Frasier Online Episode Guide -> Season 11 -> Episode 11.09

Guns 'N' Neuroses

Frasier wakes up late having had a very strange dream about a volcano that spews ice instead of lava, and finds the meaning of his dream in the person who has left him an answerphone message - Dr Lilith Sternin! She is in town for a one-day conference and Frasier was supposed to meet her for breakfast, so he calls her and invites her to lunch at his apartment (thinking she won't accept) but, to Martin and Daphne's displeasure, she does. Lilith arrives at Frasier's apartment for their scheduled lunch date, but he is unable to make it - much to Niles, Daphne and Martin's displeasure - but thankfully she leaves to head back to the conference. As Daphne prepares lunch, she throws Niles a banana - which he fails miserably to catch, and instead knocks Martin's gun on the floor which leaves a hole in Frasier's chair, shoots the head of a statue and leaves a crack in the fireplace. They hurridly set about repairing it before Frasier gets home. Before visiting the conference, Lilith is in Cafe Nervosa with a colleague, Nancy, discussing the state of her love life so when Nancy meets Frasier, quite by chance after Lilith has left, she thinks he would be perfect for Lilith so asks if he's free that evening for a date with her 'friend', Frasier jumps at the chance. Roz tells Frasier what he hoped to hear - that there is no friend and that he will be going on a date with Nancy.

Later that evening, Frasier and Lilith finally meet up at her hotel, but as Frasier is running late, he makes a call to Nancy from the bathroom, but as he is talking to her, she gets another call from Lilith saying she is running late. Nancy tells Lilith she is talking to her potential blind date and thinks he wants to cancel, provoking an angry Lilith to tell Nancy to tell her blind date that she cancelled on him first. Nancy relates this to a rather displeased Frasier, but he and Lilith both settle down for a nice drink together. Their conversation is interrupted by the sound of a couple in the next room fighting, so Frasier and Lilith decide to help the couple deal with their problems.....

- Frasier tells Martin and Daphne he had a strange dream about a volcano that spews ice:
Daphne: An ice volocano - I wonder what that could mean?
Frasier: Oh what's this?
[Plays message on answerphone]
Lilith: Hello, it's Lilith
Everyone: Oh!

- Niles, Daphne and Martin argue over who should answer the door to Lilith:
Lilith: Maybe if you slid me a key I could let myself in!

- Niles fails to catch the banana that Daphne throws to him:
Daphne: You should know how to catch a banana!
Niles: I am not having this argument again!

- Frasier seeks Roz's advice having been set up on a blind date with someone:
Frasier: Roz, have you ever been on a date with someone whose name you didn't know?
Roz: Please - I've woken up with dates whose names I didn't know!

- Lilith wants to keep her and Frasier's reunion brief as she is on her way to a date:
Frasier: Actually I'm on my way to a date myself.
Lilith: I see - well, why don't you run along. I wouldn't want you to keep Niles waiting (!)

- After Frasier and Lilith offer to help the couple next door with their relationship problems:
Erin: So what - you're like Caped Crusaders for Mental Health ?!

This episode features what is likely to be the last time we see Bebe Neuwirth as Lilith and so I had high expectations for it, and starts off very brightly with lots of good comedy in the opening few scenes, not to mention the excellent scenes in Frasier's apartment where Niles accidentally fires Martin's gun, forcing Martin, Niles and Daphne to cover up the damage caused when he gets home. However, the main storyline of Frasier and Lilith being set up on blind dates with each other seemed much more promising on paper than it does in reality, as they end up cancelling on each other, and helping the couple in the hotel room next to Lilith's with their relationship problems. There is a nicely written ending as the two go their separate ways but on the whole, this is not one of my favourite Lilith episodes, which is all the more disappointing given that it is likely to be the last time we see them together.

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