Following the season finale of CHEERS in 1993, NBC decided to create a spin-off sitcom based off of the quirky psychiatrist named Frasier. The sitcom FRASIER is similar to SEINFELD in many ways, specifically in its characters FRASIER portrays as well as the humorous events based around the idea of the minutiae of daily life. In the beginning of the show, the main character, Frasier, had just moved to Seattle to host his own radio show and moves into an upper-class apartment in the city. Frasier’s apartment is one of the main settings for the show, as is the same for SEINFELD, and the place where the other main characters usually congregate. The other characters living close to Frasier are his father, Martin, who actually lives with Frasier, his competitive brother Niles, and his Niles’ love interest Daphne. The relationship Niles and Frasier share can be compared to the relationship between George and Jerry on SEINFELD. Frasier often takes advantage of Niles’ snobbish ways by making Niles the point of his jokes. They have a love-hate relationship that always makes the show enjoyable.
FRASIER also centers its show on the idea of the minutiae of daily life. For example, in the episode “Call Me Irresponsible,” Frasier deals with the dilemma of what to do when he encourages the boyfriend of a woman he is interested in to break up with her. He begins to date the woman when the ex-boyfriend wants to start the relationship again. We are all able to laugh at Frasier because we as the viewers are happy we are not in that situation.
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Okay, thanks. And how do Daphne and Martin compare to Elaine and Kramer? Are you making that comparison?
As for the direct comparison between Daphne and Martin, I was not necessarily comparing them to Ellaine and Kramer directly. The point I was trying to make by including Daphne and Martin in the blog was comparing the entire group in FRASIER to the main group of characters in SEINFELD. In SEINFELD, there is Jerry, George, and the lone female Ellaine. In comparison to FRASIER, of the main characters there is Frasier, Niles, Martin, and the lone female Daphne. I was trying to compare how FRASIER had created its main characters similar to SEINFELD by including 3 men and 1 female as main characters, not specific characters except for Niles and Frasier. I should have been more clear in my original blog.
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