Saturday Nine: The Nanny (1993)

This week's Saturday Nine:

You can hear this week's song here.

1. This week's song is the theme from a sitcom that originally aired from 1993 to 1999. Were you a fan? Kind of. I watched a few episodes here and there and thought it was funny, but I never followed it avidly.
   
   
2. The song tells us that Fran once worked in a bridal shop. Have you ever worked in a retail setting? Yep. My entire adult working life and current job have been in a retail setting.
   
   
3. The kids in the Sheffield household appreciate their nanny's "joie de vivre," which is defined as "exuberant enjoyment of life." Are you feeling joie de vivre this morning? No, I'm tired as fuck and I have a long day of work ahead of me.
   
   
4. "The Nanny" is the colourful one, the one who wears red when everyone else wears tan. What colour do you think you look best in? In clothing, black. Followed by dark blue. I am definitely not the colourful one.
   
   
5. The TV show, The Nanny, was the brainchild of actress Fran Drescher. She got the idea while visiting her an old friend in London. Her friend's pre-teen daughter enjoyed having Fran as a confidante and shopping buddy. Do you enjoy shopping as a leisure activity? Or would you prefer to just dash into a store, grab what you need, and get out and go home? It depends what I'm shopping for. If I'm shopping for something I actually need, then I'll just grab the item(s) from the store and leave. If I'm looking for something that I want, then I'll browse and it can be leisurely, depending on my budget. That having been said, I prefer shopping online than going into a store. It's way easier and more efficient to find what I'm looking for.
   
   
6. The friend Fran was visiting in London was Twiggy, who was the world's most famous model in the 1960s. Name another famous model. Christy Turlington.
   
   
7. The Nanny: The Complete Series is available on DVD on Amazon. It consists of 19 discs and takes 55 hours to watch, start to finish. What TV show have you recently binge watched? None recently. I haven't watched TV shows in a long time. I think the last one I binge-watched was Sense 8, and that was last fall.
   
   
8. The Nanny theme was sung by Liz Callaway. Her father, the late John Callway, was a long-time Chicago newscaster. Have you, or has a loved one, ever been on TV? No; and not that I know of.
   
   
9. Random question — Which of these adjectives comes closest to describing you: sexy, sophisticated or down-to-earth? Down-to-earth.