The Club (Frasier episode)

Infobox Television episode | Title = The Club
Series = Frasier
Season = 2
Episode = 18


Caption = Niles being literally thrown out of the club
Airdate = 21 March 1995 U.S.
Production =
Writer = Elias Davis & David Pollock [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0582521/ "Frasier" The Club (1995) ] ]
Director = David Lee
Guests = Gary Sinise (Caller – Sid)
W. Morgan Sheppard (Mr Drake)
Jim Norton (Wentworth)
Prev = Daphne's Room
Next = Someone to Watch Over Me
Episode list = List of Frasier episodes (Season 2)

"The Club" is the eighteenth episode of the second season of American sitcom "Frasier", and the forty-second overall.

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

Niles arrives at KACL with news that makes Frasier insanely jealous: he has a chance to be accepted into the prestigious Empire Club, something he and Maris have been working to get into their whole married life. Frasier's jealousy eases when he is informed that a second opening has become available when another member was arrested. Niles and Frasier therefore decide the best way for the both of them to get into the club is for each to promote the other at the cocktail reception the club is holding to decide who should get in. Armed with the cards Niles has prepared on all the club's committee members, the two brothers are ready to go. Frasier's date calls to cancel so he decides to take Daphne instead.At the reception, the Crane brothers are doing well at promoting the other when they learn that only one place is available because the member who was arrested was acquitted and let back in. This sparks off the highly competitive streak in the brothers and so they start stabbing each other in the back with Niles telling the committee members about Frasier's suicide attempt and Frasier telling everyone about Niles being arrested for mooning the president. This leaves bad blood between the Crane brothers which is eased when Frasier finally apologises, which is soon followed by a call on Niles' mobile from the Club - Niles didn't get in, but Frasier did. This leaves Frasier feeling guilty for Niles because he has been working much harder than Frasier to get in and so he goes down to the Club to get them to take Niles instead of him. Over at Frasier's apartment, Niles learns from Martin what Frasier intends to do and is appalled, so he rushes down to the Club. The club president is informing Frasier that they didn't want Niles because he is a radio psychiatrist and just as Frasier is about to explain, Niles rushes in and says he doesn't want to be a member of the Club which leaves Niles to double back when Frasier informs him of their mistake but it is too late and the club president throws them both out.

Episode title cards

*"The Crane scrutiny"
*"He ain't heavy…he's my brother"

Memorable Quotations

"Niles is at KACL, telling Frasier of his intention to join the Empire Club"
Roz: You'll certainly fit right in with all those greedy, arrogant blue-bloods who wouldn't cross the street to "spit" on the rest of us.
Niles: Don't jinx it Roz; I'm not in yet.

"Martin recalls how, when his sons were children, each always wanted what the other had"
Martin: I had to buy two Balinese lutes, two découpage kits, two pairs of Lederhosen. When you finally moved out of the house, that was one embarrassing garage sale.

"The brothers are doing their best to make a good impression at the Club"
Frasier: I'm Dr Frasier Crane. This is my brother, Dr. Niles Crane, the eminent psychiatrist.
Niles: My brother is too kind. He was already eminent when my eminence was merely preeminent.

Trivia

* Niles, trying to gain entry to the club instead of Frasier, tells the members about the time Frasier threatened to commit suicide in Boston if Lilith left him in the "Cheers episode" "The Girl In The Plastic Bubble".
*This is the last episode written by Elias David and David Pollock.
*Niles once mooned U.S. President Richard Nixon.
*During the ending credits, the shadow of Eddie's trainer can be seen instructing him to beg.

References