The Truth About Niles And Daphne's Relationship On 'Frasier'
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The 'will they, won't they?' storyline is far from distinctive. It's been present in a few of the highest sitcoms of all time, together with in Frasier's predecessor, Cheers. But there was one thing in point of fact special about the Niles/Daphne storyline in the early days of the Cheers spin-off. While some would possibly find Niles' obsession with Daphne somewhat problematic (in any case, there are a few Frasier episodes that would be banned today), maximum assume it used to be one in all the best sides of the show. Of course, the casting did not harm the ongoing unrequited love subplot... or another plot for that topic...
Aside from the cast of Frasier making an incredible amount of money from the display, they have also gone down as one among the highest groups of actors ever assembled for a sitcom. In truth, it used to be the forged of Frasier that ended up inadvertently creating the storyline that had David Hyde Pierce's Dr. Niles Crane pining over Daphne Moon for years. Specifically, David, who looks nothing like he used to look, if truth be told came up with the idea to have his character fall for his father's health care worker. Smartly, the writers of the show made up our minds to explore the thought...
David Hyde Pierce Inadvertently Created The Niles/Daphne Crush Storyline
During an interview with The Archive Of American tv, two of Frasier's longest-running writers, David Isaacs and Ken Levine, explained that there wasn't an original intention of having a spark between Niles and Daphne. Meaning that one in every of the display's most iconic storylines nearly by no means got here to be.
"That was almost like a happy accident, I think," David Isaacs stated to The Archive Of American Television. "[Niles and Daphne] don't even meet until the second or third episode, maybe the third episode. As I remember, there was no grand plan for what became the unrequited crush that he had on her. And he being unaware of it."
According to David, it was once actor David Hyde Pierce who created the storyline by way of making a specific appearing selection.
"He was sort of looking at her. But she walked by him and [David] chose to sniff her hair. As if it was a sweet aroma."
This choice was once spotted via the writers who concept, "Wouldn't it be funny if he had this incredible crush? If he just gets totally intoxicated by her whenever she's in the room but she doesn't know it. I think it sort of evolved in that," David explained. "It just sort of grew out of a moment or moments like that and then it sort of had a life of its own for a good seven or eight seasons until we said 'Okay. We got to do something different with it'."
Why The Creators Of Frasier Decided To Go With David Hyde Pierce's Suggestion
Screenwriter Ken Levine defined to The Archive Of American Television that the choice to head with the Niles/Daphne storyline used to be an example of why Frasier was once this sort of excellent display.
"When you have a brand new series, you want to be ahead and yet you want to leave yourself open for things that are unexpected but just seem to click," Ken explained. "You don't want to have so many episodes written down the line that you don't have room to veer off in another direction. If, all of a sudden, you see that you strike gold. And it's kind of that balance but especially with a new series, early on, you're experimenting with things. And you're sort of seeing what the audience likes and what the audience doesn't like. And the strengths of your cast and that sort of thing. But when something like [David Hyde Pierce's acting choice] comes along, you need to have your antenna up and go, 'I think there's money in that. Let's drift in that direction'. Even if it means re-writing and changing some things."
Ken went on to say that the new route that David Hyde Pierce pushed them toward used to be higher than what they'd at the start intended. This appears to be a standpoint that led the creators of Frasier down quite a lot of good paths. They hired one in every of the best casts in sitcom history. Not following their instincts as they discovered their characters and constructed chemistry with one another would were a massive mistake. Who is aware of what sort of storylines we would have won had the writers not relied on them. But these writers have been at the top of their craft and the chemistry between David and Jane's Niles and Daphne was once irrefutable. The tale practically wrote itself.
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