- Frasier runs for condo board president, against the tyrannical Ms. Langer. Niles lends his apartment to Martin for a romantic evening with Sherry, but inadvertently walks in on the two of them in flagrante.
- Frasier installs an antique Japanese door knocker, but receives a note from Ms. Langer (the head of the condo board) stating that his door knocker violates the building code and is instructed to take it down immediately. So he attends a condo board meeting to explain the situation.
- When Frasier has one too many run-ins with Ms. Langer (guest star Dana Ivey), the bitter condo association president, he is persuaded by a fellow tenant (guest star Austin Pendleton) to challenge her for the job in the upcoming elections. Also, Martin and Sherry (guest star Marsha Mason) struggle to find a place where they can be alone.
- Frasier has a new antique Japanese door knocker, which he claims "is said to bring peace and tranquility to any home it adorns". Unfortunately, minutes after he fixes it to his front door, he receives an angry note from Ms. Langer, the woman who chairs the condo board, claiming that the knocker violates rules of hallway decoration. He decides to raise the issue in a rhetorical manner at the next condo board meeting, but Ms. Langer dismisses the request so abruptly that Frasier loses his temper, calls her a tyrant and storms out, to the applause of the other residents. Soon afterwards, Frasier is approached in the unlit car park of Elliot Bay Towers by a secretive figure, who wants him to stand as presidential candidate against Ms. Langer, for the good of the other residents. He is initially reluctant, but then Martin and Daphne start receiving angry notes as well, and Frasier decides it is time to take action.
- Frasier has received an antique, Japanese door-knocker, and eagerly puts it on the door to his apartment. However, he soon receives a notice from Ms Langer, the condo board president, demanding that the knocker be taken down, as it is against the condo's bylines.
Frasier attempts to vent his feelings about this at the next condo board meeting, but his comments are shouted down.
As Frasier pulls into his parking spot one day, a shadowy figure comes out from a car, and tells Frasier that there are others in the building that are pleased to see him standing up for the little guy. The man claims he must keep his identity secret, as he is also doing activities that violate Ms Langer's guidelines. As he pulls away, Frasier rolls his eyes to see that his mystery man has personalized, plates, reading "DocDorf."
Frasier then decides to run against Ms Langer, and upon hearing that Martin has received a notice from her, feels he can parlay this into the idea that Ms Langer is being mean at an injured, retired police man, and his little dog. However, Frasier does not know that Martin was in the hot tub recently, sans trunks, and this was what led to the notice.
As it is, when Frasier presents his speech to the condo residents, his talk about Martin and his 'little friend' leaves many aghast. When Daphne manages to interject and tell Frasier what really happens, he bows out of the running for Condo Board President immediately.
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