One of the funniest episodes of this series. While substituting for Niles at the Opera on Valentine's Day, Martin claims to be gay to avoid getting fixed up with the mother of a woman Frasier is interested in. Martin gets some comeuppance when Frasier's date then brings along her gay uncle as a match for Martin. Niles gets dragged into the charade, and David Hyde Pierce is at his best. When I first watched this episode, it reminded me of the Christmas episode from Season 6, where the Cranes pretend to be Jewish so as to not offend the mother of Frasier's new Jewish girlfriend. As luck would happen the Christmas episode aired as a syndicated rerun later that very night.