TEXT: Act One. Scene One - Radio Station. Frasier is well into his show as he takes another caller. Frasier: Hello Doug, this is Dr. Frasier Crane. I'm listening. Doug: [v.o:] Look, it's about my mother. She's getting on now and she doesn't have much of a life. And she doesn't want to do anything or go anywhere and she literally hangs around the house all day. I mean, it's very frustrating... Frasier: I'm sorry Doug, can we just go back a second? You said your mother literally hangs around the house. Well, I suppose it's a pet peeve of mine but I suppose what you mean is that she figuratively "hangs around" the house. To literally hang around the house you'd have to be a bat or spider monkey. Now, back to your problem? Doug: Do you mind if we stop while I tell you my pet peeve? Frasier: Not at all. Doug: [angry] I hate it when intellectual pinheads with superiority complexes nit-pick your grammar when they come to you for help. That's what I got a problem with! [hangs up] Frasier: [happily:] I think what he means is, that is a thing with which he has a problem. Now it's time for a station break and we'll be right back after a word from our friends at [reads:] "Pizza, Pizza, Pizza." He puts on the commercial. Roz enters. Roz: Hey, do you want to know my pet peeve? It's when you're in a department store and the clerk is right in the middle of helping you and the phone rings. So he starts taking care of them. And you're left standing there going, "Excuse me, but all I did was come all the way down here in person, whilst some joker is sitting at home in his underwear getting first rate service!" Don't you hate that? Frasier: Actually, I do most of my shopping by phone. You know Roz, this conversation with Doug has got
SUMMARY:
Frasier buys Martin a telescope as a gift. While looking through it, Martin spots a woman with whom he becomes romantically involved.