Frasier/Tear Jerker

Frasier has had many Tear Jerkers in its eleven seasons.

• Say what you want about Season 10, Rooms With a View is one long tearjerker as Niles goes for surgery. It's heightened when Niles keeps saying Daphne's name - just in case.
  • And Martin's flashback concerning Hester's diagnosis of cancer.
• In the final episode, when Niles said, "I'll miss the coffees."
• In the episode Frasier's Edge, Frasier's mentor, Dr. Tewksbury, is trying to help him through a crisis of confidence. He advises to diagnose himself as if he were a caller on his own show. Frasier tries to stall by bringing up numerous exercises, but Tewksbury pushes him to deal with his feelings. Finally, Frasier breaks down:

Frasier: But I don't know what he wants! Dr. Tewksbury: Then why do you keep trying to bury him in psychiatric exercises? Frasier: Because that's all I have! [long pause, Tewksbury looks at him sadly] Frasier (whispering): ...I'm sorry, caller. I can't help you.

• In the Season 9 episode "Deathtrap," after Martin explains about "Hamster Heaven" to console Roz's daughter Alice about her dead pet, Alice asks about whether Eddie would be going to "Dog Heaven." Martin laughs and says not for a long time. But after she leaves, Martin looks somber and calls Eddie over to his lap for a hug. The look on his face as he realizes that Eddie won't be around forever made me tear up.

• "I'll miss the coffees."
  • "While it's tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took." Damn you, damn you, damn you and your tear jerking abilities, Kelsey Grammer.
• Daphne's breakdown while Niles is in surgery.
• The home movies of Frasier and Niles' mother.
• "Take it from someone who knows... you don't want to spend half your life thinking about a chance you didn't take."
• At the end of the 2001-2002 season premier, these words appeared on the screen: "In loving memory of our friends Lynn and David Angell". The executive producer and his wife, killed aboard the first plane to hit the World Trade Center.
  • When Niles & Daphne named their baby David in the series finale.
• In the 9th Season, when Martin calls Eddie over for a hug after realizing how old he's gotten, and that he won't be around forever.