A new guy, a doctor, is ready to start a new show at the station. He is handsome and full of experiences. He speaks multiple languages. He's a gourmet cook. He has rubbed elbows with famous people. Everything Frasier can do, he can do better. Well, the war is on. Very funny episode.
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Frasier seems to be out shone by the new guy. Not out sung!
kramerafii14 June 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Well, I thought that this show was a throw-back to the silly shows of the early 60's. The invitee or inductee was so far and away better than his betters that it was embarrassing for them to be in the same place (at Frasier's Apt.) And the same place happened to be their turf! Literally and figuratively! And the greater than most, who had ever been born, opened up his mouth to sing in gratitude. "Isn't it Romantic?" has never sounded so bad! I did not see where Eddy had hidden for the denouement. I guess that if Eddy had known there would be a denouement, he really would have hidden. But the cool guy was left hurting our ears as the episode ended. The perfect ending. This was a silly-ass show and much better than the shows of my ...(younger days?) youth!
With the underrated Bill Campbell
ekeby27 September 2007
Warning: Spoilers
I'm watching Frasier more methodically now that it's in syndication. And I appreciate the writing, timing, and guest casting more than ever. This episode features the drop-dead gorgeous Bill Campbell, playing a drop-dead gorgeous doctor. Campbell's good looks were used similarly in an episode of Star Trek Next Generation: The Outrageous Okana. Both roles required a dazzlingly good-looking man, and of course, Campbell qualifies.
Campbell deserves points just because he has enough moxie to acknowledge the way his looks are revered and to exploit them for comedy. It's been done by other actors, of course, but there are very few of this generation who have done it well. An exception might be Brad Pitt's turn on Friends. I can't really think of others. When actors look this good, they've got to be extraordinarily skilled to put the comedy across.
Both Pitt and Campbell have Apollo-like builds, but only Campbell has the Apollo face. Pitt isn't classically good looking, but that gives him sex appeal. Campbell is classically good looking, but some people doubtless find it too "pretty" to be sexy. His career has probably suffered as a result. His looks have almost certainly disqualified him from many meaty, attention-getting dramatic roles. This is too bad, because he's really an accomplished actor.
This episode of Frasier proves the point. In this role, his character is everyone's idea of perfection, until he sings off key. Some people sing that way naturally, of course, but never in the perfectly atrocious (and funny) way as when it's deliberate. (Remember Jo Stafford as bad lounge singer Darlene Edwards?) Campbell does it perfectly, something that is very, very difficult to do. Try it yourself and you'll see what I mean.
I tell you, for all his handsomeness, the man is underrated as an actor.
Campbell deserves points just because he has enough moxie to acknowledge the way his looks are revered and to exploit them for comedy. It's been done by other actors, of course, but there are very few of this generation who have done it well. An exception might be Brad Pitt's turn on Friends. I can't really think of others. When actors look this good, they've got to be extraordinarily skilled to put the comedy across.
Both Pitt and Campbell have Apollo-like builds, but only Campbell has the Apollo face. Pitt isn't classically good looking, but that gives him sex appeal. Campbell is classically good looking, but some people doubtless find it too "pretty" to be sexy. His career has probably suffered as a result. His looks have almost certainly disqualified him from many meaty, attention-getting dramatic roles. This is too bad, because he's really an accomplished actor.
This episode of Frasier proves the point. In this role, his character is everyone's idea of perfection, until he sings off key. Some people sing that way naturally, of course, but never in the perfectly atrocious (and funny) way as when it's deliberate. (Remember Jo Stafford as bad lounge singer Darlene Edwards?) Campbell does it perfectly, something that is very, very difficult to do. Try it yourself and you'll see what I mean.
I tell you, for all his handsomeness, the man is underrated as an actor.
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