It's not a bad half hour of TV but by Frasier's standards, the dream sequences in particular make for a poor episode with very simplistic themes and not a huge number of actual laughs. However, on a recent rewatch I noticed that the first 10 minutes of this episode (before they get to the cabin, essentially) is brilliant and could easily take place in any of the first few seasons. Running out of Sherry is among the great Frasier gags, full stop, and Grammer's delivery of the line "her honesty was not refreshing" is among his most hilarious. If only once they reached the cabin we got something of the calibre of the Ski Lodge.
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An offbeat episode
martynwithaysmith23 March 2022
This works well I think up to the point that Martin delivers his 'concentrate on the good stuff' speech. I just hate that reactionary view that fears should not be confronted and examined but just swept under the carpet.
I Loved It
Hitchcoc6 November 2019
It doesn't hurt to stretch your legs once in a while and have an episode that slips into the surreal. In this one, the whole gang ends up in a rustic cabin, but sleep isn't easy and each his his or her own dream sequence. I was reminded for a moment of the British series, "The Prisoner."
Y'all folks are bananas.
phd-inmetal13 April 2021
A Total Miss
Foxbarking19 August 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Having as many episodes as Frasier has, it is understandable that there are going to be some bad episodes. Having said that, there are not really very many. The show was always of such an outstanding quality that they rarely put on a bad episode or even a sub par episode. "Freudian Sleep," however is likely the worst miss ever.
In this show, Ronee and Martin are going to a cabin to spend a weekend. While speaking to Eddie, Frasier mistakenly thinks that Martin invited him and he is so thankful that Martin cannot explain. Ronee makes the same mistake talking to Martin and it ends up having Frasier, Daphne and Niles tagging along.
The rest of the episode involves the characters having bizarre nightmares. Fraiser dreams he kills Niles in a wheat thresher and marries Daphne. Niles has an awkward dream where he can't take care of the baby and Daphne (totally off screen) criticizes and threatens him. Daphne, in turn dreams that she is fat and Niles is sleeping around. The dream sequences are dreadful, not amusing and just way over the top. Martin is the only one who has a dream that makes him happy.
I am not sure what the writers were thinking about this one. The only part that is slightly clever is that since we never see Daphne in Niles's dream, even though she keeps telling him she is coming to the room he is in, shows that Niles has a fear that Daphne will end up being a wife similar to Maris. Other than that, there is no creativity in this episode and it's a shame.
In this show, Ronee and Martin are going to a cabin to spend a weekend. While speaking to Eddie, Frasier mistakenly thinks that Martin invited him and he is so thankful that Martin cannot explain. Ronee makes the same mistake talking to Martin and it ends up having Frasier, Daphne and Niles tagging along.
The rest of the episode involves the characters having bizarre nightmares. Fraiser dreams he kills Niles in a wheat thresher and marries Daphne. Niles has an awkward dream where he can't take care of the baby and Daphne (totally off screen) criticizes and threatens him. Daphne, in turn dreams that she is fat and Niles is sleeping around. The dream sequences are dreadful, not amusing and just way over the top. Martin is the only one who has a dream that makes him happy.
I am not sure what the writers were thinking about this one. The only part that is slightly clever is that since we never see Daphne in Niles's dream, even though she keeps telling him she is coming to the room he is in, shows that Niles has a fear that Daphne will end up being a wife similar to Maris. Other than that, there is no creativity in this episode and it's a shame.
Worst episode of the entire series
KalpeshHemant418 July 2020
Freudian Sleep
studioAT13 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
'Frasier' has produced some very good episodes since the golden era ended in Series seven, but the decline has been clear.
This episode well and truly goes off the edge of the quality diving board, by not only having a run of terrible dream sequence but also a horrible musical number. Bless him, John Mahoney (RIP) didn't have much of a singing voice, did he?
Annoyingly it starts well, almost like it was going to play out like a classic 'Frasier' farce. And then...rubbish.
I can see why at this late stage of the game the writer were open to such experiments, but this falls flat. Hugely.
The return of Lloyd and Keenan initially prompted a run of good episodes, and a bit of a return to form, but in recent episodes it seems they've come to the same conclusion as their predecessors - this show has simply run its course by this point.
This episode well and truly goes off the edge of the quality diving board, by not only having a run of terrible dream sequence but also a horrible musical number. Bless him, John Mahoney (RIP) didn't have much of a singing voice, did he?
Annoyingly it starts well, almost like it was going to play out like a classic 'Frasier' farce. And then...rubbish.
I can see why at this late stage of the game the writer were open to such experiments, but this falls flat. Hugely.
The return of Lloyd and Keenan initially prompted a run of good episodes, and a bit of a return to form, but in recent episodes it seems they've come to the same conclusion as their predecessors - this show has simply run its course by this point.
Frasier's "jumping the shark" episode
simonsaharasolar30 April 2019
Warning: Spoilers
This "filler" episode looks like knowing the show was finishing the writers were simply getting to the end of the season and going through the motions. It's clearly one of the worst episodes if not the worst. The dream scenes are hard to get through and the final one where Martin is trying to be Fred Astaire is just embarrassing. If they had their time over I'll bet this aberration would get tossed like the salad with a usual serving of poignant hilarity in it's place.
I agree with another reviewer
jpapanone5 June 2021
The beginning of the episode was fine.
But the rest, eh.
I find that Frasier does/did a very good job of making the mundane, fun. Getting coffee...having a wine or sherry...just the little back and forth of daily life, they made fun and interesting and entertaining. And doing that, they would be able to set up whatever they were going to set up.
So...set ups are usually fine, it's just the payoff...what they do with it that makes or breaks the episode.
So I have no problem with them going "out on a limb" and trying something a little different with this episode. Doesn't always work. And this one just wasn't for me.
Nothing wrong with it, but it is a little off the beaten path.
Never know what you'll find down there, and sometimes what you find, isn't that great.
And even though it was in the closing minutes of the show...and didn't last very long...the little song and dance number at the end did nothing for me. But I don't like that kind of stuff. So again...fine. Just not for me.
But the rest, eh.
I find that Frasier does/did a very good job of making the mundane, fun. Getting coffee...having a wine or sherry...just the little back and forth of daily life, they made fun and interesting and entertaining. And doing that, they would be able to set up whatever they were going to set up.
So...set ups are usually fine, it's just the payoff...what they do with it that makes or breaks the episode.
So I have no problem with them going "out on a limb" and trying something a little different with this episode. Doesn't always work. And this one just wasn't for me.
Nothing wrong with it, but it is a little off the beaten path.
Never know what you'll find down there, and sometimes what you find, isn't that great.
And even though it was in the closing minutes of the show...and didn't last very long...the little song and dance number at the end did nothing for me. But I don't like that kind of stuff. So again...fine. Just not for me.
Hated it
kerrincahill-197-7658825 April 2021
The worst Episode of the whole 11 seasons. I only watched an occasional episode when it was first on TV. I am now watching from the beginning. I am upset I only have 10 episodes to go.. I hope it is true about the reboot.
Wish it would be erased from my mind
suzexf-122 January 2023
The fat shaming in this episode is so disgusting. I just wonder how writers who came up with such wonderful episodes, even when the series was winding down, could come up with such sophomoric and insulting humor. I, also, wonder how the cast performed it. I found nothing funny or charming or entertaining about it. This is my favorite show and there were a few episodes I didn't like and, now, will skip over. I can tolerate those episodes, though. This one I cannot. I never liked when the show used physical attributes as insulting humor, which it did at times. An embarrassingly horrible episode.
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