Frasier The Complete Third Season :: Education by Design Store

Editorial Review
With this third season, Frasier scored an impressive hat trick, winning its third successive Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. You don't need too much analysis to get to the bottom of this unprecedented success. The series was a primetime oasis of wit and sophistication, with welcome forays into farce that pricked Frasier's bubble of pomposity. His priceless reactions to the assaults on his dignity are worthy of Jack Benny. Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) can be infuriating, as in "The Focus Group," in which he is obsessed with knowing why a lone focus group participant (guest star Tony Shalhoub) doesn't like him. But he is also endearing in his delusional view of himself as, in the words of one mocking bystander, a "man of the people." Frasier meets his match in new station owner Kate Costas (Oscar-winner Mercedes Ruehl). Their combative relationship turns to lust over the course of the first 10 episodes.

Customer Reviews

Smart AND Funny

2008-07-14
This enitre series of Frasier is great. Very smart and funny. I am on my second time watching the series almost back to back!

I love Dr. Frasier Crane!

2008-06-24
I am entirely too biased, how can I review this when I am mad about Frasier's character, his wit, his intellectual humor, his abysmal luck in life and yet his persistence on living a fine life with opera, classical music, the finest wines and restaurants and tastes in furniture and all yummy material things in life. It is wonderful to own the series. What a fabulous show. They don't make that stuff anymore!

More Great Frasier Laughs!

2008-05-02
I am a huge Frasier fan and couldn't wait to watch my new season and it was hilarious. If you love Frasier then you can't go wrong with Season 3.

Just What I Paid For!

2008-04-28
I am very pleased with the service, it was shipped very quickly, and the product arrived in new condition...the package has not a single scratch, tear or even wear mark, and the discs play perfectly.

Very funny season. I can't wait to watch Season Four!

2008-03-22
Season Three of Frasier was terrific. I've watched season one, two and three in order and I must say I am enjoying the show more than when it was originally on. You get more out of it by watching the shows in order. Bring on the Fourth Season!!

Frasier-The Complete Season

2008-02-09
With this third season, Frasier scored an impressive hat trick, winning its third successive Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. You don't need too much analysis to get to the bottom of this unprecedented success. The series was a primetime oasis of wit and sophistication, with welcome forays into farce that pricked Frasier's bubble of pomposity. His priceless reactions to the assaults on his dignity are worthy of Jack Benny. Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) can be infuriating, as in "The Focus Group," in which he is obsessed with knowing why a lone focus group participant (guest star Tony Shalhoub) doesn't like him. But he is also endearing in his delusional view of himself as, in the words of one mocking bystander, a "man of the people." Frasier meets his match in new station owner Kate Costas (Oscar-winner Mercedes Ruehl). Their combative relationship turns to lust over the course of the first 10 episodes.

But the season's most pivotal story arc is the separation of Niles (David Hyde Pierce) and Maris. "Moon Dance," which marked Grammer's directorial debut, is a series benchmark, as a crestfallen Niles tangos with his unrequited love, Daphne (Jane Leeves), at a high society ball. Not that the Crane family still doesn't have issues to work out. Frasier cannot abide being beaten at chess by Martin (John Mahoney) in "Chess Pains." Frasier and Niles ill-advisedly go into joint practice in "Shrink Rap," and find themselves on the opposite sides of a sanity hearing in "Crane vs. Crane." Lilith is sorely missed, but in this season's blast-from-the-past episode, Shelley Long returns in "The Show Where Diane Comes Back." It is a joy to see Cheers resurrected, if only in Diane's self-absorbed new play, which Frasier agrees to back. And any episode with Frasier's amoral agent Bebe (Harriet Sansom Harris) is must-see television. Frasier's humor was character-based, rather than topical, giving it a longer shelf life. For those who lament the end of one of television's gold standard series, this boxed set will be excellent therapy. --Donald Liebenson

Prepare for laughs 2007-09-17
This is one of my all time favorite tv shows. I have purchased seasons 1-3 as of right now and have not been disappointed. The characters have really come into their own in this season. Watch for one of my all time favorite episodes entitled "Moon Dance". It's an instant classic.

subtitle problem 2007-05-16
i really love this show, but for some reason the subtitle doesn't work well.
the 1st season is fine. for the 2nd, there seems to be no subtitle at all.
(maybe a few glimps of it at the 1st episode?) for the 3rd season, the subtitle is often scrambled and incomplete. it's a shame for such a show with great dialogues. is it so hard to make the subtitle right?

The Series Hits In Stride, Is a 6th Star Available? 2007-01-13
The best way to enjoy Frasier is to watch every episode in order. Season three hits the ground running, hits the series stride, and never disappoints. The ensemble cast is excellent and you can't help but think you really are glimpsing two brothers in Seattle that happen to be psychiatrists.

A key storyline development this season comes with the slow dissolving of Niles and Maris's marriage. This is couple with the slow evolving of the Niles and Daphne relationship. The episode "Moondance" is excellent and puts a spotlight on Niles feelings for Daphne.

The episodes here are laugh out loud funny. This season served as somewhat of a milestone for the show as it won its third straight Emmy, for its first three seasons. This established what many of us already knew... This is one of the best series in the history of sitcoms, and possibly the best written. With all of the laughs, you can't help but walk away a little smarter and a skosh more dapper.

Highly recommended 5 star season, required viewing for Frasier fans.

2006-11-10
Frasier is one of my all time favorite shows and Season 3 is one of the best!! You will not be disappointed!