Average season rating: 8.181818… (not that I needed to run the numbers; I could have guessed it was about 8 :grin:)

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_Frasier_ and its predecessor, _Cheers_, together made up a large portion of my early exposure to television sitcoms, so it's only natural that I would find them nostalgic. Having watched the bulk of both shows in their entirety over the past 6 months or so, I have a _much_ greater appreciation for the writing. Goodness knows that's doubly true for _Frasier_, which leans heavily on verbal wit—humor that was occasionally hard for me to grasp even at \*gasp\* almost 30, let alone when I was a lad of 10.

Between the two, though, I much prefer _Frasier_ to _Cheers_. Despite arriving at superficially identical series ratings due to Trakt's enforced ten-point scale, the underlying numbers reveal the truth. I average episode ratings to get season ratings, then average season ratings to get series ratings—and my season average for _Cheers_ came out about 0.55 points lower (7.63… to _Frasier_'s 8.18…). While both shows are certainly funny, I'm clearly drawn to the more intellectual humor of _Frasier_. I'd expect nothing else.

Since _Frasier_ also has much less of the tedious "will they or won't they?" type of running plot upon which _Cheers_ loved to rely, that's once again exactly as expected. There were "clunkers" in both shows, yes, but _Frasier_ seemed to have fewer of them.

Overall, this is really just a _completely_ different show, even though it stole a beloved character from a Past Master of Situation Comedy and moved him across the entire North American continent. The "theft" was justified. I hope the recent resurgence of rumors and entertainment news coverage concerning a sequel or reboot develops into a real show. Time will tell.