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Season
4 |
"The
Tart With Heart"4.1 |
When
Maxwell takes back "The Thing" he said to
Fran on the plane when he thought he was dying (see
ep. #3.26), Fran decides to seek the attention of
other men (hopefully, to get Maxwell jealous), among
them a blind man (Jason Alexander). Meanwhile, Niles
tries to find out what "The Thing" is.
Gracie has to do a school report on women with
careers, so she chooses C.C., a fact that further
hurts Fran. |
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"The
Cradle Robbers"4.2 |
Maggie
falls for a 20-something named John (Brian Bloom),
causing Maxwell to go through the roof! So it falls
to Fran to show Maggie the error of her ways, all the
while trying to pick up on John's friend Mike (Sean
Kanan)! |
"The
Bird's Nest"4.3 |
Brighton
must put together a science project (which involves a
bird nest in the yard), or he'll fail science and
Maxwell will send him to military school! So Fran
must help Brighton out, which includes asking for an
extension from Brighton's science teacher Mrs.
Richardson (Nora Dunn), who just happens to dislike
Fran due to a shopping "incident".
Meanwhile, while her place is fumigated, C.C. must
stay at the Sheffields, which gives Niles endless
opportunities to torture her! |
"The
Rosie Show"4.4 |
Fran
goes to see "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" and,
when Rosie picks her out of the audience, Fran is
such a hit that she gets a weekly segment on the show
(which leads to C.C. being Fran's agent, which, as
Niles says, "is a sure sign of the
Apocalypse"!). And soon enough, Fran is
neglecting her duties to the Sheffield family which
causes Maxwell to go to unusual lengths to remedy the
situation. |
"Frieda
Needa Man"4.5 |
When
Fran's Aunt Frieda falls on hard times and loses her
restaurant, she comes to stay at the Sheffields' and
it isn't long before Fran'll do anything to get
Frieda back together with her rich boyfriend, Fred
(Donald O'Connor). |
"Me
and Mrs. Joan"4.6 |
Fran
tries to reunite Maxwell with his estranged father
(Robert Vaughn), who Maxwell still resents for having
run off on his mother with their maid, Joan (Joan
Collins), and who is now officially Maxwell's
"stepmother" after all these years.
Meanwhile, Brighton takes ballet class to get
"close to chicks". |
"The
Taxman Cometh"4.7 |
Fran
is audited by the IRS but her wiles fail to move a
tax auditor concerned with her many children she's
been claiming. Meanwhile, Maxwell is entertaining Jay
Leno. |
"An
Affair to Dismember"4.8 |
Fran
begins to rue her present, unsatisfactory
relationship with Maxwell, a point that's driven home
to her when Maxwell's brother, Nigel (Harry Van
Gorkum; also in episode #3.26), visits, and he and
Fran have a lot of fun together, so much so that
Nigel soon realizes that he's fallen for Fran, and
proposes to her on the spot... and she accepts! Is
this the end for Fran and Maxwell? |
"Tattoo"4.9 |
Fran's
tattoo has Maggie envious and Maxwell so curious that
he can't stop obsessing about it, leading Fran to
butt heads with her mother about keeping it or having
it removed. |
"The
Car Show"4.10 |
To
get Maggie a car, Fran agrees to enter the "Miss
Trans Am" contest, but in order to win she has
to learn a "stick-shift", so Fran has
Maxwell teach her, but an unfortunate accident takes
place that tramatizes Fran. Meanwhile, Fran tries to
worm her way into a charity event at Barbra
Streisand's. |
"Hurricane
Fran"4.11 |
An
out of control hurricane tries to come between Fran
and a tropical holiday with Val. Who will win? |
"Danny's
Dead and Who's Got the Will?"4.12 |
When
Val tells Fran that her ex-beau, Danny, has passed
on, they attend his funeral, where Fran consoles her
ex-fiance's beautiful grieving widow. |
"Kissing
Cousins"4.13 |
Fran's
met the most wonderful man she can imagine and seems
to be finally having the perfect relationship. What
could go wrong? Her Mr. Right turns out to be her
cousin! |
"The
Fifth Wheel"4.14 |
Fran,
C.C. and Val decide jointly to swear off men. But
when C.C. and Val both find boyfriends, and Fran does
not, she decides to join them on their dates anyway! |
"The
Nose Knows"4.15 |
Fran's
hero-worship dissolves when she catches her therapist
in a disgusting habit. And Niles and C.C. attend an
affair together and are surprised to find they enjoy
themselves immensely! |
"The
bank Robbery"4.16 |
Fran
and Sylvia are held hostage during a bank robbery
carried out by a timid thief! |
"Samson,
He Denied Her"4.17 |
C.C.
gets called for jury duty, and Fran is so mad at
Maxwell that she tags along. Soon enough, both are
put on the jury of the trial of the housekeeper of
romance novel cover-hunk Vinchenzo, who's plight
bares a strinking similarity to Fran's. Meanwhile,
Sylvia becomes the "nanny" in Fran's
absence, and the Sheffield clan is in for a shock! |
"The
Facts of Lice"4.18 |
First
Gracie, then Fran, Brighton and Maggie come down with
a case of lice, but when Maxwell doesn't, it prompts
Fran to scold Maxwell for "not spending enough
time with his own children." Meanwhile, Niles'
bad mood causes Fran to become convinced that Niles
is homicidal toward Maxwell, and that Niles might
even be a serial killer! |
"Fran's
Roots"4.19 |
Fran's
entire life could be turned upside down if what a
woman claims is true: that Fran was switched at birth
with another baby, and Sylvia is not her real mother.
Meanwhile, C.C. is in L.A. selling series idea, and
Niles hopes she doesn't return. |
"The
Nanny & The Hunk Producer"4.20 |
Maxwell's
play, "The Widower", which is about a
widower forever faithful to his late wife, is
actually up for some Tony Awards. But as soon as he
wins, a tabloid newspaper prints a story implying
that Maxwell and Fran have been having an affair for
years, which causes Maggie to go ballistic. |
"The
Passed-Over Story"4.21 |
Flush
with the success of his 3 Tony Awards, Maxwell starts
bringing in better talent. His most recent hire is
"Morgan Faulkner" (Jane Sibbett), who was
Fran's high-school rival back when she was Marcy
Feldman, and who takes an immediate liking to Maggie,
and hires Maggie as her assistant. But Maxwell loses
his cool when Maggie decides to forgo college to
continue the job with "Morgan". |
"No
Muse Is Good Muse"4.22 |
Fran
decides that she's on the same wavelength as rock
star "Tasha", whose angry lyrics are a
favorite of Maggie's, so she tries to get a song
she's written to Tasha. Before long, Tasha is using
Fran's "pathetic" life as the basis for her
next songs, but Maxwell thinks their
"friendship" is a bad idea. Meanwhile,
Niles listens to self-help tapes. |
"You
Bette Your Life"4.23 |
Maxwell
is producing a charity auction, in which Bette Midler
is the M.C. (because it's for one of her charities),
and Fran offers her services as a Nanny for a day.
She ends up getting bid upon by Keith Rosenstein, the
young, piano prodigy son of Maxwell's big investor,
Tom Rosenstein. But when Fran gets Keith to play the
piano at Yetta's nursing home, and one of the
residents dies while he's playing, the boy can't play
the piano anymore, causing both Maxwell and Bette
Midler to lose their temper. Meanwhile, C.C. wins
Niles' services for a day at the auction. |
"The
Heather Biblow Story"4.24 |
Fran's
nemesis, Heather Biblow (Pamela Anderson Lee), has
landed a role of Fran's favorite daytime soap opera,
"The Young & The Restless". But when
Fran and Val head out to Malibu to visit Heather
(which means Frans is passing up a trip to Hawaii
with the Sheffields), it's Fran who ends up getting
the role on the soap, and it's Heather who ends up as
the Sheffield's new nanny! Meanwhile, C.C is
overjoyed at the prospect of Nanny Fine &q services for a day at the auction. |
"The
Heather Biblow Story"4.24 |
Fran's
nemesis, Heather Biblow (Pamela Anderson Lee), has
landed a role of Fran's favorite daytime soap opera,
"The Young & The Restless". But when
Fran and Val head out to Malibu to visit Heather
(which means Frans is passing up a trip to Hawaii
with the Sheffields), it's Fran who ends up getting
the role on the soap, and it's Heather who ends up as
the Sheffield's new nanny! Meanwhile, C.C is
overjoyed at the prospect of Nanny Fine "never
coming back", until she sees "Nanny
Biblow"! |
"The
Boca Story"4.25 |
Fran
appears to be ecstatic when it looks like Sylvia (and
Mort) are going to take a deal for a place in Boca
Raton, FL. But her true feelings are exposed when she
accompanies Maxwell down to Florida (where Maxwell is
a judge in the "Miss Universe Pageant"),
and Fran realizes that (gasp!) she'll miss her
mother. Meanwhile, Niles is out of sorts because his
last single friend is getting married, and Gracie
begins to "stuff" herself with tissues to
make herself better "endowed". |
"Fran's
Gotta Have It"4.26 |
When
Maxwell goes to London (to sign Celine Dion to a
Broadway show), Fran takes a cue from Val and follows
him there, hoping that a romantic London interlude
will prompt Maxwell to commit. But just as the two of
them begin hashing out their feelings for each other,
both are called back to New York when Niles has a
heart attack. |