Great Moments in Nanny History

Season Five

    
     

5.1 The Morning After

written by: Caryn Lucas

It's a few weeks after the hospital bed incident and Fran and Max are each talking it over with their respective muses. Fran: Then we got to second base! Val: Oh Fran, I only hope that happens to me someday.

Max: What am I supposed to do? Niles: Well, you could admit that you love the woman and marry her, or you could invent some stupid ploy like redecorating a room to distract her and buy yourself more time. Max: Good. That's good. Let's do that one.

So Max goes downstairs to talk to Fran about their relationship. He has learned a little about how to handle her. Max: I say let this relationship grow, let it blossom. She's a beautiful woman, she's warm, tender, caring... my God this room looks shabby. Fran: Huh? Max: You know, I don't think it's been redone for ages. Say, would you like to redecorate it?	Fran sees through his ploy and is a little depressed, though Sylvia looks for the bright side and thinks redecorating will be a good thing.
	Fran wants to do the whole thing herself to prove to Mr. Sheffield that she can be a great wife, but Sylvia suggests she call her decorator cousin, Sheila.

Sheila arrives to help and they sit down to catch up on the latest gossip. Sylvia: So Sheila, did your father ever come back from picking up a pack of "smokes" twenty years ago? Fran: Ma!! Sylvia: Wha? I'm not so nice and I like to gossip.	Sheila and Fran get to work and Sheila picks a motif for the kitchen that is supposed to be an aphrodisiac. All the sexually themed kitchen items remind Sheila of her boyfriend Mitch, whom she recently broke up with.
	Turns out Sheila and Mitch are living parallel lives to Fran and Max~~and Mitch dumped Sheila just after they got to second base.

Just then Yetta comes in with the news that she is engaged to be married, depressing Fran even more.

Meanwhile, Niles is trying hard to get into shape. Brighton: He is making me hold his sweaty ankles while he does sit-ups. And he's wearing really baggy shorts. Are ya gettin' the picture here?

The kitchen is done and Val tries to convince Fran that she won't get dumped. Val: You and Sheila do not live parallel lives. Does she still have that stupid best friend? Fran: Oh I am so getting dumped!

Well, at least the new kuchenia has the desired effect on some people. C.C.: Whoa-ho, that working out is paying off big time mister! Niles: Pick you up at eight. Wear something... C.C.: Velcro?	Just then Sheila calls with the news that she and Mitch got back together. Sheila had discovered that the reason Mitch broke up with her was that her taste nauseated him.
	Fran immediately redoes the kitchen herself. Fran: Ya gotta take this outta here!

Max likes the new kitchen... and more. Fran: Do you like what you see? Max: Lovely. Maybe I should do you in the dining room. I mean, I should have you do the dining room next. Fran: Are you sure Mr. Sheffield? That's a pretty big step.

Fran: Save it honey. You think I didn't know that you concocted this whole decorating scheme just to distract me? But you really didn't have to come up with such a ruse. Don't you think we're both above that? Max: Oh Miss very Fine. Sylvia: (entering) These drapes won't fit with your new motif.

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