in the frasier episode  back talk '', frasier tells daphne niles loves her.
frasier episode frasier tells daphne niles loves her?
`` back talk ''
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donald ronald "donny" douglas (saul rubinek) is niles' divorce lawyer and, for a period, daphne's boyfriend and fiancé. ironically, despite his intense crush on daphne, it is actually niles who first introduces the two; they meet during niles' divorce proceedings, while donny, who is representing niles against maris, is helping frasier to prepare his upcoming testimony. although a highly successful lawyer, donny is exceedingly boorish and brash (his antics include arriving for a meeting with frasier and niles in a tracksuit after a jog, and changing into his suit in front of them), and are anathema to frasier's and niles' refinement; his degree from the university of las vegas leads yale/cambridge-educated niles to comment that there could have been "no problem finding tassels for those mortarboards", and although harvard/oxford-educated frasier tells him to "stop being such a snob", his opinions are evidently similar. their opinion of donny changes when he cows a supposedly tough lawyer over the phone, greatly reducing the time niles must wait for his day in court. donny wins a favorable divorce settlement for niles through his discovery that maris' family fortune was based on urinal cakes; niles' joy is immediately cut short when donny starts dating daphne.
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