A practical joke or fool's errand where a gullible person is taken on a hunt for a non-existent animal called a 'snipe.'
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Cheerful Goodbyes
Season 9 · Episode 21 · S09E21
“Hey, remember that time you guys took Frasier on a snipe hunt?”
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