Thoughts on Frasier

I grew up watching Frasier and love it to this day, but the show really went downhill once Niles and Daphne started dating. Part of the show's earlier seasons' appeal to me was the running gag of Niles being hopelessly smitten with the Manchester goddess but she never picking up on it, which made scenes such as this tango at a ball extra-special and hilarious since Daphne never saw that Niles was not 'acting' in his adoration for her. There will always be room in my heart for the pre-Niles & Daphne relationship Frasier, a brilliant sitcom full of witty pretentiousness, wholesome family values, and the rainy paradise known as Seattle. The satirical look at the showy, elitist Crane brothers was enlightening and an appreciated look at the upper middle-class and wealthy, instead of the usual derogatory perspectives on working-class, poor, and racial minorities one often encounters in American television and popular culture.