Frasier

I have been watching “Frasier” reruns lately because they started showing them on one of my favorite rerun sources the Hallmark Channel. I also still watch Cheers when I get home from work on time and its interesting to watch them at the same time (also I recall a lot of plot holes about stuff Frasier said about is family in various “Cheers” episodes). When they first started showing “Frasier on Hallmark there was of course a premier marathon and it had trivia facts, trivia facts about reruns so of course I was excited. The fact they listed that I remember was that every regular “Cheers” character except Coach and Rebecca guest stared of course Coach was dead which lead me to wonder what Kristie Alley’s excuse was. There’s also a statistic that says that Kelsey Grammer as Frasier is the longest time an actor played one character meanwhile Richard Belzar holds the record for playing John Munch on the most different shows currently 12 according to IMDB. Anyway I am going off on a lot of random Frasier tangents when my original point to this post was going to be about him going to a video store. “How retro!” who would have thought that a video rental store would be the thing that makes the episode dated? So I started looking for other things that could date the episode but there really was not anything else specific to the time no cell phones that look gigantic now or unusual hair styles. When I looked closely at Daphne’s outfit I recalled it as a style that was popular in 1996ish but it would not look strange or dated if worn today and since Frasier and Niles always ware suits those don’t change much over the years (unless some of those years are the 70s). Usually I can pinpoint an era or decade pretty well by the fashion because it’s something that interests me but it has to be women’s fashion because men’s clothing does not change as much. With some obvious exceptions for loud 80s sweaters worn by Zack on “Saved by the Bell” or Cliff on “The Cosby Show” and other logo or brand name shirts worn by younger boys. Adult professional clothes change the least over the years or at least they evolve slowly enough that the changes are not obvious in reruns. So the fact remains that the video store was the most dated thing on “Frasier” tonight.