Trivia Archive

She was breaking up with her husband and needed a place to stay, and Fran came up with the excuse that since Niles would be busy singing in Maxwell's play, Nadine should come and stay to do the cooking.

She was broke and homeless.

C.C. was having her floors done and she couldn't find a kennel.

154. How did Fran get Brighton to cry on cue?

First she told him that his father had made some terrible investments and his trust fund was gone, and when that wasn't enough, she ran her heel through his foot!

155. What was the trick Fran recommended to put Parker, Rosie O'Donnell's kid, to sleep?

She told her let him watch C-Span on TV~~ "Those senators put each other to sleep!"

156. How did Fran get rid of some of the competition in the kissing contest for Maggie?

She pretended to be from 'Humina Humina Records' and told the cutest girls that they had already made the first cut and should report to '1313 Mockingbird Lane'.
[the address for the Munsters, an old TV show]

157. Where did Fran take Brighton so that he could learn about the spirit of giving at Christmas time?

To a homeless shelter--and also the North Pole!

158. Who did Niles "learn so much from in his youth" and what did he learn?

Nanny Mueller, who taught him the "facts of life", since she was his first lover.

159. What did Fran think Phillipe was saying to her when he said "Je t'adore"?

Shut the door!

160. Why did Brighton take up ballet?

To meet chicks!

161. Who are the only members of the Sheffield family who don't have the title of 'Sir' or 'Lord' in their names?

Maxwell and "Uncle Bill, who thinks he's a leprechaun." --Maggie in "The Will" [so does that make Nigel, Sir Nigel?]

162. As Maxwell's punishment for hurting Fran's feelings when he took back his marriage proposal, she asked him to do three things. What?

1. Wait 48 hours before telling Miss Babcock. "I promised Niles."
2. "Someone has to tell Ma, I figured you'd want to do that personally."
3. Return what she bought to wear on their honeymoon night. A tube of lip gloss.

A dozen Sterling Roses and some Diamond Earrings. [I hope he remembered that they should be clip-ons!]

164. There is a piece of artwork in Maxwell's bedroom (second season) in the corner next to the bath/dressing room by Spanish artist Joan Miró. What does it look like?

It is abstract art, a long white rectangle with a blue circle like thing on it. Sort of out of place in his otherwise very "James Bond-y" type room.

165. What was C.C.'s price for going with Niles to be his good luck charm at the slots on the cruise?

166. When Fran was sorting laundry in "The Playwright", she held up an interesting article of clothing that belonged Niles. What was it?

167. What ethnic background is Niles?

$500~~"But stupid me had to put that $500 watch in there!"

A fragment of original Shakespeare ~~of course to Fran, her last tube of Cadillac Red lipstick that was a discontinued shade was more important!

Mr. Sheffield's Gold Card number and his mother's maiden name. She also remembered that Brighton cut his fourth period class last Thursday too!

She had failed to get any business liscenses for her singles "party."

Barbra Streisand

175. Why did Fran agree to let her mother meet Elizabeth Taylor?

176. What was Fran's segment on the Rosie O'Donnell show about?

A weekly child care segment.

177. What was Fran wearing that affected the outcome of the Rangers game?

178. Why didn't Fran want to keep the fur coat she inherited?

179. Who did Fran fight at Loehmann's semi annual Red Star Clearance for a green sweater?

180. What did C.C.'s father buy for Fran?

Maxwell tried to go to Washington DC to work on a benefit, but got "delayed". The Sheffields (plus Fran) went to a Kibbutz in Isreal, Fran and Brighton went to the North Pole, Fran and Val went to an unnamed tropical island, and the Sheffields (plus Fran and Niles) went on a cruise of the Greek Islands.

On a bus tour of Florida Dinner Theaters.

Her blue frost eyeshadow kit that was confinscated from her in high school.

They were using a short cut of Fran's to the airport in a snow storm when Fran got lost. They stopped at Sylvia's to help Fran get her bearings, and to let C.C. use the bathroom. But Sylvia greeted them with the news that all the bridges and the airports were closed from the snow, and they were stuck.

Niles told Maxwell that C.C. wanted them to come. But Maggie wanted to go to a concert she had tickets to that weekend and she convinced Dad to let her stay home alone (with her butler and nanny!).

Miss Babcock's credit card.

191. What did C.C. have removed in elective surgery in Switzerland?

Her thighs.

Sexy Thing

His brother's chateau in France

One nostril was bigger than the other.

The lobsters that that Uncle Stanley caught in a polluted part of the ocean.

Brighton, he used the rash as his science project.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

They thought Chester ate him, but he had been dropped down the laundry chute and and was washed instead. (And this is better?)

Mr. Sheffield blamed Fran for blabbing to Val, but really, he had told a friend while they were in the steam room, and it was that friend (Raymond Turnbull) that blabbed to the press.

202. Sylvia enjoys a good game of cards on occasion and had a Canasta Team.
What was the name of the Canasta Team and what did their team jacket look like?

203. Who were the members of the team?

Yetta, Sylvia, Fran and Brighton--until Yetta's friend came back from Florida and they threw Fran off but kept Brighton.

204. How much was Sylvia's group's Pishke?

The pishke was $25,000.

205. Why did Sylvia get blackballed from Hadasa?

She donated cakes with half the frosting licked off.

206. Why did Sylvia want to have cosmetic surgery?

She didn't think Morty found her attractive anymore because they "hadn't had relations in two whole weeks."

207. Where does Yetta live?

The Menorrah Village Retirement Home

208. What guys have sent Fran Valentines?

Jeff The Cop, Brighton's friend Tommy, and the next year Maxwell with his "stupid" card.

209. Who did Max ask out for ice cream on Valentines Day?

The red head from the Schubert Organization.

210. How did Fran try to "take back" her Valentine to Maxwell?

She tried to paint over the billboard before he saw it.

211. What did Fran beat Maxwell at that was the last straw in setting off his mid-life crisis?

A tennis game.

212. What did Maxwell give Fran for her 30th birthday?

2 tickets to "Les Miserables."

213. What gift did Maxwell give Fran as a wedding gift when she was planning to marry Danny?

Money for the honeymoon.

214. What does Fran order for breakfast in The Rosie Show when she comes in late at night?

Two Belgian waffles. "You know Niles, I'm not that hungry. I'll just have two Belgian waffles for breakfast."

215. In Me and Mrs. Joan, Maxwell and Fran are admiring a picture. Maxwell points out that the painter had obviously been inspired by a famous Flemish painter. Who?

Rubens. Who was born, lived, worked and died in Antwerp. One of Rubens' brand marks was the "voluptuous women", which led Fran to comment that the woman in the painting "obviously had way too many Rubens herself."

216. What circumstances led up to the line "Go to the window, I don't think Brussels heard you."

Fran uses that line to object in "Pup in Paris" when Nigel walks in the hotel room and asks if Maxwell and Fran are involved. Maxwell replies that Fran isn't involved with anyone, and Fran is not happy that he volunteered that information.

217. How many times has Max asked Fran to marry him?

"The Two Mrs. Sheffields" (to get even with his mother--he took it back)
"From Flushing With Love" (but she didn't hear because of the noise of the falls, and he suffered from amnesia afterwards...)
"One False Mole and You're Dead" (because he wanted to make up to her, but she couldn't accept a proposal made out of guilt)
"The Bobbi Flekman Story"(but no one really seems to know for sure if he did/did not realize who he was addressing himself to, Fran or Bobbi).
and
"The Engagement"

218. Where has Fran always said she wanted to live after she got married?

Great Neck

219. What did Fran say to Maxwell while she was under anesthesia?

220. Maxwell was supposed to take Fran (and family) to the Rainbow Room for their special night. Who else has he invited to the Rainbow Room? (And they didn't make it there either. Hmmm...)

Sydney Mercer, his publicist that he was smitten with.

221. According to Maxwell's will, where are Fran and the kids supposed to go live?

To Maxwell's sister's in England.

222. What are Mr. Sheffield's "Rules of the House" for Fran?

223. Which of those rules did he allow her to break?

The 'no men in her room' rule, with Kurt.

224. If C.C. could spend the night with anyone, who would she pick?

Maxwell

225. Why couldn't Maxwell take C.C. to her sorority's Reunion Tea?

Miss Fine was getting her tonsils out and he didn't want to leave her.

226. Where did C.C. want to buy a vacation home?

Martha's Vineyard