so we had to examine, who are we gonna be? well, we wanted to be smart, sophisticated comedy. - six months ago, i was living in boston. my wife had left me, which was very painful. then she came back to me, which was excruciating. well, you know, i thought frasier was dead with "cheers." [playful music] but we thought, we've got a built-in audience and great potential for, you know, building out the character to another place. - ♪ ohh ♪ - ♪ ohh, ohh ♪ - ♪ ohh, ohh ♪ - ♪ ohh, ohh ♪ - "frasier" was kind of like one-act plays. [dramatic organ music plays] - "mother and i moved here when i was a small boy "after the... tragic death of my father. "i kept the pain of that loss buried deep within me like a serpent coiled within a damp cave."