“I brought in wonderful actresses of every size, shape, and age: Allison Janney, Patricia Clarkson, Hope Davis, Janeane Garofalo, Salma Hayek,” Greenberg said. “The last two left standing were Lisa Kudrow and Peri Gilpin.”
John Lithgow turned down the part of Frasier Crane in 'Cheers' when he was going through a “snobbish” phase.
Lisa Kudrow was supposed to appear as Roz Doyle on Frasier, but the role eventually went to Peri Gilpin.
Lisa Kudrow was originally cast as Roz Doyle on Frasier, only to be replaced by Peri Gilpin - but how would Kudrow's Roz have changed the show? If Lisa Kudrow had played Roz Doyle on Frasier, the show and the landscape of late '90s sitcoms may have been very different.
Maris Crane is Niles Crane's wife for much of the series, though she is never fully seen onscreen (much like Norm Peterson's wife, Vera, on Cheers). She is the most notable of the show's never-seen characters, and often the subject of many jokes. Her family is not revealed on the series.
After auditioning for the role of Rachel, the producers were believed to have had Jane Krakowski in mind for the role. Meanwhile, Ellen DeGeneres was actually the producers' first choice to play Phoebe, but she turned it down – although considering she's now a talk show queen, we reckon she's done alright.
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.
Unlike many other series where characters' pregnancies were written in to accommodate the actress becoming pregnant in real life, this was not the case with Roz. Hers was purely a storyline invention, Peri Gilpin was not pregnant in real life.
Maris makes only two onscreen "appearances": once in the episode "Voyage of the Damned" when her shadow is seen through a shower curtain (she is spoken to but makes no reply), and again in "Rooms with a View", where she appears in Niles' memory, almost completely covered by bandages after surgery.
Although all living major characters of Cheers had an appearance in Frasier (except Kristie Alley), the only one that appears in more than one episode is Frasier's ex-wife Lilith. Norm, Paul, Phil, Walt, Carla, and Cliff all appear in the season nine episode "Cheerful Goodbyes".
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.
One member of Frasier's cast received more fan mail than anyone else: Eddie the dog!
NEW YORK - First, the bad news: Mercedes Ruehl has, for the moment, filmed her last guest shot on "Frasier," alas. "It might be fun to go back and do one or two at some point, because I enjoyed it so much," said Ruehl.
The pair never got together because Frasier and Roz were fundamentally different people with radically opposite interests. Frasier delighted in the high-society pursuits of opera and great literature, while Roz partook in the less sophisticated pastimes of bars and Bruce Springsteen concerts.
He was replaced by his similar-looking son Enzo for the final four seasons of Frasier; Enzo was 7 years old at the time he took over.
Rosalinda Doyle (born May 5 1963 or 1964) is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Frasier. Roz is the producer of Frasier Crane's Dr.
Daphne Sported An Actual Baby Bump
So much so that she put on weight and even sported a bulging tummy for the majority of Season 8. In real life, Jane Leeves was pregnant at the time, and Daphne getting fat was written into the show to explain her baby bump.
Also like his brother, Niles is highly intelligent. His IQ is 156, well over the Mensa threshold, and much higher than Frasier's (129).
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.
In "The Girl in the Plastic Bubble" (1992), Lilith leaves Frasier, with him contemplating suicide until she promises to him that the marriage can be saved, to live with Pascal in Pascal's experimental underground eco-pod.
Kelsey Grammer sings and plays the piano for his role in "The Space Between" as an eccentric has-been rock musician who loses his grip on reality.
Did you know Australian actor Louis Mandylor was almost cast as Joey Tribbiani instead of Matt LeBlanc? Well, this is 100% true. In fact, show creators Marta Kauffman and Kevin Bright spoke about it and admitted that the casting had come down to LeBlanc and Mandylor for the role in the series.
Monica is tricked at work and gets fired when her new meat suppliers give her some meat that was supposed to be for her restaurant. When a woman calls Chandler's apartment for "Bob", he pretends to be Bob to get a date with her.