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Frasier Online Episode Guide -> Season 6 -> Episode 6.02Frasier's Curse
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| Episode Details |
Written by: Jay Kogen Directed by: Pamela Fryman |
Original US airdate: 1st October 1998 Original UK airdate: 15th January 1999 |
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| Episode Synopsis |
Frasier's reunion is that night but he believes he has a curse upon him because every time it comes around, it coincides with a downturn in his luck: the breakup of his marriage, for example, and right on cue he has been fired. After a disasterous job interview Frasier attributes to the curse, Frasier decides not to go to the reunion. However, while he is taking back some dog food in a shopping cart dressed in a tatty, dirty t-shirt and is chanced upon by another peron from his class - Percy Williams, who believes him to be homeless. Despairing that the curse has worked even though he wasn't going, he resolves now to go to the reunion with Roz as his pretend girlfriend, but Niles convinces him that it would be better not to go. Roz is understandably upset, but then Martin says his agent just called with a job offer - his own show on KPOV. Frasier just can't resist going now to gloat, but after Frasier has gone Martin reveals that it was a lie to cheer Frasier up. Daphne then informs them that the reunion co-ordinator and KPOV station manager is another of Frasier's classmates. How will Frasier cope at the reunion.......?
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| Episode Highlights |
- Frasier's job interview with Mr Rugly
- Niles and Martin are in the lift:
Niles: Have you chosen a restaurant for tonight?
Martin I got a better idea - my old precinct is having a seized
property auction at the fairground.
Niles: Ooh - what's the better idea (!)
- After Niles finds Frasier with his head in the oven after the
interview:
Frasier: I was cleaning it - it's electric. If I was going to
kill myself, I think I'd choose something quicker than broiling (!)
- Frasier being mistaken as homeless
- In Frasier's apartment:
Niles: Are you so desperate to impress these people that you'll
have Roz pretend to be some trophy girlfriend.
Frasier: Trophy duchess!
- After Roz has got ready twice for this reunion:
Frasier: Roz, you look beautiful .....
Roz: Why thank you.
Frasier: .... but we're not going.
| Frasier Online Episode Review |
Following on from the slightly underwhelming season opener, this episode sees Frasier believing he has a curse on his head every time his school reunion comes around. This gives rise to some amusing incidents like a former classmate believing Frasier is a homeless person who eats dog food, but the episode felt a bit dragged out at times and a bit weak in parts (the whole Mr Rugly/Ugly bit was pretty awful). It was a pity too that we only saw a bit of reunion itself too, leaving us with a rather uneven episode: amusing in parts but there just weren't enough of them.
Rating
72 %
| Latest Viewer Episode Review |
Avg. Viewer Review:
73.2%
Total Number of Reviews: 6
Frasier's Curse, May 22, 2010 |
Reviewer: Norm, Jr. from Somewhere, CA |
Like watching a fine ballplayer in the twilight of his career, this ep leaves a lot of somber head-shaking. A collection of desperate, uninspired scenes just richochet throughout, leaving one with an uneasy feeling about the show's future. Where to begin with the liberties taken in this ep? Firstly, despite Frasier's "acceptance" at the end of the previous entry, he appears to be just as mired in his jobless situation as ever before. Now his high school reunion is looming, and he feels too inadequate to attend. This leads to the second problem, a continuity one, as Frasier states -- in mistaken five year increments -- that Diane ditched him in 1988. Untrue. It was 1985. If an unrelated writer had penned that, fine. But the fact that most of these writers are Cheers holdovers makes it especially annoying. Thirdly -- and most alarmingly -- is the job interview sequence, which redefined predictable and amateur. Seriously, toupee and exposed zipper jokes (not to mention Grammer's horribly telegraphed pushing of the coffee cup with the umbrella)? Frightening. Lastly, we are privy to absolutely NOTHING of Frasier's reunion, save for about fifteen seconds at the loser's table. Just beyond abysmal. The 65% rating? About 99% of that is comprised of Peri Gilpin's droolingly luscious dress. |
Rating: 65%
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