IQ (Frasier episode)

Infobox Television episode | Title = IQ
Series = Frasier
Season = 6
Episode = 19
Airdate = 8 April 1999
Production =
Writer = Rob Hanning & Jay Kogen
Director = David Lee
Guests = Carolee Carmello (Jody)
Joseph Lindgren (Dr. Zafrin)
Prev = Taps at the Montana
Next = Dr. Nora
Episode list = List of Frasier episodes (Season 6)"IQ" is the nineteenth 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

Recurring cast

*Patrick Kerr – Noel Shempsky

Plot outline

Niles, Frasier, Martin and Roz attend a silent auction for the Kelly Anne Grunther Foundation. Martin puts into place a scheme to allow him to acquire a gas barbecue for the lowest bid possible; he claims it was recalled due to dangerous design flaws. Roz attempts to prevent Noel Shempsky from winning the "day behind the scenes of the "Dr. Frasier Crane Show", by flirting with a young woman who is bidding because she's attracted to Roz. Niles stumbles upon an auction for a luncheon with three Nobel Laureates, and soon finds himself bidding against Frasier. When the auction closes, Niles has the highest bid, but a second seat at the table is opened up as long as Frasier can match him. The two brothers are aghast to realise that they have paid over $8,000 for a lunch.

Later that night, over sherry in Frasier's apartment, Niles and Frasier ask themselves where their harsh sibling rivalry originated, and reminisce about how they once took IQ Tests while they were younger. Their mother never told them the answers; only that they were 2 points apart. In an effort to bring closure to their rivalry once and for all, Martin reluctantly agrees to show them the results, and it soon transpires that whilst Frasier has an IQ level of 129, Niles has the larger IQ: 156. At first, their responses are mature and non-competitive, but their true feelings cannot be concealed for long.

The brothers attempt to outdo each other by studying all night in a university library. Frasier drinks a great deal of coffee to stay awake, and Niles takes some allergy medicine to deal with his "dust mite" problem. The medicine makes him dopey, and he proceeds to pass out at the luncheon table, destroying everything, just as the Nobel Laureates walk into the room.

Episode Title Cards

*"Frasier and Niles discover whose is bigger"

Memorable Quotations

"Daphne is in the middle of an online conversation with Donny, and asks Niles what he is saying now"
Niles: Er, "I can't wait to come home and see my wittle Engwish cwumpet". Apparently he has some sort of typing impediment.

"Frasier and Niles decide to find out their IQs after all these years"
Niles: Dad, do you know what our IQs are?
Martin: No, but I got a pretty good idea at that auction tonight!

"As soon as Niles has left, Frasier decides that he must not be upstaged at the lunch on account of his IQ"
Frasier: Niles will be sitting there rambling on with the geniuses about the cosmos, black holes, matter, antimatter, and I won't matter at all!