Fun Stuff To Look For

	season two
	2.1 Fran Lite	Listen in the scene outside the nightclub when Mr. Sheffield introduces Leslie to Fran and Val. He calls Fran "Fran" in passing--the only time that ever happened not as a plot device.
	2.1 Fran Lite	Towards the end of the episode when Fran is waiting for Maxwell to come home, Niles comes and puts what looks like a board game in the entrance hall closet. The closet door bounces back open and throughout the scene, whenever the camera focuses on Max you can see the partially open door, but when Max begins to thank Miss Fine and the camera focuses on him the door is magically closed and since Niles has left the room and Fran and Max are standing in the same place there was no one who could have possibly closed the door.
	2.2 The Playwright	C.C. talks about her therapist as a man in this episode, but her therapist is Dr. Bort, who is a woman.
new!!	2.4 Material Fran	Gracie says that she doesn't think that she can sleep without her teddy bear, but in 1.15 "Deep Throat" she gave Fran Teddy for the night so she wouldn't be scared.
	2.5 Curse Of The Grandma's	In this episode, Maxwell and CC receive an award and Max dedicates it especially to Fran. C.C. passes out from shock, and the award is destroyed. In the tag, C.C. reconstructs it but Fran scares her. The award falls and breaks again and Niles throws it in the garbage. Well, in the eipsode 2.3 (Everybody Needs a Buddy) two episodes before they recieved that award, when Fran goes to Maxwell's office for convince him to accept Grandma Yetta as a guest while her retirement home is being fumigated, you can see that same award on a shelf between the couch ("C.C.'s office") and the window in Maxwell's office.
	2.6 The Nanny Napper	Fran mentions Maxwell's father's name in this episode as "Elliot" when she is naming "her" baby. But in 4.6 "Me and Mrs. Joan" his name is established as James.
	2.6 The Nanny Napper	At the end when Fran & Mr. Sheffield are cleaning up the ice cream, Mr. Sheffield grabs the chocolate syrup & sponge off the kitchen table, walks around kitchen to the bar. Then, miraculously the chocolate syrup is back on the kitchen table, and Fran grabs it.
	2.7 A Star Is Unborn	Peter Marc Jacobson makes his first appearance on the show as Romeo to Fran's Juliet. He also appears in "Pen Pals."
	2.7 A Star Is Unborn	When Fran is talking to Phillipe about why Juliet kills herself, a lady with a big puffy dress walking behind them gets her dress caught on one of the pillars.
	2.8 Pishke Business	Fran's line "Do I have a run in my Hanes?" was an in joke because Fran had done some ads for Hanes that year.
new!!	2.8 Pishke Business	Watch the coat that C.C. is fingering nervously while she hides in the closet with Maxwell. The first time the camera is on them, C.C. is holding Mr. Haste's grey coat. The next time, it's Fran's gold coat that is in that position. Then gold, then grey again.
	2.9 Stock Tip	Dugg Kirkpatrick was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Acheivement in Hairstyling For a Series for this episode.
	2.10 Whine Cellar	When Sylvia comes by the first time to practice for her surprise party, you hear the door bell ring but you can see her hands clearly all the time, making it impossible for her to have rung the bell.
	2.10 Whine Cellar	Morty Drescher appears as Uncle Stanley for the first time.
	2.11 When You Pish Upon A Star	The boy who played Jack Walker (J.D. Daniels) also played Nimo in 2.25 The Chatterbox and the girl who plays the Maid in Royal Flush (Lisa Thames) also played the waitress in 4.2 The Cradle Robbers.
	2.12 Take Back Your Mink	The tag of this episode makes references to both Shane Donovan, Charles Shaughnessy's character on Days Of Our Lives, and Millie Helper, Ann Guilbert's character on Dick Van Dyke.
	2.16 Canasta Masta	Maggie is not old enough to gamble, but she is even taking the money out of the slot machine. Security would be all over her.
	2.16 Canasta Masta	Brenda Cooper won the Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costuming for a Series for this episode, and Lee Shallet was nominated for "Oustanding Individual Acheivement in Directing a Comedy Series."
	2.19 Fine Friendship	Notice that the hallway outside of Fran's room is different - earlier in the series, her room was at the end of the hall & there was a small window right outside her door. Now the hallway seems to be extended, as several times someone walks past her room.
	2.21 Close Shave	Watch Maxwell's face closely when Fran is playing around with the shaving cream -- he's trying very hard not to laugh but not really succeeding.
	2.21 Close Shave	Fran is reading an issue of Longevity Magazine---a magazine that she was on the cover of the month this aired originally.
	2.22 What the Butler Sang	The bandage on Fran's hand is from a real life burn she recieved while posing for a TV Guide article.
	2.22 What the Butler Sang	What happened to Fran's robe that she tried to put on Nadine in the bedroom scene with Max? Nadine doesn't take it, and it just disappears--later in the scene, Max covers Fran with his robe.
	2.22 What the Butler Sang	Look carefully at the casting picture Maxwell holds up, it's Kurt's, from a couple of episodes ago in A Fine Friendship.
	2.23 A Kiss Is Just a Kiss	Fran uses the real name of one of her first boyfriends in the line "Jerry Schwartz and I spent the better part of the Blue Lagoon tongue wrestling."
	2.23 A Kiss Is Just a Kiss	In the scene where Brighton & Max are playing chess, "B" is wearing glasses, yet he doesn't officially get them until episode 2.26 Fran Gets Mugged, & then they mysteriously disappear, never to be seen again!
	2.24 Strange Bedfellows	After coming home from the party and going into Maxwells' bedroom, Fran changes out of her dress into a black nightgown. What was Max doing with a ladies nightgown in his closet?
	2.24 Strange Bedfellows	After Fran and Maxwell get out of bed, Max puts a robe on. Watch the collar of his pajamas, it appears and disappears over the course of the scene.
	2.25 The Chatterbox	This episode was the pilot for a spin off series that was not picked up.
	2.25 The Chatterbox	While Mr. Anthony is berating Mary Ruth for something he says: "When you convinced Mrs. Wilk* to.....*," thus slipping in the name of Diane Wilk, the head writer.
	2.26 Fran Gets Mugged	When Fran actually got mugged, she never turned around to look at the mugger. She never saw him. Yet she described the stocking he was wearing to the detective, and also picked the suspect out of a lineup.
	2.26 Fran Gets Mugged	At the end of this episode, the entire house is totally cleaned out in a robbery. By the beginning of the next season, magically, every bit of the furnishings and bric-a-brac had been returned with never a mention of what had happened.

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