A Word to the Wiseguy

Infobox Television episode | Title = A Word to the Wiseguy
Series = Frasier
Season = 3
Episode = 15
Airdate = 20 February 1996
Guests = Harris Yulin (Jerome Belasco)
Faith Prince (Brandy)
Randy Travis (Steve)
Writer = Joe Keenan
Director = Philip Charles MacKenzie
Prev = The Show Where Diane Comes Back
Next = Look Before You Leap
Episode list = List of Frasier episodes (Season 3)

"A Word to the Wiseguy" is the fifteenth episode of season 3 of American sitcom "Frasier".

Cast and characters

Main cast and characters

*Kelsey Grammer – Dr. Frasier Crane
*David Hyde Pierce – Dr. Niles Crane
*John Mahoney – Martin Crane
*Jane Leeves – Daphne Moon
*Peri Gilpin – Roz Doyle

Plot outline

Niles brings news of Maris' legal troubles: she has had a minor road accident, but while the police were filing the report, they came across a heap of unpaid parking tickets. Niles initially asks Martin to exert his influence, but his father refuses on principle. Roz, however, informs Niles of a man named Jerome Belasco, who “makes wishes come true”. When Niles and Frasier meet this man, he quickly dispels the issue, and Niles is so overwhelmed with joy that he promises to help Jerome “any time”. Very soon, they get a return visit at Frasier's apartment (without having told him the address). Jerome explains that his fiancée, Brandy, keeps refusing to set a wedding date, and he wants Frasier to persuade her, in his capacity as a therapist. This seems like a relatively easy return favour, although Frasier hates the idea of compromising his professional ethics. Then Brandy calls in to the show at KACL and complains about Jerome's unpleasant work hours, his poor performance in bed, her suspicions of his infidelity and, above all, his forbidding her from getting a job. In all conscience, Frasier is unable to advise the marriage, and subsequently has little time to wait before finding out Jerome's reaction.

Episode Title Cards

*"The little commodore"
*"A word to the wiseguy"
*"Doesn’t everyone have poi ramekins?

Memorable Quotations

"Roz has given Niles the details of her shady contact, and Frasier thinks he is mad for even considering it"
Frasier: I will not have you turning a minor, albeit annoying situation into a Martin Scorsese film!

"During the scene where Jerome drops by unexpectedly"
Niles: Do you think that he's here to collect? (a favour)
Frasier: No Niles, he's probably hosting a luau, and came by to borrow our poi ramekins(!)

"Frasier trying to explain his hesitation to advise Brandy"
Frasier: Jerome, I'm a psychiatrist, I'm used to rendering my opinion, not being a mouthpiece for someone else. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this.
Jerome: "(sighing)" Ah, Dr. Crane, sometimes in life we must do unpleasant things, I'd hate to tell you some of the unpleasant things that I've had to do.

"At Café Nervosa, Jerome explaining Brandy's nature"
Jerome: I must tell you that Ms. Brandy has had 14 jobs over the years, and she's lost them all.
Frasier: So...you're saying she's had trouble finding her niche?
Jerome: I'm saying she's a dodo. Now you may love a dodo, you may think a dodo is beautiful, you may even wish to marry the dodo, but you do not encourage a dodo to fly.

"Later on in the same conversation"
Frasier: "(to Jerome)" So then she's agreed to marry you?
Jerome: Yes...if I get her a job, and not just any job, a job that she can never lose. A job where if she burns the place down, they will apologize to her for having made it so flammable.

References

*imdb title|0582334