TEXT: ACT ONE Scene One - KACL Nearing the end of another show. Frasier: Go ahead, Tom. I'm listening. Tom: [v.o.] Hi, Dr. Crane. Uh, it's about my girlfriend. My problem is, I don't know if I love her for herself Or because things are so great between us physically. Frasier: Well, how long have you two been together? Tom: Six years. Frasier is surprised. Roz mouths, "Wow." Frasier: And the s*x is still that good? Tom: Oh man, Dr. Crane, every morning, night, three times a day on weekends. But I'm not sure we have much else in common. Frasier: Well, common interests are of course the foundation of... three times, you say? Tom: Is that abnormal? Frasier: Well, uh, no, no, it's not abnormal. It's not fair, but it's not abnormal. Roz laughs. The phone in her booth rings, and she answers. Frasier: Um, but you know, perhaps you share more things than you think you do actually. I'll tell you what, try this: why don't you pick up a catalogue from a local university, go through it with her and see if there are any courses you'd like to take together? Tom: That's a good idea! Thanks, Doc. Have a great weekend. Frasier: Well, I'd wish you the same but it hardly seems necessary. He pushes a button to disconnect Tom and sighs. Roz signals him to wrap it up. Frasier: Well, that's it for today, Seattle. This is Dr. Frasier Crane, wishing you all good mental health. [goes off the air] Roz: Niles called from the airport; he wants you to call him back. He sounded frantic! Frasier: [walking into her booth] I'll call him from the car. He's flying to a conference in Switzerland; I promised to talk him through it. Roz: Surely he's flown before? Fra
SUMMARY:
Roz is going to a wedding as a bridesmaid, and has to wear an unattractive lime-green dress to make sure the bride is radiant by comparison. The occasion starts her thinking about settling down, instead of moving from one brief relationship to another, and Frasier suggests she look for a man with more substance than superficial flash. Soon afterwards, he and Niles see her in Café Nervosa with someone, whom Niles recognizes as his least favorite patient: a compulsive womanizer called Ben Collins. He shares this detail with Frasier, but in the strictest confidence as one therapist to another, and as a result Frasier cannot tell Roz why she is dating the wrong man without contravening his professional ethics. He still tries to convince her, without giving a reason, and after a conversation with Daphne, Roz begins to wonder if he is doing this out of more than just friendship.