Frasier

Season 2

Slow Tango in South Seattle

1. Myra Carter, plays Mrs Warner, the mother of Clarise Warner (played by Constance Towers). This is despite the fact that in real life she is only three years older.

The Unkindest Cut of All

1. The scene title Un Peu De Pate Derriere Les Oreiles translates to 'Some Pâté Behind the Ears'.
2. The title is from William Shakespeare's play 'Julius Caesar': "This was the most unkindest cut of all."

The Matchmaker

1. It won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series.
2. It's interesting that Roz offers her past boyfriends to Daphne for a date since in a later season Dapne, and one of Roz's past boyfriends Donnie, get engaged.
3. When Tom asked if Martin and Niles are gay it is extra funny because the actors who play Martin (John Mahoney) and Niles (David Hyde Pierce) are really gay in real life.

Flour Child

1. Cab driver Arlene gives birth in the cab she is driving, identified by Martin as Cab 804. Cab 804 was the legendary cab lamented in a double episode of Taxi (1978). James Burrows directed this episode of 'Frasier', as well as the Taxi episodes 'Memories of Cab 804: Part 1' and 'Memories of Cab 804: Part 2'.
2. Charlayne Woodard, who plays the pregnant taxi driver Arlene, also played a cabbie in the episode Taxi: Nina Loves Alex (1982).
3. The cab driver in this episode was also a cabbie in "Taxi".
4. The title is derived from the term 'flower child' which originated during the 1960's hippie movement and was characterized by young people wearing flowers to symbolize peace and love.
5. In Frasier: Flour Child (1994), the number on Arlene's taxicab, 804, is the same number used by Alex (Judd Hirsch) in Taxi (1978), a show also directed by James Burrows, who directed the episode.

Duke's, We Hardly Knew Ye

1. The title is based on the song "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" a popular early 19th century Irish traditional anti-war song.

The Botched Language of Cranes

1. Sandra Dee's final role.

The Candidate

1. During their conversation about Phil Patterson's belief that he had been "beamed up" to an alien vessel, Niles says to Frasier "Are you kidding me? I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker!" This is likely a reference to the famous catchphrase "I'm a doctor, not a...(insert various professions)" spoken by Dr. Leonard McCoy in Star Trek (1966).
2. Before the final credits there is a dedication to Robert Crosby, a deceased sound technician who worked on 23 episodes of "Frasier".

Adventures in Paradise: Part 1

1. JoBeth Williams made an earlier appearance the year before as a guest caller in the episode Beloved Infidel.

Adventures in Paradise: Part 2

1. This episode is an homage to Noel Coward's play 'Private Lives', in which two exes are honeymooning in side by side hotel rooms with their new spouses.

Burying a Grudge

Seat of Power

1. Macaulay Culkin provides the voice of Elliot, the prank caller at the beginning of the episode.

Roz in the Doghouse

1. Rosie Perez, was a choice to play Daphne if the creators decided to make the housekeeper Latino. Warren Littlefield suggested they make her English and then suggested Jane Leeves.
2. Rosie Perez would be a guest caller here, but would later return in "Crock Tales" in the last season.

Retirement Is Murder

1. Martin's "Weeping Lotus" case is a parody of the still unsolved 1947 "Black Dahlia" murder.

Fool Me Once, Shame on You, Fool Me Twice...

1. The actress who plays the female caller, Denise, is not credited.
2. The title is based on the Chinese Proverb: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

You Scratch My Book...

1. In the book store, Frasier asks Roz to buy the book. Roz never leaves to buy it, and ends up leaving the store without paying.
2. When the title card "Are there any more like you at the instotute? The executive prouducers graphic appears for a split a second faintly AND When the title card "Shrink Rap" appears you can see very faintly below "Guest Starring Paul Johanasson"

The Show Where Sam Shows Up

1. In this episode, Sam recalls that Frasier had told him that his dad was a dead research scientist (which had happened in an episode of Cheers (1982) years earlier). This inconsistency is explained by Frasier saying that he and Martin had a fight before Frasier made that statement to Sam.
2. This episode first aired on Kelsey Grammer's 40th birthday.
3. Ted Danson and Peri Gilpin would go on to play a married couple on several episodes of CSI Crime Scene Investigation.
4. Niles makes reference to the heart condition that required surgery in Season 10.
5. When Sam says that when the preacher said "Will you take this woman to be your wife?" and Sam says "Who, me?" and starts running down the isle, this is most likely a reference to the season 4 premier of Cheers when Frasier tells Sam that Diane said the same thing at their wedding.
6. One of the first things Sam Malone says when he first meets Niles is how Niles looks exactly like Frasier did when he first knew him back in Boston.
7. This is the very last performance Ted Danson ever made as Sam Malone.

Daphne's Room

1. The melody, Daphne's murmuring while Frasier is in her closet, is The Blue Danube a waltz composed by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II.

The Club

1. When Martin is training Eddie, the kitchen island is mysteriously absent.

Someone to Watch Over Me

1. John Lithgow, who provides a voice cameo for this episode, was the producers' first choice to play Frasier Crane when the character debuted in Cheers (1982). Lithgow declined the role because of a time conflict.
2. The title is from the song "Someone to Watch Over Me" composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin from the musical Oh, Kay! (1926).

Breaking the Ice

An Affair to Forget

1. A very similar scene involving multi-step language translation appears in I Love Lucy: Paris at Last (1956). Lucy gets in trouble with the police and the questions asked by the police lieutenant in French are translated into German by a detective, from German into Spanish by a civilian in the police station, and lastly from Spanish into English by Ricky. Lucy's answers are translated back for the lieutenant and the scene contains many of the same gags as the scene in this episode, such as the translators "translating" physical gestures and wordless expressions like "ehh."
2. It won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series.
3. Niles states that he drove to the Oregon border check and that he had fruit in the car and had to turn back. There is no Oregon border check between Washington and Oregon. The closest Oregon border check is between Oregon and California.

Agents in America: Part 3

The Innkeepers

Dark Victory

1. The first season finale to do "Thanks for Calling" during the end credit.