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Frasier Season 7 Episode 9

The Apparent Trap

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AIRED: 11/25/99

When Frasier reluctantly invites Lilith to Thanksgiving dinner, it seems that Frederick is plotting to get his parents to reconcile.

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

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Bebe Neuwirth	Dr. Lilith Sternin	Recurring Role
Trevor Einhorn	Frederick Gaylord Crane	Recurring Role

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TRIVIA (2)
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- (Lilith has just gotten off the phone with a colleague who supplies her with lab rats)
  Lilith: Peter's come down with something. He thinks he caught it from the rats.
  Frasier: (anxious to have Lilith be on her way) Oh, now, nobody ever got anything from a rat that wasn't resolved in a day or two -- off you go!
  
  Frasier, of course, refers facetiously to the Black Death of the 1340's, one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, widely thought to have been Bubonic Plague. It's rapid spread was attributed to fleas on rats. The total number of deaths worldwide is estimated at 75 million people.
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- After saying that Lilith will be spending Thanksgiving with a colleague in Vancouver, he wonders aloud whether they celebrate Thanksgiving in Canada. Although Canada does in fact celebrate Thanksgiving, Canadian Thanksgiving is the second Monday of October.
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QUOTES (6)
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- Niles: (when asked what he learned from his unfortunate night of passion with Lilith) Well, I learned if you kiss her too fast it gives you an ice cream headache.
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- Frasier: (to Lilith) You think you can just snap your fingers and ol' Frasier will come running? I'm sorry, sister, but I need to be finessed!
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- Frasier: (brainstorming excitedly for their collaborative new book) The weekend father need not be the "weakened" father!
  Lilith: Frasier, you still have a direct line to my funny bone.
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- Frasier: [Freddie's] a very clever little boy.
  Lilith: Of course he is. Remember when he was a baby and we put his bottle at the end of the maze?
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- Daphne: Come on, Eddie, come on.
  Frasier: What's the matter?
  Daphne: Well, he was perfectly fine until a block from here. Then he started whining and trembling, like he senses an earthquake or a dark force or--hello, Lilith--a vortex of evil.
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- Frederick: (On Niles playing his computer game) Wow. I never saw the guy trip and fall before.
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NOTES (1)
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- International Episode Titles:
  Czech Republic: Chytrý synáček (Smart Sonny Boy)
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ALLUSIONS (1)
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- Title: The Apparent Trap
  The episode title is a reference to the 1961 Romantic Comedy "The Parent Trap" starring Maureen O'Hara which was remade in 1998 starring Denis Quaid, "The Parent Trap".
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