Dinner at Eight is an episode of the television showFrasier. In this episode Frasier and Niles decide to treat Martin to a fancy restaurant called Le Cigare Volant. An episode is to television and radio what a chapter is to a book: a part of a sequence of a body of work. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Frasier was an American TV situation comedy. ... Dr. Frasier Crane was first introduced on Cheers in 1984. ... Dr. Niles Crane Dr. Niles Crane is a fictional character on the show Frasier. ... Martin Crane (often called Marty) is a fictional character of the TV show Frasier. ...
Unfortunately, at the last minute, the restaurant loses their reservation. So, Martin decides to takes the boys to the Timber Mill, a saw mill-turned-steakhouse. The restaurant is not a run-down place, but it is not fancy enough for Frasier's or Niles's standards. The first misadventure they encounter is when the waitresses cut off their ties to keep the place informal. The service is very fast, but too fast for the brothers. Throughout the whole dining experience, the two brothers do nothing but makes sarcastic comments about the restaurant and the waitress. Niles even brings up the idea of recommending Maris and her socialite friends this restaurant for a socialite event. Martin gets very angry, and tells the boys that even their mother, Hester, would not have shunned this steakhouse. He leaves the restaurant and goes to Duke's. Frasier and Niles feel guilty about what they have done, so they decide to finish their meals out of respect to their father. [They end up being the last ones at the restaurant, as they are struggling to finish the food.] A steakhouse (or steak house) is a restaurant that specializes in the cooking of beef steaks. ... Maris was the Etruscan god of agriculture later associated with the Roman war/agricultual god Mars. ...
Niles meets Daphne Moon for the first time in this episode. Daphne Spoiler warning: Daphne Crane (previously Daphne Moon) was a fictional character and the leading female character on the sitcom Frasier played by actress Jane Leeves. ...
Frasier and Niles agree to eat at Martin's favorite restaurant, not anticipating its "laid-back" atmosphere, which leads to the boys offending Martin.
However, in a later episode, it is revealed, in the Season Three Finale "You Can Go Home Again", that they met briefly once before when she asked him for salt.
The title of the episode is a reference to the famous 1933 film of the same name, "Dinner at Eight".
Dinner at Eight is a 1932 Broadway play written by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber.
Dinner at Eight (1933 film) - starring Marie Dressler, Lionel Barrymore, Jean Harlow, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Billie Burke, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe and Madge Evans
Dinner at Eight is also the title of an episode of the television show Frasier.
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