Until the conclusion, this episode made me squirm. Frasier is going to receive incredible accolades from the city for his work. But he does everything he can to screw it up. It is imperative that he be to the celebration on time. So he decides to walk to the space needle. The writers wanted to make it extremely difficult for him to get there. The saving grace is the time he spends with a sad cab driver who is about to lose everything. The softer side of Frasier, sans ego.