Where There's Smoke There's Fired

Infobox Television episode | Title = Where There’s Smoke There’s Fired
Series = Frasier


Caption = Frasier discovering who Big Willy's fiancée is
Season = 3
Episode = 21
Airdate = 30 April 1996
Production =
Writer = Joe Keenan [ [http://www.tv.com/frasier/where-theres-smoke-theres-fired/episode/17021/summary.html Frasier: Where There's Smoke There's Fired - TV.com ] ]
Director = Philip Charles MacKenzie [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0582582/ "Frasier" Where There's Smoke, There's Fired (1996) ] ]
Guests = Richard Hamilton (Big Willy)
Bradford English (Hank)

Prev = Police Story
Next = Frasier Loves Roz
Episode list = List of Frasier episodes (Season 3)

"Where There’s Smoke There’s Fired" is the twenty-first episode of season 3 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

*Dan Butler – Bob 'Bulldog' Briscoe
*Harriet Sansom Harris – Bebe Glazer
*Edward Hibbert – Gil Chesterton

Plot outline

KACL has a new owner: an eighty-five year old Texas millionaire Wilford S. Boone, who likes to be called "Big Willy". Frasier learns that he owns 30 stations across the US, and could put Frasier's show into national syndication so begins a charm offensive with Big Willy. The millionaire, however, offers Frasier a chance to get into his good books early: he is about to marry his younger mistress, but she has a filthy habit: she smokes. Big Willy is going away for a long weekend, and says that if Frasier can cure her of her habit, the marriage can go ahead. Frasier agrees to try but doesn't realise how hard it is going to be until he meets Big Willy's bride-to-be: his agent Bebe Glazer.

Frasier forces Bebe to spend the weekend at his apartment to make sure she is not tempted, during which we learn that both Martin and Daphne used to smoke. They both try to convince her that she can quit her habit, but Bebe launches into a long speech on the pleasures of smoking which begins to weaken Martin and Daphne's resolve. She then catches Daphne having a quick cigarette on the balcony, and tries to blackmail her into giving her one, but Frasier catches her and then discovers Martin having one in the powder room and manages to persuade her that she should give up unless she wants to lose out on Big Willy's inheritance. Three weeks later is the wedding, but Big Willy has a fatal heart attack at the altar and despite Bebe's efforts to animatedly make him move, the wedding is cancelled. Frasier later consoles her at his house by saying she may yet find another Big Willy.

Episode Title Cards

*"Waiting to inhale"
*"Three smoke-free weeks later"

Memorable Quotations

"Niles needs $4000 for a footstool"
Martin: For $4000 bucks?! Niles, your mother and I didn't pay that much for our first house!
Niles: I know Dad; I lived there.

"Roz can't believe how Niles spends his money"
Roz: You spend money like a drunken sailor.
Niles: She said authoritatively.

"Frasier meets the new station owner, Wilford S. Boone"
Frasier: Don't be silly, Mr Boone.
Big Willy: Actually, I prefer Big Willy.
Frasier: Don't be silly, Big Willy.

"Niles doesn't believe Bebe can quit smoking on her own"
Niles: You obviously didn't see the crazed, cunning glint in her eyes.
Frasier: She always looks like that - she's an agent.

"Daphne tells Bebe she can just give up smoking with no withdrawal symptoms"
Bebe: You know there's a word for people like that. What is it? Oh yes, bitch!

"Frasier tells Bebe if she doesn't quit, she won't be his wife at the funeral"
Frasier: You'll be watching the widow Boone. Tiffany, perhaps, or better yet, Kelli with an I

Trivia

*KACL gets another new owner.
*Big Willy is a Texan millionaire, but Bulldog tells Gil that he's Greek. Gil then centres his show around Greece to impress the new owner.
* Niles assumes that to get hold of Bebe, you just draw a pentagram on the floor and chant, "I summon thee!" 3 times.
*Daphne also smoked back in Ep 27 "The Matchmaker".

References