Frasier Quote #2439
Quote from Frasier in Motor Skills
Randy: Anyway, let's, uh, start with the basics. A car burns gasoline to create small, carefully-timed explosions, whose energy is converted by the engine into forward motion. I'll show you how that happens.
[As Randy explains to the class:]
Frasier: So, the engine is just like the timpani, the way it drives the orchestra forward.
Niles: The conductor drives the orchestra, not the timpani.
Frasier: Niles, the conductor guides the orchestra. He's more like the steering wheel. The actual driving forward, the driving forward is actually executed by the percussion section.
Niles: Seems like someone needs to take a class in orchestra rather than automobiles.
Randy: ...which links the crankshaft to the camshaft, so that the valves are in sync with the pistons.
Shirley: Oh.
Randy: Now, as you can imagine, tolerance is very important in every component...
Niles: What's a camshaft?
Frasier: I don't know, you were talking.
Frasier Quotes
‘Motor Skills’ Quotes
Quote from Frasier
Martin: You guys are really gonna do this?
Frasier: Mmm-hmm.
Martin: Monkey around with engines, get calluses and grease under your nails?
Frasier: Yes. Actually, I'm looking forward to it, Dad.
Martin: Well, good for you, Frasier. I'm impressed.
Frasier: As the enigma we call Shakespeare once wrote, "I am a true laborer. I earn that I eat, get that I wear. Owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness."
Martin: You just couldn't let me enjoy it, could you?
Quote from Niles
Frasier: Oh, would you take off those stupid goggles?
Niles: Well, I'm sorry, it's for safety.
Frasier: Nobody else wore them.
Niles: No one else wore them in gym class either, but then Tommy Fritz scratched his cornea, and then they were mandatory.
Quote from Niles
Randy: Watch me.
Frasier: So you... twist, and then pull. You see, I was twisting and pulling simultaneously, as per your instructions: "twist and pull."
Niles: In the future, the phrase "twist, then pull" might help.