Roz: You look great.
Niles: Thank you. Thank you, I tell you it's good to be out after being cooped up in that apartment all week. Hello. [Niles pets Eddie.] I never thought I'd grow tired of reading Flaubert.
Gertrude: Oh please, he's been parked on his ass watching The Young and the Restless.
Frasier: Niles! Not the soaps! You can't be serious.
Niles: Well, I'm hardly hooked. They fascinate me as-as cultural artifact. I was just telling Gertrude, their use of stock figures is reminiscent of the "commedia dell'arte". Yes, uh, Esther is Punchinello, Victor is Flavio, and Nikki, well, she's just the town pump.