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The Devil And Dr Phil

Frasier learns that his old friend Dr Phil McGraw, now a highly successful daytime talk show host, is in town and Roz manages to persuade Frasier to take her to meet him despite Frasier still being angry over $200 Dr Phil supposedly swindled out of Frasier many years ago. The pair of them meet up after one of his shows, where Frasier also learns that his former agent Bebe Glazer has been Dr Phil's agent for the past year. This begins to leave Frasier feeling slightly envious of the success of his friend and starts to wonder whether his career would benefit from being under Bebe's control. She agrees to meet with Frasier, where it becomes apparent that not only does she want him back, Bebe wants to seduce Frasier too! He runs out of her hotel room in a panic, but Bebe joins Frasier later at Cafe Nervosa and tells him that she wants to leave Dr Phil for him - to which Frasier agrees and increases her fee to 15%. What Frasier was not party to was that Dr Phil was just part of Bebe's scheme to get Frasier back, and he had gone along with it so that Bebe wouldn't tell his wife that he had been gambling. Meanwhile, Martin is put on the night-shift for refusing to date his bosses' sister, while Niles and Daphne become obsessed about an older couple they like to think are the older versions of themselves.

- Martin complains that his daily routine has been ruined by working the night shift:
Martin: I'm eating bacon and eggs at night and drinking beer in the morning.
Frasier: That's what you always do.
Martin: Yeah, but now I'm tired all the time!

- Daphne wants to know why Martin is so desperate no to date his bosses' sister:
Martin: Well, let's put it this way - years of chewing tobacco have discoloured her tooth!

- Dr Phil mentions that he has had a new agent for a year now:
Dr Phil: Speak of the devil - her she comes.
[Bebe Glazer joins Dr Phil !!]

- An out-of-it Martin starts shying away from the sun:
Frasier: You don't like the sun ?!
Martin: Us night shift guys call it "the scary ball"!

- Frasier tells Niles that Bebe wants to sleep with him:
Niles: I think I've figured it out - Bebe wants to have sex with a human male to bring about the apocalypse!

- Frasier seeing Bebe's hotel room is number 666

- Martin's collection of night shift exploits

Harriet Sansom Harris makes yet another appearance in the series and tries to win Frasier back into her clutches by dangling his old friend Dr Phil's success in front of him, and while she was as good as ever, I found her storyline not quite as well written as some of her previous ones - it seemed a long build-up to the excellent scene in Bebe's hotel room where she appears out of red smoke beckoning Frasier over to her side, causing him to rush out and discovering her room is number 666! Dr Phil - not widely known in Britain - shows why he should stick to being a talk show host, while Daphne and Niles sub plot was harmless fun with a funny punchline at the end. Martin manages to steal the episode from all of them with his terrific sub-plot about having to do the night-shift and features a hilarious collection of his night-time exploits at work which culminates in Martin starting a fire and putting his tie in the paper shredder. All in all, this isn't the best Bebe Glazer episode but it is still a funny and amusing one, and keeps up the rather good standards for episodes in this season.

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