"The Nanny" with Fran Drescher. HOLY JESUS. THAT WOMAN IS A GOD.
Not Even slightly kidding, she has the BEST body. Like, her body is the reason that i want abs. She's totally beautiful, hysterically funny, loves food, came up with the whole friggen show, writes, directs and stars in it. NOT TO MENTION HER VOICE IS ABSOLUTE GOLDEN. I'm OBSESSED with the New York accent, but her's is even better cause it's Flushing, Queens and mixed with her outrageous nasal quality it's just an absolute classic. So she plays this nanny, who was kind of taken off the street by accident when she was selling makeup at people's doors and ended up basically saving this family by adding a bit of colour into their lives. It's HYSTERICAL, i've laughed and cried with this show over and over again.
One of the show's MAJOR attractions is the undeniable sexual tension between this incredibly hot nanny "Fran Fine" who struts around in tiny skirts and tops and her boss, a widower called Mr Sheffield who is a rather proper englishman and a theatre producer. You literally DIE every time they have a little moment or almost kiss, and then they kiss every now again but not for romantic reasons, like to prove a point or something and i swear to god i could have fallen off my seat every bloody time. They end up almost dying and Mr Sheffield tells Fran he loves her, but then takes it back because of his fear for the children.
So you'd think with this incredibly flashy woman hanging around there wouldn't be a lot of room for others to stand out. WELL YOU'RE WRONG. In fact, the supporting cast absolutely MAKE the show. Niles, the Butler, also English and a total gossip is an absolute riot as he goes crazy trying to make Max realise his feelings for Fran. While C.C Babcock, Max's business partner who is totally in love with him, does everything she can to get Nanny Fine fired and win over Mr Sheffield. Pretty much everyone hates her but Niles does everything in his power to make sure her life is MISERABLE. Which is kind of cayute because the two of them (of course) end up falling in love with each other.
Some of Nile's best verbal attacks include:
- C.C.: I wouldn't be caught dead in that dress.
Niles: You'd have to be dead six months to fit in it. - C.C.: I couldn't put a foot out of bed this morning.
Niles: Did someone put a rock on your coffin again? - Niles: Oh, what are you doing here, the sun is up.
- C.C.: I'll never get to the airport on time.
Niles: That's true, sir, she needs at least two people on her broom to use the Express Lane. - C.C.: You are a pathetic excuse for a man.
Niles: Ditto! - C.C.: I find it very unseemly of Maxwell to start dating again. Isn't the customary period of mourning 10 years?
Niles: Die. Let's find out. - C.C.: Seriously, Niles, where do you keep all that cash?
Niles: Someplace you'll never get near.
C.C.: Oh, your mattress.
Niles: No.
[pointing at Mr. Sheffield]
Niles: His. - C.C.: [Max is hiring a female to promote him] Maxwell, I want a man!
Niles: The last one deflated when she nibbled at his ear. - C.C.: [to Niles] Don't you have something to dust?
Niles: How about the left side of your bed?
A pretty fugly snapshot of Harriet and I just before this drama night last year and for my character, I had based her off a mix between Fran Fine (looks wise) and her mother, Sylvia Fine (personality wise). My god it was so much fun, I watched over 40 videos on how to do a New York dialect. Harriet being the styling guru that she is did my hair for me, and my hair is EFFING THICK, so we got some nice volume going on in there as well!
Oh dear lord. All the Fine women. Sylvia, Fran's mother is in the middle and she is this self-centred, outrageous woman who has an appetite of a horse and who wants nothing more than to see Fran get married. Yetta on the right is Fran's grandmother, blind as a bat and usually dumb as fuck. I wish i actually knew all three of them the three of them are just absolute GOLD. Their characters are all incredibly Jewish (though Sylvia still eats bacon on the sly) and by watching the show you pick up on their yiddish words
Jackie's Yiddish Language Lesson
- Mishpucha = Family
- Mishegas = Craziness/Insanity
- A "Nosh"= A light snack
- Shlep (a personal favourite) = to trek/drag
- Schmuck = A fool
- Shmutz = dirt/grime
- Tuches (pronounced Took-uhs) = Bum
- Yente (pronounced yentAH) = gossip
And yeah so i'm done. Wow that will be a trek of a post to read, not that anyone will be bothered but hey, I enjoyed myself. And I leave you now with a nice bit of the Nanny for your personal enjoyment
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