As a photographer I come into contact with new people on a daily basis yet I often find it difficult to make that one on one connection. Bob: What's not to understand. Frasier - you've got to do something about Bob. It just reminded me too much of Maris. Martin: No. Ralph: [at a loss for words]...There's a lot of leaves this year! Roz is in the booth handing him a bunch of notes.] Scene 3 - Café Nervosa
BUTANE AND THE BEAST
[Frasier and Niles are sitting at their usual table.] The scene fades out and back in to Frasier still taking increasingly stranger calls from the listeners.] When she turns her back again he pours in his can of beer. While he does so Bob moves away from the table and we see that he is in a wheelchair.] Would you like to join us? You talk on endlessly about subjects that I have no interest in.
Plan: A: the race track; Q: What does Niles have tickets for? A: the jockeys; Q: What reminds Frasier of Maris? A: Maris; Q: Who does Frasier think of when he sees the jockeys? A: Martin; Q: Who declines Niles' invitation to the race track? A: his old ones; Q: Frasier realizes that he has a shortage of friends in Seattle, as most of what are back in Boston? A: friendship; Q: What does Frasier talk about on the radio? A: Café Nervosa; Q: Where does Frasier meet Bob? A: Their initial friendship dwindles; Q: What happens to Frasier's friendship with Bob? A: common interests; Q: What do Frasier and Bob lack? A: a photographer; Q: What is Bob's occupation? A: a local discount store; Q: Where does Bob work? A: an obsessive interest; Q: What does Bob have in barbecue? A: a wheelchair; Q: What is Bob in? Summary: Niles has tickets for the race track at the weekend, and offers them to Frasier; he prefers not to go, as something about the jockeys reminds him of Maris. When Martin declines the invitation to join him, Frasier realizes that he has a shortage of friends in Seattle, as most of his old ones are back in Boston. After talking on radio about friendship, he meets up with Bob, a listener who called in, at Café Nervosa. Their initial friendship dwindles as their lack of common interests becomes apparent: Bob, a photographer at a local discount store, likes wearing a tam o'shanter and has an obsessive interest in barbecue. Frasier finds it difficult to break off the friendship when he sees that Bob is in a wheelchair.