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Absolutely Fabulous: A Life: Directed by Bob Spiers. With Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, June Whitfield, Julia Sawalha. During the filming of her very own documentary, 'A Day in My Life', Eddie drops in on her mother who's working in a Help the Aged charity shop.
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- Comedy, Documentary
- Bob Spiers
- 1998-10-28
Absolutely Fabulous: greatest quotes. Patsy: What will you drink if you stop drinking? Edina: I shall drink water. Patsy: (Blank look)
Nov 23, 2020 · Absolutely Fabulous · unreleased BBC special - HD 1080p Starring Jennifer Saunders and June Whitfield. ...more. "AB FAB : A LIFE · Confessions of a Fashion Icon" by Edina Monsoon.
During the course of the programme, 39 episodes of Absolutely Fabulous aired, including seven specials over five series, between 12 November 1992 and 23 July 2012.
- Series 1
- Series 2
- Series 3
- Series 4
- Series 5
- Specials
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Fashion
1. Edina: ..And if you're a bloody psychic psychologist how come I'm always having to phone you? 1. Patsy: What will you drink if you stop drinking? 2. Edina: I shall drink water. 3. Patsy: [Blank look] 4. Edina: It's a mixer, Patsy, we have it with whisky.
Fat
1. Saffy: You've been getting dressed for three hours and you still look like a bloated citrus fruit. 1. Edina: You are what you eat, remember? 2. Saffy: Which makes you a very large vegetarian tart. 1. Edina: I mean what you two don't seem to realise is that inside of me, inside of me, there is a thin person just screaming to get out. 2. Mother: Just the one, dear?
France
1. Edina: [to Bubble]You, remember, cancel my aromatherapy, my psychotherapy, my reflexology, my osteopath, my homeopath, my naturopath, my crystal reading, my shiatsu, my organic hairdresser. And see if I can be re-birthed next Thursday afternoon. 2. Bubble: [Crossing her fingers]Consider it done! 1. Patsy: The last mosquito that bit me had to check into the Betty Ford clinic.
Hospital
1. Nurse: [pointing at Patsy]Facelift. 2. Doctor: Oh it'll be a doddle. Grab her by the scalp, shake her up and down a bit and cut off the slack! Tomorrow. 1. Nurse: Is this your daughter? 2. Edina: [looks at Saffy and back to the Nurse]Yes. 3. Nurse: Well, maybe there's a God after all. 1. Fleur: [picking up face cream]Have you tried this? It's a triple acting, alpha-hydroxy acid natural complex to reactivate your skin making you... scientifically more beautiful! 2. Catriona: Sounds good! 3....
Death
1. Edina: I'm sorry, darling. It's just had some rather bad news today, that's all. 2. Patsy: I need a drink! 3. Edina: It's very bad news actually, Pats. 4. Patsy: Oh what? 5. Edina: I'm dying! 6. Patsy: You can't! 7. Edina: Well I am! 8. Patsy: Well what am I supposed to do if you die? 9. Edina: Get cabs! 1. [Discussing guests for the funeral] 2. Edina: God, I hope you're not inviting that bloody, bollocky, selfish, two-faced, chicken bastard, pig-dog-man, are you? 3. Saffy: You could just...
Morocco
1. [Eddy points to her bag of "Pop-specs".] 2. Saffy: It's a sticker with a green tree on it. 3. Edina: Yes. 4. Saffy: What does that mean? 5. Edina: Kind to trees, sweetie. 6. Saffy: How are they kind to trees? 7. Edina: Well they ain't made of wood, how kind do you want!? 1. Patsy: [Feels her stomach in discomfort] 2. Edina: Have you eaten something? 3. Patsy: No, not since 1973.
Doorhandle
1. Saffy: It was my birthday today, Mum. [storms upstairs] 2. Edina: You come back here, don't you think you can just say something like that, hit and run! Now listen, I gave you that birthday, darling. You wouldn't have that birthday if I hadn't been generous enough to uncross my legs and give you to the world, darling. Nobody's thanked me, have they?! 1. Bubble: She told me you had a tattoo on your unspeakables! 2. Edina: I didn't! 3. Patsy: Eddy? 4. Edina: I didn't. Unmentionables, I said....
Happy New Year
1. Edina: My New Year's resolution, sweetie… to have more fun! What's yours, Pats? 2. Patsy: Ohh, well, I think I'll just try to be more relaxed. 3. Saffy: You? More relaxed? What is that, dead? Well, that cancels out my resolution. 1. Edina: This is my daughter, Saffy. 2. Jackie: Never mind, too late to flush her now 3. Justin: I'm Saffy's father. 4. Jackie: How sweet of you to admit to a thing like that. 1. Justin: Did you have the same father? 2. Jackie: No one knows. Mother was such a slu...
Sex
1. [Edina and Patsy are looking at the pornographic magazine 'Razzle,' that Saffy found in her brother's room] 2. Saffron: It's disgusting! That is sodegrading to women! 3. Patsy: What do you mean? She's got the whip! 1. Saffy: I think we should have a little talk, don't you? 2. Edina: Have you seen this, darling, this Nancy Friday? It's extraordinary! She gets complete strangers to relate their filthiest thoughts and then sells them as therapy. It's fantastic! 3. Saffy: Mum, I want to know w...
Paralox
1. [Eddy has started practising yoga] 2. Edina: Couple of weeks and I'll be bending like Madonna, won't I darling? I'll be able to kiss my own arse from both directions! 1. Mother: [Riding on Eddy's scooter]You used to have one of these when you were a girl! 2. Edina: Yeah, but I was never allowed on it. 3. Mother: No, you were too big for it, you wobbled. 4. Edina: The scooter wobbled! 5. Mother: If you say so.. 6. Edina: I have perfect balance, [to Saffy]sweetheart, look. 7. Mother: Wheels...
Fish Farm
1. [Edina and Patsy have just returned from a Marilyn Manson gig] 2. Patsy: She tried to crowd surf and the tide went out! 3. Edina: The sea just parted, darling. I don't know how it happened 4. Saffy: They've probably never seen anything that old flying at them before 1. Edina: Right, time for another little drinky before we go. 2. Saffy: Where are you going? 3. Edina: New York. 4. Saffy: I didn't think they let people with drug convictions in. 5. Edina: Darling, it's not a conviction. 6. Pa...
Paris
1. Edina: [To Saffy]Why does everything you wear look like it's bearing a grudge, darling? 1. Patsy: It's a good photo, isn't it? I think the photographer really caught something 2. Saffy: Syphilis. [Patsy kicks Saffy in the shin] 1. Patsy: Put that book down, you're not showing me up. 2. Saffy: [To Edina]You see everything but yourself! You always have the best view in the room because you're not looking at you!
Cleanin'
1. Edina: I don't want a great, big fat bum like J'Lo, do I, darling? LaughsI mean, how high have that woman's heels got to keep that nancy off the pavement now? 1. Bubble: [cleaning]Hoover, hoover, hoover... 2. Edina: YOU HAVE TO TURN IT ON, NOT JUST MAKE THE NOISE! 1. Edina: [to Emma Bunton] Well, darling, the trouble with you is you're not ... you're not kinda giving me anything! You know, if you want something from the tabs, you gotta give them something back! You're just kinda flatlining...
Book Clubbin'
1. Mother: Well, I suppose I'd better be off. I've got to get this lot (her knitting)down to the charity shop. 2. Edina: Oh, God. No one's that poor. 3. Saffy: Or that shape! 1. [Patsy blows her cigarette smoke in Saffy's direction] 2. Saffy: [Cough]Mum! 3. Edina: Oh, don't be so stupid, smoke can't get in there, darling. Smoke can't touch the baby. If it could you'd have come out looking like prosciutto, believe me. 4. Patsy: Or Donatella, liver sausage in a wig 1. Midwife: I've got an anten...
Panickin'
1. Saffy: Mum, you are just paying into the whole panic culture, I hate it. The world is actually safer than it's ever been. In fact, you're more likely to be hit by a bus! 2. Edina: Oh yeah, darling, that'd be ironic, wouldn't it? Closest I've ever been to public transport and it runs over me. 1. Patsy: I was at work today... 2. Saffy: Now we're all in shock! 3. Patsy: The girls were off, so I was on the floor... 4. Saffy: Nothing new for you! 1. Bubble: Minnie Driver? Is it a dwarf?
The Last Shout
1. Edina: Right, darling, we'll go to the office and I can drop you at your interview. 2. Saffy: Interview!? I thought she just slept with the publisher! 1. Edina: [Talking about Saffy and Paolo]They haven't done it, y'know. I don't think she's ever done it. I mean, she can't be that unattractive, is she? Is she? 2. Patsy: She is a virgin in a world where men will even turn to soft fruit for pleasure! 1. Edina: Do you remember your first time? 2. Patsy: Y'know it's all a blank with me until 1...
Gay
1. Catriona: It is so lovely to have everything back to normal after that terrible thinglast year. 2. Edina: Yes, yes... 7/11. 3. Saffy: (angrily) What?! 4. Edina: Oh, you know darling... the 24/7...Oh, 7/11! 5. Saffy: 9/11! 6. Edina: 9/11, I knew that! 1. [Edina meets her son, whom she finds out is gay but quite dull.] 2. Edina: Darling, being gay is the best excuse you'll ever have not to be boring!
Cold Turkey
1. Patsy: ..And I'm partial to an injection of adrenaline straight to the heart. 1. Patsy: Jacks, I don't remember any good times. 2. Jackie: Oh yes, darling. Parties! You remember the party we had when mother died? That was a great time. How happy we were... 1. Edina: And for lunch, sweetheart, for Christmas lunch, who comes to that? 2. Saffron: Well, there's me and John... 3. Patsy: Is he from Gabon? 4. Edina: What? 5. Patsy: Is he from Gabon? 6. Edina: Gabon? 7. Patsy: Yes, is he from Gabo...
Regulars
1. Jennifer Saundersas Edina "Eddy" Monsoon 2. Joanna Lumleyas Patsy Stone 3. Julia Sawalhaas Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon 4. Jane Horrocksas Bubble 5. June Whitfieldas Gran/Mother (Mrs. June Monsoon).
Guests
1. Lulu (singer)as herself 2. Christopher Malcolmas Justin 3. Naoko Morias Sarah 4. Kathy Burkeas Magda 5. Christopher Ryanas Marshall 6. Adrian Edmondsonas Hamish 7. Helen Ledereras Catriona 8. Harriet Thorpeas Fleur 9. Miranda Richardsonas Bettina 10. Patrick Barlowas Max 11. Mo Gaffneyas Bo 12. Kate O'Maraas Jackie 13. Dawn Frenchas Kathy
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