Frasier (TV Series)

It's Hard to Say Goodbye If You Won't Leave (1996)

David Hyde Pierce: Dr. Niles Crane

Quotes 

• Dr. Frasier Crane : I'm having fantasies about her all the time.

  Martin Crane : Well there's nothing wrong with that. You know, when I first met your mother she was so upbeat and bouncy I used to fantasize about her wearing a skimpy little cheerleader outfit, shaking her pom-poms...

  Dr. Frasier Crane , Dr. Niles Crane : Dad!

  Martin Crane : Grow up, you two! I'm just saying it's perfectly natural. I can't tell you the number of times I was on a stake-out in the cold, picturing your mother in front of a warm fire wearing nothing but a...

  Dr. Frasier Crane , Dr. Niles Crane : Dad!

  Martin Crane : Oh, I'm sorry. One day your mother and I went on a church picnic and the two of you came floating down the river in little wicker baskets.

• Dr. Niles Crane : Dad, you sounded lonely, so I rented some movies.

  Martin Crane : Oh, didn't you know? The VCR's broken.

  Dr. Niles Crane : No subtitles this time.

  Martin Crane : Oh, that's right, I got it fixed. What did you bring?

  Dr. Niles Crane : Uh, I have "The Way We Were" and a classic - "Casablanca"

  Daphne Moon : Oh, I just love that movie. Is there any more heartbreaking moment in all of film than when Humphrey Bogart tells Ingrid Bergman to get on that plane with Victor Laszlo even though Bogey loves her? What an ending.

  Dr. Niles Crane : Well, there goes my need to finally see that one.

  Dr. Frasier Crane : Hmm. He cares deeply for her and yet he lets her go. I wonder why Bogey did that?

  Dr. Niles Crane : Why don't we put the movie in and find out?

  Daphne Moon : Because Laszlo needed her by his side to fight the Nazis.

  Martin Crane : Oh, forget the Nazis. No man in his right mind would give up Ingrid Bergman.

  Daphne Moon : Oh, sure - sacrifice the entire free world for a little Swedish meatball.