Coots and Ladders

"Coots and Ladders" is the seventeenth episode of American sitcom Frasier season 11, and the 258th overall. Frasier is pacing up and down his apartment while a storm goes on outside. Niles arrives, annoyed at being called away from the “gifted infants’ toy expo”, and Frasier confesses that he has committed a crime, punishable by US law. There then follows a flashback while he explains: Frasier has been having a bad day. During his radio show he came down with a coughing fit and Roz had to advise his kleptomaniac caller, Babette, after which she claimed he had been dispensing the same advice for ten years. He was later turned down by an attractive woman who had parked her car in his space, and cornered at his front door by an elderly...