Rachel Chagall who played Val was also pregnant during the series. Val still lives with her parents. She is a co-parent to a girl from Cambodia she adopted with Fran. Her style is modest and more "street", a contrast to Fran's flashy designer duds.

In season 5 episode 14 Maxwell tells Fran that he loves her and doesn't take it back. The romantic tension between Maxwell and Fran lasts until the middle of the 5th season, when the couple gets engaged; following several snafus, they are finally married in the season 5 finale.

It is assumed that, because she turned 30 toward the end of the first season, Fran is thirty-five years old by the end of the series (which leads to some speculation about why her age is such a big dilemma in the first place, especially since it was around the time of the Nanny's creation that the trend of women were ...