Frasier - Revisiting Lilith The Making Of 'Freddy's Birthday' - Go behind-the-scenes with the Frasier team during the filming of 'Freddy's Birthday,' the standout episode that featured the iconic return of Lilith (Bebe Neuwirth).:
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00:00 Cold open, Apple, take one.
00:02 Oh, Fredrick, surprise, surprise.
00:04 And who is this lovely serpent?
00:05 [CHEERING]
00:07 Welcome to another table read for Frazier.
00:16 [CHEERING]
00:18 We are into the cold open, into your Mahoney's tap room.
00:23 Frazier and Allen enter, arguing he works behind the bar.
00:25 Frazier notices Freddie sitting at a table
00:27 with a female companion.
00:28 Her back turned to Frazier and Allen.
00:29 There's Slido.
00:30 He clearly traded up.
00:32 Ditched his old man for an evening
00:34 with an enchanting ingenue.
00:36 Let's go say hello.
00:37 The crossover.
00:38 Freddie.
00:39 [INAUDIBLE]
00:40 Freddie looks like a deer in headlights.
00:41 But before he can get a word out,
00:43 a suave Frazier turns to Burnett.
00:44 And who is this lovely serpent?
00:46 [LAUGHTER]
00:48 OK, very quiet.
00:54 Come on down.
00:54 We're starting.
00:56 All set.
00:57 Here we go.
00:59 And action.
01:01 Burnett, my god.
01:04 Who looked in the mirror and said your name three times?
01:06 [LAUGHTER]
01:07 Frazier, I hardly recognize you.
01:09 I usually see you wedged between commercials for injury
01:13 attorneys and walk-in tubs.
01:14 [LAUGHTER]
01:16 OK, you crazy kid.
01:18 Here we go again.
01:20 OK, quiet please.
01:22 And action.
01:24 I remember you.
01:26 You were the wedding guest who kept
01:27 pestering the bartender to add olive brine to the mojitos.
01:32 Yes, and you called me the briny bastard.
01:36 And after you downed seven of them,
01:40 you grabbed the microphone and told a--
01:44 [BLEEP]
01:45 [LAUGHTER]
01:47 "Frazier" is my absolute favorite TV show.
01:52 I've been a lifelong fan of "Cheers" and "Frazier."
01:55 And when I found out it was coming back,
01:57 it was like a dream come true.
02:01 Thank you.
02:02 Thank you.
02:04 Thank you very much.
02:05 Thank you.
02:06 I love you.
02:08 Gosh, thank you.
02:09 I love you too.
02:10 Thank you.
02:11 That's very sweet.
02:13 Good evening.
02:14 Welcome.
02:15 We're going to give you a pretty good show tonight, I think.
02:17 We have a very special guest star tonight.
02:21 Hello, Frazier.
02:24 We flew all the way from Denmark to come here,
02:26 and we're very excited.
02:28 So excited.
02:29 Just seeing the whole cast connect with each other,
02:32 I think is going to be really exciting to see.
02:34 [CHEERING]
02:37 It's just really exciting to see it in person.
02:39 I remember when the show ended, I was so sad.
02:41 And I remember thinking, I wish I could have seen a taping.
02:44 Step this way for me a little bit more.
02:47 There you go.
02:48 There you go.
02:49 There you go.
02:50 Oh, that's perfect.
02:51 Stay right there, B.
02:52 Seeing Kelsey Grammer in real life.
02:54 Excited.
02:55 I've heard such good--
02:56 I've already jumped right back into the role.
02:58 Everyone who I've spoken to who's been to a taping.
03:00 So-- - Yeah.
03:01 I'm very excited to see that.
03:02 It's been such an incredible journey
03:04 to think that, you know, 20 some odd years later,
03:06 we could do Frazier.
03:07 And what's shocking is he's just as fresh and alive
03:10 as any regular human being would be.
03:13 Lilith, it's good to see you.
03:14 But if you're here, then who's minding the children
03:18 you've lured to your gingerbread house?
03:21 I was used to say to people, they'd say,
03:22 how can you play the same character for so long?
03:24 Well, it's as interesting as life itself.
03:27 So just to be clear, this is you guys proving you can get along.
03:30 Yes.
03:31 I tell your mother that she looks exactly as I pictured her,
03:33 except she's not tied to a stake cursing villagers who are
03:36 adding kindling to the fire.
03:38 It's just cutesy banter.
03:40 [LAUGHTER]
03:42 Ladies and gentlemen, Mimi Norris.
03:44 [APPLAUSE]
03:48 I just love the show, and I'm so excited for it
03:50 to be coming back.
03:51 [APPLAUSE]
03:54 Frazier lives on, so does Kelsey.
04:09 Thank you.
04:10 [MUSIC PLAYING]
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04:17 [MUSIC PLAYING]
04:20 [MUSIC PLAYING]
04:24 [MUSIC PLAYING]
04:27 (upbeat music)