The 1000th Show

Infobox Television episode | Title = The 1000th Show
Series = Frasier


Season = 5
Episode = 05
Airdate = 11 November 1997
Production =
Writer = Christopher Lloyd & Joe Keenan
Director = David Lee
Guests = Norman B. Rice (Mayor of Seattle)
Prev = The Kid
Next = Voyage of the Damned
Episode list = List of Frasier episodes (Season 5)"The 1000th Show" is the fifth episode in season 5 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

The KACL station manager wants to meet with Frasier, to talk about his one thousandth radio broadcast which is soon to take place. Frasier is expecting some sort of elaborate public celebration, and maintains that this sort of circus is not what he wants. Roz calls his bluff by speaking to the station manager herself and persuading him to drop the celebration plans entirely. When Frasier hears about this, he changes his tune and admits that maybe some low-key celebration would be appropriate. Before long, Frasier Crane Day is proclaimed in Seattle, and a massive public rally is organised for the broadcast, to take place at the Space Needle with the Mayor in attendance. Niles jokes about it endlessly to mask his overt jealousy.

On the day itself, Frasier decides to take a leisurely stroll with Niles over to the rally in plenty of time, and uses it as the opportunity for a quasi-regal walkabout, waving to people in the street. Unfortunately, a series of disastrous events impede his progress, and Roz is compelled to start the broadcast without him.

Episode Title Cards

*"One show short of Scheherazade (say it three times fast)"
*"One of the world’s foremost experts on hair pulling"
*"It’s the most wonderful time of the year"

Memorable Quotations

"Frasier has just been approached for an autograph in Café Nervosa, and told he is “the smartest guy on the face of the earth”"
Frasier: Well, one does hear tales of a certain wise man in Tibet, but why split hairs? "(signs autograph, exit fan)" Where was I?
Niles: You were last seen hiking up Mount Ego.

"Niles is annoyed because the waiter knows what Frasier’s “usual” is, but not his. Having been told once, the waiter is back again"
Waiter: Oh, I’m sorry. You had the, er…?
Niles: Absent-minded waiter. I’ll get it myself!

"Daphne is on the phone trying desperately to renew her passport, and she feels the victim of discrimination"
Daphne: No, I’m a resident alien here from England. You know, the country that used to own you people!
Martin: You’ll go right to the head of the line now(!)