History Recap / FrasierS03E16LookBeforeYouLeap

-->'''Daphne:''' ''(sobbing)'' Take a leap! Mr. Maurice hair-designer! Trust me! Children pointing! '''Your fault!'''

* IsThisThingStillOn: Frasier angrily yelling out "who watches PBS?!" winds up being broadcast to everyone watching PBS in the Seattle area.

-->'''Martin:''' You know, Niles, remember when you were a kid and your mother and I wouldn't discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis in front of you because we knew it'd give you bad dreams?
-->'''Niles:''' Yes.
-->'''Martin:''' It's a two-way street.

-->'''Frasier:''' You will rue the day-!
-->'''Niles:''' I don't care! Niles gotta have it!

* {{Angrish}}: Daphne is not at her most elegant when yelling at Frasier after her "leap" backfires.

* CringeComedy: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti-2Em0e8T4 Buttons and Bows]], need I say more?

* LeapDay: The episode takes place on this day and Martin mentions a friend whose birthday is February 29th.

* ComedicallyMissingThePoint: After Martin tells Frasier and Niles about the plane having to make an emergency landing, the only thing that the sex-obsessed Niles wants to know is whether the stewardesses were covered in foam.

* RageQuit: After seeing how Daphne's leap spelled disaster, Niles decides to go and have sex with Maris against Frasier's wants.

* ShoutOut: Roz at one point compares herself to [[Series/{{TheBradyBunch}} Marsha Brady]]. She also mentions [[Series/SesameStreet Big Bird]] and [[Series/LampChopsPlayAlong Lamp Chop]].

* ShoutOut: Roz at one point compares herself to [[Series/{{TheBradyBunch}} Marsha Brady]].

%%* CringeComedy: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti-2Em0e8T4 Buttons and Bows]], need I say more?

* CringeComedy: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti-2Em0e8T4 Buttons and Bows]], need I say more?

-->'''Pianist:''' I've been going over your music, and when we get to this section here, either I can play ''really'' loud or jab you with a pin, because between you and me, you're not hitting this note without a pole vault!

--> '''Frasier''': It may be an unwise man who doesn't learn from his own mistakes, but it's an absolute idiot that doesn't learn from other people's!

* VocalDissonance: Roz says that she will be upset with Frasier when his encouragement to 'take a leap' backfires until she gets married in the happiest voice there was.

** Roz falls for a man named Gary that she met on the subway, but when he buys flowers for her and asks her out, he reveals that he is married.

* VocalDissonance: Roz says that she will be upset with Frasier when his encouragement to 'take a leap' backfires until she gets married in the most happiest voice there was.

* RealityEnsues: Sorry Frasier, but forgetting the words to a song and embarrassing yourself on television is what you get for not practicing.

** Martin tries to visit a friend in Montana for his birthday (Leap Day), but when he gets on a plane to go their, a flock of Geese fly into an engine, resulting in his plane almost crashing and when he evacuates the plane, a large woman falls on him.
** Daphne tries to get a new hair-do, but the hair stylist does a rather horrible job (though that doesn't stop Niles for still seeing Daphne as beautiful).

* TheStinger: Niles visits Frasier to console him after his embarrassing scene at the PBS pledge drive. Frasier asks if he actually had sex with Maris and Niles says no. But after, Frasier leaves the scene, there's some whipped cream on Niles, [[BrickJoke which implies he did as earlier, he said that whipped cream is one of his wife's favorite sex toys]].

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* RealityEnsues: Sorry Frasier, but embarrassing yourself on television is what you get for not practicing.

** Roz falls for a man named Gary that she met on the subway, but when he buys flowers for her and asks her out, [[YourCheatingHeart he reveals that he is married.]]

* DirtyCoward: Frasier, scared that something might go wrong if he sings the aria, decides to not go through with it a few seconds before the pledhge drive begins. [[LaserGuidedKarma He pays for it though.]]

** Frasier tries to back out of hsi leap and regress to singing the song ''Buttons and Bows'' for the pledge drive, only to end up embarrassing himself when he can't remember the whole song.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Frasier may be snobbish, but he's right when he says that if Niles has sex with Maris, they won't be getting any clsoer to solving their marriage problems.