Dinner Party (Frasier episode)

Infobox Television episode | Title = Dinner Party
Series = Frasier
Season = 6
Episode = 17
Airdate = 11 March 1999
Production =
Writer = Jeffrey Richman
Director = David Lee
Guests =
Prev = Decoys
Next = Taps at the Montana
Episode list = List of Frasier episodes (Season 6)

"Dinner Party" is the seventeenth episode in season 6 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

Frasier decides to hold a dinner party, and there is lots to plan. First, he and Niles have to find a date on which they are both available, and subsequently persuade Martin to reschedule his poker game. Next, they have to find a good caterer. Then they must finalise a guest list, and to save argument they choose using a blackballing system. Once all these are sorted, they can start inviting people. Unfortunately, when the Walburts ring back to accept the invitation, the answering machine takes the message, and Frasier and Niles hear the couple talking about them before they realise they are still connected. This leads the brothers to worry that their friends see them rather like a married couple themselves. Also, they hear Allison Walburt say to her husband, "You get the one [Dr Crane] , you get that other one", and this leads them to wonder which one she is referring to as "that other one". And this is just the beginning of their problems.

Episode Title Cards

*"The dinner party"

Memorable Quotations

"Frasier presents his idea for a dinner party to Niles, saying he wants to get to know Jean and Hollis Ashley better"
Niles: They remind me of Maris and me when we were happy.
Frasier: Really? I must have been sick that day.

"The message from the Walburts start Frasier and Niles arguing about who "that other one" refers to"
Niles: This is absurd! Why don't we just call Allison up and ask her what she thinks is so strange about us? We can both get on an extension.
Frasier: Better yet, why don't we just get on a bicycle built for two, ride over there and ask her what's so strange about us(!)

"Nina Duncan has phoned to announce that the Joaquín she will be bringing is her foster child"
Niles: So, he's not the conductor of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic?
Frasier: Oh, you "are so" "that other one"!