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Decoys

‘Decoys’

Season 6, Episode 16 -  Aired February 25, 1999

When Niles is feeling down about the fact he's finally single but Daphne is not, Frasier encourages him to look for a new relationship. Instead, Niles attempts to reunite Donny and Roz so he can be with Daphne.

Quote from Martin

Frasier: Niles and Roz? It's just ridiculous.
Martin: Oh, not this again.
Frasier: Well, they are just completely incompatible.
Martin: Well, haven't you ever heard about "opposites attracting"? I mean, look at your mother and me. We went together for six months, nobody thought it would last, we had forty happy years together.
Frasier: Never thought of it that way.
Martin: Yeah. And then, there are those relationships where people have a ton of things in common and of course they always work out real well. [laughs]
Frasier: Thank you, Dad, I suppose that was a backhanded comment about me and Lilith.
Martin: Wouldn't it be great if she was flying by here on her broomstick right now?

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Quote from Niles

Roz: Why don't you just admit it? You're just doing this because you want Daphne.
Niles: Yes! Yes! Yes, I want Daphne. I think we belong together. Just like I think you and Donny belong together. And why should two people be happy when four people can be ecstatic?

Quote from Niles

Niles: Oh, in a funny way this reminds me of that wonderful moment in "A Streetcar Named Desire" when the brutish Stanley says to the ultra-refined Blanche, "We've had this date with each other from the beginning."
Roz: Well, I don't know the play all that well, but I can tell you right now I'm not all that refined.
Niles: No, actually I was picturing you more as Stanley.

Quote from Frasier

Frasier: Oh God, you haven't even heard the worst yet, Niles. The butcher shop was closed, so here I am with all my spices, everything I need to make my duck a l'orange, all I've got's the l'orange!

Quote from Roz

Frasier: Niles, one last warning. Take it from someone who knows you both, you and Roz are not a good couple.
Niles: I understand you're saying that, but believe me, I have seen a new Roz today and underneath that brazen exterior she is a sweet, sensitive, shy, and vulnerable woman.
Roz: [o.s.] Niles, have you seen my nipples?

Quote from Frasier

Niles: I just don't understand. What does she see in him? If you were Daphne, would you go out with Donny?
Frasier: Well, no, but I wouldn't massage Dad's ass for what I pay her either.

Quote from Martin

Frasier: Are you insane? I'm not going to shoot any ducks. It's barbaric.
Martin: Oh, I get it. You'll eat them but you won't kill them. What do you think, these things are born "a l'orange?"

Quote from Frasier

Martin: Oh, hey. How was your afternoon?
Daphne: Do you know what this wonderful man did?
Donny: Oh, Daphne, please don't...
Daphne: [shushes] He filled a basket full of me favorite English foods: blood pudding, jellied eels, kidney pie, and then he hid it in the shrub so we'd stumble upon it during our stroll through the park.
Donny: I was only a little afraid that somebody would find it before we got there, but fortunately, untouched.
Frasier: Yes, well just because it was untouched doesn't mean someone didn't find it.

Quote from Martin

Niles: Oh, I'm sorry. What am I supposed to do? For the first time since I've known her, I'm free and single and now she's with someone. I'm supposed to just suffer in silence?
Martin: I'd take that.

Quote from Frasier

Frasier: Well, that's all right, Dad. Niles can go up on Friday night, put things together, and then you and I can drive up on Saturday afternoon.
Niles: Why not? It's a fabulous place, Dad. It's got a stereo and a big screen TV, and a sauna, wine cellar.
Frasier: Perfect for three guys roughing it in the wilderness.

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