the flour sack on the floor so Roz could sit in the table chair. Niles is horrified and says, “I asked you to baby-sit!” As the scene ends, Frasier responds, “I don’t have time to listen to your insanity. I have to go steal a
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Approximate Word count = 1446
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)