The Nanny (TV Series)
Christmas Episode (1993)
Madeline Zima: Grace Sheffield
Quotes
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Maxwell Sheffield : [Fran's helping decorate the tree] Miss Fine, what do you think you're doing?
Fran Fine : I'm putting a tinsel on.
Brighton Sheffield : [gasps] Not before the lights!
Fran Fine : Did I make a faux pas?
Margaret 'Maggie' Sheffield : Lights go on first, then ornaments, and tinsel is always last.
Grace Sheffield : Daddy's very anal about decorations.
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[Grace, Brighton, Maggie and Niles are sitting in a row on a pew in a church, where they have to speak in hushed voices due to the solemnity of their surroundings]
Grace Sheffield : [to Brighton] Where's Fran going?
Brighton Sheffield : [to Maggie] Grace wants to know where Fran's gone.
Margaret 'Maggie' Sheffield : [to Niles] What's with Fran?
Niles : [to Maggie] She's gone to confess.
Margaret 'Maggie' Sheffield : [to Brighton with a confused look on her face] She went to play chess.
Brighton Sheffield : [to Grace] She went to undress.
[Grace is totally confused]
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Fran Fine : [back from ice skating] Kids, take your wet clothes off and put them in the hamper.
Niles : No wet clothes for you, Miss Fine?
Fran Fine : I didn't fall.
Grace Sheffield : She didn't skate.
Niles : [Glances to Fran, smiling] And yet such a lovely ensemble.
Fran Fine : Oh, you should see what I wear when I don't play tennis.
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Fran Fine : Look Gracie, Santa took a bite out of the cookies we left him.
Grace Sheffield : I didn't know Santa wears red lipstick.
Fran Fine : The man gets out of the house once a year, live and let live.
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Grace Sheffield : [about her father having to work on Christmas day] He's never home for Christmas.
Maxwell Sheffield : Oh now, Grace, we've been through all this. I'm gonna be raising money for children less fortunate than we are.
Brighton Sheffield : Yeah, but keep laying the guilt. We'll get better presents.
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Fran Fine : If you did believe in Santa, what would you want him to bring you?
Grace Sheffield : Daddy for Christmas.
Fran Fine : Oh... Well, how about a nice Easy Bake oven?
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Fran Fine , Maxwell Sheffield , C.C. Babcock , Niles , Maggie Sheffield , Brighton Sheffield , Grace Sheffield : [singing all together] And a partridge in a pear tree!
Fran Fine : Oh, that's a weird song. I mean, five golden rings I can understand. Ten lords a leaping, I am there. But what's with all the birds? I mean, French hens, turtle doves, six geese a laying. Who wants to see that?