Handlung

Diane and Sam are given a bleak prognosis from a noted marriage counselor.

Frasier's colleague from his Rhodes scholar days, Dr. Simon Finch-Royce, is a world renowned marriage counselor and is in Boston to accept an honorary degree. Despite Sam not wanting to do it, Diane asks Finch-Royce to provide a counseling session for her and Sam, to which the doctor agrees with Frasier funding the session as his wedding gift. After the Q&A session with Sam and Diane, Finch-Royce pronounces that Sam and Diane are the most ill-matched couple ever and that they should never see each other again let alone get married; he then leaves the bar to return to his hotel, as he wants a quiet evening of calling his wife in England, eating a quiet dinner, having a soothing shower and going to sleep early. But his evening doesn't go as planned as Diane, incensed with the Finch-Royce's assessment, is determined to prove the good doctor wrong for the sake of her and Sam's future. The one person who is glad that Finch-Royce's evening does not go according to plan is Frasier, who has his own beef with his old friend.—Huggo

One of Frasier's colleagues from his days at Oxford in England is in town, and agrees to meet Frasier at Cheers. When several of his bar mates inquire who it is, Frasier tells them that it is Dr. Simon Finch-Royce, who happens to be one of the world's most renowned marriage counselors.

After he arrives at the bar, Diane strikes up a conversation with Simon, asking him to provide her and Sam with some counseling in regards to their upcoming nuptials. Sam (naturally) doesn't want to take part, but is coerced by Diane and Frasier (who has agreed to fund the counseling as a wedding gift to both Diane and Sam).

Taking them into the bar's office, Simon tells them that he himself is divorced but later remarried because he felt he'd made a better choice of a mate. Sam scoffs a bit at the revelation but Simon then begins his analysis by asking Sam and Diane a few questions. After listening to their answers, he decides that they are not at all suited for marriage, and that such an endeavor would be a terrible mistake. He suggests that they may have saved themselves years or decades of misery.

After he leaves, Diane is incensed that Simon would say such a thing, but after talking to Frasier, she deduces that it may have been a test. Dragging Sam to Simon's hotel room to tell him 'they' understand that he was testing them, Simon upsets Diane further when she is informed that his analysis was not a test and that it was based on their gut reactions. Finch-Royce also wants them to leave because the soup he ordered for dinner is getting cold.

Over the course of the evening, Diane and Sam pay several more visits to Simon, with Diane each time trying to come up with a valid argument to Simon's analysis. (Frasier also pushes them into repeated harassing of Finch-Royce because he's appalled at the fee of $1500 and wants to get his money's worth.) Finally, after returning late at night and disrupting Simon's sleep, the counselor has had enough, and angrily and near-hysterically proclaims that Diane and Sam are perfect for each other, and that their marriage will last no matter what may happen (and if it doesn't, Simon will kill himself "in the most disgusting manner possible!").

Satisfied, Diane cheerfully says "See?"