Kelsey Grammer wasn’t originally going to do Fraiser, which is a spin-off of Cheers starring his original character. The actor asked the Cheers writers to come up with a brand-new series for him, which they did. It was going to be a sitcom about a magazine mogul who was paralyzed from the waist down and lived in an NYC apartment with his nurse.

The president of Paramount Pictures didn’t like the series concept and convinced him to keep playing Frasier in a spin-off of the show.