Love Stinks (Frasier episode)

Infobox Television episode | Title = Love Stinks
Series = Frasier
Season = 9
Episode = 05
Airdate = 16 October 2001
Production =
Writer = Saladin K. Patterson
Director = Katy Garretson
Guests = Tony Goldwyn (Roger)
Jill Talley (Cheryl)
Prev = The Return of Martin Crane
Next = Room Full of Heroes

"Love Stinks" is the fifth episode in season 9 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

Recurring cast

*Tom McGowan – Kenny Daly
*Patrick Kerr – Noel Shempsky
*Ashley Thomas – Alice May Doyle

Plot outline

Frasier feels dejected one morning when he discovers a graffiti poem about him on the toilet wall at work, calling him a snob. He decides to host a party for the entire station in an attempt to get to know everyone better. He asks Roz to invite her new boyfriend, Roger, but she claims that she thinks Roger would be uncomfortable with the people at the party. When Frasier asks whether this has anything to do with Roger’s occupation (waste collector), Roz tersely denies having any problem. She later changes her mind, but closely watches Roger at the party and cuts in quickly every time his profession is mentioned in conversation. When Roger overhears Roz saying to Kenny that not everyone has a job they are proud of, he promptly leaves.

After the party, Frasier has made friends with everyone, but he rues this new popularity among people with whom he has nothing in common, and wants things to be back the way they were. Meanwhile Roz feels upset after the break-up with Roger and admits to still being in love with him, although she cannot get past the issue of his job.

Episode Title Cards

*"He kicked Spassky's butt in Reykjavík"
*"Love stinks"

Cultural reference

Frasier claims to Niles that he has always tried to be the embodiment of the words: "if you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch". This is a quotation from the famous poem "" by Rudyard Kipling.

Memorable Quotations

"Frasier has quoted the injurious limerick to Niles"
Niles: That's terrible! There's a tense shift, an approximate rhyme, the scansion leaves a "lot" to be desired…
Frasier: Niles, you're missing the point!

"Daphne has told Niles that as a child she could not pronounce her own name, so her family called her "Dappy"
Niles: Oh, Dad! You'll never guess what silly nickname Daphne was called as a child!
Martin: Is it worse than Piles?