Eminent Boston Psychiatrist, Frasier Crane, last seen gracing the bars of Cheers has left his life there to start afresh in Seattle. He now has a spot as a popular radio Psychiatrist, giving him the chance to spread words of wit and wisdom to the masses. He shares his apartment with his retired cop father, Martin, and his father's physical care assistant, Daphne Moon. Add in brother Niles, Eddie the dog, some bizarre situations and plenty of humour and you've got all the ingredients for an excellent show and worthy successor to Cheers
Frasier: I was eight. I'dn come home crying because one of the older boys had thrownn my copy of "The Fountainhead" under a bus. My mothern explained to me it wasn't because he didn't like the wayn I walked or because I wore an ascot to school, it wasn because he didn't like himself. And at that very moment,n I became a student of human behavior. It was as if someonen had given me an instruction manual explaining why peoplen acted the way they did.nTewksbury: Not to mention a way to distance yourself from painfuln emotions.n Frasier: Oh, totally. I took a lot of grief for that ascot.nTewksbury: So, you were drawn to psychiatry not because you like ton help people, but because you feared them.n Frasier: I feared them?nTewksbury: Psychiatry gives you objectivity. Objectivity gives youn emotional distance. Distance makes you feel safe.
Frasier: Yes, yes, granted. But what does that got to do with me?nTewksbury: How's your practice?n Frasier: I don't have a practice, I have a radio show.nTewksbury: Distance. Any children?n Frasier: Yes, I have a wonderful son with whom I'm very close.nTewksbury: You live with him?n Frasier: He lives in Boston.nTewksbury: Distance. With your wife.n Frasier: My ex-wife - yes, I know, distance.nTewksbury: Wasn't she a psychiatrist?n Frasier: Yes, she was. She happens to be a damn good one, too.nTewksbury: Well, that's a handy choice for someone who'd rather sharen ideas than emotions.n Frasier: Have you ever met Lilith?nTewksbury: No.n Frasier: Well, she happens to be a very warm and loving woman!nTewksbury: Have you had any other meaningful relationships since then?n Frasier: Well, as a matter of fact... what is your point?
Tewksbury: My point is that at the age of eight - at EIGHT - you begann to use psychiatry as a way to deal with a world that scared n you to death. And this lifetime achievement award has made n you realize that your career is finite and once it's gone, n all you'll have left is that frightened eight-year-old boy.
这说得就是我。 I am exactly that scared little kid who try to hide behind the objectivity of "science" to gain that distance and feel safe. This is exactly me.
第八季1-2-逃婚之后的混乱，第一次正式约会n第八季3-公交车crush养老院员工n第八季4-新老板向frasier学习品味，mel故意让niles出丑n第八季5-新管家，mel与niles公开破裂n第八季6-frasier的高价律师，donny撤诉再婚n第八季7-frasier与roz男友成为朋友n第八季8-frasier主持圣诞节目n第八季9-frasier获终身奖，去见哈佛导师n第八季10-给roz介绍对象，frasier三代野营n第八季11-兄弟俩上汽修夜校n第八季12-兄弟投资举办话剧n第八季13-两条路n第八季14-kenny老婆登场，daphne直面肥胖问题(其实是演员孕期啦）n第八季15-niles投篮大成功n第八季16-roz主持特别节目，niles与父亲放风筝n第八季17-让父亲约会富婆做慈善n第八季18-兄弟俩的红酒俱乐部n第八季19-daphne瘦身归来，回顾七年暗恋历程n第八季20-daphne证明自己的通灵力，roz与frasier导师约会n第八季21-22frasier喜欢上lana的朋友n第八季23-frasier和lana卖房子，daphne和niles在狗狗公园n第八季24-一起去伯利兹海边度假
从中学就开始看friends，到现在看了不下10遍，后来偶然看到当时的艾美奖friends屡次被Frasier打败，怀着好奇和不解打开了Frasier，断断续续看了8季，Frasier已经成了我心中的情景喜剧top1。不需要荤段子，生活中的一地鸡毛本身就可以很有趣，各种误会梗暗恋梗用到极致，各种人物塑造得极为用心。
如果要评喜剧中最不讨喜的主角，Frasier绝对是数一数二的，他虚荣、自私、势利、虚伪和喋喋不休，龟毛，经常好心办坏事，可是这剧里的人物我最喜欢的也是Frasier，可能在他虚荣自私和虚伪的性格里，我看到了自己的影子，只可惜我没有Frasier的古道心肠和勇于自省，Frasier幽默、自嘲、永远地关心他人，不论是对来电的听众，还是对家人朋友，永远地“i'm listening”，帮助他人，这一季有几集讨论了Frasier性格的原因，“我害怕孤独，所以我更加孤独”，真的惨，Frasier也可能是情景喜剧中性格探讨最为深刻的主角了。而niles和Frasier几乎是一个模子刻出来的，一样的势利和虚荣，却少了Frasier的拧巴，情不知所起，一往而深，对Daphne七年的暗恋让人感动，而这季终于修成正果，观众也因为这层滤镜对niles好感更高。洒脱独立+永远在约会的roz、通情达理的Marty、古典美+唠叨的Daphne，都那么迷人，还有最神奇的Eddie，到底是怎么训练出来的。
这季比较喜欢的几集：Frasier终身成就奖和niles打破心中完美的Daphne形象，这两集心理学因素居多，都有点沉重，前者Frasier终于承认了自己内心深处的孤独并要改变，后者由于niles和Daphne的勇气空中楼阁的爱情终于落到了现实；Daphne和niles天台约会，绝美的爱情+家人永远关心你想要你幸福；平行时空，兜兜转转还是一样的结果，所以人生有遗憾，却不必后悔；最后一集，Frasier对梦的思考以及和lilith的友谊和信任。
p. s. 本来打开弹幕是为了好玩，没想到弹幕对Frasier的恶意很大，本来吐槽之类的都很正常，但是对喜剧的包袱笑料过于斤斤计较真的很幼稚
Frasier得了奖去见mentor，除去inside emptiness以外，Frasier和mentor关于艺术的看法也很有意思。
之前看过理论说电影就是导演情绪的表达。
艺术自然也是。
All art is self-portraiture, includes the written words. However we can only view art through the lens of our own psyches.
前几天刚刷完第八季，实在想为这部宝藏美剧写点东西。
作为一个心理学专业学生，看这部剧可以说是别有一番风味的，很多梗都非常优秀，好几次让我忍不住放下手里的事（筷子）截图发给同学看。不同于《生活大爆炸》的高深学术名词轰炸给我这个物理白痴带来的笑果，crane兄弟二人互相分析和对峙，噼里啪啦说着专业名词的时候，我笑的同时更会鼓掌——为一场场精彩的精神分析辩论和咨询师的幽默自嘲惊叹。
打下这段文字，我脑中又浮现了niles小声地嘀咕着“这真是典型的否认”的样子。
很多梗需要一定专业知识支撑，解释笑话没什么意义，况且比起笑料，这部剧最让我感到妙绝的，是它的叙事方式，也是我的标题的意义——心理学与生活的结合，是深入浅出的
剧透预警
第八季当中有一段故事，niles和daph在一起后，在niles的宠爱下daph迅速长胖（此处应该是由于演员本人怀孕），最后不得不去了减肥营。
回来之后，daph告诉niles，营地的心理医生告诉她，她暴食的原因是潜意识里害怕自己满足不了niles对她的期待，因为niles已经苦苦暗恋了她七年，对她一定有很多不现实的期待，她吃胖自己其实是想要逼niles结束这段关系。
niles对此自然相当愤怒，而frasier此时站出来劝导niles，指出在niles的回忆中，daph确实一直是完美的形象，“你爱的不是生活中的她，你爱的是与你跳舞的那个红裙女人”，而在二人的争论中，frasier更是进一步提出，niles不仅是害怕daph不完美而不敢面对真实的她，更是因为daph的不完美预示着他自己的失败——他花费七年追逐的只是一个幻影
该段结束时，我是倒吸一口凉气，剖析进行到如此之深，这段感情看来是很难继续了。我们老师也在课堂上开玩笑地说过，精神分析是“大手术”，轻易是不能做的。
而编剧的处理却是，niles一到家就对daph说，你做菜其实一点都不好吃，被激怒的daph马上与其对骂起来，两个人说出了很多自己不能接受的对方的缺点，最后感动地拥吻在一起。
最终我还是爱真实的你。
看到这里很感动，也很感慨，一个接受了一场精神分析疗法的人，居然有这样的勇气去挑战自己的潜意识，为你与全世界为敌算什么，为你我甚至愿意与弗洛伊德为敌啊
虽说这是喜剧性的处理方式，但不得不说编剧是很勇敢的，敢于去圆这样的故事，在剧中也还有多次以幽默巧妙又不失专业性的方式探讨心理的情节，每次都看得很有感触。
并且，就像帕斯卡尔说的，能嘲笑哲学，才是真正的哲学思维，编剧常常借老爸之口表达对深挖痛苦，把所有事情都想复杂的心理学家的不屑，也常常写兄弟俩谨慎分析到最后闹大笑话的乌龙事，这点我也是很喜欢的。他真正地把心理学生活化了——不应该把它作为装逼的资本，不应该用它制造无端的痛苦，认识自己，帮助别人，才是真正心理学的落脚点
Frasier获了终身成就奖，获奖前去看老师，讲自己内心的emptiness挥之不去。老师说，你帮我回忆一下你为什么最开始想学心理学。
Frasier: I was eight. I'dn come home crying because one of the older boys had thrownn my copy of "The Fountainhead" under a bus. My mothern explained to me it wasn't because he didn't like the wayn I walked or because I wore an ascot to school, it wasn because he didn't like himself. And at that very moment,n I became a student of human behavior. It was as if someonen had given me an instruction manual explaining why peoplen acted the way they did.nTewksbury: Not to mention a way to distance yourself from painfuln emotions.n Frasier: Oh, totally. I took a lot of grief for that ascot.nTewksbury: So, you were drawn to psychiatry not because you like ton help people, but because you feared them.n Frasier: I feared them?nTewksbury: Psychiatry gives you objectivity. Objectivity gives youn emotional distance. Distance makes you feel safe.
Frasier: Yes, yes, granted. But what does that got to do with me?nTewksbury: How's your practice?n Frasier: I don't have a practice, I have a radio show.nTewksbury: Distance. Any children?n Frasier: Yes, I have a wonderful son with whom I'm very close.nTewksbury: You live with him?n Frasier: He lives in Boston.nTewksbury: Distance. With your wife.n Frasier: My ex-wife - yes, I know, distance.nTewksbury: Wasn't she a psychiatrist?n Frasier: Yes, she was. She happens to be a damn good one, too.nTewksbury: Well, that's a handy choice for someone who'd rather sharen ideas than emotions.n Frasier: Have you ever met Lilith?nTewksbury: No.n Frasier: Well, she happens to be a very warm and loving woman!nTewksbury: Have you had any other meaningful relationships since then?n Frasier: Well, as a matter of fact... what is your point?
Tewksbury: My point is that at the age of eight - at EIGHT - you begann to use psychiatry as a way to deal with a world that scared n you to death. And this lifetime achievement award has made n you realize that your career is finite and once it's gone, n all you'll have left is that frightened eight-year-old boy.
这说得就是我。 I am exactly that scared little kid who try to hide behind the objectivity of "science" to gain that distance and feel safe. This is exactly me.