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Classic Frasier · Season 8 · Episode 4

The Great Crane Robbery

IN THE ROOM

RyanBrad(ley)Curtis

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Brad(ley)C−Recorded at 46:39Letter grade
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Curtis#59 of 103Recorded at 46:44Ordinal ranking
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  • Owner clarification: Brad's grade is C−. Curtis's later ‘You gave it a C+’ was a verbal slip, not a changed grade. Curtis's #59 of 103 remains unchanged.
Ryan5.4/10Recorded at 48:23Numeric score

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By way of introduction.

Curtis

your host

Original introduction wording
  • your host
Brad(ley)

a man wearing a tux · it's a hideous blend

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  • a man wearing a tux
  • it's a hideous blend
Ryan

resident upside downer

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  • resident upside downer

Someone brought rules.

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

Source excerpt ↗ 48:50–1:07:31

Led by Curtis

Instead, it served a new purpose. To offer a place for Frasier to sit and existentially spiral. But what else could the Powder Room be? We will find out in a new segment we are calling Extreme Makeover Powder Room Edition. You're so proud of that name. You should have heard the previous name. Now we have to. It was so bad. Dual Purpose Powder Dome. All right,…

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Instead, it served a new purpose. To offer a place for Frasier to sit and existentially spiral. But what else could the Powder Room be? We will find out in a new segment we are calling Extreme Makeover Powder Room Edition. You're so proud of that name. You should have heard the previous name. Now we have to. It was so bad. Dual Purpose Powder Dome. All right, let's stick with the Extreme Makeover Powder Room Edition. I don't hate it. I didn't like the Dual Purpose. It was a tough start, but like, yeah, it's kind of fun. Kind of a fun twist at the end. I wanted to do something like Power Up, like Powder Up, but it doesn't, that just sounds like you're doing cocaine. All right, I'll be playing this ridiculous game that probably makes no sense. We are going to collectively redesign the Powder Room to have a second purpose. It's still going to be a Powder Room, but it's going to serve some other purpose. So to start, we need to pick what that will be. So who's got thoughts on what they would like this Powder Room to have double duty doing? Let's go full man cave. Let's put a bar in there. Let's put a TV. Let's get like, you know, like a barber's chair so you can do the haircuts in there.

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RESULT STATUS

This one was not a competition.

Taking part: CurtisBrad(ley)Ryan

What was recorded

What everyone brought to the table · 23 recorded contributions

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:04:49

Design choice

we maintain the idea of the dead animal, but instead of being a literal, like, moose head, what if it's, like, circuit boards or, like, a very tech-focused approach where it's, like, the dead parts of a machine?

proposed

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:00:11

Design choice

a defense system, and I like a projectile

proposed
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RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:07:08

Design choice

So you've got two vacuum tubes. One has that little canister that you can write notes in and send off to Daphne's room. Or just send it straight to her bedroom. And the other one, it doesn't take a canister. It's just sort of an open, always-on vacuum that you can toss your peanut shells into. Fine, I would go for that

accepted

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 50:38

Design choice

the bathroom was also a library?

proposed

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 58:11

Design choice

we get a 60 inch TV that folds in half

proposed

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 59:21

Design choice

continue to theoretically invent it

proposed

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:06:07

Design choice

we got, like, a vacuum receptacle that I could shoot the peanuts into?

proposed

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:01:09

Design choice

the outside of the powder room door into sort of a shelf of books that disguises it as just a shelf of books

proposed

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 52:37

Design choice

toilet lounging, comfortable seat

proposed

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:06:03

Design choice

we got, so you know how your house growing up had a vacuum built into the wall for no reason?

proposed

The rest of the round record

1 primary recorded exchange · 4 retained source actions. 4 additional round events; 0 overlapping source alternatives. A source action may be a clue, reply, reaction or interruption—not necessarily a participant answer.

Round
Source excerpt ↗ 48:50–1:07:31
Additional recorded round evidence (4)
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  • Instead, it served a new purpose. To offer a place for Frasier to sit and existentially spiral. But what else could the Powder Room be? We will find out in a new segment we are calling Extreme Makeover Powder Room Edition. You're so proud of that name. You should have heard the previous name. Now we have to. It was so bad. Dual Purpose Powder Dome. All right, let's stick with the Extreme Makeover Powder Room Edition. I don't hate it. I didn't like the Dual Purpose. It was a tough start, but like, yeah, it's kind of fun. Kind of a fun twist at the end. I wanted to do something like Power Up, like Powder Up, but it doesn't, that just sounds like you're doing cocaine. All right, I'll be playing this ridiculous game that probably makes no sense. We are going to collectively redesign the Powder Room to have a second purpose. It's still going to be a Powder Room, but it's going to serve some other purpose. So to start, we need to pick what that will be. So who's got thoughts on what they would like this Powder Room to have double duty doing? Let's go full man cave. Let's put a bar in there. Let's put a TV. Let's get like, you know, like a barber's chair so you can do the haircuts in there.
  • Participants perform a structured creative or improvisational activity tied to the episode. No competitive scoring or winner is stated.
  • Now we have to.
  • We are going to collectively redesign the Powder Room to have a second purpose.
  • So to start, we need to pick what that will be.
  • Well, what do we think collectively?
  • You're not like it's more difficult to get the work done that you need to toilet wise.
  • Occasionally, people might have to do, you know, like they might throw up in there and you don't really want to get it on the nice like pleather or whatever we've got.
  • First of all, we need to upgrade the toilet no matter what.
  • You put like your Xbox or whatever, whatever you have to mount to like gamify and provide entertainment for the TV.
  • I think you have to for a man cave.
  • Okay, I didn't think I'd have to defend this, but it's more fun to shoot at people, you know, non-lethally.
  • We're like, I need to figure out how to have a fake bookshelf door.
  • Finishing touches, is there any final details that we need to get right to really seal the deal?
  • See, I was thinking we were going to have to revive that Roomba, but you're right, that is a more interesting.
  • Vacuum tubes are really a thing that we need to talk more about, just in society.

Comic bits and episode moments.

Source excerpt ↗ 41:10–42:11

With Ryan

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what is the best and most correctest way to employ zebra print in a living room situation?

Taking part: Brad(ley)

What was recorded

Same question. Their actual answers. · 2 recorded contributions

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 41:20–41:36

room situation? Curt. Look, we've talked about it a million times. I am a cat guy now. Obviously the only way, you know, as an animal lover, as I am, the only way to employ zebra print appropriately in your home is to get a zebra as a pet. Oh my God. Baller move.

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 41:37–42:00

Brad, you're going to have to talk. That's a tough one. Normally Curt gives you softballs, but he threw a hard one your way. What do you got? I have a friend growing up who I'm still friends with now and his mom, when I would go to their house, they had zebra cups. Everything, all their cups were zebra print. So my answer is going to be cups. For the living room? For every room. Yeah. There was zebra cups everywhere. Zebra cups as a decor choice is bananas. It was a little weird.

RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE

Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 40:50–42:31

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Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 41:42

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What do you got?

I have a friend growing up who I'm still friends with now and his mom, when I would go to their house, they had zebra cups.

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  • Well, you can always use it to polish the floors.

By way of goodbye.

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