TMC
07-27-2022, 07:18 PM
https://www.looper.com/943397/frasier-fans-are-kicking-themselves-after-discovering-a-missed-daphne-detail/
The ceiling joke in Daphne Does Dinner is foreshadowed early on
In Season 10, Episode 14 ("Daphne Does Dinner"), Daphne attempts to put on a dinner party in honor of artist Mike Shaw (Harve Presnell), but the "Crane curse" over family parties makes everything a disaster. The climax involves Martin (John Mahoney) impersonating Shaw, while Niles (David Hyde Pierce) is covered with blood-red sauce, shortly before the artist and Daphne's mother Gertrude (Millicent Martin) fall through the ceiling on their bed.
A deleted user on the r/Frasier subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/Frasier/comments/bxhi77/something_that_took_me_far_too_long_to_realise/) noticed a clue early in the episode about the ending. Call it "Chekov's ceiling," (https://www.nownovel.com/blog/use-chekhovs-gun/) maybe? The poster picked up on how there are people in Niles and Daphne's apartment working on the chandelier. Noting this, this Reddit user wrote, "The workmen want to leave and finish the next day, but Daphne makes them stay late — so they rush the job to finish as early as possible which makes the ceiling unstable."
It's a brilliant detail that many other Redditors also didn't see before. In another comment, u/ChuckFromPhilly (https://www.reddit.com/r/Frasier/comments/bxhi77/comment/eq7wa2z/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) simply wrote "...crap," and one deleted commenter replied, "Never put those two points together." But u/enmanuelsella (https://www.reddit.com/r/Frasier/comments/bxhi77/comment/eq8zuxf/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) really said it best: "I love how after so much time watching and rewatching, every now and then something new manages to surprise."
The ceiling joke in Daphne Does Dinner is foreshadowed early on
In Season 10, Episode 14 ("Daphne Does Dinner"), Daphne attempts to put on a dinner party in honor of artist Mike Shaw (Harve Presnell), but the "Crane curse" over family parties makes everything a disaster. The climax involves Martin (John Mahoney) impersonating Shaw, while Niles (David Hyde Pierce) is covered with blood-red sauce, shortly before the artist and Daphne's mother Gertrude (Millicent Martin) fall through the ceiling on their bed.
A deleted user on the r/Frasier subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/Frasier/comments/bxhi77/something_that_took_me_far_too_long_to_realise/) noticed a clue early in the episode about the ending. Call it "Chekov's ceiling," (https://www.nownovel.com/blog/use-chekhovs-gun/) maybe? The poster picked up on how there are people in Niles and Daphne's apartment working on the chandelier. Noting this, this Reddit user wrote, "The workmen want to leave and finish the next day, but Daphne makes them stay late — so they rush the job to finish as early as possible which makes the ceiling unstable."
It's a brilliant detail that many other Redditors also didn't see before. In another comment, u/ChuckFromPhilly (https://www.reddit.com/r/Frasier/comments/bxhi77/comment/eq7wa2z/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) simply wrote "...crap," and one deleted commenter replied, "Never put those two points together." But u/enmanuelsella (https://www.reddit.com/r/Frasier/comments/bxhi77/comment/eq8zuxf/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) really said it best: "I love how after so much time watching and rewatching, every now and then something new manages to surprise."