3:15 (freeze-frame). The chrome-plated instrument that looks like a hookah or bo'ng is called a "waterphone" or "ocean harp". Here it is being played by bowing the spikes. In some scores a player will sometimes bow the spikes and sometimes turn the bow around and hit the spikes with the hard wooden long edge of the bow. Depending on the circumstances some specified amount of water may be placed inside the instrument, so that by tilting and swirling the instrument the performer can affect the sounds it produces. Swirling causes the water to move to different sides where the spikes have different lengths, and so pitch and timbre and POSSIBLY volume can be gradually shifted back and forth. And for all I know it can be played by blowing a stream of air across the open upper end, like a ceramic whistle or metal flute. Like the Theremin, it gets a lot of use in horror-movie sound-tracks to create eerie moods, and UA-cam has at least one video about it. It's also in Wikipedia.
This is a perfect encapsulation back in the day when a showrunner wanted to try something edgy and different and had to go to network execs who said "no" because it would not appeal to the wider audience. In the scene after this Frasier says he does not know how to do something simply...and I can imagine Dan Harmon said the same thing with his meetings with execs. He would sit in his car with tears of frustration that the excellent work they did would get watered down. I love this and at times as much as i enjoy a procedural - never understood why we could not get brilliance like this.
Can anyone tell me what word Fraiser says at 2:01 that comes before the words "of awe". I cant tell what hes saying but it sounds posh as hell which makes it hilarious
@@GuilhermeRoss I'll add to the above (which I believe is correct) the additional information that it's French. If you're hearing Greek, Latin, Renaissance Italian (i.e. Tuscan or Florentine), and/or French words that you don't hear anywhere else, there is at least SOME chance that you're watching Frasier and hearing Frasier or Niles speak.
3:34 - Oooh. Uggh. Did NILES CRAIN of all people just say "ABBA-rant" instead of "a-BEAR-ant" (for "aberrant", which has the doubled consonant at "rr", not at "b")? Wiktionary does allow that as a variant in Southern England, but it's not the pronunciation that the character of Niles Crain, with HIS background and education, would employ.
3:23 - The slide-whistle is completely botched. The tone that we hear slides from a low pitch to a high pitch. The actor pulls the slide from a position of all-the-way-in to all-the-way-out, the exact opposite of what we HEAR.
3:15 (freeze-frame). The chrome-plated instrument that looks like a hookah or bo'ng is called a "waterphone" or "ocean harp". Here it is being played by bowing the spikes. In some scores a player will sometimes bow the spikes and sometimes turn the bow around and hit the spikes with the hard wooden long edge of the bow. Depending on the circumstances some specified amount of water may be placed inside the instrument, so that by tilting and swirling the instrument the performer can affect the sounds it produces. Swirling causes the water to move to different sides where the spikes have different lengths, and so pitch and timbre and POSSIBLY volume can be gradually shifted back and forth. And for all I know it can be played by blowing a stream of air across the open upper end, like a ceramic whistle or metal flute. Like the Theremin, it gets a lot of use in horror-movie sound-tracks to create eerie moods, and UA-cam has at least one video about it. It's also in Wikipedia. (But of course I'm not blaming you for not looking it up, because to look it up you'd have to know the word first.)
I remember watching this with the closed captioning on, and it says [plays exactly the same as before]
Frasier: "You were wonderful!"
Niles: "Thank you - the trombone frightened me!"
I love his face as he looks back at the trombone
I love that moment from 4:00 - 4:03 where you can see he's thoroughly enjoying himself.
One of the funniest moments in one of the funniest shows ever
Dr. Craaaaane!!!
Dr. Craaaaane!!!!!!
Frasier Craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane!!!!!!!!!
how can you not like this ? Some of the times writers were being too hard on Frasier's Character.
When the teacher wants you to write a page and you turn in a novel.
Or when you are required to make a small video and you make it into an entire movie.
3:15 (freeze-frame). The chrome-plated instrument that looks like a hookah or bo'ng is called a "waterphone" or "ocean harp". Here it is being played by bowing the spikes. In some scores a player will sometimes bow the spikes and sometimes turn the bow around and hit the spikes with the hard wooden long edge of the bow. Depending on the circumstances some specified amount of water may be placed inside the instrument, so that by tilting and swirling the instrument the performer can affect the sounds it produces. Swirling causes the water to move to different sides where the spikes have different lengths, and so pitch and timbre and POSSIBLY volume can be gradually shifted back and forth. And for all I know it can be played by blowing a stream of air across the open upper end, like a ceramic whistle or metal flute. Like the Theremin, it gets a lot of use in horror-movie sound-tracks to create eerie moods, and UA-cam has at least one video about it. It's also in Wikipedia.
This is quite literally the funniest thing ever.
I need this for a ring tone
I have this as my ringtone haha!
They dont make it like this anymore
They truly don't!
Okay?
@@ghamandlupin Seems that nobody got the Dr. Mary reference.
Way ta go leon 👏 😅😅😂😂
This is a perfect encapsulation back in the day when a showrunner wanted to try something edgy and different and had to go to network execs who said "no" because it would not appeal to the wider audience. In the scene after this Frasier says he does not know how to do something simply...and I can imagine Dan Harmon said the same thing with his meetings with execs. He would sit in his car with tears of frustration that the excellent work they did would get watered down. I love this and at times as much as i enjoy a procedural - never understood why we could not get brilliance like this.
who agrees it should be the theme of the show instead of the tossed salad ?
It needed some cowbell
🤣
Niles: I'm just wondering how my monologue is going to be audible over all these instruments?
He's got a microphone in front of him. That's how.
Can anyone tell me what word Fraiser says at 2:01 that comes before the words "of awe". I cant tell what hes saying but it sounds posh as hell which makes it hilarious
'Soupçon'. A very small quantity of something.
@@GuilhermeRoss I'll add to the above (which I believe is correct) the additional information that it's French. If you're hearing Greek, Latin, Renaissance Italian (i.e. Tuscan or Florentine), and/or French words that you don't hear anywhere else, there is at least SOME chance that you're watching Frasier and hearing Frasier or Niles speak.
I thought that song was great. And Tiffany was hot.
Best show ever
Today’s shows are made by the brain-dead.
Agreed!
True. And yet, I found this episode to be strangely weaker than the ones preceding it.
Why did you feel the need to attack today's shows as well as complimenting this one? Genuinely curious
There truly hasn’t been a good sitcom in years.
@@user-cr8dq7sc6h Decades.
3:34 - Oooh. Uggh. Did NILES CRAIN of all people just say "ABBA-rant" instead of "a-BEAR-ant" (for "aberrant", which has the doubled consonant at "rr", not at "b")? Wiktionary does allow that as a variant in Southern England, but it's not the pronunciation that the character of Niles Crain, with HIS background and education, would employ.
3:23 - The slide-whistle is completely botched. The tone that we hear slides from a low pitch to a high pitch. The actor pulls the slide from a position of all-the-way-in to all-the-way-out, the exact opposite of what we HEAR.
What is the instrument at 3:13? I want to buy one.
3:15 (freeze-frame). The chrome-plated instrument that looks like a hookah or bo'ng is called a "waterphone" or "ocean harp". Here it is being played by bowing the spikes. In some scores a player will sometimes bow the spikes and sometimes turn the bow around and hit the spikes with the hard wooden long edge of the bow. Depending on the circumstances some specified amount of water may be placed inside the instrument, so that by tilting and swirling the instrument the performer can affect the sounds it produces. Swirling causes the water to move to different sides where the spikes have different lengths, and so pitch and timbre and POSSIBLY volume can be gradually shifted back and forth. And for all I know it can be played by blowing a stream of air across the open upper end, like a ceramic whistle or metal flute. Like the Theremin, it gets a lot of use in horror-movie sound-tracks to create eerie moods, and UA-cam has at least one video about it. It's also in Wikipedia. (But of course I'm not blaming you for not looking it up, because to look it up you'd have to know the word first.)
@@topherthe11th23 thanks.
🐩🤣🐕🤣 🤬🎓🤬🚔 😭👷