Frasier Season 4 Episode 3 The Impossible Dr Eam
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00:00I'll see you guys next time.
00:30Oh, oh, oh.
01:00Well, look who is up.
01:15So it's my parents. I don't know. They're just, like, really stupid.
01:20May I ask how old you are?
01:22Fourteen.
01:23Well, hang on, Jimmy. Your parents are going to be stupid for another seven years.
01:30Whoa, seven years? That's, like, longer than I'll be in high school.
01:35I salute your optimism.
01:38We'll be right back after this.
01:40Oh, God, Ross.
01:44A teenager who was embarrassed by his parents?
01:46I mean, please, just can't you come up with something a little more challenging for me?
01:50It was either him or our old pal Rudy the Crier.
01:54Oh, Rudy the Crier. Oh, God.
01:55He's been on three times in the last month.
01:57You put him on again, he won't be the only one who's crying.
01:59God, the dry spell.
02:04Where are the souls of genuine torment?
02:07People teetering on the brink of genuine despair.
02:11Oh, they'll be back. The holidays were just around the corner.
02:14Well, perhaps you're right.
02:18Oh, Ross, you know, I've got a question I'd like to ask you.
02:22Shoot.
02:23Have you ever had a recurring dream of an intimate nature about someone?
02:28Oh, well, a co-worker?
02:31Oh, no. Why'd you tell me?
02:34Oh, Ross.
02:34Oh, no, it's going to be creepy every time you look at me through the glass.
02:38Ross, not you.
02:39So who was it then?
02:42Look, I'm not going to go into the specifics.
02:44Gina, an accounting?
02:45I'm not going to do this.
02:46Oh, Sheila, the slow intern.
02:48Forget I even mentioned it.
02:51Knock, knock.
02:54You.
02:56Frasier, I've come to tempt you.
02:59Really?
03:02I'm reviewing the new pastry chef at Chez Chez.
03:05And I quote,
03:06His amaretto eclair is so sinful,
03:10it will send you scurrying to your local padre for absolution.
03:17No, thank you, Gil.
03:18I'm on a diet.
03:20Oh, come now, you know.
03:21You want it.
03:22No, no, no, no.
03:22I really don't.
03:26Off you go.
03:27Bye-bye.
03:29Oh, my God.
03:30What?
03:31It was Gil.
03:32I never said that.
03:33So why are you blushing?
03:34Oh, don't be ridiculous.
03:35Your ears are turning bright red.
03:37I am not blushing.
03:37You are.
03:44Still not blushing.
03:48Just lying there in the hospital bed,
03:51she lifted her head off the pillow,
03:54looked up and said,
03:56I love you.
03:57And then she was gone.
04:02Rudy, stop crying.
04:06Now, we've gone over this before.
04:09What was our agreement about sad movies?
04:15I shouldn't watch them.
04:18Exactly.
04:19Now, go get a cool washcloth
04:21to try to bring down
04:22the puffiness around your eyes.
04:24Please,
04:25stay away from sad
04:27or depressing things,
04:29which at this moment
04:30includes listening
04:31to the Dr. Frasier Crane show.
04:34Well, let's shoot it to the news.
04:37That's it for today.
04:38This is Dr. Frasier Crane.
04:42Oh, my God.
04:44Well, close the record books.
04:46That was just
04:47the dullest three hours
04:49in the history
04:49of the Frasier Crane show.
04:51Oh, come on.
04:52It wasn't so bad.
04:53What about that woman
04:54who was so concerned
04:54about her appearance
04:55she wouldn't leave the house?
04:57That was a commercial.
05:00I believe Miss Clarell
05:02solved the problem.
05:05Well, I'll see you tomorrow, Ross.
05:06Oh, oh, Ross, Ross.
05:07About that dream
05:08I mentioned to you earlier,
05:10I guess it goes without saying.
05:12I'd rather you didn't share
05:13that with anyone else.
05:14Oh, sure.
05:15Hi, dream boy.
05:20I hate you.
05:22Couldn't keep your big mouth shut,
05:24could you?
05:25Just exactly when did you find
05:26the time to spread the news?
05:27You don't think I was listening
05:28to your show, do you?
05:33Coming through.
05:36Oh, Doc,
05:36I gotta rub this one in a little.
05:38All right, look, bulldog,
05:39before you start to ridicule me,
05:41yes, yes,
05:42I had a dream about Gil,
05:43and yes,
05:44it did have some
05:45some erotic elements,
05:46but
05:46you have absolutely
05:49no idea
05:49what I'm talking about,
05:50do you?
05:51I do now.
05:52Whoa!
05:56Look, let's just,
05:57let's just forget it.
05:58What delightful little jibe
05:59did you have prepared for me?
06:00Oh, I was gonna tell you,
06:01your show today
06:02just broke the snooze meter,
06:04but
06:04I want to hear about you
06:05greasing Gil's cookie sheet.
06:07I'm on a bus to hell.
06:19So, I returned to the dry cleaners
06:21yet a third time.
06:23I hardly need to tell you
06:24how the story ends.
06:25Just tell me when the story ends.
06:30Fine.
06:30They realigned my pleats,
06:33the end.
06:34I'm sorry, Niles.
06:36Just a bit distracted today.
06:38You see, this morning,
06:38a man from my building
06:41approached me
06:42with a very intriguing problem.
06:44Seems he's been having a
06:45recurring dream.
06:47Oh, please,
06:48that little gambit
06:49didn't work when we were
06:50in knee socks.
06:51What was your dream, Frasier?
06:52Oh, all right.
06:55It's been tormenting me.
06:56I haven't been able
06:57to sleep in weeks now.
07:00It's a bit hazy,
07:01but it starts out
07:03in a seedy motel room.
07:06I'm naked.
07:07Interesting.
07:08Yes, well,
07:09I roll over
07:10and discover it on my forearm
07:13a tattoo.
07:14The word...
07:15Chesty.
07:17Interesting.
07:17Yes, and then
07:18the shower turns off
07:20and out from the bathroom
07:21steps...
07:23a man.
07:26All right,
07:29go ahead,
07:30let me have it.
07:32Are you saying that now
07:33or is that a quote
07:34from the dream?
07:38Please.
07:42Both do intelligent
07:42to waste time
07:43on the obvious interpretation.
07:45Yes.
07:46But you must admit
07:47it's rather intriguing.
07:49Would you stop?
07:51It's obviously screaming
07:52for a Jungian interpretation.
07:55Sexuality in the dream
07:56is surely symbolic
07:57of some deeper
07:58non-sexual conflict.
08:00All right.
08:02Good afternoon,
08:03Fraser.
08:05A little bird
08:07it tells me
08:07now is featured
08:08in your midnight movie.
08:13Very clever.
08:14Off you go.
08:15Very well.
08:16See you tomorrow
08:16or should I say
08:17see you in your dreams.
08:19Oh,
08:19in this dream of yours
08:24were there any cigars,
08:26bananas,
08:26or short blunt swords?
08:29Would you stop it?
08:3143.
08:32A little late
08:32for latency.
08:34You guys okay over here?
08:36Uh,
08:36we're fine.
08:37Well,
08:38you must be new here.
08:40I'm sure I would have
08:41remembered such a pretty
08:41face as yours.
08:42You're overcompensating.
08:44Right, sir.
08:45We're fine.
08:46Bye-bye.
08:46Bye-bye.
08:46Bye-bye.
08:46Bye-bye.
08:48I'm just baffled,
08:51Niles.
08:52Obviously,
08:52Gilchester didn't explain
08:53chesty,
08:54but little else.
08:55Perhaps you should tackle
08:56this from a free
08:57association standpoint.
08:58Must we?
08:59Well,
08:59now,
09:00focus on any detail
09:01in the motel room.
09:02What's the first thing
09:02that pops into your mind?
09:04Uh,
09:05crescent-shaped lamp.
09:07Perfect.
09:08Crescent-shaped lamp.
09:10Run with that.
09:11Crescent.
09:12Moon.
09:13Daphne Moon.
09:14French maid.
09:15Grass bed.
09:16Satin rope.
09:17Ah!
09:18This is my dream.
09:22I was just showing you
09:23the process.
09:24You were three words
09:25away from a cigarette.
09:29Your turn.
09:30All right.
09:31Crescent lamp.
09:33Crescent.
09:36Croissant.
09:37Butter.
09:39April gargant.
09:42Hunger.
09:43Food.
09:44Diet.
09:45My God.
09:46I've been on a diet.
09:47Do you think
09:47that's useful?
09:48You could stand
09:49to lose a few pounds.
09:53Just wait a minute.
09:56My Gil is a restaurant,
09:57could I please?
09:58Yeah.
09:58A gourmet.
09:59Perhaps he's symbolic
10:00of the food.
10:01I've been denying myself.
10:02That would explain
10:03why you're naked
10:03in the dream.
10:04It's when we're naked
10:05that we're most self-conscious
10:06about our bodies.
10:07Yes, and most vulnerable
10:08to the way society
10:09tattoos us
10:11with labels
10:12about our appearance.
10:13Oh, my God.
10:13That's it, Miles.
10:15The dream is simply
10:16telling me that I've been
10:16too rigid
10:17about my diet.
10:19Well,
10:20you'll know tonight.
10:20If this is
10:21the correct interpretation,
10:23the conflict
10:23will have passed
10:24from your unconscious
10:24to your conscious mind.
10:26Yes, the dream
10:26will have served
10:27its purpose.
10:28And you will no longer
10:28be plagued by it.
10:30Oh, God.
10:31Miles, I've nailed it all right.
10:32I really have.
10:33Finally,
10:34for the first time in weeks,
10:35there'll be no tequila bottles,
10:36no tattoo,
10:37no half-naked man
10:39in my bed.
10:42So then,
10:43the rabbi says,
10:44the rabbi says,
11:14Oh, I'm sorry.
11:21Wrong room.
11:27That does it.
11:29We're finding another motel.
11:45Hello.
11:51Someone followed me again last night.
11:54Oh, you're just being paranoid.
11:56I'm telling you, they're onto me.
11:58Come on, nobody could recognize you after all that plastic surgery.
12:05That's what Marlena thought.
12:07Marlena got sloppy.
12:09She never should have gone back to Zurich.
12:11I just don't want any more bloodshed.
12:16Relax.
12:17You're home free.
12:19You don't know the woodchuck in his ways.
12:35We're terrible.
12:36We are.
12:37You are the woodchuck in his ways.
12:39You know, we really should stop doing this.
12:43It's not nice.
12:44You're right.
12:45We won't do it anymore.
12:58How do you get the stuff through customs?
13:01They never checked the wooden leg.
13:02The answer has got to be in there somewhere.
13:09Here's something.
13:10Dreams as an expression of wish fulfillment.
13:14Moving on.
13:18Goodness, are you two still here?
13:21What are you working on?
13:22Nothing.
13:23I'm helping Frasier interpret a dream he's been having.
13:26You know, maybe dad can help.
13:30No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
13:32I don't want to bore to have the details of this particular dream.
13:36Dreams can be rooted in childhood experience.
13:39Maybe dad remembers something you've repressed.
13:41Gee, I don't know.
13:42If it's about when you were a kid, I've repressed a lot of that myself.
13:45Well, this is not a dream I wish to share with dad.
13:50Thank you very much.
13:51Well, we've exhausted every other interpretation, so I guess it's back to dreams as wish fulfillment.
13:56Well, dad, would you mind listening to my dream to see if it conjures up any memories from my childhood?
14:03Oh, come on.
14:04You're making too much out of this.
14:06It's a dream.
14:06Dreams are weird.
14:07Please, dad.
14:09I wouldn't ask if it weren't really bothering me.
14:11Well, all right.
14:12Go on.
14:13All right.
14:13Now, it starts out in a little motel room.
14:16I have a tattoo on my arm.
14:20Chesty.
14:21See?
14:21That's weird.
14:23Yes.
14:24Then out from the bathroom steps a...
14:27All right.
14:27Now, before I continue, let me remind you that this is a dream, not to be confused with reality.
14:34Out from the bathroom steps a...
14:37Man.
14:40Eating lion.
14:42Oh, see?
14:44There again.
14:46Weird.
14:47Look.
14:48Dreams come.
14:49They go.
14:50Oh, they don't mean anything.
14:52Except, you know, if you're lucky, once in a while, you might have one that's a lot of fun.
14:55Like, you know, you're hitting a home run in the World Series or you're in the jungle with Jane Mansfield and she gets bit by a snake.
15:03Thank you, Dad.
15:04Thank you, Dad.
15:05You know who Jane Mansfield is, don't you?
15:07Yes, Dad.
15:08You know how to do when you're bit by a snake, don't you?
15:10Yes.
15:13Wish I knew what I had for dinner that night.
15:15Oh, I get it.
15:18Chesty refers to Gil Chesterton.
15:21I ask you gossipy fishwife.
15:24There's no reason to feel self-conscious, Dr. Graham.
15:27We've all had dreams like that.
15:30I had one about a girl I shared a flat with once.
15:33A gymnast.
15:34Go on, Daphne.
15:35This could be significant.
15:36Well, I remember we were doing stretches in the gymnasium when suddenly we decided to take off all our clothes and go for a bounce on the trampoline.
15:50The next thing you know, I'm chasing her around the pommel, so never mind.
15:55Don't stop now.
16:00This could help us.
16:06Well, actually, I do have a theory of my own about your dream, if you'd like to hear it.
16:12What the hell?
16:13Well, in your dream, who was in the shower?
16:18Gil.
16:19What is a shower?
16:21Running water.
16:23Who needs water?
16:25Fish.
16:26What do fish have?
16:28Gills.
16:29Do you see where I'm going?
16:34Insane.
16:36It could be a dream about the loss of a beloved childhood pet.
16:42Thanks a lot, Eddie.
16:4345 minutes in the park, you don't have to go.
16:46I get one bite into my sandwich and you give me the look.
16:49Mr. Crane, did Dr. Crane ever have a goldfish growing up?
16:53A fish?
16:54Yes, as a pet.
16:55Well, how would I know?
16:56That was Hester's department.
16:58All right, let's go.
17:01Frasier, are you thinking what I'm thinking?
17:03That Yad can interpret the looks from his dog and has only the spottyest recollections of our childhood?
17:10No.
17:11No, no, no.
17:12Hester.
17:13Hesty.
17:15The tattoo.
17:15That's only one letter away from Chesty.
17:18But are you saying that the dream could have been about mother?
17:22Well, I suppose I could have misread the tattoo.
17:26Yes, yes.
17:27This freckle pattern here on my arm could be mistaken for a C.
17:31And what swims in the sea?
17:33Fish.
17:37All right, all right.
17:39Well, so the tattoo could have said Hesty.
17:45But the problem is, I don't ever remember Dad calling Mom that.
17:49But who's to say he didn't?
17:54Dad.
17:55Dad.
17:55Dad.
17:56Dad.
17:56Dad.
17:56Dad.
17:57Did you ever have a nickname for Mother?
17:59Oh, for God's sake.
18:00Is this to do with that stupid dream?
18:02Dad, this is really important.
18:04Any pet name.
18:05A term of endearment.
18:07Well, when we were first married, I used to call her Honey.
18:11And then there was a time after that that I started calling her Sweetie.
18:17I'm sure there's a delicious anecdote behind each one of those.
18:19Did you ever call her Hesty?
18:25Hesty?
18:26Oh, come on.
18:26Think, man.
18:28Even once.
18:29Once in all the years you lived together.
18:31Well, I don't know.
18:33I mean, I guess.
18:35Maybe once.
18:36Oh, thank you, Dad.
18:37Well, there it is.
18:39I must have heard him call her Hesty once and neatly tucked it away into my subconscious.
18:45Of course, it's so obvious.
18:48You as a food critic.
18:50Food.
18:51Criticism.
18:52Mother.
18:56It's the classic edible dream.
18:58Yes, yes, yes.
18:59I was so frightened by my sexual urges to be with my mother that I transformed her into a man.
19:08Oh, what a relief.
19:09I've been wringing my hands over nothing.
19:12I mean, it's okay.
19:13All I want to do is have sex with my dead mother.
19:15It hurts.
19:18It hurts.
19:19I don't know.
19:30I mean, it hurts.
19:35It hurts.
19:36It hurts.
19:36Mom?
19:54Mommy?
19:58Patience, Daddy.
20:06You'd think by now I'd know better than to have that third Slim Jim before going to bed.
20:27You didn't sleep either, huh?
20:29No. Frankly, I'm sort of afraid to go back to sleep. It's a damn dream again.
20:35Oh, what are you worried about? It's just a dream.
20:38Worst case scenario, the man-eating lion leaps on top of you and mauls you.
20:47Sorry, Dad. I wasn't completely truthful with you before.
20:50The dream is really about me in a motel room with a male companion, Gil Chesterton.
20:57You don't care if I ever sleep again, do you?
21:03Dad. Dad, please. I'd really like to discuss this.
21:05No, Frasier, please. This makes me very uncomfortable.
21:07Dad, please.
21:08I know, I know. In your generation, men talk about everything. Everything's out in the open.
21:16You know what really drives me crazy is the way you all touch each other.
21:21Everybody hugs, you know?
21:24In my generation, it was a handshake. That was good enough.
21:29And maybe you felt especially close to someone.
21:32You'd touch them on the shoulder, but never for more than two seconds.
21:36And don't talk to me about football players patting people's butts and everything, because that's different.
21:42That's sports. That's like war. Good night, son.
21:47Dad, look, if you want to tell me something, write it on a post-it and stick it on the fridge.
21:51Look, I really want to talk about this.
21:54I've exhausted every other possible interpretation of this dream.
21:57Is it possible my subconscious is trying to tell me something about my sexuality?
22:02Oh, that's ridiculous.
22:04Is it?
22:06I was sensitive as a child.
22:08I didn't go in for sports.
22:11God, it's every cliché in the book.
22:13Surely it must have occurred to you at some point.
22:15You refused to take me to see West Side Story on my 8th birthday.
22:19Well, because of the gangs. That's scary for kids.
22:22Even gangs that dance?
22:23Especially gangs that dance.
22:25Oh, yeah, okay, I, I, I, yeah, I thought about it, but no, Frasier, no, I don't believe that.
22:38And you know why?
22:40Because you would have known by now.
22:42You're unconscious or whatever the hell you call it could no more have kept its yap shut than the rest of you.
22:49I suppose you're right.
22:53Yeah, now come on, it's after three.
22:56You're gonna be all worn out before the show tomorrow.
22:59What a tragedy that would be.
23:01Now what are you complaining about?
23:02Oh, I don't know.
23:04I haven't had any really interesting calls lately, beginning to question whether I'm bored with psychiatry.
23:11Boy, you'd never know the way you got your nose stuck in all those books.
23:17That's true.
23:18The one saving grace about this dream is it's, it's given me a chance to flex my analytical muscle a bit.
23:24Oh, maybe it wasn't so bad after all.
23:27Wait a minute.
23:30Could that be what this has been all about?
23:32I've been so intellectually unchallenged lately by my show that my mind had to create a dream that defies interpretation just to give me a challenge?
23:44I don't know.
23:45Keep talking.
23:46You're making me sleepy.
23:51No, that's got to be it.
23:52My show hasn't provided me with a single patient worthy of my skills.
23:56I had to invent one myself, me.
23:59Oh, God.
24:01What a relief.
24:02At last.
24:03Finally.
24:04To bed.
24:05Dad, you've witnessed an epiphany.
24:06Oh, God.
24:07I've got to get you to put this on tape.
24:09Well, off we go.
24:11To sleep.
24:12A chance not to dream.
24:14Huh?
24:15Huh.
24:17Huh.
24:18Come in.
24:48Come in.
25:18Come in.
25:48I seem a bit confused.
25:51Yeah, maybe.
25:52But I got you pegged.
25:53Ha, ha, ha, ha.
25:56But I don't know what to do with those tossed salads and scrambled eggs.
26:02They're calling again.
26:07Scrambled eggs all over my face.
26:11What is a boy to do?
26:12Good night, everybody.
26:17Good night, everybody.