The episode gives everyone in the main cast–with the asterisk next to Mahoney-some great material. It’s important to have a lot of people around-it’s a big restaurant set, with adjoining kitchen (the unmarked kitchen doors are going to come into play, obviously)-because once things start going wrong, the episode will become Grammer and Hyde Pierce trying to fix one thing while breaking two others. Hibbert’s the radio restaurant critic who kicks off the whole plot in that efficient opening.

Everyone’s going to be there-Mahoney, Jane Leeves, Gilpin, Dan Butler, and Edward Hibbert. David Hyde Pierce, which is always funny and usually good-Kelsey Grammer and Hyde Pierce are proud new restauranteurs and it’s opening night. He eventually gets reassigned and does a lot better, but then you’re just left wondering why they weren’t using him better the whole time.Īfter some exceptionally efficient and funny setup-including some Peri Gilpin vs. John Mahoney spends a bunch of the episode doing his irate thing even after it isn’t making things funny anymore.

It’s a really good “Frasier,” with the entire cast doing a great job-they just aren’t asked to do very much. The Innkeepers is a great sitcom episode without necessarily being a great “Frasier” episode.

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