8.0/102 votes#1 - Smotherly Love
Season 10 Episode 20 - Aired 2/27/1992
Frasier wants Lilith to confront her overbearing mother and Rebecca wants Sam to make Norm pay his bar tab.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
8.0/103 votes#2 - Is There a Doctor in the Howe?
Season 11 Episode 16 - Aired 2/11/1993
Frasier is upset when he hears that Lilith now officially want s a divorce. The staff at Cheers decide to hold a ""happy divorce"" party to cheer him up, and at the party, whilst Woody drinks too much and becomes a mean drunk, Frasier gets drunk. Afterwards Rebecca drives him home, but they end up in bed together. However, first the gang pop around to check Frasier is OK - and to watch ""The 3 Stooges"" - but just when they leave, who should show up but Lilith, who has escaped from the eco-pod...
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
8.0/103 votes#3 - The Bar Manager, The Shrink, His Wife and Her Lover
Season 11 Episode 17 - Aired 2/18/1993
After returning to Boston only to discover Frasier in bed with Rebecca, Lilith comes to Cheers to seek Sam's advice. Frasier comes after her, and Rebecca shows up as well to explain. Frasier says he can't take Lilith back after what she did - just as her lover, Dr Pascal, shows up and takes the gang as hostages unless Lilith returns to him. When Paul and John Allen Hill show up and also get taken as hostages, Lilith has to persuade Pascal to let them all go, and that she doesn't want to go back. Plus will she reconcille with Frasier?
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
8.0/102 votes#4 - The Apartment
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1998
Everywhere Ray looks, beautiful women are coming out of the woodwork to stop by and say “hi” to new tenant Robert. It’s the best looking “welcome wagon” Ray has ever seen. Unbeknownst to Debra, who believes him when he tells her that the brotherly visits are an attempt to cheer up a lonely, homesick Robert, Ray is having the time of his life pretending to live the carefree life of a bachelor – that is, until Debra shows up unexpectedly.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
8.0/101 votes#5 - Snow Day
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/2002
Held captive at Frank and Marie's during a snowstorm, Debra, Ray and Amy actually find themselves having a great time. Then Debra makes a nasty comment to Frank which totally upsets the good mood. This causes Marie to defend Frank and finally reveal her true feelings for Debra.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
8.0/101 votes#6 - First Day of School
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2004
Knowing that Kerry is dragging her feet over breaking up with Kyle, Bridget takes it upon herself to do it for her sister. Meanwhile, Cate is offered the position of school nurse and Rory's first day of high school proves embarrassing when he has to hit the showers after gym class.
Director: James Widdoes
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
7.7/103 votes#7 - Feelings... Whoa, Whoa, Whoa
Season 11 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/1992
Cliff is convinced that his new neighbour is Adolf Hitler. If not for Ma standing up for him, Cliff would be evicted from the building for harassment. But Cliff's still not convinced as to his neighbour's true identity. Meanwhile, Carla and John Allen Hill continue their love-hate relationship. However it has gone to a new level, to a love-hate-heart attack stage. Hill had a heart attack while they were making love. Seemingly indifferent to the heart attack since Hill is just a romp in the hay, Carla eventually breaks down in tears since "her boyfriend" had a heart attack. She suspects that the reason he did have a heart attack is she spurted out the words "I love you" to Hill.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
7.7/102 votes#8 - The Letter
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1997
When Marie crashes and ruins her Tupperware party, Debra decides that she's had just about enough of her mother-in-law's constant interference. She takes pen to paper and writes a letter to her mother-in-law, telling her to stop intruding into her life. Horrified by the problems that this letter might trigger, Ray does everything in his power to intercept the offending document – but he fails. Surprisingly, the family discovers that honesty really may be the best policy.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
7.7/103 votes#9 - Traffic School
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/20/1998
Robert proves to be a crashing bore when it comes to teaching traffic school, so he decides to practice his presentation on the family – which drives them crazy. In an attempt to lighten things up, he puts in an assist-officer call to "Traffic Cop Timmy," a puppet dressed as a policeman.
Director: John Fortenberry
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
7.5/102 votes#10 - Take Me Out of the Ball Game
Season 10 Episode 21 - Aired 3/26/1992
Sam ponders a baseball comeback, but when he goes to play a few games he discovers most of the players are much younger and immature than he is. They're acting just like he used to, and Sam doesn't think he enjoys acting like that anymore. Meanwhile, back in Boston, Frasier loses Lilith's favourite lab rat and tries to get an identical one before she returns.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
7.3/103 votes#11 - The Game
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/21/1997
When Ray and his family play a game of "Scruples" after their cable goes out and they have nothing but time on their hands, they find themselves arguing about honesty. To make matters worse, when Ray complains to the cable company about the disruption in service, he is informed that he has an illegal hookup – courtesy of his dad.
Director: Michael Lembeck
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
7.0/102 votes#12 - Don't Shoot... I'm Only the Psychiatrist
Season 10 Episode 13 - Aired 1/2/1992
Cliff and Norm help Frasier's low-esteem self-help group really help themselves and Woody trims Sam's hair.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
7.0/101 votes#13 - Debra Makes Something Good
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 2/28/2000
Debra throws the Barone family into turmoil when she finally creates a dish that everyone likes. Ray can't believe it when he samples Debra's braciole. Even though her past attempts at cooking seemed to have ruined his taste buds, it's simply delicious. But, when Marie gets wind of Debra's cooking prowess, and sees the effect that the braciole has on Ray, Robert and Frank, it's war!
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
7.0/101 votes#14 - Meant to Be
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/2000
Robert finds himself in the most unlikely position of having to choose one of three women – girlfriend Amy, ex-wife Joanne or Italian bombshell Stefania – to share the future with him. Robert decides that ""honesty is the best policy"" when it comes to his relationship with Amy, so he foolishly tells her about his recent reunion with ex-wife Joanne. To make matters worse, when Amy runs to Debra for consolation, Debra mistakenly spills the beans about Robert's recent tryst with Stefania. Suddenly, Robert is not in a position to decide which woman he wants. It's a matter of which one, if any, is going to want him.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
7.0/102 votes#15 - Young Girl
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/2000
Robert starts to date a 22-year old woman and Marie and Debra don't think it's right. They break up when he finds out that she's really only 19 and she finds out that he's really 43.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
6.8/104 votes#16 - Anniversary
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1997
At a big surprise party for Frank and Marie's 40th wedding anniversary, Raymond is shocked to learn that his parents were once separated for a year and might have gotten divorced if Frank hadn't returned home to help with Ray's broken arm. After the initial shock wears off, Ray starts to wonder if it's his fault that his parents are still together... and miserable.
Director: N/A
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
6.7/103 votes#17 - Frank, the Writer
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1996
When Frank gets a few anecdotes published in Reader's Digest, he submits his writing samples to Ray's editor, hoping to get his own column in the newspaper. Frank, feeling he has a new lease on life, convinces Ray to submit his story ideas for the column, which he plans to call "I Was Just Thinking." Ray then has to break the news to his father that the editor thinks Frank's writing is the most embarrassing work he's ever read.
Director: Paul Lazarus
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
6.7/103 votes#18 - Win, Lose or Draw
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1996
Ray gets tired of being treated like a kid at his father's poker game, so he ignores his father's advice and ends up losing all his money. Debra wants Ray to act like a mature adult and ask Frank for his money back, but Ray is too stubborn. Meanwhile, it turns out that Frank was only trying to teach Ray a lesson - that you can always go to your father and he'll make everything okay.
Director: Alan Kirschenbaum
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
6.0/102 votes#19 - Move Over
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/15/1999
When Ray confides to Debra that her constant need to cuddle and “be on top of him” when they are sleeping is causing him too many sleepless nights, Debra is more than happy to comply with his request to give him his space in bed. Now, Ray is learning the hard way that you have to be careful what you wish for!
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
6.0/101 votes#20 - Christmas Present
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/2000
Ray buys Debra an elaborate Christmas gift in the hopes that she will be so impressed, she will let him go on a weekend golf trip with his buddies. Ray believes he has the whole scenario worked out. He thinks by giving Debra a better gift than she is getting him will soon have him teeing off on a new course that he's been dying to play. However, he doesn't figure on the even more extravagant gift that Debra has purchased for him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
6.0/101 votes#21 - A Very C.J. Christmas
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/17/2004
To keep C.J. from spending Christmas alone in Las Vegas, the Hennessy household bends over backwards to recreate one of Cate's first holiday memories to entice him to stay. Meanwhile, Rory decides to break up with his wealthy girlfriend when he fears that he won't be able to buy her a Christmas gift worthy of her upper class status.
Director: James Widdoes
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
5.7/103 votes#22 - The Sister
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1999
Debra is upset when her hippie, free spirit sister decides to become ... a sister. It's a good indication that something is up when Debra's sister, Jennifer, shows up for a visit with rosary beads and prayer cards as gifts for the kids. Unable to share the real reason why she is so upset with Jennifer's decision to become a nun, Debra reacts by accusing her sister of going through yet another phase and not being truly worthy of the calling to the religious life.
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
5.0/101 votes#23 - Aloha, Raffles
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/24/2007
Bill plans to take the family on vacation to Hawaii. When he discovers that the family dog, Raffles is sick, the family must decide whether or not to try an expensive surgery. The kids try to help raise money to save Raffles in an unconventional way.
Director: James Widdoes
Writer: Kathy Ann Stumpe
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"Smotherly Love" is the best rated episode written by Kathy Ann Stumpe. It scored 8/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by James Burrows. It aired on 2/27/1992 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Is There a Doctor in the Howe?".