Frasier (TV Series)

Breaking the Ice (1995)

Kelsey Grammer: Dr. Frasier Crane

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• Frasier : So you're suggesting that I go along, pretend I'm enjoying myself doing something that gives me absolutely no pleasure at all, just to hear the words "I love you"?

  Daphne Moon : Why not? Women have been doing it for centuries.

• Martin Crane : Frasier... I love you. Niles... I love you.

  Frasier : Thanks, Dad. I love you, too.

  Niles : And I love you, too.

  [silence] 

  Niles : But I *hate* ice fishing!

  Martin Crane : Well, it's the last time you'll have to come out and do that.

  Niles : Oh, in that case I *really* love you!

• Frasier : [seeing Niles in his ice fishing getup]  You look like a skinny Elmer Fudd.

• Frasier : You know that Maris loves you, right? But it's still nice to hear it.

  Niles : I imagine it would be, but let's stick to attainable goals.

• Frasier : Niles, do you mind if I ask you a personal question? What the hell are you doing here?

  Niles : What do you mean?

  Frasier : You know, this whole "Sergeant Niles of the Yukon" act. I mean, come on, it can't be all to impress Daphne.

  Niles : It's not an act!

  Frasier : Niles, in twenty years, I've never heard you comment on fish except to say that the sauce had separated.

• Daphne Moon : Don't you ever clean that thing out?

  Martin Crane : No, it's bad luck. Everybody knows that. You show up on a fishing trip with a tackle box that doesn't smell like the most rancid, rotten thing on the face of the earth, then nobody will sit by you.

  Frasier : [entering the apartment with Niles]  Yes, Niles, I used to have the same problem with my multiple personality patients. They always kept saying that the other one had sent the check.

  Niles : [sniffing]  What an odd combination of odors. It smells like a fish died and all the other fish sent flowers.

• Frasier : You want to know the reason I came up here? It was just to hear him say the words "I love you".

  Niles : What?

  Frasier : Well, you know, he said it to Duke, he said it to Eddie. He's never said it to me.

  Niles : Surely you don't put yourself up there with Eddie?

• Frasier : Dad, look, as much as I'd like to do something with you this weekend, I'm afraid ice fishing just isn't it. Oh, look, look, here's an idea! You know what, they're doing a revival of "The Iceman Cometh" playing downtown! Now, you see, we could catch a matinee, and then go out for sushi, and stay well within the same theme, you know?