Frasier Online Episode Guide -> Season 5 -> Episode 5.23

Party, Party

Frasier has trouble meeting a new date, Tricia, on-time. First his watch stopped, then his car breaks down, and Tricia is not impressed. Frasier begs for a third chance since he is convinced that their initial 10 minute meeting at the opera was kismet. While preparing for this fateful third chance, Frasier must contend with a surprise birthday party thrown for him by Martin, as well as a dinner with the exclusive members of the Safari club. When Frasier finally catches up with Tricia, she is not quite the woman of his dreams. Meanwhile Niles is getting lucky with Allison, who lives two floors below Frasier. At the dinner for the Safari club, which Allison hosts, Niles learns that Allison is in fact married to a man whose hobbies include hunting zebra, leaving Niles very worried when Allison reveals to her husband that she has been seeing someone who's at the dinner......

- Niles is telling Frasier how he met Allison in Frasier's building:
Niles: I walked her to her car, where it turned out she had locked her keys inside. My resourcefulness saved the day.
Frasier: What did you do? Fish them out with a coat hanger?
Niles: I called the autoclub! Where would I find a coat hanger ?!

- Martin gives Frasier with his birthday present:
Martin: I scored tickets Friday night to the best show in town!
Frasier: Chimps On Ice(!) Oh my (!)

- Niles is looking forward to the footage from the Safari Club's trip featuring endangered species found in the rainforest:
Niles: Maris would have loved it.
Frasier: Oh? How so?
Niles: She had shoes made from almost all of them.

- Frasier ends up back at the Safari Club dinner after trying to get out of the building to see Tricia:
Niles: What are you doing here?
Frasier: Wishing I had taken the stairs!

- Niles learns that Allison is married and her husband is at the dinner:
Niles: Frasier, I have to ask a small favour - I need you to create a distraction while I have a sex change and I move to Europe!!

- Frasier is in the middle of playing charades with Bulldog and Martin:
Bulldog: Let me see... icy cold man. Got it!
Frasier: Thak you!
Bulldog: Frosty The Snowman!
Frasier: It was 'The Iceman Cometh', you jackass.
Roz: Disqualified!!

The second of the two consecutive party themed episodes , and while it perhaps falls slightly below the standard of it's predecessor, it's still an amusing and enjoyable episode in it's own right. Much of the episode is taken up with Frasier trying (and failing) to meet up with Tricia, a woman he met at the opera, including trying to get out of 2 simultaneous parties in his building just to meet her. There are some great scenes at both parties - Martin, Bulldog and Frasier playing charades and Martin's fit when he realises they are almost out of ice at Frasier's surprise party, and a brilliant moment at the Safari Club dinner when Allison's husband asks her lover to stand up - and as Niles is about to get up, about half a dozen other men do first! While the ending is a tad predictable when it turns out Tricia isn't the woman of his dreams, this is yet another great Season 5 episode.

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