Where There's Smoke, There's Fired

Where There's Smoke There's Fired is the twenty first episode of the third season of Frasier and the sixty ninth overall.

Main cast and characters

Kelsey Grammer – Dr. Frasier Crane
David Hyde Pierce – Dr. Niles Crane
John Mahoney – Martin Crane
Jane Leeves – Daphne Moon
Peri Gilpin – Roz Doyle

Recurring Cast

Harriet Sansom Harris - Bebe Glazer
Edward Hibbert - Gil Chesterton

Plot

KACL has a new owner, an eighty-five year old Texas millionaire Wilford S. Boone - who likes to be called Big Willy. Frasier learns that he owns 30 stations across the US, and could put Frasier's show into national syndication so begins a charm offensive with Big Willy. The millionaire, however, offers Frasier a chance to get into his good books early: he is about to marry his younger mistress, but she has a filthy habit: she smokes. Big Willy is going away for a long weekend, and says that if Frasier can cure her of her habit, the marriage can go ahead. Frasier agrees to try but doesn't realise how hard it is going to be until he meets Big Willy's bride-to-be: his agent Bebe Glazer.

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Frasier trying to cure Bebe's smoking addiction

Frasier forces Bebe to spend the weekend at his apartment to make sure she is not tempted, during which we learn that both Martin and Daphne used to smoke. They both try to convince her that she can quit her habit, but Bebe launches into a long speech on the pleasures of smoking which begins to weaken Martin and Daphne's resolve. She then catches Daphne having a quick ciggie on the balcony, and tries to blackmail her into giving her one, but Frasier catches her and then discovers Martin having one in the powder room and manages to persuade her that she should give up unless she wants to lose out on Big Willy's inheritance. Three weeks later is the wedding, but Big Willy gets a heart attack at the altar and even though Bebe's efforts to animatedly making him move, the wedding is cancelled. Frasier later consoles her at his house by saying she may yet find another Big Willy.

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Frasier and Bebe discussing the wedding and Big Willy's death

Episode Title Cards

• Waiting To Inhale
• Three Smoke-Free Weeks Later

Memorable Quotes

• Niles needs $4000 for a footstool:
  

Martin: For $4000 bucks?! Niles, you mother and I didn't pay that much for our first house!
Niles: I know Dad - I lived there.

• Roz can't believe how Niles spends his money:
  

Roz: You spend money like a drunken sailor.
Niles: She said authoratively

• Frasier meets the new station owner, Wilford S. Boone:
  

Frasier: Don't be silly, Mr Boone.
Big Willy: Actually, I prefer Big Willy.
Frasier: Don't be silly, Big Willy.

• Niles doesn't believe Bebe can quit smoking on her own:
  

Niles: You obviously didn't see the crazed, cunning glint in her eyes.
Frasier: She always looks like that - she's an agent.

• Daphne tells Bebe she can just give up smoking with no withdrawal symptoms:
  

Bebe: You know there's a word for people like that. What is it? Oh yes, bitch!

• Frasier tells Bebe if she doesn't quit, she won't be his wife at the funeral:
  

Frasier: You'll be watching the widow Boone. Tiffany, perhaps, or better yet, Kelli with an i

Trivia

• KACL gets another new owner.
• Big Willy is a Texan millionaire, but Bulldog tells Gil that he's Greek. Gil then centres his show around Greece to impress the new owner.
• Niles assumes that to get hold of Bebe, you just draw a pentagram on the floor and chant, I summon thee! 3 times.
• Daphne also smoked back in Ep 27 The Matchmaker.