Frasier (TV Series)

Miss Right Now (2004)

John Mahoney: Martin Crane

Quotes 

• Martin Crane : Plus, I'm startin' out with one strike against me.

  Ronee Lawrence : Mother still remembers a night he drove me home from babysitting you and Niles, thirty years ago...

  Martin Crane : Forty years ago.

  Ronee Lawrence : I'm telling this story. I was all weepy because this guy had just dumped me, and your father put his arm around me, just to be nice. And Mom saw it and she thought he was trying to rob me of my virtue.

  Dr. Frasier Crane : [chuckling]  Oh, that's crazy.

  Ronee Lawrence : I know, like there was anything left to rob.

  [They all laugh] 

• Martin Crane : You all right?

  Dr. Frasier Crane : No.

  Martin Crane : Want to talk about it?

  [He makes a face] 

  Martin Crane : Whew! I gotta get this chair cleaned.

  Dr. Frasier Crane : She doesn't want me, she wants somebody else. I don't have a chance.

  Martin Crane : Oh, I'm sorry.

  [beat] 

  Martin Crane : That's the second one, right?

  Dr. Frasier Crane : Yeah.

  Martin Crane : So, what are you gonna do?

  Dr. Frasier Crane : Well, that's a good question: What am I gonna do? I suppose I could pine over her for the next several weeks, make myself more miserable every day. Or I could do the sensible thing and just let her go.

  [rising] 

  Dr. Frasier Crane : Excuse me.

  [He grabs the cordless phone and dials, pacing] 

  Dr. Frasier Crane : Hi, Charlotte, it's Frasier. About coffee on Monday? Let's just forget that. How 'bout lunch instead?

  [Martin gives him a smile and a wink of approval]