Lilith, Frasiers wife in Cheers is carried over into the best and funniest Frasier episode IMO, and one of the best half hour comedy shows I've ever seen. You have to know the characters to get full force but if you do the intricacy of relationships and comedy timing are perfection. Even the hotel service person with few lines but several reaction shots adds to the humor.. As in all the best of these shows, everyone is a real if eccentric person who one can believe really exists and therefore the farce and emotion are real. A gem one can return to again and again with equal enjoyment.
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chrischanwasframed28 September 2022
I just finished rewatching this episode and I have to ay it is one of my favourites. It guest stars Lilith and I love her. I know some people think she is unlikable, but I think she is great, she is very smart, and I like how direct she is, there are no mind games with her, and I have autism so I hate that rubbish, the idea of a smart sexy woman telling me exactly what she is thinking is a much better for me than some subtle signals or emotional turns I don't understand, and I know I'm shallow but she is a stone cold fox. I won't give spoilers, but the final exchange between Frasier, Niles, and Lilith is brilliant, I don't know why I enjoy listening to three pretentious psychiatrists argue, but I'll take that over a sex scene or a car chase any day. I really love Frasier, it deserves to be so highly rated.
On a Roll!
Hitchcoc12 October 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Yet another marvelous episode. The reappearance of Lilith always stirs things up. She comes in a bad way to Seattle, hoping to rekindle her connection to Frasier. She puts on sexy clothes (by the way, considering her negative character in this series, Bebe Neuwirth is a gorgeous woman) and acts in a sensual way and is rejected because of Frasier's paranoia. But this is just the beginning. She sleeps with Niles when they are both drunk, and what transpires is hilarious. By the way, imagine your the room service waiter.
Absolutely one of the best Frasier episodes ever
whoneedsascreenname4 September 2023
Frasier was always several notches above most sitcoms - but all hail queen Bebe Neuwirth, for whenever she brings the character of Lilith to Seattle for a guest appearance on this show, the whole thing is next level.
If ever there was perfect casting Neuwirth as Lilith was it. First as Frasier's wife on Cheers and then as his ex-wife all through this follow-up series.
If there's a complaint it's that she appeared only 12 times during Frasier's 11-year run -- and this particular episode is among the best of them. (She was on Broadway starring in Chicago and other shows during this era).
Writing and staging for this episode is flawless -- the pace is full fire, as if you're watching a great stage comedy by the finest playwright.
Even the costuming is top-level, from Neuwirth's burgundy dress to the plush hotel bathrobes.
The final scene with Niles, Frasier and Lilith is as good as TV comedy gets. 10 stars all the way around.
If ever there was perfect casting Neuwirth as Lilith was it. First as Frasier's wife on Cheers and then as his ex-wife all through this follow-up series.
If there's a complaint it's that she appeared only 12 times during Frasier's 11-year run -- and this particular episode is among the best of them. (She was on Broadway starring in Chicago and other shows during this era).
Writing and staging for this episode is flawless -- the pace is full fire, as if you're watching a great stage comedy by the finest playwright.
Even the costuming is top-level, from Neuwirth's burgundy dress to the plush hotel bathrobes.
The final scene with Niles, Frasier and Lilith is as good as TV comedy gets. 10 stars all the way around.
One of the better episodes
Tigeranne19 August 2020
If there was one episode I could remove from the series it would be this one.
jdodge17-515-46618720 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
I know this review differs from others for this episode. But I cannot give this episode a good review simply because I believe it does not fit with overall theme of the show, nor with the characters.
I'm not sure why they wrote this episode as they have spent better part of the last five season working on Niles and Fraser's friendship and character. I do not believe that Niles under any state would have done what he did with Maris. This episode glaringly overlooks the wedge that this would drive between Niles and Frasier not to mention it soils Niles's character entirely. This episode is the one dark spot and what is otherwise a 10 out of 10 show.
I'm not sure why they wrote this episode as they have spent better part of the last five season working on Niles and Fraser's friendship and character. I do not believe that Niles under any state would have done what he did with Maris. This episode glaringly overlooks the wedge that this would drive between Niles and Frasier not to mention it soils Niles's character entirely. This episode is the one dark spot and what is otherwise a 10 out of 10 show.
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