Read Jane Espenson's spec script for 'Frasier' - Cast&Crew

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February 21 2013

Read Jane Espenson's spec script for 'Frasier'. There's a new site called "Showrunners: Show Us Your Specs" dedicated to showing "early stabs at TV writing by some of today's top showrunners". Jane's script from 1994 is one of the first offerings.

Simon | Cast&Crew | 07:53 CET | 9 comments total | tags: jane espenson

Wow this is truly one of the best finds on Whedonesque.

jaxn | February 21, 08:47 CET

Oddly, I was wondering why there wasn't already a website like this in existence just a few weeks ago. Glad to see it does exist!

Knuckleball | February 21, 10:49 CET

Great find! I'm a huge fan of Frasier so I'm looking forward to reading this.

shelled | February 21, 12:25 CET

Awesome, I'm also gonna read this, "Frasier" is my favorite sitcom.

Nico-Angel | February 21, 13:07 CET

Just read it. She's right the Frasier/Roz stuff is pretty weak/off, but she definitely showed mastery of the show's brand of little intellectual jokes throughout (of course that's where she would shine). Really simple episode, and pretty anti-climactic but you can see it being a real one.

narky | February 21, 16:54 CET

That was rather delightful. Laughed out loud more than once.

redeem147 | February 21, 18:27 CET

Amazing. I have always wanted something like this, and kicking it off with Jane ain't a bad way to start, not at all.

sumogrip | February 21, 21:42 CET

It's below Jane's current par in some ways, but I love the fact that it uses punctuation as the jumping-off point for the story, and it has real things to say about Frasier as well as (implicitly) gesturing toward some of the class/status issues regarding the radio show. So yeah, nice.

WilliamTheB | February 22, 02:45 CET

Great Stuff. Ms Espenson's reservations notwithstanding, there's plenty to like and admire, and some neat gags.

viewingfigures | February 23, 13:13 CET

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