Frasier runs into Charlotte, a matchmaker looking eagerly for new clients. Frasier declines her help, but changes his mind after a disastrous encounter with an ex-girlfriend.
Tropes:
- Berserk Button: One of Frasier's disastrous dates is with a creationist schoolteacher who believes in getting to children before they're told about evolution, or at least what she thinks is evolution, and when Frasier tries informing her goes on a rant about being compared to an ape.
- Dating Service Disaster: Every woman Charlotte sets Frasier up with is wrong for him. She tries to stay positive and promises she has plenty of options, but when he looks through her folder he discovers it's empty. He then catches her at the bar trying to talk a woman into going out with him.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Frasier initially meets Charlotte by accident, and she offers him her services. He declines, and then runs into another ex with a severe grudge, with the elevator he's in returning to Charlotte's floor. He silently trudges into her office.
- Matchmaker Crush: After all of his dates flame out Frasier ends up having dinner with Charlotte to cheer them both up. They hit it off so well that Frasier is still lying awake thinking about her later that night (the exact scenario he'd described to her when he first hired her).
- Minor with Fake I.D.: The fifth date that Charlotte sets Frasier up with turns out to be a teenager who had her fake I.D. confiscated by the police.
- Screaming Birth: The doula convinces Daphne to have a natural, drug-free delivery. Roz cites her own experience with childbirth to try and talk Daphne out of it. After seeing how much Cindy screams in her birthing video Daphne fires the doula and announces she's going to be "numb from the waist down!"Doula: I want Daphne awake and connected to the moment. A natural childbirth needn't be painful.
Roz: It needn't be, but it be. - That Came Out Wrong: When Charlotte initially offers her service to Frasier or his friends, he defiantly says "I have no friends!" before realizing how that sounds, and adds "that are in need of your services."
- Wacky Cravings: Only it's not Daphne having the cravings, but Niles, having caught an extreme case of sympathetic pregnancy.
- Wedding Ring Defense: After Charlotte reveals she's actually divorced Frasier points out that she's still wearing a wedding ring. She admits it's "camouflage" because clients won't trust her to set them up if they think she's single.
