Frasier's finale hits home for many reasons, but I never realized how it also tied perfectly back to the pilot in an easily missable way.

Yes. But often those things appear in episodes that are otherwise fairly inoffensive. It seems an entire "Frasier" episode revolving around drug use, however, was a step too far for Channel 4.

Apart from a few pieces of janky A.I.-generated nightmare fuel, we never got to see Maris Crane. Over the course of Frasier’s ...

The news from a few episodes back that Niles & Daphne no longer live in Seattle somehow made them entirely leave my mind, but you are most definitely correct to notice that it is indeed pretty odd ...