The Nanny Has Bad Gaydar

“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. 

Watch Matt Baume’s video on LGBTQ representation on The Nanny

Watch Fran Drescher’s TikTok on why The Nanny had a gay sensibility

Read Brett White’s column “‘The Nanny’ Is a Crucial Gay Text That Must Be Preserved and Celebrated”

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