Flour Child
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Flour Child is the fourth episode of the second season of Frasier. It was orignally aired on 11th October, 1994.
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After witnessing a birth, Niles starts to contemplate the idea of becoming a parent himself. Frasier mentions in passing that schools often give teenagers who want to be a parent a bag of flour to look after and watch for a week, and Niles takes the idea seriously and decides to try it. Over the week, the baby is bumped, soaked, set on fire, poked with a chopstick, and finally gored by Eddie the dog.
Meanwhile, Frasier is asked to sign a card for a work colleague. He writes "Dear Clarence, you're not getting older, you're just getting closer to death", before finding to his horror that the card is not for a birthday - Clarence has had a kidney transplant. To avoid embarrassment he has to buy the exact same card, sneak into the hospital to get the old one back, and recreate everyone else's messages letter-for-letter. When returning the card he sees Clarence, who is delighted that Frasier "went to the trouble to visit when the rest of those bones didn't even send me a card".
One fondly-remembered joke involves Niles enthusiastically running into the kitchen and picking up a bag which says 'extra-refined'. and noting that "he [the baby] is taking after his old man already". Frasier interrupts him by saying that's the sugar, and he finds the flour, and reads that its packaging says "bleached, 100% fat free, best when kept in an airtight container. Seems like this one's taking after its mother", a reference to Niles' unseen wife Maris.
