The Dummy Twins

Episode aired Jun 16, 1999
30m

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Fran Drescher, Lauren Lane, and Charles Shaughnessy in The Nanny (1993)

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Fran is coaching Niles in his unappreciated courtship of C.C. Finally Niles calls her pathetic and lonely after which the Sheffields find them in bed together.Fran is coaching Niles in his unappreciated courtship of C.C. Finally Niles calls her pathetic and lonely after which the Sheffields find them in bed together.Fran is coaching Niles in his unappreciated courtship of C.C. Finally Niles calls her pathetic and lonely after which the Sheffields find them in bed together.

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Daniel Davis and Lauren Lane in The Nanny (1993)

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After Niles blurts out a marriage proposal to C.C., she flatly turns him down. Niles is devastated and angry at Fran for pushing him into this situation. Fran thinks Niles' mistake was that he took things too quickly with C.C. Fran suggests he court C.C., first by asking her out to dinner. C.C. reluctantly agrees. But at dinner, Niles proposes once again, and C.C. turns him down once again. Humiliated, Niles feels he can't be around C.C. anymore and quits his job. After a heated argument with Niles, C.C. realizes that she too has outstayed her welcome at the Sheffield house and quits as well. But in the middle of the night when Fran and Maxwell rush to Niles' room to convince him to stay, they find they can't interrupt him during this important moment in his life. Meanwhile, Margot - Dr. Reynolds' sister who is filling in for her conference bound sister - provides Maxwell and Fran with two baby dolls so that they can practice being parents to twins. —Huggo

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Niles tells C.C. that Maxwell married someone half her age; in real life Fran Drescher is 3 years older than Lauren Lane, who plays C.C.

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Near the end when CC is trying to apologize to Niles, CC accidentally plays her tape and a moment later when Niles is standing up you can see a microphone at the top of the screen.

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C.C.: Me marry you? Please. You are a pathetic excuse for a man.
Niles: DITTO! But at least I know when to move on. You are going to spend the rest of your life pining for a man who doesn't love you, and has married a woman half your age.
Fran: Oh Niles, please don't go!
Niles: Look around you. They're married. They're starting a family. Where are you going to be ten, twenty years from now? You're going to be saying 'Merry Christmas!' to your friends in rehab and wondering what might have been!
[to Maxwell]
Niles: I'll be leaving first thing in the morning, sir.
[goes up the stairs]
C.C.: [visibly shaken] My god, he's right. The best years of my life are gone. And they sucked.