Four for the Seesaw

Infobox Television episode | Title = "Four for the Seesaw"
Series = Frasier
Season = 04
Episode = 13


Caption = Frasier advising Niles to stop thinking about Maris but to think of their girlfriends as a piece of meat whom they will have sex with.
Airdate = 18 February 1997
Production = 40571-084
Writer = David Lloyd [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0582402/ "Frasier" Four for the Seesaw (1997) ] ]
Director = Jeff Melman [ [http://www.tv.com/frasier/four-for-the-seesaw/episode/17037/summary.html Frasier: Four for the Seesaw - TV.com ] ]
Guests = Megan Mullally (Beth Armstrong)
Lisa Darr (Laura Parris)
Andrew Heckler (Dr Morris Claman)
Prev = Death and the Dog
Next = To Kill a Talking Bird
Episode list = List of Frasier episodes (Season 4)

"Four for the Seesaw" is the thirteenth episode in season 4 of American sitcom "Frasier", and the eighty fourth overall.

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 is having his flu jab live on his show, and despite his fear of needles, is determined to go through with it. Martin and Daphne are also there to get theirs, but Martin is late for meeting Duke and so they leave without getting their jab. Roz, meanwhile, has designs on the doctor administering the injections. Later, on a particularly busy day at Café Nervosa, Frasier and Niles struggle to get a table and so decide to share a table with two attractive young women. Niles is a little apprehensive, still worrying about his separation from Maris, but Frasier convinces him that he needs to be spontaneous once in a while. The two women, Beth and Laura, turn out to be kitchen designers, much to Frasier and Niles' delight. The four of them seem to be getting on very well, with Beth taking a particular fancy to Niles, and Laura seemingly interested in Frasier. The two Crane boys, however, are unsure how to read their signals.

When Martin can't go to a mountain cabin with Sherry, he offers it to Frasier and Niles, and in the spirit of spontaneity that had got them this far, they decide to invite Laura and Beth to the cabin with them. Once there, they are still worrying about misreading the signals the women are giving them, but when Laura and Beth invite Frasier and Niles to bed, they finally get the signal they have been hoping for. It is at this very moment Niles starts feeling guilty about his separation from Maris, and decides to phone her to clarify the exact nature of their separation.

Episode title cards

*"Designs"
*"Let's Vuitton with it"

Memorable Quotations

"Frasier suggests sharing a table with two women at Café Nervosa"
Niles: We can't sit with strange women.
Frasier: Why not? We "married" strange women!

"Frasier and Niles took Beth and Laura to the Seattle Rep"
Martin: Oh, what'd you see?
Laura: "The Man Who Came To Dinner". It's about an ill-tempered invalid who moves into this person's house and just drives them crazy.
Martin: Comedy?
Frasier: I used to think so.

"Niles is finding this new spontaneous attitude to dating quite exhilarating"
Frasier: Feel like a new man?
Niles: I feel like a new woman, and thank God I remembered to pack one!

"Frasier and Niles have trouble interpreting the women's signals"
Niles: They could be thinking Platonic; together in one room sleeping like babies.
Frasier: Yes. Us in another, crying like babies.

"Niles phones Maris to clarify the nature of their separation"
Niles: I know we're allowed to see other people; my question is: how much of them are we allowed to see?

"Maris phones Niles to tell him he cannot see other people"
Niles: You see what's happening here?
Frasier: Yes. Your ex-wife is ruining my sex life!

Trivia

*Mentions of Deirdre Sauvage, the novelist who used to live at Elliot Bay Towers and liked Martin a lot. Martin has to read Deidre's book, "The Rose & The Rapier", to Daphne, and is naturally uncomfortable with this.
*Frasier has a fear of injections. [ [http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/derby/3267/413.html [4.13Four For The Seesaw ] ]

*Showcases a particularly heavyset Kelsey Grammer.

References