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Frasier and Niles decide to host a dinner party at Frasier's apartment, but the planning quickly becomes complicated and leads them to think that they might be spending too much time together.

Full of "joie de vivre," a jaunty Frasier recruits Niles to plan a simple (but tasteful) dinner party, but weeding out undesirables from the guest list, slotting the perfect date and hiring temperamental caterers have the Crane brothers teetering on the edge of insanity -- and they're in too deep to call it off. And worse yet, the bickering boys are accidentally clued-in by one would-be guest who thinks their unique relationship borders on the peculiar.

Frasier decides to hold a dinner party, and there is lots to plan. First, he and Niles have to find a date on which they are both available, and subsequently persuade Martin to reschedule his poker game. Next, they have to find a good caterer. Then they must finalize a guest list, and to save argument they choose using a blackballing system. Once all these are sorted, they can start inviting people. Unfortunately, when the Walburts ring back to accept the invitation, the answering machine takes the message, and Frasier and Niles hear the couple talking about them before they realize they are still connected. This leads the brothers to worry that their friends see them rather like a married couple themselves. Also, they hear Allison Walburt say to her husband, "You get the one [Dr Crane], you get that other one", and this leads them to wonder which one she is referring to as "that other one". As a result, the dinner party is over before it's started.