I'm your host, Curtis.
Original introduction wording
- I'm your host, Curt Oshak.
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Frasier reboot · Season 2 · Episode 5
The Squash Courtship of Freddy's Father
The Reverse Psychology hosts discuss the Frasier reboot episode “The Squash Courtship of Freddy’s Father” and share humorous fictional book summaries in their monthly book club.
IN THE ROOM
CurtisBrad(ley)RyanDaniGuest appearance: Dani
NO COMMON DENOMINATOR
Episode ratings.
Original rating systems, exactly as represented in the archive. These scales are not interchangeable.
By way of introduction.
Introduced as the “resident abyss boy”; thanks everyone and says he is excited for the episode and to be there tonight.
Original introduction wording
- resident abyss boy
- Thank you
- Really excited to be here tonight
Introduced as “our special boy” and co-host; immediately challenges the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend tease.
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- our special boy
- co-host
With Rachel Bloom guest-starring, the panel brings back its “illustrious musicals expert.” Dani thanks them and is excited to dive in.
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- illustrious musicals expert
- Dani Stevens
- excited to dive in
Read the full performed opening
Welcome to Reverse Psychology, the Frasier Rewatch podcast where you go backwards through every episode of the show. Tonight, we are covering Frasier 2023, Season 2, Episode 5, The Squash Courtship of Freddy's Father, which originally streamed on October 10th, 2024. Has it been over a year, yet I still haven't watched Crazy Ex-Girlfriend? We'll find out. I'm your host, Curt Oshak. Joining me as always, it's our resident abyss boy, it's Bradley Kirkston. Thank you, thank you all. Let's have a great episode. Really excited to talk about this episode. Really excited to be here tonight. Okay, succinct, well done. Also with us is our special boy, it's co-host Ryan Zamzone. Curt, I'm gonna be real upset if that tease at the beginning. If you really haven't watched Crazy Ex-Girlfriend in over a year, like, what are you doing with it? Look at your life, look at your choices, Curt. Let's leave it a nice little cliffhanger until the end of the episode. Stay tuned, folks. But you should also stay tuned because this episode had guest star Rachel Bloom, who was on a musical show. Obviously, we brought back our illustrious musicals expert. It's Dani Stevens! Well, thank you for having me back. I'm so excited to dive in.
Someone brought rules.
The games, the premises, and what everyone brought to the table.
Game / activity
Kinship ↗
How this one works
How it works
- In this episode, Frasier is convinced that Bebe's daughter is also his daughter because of the characteristics she is using to prey on him.
Prompt
- What characteristics of yourself would you use to convince a Frasier character that you're their kid?
RESULT STATUS
The recorded result is unresolved.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 08:15
Kinship Wrap
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- Ending or payoff: Lock it in, Curtis.; Call this episode a wrap.
Follow the round structure (1)
Kinship Round
Source excerpt ↗ 02:33RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Kinship Prompt
Question / challenge
What characteristics of yourself would you use to convince a Frasier character that you're their kid?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Marty Pitch
Marty
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- Response: my knowledge of Seattle sports teams in particular.; I also like terrible beers.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Ryan Pitch
I would convince Freddy I'm his kid because I get way smarter when I'm drunk.
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- Answer qualification: I wasn't going to say that I'm a time traveler.; Like, Freddie just doesn't know my age.; I could play 18 years younger.; I look somewhere between 15 and 65 years old.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Curtis Pitch
David
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- Response: I think I would probably convince him of it over a long game of legislature and we would; bond over our similarly annoying traits.; But in my scenario, I thought part of it would be I'd have to convince him I was a time traveler; from the future.
- Answer qualification: And frankly, I didn't think that was going to be a tough sell for David.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Dani Pitch
Frasier
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- Response: Well, very much like Rachel Bloom's character, my love of the arts.
- Answer qualification: Because I don't know who all of these characters are, I could only go off with the one character; I actually knew something about, which was Frasier.; Yeah, I don't know if I could pull it off as well, but...; I do not, but I have been to a few operas.; But not as nearly as fancy.; And I can assure you, I was very much, well, I wasn't in the mezzanine, but I was definitely; with the poor people.; I like being real close.; So, see, I convince him only half the truce.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 07:28
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Trait Clarification
Question / challenge
And what would the trait be?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 07:39
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Opera Question
Question / challenge
When you go to the opera, do you wear the weird mini binoculars?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 07:56
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Opera Hypothetical
Question / challenge
If you were in a rich people area, would you rock the mini binocs?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 08:11
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Kinship Comparison
Question / challenge
Who do you think would the best job of us?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: DaniSource excerpt ↗ 08:12
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Kinship Preference
Ryan
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- Response: Brian, I have to say, because you can bullshit your way through anything.
Round context
- Method: What characteristics of yourself would you use to convince a Frasier character that you're their kid?
- Final adjudication: Brian, I have to say, because you can bullshit your way through anything.
View source wording — how it was explained on the show
- Activity premise: In this episode, Frasier is convinced that Bebe's daughter is also his daughter because of the characteristics she is using to prey on him.
Game / activity
season three forecast of the week ↗
How this one works
Prompt
- So tell me, what kind of animal companion should the show Frasier introduced to fill the Eddie-sized hole in this revival series?
RESULT STATUS
The recorded result is unresolved.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 32:11
Forecast Wrap
More of this contribution
- Ending or payoff: That was the season three forecast of the week.
Follow the round structure (1)
Forecast Round
Source excerpt ↗ 30:16So tell me, what kind of animal companion should the show Frasier introduced to fill the Eddie-sized hole in this revival series?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 30:16
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Animal Prompt
Question / challenge
So tell me, what kind of animal companion should the show Frasier introduced to fill the Eddie-sized hole in this revival series?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Mini Horse
Let's go with the mini horse.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Reptile
I was thinking of some sort of reptile.
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- Answer qualification: Like a lizard or something.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Elephant
Stampy
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- Response: I'm going to go with an elephant.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 31:53
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Elephant Location Prompt
Question / challenge
Where are they putting an elephant?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Elephant Location
At the fire station, Curtis.; He's a firefighter.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Who says “It would be fully in character for David to have a different reptile pet every week”?
It would be fully in character for David to have a different reptile pet every week. Like just every episode. This week it's a turtle. Next week it's a salamander.
Round context
- Result qualification: But I think you answered it terribly.; That is a brilliant idea.; So buy an elephant and put it in Frasier season three.
View source wording — how it was explained on the show
- Ending or payoff: So buy an elephant and put it in Frasier season three.
Game / activity
monthly book club ↗
How this one works
How it works
- So to let you in on our more intellectual side, we thought we could use this time to host
- our monthly book club that we do.
- As such, each of us has read a book and is going to give a little summary for the group
- and their review.
- We all read different books.
Recorded activity context
So to let you in on our more intellectual side, we thought we could use this time to host; our monthly book club that we do.
RESULT STATUS
The recorded result is unresolved.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 55:38
Book Wrap
More of this contribution
- Ending or payoff: Well, like many books, this was a segment that was probably better on paper than it was in actual experience.
Follow the round structure (2)
Prepared Books
Source excerpt ↗ 46:42As such, each of us has read a book and is going to give a little summary for the group; and their review.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 46:46
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Summary Assignment
Question / challenge
As such, each of us has read a book and is going to give a little summary for the group
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 46:51
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Review Assignment
Question / challenge
and their review.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Pride and Prejudice
I was surprised the prejudice wasn't so bad.; It was the pride that I really did not love.; The parade in Chapter 8.; It was too long.
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- Summary: Some people were all like, they hated a bunch of gays.; And then they put on a parade.
- Submission type: comic synopsis and review
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Dante's Inferno
...is even though this feels like a hypnotic fever dream, it really is a true story of growth; and exploring your moral compass.
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- Summary: And as you guys know, it is about a male strip club.; Guided by his smooth-talking, you know, club promoter.; We're going to call him Virgil.; Dante descends floor by floor through the nine increasingly bizarre and symbolic levels of this nine-floor strip club.; Each level represents a different vice, you know, greed, envy, and beyond,; What begins as a curious knight quickly sprawls into a psychological journey.
- Answer qualification: Of Dante throughout the nine levels of stripping.; Oh, you have to watch it.; You have to read the book to find out.; Now watch it.
- Submission type: comic synopsis and review
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 49:09
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Inferno Growth Question
Question / challenge
What's the growth?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 49:15
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Inferno Motive Question
Question / challenge
Why is he going through the nine levels?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: DaniSource excerpt ↗ 49:23
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Presentation Reaction Prompt
Question / challenge
Danny, what do you think of these so far?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Presentation Reaction
These are wild.; I can't believe I've read the same books and did not pick up on the same things.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Finnegan's Wake
Dear Professor Jones, I like Finnegan's Wake.; The book is very good and very fun.; I hope Jane Joyce soon writes a sequel.; Finnegan 2, Finnegan's Break.
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- Summary: Finnegan is a really fun guy who does fun Irish things like being friends with a leprechaun and dressing in green.; I think it is really cool that he is a surfer and rides the waves.; It was really scary when the wake created such high waves, but exciting when he rode them well.
- Submission type: comic synopsis and review
Round context
- Method: We all read different books.
Book Test
Source excerpt ↗ 51:24Should we just test ourselves?; Should we go around and name some books and see if we've read it?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 51:29
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Mice Prompt
Question / challenge
What do you think that's about?
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- Prompt item: Of Mice and Men.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Mice Abstention
I didn't read it.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 51:34
Mouse Answer
No, I know that one.; That one is about a little mouse who rides a little car and his name's Stuart, I think.; Yeah, joins a family, wears a red sweater.
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- Curtis: “No, I know that one. That one is about a little mouse who rides a little car and his name's Stuart, I think.”
- Dani: “Yeah, joins a family, wears a red sweater.”
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 52:11
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Bible Prompt
Question / challenge
Brad, hit me.
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- Prompt item: The Bible.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Bible Answer
It's just a guy lost in the desert and he's just, you know, making his way through life.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 52:44
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Rivalry Prompt
Question / challenge
He did Rivalry.
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- Answer qualification: Is that a book?; That's definitely a movie, isn't it?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Rivalry Answer
It's just gay hockey.; Two people, two guys, different teams.; They get it on the ice and then in the locker room.; That's my understanding of it.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 53:36
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Mockingbird Prompt
Question / challenge
But what is the plot?
More of this contribution
- Prompt item: To kill a mockingbird.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Mockingbird Answer
It's really pronounced tequila mockingbird.; It's about a Mexican restaurant.; It's about the staff of a Mexican restaurant who just go throughout their day and they have; to deal with crazy customers named Boo Radley and certain issues like that every single; day at this Mexican restaurant.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 54:01
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Mockingbird Twist
Well, in the day it's a Mexican restaurant, at night it turns into a gay strip club.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 54:13
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Dorian Prompt
Question / challenge
The picture of Dory and Gray.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Dorian Literal
It's about a man named Dorian Gray.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Dorian Doctor
Yeah, because he's like a doctor and he's working in the big city and he has lots of drama; with his colleagues.
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- Response context: Is that the book Gray's Nanities based off of?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 54:57
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Twilight Prompt
Question / challenge
Like, Curtis, Brad, have you guys actually seen or read any Twilight?
More of this contribution
- Prompt item: Twilight.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Twilight Familiarity
I've seen the Hunger Games one, but not Twilight.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Twilight Potter
I've seen Harry Potter, so I'm pretty good.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Twilight Plot
I know there's a love triangle.; Kristen Stewart's trying to get with a werewolf and a vampire, but for four books, I don't see it.
Round context
- Method: Ryan, do you have any books that you've read that you want us to tell you what it's about?
View source wording — how it was explained on the show
- Ending or payoff: Well, like many books, this was a segment that was probably better on paper than it was in actual experience.
Game / activity
Prediction ↗
How this one works
Prompt
- Brad, why don't you tell us what we're going to experience next week when we cover the previous episode at Season 2, Episode 4, The Dedication.
RESULT STATUS
The recorded result is unresolved.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 56:40
Prediction Wrap
Follow the round structure (1)
Prediction Round
Source excerpt ↗ 55:47The Dedication
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 55:47
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Prediction Prompt
Question / challenge
Brad, why don't you tell us what we're going to experience next week when we cover the previous episode at Season 2, Episode 4, The Dedication.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Improvised plot guess
The whole cast goes to Chicago because Frazier's getting his old studio named after him, and they're dedicating it after Frazier.; While they're in the air, David has a panic attack and ends up in Kansas City, and they go visit him at the end of the episode in Kansas City.
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- Submission type: improvised plot guess
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: DaniSource excerpt ↗ 56:26
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Prediction Evaluation Prompt
Question / challenge
Do you think Brad nailed it, Danny?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Prediction Evaluation
Absolutely not.
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- Adjudication verdict: local rejection
Round context
- Final adjudication: This ain't it.
View source wording — how it was explained on the show
- Result qualification: Absolutely not.; This ain't it.
Comic bits and episode moments.
Conversation excerpt
Post Kinship Discussion ↗
Source details
- Context outside the activity.
Conversation excerpt
Episode Discussion ↗
Source details
- Context outside the activity.
Conversation excerpt
Crumpet Sharing ↗
Curtis, do you want to send Danny a picture of the crumpet you tried to make?
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 3 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 11:02
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Crumpet Request
Question / challenge
Curtis, do you want to send Danny a picture of the crumpet you tried to make?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 11:08
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First Crumpet Share
I'll send that now.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 11:26
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Second Crumpet Share
I'll send you that, too.
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- Response context: There was a second attempt that came out a lot better.
Source details
- Result qualification: It's a little crispy.; That's much better.; I was fishing for that compliment.
Conversation excerpt
Ratings ↗
Well, how did you react to this episode?
See how they answered
What everyone brought to the table · 6 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: DaniSource excerpt ↗ 43:03
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Rating System Prompt
Question / challenge
Do you remember what kind of a rating system you use or do we invent a new one for you?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Rating System Answer
I think, didn't I do Broadway stars?
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- Answer qualification: You did.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: DaniSource excerpt ↗ 43:11
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Dani Rating Prompt
Question / challenge
So how many stars you give in this episode?
Show 3 more contributions
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 43:28
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Ryan Rating Prompt
Question / challenge
Well, Ryan, how about you?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 44:35
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Brad Rating Prompt
Question / challenge
But Brad, was this a bad episode?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 44:36
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Blind Ranking
3; 5; 7; 9; 10
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- Result qualification: You'll see at the end when I do the actual ranking of all 10, where I would actually; put this episode.
Conversation excerpt
Media Interruption ↗
Source details
- Context outside the activity.
Conversation excerpt
Reminder Commitment ↗
I'm doing this 2027.
Source details
- Activity request: Should I put this in my calendar to ask you a year from now?
Conversation excerpt
Outro ↗
Conversation excerpt
Prediction Outtake ↗
Source details
- Context outside the activity.
Conversation excerpt
Promotion ↗
By way of goodbye.
Deaths, texting, no more
Source excerpt ↗ 57:05–57:10Transcript context (may contain transcription errors)
So for myself, for Ryan, for Brad, and for Danny, deaths, texting, no more.
Previously, next week.
Predictions as made on the podcast—not claims about what actually happens.
Conversation excerpt
Forecast Context
Animals are such a crowd pleaser, generally.; It would seem like an easy way to boost the ratings of this show if they had an animal like a replacement for Eddie,
Next in the reverse watch: The Dedication
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