Beloved Infidel

Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) mentions Lilith's (Bebe Neuwirth) affair with 'a Frenchman who lived in a self-contained underground eco-pod.' This was Dr. Louis Pascal (played by Peter Vogt), from the Cin cin (1982) two-parter Teaching with the Enemy (1992) and The Girl in the Plastic Bubble (1992).

In the beginning of the episode, Frasier is having great difficulty understanding the caller when she says the word "monsieur". However, various other episodes of the show portray Frasier as clearly fluent in French.

Danielle ( played by American actress JoBeth Williams ) pronounces the problem word with extra flourishes and an almost "nth" consonontal trigraph not normally heard from a native French person who really is saying "monsieur", as they do not pronounce the 'n'. There is also no reason to assume her accent is meant to be French instead of from somewhere else or a result of a speech issue. It is well within reason for Frasier and anyone else to have difficulty figuring out just what she is trying to say.

When the title "Frasier" and the usual silhouette of Seattle are on screen, a red light blinks at the highest point of the Space Needle.

References La signora scompare (1938)