71 Comments

"Kid, I like your style. With smarts like that, kid, you'll go far in this town. I also don't remember what town this is."

Expand full comment
Feb 25, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

I admit with some sheepishness that I would watch the hell out of this show, at least the first episode. Kind of like driving past a car crash, you don’t want to look but you’re sort of compelled.

Expand full comment
Feb 25, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

1. Who gives a fuck about Frazier?

2. Hate, hate, hate to say this, but I think that Roy should pull this post, think about the overlap between his vision here and the reality of Dr. Phil, and then make appropriate edits and repost. Roy has long proven he can out-satire reality and I don't that he managed to here.

Expand full comment
Feb 25, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

(Bebe, his former agent, is now serving a twenty-years-to-life sentence after literally stabbing one too many clients in the back over increased fees.)

Expand full comment
Feb 25, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Roy’s Frasier revival would be more on-topic than what I first imagined: the journeys of Scottish botanist John Fraser in the 18th century Appalachian mountains, discovering the iconic Fraser fir.

Expand full comment
Feb 25, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

In general, keeping Fraiser in a coma sounds like sound plotting, like, say, “General Hospital”..

So when this bombs, they can pitch a reboot of that: “Genital Hospital “.

Expand full comment

as so often happens with these vignettes, i find myself thinking, 'this is probably satire, and not simply a studio preview.' but if have to say that if this were pitched to some hollyweird mogul, there's a fair-to-good chance of it being made as presented here. it helps that i don't own a tv, and have never seen an episode of Frasier, because... Kelsey Grammer.

Expand full comment
Feb 25, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

I 100% guarantee this would be better than what we actually get.

Expand full comment
Feb 25, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Given that Kelsey Grammer is a Rightwing crank in real life, this should require no actual acting on his part.

Not that any previous appearances if his generated any real acting on his part.

Expand full comment
Feb 25, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Roz has meanwhile gone on the lam with money she fleeced out of Frasier while he was unconscious.

Shades of Psycho?

Expand full comment
Feb 25, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

I could actually see Kelsey Grammer going for this. The guy is talented and I liked Frasier (and Sideshow Bob), but his politics and privilege are repellent.

Brian Blessed as pseudo-Rasputin was a master stroke. If only Rik Mayall were around to play Bulldog’s brother Flash. [makes obscene gesture] “WOOF!”

Expand full comment
Feb 25, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Ok, I got more than a third of the way in until I realized: Roy has done it again; created a convincing narrative about a weird reboot of Frasier. Well, Frasier is indeed apparently returning via streaming and I would really love it if your imaginative and hilarious narrative was the real one. (I am also a long time fan of the booming voice of Brian Blessed and his larger than life presence.) We can always hope that it will the turn the way you have written but, alas, I doubt it.

Then again, you could always pitch your narrative to Kelsey Grammar and see how he responds. That would be funny in and of itself.

Expand full comment
Feb 25, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

"Assisted by Bulldog and his brother Niles, who has converted to Sufism and become a theocon (and divorced by Daphne, who has moved to Portland to join Rose City Antifa)"

I spit my coffee on that one!

Expand full comment
Feb 25, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

I'm afraid the actual show will inevitably be much less entertaining than this sounds

Expand full comment

I'm glad I missed Frazier the first time around. I will say I have a great idea for a sitcom called "Tucker" in which a TV fascist has a midlife crisis, gets a divorce, and moves to San Diego or someplace to live with his younger brother Buckley and their dad, a former ambassador to the Seychelles.

Expand full comment

Super extra points for including Brian Blessed.

Expand full comment