You Can Go Home Again

Infobox Television episode | Title = You Can Go Home Again
Series = Frasier
Season = 3
Episode = 24


Caption = Frasier trying to strike up a conversation with Martin
Airdate = 4 May 1996
Production = 40571-071
Writer = Linda Morris & Vic Rauseo
Director = David Lee
Guests = John Rajeski (Waiter)
Sherry Lansing (Angela)
Prev = The Focus Group
Next = The Two Mrs. Cranes
Episode list = List of Frasier episodes (Season 3)

"You Can Go Home Again" is the twenty-fourth and final episode of season 3 of American sitcom "Frasier".

Cast and characters

Main cast and characters

*Kelsey Grammer – Dr. Frasier Crane
*David Hyde Pierce – Dr. Niles Crane
*John Mahoney – Martin Crane
*Jane Leeves – Daphne Moon
*Peri Gilpin – Roz Doyle

Plot outline

Frasier and Roz celebrate the third anniversary of Frasier's show, and their time spent together making it, with presents: Roz gives Frasier a taped copy of the first ever episode of "The Frasier Crane Show". Later that day, Frasier returns home to find Daphne on the phone, calling him a dictatorial tyrant who won't let her go home to Britain. It turns out she's on the phone to her mother, trying to wrangle her way out of another boring-but-obligatory return visit home, as she only gets one week of vacation a year and she wants to spend it somewhere like Acapulco. Frasier puts on the tape of his first ever show, and as his awkward voice starts, prepares himself for a bumpy ride…May 21st, 1993 1:57 p.m: Frasier, newly arrived in Seattle, arrives for his first day as a broadcaster, only to discover that Roz is his new producer, having taken over at very short notice when the previous candidate refused to work with him. Thrown by this, Frasier is nervous and unsettled when his show finally starts, and manages to fall off his chair and miss his very first caller's problem entirely. To add insult to injury, during a commercial break only five minutes into his show he learns that Roz is already trying to get herself another gig.

May 21st, 1993 5:13 p.m: Trying to make himself feel better in Café Nervosa afterwards, Frasier is surprised to see Niles enter, learning that it is his brother's favourite haunt. The reunion is not warm; despite not having seen Frasier in two years, Niles attempts to leave and sit by himself but is persuaded to join his brother. In conversation, Frasier reveals that he has not yet visited Martin and admits that he is not eager to reunite with his father. Niles persuades Frasier to accompany him on his weekly visit. On reaching Martin's apartment, however, Martin is grumpy and unwelcoming, and Niles soon concocts an excuse to be leaving. Left alone, Martin and Frasier do not communicate well; after only five minutes, Martin decides to leave to meet his friends, hurting Frasier's feelings. Martin points out that Frasier clearly does not want to be there, and has not made much of an effort to remain in contact since the death of his mother, but Frasier is determined to make an effort now. The two men remain uncomfortable and uncommunicative with each other, however.

Back in the present, Frasier wakes up to find Eddie staring at him as usual, but for once it doesn't bother him. Niles and Martin enter the apartment, intending to take Frasier out to dinner to celebrate his radio anniversary, which Martin found out about after listening to Frasier's show. Playful teasing and banter having replacing barbed comments and awkwardness, it is clear how much closer Frasier, Martin and Niles now are after three years; and when Daphne enters the room, Frasier tells her that he's giving her extra holiday time, so that she can both go home to Manchester to visit her family and go to Acapulco, in order that she can connect with her own family, and take a break to recuperate afterwards.

Episode Title Cards

*"May 21, 1993 1:57 pm"
*"May 21, 1993 5:13 pm"

Memorable Quotations

"Daphne is explaining to Frasier how tedious she finds holidays spent at home in England"
Daphne: Oh, Dr. Crane, why is it so easy to love our families, yet so hard to like them?
Frasier: Well, Daphne, that is one of those questions that make life so rich…and psychiatrists richer.

"Frasier is having a bad first day at KACL"
Frasier: In the last week, I've uprooted myself from my home of fifteen years, moved all the way across the country away from everything I care about, and plunged myself into a frightening new career! The first few nerve-racking moments, I walk in here and find my producer lobbying to get herself transferred to another show! Abe Lincoln had a brighter future when he picked up his tickets at the box office!

"Niles is trying so hard to be cheerful when he brings Frasier to see Martin, that his father asks if he is drunk"
Niles: Seeing the three of us back together again in the same room; who needs alcohol for that?
Martin: I do!
Frasier: I do!

Trivia

* Frasier's comment about his first episode - "Fasten your seatbelt, Eddie, it's gonna be a bumpy ride." - mirrors the famous quotation from Bette Davis' character Margo in "All About Eve".

* The episode title is a reference to Thomas Wolfe's 1940 novel, "You Can't Go Home Again".

See also

*List of Frasier episodes