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- Inspired by the 1998 film Sliding Doors, the idea of "Sliding Frasiers" was to play off the phase, "it's better to have loved and lost than to have never have loved at all," and show Frasier both finding and losing love. "We show both sides of the romantic equation for Frasier," says Dan O'Shannon who wrote this episode with Bob Daly, "all in the course of one show. We rose above the gimmick for a show that was very well received." One of American's longest running shows, Frasier is just as popular in England, which Lee attributes to Britons appreciating "wit, farce, style and good humour. We love drawing comedies, Noel coward and P.G Woodhouse. So while it's a thrill that Frasier feeds the hungry masses, we also take special delight that it appeals to Epicurean tastes as well."
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- The whole of the very first scene contains a lot of added lines and cut dialogue including at the very start where Roz calls Frasier desperate, adding "And you made fun of me for my personal ad and the matchmaker I went to, and the time I pretended to be born-again so I could go to a mixer. Now who's desperate?" Frasier isn't sure there's a clear winner.
- Frasier then goes on to say that he must be proactive "if I have to paint a target on my ass and waggle it in front of cupids face so be it," which quite rightly puts Roz off the sticky bun she's been eating.
- The end of the scene where Frasier is delighted to have a date with Monica is extended in the script. He tries to dance with Daphne but she pushes him away and then he tries Martin who uses the excuse "bullet in the hip".
- In a few lines cut between Frasier and Roz it's revealed that the tickets to the Valentine's Day benefit were free as the station bought a table. However Frasier thought they were $500 and bought two.
- After Frasier says he's spoken to Monica's sister, a whole bunch of lines were cut that reveal that Monica's sister lives in Wyoming and that Frasier tracked her down via an internet company he paid. He says, "and no price is too high for my little Monica Jean Marie, six pounds, seven ounces at birth."
- A direction note in the book reveals that Kenny was supposed to be wearing a blinking red heart on top of his hat.
- In the script the show that Frasier is listening to on his way home is longer and Phil is actually credited to speak.
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- Just a small point: throughout the whole script Daphne and Niles are off to Maui not Cancun as mentioned in the actual episode. (NB I seem to remember a lot of TV guides and episode guides saying Hawaii instead of Cancun).
- At the very start when Niles comes in the Café wearing that god awful T-shirt and says "Notice anything different?", refusing to play along Frasier just says "Haircut?"
- After Frasier introduces Mike to Roz she says to Frasier, "Aren't you keeping 12 losers waiting?"
- Frasier has a line to Monica "I guess you where working you way up the skeleton," which is replaced with the line "I suppose after that you went on a kiln spree," in the aired version.
- When Daphne is practising her dinner for Niles she says there may be a few leftovers. Making another jibe about her weight Martin says, "Who's she kidding? This house hasn't seen a left over in 2 months." This is later replaced with Martin's line, "Maybe we could fake our own deaths!"
- A line was cut that reveals that since leaving Frasier in the hospital Monica also injured someone by leaving a rake out.
- She also injured Frasier on a driving range and that's why his "peripheral vision is coming back."
- While Niles and Daphne are all lovey-dovey in his apartment while he's all depressed he snaps "OK, you love her, she loves you. Point taken."
- In the actual episode Frasier (no sling and depressed about blind dates) says "What a load of crap" about his advice on the radio, and the other Frasier (sad cause he's just broken up with Monica) says "I do make a good point." In the script for some reason it's the other way around.
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- IIo Orleans plays the announcer.
- Also Phil is credited as Cameron Watson because he has a couple of lines in the book but isn't in the actual aired show.
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177 "Sliding Frasiers"
