Recap / The Nanny S 3 E 5 Vals Apartment

Feeling that her nanny duties are taking up too much of her free time, Fran moves into an apartment with Val.

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• Actor Allusion: Val's landlord is played by David Lander, essentially reprising his role as Squiggy.
• Basement-Dweller: Prior to and after this episode, Val lives with her parents. It's mentioned that her allowance is her only income.
• Creepy Cockroach: Val's apartment has a roach infestation.
• Gay Bar Reveal: Variation. Val sells Fran on the apartment, in part, by mentioning that the place is "just crawling with single guys." Val stupidly failed to notice something about said guys.
  Fran: The place is just crawling with single men, Val? Perhaps somebody should have thought twice before renting an apartment across the street from the Judy Holliday Inn!
• Grade Skipper: When Niles learns Val's age, Fran tries to prevent him from using this to figure out hers by claiming she skipped a few grades. When that doesn't work, Fran says Val was Held Back in School. That Niles could believe.
• Inadvertent Entrance Cue:
  Fran: I'm never going to meet a rich, eligible bachelor around this place.
  Maxwell: [passing through] Hello.
  • Another one happens involving Val's apartment:
  Fran: I can't wait to meet the moron talked you into leasing this place.
  Landlord: Hello!
• Literal-Minded: After seeing a cockroach, Fran says "Val, take off your shoe and kill it!". So, Val takes her shoe off... and stomps the cockroach with her bare foot.
  Fran: Oh, my god, I just moved in with Forrest Gump!
• Malaproper: Squiggy, um... the landlord does this a couple times:
  Landlord: Welcome, ladies, to my humble commode.
  Fran: You got that right.
  • And:
  Landlord: I must bid you a doo-doo.
• Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?: Fran is preparing for a date with a podiatrist:
  Fran: "Is that a bunion poking through your shoe, or are you just happy to see me?" Maybe I shouldn't open with that.
• Shout-Out: The entirety of the titular apartment is one big reference to Laverne & Shirley complete with a familiar landlord, and Fran and Val attempting to do the famous rhyme that started the intro.
• Wakeup Makeup: Lampshaded
  Niles: You sleep in your makeup?
  Fran: Honey, do you see a ring on this finger? What if there was a fire? Do I need some gorgeous fireman climbing over me to save the sixteen-year-old heiress?