| season one | ||
| episode number and name | what | |
| Mad About You The Newstand-Part 2 | In the episode that the newstand where Paul and Jamie met burnt down and they have to find each other all over again, Paul is sitting in the apartment that he shares with Ira (his cousin) since he's not married to Jamie and he's watching TV. All of a sudden a familiar theme comes over the air. You can hear "The Nanny" theme clearly and IN FULL in the background! | |
| 1.1 The Pilot | In the opening animation, as Fran is being kicked out of the bridal shop, Danny puts a "help wanted" sign in the window. But Danny fired Fran to give Heather Biblow her job, so why did he need to advertise the position? Also, when Danny throws her out, he closes the doors of the bridal shop, but in the next scene they are partly opened again! | |
| 1.1 The Pilot | Dee Dee Rescher makes her first appearance as Dotty. She has reappeared over the years with some frequency, usually as Dotty, in episodes including 3.22 "That's Mid-Life" and 5.18 "The Reunion Show". She was also the bailiff in 4.17 "Samson He Denied Her". | |
| 1.1 The Pilot | The Sheffield House is entirely different in the Pilot than it later became. The steps are on the wrong side of the room, and there was a "library" that was a mirror image of the office. After the pilot was shot and sold to CBS, they had to redo the first "library" scene, and they used the new "office" set that had been constructed to be the permanent set. That's why in the pilot episode, we see both the "new" office and the "old" library. | |
| 1.1 The Pilot | Logic problem: Fran goes out to sell cosmetics. When she gets to the Sheffields and prepares a makeshift resume on the back of a cosmetics order form, she uses lipstick. Apparently she doesn't have a pen, as she also asks Brighton for one. You would think she would have a pen with her to fill out the order forms when she made a sale. I guess she wasn't expecting anyone to buy. | |
| 1.2 Smoke Gets in Your Lies | The Sheffield House has a few rooms in it that were only seen in the first season. One was a Butler's Pantry that was in between the kitchen and the dining room. The other was a wide bay window area with bench seats in the upstairs hallway. | |
| 1.2 Smoke Gets in Your Lies | Timothy Thompson appears in this episode and is also given the "music by" credit for the show. So I wonder if he is the guy playing the piano? | |
| 1.3 My Fair Nanny | Watch the hall that leads to the guest bathroom as CC is telling Niles "Miss Fine is holding a society tea!?". You can see someone at the end of the hallway crossing over to "the kitchen." | |
| 1.3 My Fair Nanny | Look at the posters on the wall of the office, this week one of them is for "My Fair Lady." | |
| 1.3 My Fair Nanny | Nanny Math: Fran remembers Bobby Sherman fondly--he was popular around 1970, so that would put Fran born 1957-1961. | |
| 1.3 My Fair Nanny | In these early episodes, Fran speaks of "Flushing High" as the high school she attended. Later that was changed to Hillcrest High, the school that Fran Drescher actually attended. | |
| 1.3 My Fair Nanny | Magda Harout appears as the Fortune Teller. She appears in two more epsiodes (3.23 The Cantor Show and 4.13 Kissing Cousins) as Fran's Aunt Sarah. | |
| 1.3 My Fair Nanny | Dorothy Lyman (currently the resident director) made her first appearance as Maureen Wentworth, a crusty aristocrat that Fran won over. Dorothy has also appeared as the screaming flight attendant in "Pup In Paris," the Young and Restless director in "The Heather Biblow" story, and the snotty woman in "The Dinner Party" | |
| 1.4 The Nuschlep | In the scene where Fran talks to Maggie in her bedroom, Fran is eating cookies. The first cookie, she takes a bite and then she slips the rest of the cookie under the blanket of the bed. She then takes another cookie and the same thing happens. She takes a third cookie out of the box too--three cookies, three bites. Maybe the second bite of the same cookie doesn't taste right? ;-) | |
| 1.5 Here Comes The Brood | These first few episodes were filmed in a very different order than we saw them aired. The first four filmed were The Nuchshlep, then Smoke Gets In Your Lies, Here Comes the Brood, and finally Personal Business, which we didn't see till episode number nine. | |
| 1.5 Here Comes The Brood | In the beginning scene when Fran sees the family off ala Donna Reed, C.C.'s reaction is a facial twitch--a twitch that comes back in the Fifth season! | |
| 1.5 Here Comes The Brood | When C.C. and the children return from the zoo, C.C. has a peacock feather stuck to her back. Cute touch! But it must fall off somewhere on the walk over to the living room, cause it's gone later. | |
| 1.6 The Butler, the Husband, the Wife and Her Mother | This is the episode that Maxwell wears Charlie's Wellies that Fran mentions in Enter Whining. This episode was also mentioned by Benjamin Salisbury as his favorite episode of all time. | |
| 1.6 The Butler, the Husband, the Wife and Her Mother | Uncle Jack introduces himself as Sylvia's brother, Jack Norman. Hmmmm, so that makes Yetta his mother also, but Yetta's surname is Rosenberg, so his should be too. (By the way, Uncle Jack is played by Zack Norman, who co starred in Cadillac Man as Fran's husband.) | |
| 1.6 The Butler, the Husband, the Wife and Her Mother | The two gentleman from the Butler's Association come in wearing hats. The hats are placed on the small table next to the staircase, but when the men leave the house, they leave their hats behind on that table. | |
| 1.7 Imaginary Friend | The real Sylvia and Morty Drescher make their first appearance as patients in Dr. Bort's waiting room. They have made several appearances since. | |
| 1.7 Imaginary Friend | When Fran and Max are talking to Gracie in her bedroom, Grace is holding a little sofa that used to belong to Imogene, but when the camera cuts to Fran for her line, she is holding the tiny sofa. | |
| 1.8 Christmas Episode | The "Scream Doll" that Grace recieves for Christmas reappears in episode 2.7 A Star is Unborn | |
| 1.8 Christmas Episode | Allan Rich, Fran's manager Elaine's husband appears as Pauly the Pawnbroker. He has been in several episodes, including the judge in 3.8 "The Party's Over" and an uncle in 5.10 "From Flushing With Love" | |
| 1.8 Christmas Episode | Fran pawns her watch, a watch her grandmother gave her when she died. Now, Yetta is of course very much alive, but we also got to see the other grandmother, Nettie, twice later on the series. | |
| 1.8 Christmas Episode | Howie Preiser is sitting behind Fran & Niles in the church. | |
| 1.8 Christmas Episode | Watch Maggie during the hospital scene at the end. She almost drops the box of tinsel she is holding. | |
| 1.9 Personal Business | The actor that played Brock Storm was on Days of Our Lives with Charlie. | |
| 1.9 Personal Business | Notice one of the posters on the wall of Maxwell's office this week is for Phantom of the Opera, an Andrew Lloyd Weber production.. | |
| 1.9 Personal Business | At the beginning of this episode, Max finds annoying the fact that Fran bought Maggie a robe just like hers. At the end of the episode, Brighton is wearing the same robe as Max is. | |
| 1.9 Personal Business | When Fran, Maggie, Gracie and Val are in Fran's room waiting for Brook to arrive, Maggie asks Fran if she can use some of her perfume, and Fran says "Sure, help yourself". Then Maggie grabs a red capped bottle, but Fran snatches it away from her saying "No, that's My Sin, you take the Charlie" handing her a smaller bottle and putting the red capped one in her right hand. As the camera angle changes, the red bottle disappears from her hand. | |
| 1.9 Personal Business | Listen to the song that covers the end credits in this one. It's the same song as always, but a slightly different version. Has more "wail" to it! | |
| 1.12 The Show Must Go On | When Max comes out to tell Fran that Gracie won't go on, the tux jacket that he is wearing starts out unbuttoned, then buttoned, then the scene shows them going back stage where the jacket is unbuttoned again! | |
| 1.12 The Show Must Go On | Familiar Faces: Maree Cheatham (Emma Trusdale) was in Rock N Roll Mom with Fran Drescher and on Days of Our Lives with Charles Shaughnessy, and Marianne Muellerleile (Andrea's Mother) later was in Beautician and the Beast as the Chef. Also this is Susan Goodman's first appearance---over the years she has shown up a LOT, finishing with portraying the Rabbi that married Maggie in Maggie's Wedding. And it is Steve Posner's first appearance too. | |
| 1.14 Family Plumbing | The poster on the wall in Max's office is for the show "Moby Dick"--presumably a reference to water? | |
| 1.15 Deep Throat | Fran seems to have miraculously regained her voice immediately after coming out of surgery to say 'I love you' to the hospital staff, but then loses her voice later and has to use a whiteboard to talk. | |
| 1.16 Schlepped Away | Nanny Math: In The Pilot, Brighton is 10 years old. In Family Plumbing he is 11, but by Schlepped Away he is 12. All in one season! | |
| 1.17 Stop The Wedding, I Want To Get Off | Maxwell's sister is played by Twiggy Lawson and her chauffeur is played by her real life husband Leigh Lawson. Twiggy and Fran starred together in the short lived series "Princesses". Her character appeared in a riding outfit in the pilot episode of Princesses that bears a remarkable similiarity to the one she wears in this episode. Other interesting "Princesses" tidbits include that it was directed by Lee Shallat, who directed several first and second season Nanny episodes (but not this one!). Also, Lee Ann Hunley, who shows up as the cranky pageant mother in 1.22 I Don't Remember Mama, was in "Princesses" as the Business Partner and ex-wife of the ill fated fiancé of one of the Princesses. She also was on Days of Our Lives with Charles Shaughnessy I think. (Oy, I don't suppose anybody is following this!) One more; Leila Kenzel was in Princesses as Fran's little sister Debra, she shows up in the Nanny years later in 5.18 The Reunion Show. | |
| 1.18 Sunday In The Park With Fran | Watch her crayon when C.C. sits down to color with Gracie. It starts out green, then switchs to red. (This is difficult to see on a tape, but apparent when seen "on air".) | |
| 1.18 Sunday In The Park With Fran | When Frank Bradley Sr. comes over to the house and insults everyone, watch when Chester comes bounding into the room. He is wearing his leash, which Fran nonchalantly steps on so he won't go too far. | |
| 1.19 The Gym Teacher | Joe Bologna, Renee Taylor's real life husband, appears as Allen Beck, an old nemesis of Maxwell's. | |
| 1.19 The Gym Teacher | The scene in the gym with Fran wearing the red and black dress was in a CBS's Bloopers Special. Fran is in the middle of the scene and then realized that she forgot to put her bra on -- 'I'm usually bustier than this." | |
| 1.20 Ode To Barbra Joan | When CC faints and falls on the couch, she falls face first, yet when you see her, she is lying face up. | |
| 1.20 Ode To Barbra Joan | Watch Fran's hairstyle during C.C.'s fainting spell. Her hair is much curlier in the shots from C.C.'s perspective. | |
| 1.20 Ode To Barbra Joan | The album that Sylvia pulls out of her bag of Barbra memorabilia isn't "Color Me Barbra". They must not have been able to find a real one (which any Barbra fan worth her salt has!) since "Color Me Barbra" is bright pink! | |
| 1.21 Frannie's Choice | In the bridal shop, watch Brighton play with the mannequin's hair. When he leaves, he puts the hair in the mannequin's arms, where it remains for most of the scene. But when Danny is proposing to Fran, suddenly the hair is back on the it's head. | |
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