Hooping Cranes is the 15th episode of Season 8 of Frasier.
Synopsis[]
FRASIER IS AGHAST, AGOG AND APOPLECTIC WHEN NILES SHOOTS - - AND SCORES? -- After Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) grudgingly agrees to take his dad (John Mahoney) and Niles (David Hyde Pierce) to a Seattle SuperSonics game, he cannot believe his eyes when Niles is plucked out of the crowd and offered a chance at a huge cash prize if he can sink a half-court shot -- which quickly re-heats their sibling rivalry. Later, Frasier parlays his fluency in French to help Roz (Peri Gilpin) bail out of a romance with her Gallic boyfriend (guest star Philippe Durand).
Starring[]
- Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane
- David Hyde Pierce as Niles Crane
- Peri Gilpin as Roz Doyle
- and John Mahoney as Martin Crane
Guest starring
- Philippe Durand as Jean-Pierre
- Valarie Pettiford as P.R. Woman
Co-Starring
- Lisa K. Wyatt as Sonics Fan
- Edward James Gage as Bartender
Trivia[]
- When Martin apologizes to Frasier saying, "Well, last October you said we would go to a game together, but I thought that was just a lot of talk," this refers to The Bad Son (which aired the previous October), in which Frasier tells Martin that he doesn't want him to move to the retirement home and that he wants them to do more things together, including going to Sonics games.
- David Hyde Pierce did actually make the half-court basket shown in this episode, on the 27th take.
- During the basketball sequence, the song "Sirius" by The Alan Parsons Project is playing. This song was famously used as the entrance music for the Chicago Bulls throughout most of the 1990s and early 2000s, as well as by several other professional basketball teams.