No one is looking for fully fleshed out characters. He’s a bit of a caricature but this is a pilot. Claude (Edward Hibbert) is clearly a gay hairdresser. If you thought Fran’s laugh was loud, turn down your television speakers because we’re about to blow out your stereotypes. Mary asks the other employees of the Chatterbox for details on their boss. She thinks Mr Anthony is attractive and goes into full Miss Exposition mode so we all learn the back story for this new will they or wont they couple. This room is never seen and I have to wonder if that set was already built should the pilot been picked up for series. Oh, but where will she live? Good news, there’s an unused room in the salon. Mary comes in, applies, gives her sob story, and because she’s young and has that moxie kid she’s hired. This is a wig so powerful if it had an H it could run for president.īack to the Chatterbox salon though. This is the kind of wig Legends of Tomorrow aspires to. Fran puts on the same wig that made the daughter look attractive and it leads her to a long date night with Mr Sheffield, who in season two, she is not yet with.
I mean I would say it’s the writers’ fault for sexualizing a minor but maybe that’s why I don’t work in TV. The daughter puts on a wig and looks attractive more so than her 16 years old, and that’s all Fran’s fault. Fran realizes that her mom had wanted the job so she could get paid to hit on Mr Anthony and gossip all day. He sings and gyrates his hips and has an odd version of a Brooklyn Italian accent. Fran is coincidentally about to take the oldest daughter in her charge to the salon, so why not bring Mary along for another coincidence – they have a job opening for a hair washer!Īs for characters we know Fran’s elders hit on the aforementioned owner of the salon – Mr Anthony (Patrick Cassidy). Mary reveals her boyfriend kicked her out (that would have been an interesting later episode) so she now has no job and no home. Fran, the Nanny, likes her can do attitude and humor and thus takes it upon herself to nurse this baby bird back to health.
She also has no real acting or modeling or posing experience so she is quite literally laughed out of the audition. She is not built like a bikini model, but very petite and small of frame. In walks Mary Ruth (played by Tracy Nelson). The episode starts with Mr Sheffield casting bikini models for a serious role. Tacked on at the end of the season in hopes of mattering, but ultimately forgotten.
Okay, so previous to this episode there was never any interaction or mention of any of these characters. You remember all the episodes where the ladies talk about getting their hair done and earlier in the episode we saw them at…. It was decided that a sitcom taking place in the salon where Fran, her mom, and her grandmother get their hair done and hit on the attractive straight male hairdresser would be a sure fire hit. In the Nanny’s second season the show was already considered a hit, big enough to launch a spin off. Quite a lot of naughtiness and innuendo for a CBS show. She showed up to sell beauty projects, got hired to be the live in Nanny to three kids, then the story became about her unrequited love of her employer and the wacky adults that surround both of them. Remember the Nanny? I’m sure you can hear her laugh now. If you want to join in, head over to the Longbox Heroes website at midnight on May 31st to hear this month’s episode. No matter what though, it will be a tale forgotten to time and perfect for some pop culture geeks in their forties to reminisce over. Sometimes the new show lasts a season, sometimes it never gets it’s own stand alone episode. For those of you new to the experience, once a month my friends over at the Longbox Heroes After Dark podcast select one TV show that tried to spin off another unsuccessfully. It’s a new month and thus it is time for a new edition of Failed Pilots.
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