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(The entire series is now available to watch onHBO Max.)
This article contains spoilers forThe Nanny.
Thats not a slight.
Its more impressive when you realize the pilot introducesninemain characters, each established pretty seamlessly.
Max is the emotionally constipated widower, Niles the sassy butler, Sylvia the overbearing mother, etc.
Oh no, thats not the Queen Mother, thats my mother from Queens!).
Enter Niles and Maxwell and an Eliza Doolittle-esque training session.
Fran emerges at the party sporting slicked-back hair and shockingly subdued adenoids.
can really be explained by his devotion to Drescher, his IRL owner.
Naturally this means Fran must dress up in an elaborate costume to break into the club.
This makes sense when you remember C.C.
is supposed to be Frans Waspy foil: composed, subdued and heavily medicated.
But it also makes it all the more funnier whenever C.C.
finally snaps and is forced to engage with Frans shenanigans and Lane plays it perfectly.
Thats all well and good, but the memorable scene comes when C.C.
takes Fran out for sushi for her first time and Fran mistakes a glob of wasabi for mustard.
Wheres the Pearls?
So whereasFriendshad we were on a break,The Nannyhad the thing.
To get her back, Maxwell fabricates a prophetic dream a la Fruma-Sarah inFiddler on the Roof.
Again, fair warning, a certain MyPillow sales rep does make an appearance.
Samson, He Denied Her (Season 4, Episode 17)
C.C.
into thinking Maxwell has a fourth child whom she is responsible for losing at the screening.
The Hanukkah Story (Season 6, Episode 10)
The sixth season is a tough one.
Unfortunately, the online grid insisted they put on a wedding or they would pull the plug.
