Frasier Online Episode Guide -> Season 11 -> Episode 11.05

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Roz has invited Frasier down to Cafe Nervosa to meet her friend Ann with the hope of something romantic happening between them, but Frasier gets the wrong end of the stick when Ann says she is in insurance and decides to leave. Roz can't believe Frasier couldn't see she was trying to set him up with Ann, but he retorts that he is waiting for Miss Right to come along and is perfectly happy as he is until she comes along. Frasier thenm tags along with Niles and Daphne, and Martin and Ronee to a restaurant, however as the reservation was originally for 4, Frasier is forced to sit on a child's seat and suffers further indignation when the restaurant owner invites all the couples to come and dance in celebration of asking his wife to marry him 42 years ago that night. So Frasier returns home to his winter soup and Mr Bottomsley, a cat he is looking after, to find Roz has left Ann's number on his answerphone in the hope he might call her, which Frasier doesn't want to do until he catches sight of himself in the mirror wrapped in a blanket and stroking a cat. Realising he looks like his Aunt Shirley, he hurridly calls Ann and asks her out to dinner.

However, at his dinner with Ann, Frasier soon realises he has made a big mistake when Ann reveals her big dream is to move up from being a claims advisor to a senior claims advisor, but when Ann visits the bathroom, Kenny arrives with his cousin Liz Wright who he is trying to convince to stay in Seattle. Frasier is immediately attracted to Miss Wright and from then on, does everything he can to finish his date with Ann, such as feigning a phone call from Niles who has hurt his back and finishing her food. He finally manages to get Ann out the door, and goes over to Kenny and Liz but Ann returns to pick up her bag, sees Frasier with Liz and realises just what is going on. Both women are disgusted with Frasier, but Ann still wants to meet him for coffee the next day...... Meanwhile, Daphne suspects their new housekeeper Mrs Gablyczyck is stealing from them so she, Niles and Martin decide to confront her about it.

- Frasier wants to know why Roz would want to set him up with Ann:
Roz: Maybe because you haven't had a date in ages and it's starting to show - what is that, your purse?!

- Frasier returns to his apartment to look after a neighbours cat and finds Roz has left Ann's number on his answerphone
Frasier: Why does everyone think that I need some companionship? Has the world gone mad, Mr Bottomsley ?!

- Niles asks Mrs Gablyczyck about the two shirts he has found wrapped in plastic:
Mrs Gablyczyck: After I wash, I pin them and wrap them in plastic. You not like?
Niles: [dreamily] No, no - I like very much!

- Martin tells Niles he was starting to wonder whn Frasier would go out on a date:
Martin: It's like I was saying to Eddie: "This guy's gotta get a life!"

- Ann has to visit the bathroom in the middle of their meal:
Ann: I just had to have that Dr Pepper while I was getting dressed!!

- Ann tells Frasier that her last date with a man left her very depressed after he left halfway through dinner:
Ann: I didn't get out of bed for a week - or shave my legs!!

- The look Mrs Gablyczyck gives Martin after she is exonerated

- Annd is disgusted with Frasier after she works out why they rushed through dinner:
Frasier: I don't know what to say
Ann: Well, maybe you'll come up with something before we have coffee tomorrow!!

Another episode to be filed under the "Frasier's date goes awry" category, this one is not helped by a rather dull build-up to Frasier's date with Ann, with the scene in his apartment talking to his neighbour's cat Mr Bottomsley particularly cringeworthy. Ann herself comes off as very irritating - presumably the writer's intentions - making it easy for us to side with Frasier when he tries everything in his power to end his date early which is the source of some good laughs, while the ending of Ann coming back and seeing Frasier and Liz together was all too predictable. Thankfully, Niles and Daphne's subplot of suspecting their housekeeper of stealing was much more enjoyable and also had a great twist at the end when we discovered who the real culprit was. This is by no means the worst episode of the show, but the main plot felt as if it was a Frasier-by-numbers one resulting in a patchy and largely forgettable episode, sadly.

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