TEXT: ACT ONE Scene One - Apartment Martin is eating breakfast. Daphne, preoccupied, taps her fork on her plate, annoying him. He slides a piece of bread under her fork. Martin: You got something on your mind? Daphne: It's Joe. Tonight's our six-month anniversary, but we can't celebrate until next week because he's flying to Las Vegas with his buddies. Martin: Oh, Vegas, huh? Great! Well, tell him not to miss the show at the Diamond Lounge: a Topless History of the World! If they've still got the same Bathsheeba he's in for a real treat! The doorbell rings. Daphne gets up to answer it. Daphne: Oh yes, that's just where I want Joe spending our anniversary, some smutty show in Vegas! Martin: No, it's very tasteful and historically accurate. Except at the end, where Eleanor Roosevelt and Eva Braun settle World War Two by wrestling in pudding. Daphne opens the door to Niles. Daphne: Hello, Dr. Crane. Niles: Daphne. Frasier comes out. Frasier: Oh, Niles. To what do we owe this pleasure? Niles: To an unscrupulous art dealer who's trying to rob me blind. Last night, I was at a gallery opening, and- Frasier: Niles, is this going to be a long story? Niles: Moderately. Frasier: Walk-and-talk. Niles follows Frasier into the kitchen. Niles: Anyway, I was at this opening, in conversation, when I made a rather emphatic point about pointillism, when I lost the grip on my canapé and found that it became airborne! Well, the next thing I know I'm being confronted by an irate gallery owner who's demanding I reimburse him for the damage to one of his paintings! How he could notice a fleck of foie gras on a Jackson Pollock is beyond me. Frasier laughs and rolls his eyes at the absurdity. Niles: He's getting an estimate, and just to protect myself, I seem
SUMMARY:
Frasier's show on KACL is presented to a focus group of twelve people, and unbeknownst to them, Frasier and Roz watch from behind a two-way mirror as they give their feedback. The reactions are almost all positive, except for one man, Manu Habib ( Tony Shalhoub ), who keeps quiet. When asked directly, he says he does not like the host, giving no reason. Roz is delighted with the overall response, but Frasier starts to obsess over why this one man does not like him. Meanwhile, Niles is being overcharged for an art restoration job, after he slightly damaged a Jackson Pollock at a gallery opening. He has an argument with Daphne, which he finds very exciting, and he later tries baiting her to recreate the experience.