It's Frasier’s 1000th radio show and KACL hosts a public rally at the Space Needle to celebrate. Meanwhile Daphne struggles to get her passport renewed.
Tropes:
- America Is Still a Colony: Invoked when Daphne identifies herself to the passport control authorities as "a resident alien from England - you know, the country that used to own you people!"
- As Himself: Then-mayor Norman B. Rice cameos as himself.
- Artistic License – Law: Daphne seems to think that the city of Seattle is responsible for replacing her expired passport and even takes it up with the mayor at the end. In reality this would be the British Consulate's job.
- Attention Whore: Despite his "protests" Frasier gets a massive celebration in his honor, literally called "Frasier Crane Day." At the end he reveals that he planned the entire thing himself.
- Brick Joke: Daphne’s b-plot has her attempting to get a new passport fast-tracked so that she can leave the country to go sailing in a boat owned by her friend Xena's mother, and she always uses the specific phrase “Resident Alien” to describe her immigration status. At the end she confronts the mayor of Seattle, ranting at him that she’s an alien trying to get to Xena's "mother's ship" much to his confusion.
- Butt-Monkey: Niles gets nearly hit by a fish, is dragged around to buy Frasier new shoes, is mugged, is pressured into stealing a quarter from a beggar, is chased by schoolgirls, and then Frasier abandons him in the middle of downtown with no money or phone.
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California Doubling: The only episode to avert this - the scenes with Frasier and Niles wandering downtown are indeed filmed in Seattle. As the show was naturally quite popular in Seattle there was a weeklong event to commemorate its eventual (and final) arrival, a clip of which serves as The Tag, and there are some cameos by high-profile residents. - Disaster Dominoes: Niles almost gets hit by a fish at a fish market and spills his coffee on Frasier's suede shoes. Frasier is too fussy to be seen at the rally with stained shoes and insists on detouring to a shoe store, setting off the chain of events that sees him nearly missing his own rally.
- Insistent Terminology: Niles drinks cappuccino, not coffee.
- It's All About Me: Frasier’s ego is at its worst here. Besides the aforementioned planning a rally in his own honor, he seems convinced that every random person on the street is obsessed with him. He waved and shouts his catchphrase to random tourists (who wouldn’t know who he is) and when he and Niles are trying to get to a certain street corner to hail a taxi, he is convinced that he’ll be mobbed by fans on the sidewalk and instead drags Niles through an alley, getting them mugged.
- Lame Pun Reaction: Frasier writes Martin a speech that consists entirely of lame psychiatrist puns. The rally goers and even Eddie groan out loud when he reads one.
- Milestone Celebration: In-Universe, Frasier's show has reached 1,000 episodes and while he tries to be modest he really does want the station to mkae a fuss about it. On the meta side, this episode is the series' 100th episode.
- Never My Fault: Frasier initially tries to pin the blame for the mess on Niles for spilling his coffee.
- The Tag: A clip of Kelsey Grammar singing the Frasier theme at the real-life Frasier Crane Day event in Seattle.
