TEXT: [Skyline: An orange sun rises over the city, and as it does, it becomes a Jack-O-Lantern. This season's color for the "Frasier" title is happily appropriate for this episode!] ACT 1 [Scene 1 - Frasier's Apartment. Daphne enters from the kitchen. Frasier enters, wearing his Halloween costume. He has gray hair, a gray beard, and is wearing a nineteenth-century suit. Clearly he is meant to be Sigmund Freud.] Daphne: Wow, look at you! You look just...[at a loss] like him. Frasier: Oh, Daphne, come on! [indicating costume] Huh? The theme this evening is to come dressed as your hero. [He places a cigar in his mouth.] Daphne: [guessing] Fidel Castro! Frasier: [irritated] Sigmund Freud! [Daphne picks up a bowl of candy.] Daphne, don't you think that bowl is a little bit small for a whole night of trick-or-treaters? Daphne: Oh, I don't think so. The children in the building are too scared to ring our bell. Frasier: Why is that? Daphne: They're afraid of "Old Man Crane." Frasier: [chuckling] Poor Dad. Daphne: It's not him, Dr. Crane, it's you. Frasier: [taken aback] What?! I'm Old Man Crane? Good Lord, I have tousled every young head in this building from the laundry room to the rooftop. Daphne: Yeah, apparently that's how it started. They think you're feeling to see if their brains are ripe. Frasier: How do you know all this? Daphne: They have a whole rhyme about you. [singing] "Old Man Crane, Old Man Crane, Make him mad and he'll eat your brain." Frasier: That's absurd. How do children get such crazy ideas?
SUMMARY:
Frasier is holding a Halloween fancy-dress party , which he is attending dressed as Sigmund Freud ; the theme is that the guests arrive dressed as their personal heroes . Martin is dressed as Joe DiMaggio , and Daphne as Elton John . Roz arrives dressed as Wonder Woman , claiming she thought it was a superhero theme party. Niles arrives last, dressed as his father. Martin is thrilled and touched by the gesture, but Frasier is aghast and feels that Niles is making a blatant attempt to show him up and curry favour with Martin. Frasier has devised a party game: in character as their hero, each player draws a slip of paper with a question or situation, and must act out their hero's response in character. Its appeal wanes fast, and the party degenerates into drinking. Frasier, seeing his thoroughly-planned game fall apart, angrily storms out. He then has to confront the children of the building, who call him "Old Man Crane" and believe that he eats people's brains.