Shrink Rap (Frasier episode)

Infobox Television episode | Title = Shrink Rap
Series = Frasier
Season = 3
Episode = 02
Airdate = 26 September 1995
Production =
Writer = Christopher Lloyd
Director = David Lee
Guests = Milo O'Shea (Dr. Schachter)
Kristen Lowman (Mrs. Kalish)
Lesley Woods (Mrs. Kelly)
Blair Brown (Jill)
Don Sparks (Mr. Carr)

Prev = She's the Boss
Next = Martin Does It His Way
Episode list = List of Frasier episodes (Season 3)

"Shrink Rap" is the second episode of season 3 of American sitcom "Frasier".

Cast and characters

Main cast and characters

*Kelsey Grammer – Dr. Frasier Crane
*David Hyde Pierce – Dr. Niles Crane
*John Mahoney – Martin Crane
*Jane Leeves – Daphne Moon
*Peri Gilpin – Roz Doyle

Recurring cast

*Dan Butler – Bob 'Bulldog' Briscoe

Plot outline

Niles, dejected, is on the couch of couples therapist Dr. Schachter. His relationship with Frasier (also present) is clearly quite tense and falling apart. Each explains the situation from his own perspective, with corresponding flashbacks: Frasier tells how a young woman called his show with an intriguing recurring dream, but unfortunately they were almost out of time; Niles is having problems with a tenant in his office, a practitioner of scream therapy. When Frasier revealed his discontent with radio psychiatry, and his wish to return to private practice, Niles proposed that the solution to his difficult psychiatrist co-tenant is to replace him with Frasier. The prospect of working together and consulting each other excited the two brothers initially, but the first day brought one argument after another, culminating in the dissipation of Niles' therapy group, and the ejection of Frasier's schefflera plant out of the office window. It is at this point that Dr. Schachter intervened from across the corridor and offered to help, having no clue as to what he was letting himself in for.

Episode title cards

*"Hmmm…"

Memorable Quotations

"Frasier has conscripted Daphne and Martin to help him move into Niles' office"
Martin: You know the best thing about gettin' old? Your hair may turn grey, your joints may stiffen, you may even have to walk with a cane…but people still ask you to help them move!

"Niles has been cataloguing the disasters of Frasier's first day at his office, as if they were all his fault"
Frasier: I am so tired of your exaggerations! You always make things "fifty thousand" times worse than they are!

"In the midst of an argument, Niles has just stormed out of his group therapy session, followed by his brother"
Niles: Frasier, I have made a fist and I'm thinking of using it!
Frasier: You are not scaring me…the thumb goes on the "outside", Niles! On the "outside"!

Trivia

* Although this attempt at professional co-operation was unsuccessful, it can be assumed that later in the series both Frasier and Niles managed to get over their issues and co-operate in private practice; in The Maris Counselor, both brothers hold a joint couples therapy session (although, for personal reasons not to do with Frasier and Niles' relationship, it's just as disastrous as this one).

ee also

List of Frasier episodes