One of the funniest Frasiers, Jul 08, 2012

Reviewer: Harriet Wilson from Dalls TX

I thought this episode was hilarious! Ann was so annoying(she's suppose to be)I'm sure she reminded many of us of that horrible someone we know. This is one of my favourite Frasier episodes...I also love the ones with BeBe

Rating: 100%

The Ann That Came To Dinner, Jan 18, 2009

Reviewer: Tom M from Cumbria, England

The main plot featuring the eternilly irratating Ann Hodges was mediocore, with only a handful of comedic moments; however, the Maris subplot was brilliant!

Rating: 80%

Niles Crane, Pan God v.s. The Ann That Came to Dinner, Oct 07, 2007

Reviewer: Teresa from Algonquin, IL, USA

Frasier's insurance agent, a lovelorn, Ann, has a mayo mishap in his kitchen and injures herself. In Frasier's typical fumbling and stumbling attempts to stop her from suing him, she mistakes his attention for love. While this situation is comical and amusing, I much preferred the secondary plot line involving Niles, his ex-wife Maris, and the funniest television prop ever created for a television series. Niles hears that Maris is selling off items from her estate to finance her legal defense for accidentally killing her lover. He decides this is the perfect opportunity to retrieve the portrait of him she had hanging in her bedroom to avoid embarassment. When the painting is revealed, it is of Niles as the Pan God -- a furry goat man. Things get complicated as they hear the news of Maris' disappearance and fear the worse. Naturally things go from bad to worse when hot on Maris' heels, they get pulled over by the cops. Let's just say that Niles the Pan God got more exposure than he ever bargained for.

True fans will love this episode, the writing, acting, and timing are perfection, but as lovers of Frasier, that is what we've come to expect!

Rating: 100%

Wrong Name, Nov 06, 2006

Reviewer: De Worde from UK

The core plot to this is not Frasier and Ann, but rather Maris' flight and "so that's what our child would look like if I was a goat." It would have been better to scale back Frasier's date to a reference, and focus entirely on Niles' final Maris Moments. That said, any ep with Maris not-quite-in-it is a brilliant episode.

Rating: 78%

'The Ann Who Came To Dinner' review, Nov 05, 2005

Reviewer: Jocelyn from London, UK

A somewhat disjointed episode made up of two distinct plots, the main one which sees the unwelcome return of insurance agent Ann, whom Frasier had a disasterous date with in 'The Placeholder' and here has him panicking when she breaks her leg at his apartment, for which he hasn't renewed the insurance. This storyline does throw up some amusing moments - Ann slipping on some spilt mayonnaise in the kitchen off-camera; the sound of Ann's awful trumpet playing; Frasier on his knees, begging Ann not to sue him - but in the end I found Ann just too unsympathetic a character to care much about and Julia Sweeney's screechy voice is hard to bear at times. Much more enjoyable is the second plot which brings to an end the Maris storyline from earlier in the season when Maris attaches her electronic tag onto a painting which Niles wishes to get rid of, depicting him as Satyr - half man-half goat God of fornication (hilariously revealed towards the end!). It's great to see Irene Olga Lopez reviving her role as Marta after so many years and there's a particularly surreal visual joke where a hiding Maris is drinking her milkshake through a straw only to then regurgitate it back into the glass! The ending with Frasier, Niles and Martin giving a toast to Maris by drinking a tiny drop of wine each seems strangely apt, with the poignant sense of closure only serving to underline that the end of the series is now clearly in sight.

Rating: 76%