Frasier Crane

And I remember that the episode that had been broadcast on BBC the Wednesday before I went on the weekend was Cause and Effect.

That episode where the Enterprise keeps going through a time loop, keeps getting destroyed by Frasier on his starship.

So I very clearly remember, and I only had at that time terrestrial television, so...

it was like walking around this warehouse full of spoilers.

And the original air date was Thursday, December 12th, 1991.

Baby, it's cold outside, so Frasier and Lilith plan to spend the weekend relaxing in a luxury hotel until their son comes down with chicken pox.

Sam asks Frasier if he and Rebecca can take the hotel reservation since they still haven't gotten pregnant and a nice romantic getaway could be just what they need to conceive.

At the hotel, Sam bumps into a father of three boys while Rebecca meets a newlywed couple...

Both encounters leave Sam and Rebecca shook at the prospect of bringing a child into their loveless relationship.

For the life of me, I can't imagine what the next year and a half of the show would have been if they had committed to this.

If they had turned Sam and Rebecca into parents, like at this point in the relationship.

I mean, I don't, would it just be like Frasier and Willis' son and he's just off air? Do we just forget about him all the time? But I don't know how you do with, I don't know.

You know, and that's the biggest thing.

We're radio presenters, but, like, my favorite guy in the world, Fraser Crane, said-

Yeah

... "I'm listening."

So I do think that every time I hear it.

But I also think of the Fraser Crane episode where Marty Crane is watching an American version of the Antiques Roadshow.

And every time they say venue, he has to have like a swig of beer.

And so every time I hear pivot, pivot, pivot in a conversation, I just feel like I need to be knocking back a bit.

So I never been to a therapist at that time.

I thought everybody was like, you know, Frasier Crane or like, you know, Robin Williams from Good Will Hunting, you know, just like these old, old guys who don't vibe with nothing I do, don't look like me, nothing.

I didn't see myself.

And then I ended up at the school with therapists who are all black women and they wear Jordans and leggings every day.