Murder Most Maris

Title: Reverse Psychology Activity description: Welcome to Reverse Psychology, the Fraser Rewatch podcast where we go backwards through every episode of the show. Tonight, we are covering Season 11, Episode 8, Murder Most Maris, which originally aired on November 11th, 2003. Is this the surprise part two we are treating as a part one? We'll find out. I'm your host, Curtis Sheck. Joining me as always, it's our resident upside downer, it's Ryan Sansone. Curtis, thrilled to be here. I love murder mystery parties. Also with us today, our family spokesman, Bradley Kirkston. Is that a positive or negative? If you watch the episode, you know it's a negative. Fair enough, fair enough. And today we're also joined by a very special guest. It's Frank Sullivan. Hello, happy to be here.

Question: did you like this show enough to agree to be on this ridiculous podcast? Activity description: Happy to have you. Well, before we dive into the episode, Frank, I want to learn a little bit more about you. Tell us a little bit about, you know, your relationship to this show, Fraser. Why did you like this show enough to agree to be on this ridiculous podcast? What do you mean relationship? He's not married to it. I thought, you mean you guys aren't married to it? No, that's not even legal in this state. We are married to the commitment of producing top quality podcasts. Well said. Thank you. Well, I mean, I'd watched like random episodes growing up and then I don't know, I think about maybe like four years ago, we just streamed through and like just kind of crushed it. Like watched every single episode over a couple months. Well, Frank, we go back to elementary school. How come you never told me you're into smart shit? Like this is a huge revelation. Yeah, I've always liked smart shit. What are you classifying as smart shit? Other than Fraser, obviously. Books and Fraser. That's it. Those are pretty much the two. Oh, do you drink wine too? No. Okay. No. No, that's no. What kind of other like smart TV shows are you talking about? I assume you just the documentaries would be the only other smart thing. It's just documentaries and Fraser. Are you big Jeopardy fans? I did like Jeopardy. Yeah. Smart guy counts. Smart guy counts the smart person show. Did you watch Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Trader? Oh, yeah. I did not. And were you smarter than a fifth grade? Was not. Okay. So when you say you started crushing Fraser, did you like it? Or was it just like, I've started streaming it. I'm not going to stop. No, I liked it. Why? It's a smart show. It's quick and witty. So I am curious because you said you watch random episodes growing up or whatever. So that, you know, it was a show that was on. So that makes sense. But what made you just a few years ago, randomly decide to like put it on? Honestly, I have no idea. I think we may have either just finished watching Seinfeld or you forgot that the sequel to Seinfeld wasn't Fraser. Doesn't have access to Curb. It is not. In fact, Fraser. I honestly, I don't know what the leap was that actually made us watch it, but I think it is fitting. Seinfeld, people are deceptively, the Seinfeld guys are deceptively terrible, just like Fraser. So I think they do fit with a nice one-two punch. Yeah, that's true. I could definitely see that. They are all deceptively terrible. I mean, Fraser is deceptive, but is he not kind of openly terrible? I don't think he's. Well, I guess you could introduce him in Cheers as a bad guy, but it's true. There are many parts of the episode we watched. He's definitely terrible. This is, you probably haven't been rewatching him all with us. He's, this is one of his better episodes as far as behavior. Yeah, so far, this is not a showcase of his most benevolent moments. I'm at this point pretty confident we will not be getting any of that. I think that's very plausible. Well, should we dive into this week's episode? Let's do it, homie G. Let's do it, let's do it, let's do it like the G's in Hollywood. I no longer want to do it. What is wrong with you? All right, Curtis, can we do it like the G's in Hollywood, please? Come on. All right. Phrase attribution: elementary-school history and relationship/marriage interjections: Ryan; smart TV question: Frank

It says here, Curtis Check will pass his proctology exam. Status: retake requested without supplied retake Activity description: Oh, and Curtis, good news. I have a bonus prediction. Ooh, I am excited. It says here, Curtis Check will pass his proctology exam. So congratulations, buddy. Ooh. You make it sound like it's a test I'm going to take. Like, you pass. You will successfully pass it. Well, wait, wait, wait. We should tell. So this episode is going to air August 8th. Curtis's proctology exam is August 9th. So you'll hear more about this in the next episode. What? It would be August 7th, you dummy. Paramount Plus, if you'd like to be a sponsor, contact Caddettys. No, wrong show. Wrong show. Wrong show. Let me redo that. Let me redo that. Phrase attribution: bonus joke prediction: Ryan; date solution: Brad

Premise: It was just them thinking everything's about them as usual. Ending or payoff: There's like a jumper, like one floor down, like threatening to kill themselves. Answer qualification: Obviously, it'd be a dark joke, but like that would be an amazing scrambled egg scene. Response context: I think it would have been hilarious if they had made it where all these people, like the chopper, wasn't actually for them. It was just them thinking everything's about them as usual. Oh, that would have been fun punch-ups. That's probably canon, honestly. That makes way more sense. They're trying to find out what was happening in the apartment below. There's like a jumper, like one floor down, like threatening to kill themselves. Obviously, it'd be a dark joke, but like that would be an amazing scrambled egg scene. Anyway, that's canon now. Phrase attribution: they think everything is about them: Frank; jumper one floor down: Curtis Final phrase attribution: Who proposes or concludes “the chopper wasn’t actually for them”? Frank’s everything-is-about-them line and Curtis’s jumper line are already confirmed.: Frank