20 Hilarious Friends Spin-Offs (That Never Existed)

14. The One With The Manny

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The perennially underrated Freddie Prinze Jnr gets his own show in this spin-off set just after season nine of Friends, playing Sandy, the male nanny or ‘manny’ that Ross can’t deal with in ‘The One With The Male Nanny’.

Hired by a rich upstate family to be live-in nanny to their three children, Sandy has to deal with absentee parents, the spoiled kids themselves and a household staff deeply entrenched in their own ugly Cold War and intent on establishing their dominance on the others - none of whom want an enthusiastic, new age and highly emotional male nanny suddenly thrown into the pot.

So far, so pedestrian - but the 'com' in The Manny’s 'sit' is enlivened by the actors playing the rest of the cast.

Tim Curry is the butler, obsequious and ever so slightly insane, forever obliquely referring to his time in some unspecified war and The Things That He Did.

Betty White is the cook, a sweet-appearing ruthless manipulator who rules her kitchen with a rod of iron.

Kate Beckinsale plays the young English maid who everyone thinks is having an affair with the father, and who is far smarter than she likes to appear.

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