劇集對(duì)于Maris的處理是很妙的，她鮮活地存在于主角吐露的臺(tái)詞中而從未向觀眾展現(xiàn)任何面貌、聲音。營造神秘感的同時(shí)，削弱了Niles喜歡上Daphne精神出軌的負(fù)罪感，畢竟所有人提及Maris無不挖苦諷刺，她是一個(gè)糟糕的妻子，甚至是一個(gè)糟糕的人。當(dāng)然，她顯然毫無辯白的機(jī)會(huì)和余地。于是，Niles還能繼續(xù)純情而充滿欲望地望著Daphne，同時(shí)為了挽救和Maris的婚姻去跟擊劍教練較量一番，呈現(xiàn)給觀眾微妙的平衡和笑料。

我很喜歡Maris這個(gè)活在第三人稱中的角色，一個(gè)不靠自我表達(dá)就能留下鮮明印象的人。這得歸功于《Frasier》幽默刻薄而不失分寸感的臺(tái)詞。 前兩季看得比較匆忙。現(xiàn)在閑來無事，嘗試記錄一下第三季中提及Maris的片段。 #E03 03'58 Niles: It's Maris' night to host her book club and they are more comfortable not having a man there. #E04 11'35 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. #E05 06'19 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. #E08 04'14 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. #E09 02'14 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. #E12 04'32 -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? #E13 03'42 -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. #E15 00'51 -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 09'30 N: 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—— 對(duì)巧克力過敏，熱愛派對(duì)，交際廣泛，瘦小，身體不好需要服藥，曾對(duì)止咳糖漿上癮，不擅烹飪，節(jié)奏感差，有時(shí)候會(huì)占小便宜，有一位無所不能的父親，從不示弱，在婚姻中占據(jù)絕對(duì)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)地位，奢侈品狂熱者，不愛出席家庭聚會(huì)，時(shí)常自私不考慮他人的感受，這是Maris，一位富有聰明的白種女人，她曾說"Niles, will you be my Commodore?"