Top 10 Stars You Forgot Were on Frasier
Frasier had some famous patients. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the big time guest stars that we didn’t remember had appearances on the sitcom, “Frasier.”
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00:00 Oh, Anka, you'll never guess what huge Seattle cliche I'm in right now.
00:05 Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the big-time guest stars
00:11 that we didn't remember had appearances on the sitcom "Frasier."
00:14 I hope that answers your question, Walter.
00:15 It's a feature of XP, very quick, very smooth. Hey, this is fun.
00:20 Number 10, Jane Lynch.
00:23 For some, Jane Lynch was a new face when she showed up as cheerleading coach
00:27 Sue Sylvester on "Glee" in 2009.
00:30 And maybe that's your problem. Bigotry is no laughing matter.
00:33 That's how Sue sees it.
00:36 Outstanding.
00:39 But Lynch had been acting on the small and big screen for two decades already,
00:43 appearing in a large number of television shows, including an episode of "Frasier" in 1996.
00:48 Well, this is nice.
00:53 Yes, it is.
00:57 I like it.
00:59 In the season four episode "A Lilith Thanksgiving," Lynch plays Cynthia,
01:05 a pretentious uptight mother whose son attends the private school
01:08 Frasier and Lilith are desperately trying to get Frederick into.
01:11 She might not be as badass as Sylvester, but Cynthia does still like to tell it like she sees it.
01:16 Now, now, Barclay is a very charming little school.
01:21 Little school?
01:22 Don't be so sensitive.
01:24 Damn your condescension.
01:26 Damn your jealousy.
01:28 Don't talk to my wife that way.
01:29 Number nine, Dan Castellaneta.
01:32 Although Dan Castellaneta is on one of the longest running and most popular television shows
01:36 of all time, it's still easy to miss him when he makes guest appearances on other shows.
01:41 Because, well, he isn't actually yellow with a few strands of hair and four fingers.
01:45 Lisa, stop the racket. I'm trying to fix your mother's camera.
01:48 Oh, easy, easy.
01:50 I'm gonna need a bigger drill.
01:55 But while he spent over 30 years as the voice of Homer Simpson,
01:59 Castellaneta has done some live action acting as well.
02:02 Like when he played a patient on Frasier in an episode that had Dr. Crane considering
02:06 seeing patients in person again.
02:07 I'm Brad Kincaid. That's not my real name.
02:11 I'll just get it off your insurance form.
02:15 And he wasn't Frasier's only famous patient that episode.
02:19 The hilarious Sarah Silverman also sat on the couch across from the good doctor in that one.
02:23 She called me milady and I called her milady.
02:26 Number 8. Lori Metcalf
02:29 Which I don't know who. Is it you?
02:32 Peek-a-boo!
02:33 Give a clue.
02:34 Peek-a-boo!
02:35 Guess I better go and sneak a peek-a-boo.
02:38 Peek-a-boo!
02:40 Actress Lori Metcalf played Frasier Crane's first wife, Nanette Guzman,
02:44 in the show's final season.
02:45 However, if this was a list of stars you forgot were on Shears,
02:49 then we would actually be talking about Emma Thompson as Guzman,
02:52 as it was she who played the character on that show in 1992.
02:55 Today is to-to-day. Freddy's turning to-to-day.
03:01 Hoot-de-hoot-de-hoot-de-hoot-de-hoot-de-hoot-de-to-day.
03:05 But for whatever reason, when Guzman's character was brought back for the spin-off in 2004,
03:09 Thompson didn't return to reprise her role.
03:12 And so, that's when Metcalf,
03:14 best known at the time for playing Jackie on Roseanne, became Nanny G.
03:18 If you knew how bored I am being Nanny G, how trapped I feel.
03:24 You have a wonderful career.
03:26 But nothing ever changes. Do you have any idea what it's like to play
03:29 the same character for 20 years?
03:32 Number 7. Jennifer Coolidge
03:36 Well, that's human nature, Dr. Crane. People neglect their exercising for many reasons.
03:42 Holidays, travel, illness, lack of time, death.
03:48 From Phoebe and Monica's ex-roommate who's now living in England on Friends
03:52 to a Polish businesswoman on Two Broke Girls,
03:54 comedic actress Jennifer Coolidge has played many different characters
03:58 and had many different accents throughout her career.
04:00 That's my boots.
04:02 Oh, it's lovely to meet ya.
04:05 What?
04:07 What the hell kind of accent is that?
04:12 Including the time she played Frederica,
04:16 a no-nonsense German physical therapist filling in for Daphne on a season 8 episode of Frasier.
04:21 Frederica is confident in what she does, and she sure doesn't take no for an answer.
04:26 Now that we think of it, she's kind of like Stifler's mom, but different.
04:29 The secret is exercise, hard work, then good food, and lots of it when you've earned it.
04:35 Number 6. Rita Wilson
04:38 There have been studies showing that men are attracted to women who look like their mother.
04:42 Mia looks exactly like our mother.
04:44 Mrs. Crane? I've only seen photos of mine, but now that you mention it, there is a resemblance.
04:52 And even a great psychiatric mind like Frasier Crane wasn't immune to this
04:56 psychological fact of human nature, as we saw in the season 7 premiere,
04:59 when he starts dating Mia Preston, a woman who looks exactly like his mother.
05:04 Do you two see what I see? My God, they could be twins.
05:07 Frasier, take it easy.
05:09 Yeah, you do see it. How could you miss it?
05:12 This is a fact that everyone around him picks up on before he does.
05:15 Rita Wilson plays Mia here. When Frasier's mother makes an appearance in season 9 as
05:20 he's trying to figure out how come his relationships don't work out,
05:23 Hester Crane is played by, of course, Rita Wilson.
05:27 But it's completely understandable. I was your first love.
05:30 Ladies, meet the competition. This is the woman against whom we have all been measured.
05:36 Number 5. Zooey Deschanel
05:38 It's like a parody of itself.
05:40 How so?
05:41 Oh, you know, double-decker buses, bobbies, little pubs. It's like Epcot, but even fakier.
05:47 So I bailed.
05:49 It's very possible you remember the season 10 episode of Frasier entitled "Kissing Cousin,"
05:54 in which Raz's younger cousin comes to visit. But don't remember that said cousin was played
05:58 by Zooey Deschanel. Because not only was 2002 only about four years into Deschanel's acting career,
06:04 but she also wasn't sporting the dark hair and bangs we've all come to associate with
06:08 this talented actress.
06:10 Listen, sweetie, why don't you go out by yourself tonight?
06:12 Oh, come on, Maribel. Have some fun.
06:15 Don't do that.
06:16 Do what, Maribel?
06:17 Knock it off. I'm serious.
06:19 However, she did still have the blonde locks the following year in the hit Christmas comedy "Elf."
06:23 How many of us remember she was in that movie?
06:26 Number 4. Laura Linney
06:37 It can be a little embarrassing to admit you need help in the romance department. Please, come in.
06:41 No, this was a mistake.
06:43 I understand. Come in.
06:46 Actress Laura Linney appeared in more episodes of the show than anyone else on our list,
06:52 and played a significant role in the final season and series finale as well.
06:57 Linney played Charlotte, a matchmaker who Frasier falls hard for,
07:01 even after discovering that she had scammed him out of $10,000.
07:05 And if you'll let me, I'm gonna find someone fantastic for you too, Frasier,
07:08 because you deserve it.
07:09 And because you have my $10,000.
07:11 Are you gonna mention that every time you say that?
07:15 Linney appeared in five episodes that final season,
07:18 including one in which she and Frasier break up rather than pursue their relationship long distance.
07:23 But, as Frasier fans remember, the series ends with Frasier foregoing a television
07:28 opportunity in San Francisco in order to go to Chicago in an attempt to make things work
07:33 with Charlotte.
07:34 Well, I just know I'd always regret it if I didn't take the chance.
07:36 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Chicago.
07:40 For your safety, the captain is asking you to remain seated.
07:43 Wish me luck.
07:44 Number three, Michael Keaton.
07:46 Well, the truth is I've been in a terrible accident.
07:49 I've lost all feeling from my waist down.
07:51 The doctors tell me I'll be like this for the rest of my life.
07:53 Oh, hi, everybody. Blaine Sterner.
07:55 Yes, it's true. Batman was on an episode of Frasier.
07:58 However, rather than playing a superhero on the show,
08:01 Michael Keaton played Lilith's half-brother Blaine Sternan.
08:04 He was an unscrupulous con artist who had conned Frasier in the past,
08:08 but appeared to have changed his ways following a car accident that left him using a wheelchair.
08:13 Hey, you know, this is, uh, this is really gonna help some needy people now that I know what the
08:18 heck it is.
08:18 Appearances can be deceiving, though.
08:22 Just as Bruce Wayne was able to keep his alter ego a secret from the folks in Gotham City,
08:27 so too was Blaine eventually able to convince Frasier of his good intentions
08:30 while successfully accomplishing his more nefarious goals.
08:34 Number two, Bill Gates.
08:39 Ladies and gentlemen, let's please welcome Microsoft chairman Bill Gates.
08:43 Good to see you, sir.
08:45 Sorry I was late.
08:46 Oh, that's all right.
08:46 Just talking to an old friend.
08:48 Yes.
08:53 According to his IMDb page, Bill Gates has only made three appearances on television shows.
08:58 Silicon Valley, The Big Bang Theory, and his acting debut in 2001 on the 200th episode of Frasier.
09:06 Gates played himself, appearing as a guest on The Doctor's 2000th show
09:10 ostensibly to congratulate him and do an interview.
09:13 A fan of my show?
09:14 Excuse me, Warren from Kirkland is online too.
09:18 Yes, Roz, I won't be taking any calls until after Mr. Gates has left.
09:22 Actually, it's for Mr. Gates.
09:23 However, once he arrives,
09:25 Frasier's audience bombards the station with calls for the Microsoft chairman.
09:29 Within minutes, Frasier has been pushed aside and Gates has taken over the show,
09:33 even using The Doctor's "I'm listening" catchphrase to greet the callers.
09:37 Who do we have next, Roz?
09:39 We have Bob from Fremont. He has a question about his laptop.
09:42 Go ahead, Bob. I'm listening.
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10:01 Seems like every sitcom in the 90s and early 2000s had to have one episode
10:09 in which a straight character is comically suspected of being gay.
10:12 Do you want a date Saturday?
10:14 Yes, please.
10:15 Okay.
10:15 He is cute. He's funny.
10:20 He's a he?
10:21 Well, yeah.
10:21 In the case of Frasier, that happened in season 11 when Frasier went to a gay bar
10:26 to find out what the sexual orientation of Roz's boyfriend was.
10:29 My furniture polisher.
10:30 Don't tell me you put away paste and shaggy for life as a barkeep.
10:34 I just do this on the side.
10:36 Oh, well, but you're surprised to see me in here.
10:38 Okay.
10:40 This makes everyone believe Frasier himself is attracted to men,
10:45 and leads to The Doctor accepting the flirtations from an opera director.
10:49 The latter is played by Patrick Stewart.
10:52 And Frasier goes along with things for longer than he should
10:54 because Alastair Burke has the in with the high society
10:57 that the titular character so craves to be a part of.
11:00 How it sharpens the appetite.
11:03 How it builds the intensity.
11:07 The heat, the desire.
11:08 Can you feel it?
11:10 Oh, yes, there it is.
11:11 Who was your favorite Frasier guest star?
11:15 Put down your tossed salad and scrambled eggs and leave us a comment below.
11:18 Look, Dr. Crane, the lines are hot.
11:20 Really hot.
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