Frasier - Season 3 [DVD]

Another rich selection of great episodes. In this third season we see, for example, Crane and Crane set up business together has psychiatrists; there's a strike at the radio station; Frasier has an affair with the new station controller; Maris leaves Niles; Daphne meets Joe; Diane Chambers turns up; Noel is introduced; Niles gets a dog; and the final episode sees us witness Frasier's very first day on air. The set also includes the multi-authored and Kelsey Grammar-directed episode, `Moon Dance' that won an Emmy award.Extras are not generous on this set. All we have are two banal montages; one featuring Bulldog, the other the mystery that is Maris. There is also a thirteen minute feature where `The Crane Brothers Remember Season Three', and an eight-minute "Conversation with Art Director Roy Christopher'.Alas, the presence of canned laughter is now clearly present in this season. Perhaps they needed to fill the space after some of the cheap and easy `gags' that now appear with more regularity. But there are still some jewels to behold, and if you want to know what Niles means when he tells Frasier, "Your lips say yes, but your cuticles speak volumes", then you're going to have to buy the set.

Frasier... as amazing as always.However, several of the episodes have errors where they skip a couple of seconds. It’s not edited to remove a joke or anything. It’s a glitch type skip. It’s a bit disappointing especially as there doesn’t seem to be a way to report it. It’s happening on multiple devices.

It`s been a few years since the last season of Frasier left our screens, but I still watch an episode most days, and certainly nothing funnier has been made since. Not much that is funnier was made before it either. I have minor gripes with some of the characters (Bulldog bores me and Daphne is occasionally irritating) but the consistently high calibre of the acting and writing (hell, even the subject matter of some episodes!) overrides these peeves.Some of my personal favourites are contained in this box set; "A Word To The Wise Guy" (featuring a great guest performance) and "High Crane Drifter" are particularly good. The former showcases the only occasion that Maris says "thank you" whilst Frasier`s experiences in the latter are not only chillingly similar to what I seem to go through everyday but contains many excellent moments; when Frasier learns that his new neighbour, heavy metaller Freddy Chainsaw, has sold 5 million copies of his latest album, he adds this to his "list of reasons to die" whilst Niles has to endure a hire car, something he calls a "hunchback"; Frasier`s determination to restore manners in Cafe Nervosa inspires callers to anarchy, such as fedexing one-hundred scorpions in the mail, dumping rotting shrimps in a neighbour`s air-con, and setting fire to lawns (guest voices including Eric Idle and Katrina Witt)). "Chess Pains" stars too, with it`s Freudian theme, exruciating sock-puppet show and bordering-on-psychopath obsession with winning. The quintet of shows with Mercedes Ruehl are definitely high points - it`s great to have someone other than the superlative David Hyde Pierce at Frasier`s intellectual level, and the animal attraction between Kate and Frasier leads to some very funny situations. I like "Shrink Rap" too, containing as it does one of my favourite lines - "I`m tired of your constant exaggerations! You always make everything sound 50,000 times worse than they are!" - and "Moon Dance" is quite beautiful and wonderfully acted. I suppose "Martin Does It His Way" is a weaker episode when judged against the above, and I don`t think anyone rates anything with Shelley Long in, do they? But hey, when you have lines like the one about gun play in the living room, it`s almost impossible to complain. High class throughout.

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I love a lot of the Frasier episodes but quite a few make me cringe at the embarrassing situations he gets into.

Frasier for me is the best comedy series ever. This episode is one of the best. It just doesn't seem to date!

Classic American comedy that was well written and acted.The two main characters - Frasier & Niles work superbly together.Really not a single episode that I dind't like.Hugely enjoyable.

a quality series with more bite than a bull terrierthe series had me in tears of laughter.