Frasier, Niles, Daphne and Martin take to the Elliott Bay Towers’ rooftop patio on a clear night in the hopes of viewing the much-hyped “supermoon” - an abnormally large, red full moon. The Crane family is disappointed, however, when the less-than-ideal weather conditions jeopardize the viewing - the skies are clear, but Frasier loudly insists the mild humidity may pucker his calfskin loafers, eventually “aborting” the excursion, hastily packing up their gourmet picnic and jostling the rest of the family back through the rooftop door. Only after recovering from the harrowing experience for several hours in Frasier’s condo do they come to a terrifying realization - Martin has been left behind.

Alone on the cold, desolate roof, the old man quickly realizes that with the doors locked and the superintendent on vacation with the only key, any chance of rescue is at least four days away. Coming to grips with this, he begins to take stock of his resources - two full roast chickens left over from the picnic, a large jar of olives, a sixteen-inch baguette, half a tray of vegetables with expensive dip, and several packages of freeze dried emergency rations packed by an overcautious Niles in the nagging spirit of “better safe than sorry!”. Confident in his food supplies for the time being, the old man pops the antenna on his portable television set and relaxes with hours of slightly fuzzy sitcom reruns.

While casually watching the news the next day, Frasier and Daphne discover evidence that Martin is shockingly still alive when a weather helicopter broadcasts a shot of the Elliott Bay Towers rooftop, an old rain tarp having been converted into a large, makeshift tent and surrounded by an impressive amount of garbage. Figuring the upscale Academy Awards party he and Niles are hosting the next night will be better off without Martin’s intrusion, Frasier quietly switches the television off.

Having polished off his whole food supply in a single afternoon of particularly wasteful snacking, including throwing an entire freeze-dried meal at a seagull flying dangerously close to his shelter, a severely bloated Martin decides make the long, agonizing crawl across the rooftop to reach the building’s cable box, in the hopes that hooking his TV directly into to the source will allow him access to the higher cable channels that Frasier refuses to unscramble. He succeeds, inadvertently disconnecting the cable from several apartments in the process.

Frasier is horrified to find his TV broadcasting static, threatening to ruin the entire Oscars soiree. Knowing that the cable box can’t be repaired without the superintendent’s roof key, Frasier stages a KACL press conference to reveal his father’s plight, and pleas to the people of Seattle to help him fund an elaborate rescue plan, all in the secret hopes of accessing the cable. Within hours, thousands of donations are pouring in to the “Get Martin Crane Off The Roof” fund, the hashtag #GetHimOff having quickly gone viral.

As another day passes, Martin continues his cable porno binge, subsisting off of potato chip residue on his clothing, drinking filthy rainwater from the building’s eavestrough and coming up with increasingly inventive ways to recycle his own waste. His sunburnt reveries are rudely interrupted by a private helicopter suddenly descending on the rooftop, a team of TV repairmen trampling straight over the old man to reconnect the cable box. Downstairs, Frasier dramatically announces “May the Academy Awards…. begin!”, switching on the television and broadcasting a cacophony of hardcore pornography to his apartment full of socialites, a file photo of Martin with the hashtag #GetHimOff accompanying a news ticker of charitable donations scrolling along the bottom of the screen.