You may have wondered where the producers got the title of an episode from. It may sound similar to a phrase you know, or it just may seem strange. This section will list the titles with their backgrounds.

• This is the name of a film starring Ted Danson. May not be a direct reference, but it did come out in 1993 (same year as the episode), so it may have been an influence at the time. (tw)

• A series of videogames bear this title. (The double meaning, of course, refers to Frasier's attempts to find some peace and personal space.) (tw)

• Based on the 1933 film of the same name starring John and Lionel Barrymore. (gt)
• A Cheers episode was also called "Dinner At Eight-ish", one of Kelsey's favourites. (mc)

• Famous quote from Casablanca, as well as a pretty general cliched toasting phrase. (tw)

• Very famous play by Arthur Miller. (tw)

• Based on the saying "Call me irresistible." (sw)

• Title of a film from 1959. (tw)

• Based on the movie Death Becomes Her. (sw)

• Based on the Christmas movie Miracle On 34^th Street starring Richard Attenborough and Mara Wilson in the 1994 remake of the classic film. (gt)

• Based on the Beatles song of the same name. (gt)

• Based on the saying "you can't tell a book by its cover", meaning appearances aren't everything. (gt)

• Based on the Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream. (gt)

• Based on the saying "and the winner is..." (jl)

• An expression calling for the death penalty, in reference to the electric chair. (tw)

• Based on the TV show thirtysomething. (mc)

• Based on the film Travels With My Aunt, in which Maggie Smith, an eccentric aunt, has to journey with her nephew. (sw)

• Apparently there are two films titled Author! Author!, one from 1915 and the other from 1982 (which is the one with Al Pacino in that people have actually heard of.) (tw)

• Based on the 1988 movie Ferris Beuller's Day Off, starring Matthew Broderick as a guy who takes his best friend and girlfriend on a road trip instead of going to school. (gt)

• Based on the 1981 film, My Dinner With Andre. (tw)

• A phrase from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", Act 3 Scene 3. (Actually the phrase was "the most unkindest cut of all", but it's one of those occasions where the best-known version is slightly different from the accurate version.) (tw)

• Based on "flower child", another name for hippies. (sw)

• Often said regretfully in remembrance of people who have died - "XXXX, we hardly knew ye". Now the phrase is applied to just about anything that isn't around anymore. (tw)

• Based on 1991 TV series Lost Language of Cranes, starring Angus MacFadyen and Brian Cox about a young gay who comes out of the closet and finds his parents aren't happy with it. (gt)

• There are films with this title from 1964 and 1972, but a title like that could easily be from somewhere else as well. (Also a 1997 version, but that's ruled out because the episode was made earlier than that.) (tw)

• Probably not a direct reference, but there was a TV series from 1959-62 bearing this name. (tw)

• Expression referring to a position of authority. (tw)

• Based on the saying "fool mw once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me." (jl)

• Based on the saying "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" meaning "you help me, I'll help you." (gt)

• Based on the song of the same name. (sw)

• Expression meaning to do something in order to break a silence at the beginning of a conversation. (tw)

• Based on the 1957 film An Affair To Remember. (tv)

• Based on the title of the play, Angels in America Parts One and Two. (tm)
• Could also be a reference to the fact that this is Bebe's third appearance. (gt)

• Based on the 1939 film of the same name. (tw)

• Possibly based on the TV show Who's The Boss?. (sw)

• Based on "Shrink wrap", a type of plastic. (sw)

• Based on Sinatra's song My Way. Sinatra features in this episode. (gt)

• General exclamation, usually one of surprise. Phrase has also been used for many other things, but as far as I know they're all referring to this too. (tw)

• Name of a song, but has been done by a few people and I can't find out who originally sang it. (tw)

• Based on a Julia Roberts movie of the same name. (sw)

• Based on the film The Last Time I Saw Paris. (gt)

• Reference to the popular children's Christmas book How the Grinch Stole Christmas, by Dr. Seuss. (tw)

• Based on Sinatra's song Come Fly With Me. (sw)

• Possibly the 1995 film Moon Dance. (tw)

• Based on the phrase 'A word to the wise', meaning to give advice. A 'wiseguy' can be used as a term for a gangster or Mafia boss. (tw)

• A proverb; when one is advised to 'look before you leap', they are being cautioned against doing something blindly without taking account of the consequences. (tw)

• Based on "chest pains". (jl)

• Based on the film Kramer Vs Kramer. (gt)

• Title of a 1973-1977 TV series. (tw)

• Based on the saying "Where there's smoke there's fire." (fh)

• Based on the phrase "You can't go home again" meaning things can't go back to the way they were. (tv)

• Film title The Two Mrs Carrolls (1972) starring Humphrey Bogart. (tw)

• Based on the song of the same name. (sw)
• A 2 part Cheers episode was also called "The Improbable Dream" (tw)

• A game or situation in which the person is required to use their intelligence. (tw)

• In tennis, where two people are playing on each side of the net, one male and one female. (tw)

• Based on the line from the traditional version of the Lord's Prayer "Our Father, who art in heaven." (gt)

• The alternative spelling and meaning of "wine", which like "sherry" is a drink. (gt)

• The name of a film released around the time the episode aired. (tw)
• Also both could be a reference to the old childhood taunt, "Liar, liar, pants on fire". (tw)

• Based on the film Three Days Of The Condor (1975) starring Fay Dunaway (gt, correction by tm)

• Based on the film Two For The Seesaw starring Robert Mitchum. (gt)

• Based on To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. (gt)

• Based on two characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. (gt)
• Tom Stoppard also made a play, Rosencrantz & Guildernstern Are Dead. (sw)
• The line "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead" actually appears in Hamlet (tm).

• Based on The Natural, a baseball movie. (sw)

• An archaic type of radio. (tw)
• Also the word 'ham' can be used in reference to bad acting, creating a lovely double entendre. (tw)

• Possibly based on the film Four Weddings & A Funeral, starring Hugh Grant. (gt)
• Possibly based on the film Three Men & A Baby, starring Ted Danson. (tw)

• Based on the classic British sitcom of the same name. (sw)

• Based on the phrase "Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies". (tv)

• A phrase in fairly common useage, and apparently a 1947 film as well. (tw)

• Possibly comes from the phrase "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" (tv)

• Based on the 1960 horror film Village of the Damned. (tw)

• Based on the musical My Fair Lady. (sw)
• A Cheers episode was also called "My Fair Clavin" (gt)

• Based on Desperately Seeking Susan, a film starring Madonna. (sw)

• Based on "marriage counsellor". (tw)

• Possibly from the film by Marx Brothers (1938) with the same title. The plots have something in common: people hiding from other people in hotel rooms. (mk)

• Based on the saying "Beware of Greeks baring gifts." (sw)

• Expression of disapproval at a pet dog. (tw)

• Based on the film She's Gotta Have It (1986). (tw)

• Used to describe someone at a party for various different reasons, usually because they are the most interesting or entertaining. Going into labour at a party gives the phrase a more literal meaning, of course. [I also love the way Roz's pregnancy was announced at one party, and she went into labour during another...] (tw)

• Pretty much the equivalent of "Good night". (tw)

• Could be based on Charlie Brown's saying in Peanuts. (jl)

• Based on the Hitchcock movie Dial M For Murder, where a woman, like Martin in this episode, thinks someone is trying to kill her. (gt)

• An event (usually sports) to which a ticket would be particularly desirable. (tw)

• A common phrase used in the context of medical ethics. (tw)

• Possibly based on the film How To Marry A Millionaire. (gt)

• Based on the film The Man Who Came To Dinner. (sw)

• A play on the word "alone" to make "a loan", something which Roz gets this episode. (gt)

• Based on the phrase used to refer to someone who is very charitable, originating from the parable of the good Samaritan in the Bible. (tw)

• Another phrase in common use with a literal meaning, usually used by people when they're about to talk frankly. (tw)

• Based on your IQ which measures how intelligent you are - the Crane brothers' IQs play a key part in this episode.(gt)
• Possibly based on the film IQ (1994)? (tw)

• Both the character Dr Nora and the title of this episode are based on American agony aunt Dr Laura Schlesinger, who often has very controversial views, just like Nora. (jl)

• Based on the song When A Man Loves A Woman. (gt)

• Based on the phrase "Mama mia!!!" - here Frasier's girlfriend Mia looks like his late mum Hester. (gt)

• Based on the 1991 film starring Steve Martin. (tw)

• Possibly based on the phrase "everyone's a cynic" (tv)
• Also a phrase often used to defend something in the face of criticism. (tw)

• Based on The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, a horror movie. (sw)

• Based on the saying "A star is born" - the episode involves Russian royalty. (gt)

• Based on the film The Parent Trap, starring Hayley Mills (original) and Lindsay Lohan (remake) as twin sisters who try to get their parents back together. (gt)

• Another term for a rude retort. (tw)

• Based on Clement Clark Moore's poem The Night Before Christmas. (gt)

• Yet another phrase, usually referring to when people (e.g. couples) take a liking to a particular song and call it "their" song. (tw)

• The popular kid at college is called "big man on campus". (tw)

• Another phrase, literally meaning being taken out by your father (in the parental sense, that is). (tw)
• Also based on the phrase "coming out of the closet" when you reveal to your friends and family you are gay. (gt).

• Based on the film There's Something About Mary starring Cameron Diaz. (gt)

• A play on the word "wine". (gt)

• A phrase used to refer to police chases. (tw)

• Based on Morning Becomes Electra. (sw)

• Based on a Shakespeare quote, Hamlet Act 1 Scene 3. (tv, correction by tw)

• Based on the films The Three Faces Of Eve (1957) or Three Faces Of A Woman (1965). (gt)
• A Cheers episode was also called "The Two Faces Of Norm" (gt)

• Based on a well-known LP record of the same name by Pink Floyd, released in 1973 (mk)

• Based on the wedding tradition, "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue". (jl)

• Based on the nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle which contains the line above. A reference to Niles and Daphne running off together. (gt)

• The opposite of the pilot episode, "The Good Son". (gt)
• In the first episode, Frasier is referred to as the Good Son by taking Martin in instead of sending him to a rest home. Hence, the fact that he almost actually ends up in a rest home in this episode would account for the title reversal. (tw)

• Based on the Great Train Robbery in the Sixties, where over £1 million was stolen from a Royal Mail train. (gt)

• Comes from the phrase "tender love and care" (TLC) but here legal is Abby the lawyer and tender being the money she's asking for. (tv)

• D'uh!!! :-) (gt)

• Based on the phrase, "the razor's edge". (tw)

• Based on the saying "The show must go on" which means things must go as planned despite a setback (ie the lead actor falling ill on the first performance). (gt)

• Based on the movie Sliding Doors starring Gwynneth Paltrow. (gt)

• Based on the song of the same name by Bruce Springsteen (mk)

• Based on the saying "It takes two to tango" meaning both people are responsible. (gjt, correction by tw)

• Based on the phrase "gone but not forgotten". (tv)

• Based on the book The Wizard Of Oz. (gt)

• Based on the film Indecent Proposal. (gt)

• Possibly based on the film 7 Days In May (1964) based on the book of the same name (gt)

• Possibly based on Martin Scorsese's film, The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). (tw)

• Based on the film The Return Of Martin Guerre. (gt)

• Based on the make of Martin's chair, La-Z Boy. (gt)

• Based on the saying "Bully for you." (tv)

• Based on the phrase 'motherload', meaning a tremendous amount of something. (tw)

• Based on the gameshow Wheel Of Fortune. (gt)

• Based on the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice. (gt)

• Based on H G Wells' book The War Of The Worlds about an alien invasion from Mars. (gt)

• Possibly from the John Lennon lyrics to the Beatles' Abbey Road album, "The love you take is equal to the love you make". (tw)

• Could have been chosen due to Cliff saying "goodbye", and Frasier meeting everyone from Cheers. (gt)
• Also based on the phrase "tearful goodbyes" (tw)

• Based on the saying "Frasier has spoken", changed to Spokane because this town is important to the episode. (gt)

• Based on "the moon over Seattle", changed due to Daphne's parents being in Seattle. (gt)

• Based on an opera of the same name. (gt)

• Based on the film Enemy At The Gates, starring Jude Law. (gt)

• A kissing cousin is a distant relative known well enough to be kissed when greeted. (tw)

• Based on the 1972 film of the same name. (gt)

• A cross between Star Trek and a bar mitzvah, which Frederick has in this episode. (gt)

• Based on the song Whistle While You Work, from Disney's Snow White And The 7 Dwarfs. (gt)

• From the phrase "a room with a view". (tw)

• Based on the Elton John song of the same name. (tw)

• Based on the Christmas carol We Three Kings. (gt)

• Literally referring to a jammed door. (tw)

• Possibly based on the sex film Debbie Does Dallas? (fi)

• A "trophy girlfriend" is an attractive girlfriend who is only kept around by the man in order to impress people. (tw)

• "Schwinns" is a popular brand of bike in the USA. (mc)

• Based on the movie Road To Perdition, starring Tom Hanks and Jude Law. (gt)
• The movie was itself based on a graphic novel. (tw)

• Based on Steven Vincent Benet's short story, The Devil and Daniel Webster. (tw)
• Also references the numerous times when Bebe has been referred to as the devil. (gt)

• Based on the 1971 mini-series, the 1986 TV series and the 1992 movie, all called "Fathers And Sons" (although all were unconnected). (gt)

• Based on the play No Sex Please, We're British. (gt)

• This could be based on the comic strip Peanuts. Lucy Van Pelt was often a "psychiatrist" and Charlie Brown would go to her for advice. The wooden box she used for a "office" always had a label saying "The Doctor Is In". (gt)
• Also based on "coming out of the closet" when you reveal to your family and friends you are gay. (mc)

• Based on Frasier's own catchphrase for his radio show! (mc)

• Could be based on Ep 183 "Daphne Returns"… J (gt)

• Based on the play Murder Most Horrid. (gt)

• Based on the band Guns ‘N’ Roses. (gt)

• Based on the saying "heebie jeebies" (mc)

• Based on the saying "Freudian slip", where Sigmund Freud suggests that when you say one thing after intending to mean another, subconsciously you meant to say the thing you said anyway. (mc)

• Based on the game "chutes and ladders". (mc)
• (That's "snakes and ladders" for us Brits!) (gt)

• A game arranged as a test of superiority. (tw)

• Based on the saying "And baby makes three". (gt)
• A Cheers episode was also called "And Coachie Makes Three". (mc)

• Based on the name of this website! (gt)
• Which in turn is based on what Frasier says at the end of the credits in many episodes - "Goodnight Seattle, we love ya!" (gt)