Cyrano, Cyrano – Episode 2 begins with Doctor Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) and his associates comparing their Valentine’s Day plans. Frasier apparently has dinner plans with a woman he recently met at the grocery store. He can’t hide his frustration when he learns that Eve (Jess Salgueiro) will be working and Freddy Crane (Jack Cutmore-Scott) plans on spending the evening with Tiny (Kevin Daniels), throwing an old dishwasher off the roof of their apartment building. Moose (Jimmy Dunn) overhears Frasier ranting and approaches him for help with a woman he’s started recently seeing.

While retrieving his copy of Robert Burn’s love poems, Frasier ends up dispensing more advice of the heart after suspecting Olivia Finch (Toks Olagundoye) is feeling down. He’ll initially and incorrectly assume she is referring to firing Alan Cornwall (Nicholas Lyndhurst) when she admits to wanting to part ways with someone but not knowing how to approach it.

Professor Demeritus – Out of fear that Olivia was referring to Alan, Frasier visits him to get ahead of the situation. Although Alan initially admits that it would be a major career setback and Frasier assures him they will fight the dismissal, Alan says it could be the change he needs.

Things aren’t going much better for Eve, who suddenly finds herself short-staffed at the bar due to the holidays. Lucky for her, Freddy is free until dark. Their attention will soon be directed toward Frasier who arrives to ask about cologne for his evening with Carol (Angelique Cabral). It’ll turn out that it won’t matter because she’ll cancel over a text very shortly. Although Eve and Freddy suspect she is blowing him off and this will be the end of their relationship, Frasier refuses to buy it. This will send Frasier into another tyrannical rant about how people aren’t willing to work for love these days, but he’ll soon become distracted when Moose arrives to deliver even more bad news. Frasier takes it upon himself to change Moose’s luck by giving him his dinner reservation and then helping him compose a romantic text. Frasier will soon be racing off to help the now frantic Olivia, but shortly before, Moose will insist on him taking his phone so he can appropriately reply when his mystery date responds to the dinner request.

Once in Olivia’s office, it doesn’t take Frasier long to realize that Olivia’s texts are synching up Moose’s phone. Despite this, he appears to be pleased with the success he’s having and just can’t seem to help himself. Before he knows it, he’s practically using both phones to text back and forth to himself. By the time he’s done, he’s inspired Olivia to completely change her mind about dating Moose.

O Alan! O Alan – Feeling a bit inspired himself and wanting to go out with a bang, Alan delivers a shocking inspiring lecture to his students. Frasier will soon bring that to an end when he randomly shows up to declare that he was wrong about Alan getting fired.

Frasier will find himself pulled even further into the ruse when he returns Moose’s phone to at Eve’s Bar. Arriving at Les Charles before Olivia or Moose, he’ll have a brief conversation with the bartender, Holly (Patricia Heaton), who shockingly enough, shares everyone else’s belief that love should be easy and if it isn’t, it isn’t worth the effort. Their debate will only be briefly interrupted by a frantic Olivia, who shows up requesting his help.

Once Moose shows up, Frasier spends several awkward minutes behind a plant, going back and forth, offering advice to both Moose and Olivia. This doesn’t go so well and after receiving a text from Carol, canceling the cancelation, Frasier will go from trying to keep them together to trying to split them apart, so he can use the reservation.

Failing The Bar – By the end of his first bartending shift, Freddy will learn he’s much better at the advice-providing side of the job than serving. Frasier’s evening takes an unexpected turn when his and Carol’s evening reaches a discussion about children. After sharing a bit about Freddy, she’ll claim to have eight kids that he very shortly learns are snakes. The episode ends with Frasier faking an emergency text and bailing on Carol.

 

Frasier Review

This was certainly a fun Valentine-themed episode. I appreciated Frasier’s commitment to go above and beyond for love as well as Alan’s lackluster attitude to teaching. Some of the scenes got a bit cringe at times, especially near the ending where Frasier was going back and forth providing alternating advice to Moose and Olivia. Freddy’s bit at the bar was pretty horrible, but other than this, not an all-around bad episode, especially for a Valentine’s theme. I’d have to give it a 5.6 out of 10.

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