Frasier (TV Series) The Show Where Woody Shows Up (1999) User Reviews

Sweet reunion

[nickb-22813 · 7/10 · 26 March 2022]

This episode finds Frasier reuniting with former Cheers companion Woody Boyd. It's lovely to see them reconnect over old times and gives audiences an idea of what happened to yet another Cheers character. But this episode is pretty dull in its plot. Frasier tries so very hard to avoid hanging out with Woody because he's found that all they can do is talk about Cheers. Of course, Frasier doesn't want to hurt his friend's feelings so he avoids confronting Woody about it.

If you pay attention, the last thing Frasier and Woody say to each other is "Cheers". Super sweet and poignant.

Denseness Personified

[Hitchcoc · 7/10 · 16 October 2019]

Woody is a character we loved to watch on Cheers. His vacuous, farm boy mentality was stunning. He was heir to coach. Here, he shows up out of the blue and he and Frasier do things together until Frasier is bored to death. It's another one of those I-don't-want-to-hurt-his-feelings episodes. The secondary characters are the funniest here.

Sum of the parts and the whole

[safenoe · 6/10 · 2 February 2024]

I must admit, I was very much looking forward to seeing The Show Where Woody Shows Up because here we have Woody Harrelson making a long-awaited appearance as Woody Boyd, and he and Frasier catching up on the good old days from Boston. But somewhere there appeared to be a malaise half-way through this episode, and it got a bit frustrating because the sum of the parts didn't exactly match the whole.

Anyway, Roger Fan plays the Waiter and Beverly D'Angelo is the voice of Audrey. Anyway, the ending was okay but somehow the poignancy was lacking so maybe there was a malaise and all but still okay to watch.

FRAZIER THE SNOB OUTGREW CHEERS

[devojonesy1977 · 3/10 · 5 May 2022]

From the start I thought a Cheers spinoff featuring Kelsey Grammars character Frazier was a bad idea. In the Cheers role the Frazier character was one of the Cheers gang. In the series Frazier the character becomes a snobby twit who is surrounded by other snobbish twits, and the appeal just wasn't there for me because there weren't opposites for Frazier to interact with. Sure Frazier won awards and that...but it is/was boring. After years of NOT watching the show I decided to watch the cameos of Cheers characters visiting the Frazier character in Seattle. And it was heartbreaking. It seems that the Frazier character has outgrown the gang at Cheers, and only "indulges" them when they visit Seattle. It was never more apparent than the episode "The Show Where Woody Shows Up". Even the title is demeaning, but the series had the same title when Ted Dansons Sam Malone character made a cameo. I don't care for Frazier outside of Cheers, and his pompous, arrogant characters spinoff proved me right.

Hello again Woody

[studioAT · 5/10 · 26 October 2017]

Nice but dim bartender Woody Boyd from Frasier's 'Cheers' days pops up in this episode of the spin-off.

Shows centring on characters from the original show turning up in Frasier's new life were a mixed bag, but this is one of the better reunions because it has a decent story to tell (which I felt the ones with Sam/Carla/Cliff/Norm) did not all about reconnecting with people and leaving the past in the past.

Woody Harrelson is on good form here, and interacts well with Kelsey Grammar as always. The supporting characters are largely side-lined, but that was always inevitable in an episode that was very much Frasier and Woody centred.