The Nanny Has Bad Gaydar
Added 2022-06-16 02:24:03 +0000 UTC“A Fine Friendship” (February 6, 1995)
One hundred episodes later, we return to The Nanny to find out what happens when Fran Fine mistakes a straight guy for a gay guy. This episode essnetially works as an inverse to the first Nanny episode we covered, right down to Fran being horrified by a gay-seeming person being straight rather than delighted by a straight-seeming person being gay.
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PLEASE watch Columbo and talk about it.
Joshua Corum
2022-08-26 14:56:51 +0000 UTCOn the question of another gay episode of The Nanny, if I remember correctly, there is an episode, I think in Season 4, where Fran befriends a gay man, which partner recently died and the family of the deceased doesn't acknowledge their relationship. But I'm not sure if it's worth an episode of the podcast, because the gay character only plays a very minor part for the story.
Tobias
2022-06-19 10:27:12 +0000 UTCFran has a cousin who does drag, and at one point he has to pretend to be Cher because they're sneaking the real Cher out of the house past the paparazzi. So that's... arguably a gay episode?
Claire Marinello
2022-06-17 22:52:10 +0000 UTCLoved the shout-out to "The Charmings."
VeeAaaRrr
2022-06-17 13:54:28 +0000 UTCWell this does clear that up. Somewhat surprised it didn't come up in basic googling but thank you.
Drew Mackie
2022-06-17 05:34:06 +0000 UTCLa Superrica? I think it became a bigger, more well-known thing because Katy Perry sang about it.
Drew Mackie
2022-06-17 05:33:36 +0000 UTCSo we do talk about Drescher's sexual assault in the first episode (unless I am massively misremembering) but I actually didn't make the connection between this and her horrific experience until now. So I'm sorry for misstating it. I'll correct the file. Before now, I thought it was specifically a thing implemented to make the show more successful.
Drew Mackie
2022-06-17 05:32:08 +0000 UTCThe reason for the professional studio audience is really tragic. She and her husband were victims of a home invasion, she and her friend were raped and later on she had a stalker and was terrified to have people just off the street at in the studio audience. https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/flashback/how-fran-dreschers-stalker-ordeal-forever-changed-how-sitcoms-are-made/news-story/bec34c6ea975c3c139002f6990e9234d
Brianna Bertoglio
2022-06-17 00:37:11 +0000 UTCDennis Franz non-story: When I was a kid I really wanted to be related to a celebrity, because who doesn’t? When I’d ask my parents what famous people were in my family, my mom would claim “my cousin’s second husband had liposuction that was documented in a 20/20 segment!” And my dad would say, “Yes! We are distantly related to Dennis Franz.” (My grandma Millie’s maiden name was Franz and apparently he’s a cousin of some sort many times removed). I had never seen, and wasn’t interested in NYPD Blue, so both options seemed equally boring to me, until Homer Simpson’s “Aw, I wish I was Sipowicz.” line. That was a proud day for little Kat — Someone with a small percentage of my DNA, IDOLIZED by Homer. Wow. I’m also pretty sure I’ve been to that restaurant in Santa Barbara? I used to work there often, and local friends took me to a place that sounds similar.
Kat Heagberg
2022-06-16 23:08:31 +0000 UTCOrange County bonds https://www.ocregister.com/2019/12/06/heres-how-orange-county-went-broke/amp/
Barry Maher-Caras
2022-06-16 20:08:47 +0000 UTC
