and Niles accidentally eat the special cookies and feel hot for each other, and Val quits her brightness pills because it was making her too gassy. But nothing that Whoopi Goldberg's dressing room can't fix.
As time passes, the two fall for each other. Her timing couldn't be worse when she starts ovulating right when Maxwell is up on the squares. After being fired from her job and dumped by her boyfriend, a cosmetics saleswoman becomes the nanny to the three children of a rich British widower. Before they close the deal, Maxwell has to fly. Reynolds prescribes hormones for Fran, who also buys an ovulation kit. Maxwells old college friend Rodney Pembrook is in town, and asks Maxwell to loan him one million dollars. At the herbal store, Fran buys a special shake that will help Maxwell's little swimmers swim faster and some special cookies that will make them hot for each other. Val, Sylvia and Yetta advise Fran to go see a herbalist to help Maxwell's swimmers. Maxwell keeps hiding her pregnancy tests to avoid further sadness, and even invites Fran and her relatives to join him on his special appearance on the Hollywood Squares. Reynolds she was never pregnant at all, that it was a false positive.
