What strikes me as non comedic are the sexual escapades of all the characters in the show. Fornication with partner after partner is the norm from one episode to the next, and two brothers, Frasier the elder and Niles the younger, happen to have bed the same woman, Frasier's former wife Lilith. Niles and Lilith were intoxicated during their overnight romp, thus making the one time event somehow excusable ~ The Bible calls in-laws brothers and sisters once a marriage has taken place ... did Niles commit the sin of incest, dear reader? ~; alas, is inebriation a valid reason to betray sacred trust, thus permitting in the partaking of urges that ought not to be?
Niles has a love interest in Daphne from the moment he lays eyes on her, while he is married to Maris; and while Daphne is engaged to another man. Roz, the hot-to-trot radio producer for the Dr. Frasier Crane show, is portrayed as a slut, and eventually, she has sex with her boss. The clever repartee coupled with the presentation of elegance of the main psychiatric characters (you did not misread what I wrote ... Frasier and Niles are quick witted self-absorbed stranglings that snobbishly seek higher social status ground at every possible turn ... they are quintessential worldlings), camouflage the obvious reprobate minds they perpetually seek to affirm and feed. The you can have it all, and have all people too messaging is blatant. Swapping out partners, enjoying the flavour of the day or month, is normalized in this show, and and ... this situation comedy has been watched by millions of TV viewers, and continues to be a popular series in re-runs, with a sequel Frasier now available.
I knew someone many years ago that shared with me how disturbed and shocked she was regarding the carryings on at a conference for mental health care providers: psychiatrists, psychologists, counsellors. Two things she told me ~ plus one add on ~ have remained as grotesque thoughts and images in my mind, lodged there uncomfortably:
1. When psychiatrists spoke of the side-effects for the drugs they prescribed to their patients, they understood that some would die as a result of taking the medicine suggested. There was a death percentage that was deemed "acceptable", and I wonder, if it was your son, or daughter, some family member or friend that was a part of the unfortunate percentage that dropped dead from the "treatment", would you be okay with the doctors random acceptance of their fate?
2. At this conference, alcohol consumption was high. There were a whole lot of drunken mental health workers, and it just so happens, there were also a lot of trysts, with these professionals having a good old time with one another sexual. Within this story was an appalling confessional from one of the therapists: she confessed that she had trained her dog to service her ... using peanut butter as a lure to her private parts.
Now, I ask you dear reader, is Frasier true to life or is life true to the characterizations in the show labelled Frasier? I am nearing the end of the series, and homosexual partners have been introduced as acceptable. An unsuspecting populace has been groomed and then convinced, that sex with anyone anytime for any reason, is valid as a choice. Do you agree? Is it really?
What sickness, what disgusting vulgar vileness, has soaked into the psyche of TV viewers? Make no mistake, the producers know what they are doing in their manipulations of the public. Wicked people love bad company; they delight in corrupting minds so that people collude with them in their sinfulness. If everyone is doing it, it makes it easier to hide in the crowd, and not feel the sting of guilt and shame for committing shameful acts.
I watched a recent interview of Kelsey Graham, forever known as his TV character, Frasier Crane. I wonder if the two are one and the same, interchangeably confused? Kelsey spoke about being rich, but not as rich as Oprah. Imagine that, two actors wealthy almost beyond comparison, while pretending to be wise, making their millions off the backs of faithful followers that fawn over them as success icons.
How very vapid.
NOTE: Roz being portrayed as a slut, because she is easy, does not translate to the easiness of the other characters that are willing to bed stangers randomly when they are feeling randy. If you have watched the show, recall the episode where the crew goes on skiing vacation, and everyone is looking to have sex with someone.
I leave you with a question, a suggestion, an observation with a challenge, followed by scripture.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God (Galatians 5:19-21)
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