Fran has just been dumped by her fiancé and employer, and is selling cosmetics door-to-door, when she happens to be in the right place at the right time.

When Brighton is caught smoking at school, Fran thinks it might be her fault.

Fran agrees to help Maxwell close a deal by dating a young and restless soap-opera star.

Maxwell's beloved Nanny Mueller makes herself at home, but makes Fran feel insecure.

Fran catches her young cousin kissing Brighton in the bathtub.

Fran has to have her tonsils removed, so Maxwell puts C.C.'s reunion on hold to await the outcome of Fran's surgery.

On the way to catch a flight to the islands, heavy snow maroons the family at Fran's parents' home in Queens.

C.C. won't warm up to her father's offer of Streisand tickets, but Fran's hot to go in her place.

Maxwell draws up a will which states that Fran will remain nanny in the event of his death. Meanwhile, she thinks that a fax of a potential client's heart-sensitive diet given to Niles is really for Maxwell.

Maggie receives a party invitation so Fran takes her to her favorite beauty salon. Fran gets a job there for an actress who loses a Sheffield audition.

When Maxwell's mother wants him to get rid of Fran, Maxwell reacts by proposing to Fran who makes him feel very guilty for using her.

Fran wants to have a baby, husband or not.

Brighton faints while filming Fran's cousin's bris and Fran sends it to Hollywood. Everybody visits Hollywood and Fran keeps getting thrown off the Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman set.

Brighton is acting very selfishly, and Fran wishes he could learn that Christmas is not about what you get but what you give. On their way to help at a homeless shelter a gust of wind whisks Fran, Brighton, and Chester to the North Pole where they meet Santa Claus, who looks a lot like Mr. Sheffield, and learn that Santa might not make it this year because of an entity called the Amazing Babcock.