Another comedy of errors where someone gets the wrong idea and makes a complete fool out of themselves before they learn the truth, as happened so often on this show. Usually it's Frasier who screws up but Niles is the bungler this time. Roz tells Frasier she may be pregnant. She's depressed so Frasier invites her to a Halloween party that Niles is having in his building. Daphne, Martin, Bulldog, and Gil are along for the fun also. A tipsy Niles overhears a conversation between Daphne and Frasier about Roz and Niles thinks that Frasier has gotten Daphne in "the family way." From then on, when he hears the rude way that Frasier talks to Daphne, he is livid and keeps trying to confront Frasier only to be constantly interrupted or brushed aside.
It's a literary costume party and everyone comes dressed as a character from a book. Roz, I guess feeling this might be her last chance to dress in ANY costume if she turns out to be pregnant, comes dressed as "O" from the erotic book, "The Story of O," and, my gosh, she has never looked so smashing. I think this is the most svelte she's every been on the show and dressed in a tight-fitting leather outfit she should have turned the head of every man at the party but that doesn't come into the plot.
Frasier keeps trying to pick up a woman dressed as Eve in a nude body suit, and is aggravated whenever Daphne or Niles interrupts him. Niles almost goes nuclear when he hears Frasier trying to pick up this woman instead of caring for Daphne. The dialogue that Niles hears all the way through is so funny and his frantic shaking and bugged-out eyes, along with his dialogue account for one of David Hyde Pierce's best performances on this series. I have to address what everyone is saying about Kelsey Grammar's then-wife Camille as Eve: No, she doesn't appear to be a good actress but in the limited time she's on the episode, it's hard to tell if she's a rotten actress, for goodness sake! She neither makes nor breaks the episode. She's just there, says a few lines, then she's gone. No big deal. Count this as another one for my Top Ten episodes..
It's a literary costume party and everyone comes dressed as a character from a book. Roz, I guess feeling this might be her last chance to dress in ANY costume if she turns out to be pregnant, comes dressed as "O" from the erotic book, "The Story of O," and, my gosh, she has never looked so smashing. I think this is the most svelte she's every been on the show and dressed in a tight-fitting leather outfit she should have turned the head of every man at the party but that doesn't come into the plot.
Frasier keeps trying to pick up a woman dressed as Eve in a nude body suit, and is aggravated whenever Daphne or Niles interrupts him. Niles almost goes nuclear when he hears Frasier trying to pick up this woman instead of caring for Daphne. The dialogue that Niles hears all the way through is so funny and his frantic shaking and bugged-out eyes, along with his dialogue account for one of David Hyde Pierce's best performances on this series. I have to address what everyone is saying about Kelsey Grammar's then-wife Camille as Eve: No, she doesn't appear to be a good actress but in the limited time she's on the episode, it's hard to tell if she's a rotten actress, for goodness sake! She neither makes nor breaks the episode. She's just there, says a few lines, then she's gone. No big deal. Count this as another one for my Top Ten episodes..
