Frasier: The Best Show to Sleep To

Stumbled across this article the other day:

Why Frasier is the best show to sleep to

It puts words to ideas I've never really thought through, but seems quite accurate!  I have some other "sleep" shows--King of the Hill and Everyone Loves Raymond before they were taken off Netflix, and I tried Malcom in the Middle but it just got too wild sometimes--but Frasier has been a consistent one since I started collecting the DVDs ten years ago (and now just use Netflix, of course!).  It all makes sense when it's spelled out for me: the musicality, the subdued introduction, the fact that their problems tend to be rather silly and easily-remedied.

For the past few years it's been difficult for me to sleep with the TV on, since my wife is not a TV-sleeper, but between a pair of sleep-headphones and a little tablet PC, I've been able to pull it off again!  Woohoo!

Just wait until you fall asleep, and then are rudely awoken by one of Bulldog's horns, or the episode when Frasier composes the orchestral them tune for his show!

goranmagdic wrote:

Just wait until you fall asleep, and then are rudely awoken by one of Bulldog's horns, or the episode when Frasier composes the orchestral them tune for his show!

Hahah, indeed, there are some bad episodes for sleeping!  The article mentions Beware of Greeks as a good example too!  There are some pretty loud episodes, but I think mostly they're pretty low-key.

I typically have the TV on fairly low when I'm trying to crash, just enough to control my focus (and chase the jumble of thoughts away) but not enough to keep me awake via the noise.