The Candidate (Frasier)

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Frasier season two September 1994 - May 1995 List of Frasier episodes

Episodes: Slow Tango in South Seattle The Unkindest Cut of All The Matchmaker Flour Child Duke's We Hardly Knew Ye' The Botched Language of the Cranes The Candidate Adventures in Paradise (Part I) Adventures in Paradise (Part II) Burying a Grudge Seat of Power Roz in the Doghouse Retirement Is Murder Fool Me Once, Shame On You... You Scratch My Book... The Show Where Sam Shows Up Daphne's Room The Club Someone to Watch Over Me Breaking the Ice An Affair to Forget Agents in America, Part III The Innkeepers Dark Victory

The Candidate is the seventh episode of season 2 of Frasier. It was orignally aired on the 8th November 1994.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 2.1 Recurring Cast 2.2 Guest Stars 3 Trivia

[edit] Plot

Frasier is disappointed that his dad Martin has recorded a promotional video for Congress candidate Holden Thorpe, of whose policies Frasier disapproves. As a result, Niles suggests that he publicly supports rival Phil Patterson. Frasier is reluctant to publicly take sides in politics due to his public position, but when Thorpe demeans him on the radio show, Frasier agrees.

The problem is that Patterson confides in Frasier that six years earlier he was abducted by aliens. When Frasier attempts to record his speech (including "I like the way [Phil's] mind works. He's a visionary, and he cares about the little people") he loses his cool.

Niles realises something is wrong, and gets Frasier to tell him what Phil said (using a trick to get around their professional ethics). Niles manages to make Frasier see that it isn't something which destroys him as a politician, so the shoot goes ahead.

The day before the election, Bulldog (a Thorpe supporter) storms into the studio laughing that people have found out about the aliens. Frasier attempts to rescue what he feels the situation is, by telling the public that belief in aliens is not stupid. Unfortunately for him, the 'aliens' in question were Guatemalan children without green cards or papers. Phil later explains that they were exchange students he put up as a gesture. Thorpe wins on a landslide.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Recurring Cast

• Bob 'Bulldog' Briscoe - Dan Butler

[edit] Guest Stars

• Phil Patterson - Boyd Gaines
• Holdren Thorpe - Sydney Pollack

[edit] Trivia

Although it is not explicitly stated, it appears that Thorpe is a Republican or similar, and Patterson a Democrat, as Thorpe criticises single people and draft-dodgers, and is tough on crime but (according to Frasier) has economic policies likely to cause poverty. Frasier's choice of support is ironic, as Grammer himself is a George W. Bush supporter.

This episode was dedicated to the memory of Robert Crosby (IMDB), a sound engineer who worked on Frasier.