Viral Clip From ‘The Nanny’ Proves Fran Drescher Has Stood With Strikers for 30 Years

Fran Drescher doesn’t cross picket lines — she starts them.

The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is officially on strike after extended negotiations with the producers and power brokers of Hollywood failed to bridge the gap between the people who make movies and TV shows worth watching and the people who make money. At the forefront of the push for fair pay is Drescher, who, as president of SAG-AFTRA, is responsible for executing on the demands of some 160,000 actors, artists and broadcasters and speaking truth to power on their behalf. 

Well, as some Twitter users are finding out, this isn’t Drescher’s first rodeo — she’s been siding with labor since long before she assumed her role as president of the largest union in Hollywood. A viral clip from a Season Two episode of The Nanny, fittingly titled “The Strike,” shows how fictional Fran firmly believed that you should never cross a picket line — presumably, the real one doesn’t touch toilet seats in public bathrooms either.