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Kelsey Grammer and Laurie Metcalf in Frasier (1993)

David Hyde Pierce: Dr. Niles Crane

Caught in the Act

Frasier

David Hyde Pierce credited as playing...

Dr. Niles Crane

Quotes5

  • [Frasier's re-married ex-wife comes to town]
  • Frasier: My problem now is that she's invited me to her dressing room for an... après-show tryst.
  • Niles: You're not going?
  • Frasier: Well...
  • Niles: Frasier!
  • Frasier: Niles, if you had any idea how much pain she's in. The woman is reaching out to me to rescue her from a loveless marriage, from - from a career she feels trapped in. If I could help her make a new beginning, wouldn't it be heartless of me to deny myself to her?
  • Niles: ...Did you say something? Your penis was talking so loud I couldn't hear.
  • Frasier: She hit on me in the children's bookstore. Where I bought her CD. Trust me, the woman is a sexual volcano just waiting to erupt!
  • Niles: Judging from some of these song titles, you may be right. "Nanny's Messy Bed" "I Feel Something Great Inside Me" "Bannisters are Fun."
  • Niles: Will you listen to yourself?
  • Frasier: Oh, this is more than just sex, Niles. This is passion, kismet. A gift the gods bestow on only a chosen few. Wouldn't the real sin be to refuse it?
  • Niles: Isn't that your old second-piece-of-pie argument?
  • Frasier: Well, maybe it is, but I haven't had "pie" in six months.
  • [Niles enters the cafe with a shopping bag]
  • Frasier: The Gap, Niles? I didn't know you shopped there.
  • Niles: I just discovered it! Apparently, there are a number of them.
  • Frasier: [suspicious] And what did you buy there?
  • Niles: Oh, well, let's see... some wine glasses, and a bud vase...
  • Frasier: That's Pottery Barn, you jackass! Give me that!
  • Martin: [learns Nanette is stopping by] She better be bringing her checkbook with her.
  • Frasier: Oh Dad, not this again.
  • Martin: I was still paying for that wedding six months after you got divorced! Nanette didn't have any family, she got lucky.
  • Niles: Oh yes, orphans get all the breaks.

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