Flour Child

Flour Child is the 4th episode of Season 2 of Frasier.
== Synopsis ==
PARENT TRAP – Frasier, Niles and Martin assist when their cab driver (guest star Charlayne Woodard "Unbreakabler") goes into labour. Afterwards, Niles contemplates fatherhood and decides to try Frasier's experiment to test his own paternal instincts. Also, Frasier accidentally puts a funny, but tasteless, birthday greeting on a co-worker's get-well card, forcing him and Roz to figure out a way to retrieve the potentially embarrassing message from the man's hospital bedside.
== Starring ==
:Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane
:Jane Leeves as Daphne Moon
:David Hyde Pierce as Niles Crane
:Peri Gilpin as Roz Doyle
:John Mahoney as Martin Crane
;Guest starring
:Charlayne Woodard as Arleen
;Co-Starring
:Aaron Heyman as Clarence
:Linda Porter as Mary
:Alvy Moore as Patient
:Robin Krieger as Mother
:and Moose as Eddie
;Guest caller
:Amy Madigan as Maggie
== Trivia ==
;CONTINUITY
*Within ten years time of this episode, Niles does indeed become a father when Daphne gives birth to their son David in the series finale.
*In the Cheers episode "The Stork Brings a Crane", Lilith gives birth to her and Frasier's son Fredrick in the back of a cab (though the birth happens off screen). When Frasier is trying to list people born in cabs, he neglects to mention his own son.
:BEHIND THE SCENES
*The "baby born in a cab" premise resembles a similar plot originally shown on the 1978 Taxi episode, "Memories of Cab 804, Part 2", directed by Burrows (Cheers co-creator) as well. The episode, which also involved fellow Cheers co-creators Glen and Les Charles as writers, saw a woman give birth to a baby boy on-screen, and out-of-wedlock, while the baby's father, the boyfriend who she claimed for a brief moment who she would "never marry," watched cab driver Alex Reiger deliver it.
**Lloyd, who wrote this episode, also became a regular cast member on Taxi by the show's second season.
Category:Season 2