Review of 'Bully For Martin', Jul 28, 2006

Reviewer: Beer Necessity from York, Engalnd

As the title suggests, this episode centres on Martin’s struggle with his bully of a boss. There are some amusing moments but its hard not to think the writers were struggling to come up with decent plot ideas at this point. Below average episode.

Rating: 63%

'Bully For Martin' review, Sep 16, 2005

Reviewer: Jocelyn from London, UK

A weakly scripted episode that suffers from a rather trivial main plot - Frasier's concern at Martin's harsh treatment by his new boss, Richie - the only real point of which is to have most of the characters behaving like children. Nor is it helped much having Roz wittering on and on about her love for Roger; as amusing as the other characters' attempts to escape her constant droning may be, Peri Gilpin really deserves more rewarding material than this. The only real highlights are the menacing appearance of Frasier's bodyguard in Nervosa and the closing sequence where Frasier and Niles find themselves locked in the storage room - I liked their pretence that they were in a restaurant, unaware that Martin and Richie were watching them on the security monitor - although much more could have been made of this promising situation rather than just leaving Frasier and Niles locked inside. Overall then, another limp and forgettable Season 9 episode.

Rating: 64%