Frasier (TV Series) Can't Buy Me Love (1994) User Reviews

I like this episode

[candaceyd · 9/10 · 23 March 2012]

I liked this one. Shows just how gullible an out of touch with children Frasier is. While a psychiatrist should be able to tell the signs of a liar easily, his willingness to believe that a celebrity is a horrible person and children as easily victimized are easily believable. Frasier may have a child of his own, but he's raised by his wife an he see him only periodically. The fact that the model leaves her child with a man she doesn't now may contribute to the fact that he's willing to believe that she's a flake, but he is a) a psychiatrist and b) someone she came to feel she knows after listening to him on the radio for who knows how long.

Can't Buy Me Love

[studioAT · 6/10 · 4 March 2023]

I liked this episode, I thought it was another good one from what has, on the whole, been a solid start to the first series of 'Frasier'.

There's more than enough moments to enjoy, and a sign of some growth in the character of Frasier Crane, which is the whole point of the spin-off in the first place - to take someone we think we know from the days of 'Cheers' and put them into new situations that will extend that knowledge.

Some people on here seem to have gone to town with picking apart the plot, but taken on face value you'll find a lot to enjoy.

Nice to see Bulldog return, and the sight of a drunk Daphne also plays well too.

Model Behavior

[Hitchcoc · 6/10 · 25 September 2019]

There is a charity auction where men are "purchased" by women. Frasier can't believe his luck when a fashion model "buys" him. They have an evening coming and when she gets called for a shoot, she leaves her daughter with Frasier. Things begin to go sour. Meanwhile, Daphne purchases Bulldog and this is much funnier as she gets schnockered.

My least favorite 1st season Fraiser

[david-2271 · 2/10 · 4 September 2006]

In this episode, Frasier agrees to take part in a celebrity bachelor auction. He is "bought" by a model, whom he invites to his apartment for a home cooked meal. The model shows up for their date and informs him she has to run off to a shoot. She then asks Fraiser if he will sit for her 12 year old daughter while she is away. Fraiser reluctantly agrees. While she is gone the daughter tells Frasier stories about how vain and self-centered her mother is. The daughter's stories turn him against her mother. When the model returns (with a off-screen friend to take over sitting for her daughter) Fraiser confronts her. The model reveals to Frasier that everything her daughter has said is a lie and storms out, annoyed, and we are supposed to feel this is some sort of tragedy.

Overall, I found little to like in this episode. Not only is the model not terribly attractive, she shows incredibly poor judgement by leaving her daughter with a man she does not even know. To make it worse, she is not surprised that her daughter has been lying about her, suggesting that she does this a lot. In that case, why does she set herself up like she did? The bottom line is, we are supposed to feel for Fraiser blowing his date with her. Instead we feel relieved, because even if she is not as bad as her daughter describes, she is still rather stupid and foolish.

The episode gets 2 stars for one amusing scene. Bulldog participates in the auction as well, and Daphne gets talked into offering the sole bid for him. While on their date he tries to get her sauced on champagne, and the results are very amusing, the only real amusement the episode has to offer.