The Nanny 1x01 Pilot (a.k.a. The Nanny)

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The Nanny - 01x01 Pilot (a.k.a. The Nanny)

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First Aired: Nov. 03, 1993 on CBS

Summary: Fran gets a job as a nanny for the Sheffields after being fired from her job at her fiancé's bridal store.

Main Characters in this Episode

Guest Stars

C.C. Babcock	played by Lauren Lane
Margaret 'Maggie' Sheffield	played by Nicholle Tom
Herself	played by Carol Channing
Director	played by Jonathan Baker
Auditioner	played by Esther Lapidus
David	played by Michael C. McCarthy
Old Lady	played by Blanche Rubin
Pianist	played by Timothy Thompson

Episode Quotes

Fran Fine: I'm your granddaughter, Fran.
Yetta Rosenberg: Oh Franny, nice to meet you.
Fran Fine: One nice thing about senility, you're always meeting new people.

Maxwell Sheffield: Brighton was caught smoking.
Yetta Rosenberg: Smoking? Bad!
Brighton Sheffield: But you smoke.
Yetta Rosenberg: Me it doesn't effect, I'm like a horse. But you know what smoking can do to you? Come, let's meet Ethel, phlegm in a hair net! [drags Brighton off]
Brighton Sheffield: Oh no, not Ethel! Not Ethel! [to Maxwell and Fran] I swear I'll never smoke again! Oh God!

Maxwell Sheffield: What have you got to say in your defense?
Brighton Sheffield: I didn't inhale.
Maxwell Sheffield: That is the most pathetically lame excuse in the world.

Mistakes/Goofs

Goof (continuity error): This is grandma Yetta's first appearance on the show. Her personality is very different than in later episodes,she is much more serious and lucid.

Trivia

Brighton comments of how he smoked a cigarette but did not inhale. This is a reference to Bill Clinton's answer when asked if he had ever smoked marijuana.
The title comes from the song "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" written by Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto A. Harbach for their 1933 operetta 'Roberta'.