This Frasier/The National mashup is the crossover we never knew we needed

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This Frasier/The National mashup is the crossover we never knew we needed

Things we love: the popular 1990s television show Frasier, starring Kelsey Grammar as the eponymous radio psychiatrist Frasier Crane. Other things we love: slightly maudlin American indie-rock band The National. Two true, but usually unrelated, facts. 

UNTIL NOW.

That’s because Twitter user and composer Bobby Lord has created the collaboration we never knew we needed: Frasier, meet The National. The National, meet Frasier

Yes, you are hearing this right: it’s a National-esque cover of Frasier’s famous ‘tossed salads and scrambled eggs’ theme tune. That’s it. That’s the whole concept. 

It probably shouldn’t but somehow…it actually works? 

People loved it, obviously, because it bangs. 

It’s not the first time someone’s done a brilliant but unlikely mashup, though – just take a look at this fake Bob Dylan/Dr Seuss collaboration. 

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It got us thinking – why aren’t there more musical crossovers? 

The Smiths meet The Hungry Caterpillar? Bjork x Seinfeld? Oasis and The Office? Sign us right up.

Image: Getty 

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Emily Reynolds is a freelance journalist and author specialising in mental health, tech, science and gender. Emily has also written about music, dating, TV and pretty much anything else you can think of. Emily worked at WIRED for a year, writing news and features and appearing on the weekly podcast, and regularly writes for the Guardian, NY Mag, the Observer, New Statesman, the BBC and more.