"Here Comes the Brood" is the fifth episode in the first season of the CBS television series The Nanny which was aired on December 6, 1993.
Synopsis[]
Feeling threatened by Fran's relationship with the children, C.C. takes them on a disastrous trip to the zoo.
Plot[]
It's Fran's day off and C.C., jealous of Fran's increasing presence in the Sheffield's lives, asks to accompany Maxwell on the family trip to the zoo to spend more time with him and the children. Maxwell was also slated to go, but he has a toothache. Fran suggests he goes to see her Uncle Myron, who is a dentist, which he reluctantly does. Fran suggests that C.C. still take The kids too the zoo.
Unfortunately the trip doesn't go well, as C.C. hates hearing about Fran and her attributes from the children. During the day, Brighton throws up twice. Once in C.C.'s Abercrombie and Fitch pith helmet, and then in her purse. In a fit of jealousy she then tells the children that Fran spends time with them only because she is paid to do so. This upsets Gracie so much that she runs from the room with Maggie trying to calm her down.
Later on, Gracie takes a limo to Flushing to see Fran, who's on her way to her cousin once removed's wedding. Gracie also meets Fran's mother, Sylvia. After Maxwell comes home, Fran calls and informs Maxwell and C.C. of the situation and to meet them at the wedding reception.
While at the wedding, Fran finds out that it was C.C. who hurt Gracie's feelings. C.C. tries to defends her actions by saying that she meant it "in the nicest possible way" and that she was trying to get the children to love her. Not buying the excuse, Fran and Maxwell berate her for what she had said.
Meanwhile, Gracie bolts to the ladies room and cries in the stalls. Sylvia tells Fran that she is in the ladies room crying.
Fran goes in and takes Gracie on her lap and explains to her that yes, she does get paid for taking care of them as she is paid to be their nanny, but she also tells her that she doesn't get paid extra for loving them and she does.
She also explains that because she has money issues (a lousy Christmas Club account with only forty-nine cents in it), she has to work for a living, but she has the best job in the whole world. Fran also reassures Gracie that "once they take out federal tax, state tax, and FICA tax, it's a labor of love." After checking their faces, they leave the ladies room.
Maxwell thanks Fran for her help, and she sends him to dance with Gracie. Fran then confronts C.C. telling her that "if you ever hurt one of my kids again, they'll be wiping your blue blood off the walls. And I mean that in the nicest possible way." and As punishment for her upsetting Gracie, C.C. is forced to listen to Uncle Myron's grandson, Robbie's bad tap dancing and bad singing.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Fran Drescher as Fran Fine
- Charles Shaughnessy as Maxwell Sheffield
- Daniel Davis as Niles
- Lauren Lane as C.C. Babcock
- Nicholle Tom as Maggie Sheffield
- Benjamin Salisbury as Brighton Sheffield
- Madeline Zima as Grace Sheffield
Guest Starring[]
- Renée Taylor as Sylvia Fine
- Ann Morgan Guilbert as Yetta Rosenberg
- Rachel Chagall as Valerie Toriello
Co-Starring[]
- Blake McIver Ewing as Robin
- Allen Bloomfield as Uncle Myron
- Lila Garret as Ladie in Ladie's Room
Quotes[]
- (to C.C.)
Fran: You're a wonderful woman, and I wish you well, but if you ever hurt my kids again, they'll be wiping your blue blood off the walls. And I mean that in the nicest possible way. - Maxwell: Miss Fine, the children were counting on going to the zoo.
Fran: Well, Miss Babcock can still take them.
Gracie: This is just how my nightmare started... - Gracie: I ran away. I took a limo.
Fran: (to Sylvia) I ran away, I took a banana. - Fran: (Zipping Sylvia into a too tight dress with six interlaced straps) Oh, I don't know about these straps Ma... ya look like a ham!
Sylvia: The salesgirl said I looked like a dream.
Fran: Maybe Oscar Mayer's. - Fran: Oh come on. Stop being such a big fat baby. You got a toothache you go to a dentist.
Maxwell: I don't have a toothache, I just slept on it wrong.
Fran: Who sleeps on a tooth? (To Grace) Unless you're waiting for a fairy. (To Maxwell) Now open up, let me take a look.
Maxwell: Miss Fine, it's my mouth and I reserve the right to keep it shut. An option you might consider from time to time. - C.C.: Maxwell, I adore children. It's a natural thing, a female thing.
Niles: I hear some females eat their young. - Fran: (shouting) MR. SHEFFIELD, MISS BABCOCK'S HERE!!!!!
C.C.: Nanny Fine, please. They've already freed Willy. - Gracie: I wanted to see the petting zoo.
C.C.: Well we would've been able to if your sister didn't have to go to the bathroom every 15 minutes. I swear her bladder must be the size of a walnut.
Maggie: Fran says it's not small, it's just tilted. - Gracie: I don't want to go to the Zoo. I had nightmares about fangs, claws and snarling.
Maggie: Gracie, they keep the animals in cages.
Brighton: (to Maggie) She's talking about C.C. - Gracie: So you don't just do it for the money?
Fran: Believe me, but the time they take out State, and Federal, and FICA, its a labor of love. - Fran: Its true, I do get paid for taking care of you, but I don't get paid extra for loving you and I do love you.
Gracie: I love you too
Trivia[]
- In this episode Brighton says he's ten. Later in this season Fran will say he's twelve. Though it is possible for Brighton to have celebrated a birthday between this episode and the end of the season, he couldn't have aged two years.
- When C.C. enters the house from the zoo, she has a peacock feather on her. The feather disappears on the next shot.
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