This funny sitcom from the 1990s tells the story of an entrepreneur named Fran Fine who loses her job and, to pay the bills, takes the role of a nanny to a rich English widower and his three children. She also interacts with the various staff of the house.
Summary
-Cosmetics saleswoman Fran Fine must find a way to pay the bills after being fired from her job and dumped by her boyfriend. She goes to work as a nanny to a rich English widower and his three kids
-Fran Drescher: Fran Fine
-Charles Shaughnessy: Maxwell Sheffield
-Daniel Davis: Niles
-Lauren Lane: CC Babcock
-Nicholle Tom: Maggie Sheffield
-Benjamin Salisbury: Brighton Sheffield
-Madeline Zima: Grace Sheffield
-Renee Taylor: Sylvia Fine
-Rachel Chagall: Val Toriello
-When the show first aired in the UK, fans wrote in and put down Charles Shaughnessy, thinking he had a "fake" English accent and suggested working with Daniel Davis to learn to do a proper English accent. Charles Shaughnessy is a native Englishman, born in London and Daniel Davis is not; he was born in America. There is a funny tribute to this situation in an episode in the final season. Niles appears in Grace's (Madeline Zima's) school play about Cleopatra, where he gets bad reviews of his "fake" English accent
-In the final episode, it's revealed that C.C. Babcock's initials stand for Chastity Claire
-During the fifth season, Lauren Lane and Rachel Chagnall had gotten pregnant. Producers made no attempt to hide their growing stomachs. There was one instance where CC made a reference to Elaine on Seinfeld, who had been hidden by props to hide her pregnant stomach
-There was a storyline about CC being sent to a sanitarium to cover Lauren Lane's absence during the final part of her pregnancy
-Sylvia (Renee Taylor) and Morty were the names of Fran Fine's parents on the show. They just so happen to also be the real life names of Fran Drescher's parents
-When the show was initially developed, there were only two kids in the Sheffield house: Brighton and Grace. An older sibling, Maggie, was introduced so as to allow Fran to act as a sort of mentor
-The dog on the show, Chester, is Fran Drescher's dog, Chester
-Just like on the show, where Fran has an older sister named Nadine, in real life Fran Drescher has an older sister named Nadine
-Producers wanted the character of Fran Fine to be Italian American, but Drescher wanted the character to be Jewish. Val Toriello, played by Rachel Chagal, is Italian American, but in real life Rachel Chagal is actually Jewish
-The primary care physician for Renee Taylor, who played Fran's mom Sylvia, wrote a note to producers asking her to stop eating in every scene as she had gained 50 pounds. It became a joke that when Sylvia would come to the house, she'd demand food from Niles and would start stealing food from Maxwell, Niles or the kids
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