Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Niles's list in "The Facts of Lice," which leads Fran to think he's a serial killer.įran: "Secure alibi, Cut phone line, Put on gloves, Tape mouth?.Aroused by Their Voice: Fran admits she can get away with this because she's very attractive.Fran notices Chester is oddly happy, saying that usually when a dog loses their master, they get all sad and depressed. While she's gone, Fran is taking care of her dog Chester. A somewhat reversed situation happened when C.C.The second time was after Niles suffers a heart attack during a verbal spar with him. hugs her, exclaiming "Don't you ever leave me again!" to a perplexed Fran. is ecstatic until she finds out that Maxwell has hired Heather Biblow to take over as nanny. Once when Fran leaves to become a soap opera star, C.C. Antagonist in Mourning: Happens twice to C.C.Animated Credits Opening: Done as an intentional retro throwback to sitcoms from the 50s and 60s that used such animated opening sequences.As it happens, Sarah herself was setting them up from the afterlife. However, the end result is a Type 1 when he proposes to her. Anchored Ship: The reason Fran and Max don't become a couple is because of his dead wife.We were this close to makin' my mother happy!") only furthers the implications. Her comment on finding out that she's not ("Aw, that's too bad.
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Fran, on realizing that a gorgeous professional has asked her out, briefly considers the idea and asks if Sydney is Jewish. In "Oy Vey, You're Gay!", Fran finds that Maxwell's new publicist Sydney Mercer is in fact gay, and is attracted to Fran herself.
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Morty's embarrassing antics mostly fall under Informed Ability with him spending most of the series as The Ghost when he does finally appear in season 6's "Ma'ternal Affairs", his first scene has him bringing his hubcaps into the house with him so they can't be stolen. Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Sylvia has a bad habit of eating all the food in sight, constantly nagging Fran about not being married, and telling wildly inappropriate stories to anyone around to hear.pirin, Q-tips and Chapstick, I'm off to the drugstore." He lost the part of Romeo in their school production to him (Max ended up as Friar Lawrence), and Niles mentioned that he spent his entire class reunion sulking in the corner "because everybody was kissing Jeremy Irons' as. However, it was mentioned more than once that he felt like this toward Jeremy Irons back in school. During the show, it's always coming in second place to Andrew Lloyd Webber. Always Someone Better: Maxwell deals with this twice.Man 2: You remember that? Who took three sips of my Coke?! From there, general shenanigans, chaos and romance between Fran and Maxwell ensues, gently prodded on by the Deadpan Snarker butler Niles and not-so-gently resisted by CC, Maxwell's snooty business partner with her own romantic designs on Maxwell. From there, Fran manages to wrangle herself a job as nanny to Maxwell's three children despite Maxwell's initial reservations. Perhaps one of the greatest successes this show had was its big and colorful cast, ranging from the sarcastic British Butler to the Jewish Mother.Īs seen above, the Expository Theme Tune pretty efficiently sums up the basic plot, but to briefly provide just a bit more context Drescher plays Fran Fine, a loud, flashy and big-hearted Jewish-American woman who, after a series of personal and employment-related calamities, ends up as a door-to-door cosmetics salesperson at the residence of Maxwell Sheffield ( Charles Shaughnessy), a wealthy, stuffy and thoroughly British producer of Broadway musicals.
The series ran for a respectable six seasons. The pitch was also conceived by Drescher, inspired by The Sound of Music as well as a conversation with Twiggy's adolescent daughter. A Fish out of Water family sitcom ( 1993-1999) starring the raspy-voiced, big-haired flashy Fran Drescher.