Frasier Online Episode Guide -> Season 8 -> Episode 8.19

The Wizard And Roz

Frasier is seeing his mentor, Dr Tewkesbury, for some therapy about his family but feels somewhat uncomfortable when he sees him in Cafe Nervosa. Nevertheless he introduces her to Roz, and something must have clicked because when Frasier goes round to Roz's apartment to do some work on promos for their show, Frasier meets Dr Tewkesbury dressed in one of Roz's robes after a rather passionate sex session. Frasier is rather perturbed by this, so much so in fact that at their next session, Frasier can't get the image of his mentor dressed in Roz's robe out of his mind, and worries that he is losing the respect he has for Dr Tewkesbury. Frasier's mentor confronts this head on at their next seesion by bringing the robe with him, and suggests that because it is Roz's robe it is more to do with Frasier's feelings for Roz that anything about him ..... Meanwhile, Niles is somewhat unconvinced about Daphne's psychic ability so she calls in a psychic evaluator, Dr Morey, to test her out.

- After seeing Daphne manipulate Niles into not going to Cafe Nervosa:
Frasier: [to Niles] Is it difficult to kickbox without a spine?

- Daphne spies Niles in Cafe Nervosa and bursts in, causing Niles to bang his leg on the table:
Daphne: You broke your promise!
Niles: And my patella!

- After an argument about Daphne's psychic ability, Daphne and Niles make up:
Niles: Well, now that we've made up, maybe we could.....
Daphne: Well, I guess we know who's not psychic!

- Frasier finds the idea of a psychic evaluator laughable:
Frasier: It is all about subjective evidence and lucky guesses.
Daphne: Not at all like the subjective eveidence and lucky guesses psychology is based on.
Martin: Thank you!

- The psychic evaluator begins his test on Daphne:
Dr Moray: Now I've got a card....
Daphne: Ace of spades!
Dr Moray: .... with my office and fax number on it.

- Frasier wonders why Roz has never picked him before:
Roz: Did you ever think there's something special about not being picked?
Frasier: Roz, that didn't work when I was cut from peewee football, it's not going to work now!

This episode is written by my least favourite new writer, Saladin K Patterson, and features my least favourite new character, Frasier's mentor, Dr Tewkesbury, so does not really get off to the best of starts. Even more disappointingly, the show barely raised more than a wry smile for me as I found Frasier's plot rather boring - Frasier is obsessed by having seen his mentor in Roz's robe, while Daphne's psychic evaluation was interesting but having Niles stop it just as we found out if she was because 'he wanted to find out about Daphne on their own' felt rather heavy handed. Overall, then, I found this to be a rather weak episode that seems to be a depressingly common feature of this season.

Rating

60 %

Avg. Viewer Review: 67.2%
Total Number of Reviews: 5