Frasier (TV Series)

Back Talk (1999)

David Hyde Pierce: Dr. Niles Crane

Quotes 

• Frasier : I for one am...

  [spasm of pain] 

  Frasier : God Almighty!

  Niles : Well, no wonder you're stressed, you've got a whole universe to run.

• [Frasier has fallen into his father's chair, delirious from taking medication for his back pain] 

  Niles : Oh my God - did you fall?

  Frasier : No, I - you know I'm actually quite comfortable Niles! Look:

  [Frasier motions towards television cabinet] 

  Frasier : There's no glare on the television! And here's a lovely place to set your drink!

  [Frasier places his hand limply on TV tray and looks up at Niles with wide eyes] 

  Niles : Just give me your hand and whatever the chair is telling you, don't listen.

  Frasier : No, Niles, no! It's helping my back, actually. You know - and when you sit in it, you don't have to look at it!

• Frasier : That unprofessional hack. All he did was give a bottle full of horse tranquilizers, didn't care about getting to the root of the problem. He just wanted to shut me up.

  Niles : I think it might be time for one of those pills.

• Niles : [Niles helped Frasier to a chair]  All comfy?

  Frasier : Niles, this won't do. It's even harder than a seat on a public bus.

  Niles : Oh when were you ever on a bus.

  Frasier : At a cocktail party once for the Friends of Transit.

• Niles : Good evening, Daphne

  Daphne Moon : [nervously]  Dr. Crane.

  [There is a pause as Niles senses something is up] 

  Niles : You look different somehow. Have you done something new with your hair?

  [Daphne gestures to her party hat and takes it off] 

  Niles : That must be it!

  [Niles goes over to greet Frasier and give him his birthday present as Daphne watches from a distance, looking almost longingly at Niles]