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Sam Malone:
What seems to be the problem here, folks?

Frasier Crane:
Well, Sam, my colleague has dropped a crumb during dinner, and in the intervening hours it has been encrusted on his tie.

Cliff Clavin:
Oh what, you can take Norm's tie here, put it in a kettle and make soup. Incidently, it's a little known fact that the tie was invented in ancient times to be used as a bib, you know, to wipe your chin.

Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso:
You mean they're thinking of changing that?

Sam Malone:
Why don't you just tell the guy that he's got a spot?

Frasier Crane:
[mockingly] Gee, that's an idea. Why didn't we just come to Sam in the first place? Sam, you just don't say, "there's a spot on your tie" to a man the stature of Dr. Bennett Ludlow.

Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso:
THE Bennett Ludlow?

Diane Chambers:
You've heard of him, Coach?

Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso:
No.

Frasier Crane:
Coach, he's only one of the true giants of psychiatry: author, innovator, educator and I'm not ashamed to say my idol and inspiration.

Norm Peterson:
All right, you lean over, you pretend you're admiring his tie tack, and then just nibble the morsel off really quick. Who's the wiser?!

Diane Chambers:
Sam is right. We have to tell him.

Frasier Crane:
Of course you're right. Oh Sam, may we have three brandies please. And I guess I'm the one who should tell him. After all, I'm the one who suggested beef wellington.

Norm Peterson:
Beef wellington, you say?! [makes a motion toward Bennett Ludlow] Where's that tie?!

Frasier Crane:
Just have to find a way to tell him as subtle and tactful a way that will allow him to preserve his dignity.

[meanwhile Carla approaches Bennett Ludlow's table]

Carla Tortelli:
Hey, Pigpen. What's that thing? [points at the crumb on his tie] What are you trying, to catch pidgeons? Ew. [picks the crumb off his tie]

Dr. Bennett Ludlow:
Thank you very much.

Carla Tortelli:
Ah, don't mention it. I like a man who wears his dinner with pride.