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| 4.1 Tart With Heart | Watch when Gracie asks Fran "How can I take it back?" and Fran sends her upstairs saying "Ask your father, he's the expert in that
category!" When the camera angle changes in the middle of her sentence you can see her mouth is shut but she's still talking. In one angle she says "He's the expert in-" that one's fine, then the angle changes and we hear "-that category" but her mouth is closed (as she's sending Gracie upstairs).
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| 4.1 Tart With Heart | Watch the front door behind Fran when Jason Alexander comes to the house. Fran shuts it when he comes in, then it is open again behind him later. |
| 4.1 Tart With Heart | In the scene when Fran and Jason Alexander are talking (just before she throws the ball and the dog follows it) keep an eye on Fran's hands. As she gets up from the steps she very quickly zips up her fly. |
| 4.1 Tart With Heart | The first three episodes of the fourth season were filmed in May instead of the more normal late summer to accomodate Fran Drescher's movie making schedules. One interesting piece of evidence of that is Maxwell's watch. In this episode, his watch is very apparent in the 'friends' scene at the very end. Notice it is on his right arm, as it always was in the first three seasons. For reasons unknown, sometime during that summer, Charles Shaughnessy started wearing his watch on his left arm, which is where it remains. (The Engagement and Immaculate Concepcion are good ones to notice this in.) |
| 4.2 Cradle Robbers | In the scene in the bookstore, Fran's Enter Whining is used prominently as a prop book--but they turned it so it's the back cover you are looking at. |
| 4.3 The Bird's Nest | Remember the little girl in "Family Plumbing" who played Fran's cousin? Well, she has grown up a bit, and plays Francine in this episode! |
| 4.4 The Rosie Show | Brenda Cooper was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Costuming for a Series for this episode. |
| 4.4 The Rosie Show | The clip of Hugh Grant that is used at the beginning of the episode was a real clip from the Rosie O'Donnell Show that was filmed at about the same time as this episode. |
| 4.4 The Rosie Show | In the scene where Fran is signing autographs by the limo, that's Fran's real Grandmother Yetta. |
| new!! | 4.4 The Rosie Show | Fran Fine, in the first draft of the script, called Doanld Trump "a millionaire." He called the producers before he came to set and told them to lose the line. He had far more than "millions." The writers changed the line to make him happy. |
| new!! | 4.4 The Rosie Show | During Maxwell's dream about Bubbe Sophie, watch Fran's mouth on the line "If your nanny stays on Rosie's show the kids will grow up wrong". The audio and the video aren't quite matched up. |
| new!! | 4.4 The Rosie Show | The couple that Fran Fine is bumped for on The Rosie Show are Fran Drescher's parents, Sylvia and Morty Drescher, who were regulars on Rosie's show at the time this originally aired. |
| | 4.6 Me and Mrs. Joan | Watch the lemonade when Fran is pouring some for Joan. First she pours a glass about half way, then the glass is magically empty again. Then she pours again, this time filling the glass and it stays that way. |
| 4.6 Me and Mrs. Joan | After Niles walks in on Fran and Max, and right before Joan and James walk in, you can see Charles pick up a Post-it note from the desk, one would assume to put on Fran's butt. |
| 4.6 Me and Mrs. Joan | Watch Fran's left shoulder as she gets up from the desk where she and Max had been 'making out'. Some makeup got shmeared on it, and the shmear disappears and reappears throughout that scene. |
| 4.7 Taxman Cometh | In the scene when Jay Leno first comes into the office, Max's jacket is buttoned up. When he comes running out of the office to ask Gracie where Niles is and she says that he's watching Letterman, the jacket is unbuttoned. He returns to the office, and it is buttoned again. Later in the episode when they are in the tax office, Max is sure quick putting his glasses on. |
| new!! | 4.8 An Affair To Dismember | Nigel is amazing good at putting the diamond around Fran's neck. He has trouble at first and can't get it clasped, but the camera switches angles, and suddenly it's on! |
| 4.8 An Affair To Dismember | Keep an eye on Fran's injured ankle. When she is at the boat dock, she grabs one ankle as she stumbles, but by the time she gets home limping to the house, it's the other ankle. (This is not part of the plot device of the switching ankles of the tag scene.) |
| 4.9 Tattoo | Nanny Math: Fran is wearing "Flashdance" gear at 17... that would make her born 1967. |
| 4.9 Tattoo | Watch the Egg Creme that Niles makes for Sylvia in the first part of the show. It is very vanilla looking, then suddenly it is fully stirred and very chocolatey. |
| 4.9 Tattoo | When Fran and Max are sitting on the lounge chairs at the hotel, she has a drink that has an umbrella in it. She takes the umbrella out of the straw and sets it on the table next to her. Then the shot switches to Max. When it switches back to Fran, the umbrella is back in the straw in her drink and she takes it out again. |
| 4.12 Danny's Dead and Who's Got the Will | The gay guy that Fran talks to at Danny's funeral is played by Todd Graff--who wrote and produced Beautician and the Beast. (He also had a cameo in Beautician as the guy who comes to the party and sings Rosemary's Baby to Fran. Allan Rich is one of the uncles in that parade of relatives, and Sparkle is another who appeared on the Nanny as the Aunt that played Little Brown Jug on her boobs in 5.10 "From Flushing With Love") |
| 4.12 Danny's Dead and Who's Got the Will | Watch the funeral scene. When Fran is talking to Val and drops her food in the casket, there is one olive left on her plate. That olive disappears several times during that scene. Also watch the gay guy's hands and plate. From one camera angle, he is always holding a piece of celery in his hand gesturing with it freely as he tells his story. From the other camera angle, he is holding both hands under the plate. But it jumps back and forth every couple of seconds -- one line his is gesturing with the celery, a second later hands are under plate, then the next second the celery is back. |
| 4.12 Danny's Dead and Who's Got the Will | The Bloomingdale worker that befriends Fran is played by Casey Williams, who also played the nurse in 5.11 "Rash To Judgement" and the nurse in 3.20 "Where's The Pearls." |
| 4.13 Kissing Cousins | Listen to the conversation in the scene when Fran is getting ready for her date, and Max is suprised that she is seeing an ear nose and throat man socially. Max asks, "So, what's this Bob fellow like?" How'd he know the guy's name? |
| new!! | 4.13 Kissing Cousins | At the end of the episode with Fran and Val on the porch going out for their night on the town, watch Fran's pigtails. They move from in front of her shoulders to behind and back again a couple of times in this scene. |
| new!! | 4.14 Fifth Wheel | C.C.'s boyfriend is named "Chandler" -- after Chandler Evans, a production assistant on the show. |
| 4.14 Fifth Wheel | The couple that Fran bumps into while dancing are Steve Posner and Roz Kerns. They both have been in many episodes. Steve in 1.12 "The Show Must Go On" 3.19 "Your Feet's Are Too Big" and 4.24 "The Heather Biblow Story". And Roz in 4.24 "The Heather Biblow Story," 5.8 "Educating Fran" and 5.22 "The Wedding" that I can think of off hand. |
| 4.16 The Bank Robbery | Peter Scolari, who plays the bank robber in this episode, starred in an early Fran Drescher movie, The Rosebud Beach Hotel (AKA The No Tell Hotel) |
| | 4.17 Samson He Denied Her | Barry Livingston plays one of the attorneys. The baby boomers among us remember Barry as a youngster on My Three Sons as Ernie. |
| 4.18 The Facts of Lice | Fred Stoller plays the kid in the pharmacy that sells Fran the shampoo. He also reappears in "Rash To Judgement" as the same character. |
| new!! | 4.18 The Facts of Lice | A behind the scenes note about the segment in which Fran Fine accidentally throws water in CC's face. On the last take, the glass slipped out of Fran's hand and flew right into Lauren Lane's mouth. She was rushed to Fran's plastic surgeon where her lip was successfully stitched up. |
| 4.18 The Facts of Lice | Shawn Holly Cookson and Terry Gordon were nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Costuming for a Series for this episode. Fran Drescher was also nominated that year for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. |
| 4.19 Fran's Roots | The woman who played Fran's mom in Fran's Roots (Telma Hopkins) co-starred with her in Rock and Roll Mom. |
| 4.19 Fran's Roots | When Sylvia enters the house of Fran's "new" mother she starts yelling until she realizes the woman's black, at that moment she stops and says "You're black?" pointing at her with her right finger, but when the camera angle changes she's pointing at her with her left
finger. |
| 4.20 Nanny and The Hunk Producer | The man who played the tabloid guy co-starred with Fran in Rock and Roll Mom. |
| new!! | 4.20 Nanny and The Hunk Producer | In the last scene, Spalding Grey, as Fran's therapist, addresses his receptionist "Dee Dee" while on the phone. Dee Dee was the name of the producers/writers receptionist. |
| | 4.21 Passed Over Story | In the scene where Fran says "she took away the only daughter I neva had" the glass of milk Fran has for her "Got Guilt" line dances around the table throughout the begining of the scene. |
| 4.22 No Muse Is Good Muse | In the scene at the end when Mr. Sheffield is saying he missed her, Fran puts her hands on his lap. When the camera changes position, her hands are in her own lap. |
| 4.23 You Bette Your Life | In the opening scene around the breakfast table, Sylvia says: "Look there's a big article about the auction that you're
producing" (sausage and napkin on the left hand, paper on the right) "How
come you're standing next do Fidel Castro" (sausage and napkin on the
right hand, paper on the left). |
| 4.23 You Bette Your Life | When Sylvia/Renee Taylor is at the dinner table and she begins to discuss the theater where she saw "First Wives Club" with real
butter and not that b.s. canola oil, Gracie/Madeline is cracking up either
at Sylvia/Renee or at something Brighton or Maggie is doing on the other
side of the table. Fran & Maxwell seem to ignore it while listening to Sylvia. |
| 4.23 You Bette Your Life | When the kid that Fran is to baby-sit is brought over to the house for the first time, his glasses appear and disappear during the introductions. |
| 4.24 The Heather Biblow Story | Back in 3.6 "Shopoholic" and 3.10 "Having His Baby", it was established that Heather and Danny had a daughter named Judy. When Danny died in 4.12, the baby was not mentioned, and in this episode, Heather even moved into the Sheffield house for awhile--without her daughter. Why did Judy disappear? |
| 4.24 The Heather Biblow Story | Peter Bergman who played himself in this episode as the star of The Young and The Restless was also on All My Children at the same time Dorothy Lyman, who plays the director, was. |
| | 4.24 The Heather Biblow Story | Steve Posner appears as a crew member on the set. He tells Fran and Val to go stand over by the food cart. |
| 4.25 The Boca Story | In the teaser watch Nicholle as she's pouring milk into her plate, she spills it and makes a goofy face, but the scene goes on and magically, there is no evidence of the spill. |
| 4.25 The Boca Story | In the kitchen, when Mr. Sheffield tells Fran that the whole family is going to Florida, watch Fran's hair. It had been covering her shoulders, but on the line "Florida Sucks" it is behind her shoulders, then covering them again a second later. |
| 4.25 The Boca Story | Look at the Miss Universe contestants. Miss Great Britain is wearing the "Lady In Red" Dress that Fran wore in the Pilot. |
| 4.25 The Boca Story | When Fran is making a Sundae and Mr. Sheffield walks in, notice that she puts whipped cream and a cherry on it. As the scene goes on, when Fran takes the tissue from Grace, the whipped cream and cherry disapear and then they reappear when she is talking to Max at the table. |
| 4.26 Fran's Gotta Have It | Watch Fran's coat in the Stroll Through London. It's on, it's off, it's on, it's off, etc. and when it's off, no one is carrying it! |
| 4.26 Fran's Gotta Have It | When Fran and Max are talking to Celine Dion backstage, keep an eye on the background. Morty Drescher walks across behind Celine. |
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