Yahoo News The ‘Frasier’ Lifestyle Guide: What to Drive, Drink, and Wear That’s Worthy of the Crane Brothers
It’s Frasier Week at IndieWire. Grab some tossed salad and scrambled eggs, settle into your coziest easy chair, and join us. We’re listening.
“Quite stylish!” That lusty endorsement of high thread-count finery in the “Frasier” theme song sets the tone for the show. There have been few sitcoms ever to embrace the luxe life with quite such relish as the 11-season adventures of Frasier and Niles Crane (read our picks for the 18 best episodes here).
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IndieWire decided to celebrate the return of the one-time radio psychiatrist, with his new show on Paramount+, by diving into his must haves and must avoids. (And Niles’s as well, because if there’s anyone who may have even better taste than Frasier, it’s Niles.) Various fan blogs and Reddit threads have explored certain aspects of the Crane lifestyle, but none have really put them all in one place before. So we present: The Frasier Lifestyle Guide — what to drink, drive, and wear that’s worthy of the Crane brothers.
In fact, there’s even so much more we could have put here than in the slides below. For your apartment, there’s the necessity of having a gift-wrapping room, as Niles has at The Montana. If you have to “get your elbows done” it’s best to alight for Gstaad. For adventure, you should follow a hot air balloon from a recovery car while others take to the skies. Unless you’re wealthy enough to join Seattle’s Safari Club, which stages such treks as making base camp at Mt. Everest with its members then making their servants climb it while they hold a wine tasting. For athletics, it’s fencing lessons or taking to the squash court. And if you attend a basketball game, always remember to tie a white sweater jauntily around your neck. (Note to the wise at such a game, though: when you take your headphones off when someone asks you “What’s the score?” the answer is not “West Side Story.”)
The items here mentioned that are related to Niles or Maris are understandable insofar as Maris, as a urinal-cake heiress, is unfathomably rich. But a question has loomed over “Frasier” fandom for decades… how can Frasier himself afford his lifestyle? Luckily, legendary “Frasier” writer Joe Keenan helped address this question on Twitter in 2020: “How Frasier managed to live so well on the salary from a local market radio show was a question that inspired many an absurdist riff in the writers’ room. We decided he’d invested the money from his Boston practice *very* wisely (perhaps in a friend’s Seattle software start-up).”
Now it all makes sense! But good taste doesn’t require a fulsome bank balance. Check out IndieWire’s “Frasier” Lifestyle Guide below. And catch up on what happened in the original series run to prep for the new show here.
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