
pirin, Q-tips and Chapstick, I'm off to the drugstore." He lost the part of Romeo in their school production to him (Max ended up as Friar Lawrence), and Niles mentioned that he spent his entire class reunion sulking in the corner "because everybody was kissing Jeremy Irons' as. However, it was mentioned more than once that he felt like this toward Jeremy Irons back in school. During the show, it's always coming in second place to Andrew Lloyd Webber. Always Someone Better: Maxwell deals with this twice.Man 2: You remember that? Who took three sips of my Coke?! From there, general shenanigans, chaos and romance between Fran and Maxwell ensues, gently prodded on by the Deadpan Snarker butler Niles and not-so-gently resisted by CC, Maxwell's snooty business partner with her own romantic designs on Maxwell. From there, Fran manages to wrangle herself a job as nanny to Maxwell's three children despite Maxwell's initial reservations. Perhaps one of the greatest successes this show had was its big and colorful cast, ranging from the sarcastic British Butler to the Jewish Mother.Īs seen above, the Expository Theme Tune pretty efficiently sums up the basic plot, but to briefly provide just a bit more context Drescher plays Fran Fine, a loud, flashy and big-hearted Jewish-American woman who, after a series of personal and employment-related calamities, ends up as a door-to-door cosmetics salesperson at the residence of Maxwell Sheffield ( Charles Shaughnessy), a wealthy, stuffy and thoroughly British producer of Broadway musicals. The series ran for a respectable six seasons. The pitch was also conceived by Drescher, inspired by The Sound of Music as well as a conversation with Twiggy's adolescent daughter. A Fish out of Water family sitcom ( 1993-1999) starring the raspy-voiced, big-haired flashy Fran Drescher.
