“Frasier” is one of the most popular sitcoms in television history and holds the record for most Emmy wins at 37 — and has a reboot in the works! In 1998, James Patrick Stuart found himself cast on the legendary show as a French ski instructor named Guy in an episode called “The Ski Lodge,” which IMDb ranked as the funniest of the whole series (via ScreenRant).
The episode differs from most in that it takes place outside the typical Seattle sets of the show, but rather in a remote cabin in the snow-covered mountains. It follows Frasier (Kelsey Grammar), Niles (David Hyde Pierce), Daphne (Jane Leeves), a guest-star named Annie (Cynthia Lamontague), and Stuart’s Guy in a classic tale of romantic misadventure (via Soaps in Depth). The “bedroom farce” consisted of each character chasing after the next, leading to an iconic bed-hopping sequence. The hilarity of the scenes in which Guy blatantly misunderstood the relationships of the other characters were so intense that the recording of the live studio audience had to be cut-down because it was too loud and too long to be used on TV.
For a young actor, a small role on a widely-loved show is a terrific feat, but it became even more life-changing for Stuart when the episode became one of the most popular in the show’s history. In a conversation with Yahoo TV, the actor said of the iconic scene, “I was waiting to make my entrance … I’m hearing Kelsey and Jane killing it. The laughs were so huge. I remember looking down at my feet and thinking ‘I’m gonna remember this moment for the rest of my life,’ because I can tell what is about to happen.”
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