Here's Looking at You

Season 1, Episode 5, Aired

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When Frasier buys his father a telescope, Martin meets a woman in a nearby building with a telescope of her own. Although they seem to immediately hit it off, he mysteriously rejects her when she asks him out.

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    • TRIVIA (3)

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      • Doug: (caller, referring to his mother) ...she literally hangs around the house all day. Frasier corrects Doug's misuse of the word "literally", although he really should have corrected his syntax: "...she hangs around the house, literally all day", since Doug was emphasizing the degree to which his mother "hangs around the house", not that she hangs around the house. Frasier does correct Doug's syntax after he hangs up following a rant about people correcting his speech. Doug closes with "...that's what I got a problem with." Frasier corrects the syntax by remarking, "I think what he means is, that is something with which he has a problem."

      • Frasier has bought a telescope as a surprise gift for his father. In the series pilot, "The Good Son", there is a rather sophisticated telescope on a tripod visible on the balcony of Frasier's apartment (not the brass one introduced here and not present in episodes 2, 3 or 4).

      • Niles claims that Aunt Patrice and Maris love to trot out this so-called "G-Speak" at parties, and yet every time Aunt Patrice visits, Maris is invariably bed-ridden. It seems inplausible that Maris would cook up a game with a person for whom she has so evident a dislike-and if Maris inevitably takes ill when her aunt visits, when would they have a chance to attend a party together? Patrice herself said that to that day, she had no idea how tall Maris was.

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      • Martin: Well, it's a long time since I've been dating. Have things changed much in the last forty years? Frasier: Well, the wardrobe is a little different, but your ultimate goal is still the same.

      • Martin: Daphne, have I got this tie on right? Daphne: It just needs a minor adjustment. What's all this hair on it? Martin: The only way I can get the knot right is if I tie it on Eddie first.

      • Daphne: I got pizza rolls in the back of the freezer but the expiration date was yesterday. Are we game?

      • Martin: Okay, when I'm ready. Thanks, Frasier. You know, I guess I don't say it often enough but you're a good kid. Frasier: Well, thanks Dad. You know, there's something I don't say often enough... Martin: (correcting)There's nothing you don't say often enough.

      • Frasier: (greets her) Well, of course. Aunt Patrice, yes. I don't recall really when we met but I believe there was a lot of laughing and dancing. Patrice: My husband's funeral. Frasier: Yes...well, of course, the laughter was to hide our tears.

      • Niles: Oh, who knows why anybody does anything? Frasier: Remind me again what you do for a living? You see the thing is, it was just one phone call. How can anyone make a sound judgment about another person on the basis of one phone call? Niles: Remind me again what it is you do for a living? Frasier: Well anyway, I suppose it could be any number of reasons. Fear of rejection, shyness...

      • Martin: (whispers) Tell her I'm not home. Frasier: Dad, she knows you're home...she's looking at you through the telescope.

      • Frasier: I'm going to help along your little romance and possibly save a small forest. I'm giving her our telephone number. Martin: (in terror) No, no, no, no, no, don't do that! Frasier: Why? Martin: Well, she'll think I'm being too forward. Frasier: For God's sake, Dad, you met peeping into her apartment.

      • Doug: Look, it's about my mother. She's getting on now and she doesn't have much of a life. And she doesn't want to do anything or go anywhere and she literally hangs around the house all day. I mean, it's very frustrating... Frasier: I'm sorry Doug, can we just go back a second? You said your mother literally hangs around the house. Well, I suppose it's a pet peeve of mine but I suppose what you mean is that she figuratively "hangs around" the house. To literally hang around the house you'd have to be a bat or spider monkey. Now, back to your problem? Doug: Do you mind if we stop while I tell you my pet peeve? Frasier: Not at all. Doug: (angry) I hate it when intellectual pinheads with superiority complexes nit-pick your grammar when they come to you for help. That's what I got a problem with! (hangs up)

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      • Episode Title: Here's Looking At You This is a reference to the famous 'Here's looking at you, kid' quote from the 1942 movie Casablanca.

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