David Crane is the son of Niles Crane and Daphne Moon-Crane. Daphne's pregnancy is revealed in the eleventh season premiere, No Sex Please, We're Skittish. In the series finale, Daphne gives birth to David at veterinarian clinic on the same day his grandfather, Martin Crane, marries Ronee Lawrence.
David comes back in the Frasier reboot.
Biography[]
David is born on May 15, 2004 - on the same day Martin is to wed Ronee Lawrence and Eddie’s birthday. While at the venue where the wedding will take place, Eddie accidentally eats the wedding rings, resulting in Niles and Daphne having to take him to the vet. Once there, Daphne's water breaks and she goes into labor. Upon receiving the news, Frasier, Martin and Ronee arrive at the vet to meet David and fall in love with him instantly. Ronee then suggests that she and Martin get married at the clinic, so Daphne and Niles do not miss out, and Frasier marries them on the spot.
During Daphne's pregnancy, it is implied he takes after his low-brow uncles (Daphne's brothers). For example, he kicks away classical music and jumps at the mention of a pub. Although David's true personality will remain a mystery, it is clear that his parents love him very much. Besides his uncles on his mother's side, he also has uncle on his father's side in the form of Frasier Crane. He is the grandson of Gertrude Moon and Harry Moon, and Martin Crane (on his father's side). David also has a step-grandmother Ronee Lawrence, Martin's wife. He is the younger cousin of Frederick Crane. David also has an aunt Roz, even though they are not blood related.
David returns in the reboot and returns to Boston with his uncle Frasier. He attends Harvard university. While in Boston, he finds himself in a series of amusing situations. In one instance, he arrives at Freddy's firehouse disheveled and hungry after being trapped in a library basement over the weekend. Mentioning that his parents aren't around, the firefighters assume he's a homeless orphan.
Later, David attempts to woo Eve, but his efforts prove so unsuccessful that Freddy and Eve decide to give him a crash course in interacting with women.
Later on, at Freddy's birthday party, David, along with Eve, tries to make the event more enjoyable.
At school, Frasier gives David a B (86) on a term paper about B. F. Skinner, which sparks an existential crisis for him, as he has never gotten a B before. However, Frasier allows him to do one rewrite, upon which he'd average the two grades together. However, it would mean that David would have to get a perfect score of 100 to get an A. He fears that if his father would find out, he'd threaten to send him to a "trade school" (what he calls UPenn). However, he discovers that Freddy becomes a genius when he's drunk, so he drives Freddy to his dorm room and they write the paper together. David then gives the paper to Frasier after class, but ends up causing havoc as Frasier, who is aspiring to becomes a professor, asks him to leave before Provost Sharma comes in, only for the provost to just walk in, causing further havoc as the provost does not support the faculty drinking, but Frasier's friend Alan Cornwall had just hid his rum into one of the coffees on the table. The provost however, asks David to stay with them for coffee. It then backfires when David puts the tray with coffees on another table and spins the tray, with now no way of telling which coffee is spiked. However, as it turns out that Sharma took the spiked coffee, again foiling Frasier's ambitions to become a professor. David later shows up at Frasier's apartment, revealing that Frasier gave his rewrite a lower grade, a B-. Frasier explains it that the thesis lacked clarity and the execution was sloppy, offending Freddy. David then says that he talked to the registrar, who told him that Frasier doesn't have to submit the grade before Sunday, and then asks Frasier to allow him to make a calm, evenhanded oral defense. Frasier tells him to accept the grade, to which David tells that he's not explaining a B to his father, and threatens to throw his uncle out of the window. However, when Frasier gets stung by a bee, David takes out his Epi Pen, but demands that Frasier give him 60 seconds to explain how well he knows Skinner. Frasier agrees and David gives his speech, but Frasier then tells him that he can't go higher than a B+, since the speech seemed desperate and heavy-handed. Freddy then injects Frasier with the Epi Pen, but still tells Frasier that he needs to go the hospital after an epinephrine shot, and David, in a failed last-ditch attempt offers to drive Frasier for an A. Later, at his dorm room, David gets a visit from Freddy, as he is packing, horrified that in his pursuit for a higher grade, he became willing to harm his uncle, and has decided to atone by dropping out of Harvard, and becoming a fireman like his cousin, so he and Freddy end up discussing the 'Crane Curse' and how it affects them. Freddy then asks David if he is happy at Harvard despite his father's high expectations, to which David agrees, so Freddy tells him that "he is where he wants to be" and not to let the setbacks discourage him. David then agrees to stay, and reveals that he is now working on a next essay on Proust, to which Freddy offers to help him.
Later, as Alan's latest teaching assistant quits on him, Olivia assigns the only volunteer to be Alan's T.A. - David. David has followed the T.A. Handbook by the book and cleared out Alan's hidden alcohol supplies. However, Alan has him do rather menial tasks as T.A. (despite the T.A. Handbook discouraging doing personal errands), like walking his cat and separating jelly beans and marshmallows. When Frasier later asks David about it, David mentions that while the tasks may seem quite menial, he found it flattering to be trusted with big responsibilities for the first time in his life and "it feels good to be valued", after being coddled as a child and "haven't yet eaten an intact grape".
At Frasier's Christmas party, David again hangs mostly with Alan. To make the party more interesting, they decide to play a game of trying to slip the names of all 9 reindeer into casual conversation. As the game proves to be a bit too easy, Alan decides to let the other guests call out the names of the reindeer instead.
Trivia[]
- He was named in memory of David Angell, the series co-creator who was killed during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
- David would presumably be around 20 years old as of 2024.
- David would begin his freshman or sophomore year at his uncle’s alma mater Harvard where his uncle Frasier teaches.
- Though he mostly takes after his father in his mannerisms, he shares the same optimism that his mother has.
- David's first word was "Dada", which he uttered at the Dada exhibition at the Met.
- David is shown to put quite a lot of pressure on himself due to his father's expectations. He threatened his uncle when he was given a 'B' on a paper and took advantage of Freddys drunken intellect to get a better grade. Both he and Freddy referred to this as the 'Crane Curse', where the Crane parents always put pressure on academic achievements.
- David had a crush on Roz’s daughter Alice Doyle on season 2 Caped Cod.
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