Don't get that joke!!

[domi_dot_com]

There's probably already one of these, but if you heard a joke on Frasier and you don't get it, post it here and someone will explain it (unless no one else gets it either)
Coz i know that there are a lot of jokes i don't get. Then again, i am only 13 so yeah lol um everyone else probably gets them. ANYWAY!! post here any jokes you don't get...

[Mr Blue Sky]

There's probably already one of these, but if you heard a joke on Frasier and you don't get it, post it here and someone will explain it (unless no one else gets it either)
Coz i know that there are a lot of jokes i don't get. Then again, i am only 13 so yeah lol um everyone else probably gets them. ANYWAY!! post here any jokes you don't get...

Do you want to give us an example of a joke you don't get? There are quite a few jokes which rely on a knowledge of American culture but I can't think of any I don't understand...

[ouroboros]

I know there is one but I'm going to have to find the episode first before I quote it.

This isn't so much a joke but it seemed as good a place as any to put it. In Room Service, Niles and Lilith sleep together obviously. In the morning one of the things Lilith says is 'why'd you have to drive me home and walk me to my door?'.

Then:

Niles: "oh we both know why this happened, last night was about two people consumed by loneliness and.."
Lilith: "tequila shooters"

What did they start doing shooters in her hotel room or something? Or did Niles drive drunk?

Might sound a tad 'picky' but it does bug me. In a later season when it is made reference to the fact that Niles and Lilith slept together again it is said they were 'stinkin' or 'blotto' or something.

So either Niles drove in that state (not good) or they managed to get to that state in her hotel room, in which case surely he knew before he started drinking he wasn't going home that night if he was driving....

oh lordy talk about giving something too much thought! Sorry but it just always bugged me. Anyone else?

[CatNamedRudy]

I assumed they stopped at the hotel bar before going up to Lilith's room.

[ouroboros]

Ah that might explain it. As to blaming the sleeping together on being drunk I am assuming when Niles took his first few drinks that would have put him over the stage where you can drive but before you're blotto enough to make a humungous mistake like sleeping with your brother's ex-wife he was planning on getting a hotel room there himself then?

I'm giving this waaay too much thought aren't I?

EDIT: oh or a cab home, hmm yeah ok it's starting to make a bit more sense now

[CatNamedRudy]

Ah that might explain it. As to blaming the sleeping together on being drunk I am assuming when Niles took his first few drinks that would have put him over the stage where you can drive but before you're blotto enough to make a humungous mistake like sleeping with your brother's ex-wife he was planning on getting a hotel room there himself then?

I'm giving this waaay too much thought aren't I?

EDIT: oh or a cab home, hmm yeah ok it's starting to make a bit more sense now

After a couple of tequila shooters, all rational thought goes straight out the window! I doubt Niles was thinking much of anything except "I'm horny" once he started down that salt and lime encrusted highway!

[ouroboros]

After a couple of tequila shooters, all rational thought goes straight out the window! I doubt Niles was thinking much of anything except "I'm horny" once he started down that salt and lime encrusted highway!

Lol true, aw bless with Niles he probably only needed one!

[Janey]

After a couple of tequila shooters, all rational thought goes straight out the window!

I only did tequila shooters once, one New Year's Eve in the 90's. All I remember is thinking that my champagne (for the midnight toast) would look pretty if it were filled with M&Ms. Later, when I saw the pictures (yes, some fool brought a camera!) I saw myself wearing a cardboard party hat (no memory of that), holding a champagne flute filled with dirty, brownish liquid. (Apparently M&Ms melt in champagne.)

Thank God that's as bad as it got.

</derailing>

[ouroboros]

The first time I met the girl who would become my best mate at uni, it was her birthday. Each of us (7) bought her a tequila shooter. Instead of doing them steadily through the course of the night she lined them up licked the salt and then bam bam bam did all seven only using lemon at the end. She then wiped her mouth went to the bar and ordered a beer.

I thought - now this is someone I can work with

I stress this was a one-off uni experience

[Gabe JA]

don't get this joke from dark side of the moon:
Frasier-oh, roz, someday you will make a beautiful bride, only your dress won't be made of toilet paper.
niles-and it won't be white.

[CatNamedRudy]

don't get this joke from dark side of the moon:
Frasier-oh, roz, someday you will make a beautiful bride, only your dress won't be made of toilet paper.
niles-and it won't be white.

Traditionally, virgins wore white to signify their "purity". And Roz ain't no virgin!!!!!

[Dorset Girl]

don't get this joke from dark side of the moon:
Frasier-oh, roz, someday you will make a beautiful bride, only your dress won't be made of toilet paper.
niles-and it won't be white.

At the Bridal Shower (is that what it's called in America?) there was a competition to make bridal dresses out of toilet paper.

The 'white' bit - traditionally, if you are a virgin when you get married, you are allowed to wear white, if not, you're not supposed to.

[CatNamedRudy]

Yes, it's called a Bridal Shower and Toilet Paper Bride is probably the most played shower game on the planet! (and after enough alcohol, it can be really fun!)

[Gabe JA]

thank you

[ouroboros]

Just watched 'The Apparent Trap' and don't get this bit

Lilith: He's the man who supplies with me lab rats. It's about time we got together socially, I've known him for over 52 generations.

Frasier: Ah well if the drumsticks are only (makes 'small' gesture with fingers) this big you'll know why.

Freddie: Good one Dad

[Wezzo]

I think he's implying that she'll be fed 'lab rat drumsticks', as opposed to chicken drumsticks or whatever.

[ouroboros]

AH I see! Ta!

Welcome back by the way

[Wezzo]

Thanks!

[domi_dot_com]

ok i have a few, i've been writing them down as i watch coz i'm stupid and don't get anything lol

in Our parents ourselves:
Frasier-yeah exactly we'll marry each other
Roz-I was gonna say kill each other
Frasier-Six to One (or something like that) i don't get it

also:
Bulldog-Frasier crane's sex life, there's a word for that, ithenoxy, oxy..
Roz-moron
Bulldog-Hey, wow! i'll get it!

also: what's radience week?

also:
Frasier-when it comes to an ugly image, you can't beat a dead horse (and everyone laughs but me coz i don't get it)

AND last one, in Beware of Greeks:
Roz-frasier i'm gonna ask your appinion on something and i want you to give me an honest answer not just tell me what you think i wanna hear..
roz puts hat on and frasier turns around and looks at her and doesn't say anything and walks off, then he turns around and says- No i'm just kidding roz it looks good WHAT"S FUNNY I DONT GET IT PLEES HELP

[Moon-Crane]

ok i have a few, i've been writing them down as i watch coz i'm stupid and don't get anything lol

in Our parents ourselves:
Frasier-yeah exactly we'll marry each other
Roz-I was gonna say kill each other
Frasier-Six to One (or something like that) i don't get it

also:
Bulldog-Frasier crane's sex life, there's a word for that, ithenoxy, oxy..
Roz-moron
Bulldog-Hey, wow! i'll get it!

also: what's radience week?

also:
Frasier-when it comes to an ugly image, you can't beat a dead horse (and everyone laughs but me coz i don't get it)

AND last one, in Beware of Greeks:
Roz-frasier i'm gonna ask your appinion on something and i want you to give me an honest answer not just tell me what you think i wanna hear..
roz puts hat on and frasier turns around and looks at her and doesn't say anything and walks off, then he turns around and says- No i'm just kidding roz it looks good WHAT"S FUNNY I DONT GET IT PLEES HELP

Bulldog is trying to remember the word oxymoron, which means to combine contrasting words to emphasise meaning - eg. a loud silence. Bulldog compares Frasier Crane and sex life as not belonging together. Obviously the 'moron' part of it fits perfectly when Roz 'helps' him complete the word - Bulldog thinks it's just one of her normal put-downs

[Wezzo]

in Our parents ourselves:
Frasier-yeah exactly we'll marry each other
Roz-I was gonna say kill each other
Frasier-Six to One (or something like that) i don't get it

I don't quite remember the context but he was referencing the phrase "six of one, half a dozen of the other" - i.e. they're practically the same thing.

[CatNamedRudy]

also: what's radience week?

Ratings week.

[Pisa32]

Frasier-when it comes to an ugly image, you can't beat a dead horse (and everyone laughs but me coz i don't get it)

Well, Niles just told Frasier to remember the dead horse when ever he saw Lilith, so he wouldn't do anything rash and try and reconcile with her. When he says "You can't beat a dead horse" he means that there isn't anything worse to think of than a dead horse, but it is also a famous saying that means to keep going on about something that can't be changed.

Sorry, pretty bad explanation, but it's the best I can do

[versace_256]

I dont know if this really belongs in this section, but i didnt wanna start a whole new thread!?!

In They're Playing Our Song just before Frasier starts his Opum Magnus, he says something like. And with a simple bow of thanks, to the muse Coliathe, or something like that, what is he talking about?!

Im guessing his muse is some psychiatric thing that I just dont get?!

[CatNamedRudy]

The muse Calliope is whom Frasier speaks of. The muse of epic poetry.