Frasier Online Episode Guide -> Season 9 -> Episode 9.22

The Guilt Trippers

It's Daphne's birthday which culminates in everyone giving Daphne her presents - Frasier and Martin buy her a journal, while Niles surprises her with a trip to Hawaii for just the two of them. Daphne's mother, though, is still driving everyone to distraction with her constant moaning leading to Daphne wanting to change her birthday wish! After the party, Roz doesn't really want to go home as she'll be all by herself as Alice is at her grandma's, leading to Frasier and Roz spending the evening just shooting the breeze. However, both of them get a a shock the next morning as they realise they just slept together!

Frasier tries to get Roz to talk about what happened, but she just wants to leave as quickly as possible. Niles, though, after listening to Daphne feeling a bit sad about the fact that her father won't be able to give her away at her wedding, has a brainwave - he asks Daphne to take her mother to Hawaii to try and cheer her up. There is a method to his madness - he is planning to fly to England and try and convince Daphne's father to come to Seattle and reconcile with Daphne's mother. Frasier, on the other hand, is worried that Roz's refusal to discuss what happened between them will endanger their relationship so on hearing that Roz has gone to visit her parents in Wisconsin, he decides to fly there and see her. So Martin drops Daphne and her mother off at the airport, followed by Niles, then Frasier. Will Frasier be able to sort everything out with Roz, and will Niles convince Mr Moon to fly back to Seattle......?

- Martin seems to want to disown his and Frasier's present to Daphne of a journal:
Martin: I wanted to get you one of those robot dogs - you know, something you could really use!

- After another dose of the grumpy Mrs Moon, Daphne relights her birthday cake:
Niles: What are you doing?
Daphne: I want to change my wish!

- Martin greets Frasier the morning after he slept with Roz:
Martin: Seen the paper?
Frasier: No, not yet.
Martin: Big story about how Roz's handbag spent the night on the coffee table!

- Martin drops Daphne and her mother off at the airport:
Martin: [to Mrs Moon] How come you can fly to Hawaii but you can't fly to England?
Mrs Moon: How come you can drive a car but you can't do your own laundry?
Martin: [pauses] Have a nice trip!

- Niles manages to track Mr Moon down in a Manchester pub:
Niles: I'm here to reunite you with your wife.
[ Pub goes silent, followed by Mr Moon throwing Niles out of the pub!]

This is one of those episodes that is stronger on plot than script and features a particularly irritating performance by Mrs Moon - she has begun to grate in recent episodes but this is the one that finally turned me against her. On the other hand, Roz and Frasier sleeping together was a bit of a shock - something that has been discussed and almost reached in previous episodes but it has now finally been achieved. It was quite well handled - the scene where Frasier visits Roz's family pretending to be Roger could have been played as farce but instead pieced back together Frasier and Roz's relationship, which is one of the show's best. On the whole, though, this episode seemed as if it had been written to move the plot forward which leaves the funniest lines to Martin - his way of revealing to Frasier that he knows Roz has spent the night was brilliant.

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