Saturday 9: Tossed Salad & Scrambled Eggs

This week brings us another fun song and great questions from our hostess with the most-est...Crazy Sam @ the Saturday 9.

Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs (1993)

Unfamiliar with this week's song. Hear it here.

1) This is the theme from Frasier, a TV show that ran  from 1993 to 2004. Were you a fan?  Mmm...not really.  It was okay. We watched it now and then, but not faithfully, and we skip past it in reruns.

2) The show is about a radio advice show host, Dr. Frasier Krane. When you listen to the radio, do you tune in for talk or music?  Music. Always. Even when talk radio is about something that interests me, I can't stand listening to it. I need something that's going to energize me and keep me alert in the car. And it's been years since I've listened to the radio in the house.

3) The theme's composer explained that tossed salad and scrambled eggs are both "mixed up," like the people who called Frasier's radio show. Which did you eat more recently, tossed salad or scrambled eggs?  That's a toss-up. I had both on the cruise, but haven't had either since we've been home. I can't remember which came first on the ship, the salad or the egg?

4) Peri Gilpin played Roz, Frasier's coworker at the radio station. The actress originally cast was Lisa Kudrow, but the show's producers didn't feel she was "right." Being released from Frasier gave her the opportunity to accept a bigger and better part: Phoebe on Friends. Can you think of a time when a setback was really a blessing in disguise?  I'm sure there must have been something, but I can't think of anything right now. 

5) Dr. Krane shared his home with Martin, his retired dad. Martin's favorite chair was well-worn recliner, held together in parts with tape. Frasier tried to replace it by giving his father a brand-new, expensive leather chair as a gift. Martin wanted his old recliner back. Tell us about a present you either gave or received that wasn't a hit.  Just about everything I give my husband that isn't a tool is not a hit. He doesn't really have a life beyond his work so anything geared toward leisure is lost on him. I've learned at Christmas to just ask him what tool he is wanting and make sure it's under the tree.

6) Kelsey Grammer played Dr. Krane on three different series (Cheers, Wings and Frasier) over 20 years. What job have you held the longest?  Driving a school bus for my former employer. I was there for 13 years.

7) Before he found success on Cheers, Grammer played bit parts on the

daytime dramas Ryan's World and Another World. Have you ever followed a soap opera? During my teens and early 20's I was hooked on soaps. Another World was the one that got me started, Days of Our Lives was my favorite (huge Bo and Hope fan here!), and I also watched Santa Barbara and there was another one that spun off of Another World and was set in Texas...I can't remember what it was called, but I really liked it, too.

8) In addition to work in front of the camera, Grammer has done voice over work on commercials for Dr. Pepper and Cheerios. Are either of those products in your kitchen right now?  Not at the moment.

9) Random question: You're invited to a party where dinner is served buffet style. There's spaghetti with tomato sauce, barbecue spare ribs and buffalo wings. When the evening is over, how likely are you to have a food stain on your clothes?  With those choices? Pretty darn likely. Especially if I'm wearing white or another light color. I'm pretty sure it's some kind of law of the universe.