TEXT: ACT ONE CLASS OF '68 Scene One - Café Nerovsa. Niles is sat at his table and the waitress brings him his coffee, which he thanks her for. Firstly, Niles pours his milk. After pouring he wipes a droplet from the milk cup with his serviette. Then he takes his spoon, wipes that, and prepares it to receive just the right amount of sugar. Niles picks up the sugar and tips it - however the top falls off, covering the table in sugar. Some young girls laugh from the window seat. Niles is miffed. Niles: That was a very childish prank. Now you have ruined my coffee! If you can't behave like adults you shouldn't be coming to a grown-up café! Girl: It wasn't us! Two middle-aged men start laughing - obviously it was them. Girl: Aren't you going to yell at them? Niles: They'll have already heard me yell at you. The men get up and leave as Frasier enters. Frasier: Niles, thank you for agreeing to meet me on such short notice, I swear I am in a full-blown crisis. Niles: If you are talking about that garish belt, I have emergency suspenders in my car. Frasier: It's not the belt! My high-school reunion is tonight and you know my history. Niles: Oh, not this folderol again. Frasier: It's not folderol! Niles: It's folderol. Frasier: It is not folderol! Every time my reunion comes around, it coincides with a severe downturn in my life. Five years ago Lilith divorced me; five years before that I was left at the altar; five years before that I fell face first into the poison ivy! And here we are right on schedule, I'm freshly fired! Niles: I still don't know why you even went that poison ivy year. Frasier: The point is, in ten minutes I have an extremely important job interview - a job which I am eminently qualified for, but now
SUMMARY:
Frasier believes reunions are cursed as they always happen when he is at a low point in his life, such as his divorce with Lilith and being left at the altar by Diane. He is thus not keen to go on a reunion of the Bryce Academy, where he expects to be humiliated for being unemployed, single and living with his father. He reconsiders after a former classmate sees him looking shabby, fearing that rumors may spread at the reunion that he is homeless.