The Ten Best THE NANNY Episodes of Season Three

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Season Three sees The Nanny at its funniest and most engaged with weekly narratives that utilize the central couple’s evolving closeness — a vital aspect of this series’ premise. Of course, the year’s collection is NOT free from terrible idea-led gimmicks that represent the worst part of The Nanny’s reputation either (like an entry built around the stunt casting of Elizabeth Taylor, an animated Christmas special, and an on-location cruise ship outing that really offers little by way of character), especially in its latter half. However, Three’s heavy use of the series’ core relationship validates a fundamental tenet of its construction — the idea of Fran as a “proxy wife” to Mr. Sheffield — and by both teasing romance reliably in story and also predicating entire narratives on the possibility of their eventual pairing, the premise is well-invoked (even, as we saw in Season Two, when there are fewer stories about her being a nanny specifically — a fish-out-of-water and “proxy mom”).