TEXT: Act 1 Scene 1 - Frasier's Apartment Fade in. It is raining. Ronee, in her robe, comes into the living room from Martin's room, Frasier is at the table. Ronee: Hey, you're up early. Rain wake you? Frasier: Oh, no, just a little preoccupied. Ronee: Well, if there's something on your mind you can tell me. Won't be long before I'm your mom. Frasier: I was actually gonna tell you before you said that. Ronee: [sitting] Oh, come on. Frasier: Well, there's this woman I can't seem to get off of my mind. A woman with a boyfriend. Ronee: Why don't you just get her drunk and see what happens? Frasier: You are nothing like my mother. Martin comes in from his room. Martin: Hey, Ronee, better get dressed. You can't look like that when she gets here. Ronee: Oh, she not coming for another hour. Frasier: Who? Martin: Ronee's mother. Ronee: Your grandmother. Frasier: Stop that! Martin: She's visiting with her church group from Spokane. He goes into the kitchen. Ronee: Yeah, and if she sees me like dressed this she'd know that I spent the night and then she'd be carping about it the whole weekend. Frasier: What, she doesn't approve of pre-marital s*x? Ronee: Judging by the diving bell she wore as a nightgown, she wasn't real big on post-marital s*x either. Martin comes back from the kitchen with his coffee. Martin: Plus, I'm startin' out with one strike against me. Ronee: Mother still remembers a night he drove me home from babysitting you and Niles, thirty years ago... Martin: Forty years ago. Ronee: I'm telling this story. I was all weepy because this guy had just dumped me, and your father put his arm around me, just to be nice. And Mom saw
SUMMARY:
Martin is soon to meet Ronee's mother again, and given that she is opposed to pre-marital sex , they have to pretend that they are not practising it. Frasier is distracted constantly by thoughts of Charlotte, the matchmaking agent with whom he had dinner the other night, and who is already in a relationship. Niles agrees with him that his feelings could be transference , but after seeing Frasier when he talks to Charlotte, Roz dismisses that theory instantly. She decides to help Frasier out by taking him to a bar, where he meets a flirtatious woman called Kim ( Jennifer Tilly ). They both go back to his place, but receive several interruptions, the last of which is by Charlotte, who has just had an argument with her boyfriend and wished to be consoled by Frasier. Meanwhile, Niles has developed an uncharacteristic taste for fast food , and it is driving Daphne to distraction.