Maybe it's the Yiddish, or the love Fran the Nanny showers on her charges. Maybe it's Niles and his hilarious battle to the near-death with Miss Babcock. I don't know. I can't explain it or justify it. In practice, she's not a terribly "good" Jew. And her "mather" - oy vey. She deserves a whole other post.
I guess what I really love about the show is the innocence of the 1990s. There was plenty of fakatah nonsense going on then; Reagan and Iran-Contra for example. But I have fond memories of those days and The Nanny exemplifies the height that Jews as Jews had reached on television. Fran was never ashamed of being a Jew, never had to explain her love of her people or justify Israel.
I miss that. I miss not having to explain how my people aren't Nazis and why we deserve a home of our own. Thank you Fran. To me, the Nanny, or Franny, certainly had style and class. And a lot of love.
