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Classic Frasier · Season 11 · Episode 15

Caught in the Act

IN THE ROOM

RyanBrad(ley)CurtisEthan

Guest appearance: Ethan

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Episode ratings.

Brad(ley)A−Letter grade
Curtis#1 of 10Final ranking, raised from #2 during discussion
EthanChartreuseColor rating; no numerical system
Ryan9.3/10Numeric episode rating · Ryan’s default /10

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By way of introduction.

Curtis

Host; full performed introduction below.

Ryan

Resident upside downer, acting caught up in the moment.

Brad(ley)

Psychotic ex, followed by the greeting and banter.

Ethan

Curtis’s other brother, doing double duty; full duty joke below.

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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 15, Caught in the Act. Is this the time Fraser traumatizes innocent children? We'll find out. I'm your host, Curtis Schack. Joining me as always, it's our resident upside downer, it's Ryan Sansone. I'm gonna act like I'm caught up in the moment, Curtis. It's good to be here. Okay. Also with us today is our psychotic ex, Bradley Kirkston. He gets us. He gets all of us. Hey, you guys. And doing double duty, we are joined once again by my other brother, Ethan. Duty. Oh boy. Well, because you said duty. Yeah. What was I supposed to do with that? Yeah, come on, hostess for the mostess.

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Rating revision context

Owner clarified the blanket score-reduction remark was mostly ridiculous. No reduction has been applied to earlier ratings.

    Comic bits and episode moments.

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    Reverse Psychology ↗

    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 15, Caught in the Act. Is this the time Fraser traumatizes innocent children? We'll find out. I'm your host, Curtis Schack. Joining me as always, it's our…

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    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 15, Caught in the Act. Is this the time Fraser traumatizes innocent children? We'll find out. I'm your host, Curtis Schack. Joining me as always, it's our resident upside downer, it's Ryan Sansone. I'm gonna act like I'm caught up in the moment, Curtis. It's good to be here. Okay. Also with us today is our psychotic ex, Bradley Kirkston. He gets us. He gets all of us. Hey, you guys. And doing double duty, we are joined once again by my other brother, Ethan. Duty. Oh boy. Well, because you said duty. Yeah. What was I supposed to do with that? Yeah, come on, hostess for the mostess.

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    • Facilitator: Curtis Schack
    • Participants: Curtis Schack Ryan Sansone Bradley Kirkston Ethan

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    pivot ↗

    Well, um, I think at this point we should probably pivot into the episode, but to be honest,

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    accent retry ↗

    Activity request: Let's redo that one. Activity premise: I'll do the accent just like her

    What was recorded

    What everyone brought to the table · 2 recorded exchanges

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    Participant cited: Brad(ley)

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    Let's redo that one.

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    Prompt: Let's redo that one. Final phrase attribution: Who asks “Let’s redo that one” in the butterscotch-accent exchange? Brad’s attempts and Ryan’s feedback are already confirmed.: Brad

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    accent performance

    Action: And then she gets, I'll do the accent just like her, the butterscotch. She gets, I got it. She gets the butterscotch. Adjudication: That was better just because you could tell it wasn't his voice.

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    review ↗

    Activity request: Curtis, how do you rate the show? Method: So I'm going to go with an A minus. The best episode out of 10 we've watched. I'll give it a color. There was room for improvement like most of the rest of the episode, but that scene alone, we're going, we're on 9.3. Handoffs: to Brad: Curtis; to Curtis: Brad; to Ethan: Curtis; to Ryan: Curtis Final…

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    Activity request: Curtis, how do you rate the show? Method: So I'm going to go with an A minus. The best episode out of 10 we've watched. I'll give it a color. There was room for improvement like most of the rest of the episode, but that scene alone, we're going, we're on 9.3. Handoffs: to Brad: Curtis; to Curtis: Brad; to Ethan: Curtis; to Ryan: Curtis Final phrase attribution: Who hands the rating to Ethan with “Ethan, what about you?” This handoff was outside the earlier reported clip.: Curtis; Who hands the rating to Ryan with “So Ryan coming from the upside down…”?: Curtis

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    Was this a good episode?

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    Prompt: Was this a good episode?

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    brad rating

    So I'm going to go with an A minus. Scores: A minus Answer qualification: You know, strippers, if there were strippers, it would have got an A or an A plus.

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    Curtis, how do you rate the show?

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    Prompt: Curtis, how do you rate the show?

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    curtis rating

    This is number one, one out of 10. Answer qualification: The best episode out of 10 we've watched. Scores: currentRank: 1; episodesRanked: 10; reportedEarlierRank: 2 Response context: I originally, after watching this one, put this at number two.

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    Ethan, what about you?

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    Prompt: Ethan, what about you?

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    You can just say a number. You don't even have to give us the context. Just, just to rank it.

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    Prompt: You can just say a number. You don't even have to give us the context. Just, just to rank it. Final phrase attribution: Who suggests Ethan “can just say a number”?: Ryan

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    Why don't you just give us an obscure reference from the show?

    Question / challenge

    Prompt: Why don't you just give us an obscure reference from the show? Answer qualification: If I did, if I did one, then I feel like it could end up being a spoiler for the upside down. Final phrase attribution: Who suggests an “obscure reference from the show” as Ethan’s rating?: Curtis

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    ethan rating

    Instead, I'll just say, um, chartreuse. Scores: chartreuse Answer qualification: Um, I don't, I don't have a number system. I'll give it a color. Response context: And I would say I'd, I'd rate this a little ahead of it because, you know,

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    What did you think?

    Question / challenge

    Prompt: What did you think? Response context: everybody else, but you, you don't have any context other than the other nine episodes

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    ryan rating

    There was room for improvement like most of the rest of the episode, but that scene alone, we're going, we're on 9.3. Scores: 9.3 Answer qualification: I did not like this episode until that point. Score effect method: Um, so as always, I think we're going to bump down every score I've given to every episode so far. Lower on 0.5. Revision interpretation: Owner…

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    There was room for improvement like most of the rest of the episode, but that scene alone, we're going, we're on 9.3. Scores: 9.3 Answer qualification: I did not like this episode until that point. Score effect method: Um, so as always, I think we're going to bump down every score I've given to every episode so far. Lower on 0.5. Revision interpretation: Owner describes the blanket score reduction as mostly ridiculous, expressing shock at how great this episode was. Do not apply a numerical reduction to prior scores.

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    review wrap

    Final state summary: I think we've all, I think each and every one of us has said of what we've seen, this is the best it's been.

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    Does this reinforce your view that it, maybe it's not, or does it make you feel like, oh, this is what they're talking about?

    Question / challenge

    Prompt: Does this reinforce your view that it, maybe it's not, or does it make you feel like, oh, this is what they're talking about?

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    smart answer

    I do think that this was really a smart way to get to a crazy bonkers silly place. So I would say, yeah, but not in the way I expected.

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    outro ↗

    And that's going to do it for us today.

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    postroll ↗

    Ending or payoff: Horny Metcalf.

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    opening ↗

    How this one works

    Setup and instructions
    1. what is something you have spent kind of an absurd amount of money on or indulgence on?
    2. Niles extravagantly spends a lot of money on a fancy sweater, an absurd sweater.
    Context and recorded outcome
    1. Activity request: what is something you have spent kind of an absurd amount of money on or indulgence on? Activity premise: Niles extravagantly spends a lot of money on a fancy sweater, an absurd sweater.

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    And so I want to hear from you all, what is something you have spent kind of an absurd amount of money on or indulgence on?

    Question / challenge

    Prompt: And so I want to hear from you all, what is something you have spent kind of an absurd amount of money on or indulgence on?

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    brad story

    I think I spent $400. And then I opened up the package to find out it was just a cover and there was no beans in the bean bag. So I ended up getting a new bean bag chair, but that's a story for a different day. Answer qualification: A beanbag, sorry.

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    brad story uptake

    Response context: My favorite part of that, which you didn't tell, but I will.

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    apartment story

    So I was spending, like, almost twice as much money on the new apartment and had to pay my full rent on the old apartment for, like, three or four months. Answer qualification: I did not have any buyer's remorse. Response context: The thing that spoiled me on him was he, uh, mid-March when nobody knew what was going on and the pandemic was very scary and it was all very new.

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    Ethan, what about you?

    Question / challenge

    Prompt: Ethan, what about you?

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    ethan story

    And he hands me a Bhagavad Gita and the Hindu scripture. This is fairly lucrative in that I gave him $20. No, I was too mad at myself to ever, I've never read it. Answer qualification: And that book, the actual physical book that I got that day, long gone. Response context: They want to hand you a CD, but it's not a free CD.

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    freeway context

    I did once get a free, an actual free CD at Ohio State. Notable references: Freeway Boys

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    Website lookup and uncertain match

    Activity request: Get a hit on their website. Result qualification: I don't think this is the same one.

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    Brad, punch that in. How are they doing? Get a hit on their website.

    Question / challenge

    Prompt: Brad, punch that in. How are they doing? Get a hit on their website.

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    lookup answer

    The first thing I got is the Freeway Boys untold story. Of Ricky Ross, a prolific cocaine dealer of the dead to late 80s. Result qualification: I don't think this is the same one.

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    Well, Ryan, why don't you bring us home? Tell us your story.

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    Prompt: Well, Ryan, why don't you bring us home? Tell us your story.

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    ryan story

    There are different functions for pillows. You definitely got your knee pillow, your feet pillow, sometimes bear hug, strangle. But I like to go into that mid tier where it's like it's more than 20 bucks, but less than 60. So I've got like 40 pillows when I could have just bought one that lasted forever. Answer qualification: I continue to try to find that mid tier pillow.

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    What do you mean different function? I would like you to elaborate on.

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    Prompt: What do you mean different function? I would like you to elaborate on.

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    Okay, but was it worth it?

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    Prompt: Okay, but was it worth it?

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    Do you still use it?

    Question / challenge

    Prompt: Do you still use it? Final phrase attribution: Who asks “Do you still use it?” about the pillow? Curtis’s ownership and Ryan’s worth-it question are already confirmed.: Ryan

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    pillow anecdote

    Response context: So you have definitely failed in this segment because I've absolutely dropped $100 in a pillow and I'm not even a pillow guy. It only cranked out like late, late last year. And it was an amazing pillow. It was, it was so comfortable. One of the gel packs must've like been punctured and just bled out.

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    opening win joke

    I did win.

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    How this one works

    Setup and instructions
    1. season 11, episode 14, Freudian sleep
    Context and recorded outcome
    1. Prompt item: season 11, episode 14, Freudian sleep Result qualification: Well, we will find out next week with all of you if that happens.

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    Participant cited: Curtis

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    Well, why don't you tell us what to expect next week when we cover the previous episode of season 11, episode 14, Freudian sleep.

    Question / challenge

    Prompt: Well, why don't you tell us what to expect next week when we cover the previous episode of season 11, episode 14, Freudian sleep.

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    Have you told us what's happening next week?

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    Prompt: Have you told us what's happening next week?

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    preview answer

    Obviously Martin's going to be a horndog and it's going to be about him trying to get Frasier with Ronnie. Every other character will be around. Response context: Will we have Ronnie meeting Marty or will Daphne be getting pregnant? Answer qualification: I assume either both are happening in episode one or we're getting Ronnie after the pregnancy news. Result…

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    Obviously Martin's going to be a horndog and it's going to be about him trying to get Frasier with Ronnie. Every other character will be around. Response context: Will we have Ronnie meeting Marty or will Daphne be getting pregnant? Answer qualification: I assume either both are happening in episode one or we're getting Ronnie after the pregnancy news. Result qualification: Well, we will find out next week with all of you if that happens. Activity description: Okay. So I'm not going to do like your traditional prediction for this one. Obviously Martin's going to be a horndog and it's going to be about him trying to get Frasier with Ronnie. Fine. But what I do wanted to call out for our friends in the upside down is it's, it's been a little tougher for us to figure out what's the big moment that's going to happen next. And so I think for us, the thing that we've got our eye on is who's get, what's going to happen first. Will we have Ronnie meeting Marty or will Daphne be getting pregnant? Those are the two I've got my eye on. I assume either both are happening in episode one or we're getting Ronnie after the pregnancy news. So that's, that's how we're handling things in the upside down right now. We're a little panicked because we don't know where to focus. There's too many places that are too many, too many things in motion right now. I just said, I, we know that we know Marty's going to be a horndog. We know Frasier is going to try, he's going to try to get Frasier with Ronnie. That's pretty much it. Every other character will be around.

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    By way of goodbye.

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