Look Before You Leap (Frasier episode)

Infobox Television episode | Title = Look Before You Leap
Series = Frasier
Season = 3
Episode = 16
Airdate = 27 February 1996
Guests = Murphy Dunne (Pete)
Justin M. Gorence (Gary)
Benjamin Brown (Stage Manager)
Writer = Chuck Ranberg & Anne Flett-Giordano
Director = James Burrows
Prev = A Word to the Wiseguy
Next = High Crane Drifter
Episode list = List of Frasier episodes (Season 3)

"Look Before You Leap" is the sixteenth 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

It is February 29th, Leap Year Day, and Frasier is encouraging everyone to shake up their routine and do something different: he commends a trip to a friend's birthday party in Montana to his father, and a new haircut to Daphne. Also, when Roz tells how she met a man on a bus and subsequently lost him again, Frasier encourages her to use the radio show to find him. He himself decides to sing a challenging aria from Verdi's "Rigoletto" at the PBS Pledge Drive that evening, instead of the traditional "Buttons and Bows".

Niles, meanwhile, is in a very good mood, and announces to Frasier that Maris has offered him a half-hour window in her schedule, but rather than discussion, her plan is sex. In this matter, Frasier advises caution, and although Niles concedes that his brother is right, exercising self-control proves a real challenge, and the challenge only gets greater as everyone else's leaps start to turn into falls.

Episode Title Cards

*"No, but I hear Oleg Cassini takes that bus"
*"Huh?"

Memorable Quotations

"The weather is very warm for February"
Daphne: Oh, I love Nature's little aberrations: warm days in winter, four-leaf clovers, Australians…

"Frasier tries to persuade his father to go to his friend's birthday celebrations"
Frasier: It's leap year; take a leap!
Martin: "(without looking up from his newspaper)" You know, I was just about to say the same thing to you.

"Niles walks in while Frasier is struggling to practise his Verdi aria"
Niles: Perhaps they'll pledge to get you to "stop" singing.