Season 11 · Episode 16 · 2003
BOO! (a.k.a. I'm With Her)
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7 cultural references across 5 categories.
▷Film· 1♪Music· 2◆Other· 2ΨPhilosophy/Psychology· 1◈Theatre/Opera· 1
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Film
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Music
2Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, Op. 56
An orchestral work by Johannes Brahms (1873), based on a theme attributed to Joseph Haydn, also known as the St. Anthony Variations.
“Classical music is playing on the stereo. Frasier hurries in from the kitchen, turns up the volume, and begins to conduct to the air. [N.B. "Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn," Op. 56, by Johannes…”— Frasier
Johannes Brahms
German composer and pianist (1833–1897), one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period.
“I was innocently conducting some Brahms and our madcap father decided to startle me.”— Frasier
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Other
2Mr. Peanut
The advertising mascot of Planters snack foods, depicted as an anthropomorphic peanut wearing a top hat and monocle, created in 1916.
“Add a monocle and you're Mr. Peanut.”— Frasier
The Flying Wallendas
A famous family of circus performers and daredevil high-wire walkers, originating with Karl Wallenda in the early 20th century.
“I even decorated a unitard in the style of the Flying Wallendas to wear when we visited the big top.”— Niles
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Philosophy/Psychology
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