History Recap / FrasierS06E04HotTicket

* BlatantLies: Frasier doesn’t know the first thing about the play, so when Sir Travis asks his opinion he rambles broadly about the “feeling” of theatre.
* ChekhovsGun: At the beginning of the episode Daphne is elated that a(n apparently rather unflattering) photo of her is in the newspaper and wants to cut it out to mail to her mother. Later when Niles and Frasier are digging through the newspaper to find a review of the play, it’s been cut out because Daphne’s photo was on the other side.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: Apparently getting tickets in the cancellation is social suicide if you’re caught.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sir Travis gives an inadvertent one to Frasier while praising him for being a ''true'' fan of the performing arts, and decrying “phonies” who only care because it’s a social event. Of course not only did Frasier and Niles go to the play chiefly to impress those phonies, they valued the actual performance so little that they turned down the opportunity to get tickets in an insufficiently classy way.
* UpperClassTwit: Frasier and Niles are only motivated to go to the play because it’s the trendy thing to do among their snobby social circle. They ultimately miss it because they don’t want to be seen waiting in the cancellation line.

* HypocriticalHumor: When Daphne catches Frasier opening her letter to get to the review, she angrily rants about him violating her privacy. She then drops that she knows Frasier dies his hair, accidentally revealing that she snoops through his belongings, and quickly drops the subject and scurries off.

* BlatantLies: Frasier doesn’t know the first thing about the play, so when Sir Travis asks his opinion he rambles broadly about the “feeling” of theatre. Not only does Travis buy it but he praises Frasier’s integrity and praises him as a true fan of theatre compared to the “phonies” in the rest of the group - even though Frasier willingly missed the play to impress those same phonies.