Bla-Z-Boy
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| “Bla-Z-Boy” | |||||||
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| Frasier episode | |||||||
| Episode no. | Season 09 Episode 07 |
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| Written by | Jon Sherman | ||||||
| Directed by | Robert H. Egan | ||||||
| Guest stars | James Oliver (Waiter), Lamont Thompson (Delivery Man) | ||||||
| Production no. | 40571-199 | ||||||
| Original airdate | November 6, 2001 | ||||||
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"Bla-Z-Boy" is the seventh episode of the ninth season of the American NBC television sitcom Frasier.
[edit] Main cast and characters
Kelsey Grammer – Dr. Frasier Crane
David Hyde Pierce – Dr. Niles Crane
John Mahoney – Martin Crane
Jane Leeves – Daphne Moon
Peri Gilpin – Roz Doyle
[edit] Plot outline
Over breakfast one morning, Martin happens to comment to Frasier that the day marks the eighth anniversary of the day that Martin moved in with him. This prompts good-natured teasing on the part of Niles, Daphne and Roz, but whilst Martin plays along the revelation seems make Frasier unusually touchy, especially towards Martin. Whilst Niles busies himself teaching Roz and Daphne how to play the piano - an instrument that Roz is quick to pick up, but which Daphne struggles with - Frasier's temper worsens when Martin accidentally spills oil over the carpet when trying to remedy a squeak in his chair, which Frasier irrationally seems to view the accident as a deliberate act of hostility on Martin's part. Moving the furniture onto the balcony as to allow the carpet to be repaired, Frasier and Niles get into an argument about the bad feeling between the two men and Frasier's proposed solution (sending Martin to live with Niles), and thus fail to notice Martin's beloved old chair, positioned underneath a telescope catching the sunlight, accidentally catch fire; when they do notice, however, their efforts to put it out only serve to knock the chair off the balcony, sending it plummetting to the street - directly in front of Martin and Daphne, who are out taking a walk. Ill-disposed to take a positive view of the situation after Frasier's recent behaviour, Martin angrily rejects Frasier's protests and apologies and accuses him of deliberately destroying the chair in retaliation.
The hostility between father and son reaches the point where the two are no longer speaking. In conversation about the matter with Niles, Frasier admits that he has been on edge and insecure since their 'anniversary', as it seemed to suggest that the only significant relationship he would ever have would be with Martin, making them 'significant others'. Niles, attempting a reconciliation, prompts Frasier and Martin to discuss the matter, but this only results in another argument. Later, however, as Niles is unnerved to learn that Daphne's poor piano skills survived eight years of lessons and seem to have resulted in the suicide of her childhood piano teacher, Frasier returns home to discover a gift-wrapped present in his living room - a beautiful new chair, a gift from Martin to mend the rift between them. Although touched by the gesture, Frasier reveals that it was not what he had in mind, and in a seemingly tactless act, receives delivery of another chair he has ordered. Niles and Daphne watch in disapproval as Martin bitterly comments on Frasier's apparent ungraciousness - until they see Frasier's alternative. For Frasier, in the same spirit of reconciliation, has had a perfect duplicate of Martin's old chair constructed at great expense, ironically making it the rarest and most expensive piece in the apartment. Martin happily accepts the gesture, and the rift between the two is healed as they go out to dinner to Martin's favourite steakhouse.
