剧集对于Maris的处理是很妙的，她鲜活地存在于主角吐露的台词中而从未向观众展现任何面貌、声音。营造神秘感的同时，削弱了Niles喜欢上Daphne精神出轨的负罪感，毕竟所有人提及Maris无不挖苦讽刺，她是一个糟糕的妻子，甚至是一个糟糕的人。当然，她显然毫无辩白的机会和余地。于是，Niles还能继续纯情而充满欲望地望着Daphne，同时为了挽救和Maris的婚姻去跟击剑教练较量一番，呈现给观众微妙的平衡和笑料。

我很喜欢Maris这个活在第三人称中的角色，一个不靠自我表达就能留下鲜明印象的人。这得归功于《Frasier》幽默刻薄而不失分寸感的台词。

前两季看得比较匆忙。现在闲来无事，尝试记录一下第三季中提及Maris的片段。

#E0303'58 Niles: It's Maris' night to host her book club and they are more comfortable not having a man there.

#E0411'35 Niles: "Take one tablet per hours or as needed until trembling subsides". I'm sorry, these are for Maris.

15'11 N: You know, Frasier, if you're serious about that whoopee cushion, I happen to have one at the house. Last year a disgruntled servant left one on Maris's dining room chair. Fortunately for all of us, embarrassment was averted when my little faun proved too light to activate it.

#E0506'19 N: We're talking about a man who has satisfied Maris, something that's still regrettably on my to-do list!

08'02 N: Maris is quite keen on gutting my library to make more space for her hats.

10'36 -F: You have a bowling bag? -N: Yes. Maris and I have taken to giving each other gag gifts. I gave her a cook book.

12'07 N: You don't have to keep feeding these men. Actually, Maris finds they work faster if you keep them hungry.

20'25 Martin-: You carry seven hundred dollars in your wallet? -N: Well, Maris asked me to stop by the drugstore later.

#E0804'14 N: The last two nights, I knocked on Maris's bedroom door to wish her goodnight and I was greeted with a chilly silence, so, naturally I assumed everything was status quo. -M: Uh, thin. Make that very thin. Caucasian. Very Caucasian. -F: Well, she left without so much as a note or a phone call! This is not the first time we've experienced Maris's selfish behavior! She always puts her needs above his! She never attends family functions! Oh, she's not being eccentric. She's being arrogant and selfish.

11'22 N: She wants a divorce.

16'05 N: Maris ordered me to get my stuff out of there by sundown, or else she'd turn it over to a church bazaar.

#E0902'14 N: I'm calling her right now and demanding the restoration of my credit card and my bank accounts. And my phone service!

19'53 -Frederick: I hope aunt Maris comes out of her coma. -N: He asked where she was, I thought the truth would just upset him.

#E1204'32 -F: This often happens in these cases when two people separate, their friends often choose one spouse over the other. I'm sure they just choose Maris because she's better connected and has more money than you do. -N: Exactly which part of that was meant to ease my pain?

#E1303'42 -N: The gigolos are swarming around Maris like ants on a snickers bar! -M: If she's seeing a whole bunch of people, that means she's not serious about any one of them. They're probably just her escorts. You konw how she loves going to parties. -N: Yes, and she never liked going anywhere alone except bed.

06'49 N: I've taken Maris to dozens of these things, she's never once asked to dance. Of course, Maris dislikes public displays of rhythm.

#E1500'51 -N: This morning, for the first time since our separation, Maris actually picked up the phone and called me! She needs a favour. This is my chance to show her how necessary I really am to her, and all I have to do is fix one small problem! -M: What's the problem? -N: Uh, she's wanted by the police. Apparently, she was driving past a shoe store last week, whe she spotted a stunning pair of Ferragamo pumps in the window. Well, I need not to remind you what effect a Ferragamo sighting can have on Maris's hand-eye coordination. She drove up on the sidewalk and when the police ran her name through the computer, they found quite a little backlog of unpaid parking tickets! -F: What else would you expect from a woman who thinks her chocolate allergy entitles her to park in a handicapped space?

02'52 -D: What a horrible thing to happen. Can you picture poor Mrs.Crane confined to a jail cell? -F: Only if they moved the bars close together.

04'58 -N: You don't understand what this means to me. When Maris asked me for this favour, do you konw what she said? She said,"Niles, will you be my Commodore?" -F: Her commodore? -N: That's what she used to call her father. Frasier, there was no problem so great that the man couldn't fix it. Remember that lovely jeweled crucifix Maris picked up on her first communion trip to Rome? Who do you think smoothed things over with the Vatican?

#E21 09'30N: I know about addiction. It's the exact same look Maris used to get during the cough syrup years.

E24 11'04-F: Oh, thanks again for dinner the other night with Maris. You two seem very happy. -N: Yes, it's love. Like the Arctic Puffin, we've mated for life. Honestly, I can't imagine even looking at another woman.

——第三季完——

对巧克力过敏，热爱派对，交际广泛，瘦小，身体不好需要服药，曾对止咳糖浆上瘾，不擅烹饪，节奏感差，有时候会占小便宜，有一位无所不能的父亲，从不示弱，在婚姻中占据绝对领导地位，奢侈品狂热者，不爱出席家庭聚会，时常自私不考虑他人的感受，这是Maris，一位富有聪明的白种女人，她曾说"Niles, will you be my Commodore?"

版权归作者所有，任何形式转载请联系作者。 作者：袁成伟（来自豆瓣） 来源：//www.douban.com/doubanapp/dispatch?uri=/review/8889202/美国情景喜剧看的不多，老友记属于风趣幽默，马尔科姆的一家剑走偏锋，而这部剧，只能说优雅睿智。 很难想象一部情景喜剧能用“优雅睿智”形容但是这部剧做到了。剧中笑点几乎依靠精妙的台词和巧妙的情节推动的，一点也不俗套。更难得的是这些笑料一点也不低俗（破产姐妹就是低俗喜剧的代表），而且剧中人物性格鲜明却不怪咖（不像某大爆炸）。更可贵的是剧中对亲情爱情的一些情节，时而伤感，时而温馨幽默，显示就编剧强大的功力。 最后再次强烈推荐大家看这部剧，另外友情小贴士：可以先从最后一季看，看完咋会倒追第一季，有惊喜呦！