As a part of their persevering with effort to tether the horrible Frasier reboot to the traditional present everybody loves, the inventive crew behind the Paramount+ present are bringing again various acquainted characters for the second season.
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Peri Gilpin’s Roz will reportedly have a bigger position going ahead, and her previous KACL co-workers, Bulldog and Gil Chesterton, will flip up for an episode as effectively. Though they’re clearly leaving cash on the desk by not having the ghost of Eddie the canine return to hang-out Frasier.
Now we’re getting phrase that one other beloved character from the unique present is coming again for Frasier 2.0: Frasier’s relentlessly unscrupulous agent Bebe Glazer, performed by Harriet Sansom Harris.
Apart from Niles and Daphne, Bebe might be the character followers can be most excited to see come again. Whereas she solely confirmed up a complete of 11 episodes over the course of Frasier, Harris’ wild-eyed efficiency was an vital fixture, showing no less than as soon as in all however two seasons.
Bebe’s character was so vital to the general present as a result of she all the time examined a basic battle inside Frasier himself. Her disregard for widespread decency persistently violated Frasier’s code of ethics as a psychiatrist, however she was additionally a great agent, serving his need for achievement within the leisure business.
Bebe was arguably not so well-served in later seasons of the present. Whereas she did have a task within the collection finale, making an attempt to influence Frasier to take a brand new TV job in San Francisco, the final Bebe-centric episode was Season 10’s “The Satan and Dr. Phil.” In case you didn’t see it, or have actively repressed it out of your reminiscence, that’s the episode during which we discovered that Frasier is previous buddies with Dr. Phil, who performed himself.
It was most likely the worst episode of Frasier, however very removed from the worst episode of tv that Dr. Phil has been concerned with.
So the Frasier reboot might conceivably function a redemption of types for the Bebe Glazer character. Why a West Coast expertise agent can be assembly with a Harvard professor stays to be seen, however we do know that Bebe’s daughter, Phoebe Glazer, can be performed by Loopy Ex-Girlfriend star Rachel Bloom. Which is sensible since Bloom has beforehand extolled the therapeutic virtues of the unique Frasier.
Whereas the present actually by no means implied that Bebe had a daughter, the finale did reveal that she had a son: a middle-aged balding man. This was only a one-off joke, implying that Bebe is method older than she appears, and provoking Frasier to alter his thoughts and settle for a advice for her plastic surgeon.
However even ignoring this man, the concept of Bebe having a daughter is somewhat bizarre. Like, if Phoebe is roughly the identical age as Bloom, that signifies that within the episode the place Bebe spent the weekend at Frasier’s attempting to kick her smoking behavior purely to marry an aged Texan millionaire, she had a 9-year-old at residence?
Then once more, doubtless no person cares an excessive amount of in regards to the hermetic constancy of the Frasier canon, therefore why no person has an issue with the truth that Martin Crane as soon as confirmed up on Cheers as a hacky musician.
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