Upon returning home from Paris, Fran couldn't be happier when C.C. says Maxwell just hired her for her looks. To find out if this is true, Fran tries dating a blind guy. Meanwhile Maxwell tries to back-peddle after what he told Fran on the plane.

After Maxwell tells Fran to make Maggie break up with a 25 year old, Fran starts dating his same age friend.

Despite Mr. Sheffield's objections Fran helps Brighton with his science project. He plans on hatching some bird eggs, but Fran waits too long and hard boils them.

After getting picked from the audience for the Rosie Show, Fran finds herself a regular, giving parenting advice. As her celebrity grows, Maxwell becomes afraid he's going to lose her.

With Aunt Freida broke, she moves into the Sheffield mansion. Fran's solution is to get her boyfriend to propose, but instead he has a heart attack.

Fran is watching Jay Leno's dog and getting audited by the Internal Revenue Service.

With Maxwell busy it's up to Fran to show his brother Nigel around New York. Nigel is enchanted and proposes to Fran.

While lecturing Maggie about not getting a tattoo, Val lets it slip that she and Fran got one when they were teenagers. Now Mr. Sheffield is dying to know where it is.

Mr. Sheffield won't get Maggie a car, so she convinces Fran to enter a beauty contest to win her one.

When Fran takes a vacation with Val to get away from her job and the kids, a hurricane hits their tropical paradise.

Fran attends the funeral of her former intended and wonders if she is going to be left alone in the world.

Fran can't believe her luck when she meets a rich Jewish doctor at a wedding, and they begin dating; that is, until Fran's mother meets him.

Fran, Val and C.C. all go out together and Fran is the only one who doesn't find a date.

Fran gets very upset with Maxwell when she finds him making out in the living room with his date. Fran is told by her therapist that she is treating him like her husband rather than her boss.

While at a bank, Fran and her mother becomes hostages to a very inept bank robber. Fran starts to become very good friends with the gentleman.

Fran and C.C. sit on a jury of a case that mirrors Fran's life.

Fran thinks that Niles is plotting a murder when she finds a piece of paper he wrote with incriminating words. When she gives it back to him, he harshly questions her and threatens her if she read it.

A woman shows up claiming to be Fran's mother due to a mix-up at the hospital.

A tabloid publishes a story that Fran and Maxwell have been having an affair since before his wife died. Fran is more upset that that fact means she is over 40, which she isn't.

Maxwell hires Fran's old classmate for his latest production and Maggie wants to be her personal assistant. The Sheffields join the Fines for Passover.

Fran will do anything to get her song lyrics to a new rock star. They bond, but she finds that Val is a better muse.

Fran is involved with a charity auction hosted by Maxwell and Bette Midler. Fran takes a child prodigy to Yetta's nursing home and the death of a resident so traumatizes the child that he swears he will never play the piano again.

The woman who stole Fran's job and fiance now has a job on "The Young and the Restless." Fran steals that job from her and she takes Fran's nanny job instead.

When Fran takes Sylvia to Boca to look at her condo all they find is a swamp.

Fran follows Maxwell to London and after a wonderful afternoon they almost commit to each other until they learn that Niles has had a heart attack. C.C. realizes that she doesn't hate Niles as much as she appears to.