"Absolutely Fabulous" (1992) TV series 1992-2004

User Rating:

8.6/10   

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | unknown

Release Date:

24 July 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Sin is in, sweetie.

Plot:

Edina Monsoon and her best friend Patsy drive Eddie's sensible daughter, Saffron, up the wall with their...

Plot Keywords:

Best Friend | Social Commentary | London England | Cigarette Smoking | Promiscuous Mother

Awards:

7 wins & 14 nominations

Cast

Jennifer Saunders	...	Edina / ... (37 episodes, 1992-2005)
Joanna Lumley	...	Patsy / ... (37 episodes, 1992-2005)
Julia Sawalha	...	Saffron / ... (37 episodes, 1992-2005)
June Whitfield	...	Mrs. June 'Gran' 'Mother' Monsoon / ... (34 episodes, 1992-2005)
Jane Horrocks	...	Bubble / ... (30 episodes, 1992-2005)

Also Known As:

Ab Fab (Australia) (short title)

Runtime:

30 min (24 episodes) | 45 min (2 episodes)

Country:

UK

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Singapore:NC-16 (season 5) | Singapore:PG | USA:TV-14 | Argentina:13 | New Zealand:M (seasons 1-4) | Greece:K-13 | Australia:M | UK:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Australia:PG (some episodes)

Filming Locations:

Holland Park, London, England, UK

Company:

French & Saunders Productions

Trivia:

The name of Jennifer Saunders' character, Eddy Monsoon, is a play on her husband's last name, Edmondson. Adrian Edmondson previously used the name Eddy Monsoon himself for a character that appears in _"Comic Strip Presents, The" (1982)_.

Quotes:

Saffie: [commenting on Patsy's new Botox look] You look like a haggis with pointed toes. A tight old bladder skin holding together some rotting offal.

Movie Connections:

Featured in America's Teenagers Growing Up on Television (1998) (TV)

Soundtrack:

This Wheel's On Fire

One of the best Britcoms ever made!!

"Absolutely Fabulous" is, without a doubt, one of the funniest shows to ever come across the pond from the U.K.! Apparently, the sitcom's subject matter and flat-out political incorrectness made it too edgy for local PBS stations to run. Instead, the cable channel COMEDY CENTRAL acquired the initial US rights from the BBC in the mid-1990s. The rest is history.

AB FAB (as we fans refer to it with affection) is the saga of Edina Monsoon (Eddy) and her fabulous pal Patsy Stone. Eddy & Patsy do everything in life to excess - drink, smoke, party. While Eddy has a PR firm (she represents LuLu) and a shop, her main income comes from the alimony her two ex-husbands give her. Eddy lives in a nice home in London's Holland Park area with her stuffed-shirt daughter Saffron (Saffy) who is the opposite of Eddy in every way. Patsy, on the other hand, has a flat above Oddbins, a liquor store. Also on hand was Eddy's bubble-headed assistant Bubble and her widowed mother (referred to as 'Gran' by Saffy) AB FAB was an instant hit here in the US - the initial 3 series of 18 episodes (6 eps in 1992, 6 in 1994 & 6 in 1995) were played to the hilt by Comedy Central. Roseanne the comedienne even bought the rights to update the series for US television, but nothing ever materialized. In 2002 Comedy Central, in joint production with the BBC, produced 6 more AB FABS eps. In these new episodes, viewers learned that in this post-9/11 world, Eddy and Patsy hadn't changed a bit. In 2004, the cable channel Oxygen teamed with the BBC and had another series of 7 episodes produced. There were also 2 AB FAB specials produced as well.

Sin is in, Sweetie!!