- Sliding Frasiers
Infobox Television episode | Title = Sliding Frasiers
Series =Frasier
Season = 8
Episode = 13
Airdate =13 February 2001
Production =
Writer = Dan O'Shannon &Bob Daily
Director = Pamela Fryman
Guests =Bernadette Peters (Rachel)Charlotte Ross (Monica)
Prev = The Show Must Go Off
Next = Hungry Heart"Sliding Frasiers" is the thirteenth episode in season 8 of American sitcom "
Frasier ".Cast and characters
Main cast and characters
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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
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Tom McGowan – Kenny DalyPlot outline
Frasier is in
Café Nervosa trying to decide whether to wear a smart suit or a casualsweater to gospeed dating . The episode has two parallel storylines, which interchange throughout. They diverge at the point where he makes the decision:Plot one
Frasier chooses the suit. He then collides with an attractive woman on the way out of the café, falls and injures his shoulder. The woman, Monica, takes him to hospital, and he returns home afterwards in an excellent mood. He then proceeds to dote on Monica, sending her endless flowers, poems and chocolates. At first, she is touched by his attention, but by the time they attend the Heart Association benefit dinner together on
Valentine's Day , she is becoming tired of it. Meanwhile, Roz has been getting on very well with Mike Schafer, a KACL employee whom she encountered in Nervosa.Plot two
Frasier chooses the sweater, and while Monica collides with Mike in the background, he goes speed dating and has a miserable evening. He returns home later in a foul mood, which is not helped by Daphne and Niles each planning something special for the other for Valentine's Day. Roz suggests Frasier join her for the benefit dinner, and offers to bring a date for him. He is horrified when he discovers that this blind date is one of the women he encountered speed dating.
Episode title cards
*"This gets tricky, so pay attention"
*"Two roads diverged…and I took them both"
*"The most magical night of the year"Cultural references
The episode title is a reference to the
1998 film "Sliding Doors ", in which the plot splits at one point into two parallel universes.Memorable Quotations
"Frasier is about to go speed dating, and is explaining the idea to Roz"Frasier: Basically, it's all the stress and humiliation of a blind date…times twelve.
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