Frasier butts heads with the new station manager, Kate Costas. When Kate suggests ways to liven up Frasier’s show, he views her ideas as low-brow commercialism and refuses to concede to Kate’s wishes. In response, she “banishes” Frasier and Roz to the 3:00 a.m. timeslot.

While Frasier battles sleep deprivation and Roz pleas to get them back into their regular time slot, his home life is just as chaotic. Eddie is locked in an ongoing fight with a neighbor’s Doberman; Niles disrupts Frasier’s sleep by accidentally setting off his starter’s pistol; and Martin goads Frasier about his inability to take orders from a woman.

In a display of fatigue-inspired camaraderie, Frasier and Roz decide to give Kate exactly the kind of titillating show she wants, by discussing sex, sex, and more sex! Appalled by the smut-filled show, Kate and Frasier are able to broker a mutually satisfying compromise that maintains Kate’s authority and puts Frasier back in his original time slot.