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Originally posted by Janice
I remember that Frasier episode. The Station he worked for put together a focus group to talk about Frasier's show. He stood behind a 2-way mirror watching and listening to their remarks....about 10 people.
Everyone is singing his praises except for one guy who says he doesn't like the show but doesn't say why. It drives Frasier crazy. He finds out that the guy owns a newspaper stand, and he gets Niles and his father to stake it out.
He sends his father out to pretend to buy a paper and casually ask him why he doesn't like Fraiser's radio show. The man is one of few words and again doesn't elaborate. I remember the man had an accent.
Fraiser gets out next and through a series of events which are escaping me, he ends up burning the guy's newstand down by accident.
It was very funny.
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I also remember that one, and I agree with you Janice, it was very funny. The newstand owner appeared to be either Indian or Pakistani, although I don't believe they actually said what his nationality was. Before he set the newstand on fire, Fraiser accidently broke the man's arm by slamming it in the metal roll-down door that covers the front of the newstand.
There was another Fraiser episode in which a newspaper columnist was writing scathing reviews about Fraiser's radio show in his column. Fraiser retaliated on the air, and ended up being publicly challenged to a fight by the man.
The "Raymond" episode with the radio host sounds as if it could have been inspired by one or both of these Fraiser episodes.