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A team of KACL staff members - Frasier, Roz, Gil, Kenny, Noel and Bulldog - are taking part in a competition organised by local morning TV to see who can lose the most weight, and are up against a team from KPXY. The winning team gets a trip to Las Vegas so they are all up for it - Noel in particular after Roz suggests something might happen between them in Vegas if they win. However, Frasier doesn't seem particularly interested in it until he meets the manager of the competition who turns out they it is a man who bullied Frasier when he was in high school and meeting him again stirs up the possibility for exacting revenge on the former school bully who stole his chess set.

Things don't get off to a good start for the KACL team when Frasier manages to put on weight (he apparently added a salad to every meal) but the prospect of losing spurs him and his team mates to keep everyone else in check until the day before the final weigh-in when everyone seems to be at breaking point. So Frasier invites everyone over to his apartment to make sure no-one is allowed to crack under the pressure. Has the weeks of stress and crankiness been worth it - alll will be revealed on the live TV weigh-in...... Meanwhile, Niles and Martin nurse an injured pigeon back to health while Niles also has to endure the injuries suffered caused when Daphne keeps rolling on to him.

- Roz tries to encourage Noel to take an active part in winning the competition:
Roz: And remember - what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.........

- Frasier recalls one of the many incidents that led to him being bullied at school when ahe accidentally signed up for the women's hockey team:
Frasier: The sign said 'F. Hockey' - I assumed it meant 'Freshman Hockey'!

- Frasier is shocked to learn he has actually put on weight:
Frasier: That can't be - I've added a salad to every meal!

- Martin sees Niles is suffering with another Daphne-caused injury:
Martin: Shamoo jumped the tank again (?!)

- Frasier doesn't want Eddies new friend, Barney the piegon, to stay in his apartment a moment longer:
Martin: He'll be crushed - he's like his pet,
Frasier: Eddie is a pet - he doesn't get to have a pet!

- Eddie running off with Barney in his mouth

- Frasier thinking Kenny had eaten a live pigeon

- Frasier finally gets revenge on his high school bully:
Frasier: Tell him you were sent by Dr Frasier Crane. Psych - iastrist!

This should have been a great episode - the KACL team back together, six writers contributing to the script - but it seems that too many writers have spoiled this particular episode. It wants to be a wacky farce, but seemed to me to be much to forced to achieve that despite there being the odd good moment along the way (Gil in a towel, for example) but they are few and far between. The other sub-plots weren't particularly interesting, and it was surprising to see Niles care so much for a creature that I would have assumed he loathed. However, it did throw up perhaps the best moment in the episode when the two plots cross paths and Frasier believes that Kenny has eaten a pigeon. Not one of the season's best episodes, and all the more disappointing given that this is probably one of the last, if not the last, KACL 'gang' episodes.

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