The Nanny

The Nanny

The Nanny is an American television sitcom which originally aired on CBS from 1993 to 1999, starring Fran Drescher as Fran Fine, a Jewish fashion queen from Flushing, New York who becomes the nanny of three children from the New York/British high society. The show was created and produced by Drescher and her husband Peter Marc Jacobson, taking much of its inspiration from Drescher's personal life growing up in Queens, involving names and characteristics based on her relatives and friends. The show earned a Rose d'Or and one Emmy Award, out of a total of twelve nominations, and Drescher was twice nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy. The sitcom has also spawned several foreign adaptations, loosely inspired by the original scripts.

Year:
1993
17,683 Views

Maxwell Sheffield:
[on the phone, looking at drawings] What can one say about these costumes? They're uh, they're awfully well-drawn; you stayed almost completely inside the lines.

C.C. Babcock:
[takes phone from Maxwell] They're grotesque; you couldn't design a dickey, you talentless hack! [removes phone from ear, shocked and meanwhile, Fran stands in doorway] He hung up on me!

Fran Fine:
[knocks on open door and enters the office] You catch a lot more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. Although what anybody would want with a whole bunch of flies, unless of course, you had a lizard to feed or a salamander or something. [Maxwell looks perplexed]

Maxwell Sheffield:
Miss Fine! May I ask why you're in my office babbling about reptiles?

Fran Fine:
Actually, I wanted to talk to you about one of the kids.

Maxwell Sheffield:
Hmm. If this is about canceling Maggie's piano lessons, God, yes!

Fran Fine:
So, she's not Liberace; is that such a crime?

C.C. Babcock:
Yes, in some countries, they'd cut off her hands. [she walks to couch and Fran, shocked and aghast, stares after her] What?

Fran Fine:
Question - When they shot Bambi's mother, did you find that a sad moment? [C.C. and Fran just stare at each other for a bit] At all?

C.C. Babcock:
[her smirk turns into a smile] I'm sure she's mounted in a nice home in a fine home somewhere.

Fran Fine:
Ah-huh. Well, [turns] now I'll talk to you. Yeah, um, I took Gracie out to lunch and that figment of her imagination tagged along. [sits on Maxwell's desk]

Maxwell Sheffield:
Ah, Imogene.

Fran Fine:
Now, not that I mind eating two BLTs, but she stuck me for the check.

Maxwell Sheffield:
Yes, she has been cropping up quite a bit lately.

Fran Fine:
Oh, you should have seen poor Gracie in the park, sitting on the teeter-totter with her little tush in the dirt, not budging an inch, just waiting and waiting. I'll tell you, it broke my heart.

Maxwell Sheffield:
Well, perhaps we should increase her therapy.

Fran Fine:
Well, I was thinking of doing just the opposite. I mean, she's six years old; does she really have to lie on some couch getting her head shrunk twice a week?

C.C. Babcock:
[walks over] Miss Fine, they don't actually shrink the child's head.

Fran Fine:
What am I, an ignoramus?

Maxwell Sheffield:
Miss Fine, while I appreciate your concern, Grace is a very complex child and therapy is an important outlet for her.

Fran Fine:
Well, look, if she needs an outlet, I'll take her to Jersey. They got a Ralph Lauren outlet, a Donna [dialogue buried under audience noise] I'm not sayin' the kid's gotta go cold turkey; I'm just sayin' I think she needs a little less Freud and a little more fun.

C.C. Babcock:
Therapy happens to be very beneficial. I've been going for 20 years. [Fran and Maxwell obviously perplexed, doubtful, shocked and confused]

Fran Fine:
[shakes head] Nahh. It's too easy.


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