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Classic Frasier · Season 8 · Episode 23

A Day in May

IN THE ROOM

RyanBrad(ley)Curtis

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Episode ratings.

Brad(ley)D−Recorded at 31:50Letter grade
Curtis#54 of 84Recorded at 32:13Ordinal ranking
Ryan4.8/10Recorded at 32:38Numeric score

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By way of introduction.

Curtis

your host

Original introduction wording
  • your host
Brad(ley)

a man who doesn't deserve parole

Original introduction wording
  • a man who doesn't deserve parole
  • who doesn't deserve parole
Ryan

Introduction recorded; no additional descriptor.

Someone brought rules.

The games, the premises, and what everyone brought to the table.

Source excerpt ↗ 17:15–18:21

Led by Ryan

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RESULT STATUS

This one was not a competition.

How did she use it?

Taking part: Brad(ley)

What was recorded

Same question. Their actual answers. · 2 recorded contributions

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 17:37–17:52

Oh, so I guess I don't have to worry about that being a new phaser. It would be weird, since you know Niles isn't in it. I don't know. I haven't seen the second season. Her irrational demand was, once we have a kid, you can never physically be in the same room with your brother again. Why is that irrational? Fair point.

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 17:52–18:09

Brad? I don't know. I don't talk to my brother. No. How did Daphne use her irrational demand? To get Daphne to have sex with her. They must have been in the dog park. Only you think that. She used it to get him to play a sport with friends. That's pretty good. Maybe like a pickleball or something. I think cricket. And she tricked him in because of the outfits. Ooh.

The rest of the round record

3 primary recorded exchanges · 0 retained source actions. 0 additional round events; 0 overlapping source alternatives. A source action may be a clue, reply, reaction or interruption—not necessarily a participant answer.

Recorded turns
Source excerpt ↗ 16:58–18:42

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 18:22

“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.

What is the hashtag?

Hashtag Twitter question of the week.

View source wording — how it was explained on the show
  • How did she use it?
  • Her irrational demand was, once we have a kid, you can never physically be in the same
  • answer, answer our Twitter question of the week any way you can.

Game / activity

Supply, a Demand ↗

Source excerpt ↗ 34:26–48:43

Led by Curtis

How this one works

How it works
  1. Respond to a prompt with an irrational demand expressed as a single word.
Objective
  1. The other participants try to work out what the demand means.
Recorded activity context

All right, name for someone who has no idea how economics work. What are economics? Right. Okay. All right. So I'm going to give some prompts. And it is going to be up to us to sum up our demand, irrational though it may be, with a single word. And then the rest of us have to figure out what the hell you mean. So who would like to go first? Asking for a friend.…

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All right, name for someone who has no idea how economics work. What are economics? Right. Okay. All right. So I'm going to give some prompts. And it is going to be up to us to sum up our demand, irrational though it may be, with a single word. And then the rest of us have to figure out what the hell you mean. So who would like to go first? Asking for a friend. What if we only think rationally? He's asking for me. I'm asking for Brad. In that case, you would be Spock, but you don't watch Star Trek, so I don't think that's right. No, no, I'm asking for Brad. A very normal, regular human being. Someone you barely trust, like Roz, wants to borrow your car. What do you irrationally demand, Ryan? Wiggle. You expect them to get the soundtrack to the Wiggle stuck in your CD player. What? Every part of that was weird. Uh, no. Not, obviously not it.

RESULT STATUS

This one was not a competition.

Taking part: CurtisBrad(ley)Ryan

See how they answered

What everyone brought to the table · 8 recorded exchanges

3 attributed voices

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 35:03–35:15

“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.

What do you irrationally demand, Ryan Sansone?

Question / challenge

Wiggle. You expect them to get the soundtrack to the Wiggle stuck in your CD player. What? Every part of that was weird. Uh, no. Not, obviously not it.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 36:27–36:35

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Brad(ley), what's your word?

Question / challenge

Flower. Is Brad the kind of guy who just wants a nice bouquet? That does sound like an irrational Brad thing. Like he would call it a power move.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 36:28–36:39

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Is Brad(ley) the kind of guy who just wants a nice bouquet?

Question / challenge

That does sound like an irrational Brad thing. Like he would call it a power move. Like, ah, I made them give me a bouquet of flowers. It really threw them off.

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RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 37:08–37:17

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Brad(ley), are we, can we go warmer, colder?

Question / challenge

You guys are warm. You have two separate ideas that you just got to combine into one, but you're close. You're warm. You want a bouquet of weed?

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 38:11–38:19

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Curtis, what's yours?

Question / challenge

My word is duck. You're willing to lend them your car, but when they drive by ducks on the road, they have to quack. Doesn't make sense. Not in an irrational way.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 42:15–42:29

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Can you stop eating food while talking, Brad(ley)?

Question / challenge

That's what Curtis calls funerals. That's funny. What's the irrational answer, though? He wasn't answering for the game. He was just informing you about my habits. You demand that your significant other also calls a funeral a finale.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 46:32–46:40

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Well, he would just call Brad Harbor, right?

Question / challenge

He doesn't he doesn't apply the lead. Yeah, you're in his name. There's no way he would demand that. That's too irrational. You're right. It would be Brad.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 46:54–47:06

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That is like extremely Brad(ley), though, isn't it?

Question / challenge

Sure is a good answer. Thank you. You guys did well on this. Ryan, bring us help. Two. Your irrational thing is you with two of every animals because then you want to take them

The rest of the round record

16 primary recorded exchanges · 0 retained source actions. 0 additional round events; 0 overlapping source alternatives. A source action may be a clue, reply, reaction or interruption—not necessarily a participant answer.

Recorded turns
Source excerpt ↗ 34:09–49:06

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 35:03

“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.

What do you irrationally demand, Ryan Sansone?

Wiggle.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 36:27

“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.

Brad(ley), what's your word?

Flower.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 37:08

“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.

Brad(ley), are we, can we go warmer, colder?

You guys are warm.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 37:16

“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.

You want a bouquet of weed?

No, it is my attempt at a power move, Curtis, and it does involve marijuana.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 39:32

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I designed a game in which at least my first answer followed the prompt.

That is revolutionary.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 40:47

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What would it be?

What would it be?

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 42:16

“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.

Can you stop eating food while talking, Brad?

That's what Curtis calls funerals.

RECORDED EXCHANGE

Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 42:29

“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.

Is that what it is?

It's not that.

View source wording — how it was explained on the show
  • All right, name for someone who has no idea how economics work. What are economics? Right. Okay. All right. So I'm going to give some prompts. And it is going to be up to us to sum up our demand, irrational though it may be, with a single word. And then the rest of us have to figure out what the hell you mean. So who would like to go first? Asking for a friend. What if we only think rationally? He's asking for me. I'm asking for Brad. In that case, you would be Spock, but you don't watch Star Trek, so I don't think that's right. No, no, I'm asking for Brad. A very normal, regular human being. Someone you barely trust, like Roz, wants to borrow your car. What do you irrationally demand, Ryan? Wiggle. You expect them to get the soundtrack to the Wiggle stuck in your CD player. What? Every part of that was weird. Uh, no. Not, obviously not it.
  • A moderator reads questions or prompts and players answer them for points.
  • And then the rest of us have to figure out what the hell you mean.
  • Maybe you need to like, but you have to like jiggle the keys to get them in or something.
  • I think your seat's so broken, you kind of have to like wiggle into the driver's seat.
  • When you put a car seat in, you have to get it very secure and firm.
  • I mean, I can get that thing cinched in, but you really have to, you have to fight the damn
  • You have to go to bed.
  • says you don't have to.
  • I just need to know you would.
  • I think we need to tell us.
  • You don't have to manage Monopoly money.
  • There are shows that will test me, but they have to be really bad like that.
  • Oh, your irrational request is they have to watch every episode of the TV show The Crown?
  • Just to clarify, Brad, what you're asking for doesn't have to help with the hostages.

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Powder Room Alert

Source excerpt ↗ 22:31

immediately what his plan was? Because I was lost. Yeah, I was totally lost. And it's after seeing the finished product, it looked really crazy. Yeah. I think we did have a powder room alert, though.

The source records recap interpretation, personal discussion, factual lookup, noncompetitive opinion, or production/sign-off context. This excerpt supplies no independently established recurring comic-bit occurrence.

Comic bits and episode moments.

Source excerpt ↗ 23:16

With Curtis

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So, Brad, you're going to break the tie. But you have to if you're going to roll in Ryan's favor, you have to introduce the powder room alert. That's fair. And if you're not, do your regular Buzzkillie thing.

By way of goodbye.

Previously, next week.

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Looking ahead

Next episode predictions

Source excerpt ↗ 48:43–49:43

With Ryan

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What was recorded

Their next-episode predictions · 13 recorded contributions

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