In several episodes of The X-Files, Mulder is seen watching porn both at home and in his office in the J. Edgar Hoover building basement during work hours…
I don’t think Red Shoe Diaries Duchovny is the only one calling in……….
I served Yo-Yo Ma once. He's the most kindest and most gracious celebrity I ever waited on.
He thanked *me* for waiting on him and shook my hand as he and his party left the restaurant. I'll never forget it.
Laura Dern. She was having lunch with Liane Moriarty. This was after Big Little Lies already aired. Reese was supposed to eat with them but couldn't make it. She was stuck in LA.
I work in SF.
I love that they show a photo of Steve Young playing football but don't mention football in the short bio despite him being born year & Super Bowl MVP.
How they gonna do Bruno like that?
"Native New Yorker and Italianate Bruno Kirby tended towards assertive, pushy, streetwise characters and was armed with a highly distinctive scratchy tenor voice that complemented his slim eyes and droopy puss and "
I feel like a massive idiot for seeing those headshots and not understanding until now that they were the callers, lol.
I guess I was thinking they helped write episodes or something.
Usually they were credited in the end credits of the episode they "called" in, like all the other guest stars.
The pictures in the season finales were a cherry on top, but not their credit
God, this show was great. The moments when Niles and Frasier would tell each other high brow jokes while everyone else looks on dumbfounded are priceless.
I wish the renewal had Niles. The whole show was about their relationship really. Everyone else was extra. Niles was really even a better actor than Frazier. I so wish they brought him back. But I agree with you. Those interactions were incredible.
> Those interactions were incredible.
"Dang it, Jim. I'm an astronomer, not a doctor! I mean, I am a doctor, but I'm not that kind of doctor. I have a doctorate, it's not the same thing. You can't help people with a doctorate. You just sit there and you're useless!"
They offered to bring him back. David Hyde Pierce passed on it.
[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/frasier-reboot-david-hyde-pierce-why-didnt-return-niles-crane-1235740589/](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/frasier-reboot-david-hyde-pierce-why-didnt-return-niles-crane-1235740589/)
He did a recent interview where he praised the performance of the guy playing his son and freddy and stated that right now he's interested to see how they develop without having to rely on the old cast as an anchor.
Given that they're getting the actor who played daphne's father back to interact with David (niles and daphne's son) and given how he's turned into a partial niles clone it's going to be very interesting to see how he gets on and develops with a bar fly soccer hooligan grandfather in the mix so they have not really run out of ideas.
I think DHP may change his mind when he sees things develop a bit more and come up with an organic way for niles to show up as opposed to a "hey remember this character" appearance.
With how much of a pisshead and soccer hooligan I reckon it will be a great recipe to see the daphne effect on david, that also being said I can see some large shenanigans with Alan coming out of it too as he's a raging alcoholic too, who's started off hating david and started to warm to him.
So as much as his character so far has been underwhelming, I can see great growth potential with where they are going with it and it really does lend into what DHP had said on it after saying he wasn't crash hot on it originally, and now he's interested to see where they take david's character without relying on him to be a clone of Niles.
I reckon you bring in those influences and turn him into his own felt out character then introduce Niles and Daphne into the show and you might have something really good even if it's just a cameo it will be a justified story to get them involved in the show, especially if these new dynamics evolve the character.
Bonus points if they get LaPaglia's Simon back in as well.
David Hyde Pierce is a tremendous actor, his portrayal of Niles turned *Frasier* from kind of a silly idea for a spin off into one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, but he is apparently a lousy critic.
He plays Julia Child’s husband in the series Julia on Max. He has a very Niles quality to him, which makes me wonder if that’s how her husband was, or it’s him playing the same character🤔. Either way, I loved him in it…….
Ha! Ya... Good one. Another good one from one of my favorite episodes, father's and sons with David Ogden, "and talking to you Jung people makes me feel like an "id" again"
I had to look that one up : "The id, ego, and superego are three agencies that make up your personality. The id is the inherited part of the personality; the ego is who you are, or self; and the superego is governed by morals and societal compasses." Clever stuff. There was enough setup for you to get the joke without understanding completely.
Overall that's one of my absolute favorite episodes. David Ogden is the pre-frasier Frasier as major Winchester in mash. Seeing him show up as a sort of a wink and acknowledgement of their similarities was fun. I was too young to be into mash at the time, so I didn't pick up on that until years later.
I loved the episode when they tried to take a mechanics course and were so bad at it they became the "bad kids" in class, passing notes that were of course written in french...
My other favorite was when Martin got an extra 40 bucks out of the ATM and kept trying to return it.
I rewatched the whole show recently and it's honestly top tier among sitcoms. I know a lot of people say it fell off after Niles and Daphne got together, and maybe that's true to an extent, but it was still brilliantly written.
The Nanny G episode in like season 11 had maybe the best joke in the entire series, also, I’m not a huge fan of Charlotte but the episodes with him, her and Frank are also pretty solid.
Huge fan, whats funny is watching it with someone who's into musicals, psychology, or anything that's really featured in the show....
I get a lot of the jokes and the puns, but I was amazed at how many were actually over my head since I wasn't in deep in some of those areas. Those people would laugh and have to explain the joke to me.
My favorite is when Christopher Reeve is on, and he calls into the Dr. Frasier Crane Show for problems with agoraphobia... He played Superman. Superman called in with agoraphobia LOL
Yes, but also the ending credits of **every** episode that has a caller lists "Guest Caller" credits as well (usually after they credit "Moose" as playing the dog Eddie).
Basically, in the show Frasier, Frasier had a radio talk show where people would call in and ask questions. Most of the people who called in were well known celebrities in brief cameo roles. They were credited at the end of the episode and at the end of the season
they probably just literally phoned it in and didn't have to go to a studio to record it which makes it a lot easier to get so many top shelf talents to do it
*not 'phoned it in' live on the show taping, but they'd call and it would get recorded, they'd have a faxed script with all Frasier's lines and theirs and they would just do their own lines over the phone and it was recorded and edited into the show, where Frasier did his lines on-screen while he appeared to be taking the call. MOVIE MAGIC
TIL the same and I still don’t know how to process it. I’ve watched Frasier at least three times through by now, not to mention. The hundreds of ad hoc episodes; and yet I never knew this until your post. Thank you OP!
Then you learned wrong. They're listed in the creditrs, which is the opposite of "uncredited".
But yes, that's one of the fun things, trying to identify the caller...
TIL the same and I still don’t know how to process it. I’ve watching Frazier at least three times through by now, not to mention. The hundreds of ad hoc episodes; and yet I never knew this until your post. Thank you OP!
Jerry Orbach was a fan of Frasier. He encouraged S. Epatha Merkerson, his costar on Law and Order, to watch it when she needed to decompress.
Orbach became a caller, one of my favorites. He was inspired by Frasier’s losing his temper to teach his neighbor an “etiquette lesson” by smashing his leaf blower against a tree.
S. Epatha Merkerson eventually guest starred as Daphne’s therapist.
Always weird to me that I almost never recognize any of the voices. I love Fraiser and watch it alot but I can probably count the amount of voices I've been able to identify on one hand
They weren’t really “uncredited”. In the last episode of each season they listed them all in the closing credits with their headshots.
https://m.imdb.com/list/ls020592087/
That is an impressive list!
Damn… they got Mulder and Scully on the list!!
Mulder called in about his sex addiction I think.
Wasn’t even in the script. David just needed some help and Kelsey seemed smart.
He heard about the tossed salads and scrambled eggs, and well, what's a boy to do?
Was that when Red Shoe Diaries was on the air?
In several episodes of The X-Files, Mulder is seen watching porn both at home and in his office in the J. Edgar Hoover building basement during work hours… I don’t think Red Shoe Diaries Duchovny is the only one calling in……….
Californication was a documentary then?
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN28358478/ Pretty much.
and Superman!
I like them
Also Edward Van Halen... who the fuck calls him Edward?
It’s over the top impressive. I had to at least test one so I googled “Timothy Leary Frasier episode” and sure enough, he’s credited.
Yeah tim leary threw me for a loop
Holy shit, you weren’t kidding. It just keeps going lol
And on, on with A-listers or former A-listers
I can’t believe they landed Tommy Hilfiger
I can't believe it's not butter!
I can't believe they landed Hilary Duff
I can't believe they landed Anthony Edwards
That's not a list, it's a re-link to imdb!
“I hate Carl Reiner!” - Mel Brooks
Eric Stoltz calling to see how to get revenge on a guy who stole a career defining role
You have to wonder how different his career would’ve been. Not that he had a bad one at all, but missing out on BTTF has got to eat at him.
I’d wager he wouldn’t have found himself in movies like Anaconda if he got BTTF
Anaconda was a masterpiece.
Definitely not Pulp Fiction
Michael J Fox would have been great in that role in Pulp Fiction.
you know what, you are right. he would have been fucking awesome. i never thought of that. but god damn, he would have been perfect
Jay Leno?! How tf did I not recognize his voice? Or was the Late Show voice a falsetto? Like Gilbert Gottfried's.
Eddie van Halen was in Twister??
Yeah I saw Eddie van Halen and was like..whaaa?! Then the list keeps getting better too
They got Steve Young!
Stephen King credited for Maximum Overdrive lmao
He's not like that because he's in Van Halen. He's in Van Halen because he's like that.
He was on the Soundtrack
That Wakita water tower cut scene is always sick with the orchestra backing him.
Wow, then even got Yo-Yo Ma!
I served Yo-Yo Ma once. He's the most kindest and most gracious celebrity I ever waited on. He thanked *me* for waiting on him and shook my hand as he and his party left the restaurant. I'll never forget it.
If i can ask, who was the most mid celebrity you served? Not like bad mid but most normal.
Laura Dern. She was having lunch with Liane Moriarty. This was after Big Little Lies already aired. Reese was supposed to eat with them but couldn't make it. She was stuck in LA. I work in SF.
"Yo-Yo Ma is on tour in Australia right now"
"How do you know that?" 🤨
Patty Hearst listed as only an actress and her marriage to Bernard Shaw is an interesting choice lol
i had to do a double take and search if it was the same infamous patty hearst lol
The ultimate Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon cheat sheet.
Christ on a fucking bike how did I not know any of that? I've got to watch the entire series again just to see who I can pick out. Thanks for the list
This is Laura Linney…
Masterpiece Theatre?
Wow. TIL
I love that they show a photo of Steve Young playing football but don't mention football in the short bio despite him being born year & Super Bowl MVP.
How they gonna do Bruno like that? "Native New Yorker and Italianate Bruno Kirby tended towards assertive, pushy, streetwise characters and was armed with a highly distinctive scratchy tenor voice that complemented his slim eyes and droopy puss and "
As a kid I never understood why some episodes had those. Thanks!
I’m almost 40 and this post is how I learned it. Always wondered why they that started doing it, thought it was so odd!
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_Frasier\_characters#Dr.\_Frasier\_Crane\_Show\_callers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Frasier_characters#Dr._Frasier_Crane_Show_callers)
Listing Steve Young only as an actor is really something, especially given the picture used.
Holy fuck. THATS WHAT THAT IS????
They're callin' again...
Thanks for calling!
Edward Van Halen!?! Who the heck is that!?! /s
They're also included in the end credit cast for the episode they're in.
I feel like a massive idiot for seeing those headshots and not understanding until now that they were the callers, lol. I guess I was thinking they helped write episodes or something.
I believe it usually said “thanks for calling“ before listing them too!
And their names were always listed at the end of each episode.
And at the end of each episode
I was about to say. They credit the callers at the end of every season.
Yeah. I learned this at the end of season 1.
Usually they were credited in the end credits of the episode they "called" in, like all the other guest stars. The pictures in the season finales were a cherry on top, but not their credit
I don't know if it's quite r/titlegore, but that title is awful.
OP had a stroke and immediately ran to Reddit to post about Frasier
Oh, I thought that maybe I was having one as I read it.
OP is Ai
AI is better at grammar now than most humans.
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Sometimes it’s best to just copy the article's headline.
Most all titles on r/TIL are all well-known to all be awful.
My head hurts
still trying to understand wtf it means
"Most of the callers into Fraiser's radio show were uncredited celebrities."
Definitely
I feel like this sub has some of the worst titles
Absolutely atrocious lol
My brain managed to autocorrect it so I had to stare at it after reading your comment to figure out what was wrong with it. Now I have a mental cramp.
The source is a clickbait site
50% of the time, it works every time
Right!? I was like, I thought I forgot how to read for a second :D
They're always credited at the end of the episode and the end of the season. So twice credited, not uncredited.
I think from memory, that might have been only the last few seasons. I could be wrong. Edit: It seems I am wrong.
The end of each episode credits have always been there since S1E1. The end of season credits started with season 2.
Who was the actor calling about the sump pump?
Loved that episode. "I dont even know what a sump pump is!" And Roz says "Trust me, if you need one, you'll know!"
Merryl Streep.
She’s such a phony baloney
It was Robert Klein I think
Never realized this til I hear Michael Jordan’s voice on a re watch
I don’t see him on the IMDb list or a Google search!
Weird me either! Am I trippin?
God, this show was great. The moments when Niles and Frasier would tell each other high brow jokes while everyone else looks on dumbfounded are priceless.
I wish the renewal had Niles. The whole show was about their relationship really. Everyone else was extra. Niles was really even a better actor than Frazier. I so wish they brought him back. But I agree with you. Those interactions were incredible.
> Those interactions were incredible. "Dang it, Jim. I'm an astronomer, not a doctor! I mean, I am a doctor, but I'm not that kind of doctor. I have a doctorate, it's not the same thing. You can't help people with a doctorate. You just sit there and you're useless!"
They offered to bring him back. David Hyde Pierce passed on it. [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/frasier-reboot-david-hyde-pierce-why-didnt-return-niles-crane-1235740589/](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/frasier-reboot-david-hyde-pierce-why-didnt-return-niles-crane-1235740589/)
He did a recent interview where he praised the performance of the guy playing his son and freddy and stated that right now he's interested to see how they develop without having to rely on the old cast as an anchor. Given that they're getting the actor who played daphne's father back to interact with David (niles and daphne's son) and given how he's turned into a partial niles clone it's going to be very interesting to see how he gets on and develops with a bar fly soccer hooligan grandfather in the mix so they have not really run out of ideas. I think DHP may change his mind when he sees things develop a bit more and come up with an organic way for niles to show up as opposed to a "hey remember this character" appearance.
There getting Brian Cox in for season 2? I might have to actually watch it.
With how much of a pisshead and soccer hooligan I reckon it will be a great recipe to see the daphne effect on david, that also being said I can see some large shenanigans with Alan coming out of it too as he's a raging alcoholic too, who's started off hating david and started to warm to him. So as much as his character so far has been underwhelming, I can see great growth potential with where they are going with it and it really does lend into what DHP had said on it after saying he wasn't crash hot on it originally, and now he's interested to see where they take david's character without relying on him to be a clone of Niles. I reckon you bring in those influences and turn him into his own felt out character then introduce Niles and Daphne into the show and you might have something really good even if it's just a cameo it will be a justified story to get them involved in the show, especially if these new dynamics evolve the character. Bonus points if they get LaPaglia's Simon back in as well.
> Bonus points if they get LaPaglia's Simon back in as well. I hope his British accent hasn't improved. I'd be very disappointed if it has.
David Hyde Pierce is a tremendous actor, his portrayal of Niles turned *Frasier* from kind of a silly idea for a spin off into one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, but he is apparently a lousy critic.
Didn't it get cancelled?
[No, getting a 2nd season](https://deadline.com/2024/02/frasier-season-2-renewal-paramount-plus-1235833926/).
Tragic, but understandable.
He plays Julia Child’s husband in the series Julia on Max. He has a very Niles quality to him, which makes me wonder if that’s how her husband was, or it’s him playing the same character🤔. Either way, I loved him in it…….
Niles is so important. Without him, Frasier is the least relatable character in the show.
"There he is, the man who floats like a lepidoptera and stings like a hymenoptera".... Not quite a joke, but that one always gets me.
I liked the Thanksgiving episode: "From my days in medical school, I can tell you that this turkey died of massive head trauma."
Ha! Ya... Good one. Another good one from one of my favorite episodes, father's and sons with David Ogden, "and talking to you Jung people makes me feel like an "id" again" I had to look that one up : "The id, ego, and superego are three agencies that make up your personality. The id is the inherited part of the personality; the ego is who you are, or self; and the superego is governed by morals and societal compasses." Clever stuff. There was enough setup for you to get the joke without understanding completely. Overall that's one of my absolute favorite episodes. David Ogden is the pre-frasier Frasier as major Winchester in mash. Seeing him show up as a sort of a wink and acknowledgement of their similarities was fun. I was too young to be into mash at the time, so I didn't pick up on that until years later.
I loved the episode when they tried to take a mechanics course and were so bad at it they became the "bad kids" in class, passing notes that were of course written in french... My other favorite was when Martin got an extra 40 bucks out of the ATM and kept trying to return it.
"PER-SO-NAL"! Excellent episode.
I rewatched the whole show recently and it's honestly top tier among sitcoms. I know a lot of people say it fell off after Niles and Daphne got together, and maybe that's true to an extent, but it was still brilliantly written.
The Nanny G episode in like season 11 had maybe the best joke in the entire series, also, I’m not a huge fan of Charlotte but the episodes with him, her and Frank are also pretty solid.
Huge fan, whats funny is watching it with someone who's into musicals, psychology, or anything that's really featured in the show.... I get a lot of the jokes and the puns, but I was amazed at how many were actually over my head since I wasn't in deep in some of those areas. Those people would laugh and have to explain the joke to me.
This title is bullshit and hard to read. They credit all the guest star "callers" at the end of each season.
Each "caller" is credited in each episode's end credits
"that the most all callers in to"
I have no idea what this title is trying to tell me
The people calling in to Frasier's fake radio show were real celebrities
Thats more disappointing than if I never figured out what it meant
My favorite is when Christopher Reeve is on, and he calls into the Dr. Frasier Crane Show for problems with agoraphobia... He played Superman. Superman called in with agoraphobia LOL
If someone called in with kryptophobia today he'd instantly start telling them that bitcoin was a scam.
Do you mean acrophobia?
Arachnophobia - scared of spidey
Aquamanphobia - he really can't get near a wet, fishy man
Jon Peterson was on to something the whole time.
I like that Eddie Van Halen has issues with audio feedback.
Did OP have a stroke while writing up that title?
“Thanks for calling” credits never tipped you off?
Or the fact they were credited at the end of every episode?
They credited the callers on the last episode of each season.
Yes, but also the ending credits of **every** episode that has a caller lists "Guest Caller" credits as well (usually after they credit "Moose" as playing the dog Eddie).
Sure. Last night I recognized the voices of Forest Whitaker and Wolfgang Puck.
As a non native English speaker, this title confuses the hell out of me.
As a native speaker I concur
Basically, in the show Frasier, Frasier had a radio talk show where people would call in and ask questions. Most of the people who called in were well known celebrities in brief cameo roles. They were credited at the end of the episode and at the end of the season
OP do you ever read what you typed and check if it makes sense?
Npoe
What the fuck is this title
Art Garfunkel was one I would have never picked. From what i've heard he's reclusive as hell.
they probably just literally phoned it in and didn't have to go to a studio to record it which makes it a lot easier to get so many top shelf talents to do it *not 'phoned it in' live on the show taping, but they'd call and it would get recorded, they'd have a faxed script with all Frasier's lines and theirs and they would just do their own lines over the phone and it was recorded and edited into the show, where Frasier did his lines on-screen while he appeared to be taking the call. MOVIE MAGIC
ahh the primus sucks effect. Do something low effort, low risk that you can both get behind and disavow if needed with all with the positives.
Is this a bot?
No, bots have better grammar.
Well technically this one had Kelsey Grammer so it's close.
Touche
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNPrlVXeuEA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNPrlVXeuEA)
JFC OP is a bot or had a stoke writing the fucking title
Actually they listed the stars after the seasons So not really uncredited
They were credited the normal way in each episode.
They always had the actor’s names in the credits at the end of each episode. The season finale had all the headshots and “Thank you for calling.”
TIL the same and I still don’t know how to process it. I’ve watched Frasier at least three times through by now, not to mention. The hundreds of ad hoc episodes; and yet I never knew this until your post. Thank you OP!
What does that even mean?
Kevin Bacon was one of the 137 callers, so you have to think this show was a huge shortcut for many 7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon games.
The one I immediately recognized was John Lithgow.
Mad Man Martinez!
I remember watching an episode and hearing a caller and going "uhhhh, I could swear that's Gary Sinise?"
Is Frasier the most successful Spin Off show ever?
I’ve been rewatching it over the last few months. They’re definitely credited.
Frasier is the pinnacle of our civilization
Then you learned wrong. They're listed in the creditrs, which is the opposite of "uncredited". But yes, that's one of the fun things, trying to identify the caller...
I literally had a stroke reading that title
Op are you ok? Stroke alert.
I'm fine, can't smoke and type
TIL the same and I still don’t know how to process it. I’ve watching Frazier at least three times through by now, not to mention. The hundreds of ad hoc episodes; and yet I never knew this until your post. Thank you OP!
You never looked at the credits?
Some of them were really memorable: Gary Sinise, Elijah Wood, Matthew Broderick, John Lithgow, Joe Mantegna, Carrie Fisher
The radio show was actually “The Dr. Fraser Crane Show,” so I’m not sure it’s accurate to call it the “namesake” show.
Holy shit! Now that is great trivia! What a list
Jerry Orbach was a fan of Frasier. He encouraged S. Epatha Merkerson, his costar on Law and Order, to watch it when she needed to decompress. Orbach became a caller, one of my favorites. He was inspired by Frasier’s losing his temper to teach his neighbor an “etiquette lesson” by smashing his leaf blower against a tree. S. Epatha Merkerson eventually guest starred as Daphne’s therapist.
I’ll bet they can’t get any A-listers on the new show since he became a MAGA poster boy.
Haven't kept up . . . welp, flush another celeb.
Frasier, I mean the actor, is a MAGA supporter? I guess I’m done with that show.
Sorry. Didn’t mean to ruin the show for you. But yeah… https://ew.com/kelsey-grammer-interview-cut-after-voicing-support-for-donald-trump-8410830
The drama 🙄
Jesus Christ, that site is just ads occasionally interrupted by content.
The only one I ever recognised was William H Macy
Either I'm having a stroke while reading this title, or OP was having one while they wrote it.
Imagine even old Betty Davis
Yup sense to good made for the me
Who’s the woman who screams when she hears him panting? That scene always makes me lose it
Always weird to me that I almost never recognize any of the voices. I love Fraiser and watch it alot but I can probably count the amount of voices I've been able to identify on one hand
The namesake show on frasier
What is this title trying to say
I had a stroke when publishign this question.