Frasier Online Episode Guide -> Season 2 -> Episode 2.19

Someone To Watch Over Me

Frasier has been receiving calls to his show all week from his self-proclaimed "Number 1 fan" Kari, who is driving Roz up the wall. After Frasier finds out his show has been nominated for a SeaBea, she calls in and tells him she saw him buying Roz a rose. Roz tells him to be careful but he just brushes her worries aside. Following this he finds a scarf she knitted in his briefcase and a note from her in his jacket which ends with the ominous phrase "I'll be at your awards ceremony tonight". Roz is more concerned about the fact that an enormous spot has appeared on the end of her nose on the night of the awards ceromony.

All of the attention shown by Kari starts to put Frasier on edge, and fearing he is the subject of a stalker, decides to hire a bodyguard to protect him at the awards ceremony. Expecting a big, muscle-man, he is a bit taken aback by the arrival of his bodyguard Cindy. She is very professional, however, but just as she leaves to check the elevator is clear, Kari calls Frasier at home and says she'll be wearing a red dress before hanging up. At the awards ceremony, Frasier turns paranoid first by thinking that Cindy is Kari, then pinning one of the SeaBea committee members to the floor because she is wearing a red dress and says she is his Number 1 fan. In the end, however, Martin sees a woman in a red dress wearing a scarf similar to the one Frasier received and approaches her. She is apologetic about the trouble she has caused, and is nothing like the stalker Frasier imagined. It all ends with Frasier and Roz receiving the SeaBea - Roz covering her spot with her hair, and Frasier having just escaped from a group of people he annoyed having thought they were Kari.

- Roz informs Frasier that Kari is on the line again:
Roz: Why don't you let me get rid of her - all she does is gush and tell you how great you are.
Frasier: And this hurts me how?

- Frasier wonders how Kari got a scarf into his briefcase:
Frasier: The only time I had it out of my hand was when I was in the barber's chair.
Martin: Well, that only gave her about 30 seconds (!).

- Niles argues that Kari is becoming Frasier's stalker:
Frasier: She's not a weirdo, she's just a woman who finds me utterly fascinating.
Niles: And the distinction would be?

- Roz is worried about the spot on her nose:
Frasier: It's barely noticeable.
Roz: From where? The space shuttle!

- Frasier reads the note Kari put in his jacket:
Frasier: "I'll be at your awards ceremony tonight, Your Number 1 Fan, Kari".
Roz: Great! And me with a bullseye on my nose!

- A knock on the door at Frasier's apartment:
Frasier: Who is it?
Niles: It's Lizzie Borden - I want you to autograph my hatchet (!)

- Daphne gets a psychic flash about Frasier's bodyguard,Cindy:
Daphne: Did you have a grandfather with a steel plate in his head?
Cindy [to Frasier]: This lunatic that's been stalking you - any particular accent?

- As Bulldog see's Roz's spot:
Bulldog: Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?!

This, the 2nd SeaBea episode of the series, with a better script that plot although the way events conspire to make Frasier paranoid is quite good fun, as is the lengths Roz goes to to cover up her spot. I never felt though that Frasier was in any danger and that Kari turns out to be harmless wasn't really a surprise. The ending could have been better written, though. Overall, then, a slightly above average episode but not a great one.

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Avg. Viewer Review: 86.5%
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