Bla-Z-Boy

Infobox Television episode | Title = Bla-Z-Boy
Series = Frasier
Season = 9
Episode = 07
Airdate = 6 November 2001
Production = 40571-199
Writer = Jon Sherman
Director = Robert H. Egan
Guests = James Oliver (waiter)
Lamont Thompson (delivery man)
Prev = Room Full of Heroes
Next = The Two Hundredth

"Bla-Z-Boy" is the seventh episode in season 9 of American sitcom "Frasier". The title is a reference to Martin's reclining chair, which is a La-Z-Boy.

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

Over breakfast one morning, Martin happens to comment to Frasier that the day marks the eighth anniversary of the day that Martin moved in with him. The revelation makes Frasier unusually touchy, especially towards his father. His temper worsens when Martin accidentally spills oil over the carpet when trying to remedy a squeak in his recliner; Frasier irrationally views the accident as a deliberate act of hostility on Martin's part. He moves the furniture onto the balcony while the carpet is replaced, and the chair, positioned underneath a telescope in direct sunlight, catches fire. When the brothers notice, their efforts to put it out only serve to knock the chair off the balcony. Ill-disposed to take a positive view of the situation after Frasier's recent behaviour, Martin angrily accuses him of deliberately destroying the chair in retaliation. When the hostility between father and son reaches the point where the two are no longer speaking, Niles decides to use his experience as a couples therapist to mediate.

Daphne has expressed an interest in playing the piano, so Niles offers to give her lessons. He also agrees to teach Roz, who picks up the technique much more quickly than Daphne. Niles is willing to persevere with her, until he hears that she has been taught before, and her last teacher committed suicide.

Episode Title Cards

*"The recline and fall of Western civilization"
*"Knees off the keys please"

Cultural reference

During one of Niles' piano lessons, he plays a melody on top of Roz's arpeggio exercise and proclaims, "See, Daphne, that's a song!" The melody comes from the second movement of Mozart's "Piano Concerto No. 21" (K. 467).

Memorable Quotations

"Frasier and Niles are discussing their father, while the chair catches fire unnoticed"
Frasier: You know, I've been thinking of sending him someplace.
Niles: Like to a resort?
Frasier: Like to live with you.
Niles: Oh, yes. The last resort.

ee also

List of Frasier episodes