Where There's Smoke There's Fired

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Frasier episode
"Where There's Smoke There's Fired"

Frasier knowing who Big Willy's fiancee is
Episode no.	21
Prod. code	69-321-069
Orig. airdate	April 30, 1996
Written by	Joe Keenan^[1]
Directed by	Philip Charles Mackenzie^[2]
Skyline	A helicopter appears over the city.
Guest Star	Richard Hamilton(Big Willy) Bradford English(Hank)
Season 3 September 19, 1995 – May 21, 1996
She's the Boss Shrink Rap Martin Does It His Way Leapin' Lizards Kisses Sweeter Than Wine Sleeping with the Enemy The Adventures of Bad Boy and Dirty Girl The Last Time I Saw Maris Frasier Grinch It's Hard to Say Goodbye If You Won't Leave The Friend Come Lie with Me Moon Dance The Show Where Diane Comes Back A Word to the Wiseguy Look Before You Leap High Crane Drifter Chess Pains Crane vs. Crane Police Story Where There's Smoke There's Fired Frasier Loves Roz The Focus Group You Can Go Home Again
List of all Frasier episodes

Where There's Smoke There's Fired is the twenty first episode of the third season of Frasier and the sixty ninth overall.

1 Main cast and characters
2 Recurring Cast
3 Plot
4 Episode Title Cards
5 Memorable Quotes
6 Trivia
7 References

[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] Recurring Cast

Harriet Sansom Harris - Bebe Glazer
Edward Hibbert - Gil Chesterton

[edit] Plot

KACL has a new owner, an eighty-five year old Texas millionaire Wilford S. Boone - who likes to be called Big Willy. Frasier learns that he owns 30 stations across the US, and could put Frasier's show into national syndication so begins a charm offensive with Big Willy. The millionaire, however, offers Frasier a chance to get into his good books early: he is about to marry his younger mistress, but she has a filthy habit: she smokes. Big Willy is going away for a long weekend, and says that if Frasier can cure her of her habit, the marriage can go ahead. Frasier agrees to try but doesn't realise how hard it is going to be until he meets Big Willy's bride-to-be: his agent Bebe Glazer.

Frasier trying to cure Bebe's smoking addiction

Frasier forces Bebe to spend the weekend at his apartment to make sure she is not tempted, during which we learn that both Martin and Daphne used to smoke. They both try to convince her that she can quit her habit, but Bebe launches into a long speech on the pleasures of smoking which begins to weaken Martin and Daphne's resolve. She then catches Daphne having a quick ciggie on the balcony, and tries to blackmail her into giving her one, but Frasier catches her and then discovers Martin having one in the powder room and manages to persuade her that she should give up unless she wants to lose out on Big Willy's inheritance. Three weeks later is the wedding, but Big Willy has a fatal heart attack at the altar and despite Bebe's efforts to animatedly make him move, the wedding is cancelled. Frasier later consoles her at his house by saying she may yet find another Big Willy.

Frasier and Bebe discussing the wedding and Big Willy's death

[edit] Episode Title Cards

Waiting To Inhale
Three Smoke-Free Weeks Later

[edit] Memorable Quotes

Niles needs $4000 for a footstool:

Martin: For $4000 bucks?! Niles, you mother and I didn't pay that much for our first house!
Niles: I know Dad - I lived there.

Roz can't believe how Niles spends his money:

Roz: You spend money like a drunken sailor.
Niles: She said authoratively

Frasier meets the new station owner, Wilford S. Boone:

Frasier: Don't be silly, Mr Boone.
Big Willy: Actually, I prefer Big Willy.
Frasier: Don't be silly, Big Willy.

Niles doesn't believe Bebe can quit smoking on her own:

Niles: You obviously didn't see the crazed, cunning glint in her eyes.
Frasier: She always looks like that - she's an agent.

Daphne tells Bebe she can just give up smoking with no withdrawal symptoms:

Bebe: You know there's a word for people like that. What is it? Oh yes, bitch!

Frasier tells Bebe if she doesn't quit, she won't be his wife at the funeral:

Frasier: You'll be watching the widow Boone. Tiffany, perhaps, or better yet, Kelli with an i

[edit] Trivia

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KACL gets another new owner.
Big Willy is a Texan millionaire, but Bulldog tells Gil that he's Greek. Gil then centres his show around Greece to impress the new owner.
Niles assumes that to get hold of Bebe, you just draw a pentagram on the floor and chant, I summon thee! 3 times.
Daphne also smoked back in Ep 27 The Matchmaker.