Plot

When Niles lands a job as a magazine art critic, Frasier is jealous.

The owner of KACL has sent her daughter, Poppy Delafield, to start an internship at the station. Everyone finds her unbearable because she can never stop talking, though they are all too polite to say so. Meanwhile, Niles is very pleased with himself; he has been appointed art critic of a posh magazine, The Monocle, and is now attending performances for free and socializing with the elite of Seattle. Frasier becomes envious, and asks Kenny if he could host an arts show on KACL, to fill a recently vacated slot in the schedule; Kenny says no. Frasier therefore decides that he must approach someone in a more senior position. To this end, he has a subtle conversation with Poppy, to persuade her to suggest his idea to her mother. She loves the idea, but some of the subtlety is lost on her, including the crucial component of who should host the show. Martin is pleased when Eddie kills his first rat, but then trouble starts when he encourages him to repeat his success, and the victim turns out to be a missing hamster.

Though he denies it, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) is so jealous of Niles' (David Hyde Pierce) perks and privileges as the arts critic for a snooty magazine that he conspires to become his radio station's critic by manipulating the owner's insatiably chatty daughter Poppy (guest star Katie Finneran) -- with disastrous results. As the station's intern with carte blanche, the thick-headed Poppy yammers on about everything and nothing in particular, and is detested by everyone, but a cunning Frasier mistakenly sees her as his ticket to becoming a star radio critic that will top his brother's print gig.