Patrick Stewart plays a flamboyant opera director, who becomes infatuated with Frasier after concluding the good doctor is gay. It all stems from farcical misunderstandings, compounded by Frasier's on-air double entendres and his obliviousness to the director's attentions.

Julia Sweeney plays Frasier's gauche dinner date, whom Roz terms "a placeholder to keep your dating muscles toned." Could be. Frasier's attracted at dinner to another woman, who happens to be Kenny's visiting cousin.