With Daphne’s claims of being “a bit psychic” having steadily increased in frequency during recent weeks, along with a persistent headache, she requests time off from her duties to rest in her bedroom, leaving the Crane household to fend for itself.

Reading the newspaper that morning, Frasier learns that the prestigious opera director whom he “dated” after being falsely outed on his radio show, Alistair Burke(returning guest star Patrick Stewart), has lost the use of his legs in a choreography accident. A charity ball is soon scheduled in Alistair’s honour, which Frasier sees as an opportunity to worm his way back into the well-connected man’s inner circle. With bourgeois guests from all over the country jumping at the chance to attend, the self-conscious doctor becomes eager to make his best impression, and hastily books a series of high-end beauty treatments including a full hair restoration, rare blue-algae dermal scrubs and an experimental Swedish ligament-stretching.

Niles buys an ostentatious new pair of avant-garde sunglasses with lenses made of actual ruby. Enamoured with his own look, he becomes haughtier than ever, constantly tipping the glasses to glare at busboys, custodians and Roz with withering condescension. Eventually, his gaze becomes so intense that anything he looks at is literally blasted to pieces, requiring him to keep the glasses on at all times, which risks a fashion faux pas at the upcoming black-tie charity ball.

Niles heads to his brother’s condo to explain his dire situation. Upon arriving, he’s aghast to discover that Frasier’s extensive beauty therapies - all crammed into a single day - have been horribly botched, transforming the bombastic intellectual into a blue, fur-covered beast with elongated limbs and apelike agility. The brothers balk at each other’s plight, but - sipping sherry while he hangs upside-down by stem-cell-pedicure-induced prehensile feet - Frasier soon begins likening their superficial afflictions to Alistair’s paraplegia, and declares them a fashionable way to gain sympathy at the ball.

Without Daphne to prepare his meals for him, Martin begins living off of endless microwaveables, pressing his nose against the glass each time to watch them cook in fascination. After days of exposure to microwave radiation and cheap, preservative-filled meals - many with the tin foil left on in a lazy but dazzling spectacle - Martin realizes he’s gained the ability to emit magnetic fields. Thrilled with the development, he quickly puts it to use retriving can after can of Ballantine’s from the fridge without having to leave his recliner. Roz meanwhile becomes typhoid mary for a rare disease so contagious that mere skin contact can immediately debilitate victims. She refuses to let it affect her lovelife, leaving a trail of comatose men in her wake.

Frasier and Niles take the stage during Alistair’s salutation at the gala, literally rolling him out of the spotlight to deliver their own impassioned speech about their plight, and the plight of every rich, white socialite forced to deal with the petty annoyances of the common man on a near-daily basis. With the crowd whipped into a privileged frenzy, Frasier affirms them all as his exclusive army of “F-Men”, ready to storm the streets and take back America for the superior breed.

The opera hall itself is suddenly torn asunder by the arrival of a flaming, winged being wreathed in psionic fire, who cuts the revolutionary movement short by disintegrating most of Seattle’s upper crust. Frasier cowers under the podium and Niles stares up with desperate infatuation as the godesslike figure begins rambling in a terrifying, otherworldly voice about quaint things “Grammy Moon used to say.”