The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker is the 3rd episode of Season 2 of Frasier.
== Synopsis ==
FIXER-UPPER – Frasier invites the new station manager, Tom Duran (guest star Eric Lutes), home for dinner to surreptitiously fix him up with Daphne. Tom, however, is gay and under the impression that it is Frasier who is interested in him.
== Starring ==
:Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane
:Jane Leeves as Daphne Moon
:David Hyde Pierce as Niles Crane
:Peri Gilpin as Roz Doyle
:and John Mahoney as Martin Crane
Guest starring
:Eric Lutes as Tom DuranThis is the first appearance of Eric Lutes as Tom Duran. He succeeds Ned Miller, who was fired in the previous season episode Oops, as KACL station manager. He remains in this position for the entire season (despite appearing in only one other episode besides this one) before being replaced by Kate Costas in She's The Boss.
== Trivia ==
*This is the second time Frasier attempts to fix up one of the other main characters, as he does so for Daphne in this episode. He previously did so for Martin in Here's Looking At You one year earlier.
*Roz mentions a man named Rick as a possible date for Daphne. Coincidentally, Rick ends up being the name of the father of Roz's baby.
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*It's interesting that Roz offers her past boyfriends to Daphne for a date, as she later becomes engaged to Donny Douglas (who previously dated Roz).
*Frasier tells Daphne about his engagement to Diane Chambers and how she subsequently left him at the altar in this episode. This would retroactively serve as foreshadowing as Daphne later leaves her fiancé at the altar to be with Niles.
== Notes and references ==
Category:Season 2