It Takes Two to Tangle

Infobox Television episode | Title = It Takes Two to Tangle
Series = Frasier
Season = 8
Episode = 17
Airdate = 27 March 2001
Production =
Writer = Rob Hanning
Director = Wil Shriner
Guests = Barbara Babcock (Penelope Janvier)
John Michael Higgins (William)
Prev = Docu. Drama
Next = Forgotten But Not Gone

"It Takes Two to Tangle" is the seventeenth episode in season 8 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

Bryce Academy is in danger of closure, and Frasier and Niles are desperate to find benefactors to help save their old school. Having no success with alumni, they decide to organise a party for some wealthy friends of theirs. Unfortunately, almost all the guests turn out to be short of funds themselves, but then the brothers espy Penelope Janvier, a rich widow with her own foundation. Martin meets her first, and she asks him out, much to his sons' surprise, although they realise this could prove useful to them. They are even more surprised some time later, when Martin returns from dinner with Penelope, and has another woman with him (Estelle). He announces that he plans to juggle the women, as he has seen Frasier do. This turns out not to be the only potential problem for the brothers, when they meet Penelope's obstructive son, William.

Episode title cards

*"The silver fox"
*"Check, please"

Memorable Quotations

"Niles distracts William while Frasier speaks to his mother about Bryce Academy"
Niles: I overheard one of the servers discussing a one-act play he wants your mother to produce.
William: Okay, which one?
Niles: I think it was something by Chekhov.

Trivia

*Daphne doesn't appear in this episode as Jane Leeves was on maternity leave.