Roz's Krantz & Gouldenstein Are Dead

Infobox Television episode | Title = Roz’s Krantz and Gouldenstein are Dead
Series = Frasier
Season = 4
Episode = 15
Airdate = 11 March 1997
Production =
Writer = William Lucas Walker
Director = Jeff Melman
Guests = James Earl Jones (Norman Webster)
Lois Smith (Moira)
Eric Roberts (Chet)
Prev = To Kill a Talking Bird
Next = The Unnatural
Episode list = List of Frasier episodes (Season 4)

"Roz’s Krantz and Gouldenstein are Dead" is the fifteenth episode in season 4 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

*Dan Butler – Bob 'Bulldog' Briscoe

Plot outline

While out driving, Frasier and Niles discover Roz collecting litter from the side of the road with a group of other people. She explains that this is community service for a speeding offence, and she chose this option rather than visiting a retirement home. Frasier suggests she reconsider, as a way of tackling her fear of ageing, so after using him to escape from the scene, she agrees. Unfortunately, while playing checkers with an elderly gentleman (Mr Krantz), she receives a terrible shock when he dies mid-game. Frasier insists she persevere, but then another man (Mr Gouldenstein) dies while she reads to him. The residents at the home then start to call Roz the “Angel of Death”, and she is so upset that Frasier actually has to return there with her to make sure she has one more try.

Episode title cards

*"Roz’s Krantz and Gouldenstein are dead"
*"Noses off"

Memorable Quotations

"Eddie is dancing, and Martin is very proud"
Martin: He's practically doin' a polka.
Frasier: Oh, good. That should up his price when I sell him to the carnival.

"Niles is back from a wedding in the woods. Daphne finds that his shoulder is sticky and wonders why. Frasier asks if he took a date"
Niles: I asked Maris.
Daphne: Sap.
Frasier: I think Daphne speaks for us all.

Cultural reference

The episode title ultimately comes from a line in of Shakespeare's "Hamlet", in which an ambassador announces that "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead". There was also a subsequent tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard in 1966 that used this line as its title: "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead".