History Frasier / TropesAToG

* DenserAndWackier: ''Cheers'' had no shortage of quirkiness and wit, but now there are three dysfunctional Crane men inhabiting the same show in cosmopolitan Seattle where the people around them have enough connections and capital to pursue insanity that the patrons of that bar could only dream of.

* ForWantOfANail:
** "Sliding Frasiers" is an episode based on ''Film/SlidingDoors'', in which two paths of Frasier's life are examined on whether he chose to wear a suit or a sweater for a speed dating service. [[spoiler: After a week, Frasier's lives meet at the same point, showing no matter which choice he made, he ended up at the same destination.]] Also, regardless of what happens, Niles and Daphne remain SickeninglySweethearts, and Martin spends the credits watching TV with Eddie. The only difference is which side of the chair Eddie sits on.
** We're shown Martin and Daphne's extraordinarily efficient morning routine on several occasions, but on the last one Daphne puts Martin's cereal in a red bowl instead of a yellow one. The whole routine goes to hell, culminating in Martin accidentally throwing his toast on the floor.

* After 'Don Juan in Hell', Frasier may still be extremely unlucky in love, but he at least stops the self-sabotaging behaviour. It's other things that end up making the relationships not work out.

* CharacterDevelopment: Over the course of the series, previously [[FlatCharacter defining]] quirks and personality traits are played down or deconstructed leading to more subtle characterisation (e.g Frasier and Niles' snobbery, Martin's crankiness, Roz's promiscuity, Niles' cleanliness).

** Played straight in Polly's first episode, when Frasier fishes into his own pocket to get his phone. Polly's so dense she doesn't notice.

* BachelorAuction: Frasier gets won by Kristina Harper (Claire Stansfield) in "Can't Buy Me Love". Despite the fact she's gorgeous and completely adores Frasier, he [[ForegoneConclusion blows it]]. Bulldog is the last bachelor sent out and gets bought by Daphne who only bid becuase ''nobody else'' would.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Roz has a few moments to suggest that she may have an underlying attraction to women, such as the time she mention an ex-boyfriend and her would spice things up by pretending to be strangers picking each other up in bars, only for him to actually go home with a stranger. She wasn't even mad, as the woman was, in Roz's words, gorgeous, and a couple more drinks and Roz would have gone with her. Then there was the time she thought Niles and Daphne were propositioning her with a threesome. She actually was considering it before it was cleared up.
During a charity auction, a woman hits on Roz but turns her down. Later on, Roz takes the woman's offer for drinks, just so she can avoid Noel Shempky's advances.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Even though [[GoodBadGirl Roz likes to]] [[ReallyGetsAround get around]], she eventually gets tired of Niles and Daphne jokingly inviting her to a threesome with them in "Proxy Prexy."

* EroticDream: Frasier's [[HomoeroticDream homoerotic dreams]] about Gil Chesterton plague him in "The Impossible Dream"; in the same episode Martin claims to have had one involving Creator/JayneMansfield. Niles has many about Daphne.

* CryingWolf: In "RDWRER", Niles spends much of the trip phoning Frasier from the back of the Winnebago, when he could just come up and speak to him. So when Niles accidentally wanders into a different Winnebago, and believes it's been stolen when its owners drive off with him in it, he tries calling Fras... who thinks he's just doing this and immediately hangs up. By the time both sides figure out what's going on, they're three hundred miles apart.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Many, and usually quite subtle.
-->'''Frasier:''' "I'm listening.", "What the hell was THAT?!", "Wishing you good mental health", "NILES!", "Off you go!", "Oh, dear God!" and '''"GetOut"'''\\
'''Niles:''' ''(about Maris)'' "The poor thing..." and "Well, I hope you're HAPPY!"\\
'''Martin:''' "Oh, geeze..."\\
'''Bulldog:''' "This stinks! This is total BS!" (Often sandwiched between "Where's my X? Somebody stole my X!" and "Oh, there it is.")
** Invoked in one episode when Niles is filling in for Frasier for an extended period. [[BorrowedCatchphrase He begins to use Frasier's "I'm listening"]], but decides against it, saying it's just not ''him''. He then tells his first caller "Let's get better!", and beams at Roz, indicating that he found a catchphrase of his own.

** There was also Daphne's "psychic abilities", which are made much of earlier on, but come up much less frequently in the later seasons (though still occasionally focused on).

*** Jane Leeves claims Daphne knew Niles was in love with her all along, but that's just her interpretation.