Frasier (TV Series)

Here's Looking at You (1993)

Jeff Daniels: Doug

Quotes 

• Frasier : Hello, Doug, this is Dr. Frasier Crane. I'm listening.

  Doug : Yeah, well, it's about my mother. She's getting on now and she doesn't have much of a life, and I mean, she doesn't want to do anything or-or go anywhere. And she literally hangs around the house all day. I mean, it's-it's... It's very frustrating. I think...

  Frasier : Um, Doug, I'm sorry. Can we just go back for a second? You said your mother *literally* hangs around the house. Well, I suppose it's a-a pet peeve of mine but, uh, what you mean to say is that she *figuratively* hangs around the house. To-to literally hang around the house she'd have to be a bat or a spider monkey, you see. Now, back to your problem.

  Doug : Do you mind if we stop while I tell you my pet peeve?

  Frasier : Oh, not at all.

  Doug : I hate it when intellectual pinheads with superiority complexes nit-pick your grammar when you come to them for help. That's what I got a problem with!

  [Doug angrily hangs up the phone] 

  Frasier : I think what he means is that is a thing... with which he has a problem.