To Tell The Truth

[Pat]

I love the episode: "To Tell The Truth", but I would have called it "Hello Donny". This is the episode where we meet Donny and he becomes Niles' lawyer. I like how Donny doesn't seem like a good lawyer and then impresses Niles and Frasier with just one phone call.

I like it the most because it puts the story line in high gear. Things really get moving!!!

[Leigh Ann]

Donny's first appearance is pretty funny. Whenever I see it, I have to think why Daphne almost married him!

[andress_jade]

Originally Posted by Leigh Ann

Donny's first appearance is pretty funny. Whenever I see it, I have to think why Daphne almost married him!

Yeah, same here. Donny was a nice guy and was funny but I couldn't see him and Daphne truly being happy together. Even if Daphne didn't love Niles, I couldn't see her actually marrying Donny. They just didn't seem like a good match to me. I could never get over how much taller Daphne was than him, anytime Donny kissed Daphne had to get up on his toes or when they danced Donny had to lay his head on her shoulder. It was just too funny!
Whereas with Niles and Daphne, it was perfect. She could lay her head against his, they were the same height or at least pretty close. They just fit.
Donny was a good lawyer. Maybe he and Roz should have tried to hook back up! LOL.

[Pat]

Now that was a WEIRD MATCH: Donny and Roz. I couldn't see that at all. Roz always seemed superficial and always attracted to the tall, dark and handsome.

[andress_jade]

Originally Posted by Pat

Now that was a WEIRD MATCH: Donny and Roz. I couldn't see that at all. Roz always seemed superficial and always attracted to the tall, dark and handsome.

Yes, Roz did tend to go for the tall, dark and handsome type but she did admit to Niles at one point that she regretted letting Donny go.

[Schmoopie]

Yeah I really couldn't see Donny and Roz together at all! But maybe they had Donny the way he was so that people would WANT Niles and Daphne together instead! I know it worked for me!

[bingbangbaby]

Originally Posted by Pat

I love the episode: "To Tell The Truth", but I would have called it "Hello Donny". This is the episode where we meet Donny and he becomes Niles' lawyer. I like how Donny doesn't seem like a good lawyer and then impresses Niles and Frasier with just one phone call.

I like it the most because it puts the story line in high gear. Things really get moving!!!

I really like this episode too; it's one of my favorites. It's one of those episodes where there's so much jam-packed into it and every moment of it is good. It really was brilliant on the writers' part to come up with a storyline like this with so many moving parts-- we have the introduction of Donny, Frasier grappling with his ethics and having to testify, Daphne being pulled into the mix and Niles worrying about her finding out this way. And I love that moment when he realizes that this is the way she's going to find out and he says he wanted to whisper it to her over a candlelight dinner. Then of course there's the irony that Niles's fantasy evening with Daphne from a few years ago (Moondance) is what actually makes her have to leave with Donny, spend time with him preparing, and ultimately begin dating him.

This episode is also full of moments of true colors for the characters. There's the conversation (argument) in the kitchen between Martin and Frasier when Martin tells him about the time did the right thing when he stretched the truth under oath to keep the felon from walking free, a conversation which serves to highlight the differences between Martin and Frasier's personalities, while Niles is pushed to the brink of taking refuge under the piano.

And then, of course, the best true-color moments of the whole episode come when Niles pulls himself together and decides to tell Donny everything about Daphne. His reasons for deciding to do that as well as Frasier's encouragement that the divorce isn't Niles's fault are more good defining moments for the characters. And then of course, the best twist of the whole episode is when things take those major turns for Niles. He's euphoric (as are we) because it appears he not only wins a landfall in the case, but he does it while saving Frasier's ethics and preserving his secret regarding Daphne... but in the blink of an eye his euphoria (and ours) is shattered when he ends up losing something in the process that's more important to him than any of those things.

Yeah. That's a brilliant episode. Plus DHP/Niles looks really good in it too.
See? You want to watch it now, don't you? Okay then, here it is: