Frasier, Oh Golly 😬

The first review of the Frasier reboot I'm seeing so far is from the one tv critic I know that matters, Alan Sepinwall, and while I'm fully prepared for an onslaught of super-cringe generation gap jokes (yawn), this should truly be setting off alarm bells:

Frasier is confused about why everyone is mispronouncing “Celtics” while talking about Boston’s beloved NBA franchise. It’s a dumb punchline — but, again, plenty of those to go around here. Worse, though, it ignores the fact that, after being introduced in the third season of Cheers, Frasier Crane spent a decade of his life hanging around a Boston sports bar. Celtics legend Kevin McHale once tended bar there so he could play on Cheers‘ basketball team against Gary’s Olde Towne Tavern! In a game Frasier attended! Woody Boyd used to gripe about how much he hated Larry Bird because their respective Indiana towns were rivals! For that matter, Frasier’s best friend in the world for years and years was former Boston Red Sox pitcher Sam Malone, so he understands why Bostonians treat the Sawx as a religion, yet the good doctor is utterly baffled that one of Freddy’s most cherished possessions is a Lucite case of Fenway Park dirt!

Of course mostly all I care about at this point is more Americans getting to love on Nicholas Lyndehurst and getting a third British invasion featuring Only Fools and Horses this time!! 🤗🇬🇧