“Martin: When your mother got mad at me, I'd just grab her, bend her backwards and give her a kiss that made her glad she was a woman. Niles: I can't do that with Maris. She has abnormally rigid vertebrae; she'd snap like a twig.”
— Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo, Ken Levine, David Isaacs, Niles Crane, David Hyde Pierce, imdb.com