Frasier has a recurring erotic dream in which he wakes up in bed, hears the shower running and is shocked when the person who emerges is KACL's food critic, Gil Chesterton. Frasier is slightly appalled and becomes obsessed with the meaning of this dream, and so turns to his brother for help and advice. At first he believes it has some connection with food, then some connection with his mother, before even considering that his subconscious is trying to tell him something about his sexuality. Discussing this very notion with his father leaves Martin very uncomfortable, so Frasier is grateful when he eventually works out what the dream means: his subconscious was giving him a difficult problem to figure out. The slump on his show didn't provide him with the challenge he needed, so his subconscious needed to give him a problem to work out. Once he realizes that it what has been happening, he dreams that Sigmund Freud came into his hotel room, and climbed into bed with him. The episode ends with waking up after this nightmare.