‘A Tsar is Born’
Season 7, Episode 7 - Aired November 11, 1999
After Frasier, Niles and Martin bond over their shared love of the Antiques Roadshow, they learn about their family heirloom's Russian origins. Frasier and Niles are delighted to think they may be descendants of the Romanov family.
Quote from Niles
Frasier: My God, Niles, this is it. The final link to our royal past. I'm going to issue a press release.
Niles: Not before I shout it from the rooftops.
Quote from Daphne
Frasier: Daphne, if you don't mind, there is some caviar on the ice in the kitchen. Now would be the appropriate time, if you would, please?
Daphne: Oh. Oh, I am so sorry. Here I am, dawdling with the laundry when it's ten minutes into caviar time.
Quote from Daphne
Dr. Myshkin: This is a copy of the diary of Princess Sonya Romanov, daughter to Tsar Alexander II. At eighteen she fell in love with a commoner, an American.Their union, of course, was forbidden, but Sonya decided to give everything up for love.
Frasier: Quelle elegance.
Dr. Myshkin: She enlisted the aid of a scullery maid, who smuggled money, clothing and this bear clock out of the palace.
Niles: She would elope to America!
Dr. Myshkin: Yes, that was her plan. But when Sonya found her way to the train station under the cover of night, the scullery maid absconded with everything, including the clock.
Niles: Servants!
Frasier: There's a back aching for the lash!
Daphne: I'm moving as fast as I can.
Quote from Martin
Martin: You sold it! I hope you got a good price.
Frasier: Gee, Dad, I hope you didn't buy a boat.
Martin: No, I was thinking of it and then I thought, oh hell, we've been getting along so well... [to Frasier] And you don't like fishing. [to Niles] And you get seasick. Why buy something if we can't all enjoy it? So I bought this.
Niles: A Winnebago.
Martin: Yeah!
Frasier: A big one.
Martin: Thirty-three footer, with air suspension and power jacks. Thirty thousand used, but you got that much for the clock, right?
Frasier: Of course.