User Reviews

This episode sets up the events that will follow in the season finale "Something Borrowed, Someone Blue." Daphne enters therapy after causing a four-car pile-up after days of frustration and anxiety from various sources.

By the time of this episode, it is well established that Daphne has feelings for Niles but she cannot admit to them herself. Her feelings remain on a very subconscious level. In this episode, her husband-to-be Donny Douglas throws her a bridal shower but, unfortunately, he has invited Daphne's boorish brother Simon. He quickly gets on his sister's nerves and Frasier's, causing Daphne to become agitated and stressed.

Jane Leeves is brilliant in this episode. For a character who is so typically calm and collected, it's great to see a different side of Daphne and watch her work through a legitimate psychological battle. The ending of this episode really gets you pumped for the two-part season finale that follows this.

I watched Frasier for the first time during lockdown, a repeat run, and the only character that spoiled it for me was Daphne's brother Simon, who first appears in this episode. Did he fail his audition for The Simpsons?

Now watching a second repeat run and nothing's changed but I suppose there are viewers who like the character.

Maybe if there's a third repeat run I will get to like him

Update: and that's a no and no again and now I fast forward through any scenes with him in it.

Donny inadvertently invites Daphne's nightmare brother to her wedding shower. He is everyone's worst nightmare, boozing it up and invading Frasier's apartment. The show takes place as Daphne is doing anger management after causing a four car pileup. It is hard not to empathize with her.

For some reason Anthony La Paglia does a London mock cockney accent despite his family coming from Manchester. For those who don't know London and Manchester they are several hundred miles apart and with completely different vocal accents. La Paglia is hamming it up and his appearances, as well as Millicent Martin playing Daphne's mum who also does a London accent, spoil what is usually a very funny show.

Anthony Lapaglia's, 'Manchester' accent is laughable. This is sort of a cockney accent if it's anything. He ruins this episode and every one he appears in with the most appalling overacting and an accent that beggars belief. A, frankly, disgraceful performance for an otherwise decent actor. Shame on him for not even bothering to research this part and the fact that English accents are many and VERY varied.

The 1st bad Frasier. The guy who played Daphne's brother had the worst British accent since Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins. Supposed to be Mancunian, ha!!! Nothing like it, it was a very poor, overacted mock Cockney. This stuck out like a sore thumb, and really let the rest of the characters down. The only redeeming factor was the final scene when Daphne realised her true feelings for Niles. That was well acted, well written and head and shoulders above the rest of this trashy episode. To be honest, Jane Leeves' Mancunian accent is very poor too, I thought they had voice coaches in Hollywood or is that just a rumour?