While Christmas shopping with Roz, Frasier buys his son Frederick, who’s half-Jewish, a menorah for the holidays. A woman named Helen Moskowitz sees Frasier make the purchase and assumes he’s Jewish. Later, when Helen assists Frasier in buying a sweater for Roz, he asks how he can thank her, and she jumps at the chance to set him up on a blind date with her daughter Faye.

Frasier and Faye meet at Café Nervosa and really hit it off. They begin seeing each other on a regular basis. In fact, while en route to the airport on Christmas Eve, Faye and Helen stop by Frasier’s place to say hello. When Faye sees a wreath in Frasier’s living room, she’s stunned. She thought Frasier was Jewish, and says her mother will “flip” if she learns Frasier isn’t. He agrees to pretend to be Jewish.

The charade is pretty tough to pull off when Eddie marches by in a Santa suit, smells of a baking ham waft through the apartment, a delivery man arrives with a Christmas tree, and Niles turns up dressed as Jesus for Daphne’s holiday revue. In the end, Faye’s mother discovers that Frasier isn’t Jewish and a big scene ensues, but everything is resolved and they proceed to the airport. The emotional mother-daughter face-off rubs off on Frasier and Martin, who also get into a heated argument that ends up tearfully making them closer.