#Eddie the dog

[teruel-a-witch]

love this promo pic it looks like Danny wanted his personal Adonis of a boyfriend to walk right into his arms after he emerged from the ocean wet and glistening like Aphrodite from the sea foam (Danny enjoyed the show thankyouverymuch) but his dog got jealous and got in between them. Steve is very amused by this Eddies Interruptus.

[retropopcult]

The cast of Frasier, 1994

[buffyfan145]

Really like the "Frasier" revival. Caught the 2 episodes CBS aired last night since I don't have Paramount+. I grew up watching both "Cheers" and the original "Frasier", as my parents were both fans, so this was nice seeing where he's at now and reconnecting with his son Freddy who still lives in Boston as a firefighter and Frasier's gotten a job as a professor at Harvard. Also great they brought in Niles and Daphne's son David who goes to school at Harvard and he's a great mix of them both. The new characters a great too and I feel like we have a Niles and Daphne like slow burn ship with Freddy and Eve, and how he's helping her raise her son John (nice shoutout to the actor who played Frasier's dad Martin) who were the wife/son of his co-worker/best friend that died. I know too Freddy's mom Lilith and Roz from the 90s show will be guest staring soon so I'm excited to keep up with it and find out what happens. Though I still miss Eddie and wonder at some point if this show will get a dog too.

[dannyreviews]

Frasier (1993 and 2023)

The 1990s was probably the last great era for the American Sitcom and the majority of television viewers would probably pick "Seinfeld" as their favorite. As much as I love "Seinfeld" and its brand of famous gags, one liners and character quips, "Frasier" is in a class of its own above. For 11 seasons, Frasier maintained its Moliere/Alan Ayckbourn wit and farce without missing a beat. Nearly 20 years after the perfectly written series finale, "Frasier" has been rebooted and things have changed, some for the better and the rest for the worst. Here is the rundown about what made the original series a classic and the reboot (so far) a shadow of its former self.

TV Spinoffs are usually a hit or miss affair. The hits like "Laverne and Shirley" and "The Jeffersons" managed to remove themselves from their origin and create their own brand of humor. Others like "After MASH" and "Phyllis" were tedious affairs that forgot their roots and sailed into the sunset of mediocrity. And then you have "Frasier" which took the spinoff to brand new heights. Having already been an established supporting character in another massively successful series "Cheers", Frasier Crane was engrained in the collective consciousness of the prime time audience, so that was one notch in watching the pilot of the original "Frasier". The first thing was to reinvent Frasier as a radio psychiatrist which becomes the foundation for jokes about the human mind. But then you add supporting characters that are so multi-dimensional that they have to compete with the title character for the most laughs. That came in the form of David Hyde Pierce as Frasier's equally pompous psychiatrist brother Niles and John Mahoney as their blue collar, retired, disabled policeman father Martin. Watching the difference between tasting wine and singing Gilbert and Sullivan operettas to drinking beer and watching the ballgame on TV and you have a dynamic that is another foundation of excellent writing. At the same time, there's Peri Gilpin as Frasier's producer Roz who beds every man (single or married) in town and Jane Leeves as Daphne, Martin's in-house nurse and Niles' crush. When you have several running gags all synchronized in 11 amazing seasons that never jumped the shark, the possibilities are endless. Even recurring jokes like the rivalry between the Crane brothers, the elusive identity of Niles' wife Maris, or the random actions of Martin's dog Eddie, were add ons to an already colorful mosaic of wit and wisdom. Like the Sistine Chapel, or Bach's Goldberg Variations, Frasier is several fine tuned sequences that make up a Leviathan of a presentation. What can possibly go wrong?

The reboot of "Frasier" in hindsight should never have happened because in the series finale, the viewer wanted Frasier to have a happy ending and fine true love with his last girlfriend Charlotte. That hope goes out the window and instead what we get is another chapter in our titular character's hapless life when he becomes a lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard. In the original pilot, we got to know each character's strengths and flaws in only 22 minutes. With the reboot, it takes 2 episodes just to establish each character's back story. Now that Martin is dead and Niles & Daphne are MIA, the majority of the new characters are generic, paint by numbers creations. Frasier's son Frederick (Jack Cutmore-Scott) is blue collar like his grandfather and the deja vu dynamic is not played up for laughs. You have a storyline written in about Frederick's roommate Eve (Jess Salguero) that gets too convoluted and ends up like a subplot in a cheesy soap opera. Most unforgivably, there's Niles and Daphne's son David (Anders Keith) who is supposed to be an amalgam of his parents, but instead of having headstrong principles and acerbic banter, he's just obnoxiously atrocious. This isn't the offspring of a fascinating couple, it's a clone of Screech from "Saved By The Bell". The only thing that somewhat works and has any relevance to the original series is Frasier's scenes with his new colleagues at Harvard which includes his old college friend Alan (Nicholas Lyndhurst) and department head Olivia (Toks Olagundoye). Alan is the new Niles in how he and Frasier exchange intellectual topics and if you can close your eyes, you'd think it was the Crane Brothers. Olivia is tolerable only when she's in the same room as Alan. Otherwise, her scenes with Frasier border on cringeworthy, which goes against the original formula of all the characters mingling with indefinite punchlines. Finally, Kelsey Grammer is at the helm of a rocky boat trying to steer it through choppy waves. He hasn't lost any of his charm but he can only do so much with what's written in the script.

Only three episodes of the reboot have aired as of now (10/22/2023), and the show has a lot to live up to its source material. Roz and Frasier's ex wife Lilith are supposed to make appearances in future episodes. What will they bring to the table and will it rival the classic episodes? I'm not holding my breath, but do hope that the show improves itself.

Original: 10/10

Reboot: 6/10

[craneboys]

Frasier-related Canadian TV Guide Covers🍁

1990-1999

Via vintagetvguide.ca

[ptrckjcne]

i'm sad we never got a scene of charlie and/or grace on the couch of steve and danny's house in the later seasons, on a videocall with their grandparents back in jersey, and as they're having a nice, peaceful conversation, you hear the sound of paws against the hardwood floor, followed by steve or danny going "no eddie please you're wet, come back eddie-,"

and you have eddie williams on the screen of a phone or a laptop or a tablet looking like a question mark because ... he's right there, and he's dry (he'll tell them all about how it's been raining like crazy in jersey, but he hasn't been out all day so there's no way he can be wet), and the kids have to explain that "oh no, gramps, it's not you, it's the dog"

and they turn to show their grandparents the exact moment when steve and danny both launch for a (mild) body tackle with towels to dry off eddie who's had a bath, and he's having the time of his life because he thinks they're chasing him to play

[herveiwfromthefloor]

Steve, Eddie,and love♡

To be honest I am not a pet person and I'm not a fan of dogs, but I make an exception for Eddie. He is so sweet and was the perfect addition to the 5-0 team. I love the relationship between Steve and Eddie, so of course I had to showcase it!

[mcgarrettsincorrect]

steve: shut up danny, stress is bad for the baby

danny: baby? what? there's literally no baby?

steve: yes, there is, eddie's the baby

[lucy-hp]

Watching Hawaii Five-0 season 8 finale is kind of a weird experience right now.

A Russian submarine appearing on the shore would be treated way differently in 2023. It would be considered an act of war.

Even in 2018, tptb knew that Russia wasn't friendly. Well I suppose, they got their inspiration with all their interferences in the 2016 election.

08x25 is the least fun and interesting season finale of the show so far. It is pretty boring, and the action scenes are dull. You can feel the actors' exhaustion.

I really deeply dislike the Adam plot twist. I know the kids don't know him that well, but Tani could, at the minimum, try talking to him. She said it herself, he saved her brother. She should give him the benefit of the doubt.

I didn't change my opinion after 25 episodes, Tani is OK and Junior is meh. I still love Jerry. The best addition to the ohana is Eddie.

At least we got some McDanno moments.

[comfortfromyourpain]

Eddie and Alex 🐕

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

My Dog Skip (2000) was played by Moose the Dog, his son Enzo the Dog, and four other Jack Russell terriers when Skip was a puppy. Moose had four acting credits, also including two tv episodes 1994-95, and 164 episodes of Frasier as Martin's dog Eddie.

Moose's son Enzo also had four acting credits, including 60 episodes of Frasier, also as Eddie.

[buffyfan145]

Was wondering if the new "Frasier" was going to get a dog and we got our answer as Freddy's firehouse has a dog they all share!!! :D Don't know the dog's name yet but we'll find out in Thursday's episode and he's a dalmatian. The clip EW shared too is great and so fun seeing Frasier have a new dog to be at odds with and he mentions having great practice with Eddie.

[i-like-eyes]

hi please ask me about my very sane crossover teen au i may have been developing for 2 years

[bigskyandthecoldgun]

steddie fake dating au that starts because robin’s mom keeps pushing for her and steve to get together and robin gets so fed up that she yells, “it’s not gonna happen because some people are gay, mom!”

and upon seeing the utter horror and fear on her face, steve swoops in and says he’s the one who’s gay. cue mr. and mrs. buckley, local hippies, attempting to show how supportive they are, and all the while steve gets eddie to agree to fake date to get the buckleys to prove they’re safe, so that robin will feel comfortable enough to come out to her parents.

[craneboys]

Frasier-related US TV Guide Covers 🇺🇲

1987-2023

Via the TVGM Cover Archive