However, their relationship is forced to end when she informs him that she is moving back to Chicago (having bought back her business from her ex-husband) and neither are interested in a long distance relationship. Frasier accepts a job in San Francisco to move on up to television.
Later, he falls in love with Charlotte Connor (Laura Linney), but the romance turns out to be short-lived when she moves to Chicago. In the 2004 two-part series finale, "Goodnight, Seattle", Frasier is offered a job as the host of his own television talk show, located in San Francisco and has decided to accept the job.
She eventually returns his feelings, but the relationship is forced to end prematurely when Charlotte, having bought back her old business from her ex-husband, moves back to Chicago. Frasier, initially claiming not to have any regrets about letting her go, accepts a high-paying job offer in San Francisco.
We're led to think he's off to San Francisco for the job, but when the plane lands, the pilot announces he's in Chicago, presumably to start a new life with Charlotte. “Wish me luck,” he says to his seatmate as the final credits roll.
Frasier says he must consider whom he would spend the rest of his life with, prompting him to choose his ex-wife over his new woman. This sets Frasier thinking, and on returning to his apartment he finds Claire and breaks up with her, to the indignation of the rest of his family (and also Daphne, surprisingly).
This was primarily because they didn't want viewers to think that Frasier was simply riffing off with what Cheers did with Vera, Norm's (George Wendt) wife, who was often mentioned but never made it on screen. They planned on debuting Maris in episode 3, but the gag became too funny that they stuck with it.
Jane Leeves' pregnancy
The baby that Niles and Daphne have at the end of the show is not a result of a real life pregnancy of Jane Leeves, the actress who plays Daphne. However, she was pregnant earlier in the show. In season 8 the actress got pregnant and it was simply written into the show as a weight gain.
Frasier finishes his story just as the plane lands, giving viewers a surprise: Frasier was landing in Chicago, where Charlotte had moved, and not to San Francisco.
'Frasier' was not only one of the best sitcoms ever made, but it had a perfectly sweet series finale.
Jane Leeves was pregnant twice during Frasier. While her second pregnancy was written into the final season, her first wasn't and the writers gave Daphne a storyline where she gains weight instead.
"Moon Dance" (Season 3, Episode 13)
By this point in Frasier, Niles and Maris are recently divorced.
Despite these prompts, however, Roz and Frasier remained only friends, and since neither of them found a lasting relationship by the show's end, one wonders why they didn't at least give it a try. The pair never got together because Frasier and Roz were fundamentally different people with radically opposite interests.
By the end of the show, Martin reacquaints himself with Ronee Lawrence, a woman who, as a teenager babysat Frasier and Niles. They become involved in a romance, which escalates into a marriage proposal. The ceremony takes place in the final episode of the series, establishing a new chapter in Martin's life.
The Daphne-Niles Relationship is the romantic relationship between Niles Crane and Daphne Moon. They are now married and have 1 child.
Break Up With His Girlfriend Because Of Commitment Problems
Everything was going smoothly before Frasier dumped the wonderful Claire in favor of the aggressive Lana simply because he thought Claire was too safe an option.
“David basically decided he wasn't really interested in repeating the performance of Niles,” Grammer told People in an interview. After Frasier, Hyde Pierce went on to successful theater career and most recently starred in the HBO Max series Julia.
Despite her impending marriage, Frasier urges her to confront Niles and discuss this with him before her marriage. When Niles returns, however, he has exciting news: he has, on impulse, eloped with Mel and married her.
To conclude the interview, Leeves mentioned that in fact, Daphne always had her eye on Niles, but "never felt good enough for him", which was one of the primary reasons why their relationship wasn't made official much sooner.
I can now reveal what they were actually drinking. . . it's Harvey's Bristol Cream.
When the time came, both Grammer and the creators initially wanted to move on from the Frasier character and do something different. New ideas and characters were bounced around… but eventually it all circled back to Frasier Crane. From there, a spin-off was born.
By spinning off a grounded character like Frasier, the new show had a solid foundation. They knew they had a character that could drive a plot as well as sell a joke. Getting the show across the coast to Seattle, far away from that Boston bar, also helped make the new show feel distinct.
When Jane Leeves got pregnant - just as Niles and Daphne were getting it on - the writers deftly penned Daphne a weighty storyline. Wardrobe ordered a fat suit and, lo, her pregnancy was veiled in foam. Come birth time, Daphne was dispatched to a fat-farm.
By the start of the eighth season, Leeves was pregnant, and the writers incorporated her pregnancy into shows as weight gain due to her character's stress from her relationship with Niles (portrayed by David Hyde Pierce).