Airdate: 2/26/87
Frasier
and Lilith are now POSSL-Q’s (Persons of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living
Quarters), and to celebrate their cohabitation they invite Sam and Diane to
their place for dinner. The night gets off to a rocky start when Lilith breaks
down over the pressure of hosting, and from there it gets worse before it gets
– worser. Just about every little detail, mainly involving Frasier and Diane’s
engagement, sends either woman, or both, into the bathroom in fury, postponing
the dinner again and again. Not that it would have mattered, particularly when
they finally sit down to eat it and are shocked to learn its identity: lasagna.
Subplot: Cliff volunteers to babysit Carla’s kids – little does he know what
he’s in for.
Very
funny episode giving the most screen time to date for Bebe Leuworth as Lilith
Sternum, a character with all the analytical skill of Freud… and all the warmth
of Spock from Star Trek. Her
psychological observations certainly have merit, but they’re delivered,
prodigiously, as if coming from a textbook, outside the necessary element of
human context. But of course, we don’t want to see those walls being torn down
– that’s certainly the appeal of her character. I also love it when the set
gets used as a comic device: in this case, the bathroom door.
Cold
open: Norm tells Frasier about a speech he has to give to his wife’s women’s
auxiliary club. He’s a nervous wreck; the speech is about poise.
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