248 "Freudian Sleep"

Written by:
Lori Kirkland Baker

Directed by:
Cynthia J Popp

Regular Cast:
Frasier Crane
Niles Crane
Martin Crane
Daphne Crane
Roz Doyle
Ronee Lawrence
Eddie

Guest Cast:
Cable Woman (Christina Cindrich)

Fantasy Plumber (Suzanne Stokes)
Fantasy Martin (Audra Lynn)

Guest Callers:
None this episode.

Read the script of this episode here.

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Skyline: A crescent moon rises.

Plot: Frasier has had hardly any callers for the second day in a row, and is worried about his show. When he gets home, he finds out that Ronee and Martin are going away to the mountains for a weekend. When Martin invites Eddie along, Frasier thinks he is being invited and gladly accepts. Ronee isn't too happy about this, and when she says a sarcastic remark about inviting Niles and Daphne too Niles overhears and also gladly accepts!

At the cabin, everyone has some very strange dreams. Frasier dreams that he killed Niles and married Daphne, who is now expecting his baby. Waking up, Frasier tells Niles about the dream and Niles merely laughs it off, saying that Frasier is just jealous of him. Frasier then has another dream where he has had no callers for 6 months. A phone rings - it's a caller, but there are lots of phones in the studio and they are all ringing! Again, Frasier wakes up in a sweat.

Niles meanwhile is dreaming about him and the baby. He is trying to look after it but fails, smashing the baby into pieces after nearly cooking it in a pie! Daphne dreams that she can't get rid of the baby fat and that Niles no longer finds her beautiful, and he is now sleeping with other women. The family all meet in the kitchen and argue about each others dreams, and Martin comes in to reassure them the dreams mean nothing. Frasier may be alone but he has his family. Niles is worried about being a bad father - just like every father in the world. Daphne may lose her looks, but then again everyone does after having a baby. It's now Martin's turn to dream. He and Ronee burst into song to reassure the others that everything will be OK. Unlike everyone else, Martin sleeps peacefully.

Subtitles: My Brother's Reaper; Sweeney Tot; It's Enough To Wake The Dad.

Trivia: Ronee makes her first appearance since Ep 240 "I'm Listening". A very peculiar episode, this one, as a lot of it is all a dream by various characters - even Eddie gets a dream during the credits as Ronee gives him a very large turkey! There's a mention of Kenny during Frasier's second dream. And there is a scene where Roz has to pretend to be a caller named Susan, who has just moved from Texas - in real life, Peri Gilpin is from Waco, Texas!

 

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