Frasier (TV Series)

Flour Child (1994)

Jane Leeves: Daphne Moon

Quotes 

• [on their way home, the boys have a small adventure helping their cab driver to deliver her baby] 

  Daphne : I can't wait to see what kinds of dreams I have after all this talk about childbearing. Probably that one where my mother shows up and says...

  [old lady voice] 

  Daphne : "Well, Daphne, you're fifty now and you've never given me grandchildren." Then I say, "That was my choice to make, Mum, I was thinking of my career." "Oh sure, your career, but did you ever think of me?" "Mother, I don't want to start this again, just drop it." "But will she drop it...?" "Oh shut up, mother!" "Don't talk to me like that, young lady...!"

  [exits] 

  Frasier : I wonder how many more people she's got in there with her.

• Daphne : [while Eddie is eating Niles' flour, which he is using to prove he can take care of a child]  That dingo's got your baby.

• Daphne : So I guess you've had some excitement tonight.

  Niles : [quickly]  No, I haven't.

  Daphne : Well, your father sure made it sound exciting on the phone... delivering a baby in a taxi.

  Niles : Oh, that. I don't think of that as excitement as much as my sworn duty to use those skills I honed in medical school.

  Frasier : Yes, Niles ran down to a falafel stand for a pot of hot water.

  Martin : What I can't get over is that feeling of being there right when a person's life begins. One minute, it's just this blob in some lady's stomach. Next minute, it's a person. Blob...

  [snaps his fingers] 

  Martin : ...person.

  Frasier : The miracle of birth summed up in one poetic phrase.