Plot

Frasier deals with the loss of his job as though it were a loved one, moving through the five traditional stages: denial, anger, bargaining, grief and acceptance, each with some weird results.

In the sixth season opener, which picks up where last season's cliffhanger left off, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) is struggling with becoming gainfully employed again. In between job hunting, Frasier keeps himself busy by hosting a picnic for the other unemployed KACL staff, writing an opera and generally annoying everyone he encounters with his new, overzealous attitude. Martin (John Mahoney) and Niles (David Hyde Pierce) try to help Frasier deal with the emotions he won't face on his own.

After losing his job at KACL, Frasier has taken up a number of projects (including painting, writing his memoirs and composing an operetta). Niles thinks that he is dealing with the loss of his job the way people deal with a death, and is currently stuck in denial. He progresses through anger after Gil steals a new job offer out from underneath him, and bargaining, but gets himself stalled in depression when he finds out that his fan club has only three members who humiliate him by holding a public rally to protest Frasier's firing. Frasier starts drastically overeating and the family, worried about his food habits, stage an intervention and force Frasier to finally let out his grief and accept the loss of his job.