Trivia / Frasier

• Acting for Two: Season 7 opener "Momma Mia" features Rita Wilson playing Frasier's Girl of the Week Mia Preston and Hester Crane due to the plot revolving around Mia's resemblance to Frasier's late mother. Wilson plays Hester again in the season 9 episode "Don Juan in Hell Part 2".
• Actor-Shared Background:
  • One episode Daphne mentioned that as a child she dreamed of being a ballerina. Jane Leeves pursued acting after an ankle injury ended her career as a ballerina.
  • Niles is a graduate of Yale University, as is his actor David Hyde Pierce.
• Banned Episode:
  • "Dr. Nora" was pulled from syndication packages after the real Dr. Laura Schlessinger complained. Ironically, it wasn't herself being parodied that Schlessinger took issue with - rather, it was the show taking on her mother, who she viewed as being off-limits due to not being a public figure. The episode has since reappeared on cable and on streaming.
  • In the UK, Channel 4 show two or three episodes every weekday morning on a more or less constant loop. Often they have minor edits to remove any of the more ribald jokes, but they skip over "High Holidays" entirely. Presumably because the whole plot revolves around Niles buying a pot brownie that Martin mistakenly eats.
• California Doubling:
  • "Love Bites Dog" (season 4) has some of the show's few outdoor scenes as Daphne and Martin search for replacement Muckabees shoes. The old store they find is, in reality, 5529 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.
  • Averted with "The 1000th Show", which was shot in Seattle.
• The Cast Showoff: David Hyde Pierce studied classical piano before switching to acting when he decided he didn't have the dedication for endless hours' practice every day. As such, whenever Niles is heard playing the piano, that really is Pierce we hear playing (by contrast, scenes in which Frasier plays the piano usually involve Kelsey Grammer miming to a recording). On the other hand, Grammer's singing voice gets a lot of mileage in this show, both within episodes and in all of the ending sequences.
• Casting Gag: Many of Frasier's guest callers:
  • Christopher Reeve as Leonard, an extreme agoraphone (i.e., a man terrified of wide open spaces);
  • Melissa Etheridge as Chloe, a woman unable to choose which of her three gorgeous boyfriends to commit to;
  • Helen Mirren as a kleptomaniac;
• Corpsing:
  • In Season 5's "Room Service", when Eddie responds to Lilith's greeting by immediately running away, Bebe Neuwirth puts her hand over her face and is clearly struggling to stifle laughter as the shot cuts away to Frasier and Niles.
  • In the Season 6 episode "Secret Admirer", there's a scene at Café Nervosa where Martin tells Niles that Eddie gets excited/scared of the sound of bubblewrap - which he demonstrates by saying "poppity-pop-pop-pop!" very fast. If you look at the woman (Tina Dalton) in the background, you can see that she smiles wide after each "poppity-pop-pop".
  • In the episode "Roz and the Schnoz", the characters are forced to struggle desperately to keep it together to avoid offending their guests by laughing at their Gag Noses. The episode's director Ken Levine has admitted some Enforced Method Acting was in play: He instructed the camera crew to keep their shot rolling on any actor who started losing it. Both of the actors playing the huge-nosed characters crack up a bit when they say that they have "two giant schnauzers".
  • In Season 4's "Ham Radio", near the end of the play when the final murder(-suicide) takes place and Niles wraps up his last line with a "Ha!", Peri Gilpin is seen in the background chuckling for a quick moment not long after the line and the final balloon being popped.
• Dawson Casting: Surprisingly averted with Frederick (born November 2, 1989 on Cheers), who was played first by Luke Tarsitano (b. March 18, 1990, four months younger than his character), and then by Trevor Einhorn (b. November 3, 1988, almost exactly one year older). Even Jack Cutmore-Scott, who will playing him in the revival, was born on April 16, 1987, only two-and-a-half years older than his character (which is a very small gap when both character and actor are in their thirties).
• Deleted Scene: In "The 1000th Episode", when Martin and Daphne enter Cafe Nervosa, you can very briefly see Martin wearing a bright blue hat^note when they are still in the doorway, at around 1:03, but he's not wearing it anymore at any point in the cafe or afterwards. In various Frasier blooper reels aired on TV - that are not included on the DVD sets, and tend to get removed from YouTube by the copyright holders - it's shown that Martin was wearing a bright blue Space Needle hat, but as soon as he entered the cafe with the hat on, the audience and actors couldn't stop laughing at it, which might partially explain why the scenes with the hat were removed from the episode.
• Directed by Cast Member: Kelsey Grammer and Dan Butler both directed episodes. Grammer in particular became one of the series' main directors, helming thirty-seven episodes, many of them consecutively. He began in Season 3 with the famous "Moon Dance" (which focused on Niles and Daphne more to give him more time behind the camera) and directed with increasing frequency over the course of the rest of the series.
• Edited for Syndication: The Hallmark Channel routinely speeds up the end credits, resulting in the little skits looking like Charlie Chaplin shorts, with Kelsey Grammer lucky if he manages to get up to the line "Scrambled eggs all over my face" by the time the Grub Street logo appears. Additionally, they cut words like 'ass' abruptly, sometimes giving the effect of the audience laughing at a joke without the punchline. They also remove the episode centred around Martin's unwitting hash-brownie consumption from their rotation.
• Enforced Method Acting: For the episode "Roz and the Schnoz," director Ken Levine knew that some Corpsing would be inevitable— and since the plot involved the characters trying not to laugh, he instructed the camera crew to keep their shots rolling on any actor who happened to start cracking up.
• Executive Meddling:
  • Roz became pregnant because NBC executives wanted her promiscuity to have consequences.
  • The episode "Dr. Nora" was never re-run for years because it was a Take That! on another Universal show, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who was a conservative therapist who made anti-gay episodes on her show. It didn't take long for her to kill her own show. Her online show shows she hasn't changed.
• Fake American: John Mahoney was born and raised in Blackpool, Britain. He became a US citizen in 1959, but sometimes his old accent pops up. This is Played for Laughs in a scene where Martin mockingly imitates Daphne and thus speaks with his natural accent - ironically, a much more authentic Mancunian accent than that of Jane Leeves!
• Fake Brit:
  • Daphne's least favorite brother, Simon (played by Australian Anthony LaPaglia) has a terribly unconvincing accent. Mostly played for laughs, though. See also any guest actor (not-British) playing Daphne's random boyfriends in earlier seasons.
  • Jane Leeves is British but cannot do a Manchester accent for toffee. God help the woman if she ever needed directions to the Trafford Centre. Word of God is that they wanted Daphne's accent to be working class and understandable to Americans so Jane Leeves adopted that particular accent.
  • Gil Chesterton is played by an American-born English actor and displays many symptoms of I Am Very British. In one of the first episodes, Frasier comments on his "phony accent."
• Follow the Leader: The show takes many of its visual cues and dialog from Hannah and Her Sisters.
• Friendship on the Set: The entire cast became incredibly close over the course of filming and still are so to this day. Kelsey Grammer cites John Mahoney as the closest thing he ever had to a father, and David Hyde Pierce and Peri Gilpin are godparents to Jane Leeves' children. More heartbreakingly, they all adored David and Lynn Angell, the creators and executive producers of the series, who were killed during the September 11th attacks; more than twenty years later, Leeves cannot talk about losing them without crying.
• Hide Your Pregnancy: Jane Leeves got pregnant late in the show's run and it was written as Daphne becoming fat due to compulsive eating, complete with a Fat Suit. She left the series to have the baby, by having Daphne going away to a spa in order to lose the weight (with the in-joke that Niles went to see her there, and she had "just lost 9 pounds, 12 ounces"). Lampshaded in the episode that establishes her as a nervous overeater (before the pregnancy itself was showing):
  Simon: What's up with your appetite, Daphne? Are you knocked up or something?
  • Averted in the final season, when Leeves' second pregnancy was merely incorporated into the storyline.
• Hostility on the Set: Mercedes Ruehl, in a case of Life Imitates Art, did not get along with Kelsey Grammer. Being primarily a stage and film actress, getting used to the rigors of a weekly sitcom production schedule was a challenge for her, and she resented the pull Grammer had with producers, which he was not shy about exercising.^note Grammer disliked rehearsing, claiming that having already played Frasier Crane for a decade on Cheers was rehearsal enough, and stage actors tend to consider rehearsal absolutely crucial to the acting process. She once snidely remarked to him "You know, I've decided if I could be anyone in the world, I would want to be you". Some reports have Ruehl leaving the show earlier than producers had originally planned as a result of her unhappiness on-set.
• Hypothetical Casting: Julia Duffy expressed interest in playing Maris before it was decided to have the character remain unseen, while David Hyde Pierce suggested Valerie Mahaffey (his co-star in The Powers That Be (1992)) for the part. (Mahaffey would eventually make a guest appearance, though not as Maris.)
• In Memoriam: "Don Juan in Hell", the season 9 premiere, is dedicated to David Angell and his wife Lynn who were killed in the 9/11 attacks.
• Irony As He Is Cast: John Mahoney, who plays Martin, was heavily into the arts and was an aesthete, while Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce (Frasier and Niles) were more down to earth, enjoying more low brow entertainment.
• Looping Lines: The celebrity callers on Frasier's radio show were dubbed in after shooting. Usually, it was Arleen Sorkin who fed the actors the callers' lines on set.
• Memorial Character: In the series finale Niles and Daphne name their son David in honor of David Angell, one of the co-creators of the series who was killed in the 9/11 attacks.
• Milestone Celebration: The 100th episode sees Frasier celebrating his radio show's 1,000th episode and convincing the station to throw a public rally dubbed "Frasier Crane Day". In real life, an actual "Frasier Crane Day" was held in Seattle, and footage of Kelsey Grammer performing the show's theme tune at the event appears in the episode's end credits.
• Never Work with Children or Animals: According to Kelsey Grammer in interviews, John Mahoney and Moose didn't like each other and Moose would often snap at Mahoney on set.
• One for the Money; One for the Art: John Mahoney's primary motivation for playing Martin was to earn enough money to be able to afford to perform in the artistic theater productions that were his true love, even financing them if necessary. Once Frasier ended, he steadfastly refused to participate in reunions and retrospectives up to his death. That wasn't to say he was on the show begrudgingly like many other examples of this trope^note Mahoney was beloved by his castmastes, evidenced by him (along with David Hyde Pierce) acting as godfather to Jane Leeves' son, and Kelsey Grammer being obviously shaken on the occasion of his death. Mahoney himself also once said the only thing he truly viewed as a negative about being on the show was the lengthy commute from his home in Chicago to production in LA. and he wasn't above playing Martin in a Star Trek 30th anniversary show skit^note The entire cast were all Star Trek fanatics.
• The Other Darrin:
  • In his first appearance in season three, Frederick Crane was played by Luke Tarsitano. Trevor Einhorn assumed the role from season four onwards (not counting the twins who took turns playing him on Cheers). And in the revival, he will be portrayed by Jack Cutmore-Scott.
  • Frasier's first wife, Nanny G, was played by Laurie Metcalf in an episode of this show after having been played by Emma Thompson in a Cheers episode. Also, Frasier's hallucination of a younger Nanny G was played by Dina Waters in "Don Juan in Hell."
  • Moose (the dog who played Eddie) was replaced in the final four seasons by his son Enzo, who first appeared as his stunt double. Yes, the dog had a stunt double. This resulted in a Flashback with the Other Darrin in "Crock Tales".
  • Hester Crane had previously appeared on Cheers played by Nancy Marchand. Rita Wilson took over the role for Hester's few appearances on this show. Somewhat justified as Wilson is playing a much younger version of Hester seen in home movies and as a hallucination in "Don Juan in Hell" (plus Marchand had passed away some time before "Don Juan in Hell" was shot.)
• Promoted Fanboy:
  • Helen Mirren, a vocal Frasier fan, was given the honor of being the show's final celebrity caller.
  • Laura Linney had never done a recurring series role on television before but accepted the offer to play Charlotte as she is a huge fan of the show. She has even expressed an interest in returning for the frequently-mooted revival/reunion show to answer the question of what ever became of Frasier and Charlotte.
• Real-Life Relative:
  • Kelsey Grammer's then-wife Camille (whom Kelsey divorced in February 2011) makes a cameo as a partygoer dressed as Eve in "Halloween". Frasier hits on her, but she leaves with another man... dressed as Satan no less.
  • Married couple Kevin Kilner and Jordan Baker played Steve and Paula Garrett, Alice's paternal grandparents, in "Roz and the Schnoz".
  • Jane Leeves' husband, Marshall Coben, played Roz's boyfriend in The Tag of the Season 7 episode "Big Crane on Campus".
• Reality Subtext:
  • Kelsey Grammer has said that his favourite episode was "The Show Where Diane Comes Back" (the plot of which was Diane Chambers of Cheers and Frasier Crane's eventual reconciliation), because it gave him the opportunity to finally reconcile with Shelley Long, the actress who portrayed Diane.
  • Frasier runs into his first wife, Nanny G, in an episode from 2004. Note that Kelsey Grammer's first appearance as Frasier Crane was in the third series premiere of Cheers from 1984:
    Frasier: You have a wonderful career.
    Nanny G: But nothing ever changes! Do you have any idea what it's like to play the same character for twenty years?
  • Humor heightened by the fact that Nanny G had appeared three times, once on Cheers, twice on this show, each time played by a different actress.
  • The episode with Sir Derek Jacobi, who essentially plays Patrick Stewart playing Data doing William Shakespeare. Frasier is upset over the man he idolized being a Classically-Trained Extra (which Jacobi actually is, and he won a Guest Actor Emmy for the episode), but it turns out he really is a terrible actor. And to top that off, take into account Kelsey Grammar's guest stint on TNG. And now that Jacobi himself has played The Master... let's just say this episode lives on Reality Subtext.
  • Niles and Daphne have a son named David in the series finale, named after producer David Angell who died in the 9/11 attacks.
  • In "Head Game", Niles becomes the shrink to a famous basketball player. This was interesting as the plot was meant for Frasier, but as Kelsey Grammer was being treated for his alcoholism he was unable to fulfill the role.
  • Jane Leeves became pregnant during the show's run, and while they were able to write around it for a while by giving Daphne an eating disorder, it came time to where she was going to have to take leave to have the child. At that point, she was temporarily written out of the show by having her go to a weight-loss clinic. During this period, at one point Roz asks Niles how Daphne's doing, to which he replies that she's making progress — she'd lost 9 lb, 12 oz — the weight of Leeves' real life newborn baby. (The baby's godparents? David Hyde Pierce, who played Niles, and Peri Gilpin, who played Roz.)
• Recycled Set: Using Frasier's apartment to represent the apartment of his new boss Todd Peterson (Alan Tudyk), whom he Mentors in the matters of style and sophistication during "The Great Crane Robbery". Lampshaded, as Frasier is irritated that the guy just copied his own decor down to the last detail. Cam Winston's apartment also uses the main set but heavily redecorated to reflect Winston's style. In both cases the recycling is justified by the fact that all three apartments would naturally have similar floorplans due to the shape of the building.
• Referenced by...:
  • In The Simpsons, the episode "Brother from Another Series" constantly riffs on the fact that both Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce play another set of snooty, bickering brothers — in this case, Bob and Cecil Terwilliger. Multiple references to the show dot the episode, most prominently a mock intertitle that reads "Frasier is a hit show on the NBC television network."
  • El Goonish Shive: NP: "An NPC by any other name", the naming of the Cleric has tons of shout-outs running through Ellen's head◊, with the second-to-last first-half involving cartoons and ending with "Frasier Niles".
• Separated-at-Birth Casting: The character of Niles was created after producers noticed David Hyde Pierce's striking resemblance to a younger Kelsey Grammer.
• Star-Making Role:
  • For Jane Leeves, who was best known as Miles' pushy girlfriend on Murphy Brown.
  • Kelsey Grammer from Cheers...and he has his own show!
• Stunt Casting: Parodied. The people who call in to Frasier's radio show are usually famous celebrities, but you'd never know unless you tune in to the closing credits.
• Suppressed Mammaries: Referenced wherein Daphne reveals she was once on a popular television show in England: "Of course, by the end of the series, I was 16, 5 foot 10, and they had me boozies bound up tighter than a mummy."
• Technology Marches On:
  • In the early seasons, there are frequent references to pagers, and Niles is the only one of the cast wealthy (and pretentious) enough to have a cellular phone (his first one isn't quite a brick, but you can watch cell phone technology change with his upgrades). One episode even highlights how relatively rare the devices were when Frasier notes that a recently-arrived professional juggler must have been contacted on her "car phone", prompting Niles' near slack-jawed shock that "Street performers have car phones?!" Of course, most of the various "Fawlty Towers" Plot styled antics wouldn't have worked quite the same if the characters could just call each other at any time.
    • Another episode has Frasier and Niles drop their phones together, and then have absolutely no way of telling them apart so that they can avoid offending the person on each line (competing caterers who hate each other). The period's limited selection of flip-phones and their often minimalist or lacking display made this an entirely plausible issue at the time; even a few years later they'd probably have different models (or cases) and just be able to look at the screen to see what number was active.
  • A seventh season episode has Roz enthused by the fact that Cafe Nervosa has put in a phone line to allow people with (rather clunky) laptops to go online.
• Troubled Production: In addition to the afore mentioned Hostility on the Set and Never Work with Children or Animals, Kelsey Grammer's drug and alcohol addictions were spiraling out of control during the show, with him nearly hitting rock bottom after crashing his Dodge Viper. He was in such bad shape that the cast and crew even held an intervention for him, and he was forced into rehab. It was his trip to rehab that forced the episode Head Games to barely even feature him, as his lone scene was filmed after he left the Betty Ford Center.
• Voice-Only Cameo: Almost all of Frasier's guest callers on his radio psychiatry show are performers doing brief cameos as neurotic Seattle citizens, including the likes of John Lithgow, Stephen King, Art Garfunkel, Carrie Fisher, Jodie Foster, Ben Stiller, and even a young Elijah Wood. Most seasons end with a photo montage of the various voices.
• What Could Have Been:
  • According to co-creator Peter Casey, Frasier was supposed to be set in Denver but then the state that city is in (Colorado) passed a law that forbade laws protecting LGBT people from discrimination, so they moved it to Seattle. Not only did the story change a bit, but '90s culture changed because Frasier (along with Starbucks and Nirvana) made Seattle fashionable.
  • Kirstie Alley is the only^note living; Nicholas "Coach" Colasanto had died in 1985 regular from Cheers to not reprise her role on Frasier, reportedly because Scientology does not believe in psychiatry, and Frasier is a psychiatrist. In the later episodes of Cheers, around the time Lilith and Frasier were going through their separation, Frasier and Rebecca nearly ended up in bed together. Wasting a perfectly good Unresolved Sexual Tension plot...
    • According to lore, when she informed the producers that she would not be appearing on the spinoff due to Frasier's profession, one of them (usually credited as co-creator David Lee) remarked that "I don't recall asking".
    • She claimed in one interview that her being a Scientologist had nothing to do with her never appearing on Frasier, and at least one of the show's writers (Ken Levine) said in a radio interview that they never considered having Kirstie Alley on, mainly because they weren't sure how to write her in, as Rebecca and Frasier hardly interacted on Cheers. Alley also said once she auditioned to play one of Frasier's girlfriends of the week, but was turned down, because the producers thought that would be kind of weird.
    • It's also widely rumored that Kelsey Grammer and Kirstie Alley didn't get along very well...
  • Lisa Kudrow was originally cast as Roz. However, after the first few days of rehearsal, the producers decided that her quirky humor didn't fit the part and they hired Peri Gilpin instead (according to Kudrow, Gilpin was their first choice, but Kudrow was cast on the strength of her audition, then order was restored by bringing Gilpin back). Plus, imagine how this would have affected Friends (as well as Mad About You) if Kudrow had remained on Frasier.
  • Frasier's brother Niles wasn't in the original concept and hadn't been mentioned on Cheers. The inspiration for the character came after the producers saw a headshot of David Hyde Pierce and noted his brotherly resemblance to Kelsey Grammer. According to Christopher Lloyd, prior to discovering Pierce, they’d considered giving Frasier a sister instead. They had also considered making him an only child, which was implied during Cheers.
  • Jane Leeves was cast as Holly in the Red Dwarf USA pilot. That never had a chance of getting picked up, but if it had, someone else probably would have been cast as Daphne.
  • Maris wasn't originally intended to be an unseen character, as the writers didn't want to draw comparisons to Vera from Cheers. They wound up having so much fun creating bizarre descriptions of her, however, that it reached a point where no actress could've played the part. It did lead to one Bait-and-Switch when it seemed like Frasier was meeting with her, and a short, thin woman wearing sunglasses seemed to be her — instead, he was meeting with Maris' maid, Marta.
  • Kate Costas was supposed to be a longer lasting character, however Mercedes Ruehl didn't want to do it long term, so she was written off the show.
  • When Kate Costas (Mercedes Ruehl) was written out early in the third season, the door was left open for her possible return, which ultimately never happened.
  • In the Season 11 episode "Caught in the Act", Frasier has his first encounter in over a decade with his first wife, Nanette Guzman alias Nanny Gee. In her appearance in the Season 10 Cheers episode "One Hugs, the Other Doesn't", she was played by Emma Thompson, and the producers tried to bring Thompson back for "Caught in the Act", but she was unavailable, citing, aptly enough, "nanny trouble". Nanny Gee was instead played by Laurie Metcalf.
  • Bulldog would’ve appeared in the series finale, but Dan Butler wasn’t available.
  • Kelsey Grammer originally didn't want to play Frasier in a spinoff, but rather do something completely different. The original concept he and the writers came up with would've had him play a wealthy and reclusive paraplegic publisher, inspired by Howard Hughes. This character would've had a street-smart, live-in Hispanic nurse to aid him, and the creators envisaged Rosie Perez in the role. Paramount disliked the concept and insisted a Frasier Crane show was the way to go. The concept of the live-in nurse was re-used when developing the part of Daphne.
    • Two of the other concepts for Frasier involved a workplace comedy based entirely around Frasier working at KACL (which was not pursued because it was decided that would be too similar to WKRP in Cincinnati), and Frasier, Lilith, and Frederick living in Boston as a family comedy (which was aborted when Bebe Neuwirth declined a series commitment).
  • The writers toyed back and forth as to whether Daphne would be Hispanic or English. Had they made her Hispanic, Rosie Perez was their top choice for the part, as she had been for their rejected series concept. They ultimately wrote the role as English in the pilot’s first draft, but Kelsey Grammer wasn’t happy about this. He feared Daphne being English would make the show too reminiscent of Nanny and the Professor, a series he didn’t care for at all. He changed his mind after reading with Jane Leeves, so Daphne remained English.
  • During the period when the two major Grubstreet Productions shows were on the air together (Frasier and Wings), co-creator David Lee facetiously suggested a theme night called Ebola Tuesday, which would’ve seen an infected Joe and Brian Hackett initiating the spread by passing it on to their airline passengers, culminating in Frasier Crane becoming sick. Though this idea was clearly a joke, any other discussions for crossovers or shared themes between the two shows ultimately never came to pass.
    • An official crossover almost happened when Tony Shalhoub was brought on to guest star. Reportedly, the producers wanted Shalhoub to reprise his Wings character of Antonio, who Frasier would attempt to help, but Shalhoub rejected the idea and insisted on playing a new character instead.
  • The production team considered four possibilities for Frasiers final love interest for the 11th Season, it was between Lilith, Julia Wilcox, Roz, or a new character, they ultimately went with a new character.
• Word of Saint Paul: Jane Leeves believed that Daphne had always reciprocated Niles' affections, but was better at keeping them under wraps.
• Write What You Know: Frasier and Martin's relationship was based on co-creator Peter Casey's relationship with his own father, who was a retired cop like Martin. Likewise, Martin’s infirmity was inspired by co-creator David Lee’s father, who had tragically suffered a stroke and required more specialised care.
• Written-In Infirmity: Daphne's compulsive eating in season 8 (and her later departure to a 'spa for fat people') accommodated Jane Leeves' real-life pregnancy. Interestingly, Roz's pregnancy does not fall under this — it existed only for the storyline. Peri Gilpin was not pregnant at the time and in fact had such difficulty becoming pregnant in real life, her twin daughters were born via a surrogate mother.
• You Look Familiar:
  • John Mahoney played hack songwriter Sy Flemback in the canonically related Cheers, while Peri Gilpin (Roz) also appeared on Cheers as a reporter and on Wings (where Frasier once appeared) as a blind date. Additionally, a number of one-shot actors from Cheers, Wings and The Tortellis (the other Cheers spinoff) showed up in new roles on Frasier as well.
  • Wings regulars Tony Shalhoub and Rebecca Schull played unrelated one-shot characters in "The Focus Group" and "RDWRER", respectively.
  • Jennifer Tilly appeared as a sweet, bouncy nympho with a heart of gold on Cheers, then appeared as a sweet, bouncy nympho with a heart of gold on Frasier — both of whom dated Frasier.
  • Stephanie Faracy appeared in two episodes, each time playing a character named Mimi. However, given that the first time she was a confident, socialite friend of Maris and Niles, while the second time she was a timid pediatric nurse afraid of clowns, it's unlikely both Mimis were meant to be the same person.
  • In a case of You Sound Familiar, several of the celebrity guest callers (including Patti LuPone, Estelle Parsons, Piper Laurie, Rosie Perez and Laura Linney) would later guest-star in person as different characters. Perez was also a Mythology Gag, as she was going to be Martin's Hispanic caregiver before Leeves was cast.
  • The same actor who played Frasier's (and Bulldog's) temporary replacement producer Ed in Season 2's "Roz in the Doghouse" makes a brief return in Season 7 as the retiring radio personality Chester Ludgate.

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