Niles Crane
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Sep 11, 2026
JaceHOST
Here's what you had to say.
WillHOST
Uh, Frasier and Niles got, there was a mix-up and Frasier and Niles have one pass to a spa and are sharing their spa day with each other and of course don't want to be sharing any spa day thing so they have to be compromising the various aspects of their spa journey.
WillHOST
Door jam.
JaceHOST
You saw that wheat stalk they were carrying and knew it must have been a spa.
JaceHOST
In the
WillHOST
morning, midday.
WillHOST
It doesn't matter for Fraser and Niles.
WillHOST
Well, if
Marlessa StivalaHOST
I, I was thinking of Lilith a lot when watching this, because, you know, direct comparison to psychiatrist sitcom characters that are mothers.
Marlessa StivalaHOST
And Lilith, there's, you know, the running jokes more on, more so on Frasier than on Cheers, where she's this very cold, like, the Ice Queen is the, is the nickname that Frasier and Niles give her and everything.
Marlessa StivalaHOST
But Lilith, just in comparison to Beverly, if we make the comparison to Frasier, because she's more of a main character in aspects of Cheers, but on Frasier, it's similar to Beverly, where she's once a season or once every other season kind of thing.
Marlessa StivalaHOST
I think we just see so much more of a well-rounded person who is a brilliant psychiatrist, but we also see her use her brilliance to really understand her son, and want to connect with him, and want to love him, whereas Beverly is almost that, that cliche that you see sometimes of, you know, how, like, oh, how can someone have job X but not be able to do Y kind of thing.
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Marlessa StivalaHOST
Whole thing on the show.
Marlessa StivalaHOST
[laughs]
Katie DeFonzoHOST
I have a, Niles never ridicules Daphne about being a psychic.
Marlessa StivalaHOST
Does not ridicule.
Tim PlattGUEST
And like my wife would come in and out to like watch a little bit, but it was, you know, it was my show.
Tim PlattGUEST
And then slowly we were watching the episodes with, you know, the divorce from Maris, Daphne getting together with Donnie, you know, the, the, the Frazier is having a massage on drugs and starts revealing that Niles is in love.
Tim PlattGUEST
That's season seven.
Tim PlattGUEST
Yes, yes.
Anita FloresHOST
Yes.
Anita FloresHOST
I was watching it as a child, specifically season seven.
Anita FloresHOST
And I was just so like, that's definitely one of my favorite two part episodes is when Daphne and Niles, you know, reveal their feelings to each other.
Anita FloresHOST
And then she leaves Donnie.
MarkHOST
It's just not one of these, um, all-American type of, you know, football or baseball.
KellyHOST
But you know who likes to fence? Frasier and Niles.
MarkHOST
Yeah.
MarkHOST
[laughs]
1 HR 41 MINS LATER
KellyHOST
Well... [laughs] Not even fencing.
MarkHOST
Not even fencing.
KellyHOST
Not even like, [laughs] not even like Niles in Frasier.
MarkHOST
[laughs] Yeah.
Rebecca N. ThompsonGUEST
we watched so much Frasier, so many reruns of Frasier.
Rebecca N. ThompsonGUEST
And so now to have that connection of like David Hyde Pierce and his acting as Niles Crane really got me and my husband through such a difficult time.
Rebecca N. ThompsonGUEST
It was so amazing to watch this documentary and listen to these audio books and think of all the connections and it brought so much richness to the story and like more gratitude to me at all the ways that it's intersected with and influenced my life.
Gigi HowardHOST
That's awesome.
Nick LannonHOST
We could remind ourselves that the church isn't a building, but instead is a gathering of the faithful called out from the world.
Nick LannonHOST
Of course, I can't help but think of Daphne and Niles' wedding on Frasier, which takes place in a judge's office, angering Daphne's mother, who insists that God lives at the church.
Nick LannonHOST
That's really much funnier than that.
Nick LannonHOST
But a more important question than what is a church is, what is a true church? What is a good church? What is a faithful church? because there are lots of places that call themselves churches, Mormon churches, Unitarian Universalist churches, pagan churches, even Satanist churches, and more, so that many theologians in many traditions over many years have tried to come up with a framework to decide how to tell a true church from all these other things, how to tell the difference, if you will, between a church that is preaching a true sermon And one that isn't.
Katie DeFonzoHOST
course.
Marlessa StivalaHOST
So there's a great episode of Frasier where when Niles and Daphne start dating, it's called Daphne Returns.
Marlessa StivalaHOST
And Niles has to really confront the fact that he's spent years having this kind of loving at Daphne because he didn't know if she would reciprocate his feelings.
Marlessa StivalaHOST
And obviously for a while it was unrequited.
Marlessa StivalaHOST
So I just know that there's so many interesting things you could do with this.
ScottHOST
And then he spins around.
ScottHOST
I watched Tommy Lee Jones in this film, and much like Niles Crane, I say, "He's awful." I don't like Tommy Lee Jones [laughs] in this film at all.
PaulHOST
Even in the first scene?
ScottHOST
This first bit right up until the bit starting about luck, I liked, and then just, like, what is this? You are not supposed to be this over the top.
WillHOST
We Too Kings.
WillHOST
Frasier and Niles are fighting over Christmas.
WillHOST
Okay, now that Niles is married and Daphne's moving in, he wants to host Crane Family Christmas.
WillHOST
But Frasier and Martin always host Crane Family Christmas.
WillHOST
So they're arguing over who gets to be, you know, pseudo-patriarch in charge of Christmas that year.
WillHOST
And what's the conclusion? They'll switch off and Niles does it this year.
JaceHOST
Great work.
JaceHOST
It was.
LeeHOST
It's exactly what he's doing.
LeeHOST
There's an episode of Frasier that covered this, right? Niles and Daphne.
LeeHOST
And...
LeeHOST
And I was pined over Daphne, pined over Daphne.
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