Nightmare Fuel / Frasier

• The episode when Diane Chambers comes back into Frasier's life after Cheers. A well-known and versed radio psychologist, completely and utterly losing his sanity and screaming in absolute horror, as if witnessing the monstrosities of a few pages of H. P. Lovecraft, at the sight of the woman is enough to make the audience go "oh crap!" His brother, Niles, even clears his busy schedule as Frasier barges into a session and reveals what happened.
• Quite possibly the strangest episode of the series is "Freudian Sleep", in which Frasier, Niles, and Daphne have detailed nightmares symbolizing their greatest worries in life. the nightmares themselves almost seem like something David Lynch might have come up with.
  • Frasier is worried that he will spend the rest of his life alone, and is envious of his brother's happy marriage. As such, his first nightmare has him murdering Niles with a wheat thresher (offscreen, thankfully) and marrying Daphne. (Oh, and he killed Eddie, too.) What's most disturbing about this dream is the fact that nobody seems at all bothered by this state of events, and Daphne almost seems glad that Niles is gone.
  • Frasier then has a second nightmare, this one addressing the fact that his show has been seeing fewer and fewer callers recently. Frasier goes into work and talks to Roz about his weekend with the family only for Roz to bluntly tell him that he'll be fired if he doesn't get a call today. We then see the entire desk in front of them covered in cobwebs, as they apparently haven't had a call for months. Frasier sits at his booth to start the show, only for them to finally get a call. The only problem? Frasier's desk is now covered in dozens of phones, and he can't tell which one is ringing. Frasier desperately tries one phone after another, breaking down into pitiful sobs as he tries to find the caller, only to then look up and see Roz re-enacting Thelma and Louise in her side of the booth. The nightmare ends with Frasier's cries being drowned out by the deafening sound of all the phones ringing at the same time.
  • Niles is afraid that he's unprepared for fatherhood and will be a bad parent. As such, he dreams that he's taking care of a baby in a dimly-lit nursery full of cartoonish decor and strangely warped, neon-colored furniture, with a wide-angle lens focusing on the scene. Daphne's loud footsteps and increasingly strict orders blare through as if on a PA system as Niles keeps losing track of the baby and almost getting it killed in increasingly macabre ways (feeding it with a stick of dynamite instead of a bottle, laying it down on a table with a circular saw, and baking it in a pie — all by accident) before eventually dropping it and watching it shatter like glass.
  • Daphne is self-conscious about her pregnancy weight and is worried that Niles won't find her beautiful anymore. In her dream, she keeps gaining weight long after giving birth, an extra few pounds being added on every time the camera leaves her. She keeps expanding until she's the size of a hot-air balloon and can barely move all the while Niles openly flirts with other women right in front of her, not caring at all.