>Harmless fun? If you're able to empathize and have a bit of social anxiety Frasier is the most high stakes show ever. I've seen and loved 99% of Frasier episo

>Harmless fun? If you're able to empathize and have a bit of social anxiety Frasier is the most high stakes show ever. I've seen and loved 99% of Frasier episodes, and never once thought of it as a high-stakes show. Perhaps it's because I lack empathy, but I'd like to think that it's that I have always lacked the desire for pretension (despite having an educational, professional, and social background not dissimilar to the Crane brothers'), so never took personally the anxiety Frasier or Niles felt at failing to fit into some gathering of their peers. Upon further pondering, more proof of this is that I am among those who get very anxious when I see people get embarrassed. But it has to be a situation where it feels "unfair". When Frasier or Niles make fools of themselves it's always because of their own pretensions, not anyone else's.