The Impossible Dream (Frasier)

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"The Impossible Dream" is the third episode of the fourth season of Frasier and the seventy sixth overall.

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[edit] Cast and characters

[edit] Main cast and characters

[edit] Recurring cast

[edit] Plot

Frasier has a recurring erotic dream in which he wakes up in bed, hears the shower running and is shocked when the person who emerges is the radio station's food critic Gil Chesterton. Frasier is slightly appalled and becomes obsessed with the meaning of this dream, and so turns to his brother for help and advice. At first he believes it has some connection with food, then some connection with his mother, before even considering that his subconscious is trying to tell him something about his sexuality. Discussing this very notion with his father leaves Martin very uncomfortable, so Frasier is grateful when he eventually works out what the dream means: his subconscious was giving him a difficult problem to figure out. The slump on his show didn't provide him with the challenge he needed, so his subconscious needed to give him a problem to work out. Once he realizes that it what has been happening, he dreams that Sigmund Freud came into his hotel room, and climbed into bed with him. The episode ends with waking up after this nightmare.

[edit] Episode title cards

Frasier dreaming of Gil
Frasier dreaming of Gil
Niles trying to help Frasier
Niles trying to help Frasier
Frasier dreaming of Gil
Frasier dreaming of Gil

[edit] Quotes

  • After Frasier finds out Roz has spread the word about his dream:

Frasier: Just exactly when did you have time to spread the news?
Roz: You don't think I was listening to your show, do you?

  • Niles is relating an episode from that day:

Niles: I hardly need to tell you how the story ends?
Frasier: Just tell me when the story ends

  • Niles suggest free association to solve Frasier's dream:

Niles: Crescent...Moon...Daphne Moon...French maids outfit...
Frasier: Will you stop - this is my dream.
Niles: I was showing you the proces.
Frasier: You were 3 words away from a cigarette!

  • Daphne has her own theory on Frasier's dream:

Daphne: Who was in the shower? Gil. What is a shower? Water. What are found in water? Fish. What do fish have? Gils. Do you see where I'm going with this?
Frasier: Insane (?)

  • Frasier tells his father the truth about his dream:

Frasier: The dream is about me and a male co-worker, Gil Chesterton.
Martin: You don't care if I ever sleep again, do you?

  • Niles thinks he's solved it:

Niles: Of course i's so obvious now, Gil is a food critic;food,criticism,
Niles and Frasier in unison: Mother!

[edit] Triva

The exterior shot of Frasier's Apartment Building.
The exterior shot of Frasier's Apartment Building.
  • This is the only time in the series duration that the outside of Frasier's apartment building is shown.
  • The title of the episode is a reference to the Cheers episode The Improbable Dream.