History Fridge / Frasier

* When Bulldog mentions his first time was with a hooker his father hired when he was 16, and then somberly notes the irony that "all [he] wanted as a bike," it's PlayedForLaughs in contrast to Bulldog's currently very sexual lifestyle. But it can easily lend to the interpretation that Bulldog [[IncrediblyLamePun hounds]] after women ''because'' his father [[RapeByProxy made him sleep with an older woman before he was even old enough to give consent]], as in real life hypersexuality is a trait sometimes exhibited by victims of sexual abuse. Another character early on also supposes Bulldog is overcompensating for closeted homosexuality, which combined with this ostensibly amusing anecdote can also paint an uglier picture of why Bulldog's dad got his teenaged son a hooker for his birthday.

** Her ImagineSpot self in "Don Juan In Hell" makes apparent her KnightTemplarParent character in ''Cheers'' was ''not'' EarlyInstalmentWeirdness, though she treats her threatening of Diane as an obviously empty threat that Diane took far too seriously. Her wording however ("I have a gun, I know how to use it!") sounds noticably similar to an iconically pathetic threat by her son, Niles in "Shrink Rap" ("I have made a fist, and I'm thinking of using it!"), just, unlike Frasier in that case, Diane isn't acquainted enough with Hester to know she was just dealing with a pompous psychiatrist trying desperately to claim territory. Indeed, Frasier imagines Diane, if given full knowledge of Hester, to simply bicker and squabble with her in the same mutually-petty manner Frasier and Niles normally do.

** Given the age of consent in Washington Stzte is 16, this is less RapeByProxy and more just a very inappropriate gift (c.f. The Breakfast Club)

* When Bulldog mentions his first time was with a hooker his father hired when he was 16, and then somberly notes the irony that "all [he] wanted as a bike," it's PlayedForLaughs in contrast to Bulldog's currently very sexual lifestyle. But it can easily lend to the interpretation that Bulldog [[IncrediblyLamePun hounds]] after women ''because'' his father [[RapeByProxy made him sleep with an older woman before he was even old enough to give consent]], as in real life hypersexuality is a trait sometimes exhibited by victims of sexual abuse. Another character early on also supposes Bulldog is overcompensating for closeted homosexuality, which combined with this ostensibly amusing anecdote can also paint an uglier picture of why Bulldog's dad got his teenaged son a hooker for his birthday.

* ViewersAreGeniuses is taken UpToEleven in "Murder Most Maris" as Niles relays Maris' explanation of why she had a crossbow. Not only is it obvious that as an art appreciator ''he knows it's bullshit'', but when Frasier joins in, it's clear ''so does he''. About the only fact in the whole discussion is that there really is a ''Martyrdom of St. Ursula'' painting with Attila the Hun in it (he has an ordinary bow, and the picture was done 300 years before the Nazarene art movement existed).

* Martin's chair falling off the balcony was mainly played for laughs in "Bla-Z-Boy," but an object of that weight falling from 19 floors would result in certain death if it were to hit a pedestrian. While Martin mainly reacts with anger toward his chair being destroyed, it is glossed over that he, Daphne, and Eddie came within an inch of their lives.

* ViewersAreGeniuses is taken UpToEleven in "Murder Most Maris" as Niles relays Maris' explanation of why she had a crossbow. Not only is it obvious that as an art appreciator ''he knows it's bullshit'', but when Frasier joins in, it's clear ''so does he''. About the only fact in the whole discussion is that there really is a ''Martyrdom of St. Ursula'' painting with Attila the Hun in it (he has an ordinary bow, and the picture was done 300 years before the Nazarene art movement existed).

* "The Impossible Dream" has Frasier's subconscious invent a homoerotic dream for him to interpret because all of his calls at work are boring him so much. Once he figures this out, SigmundFreud shows up to congratulate him... then slips into bed with Frasier. Well, last we see, Frasier's still bored.

* ViewersAreGeniuses is taken UpToEleven in "Murder Most Maris" as Niles relays Maris' explanation of why she had a crossbow. Not only is it obvious that as an art appreciator ''he knows it's bullshit'', but when Frasier joins in, it's clear ''so does he''. About the only fact in the whole discussion is that there really is a ''Martyrdom of St. Ursula'' painting with Attila the Hun in it (he has an ordinary bow, and the picture was done 300 years before the Nazarene art movement existed).

[[AC:FridgeLogic]]
%%* Martin is disappointed that his sons ended up as snobbish, effete sophisticates. However, with PropheticNames like "Frasier" and "Niles," what else could they possibly have become? It's like naming your son "Thrungnir the Bold," then being surprised when he grows up to be a BarbarianHero.
%%** He presumably let his wife name them (especially given she named them after her lab rats), along with most of their upbringing. If anything, it's surprising he doesn't see them more as [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy Someones To Remember Her By]].
%%*** A first season episode has him [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech point out]] that their mother was a [[WomenAreWiser much more down-to-earth person]] who was very welcoming and didn't sneer at "lower-class" tastes. Martin's disappointment comes from how they ''don't'' take after her more than how they do.
%%---> "All right, that's it. I've had enough of you two jackasses. I've spent all night hearing you make cracks about the food and the help. I got news for you. People like this place. I like this place. And when you insult this restaurant, you insult me. You know, I used to think you two took after your mother, liking ballet and all that. But your mother liked a good ball game too. She even ate a hot dog once in a while. She might have had fancy taste, but she had too much class to make me or anyone else ever feel second rate. If she saw the way you two behaved tonight she would be ashamed. I know I am."
%%** The show often hints that Martin doesn't place a lot of stock in Psychology; a better question might be how or why he managed to marry a psychologist given his thoughts on the profession.
%%*** She was doing police forensics at the time. They fell in love over chalk outlines over murder victims.
%%*** It may be that he doesn't put much stock in ''Freudian'' (or Jungian, which Niles is) psychology, and just doesn't bother to verbally differentiate between that and the more research-based school of thought Hester followed.
%%*** Except that Hester would have been trained and educated in psychoanalytic thought, seeing as she probably trained in the fifties.
%%*** It's explicitly stated that she did experiments with lab rats, which is largely behavioral.
%%*** You don't have to share someone's vocational passions to fall in love with and marry them.
%%* One episode makes much humour out of Frasier being continually confused by a caller with a French accent referring to her 'monsieur'. Frasier? The fluent French speaker? Even if he weren't, most educated people would recognise monsieur if not much else.
%%** Not sure how the above functions as Fridge Logic, but it appears to be poking fun at Frasier's French abilities; he's snooty enough that anyone with the "wrong" accent would be unintelligible to him.
%%* In "Bad Dog", the plot is driven by Frasier's refusal to believe that a person with no moral conscience whatsoever can possibly exist. With all his training and experience, shouldn't Frasier know what a sociopath is?
%%** Some psychiatric doctors (at the time, anyway) believed that some of the more violent antisocial behaviors in psychopaths and sociopaths isn't a direct lack of morality so much as ''having'' an understanding of morally correct behavior and conscience, but not actually holding them as having any value to them personally. He's one of them.