Then there’s one Eurydice Colette Clytemnestra Dido Bathsheba Rabelais Patricia Cocteau Stone, commonly known as Patsy (Joanna Lumley). Wearing a lot of bright prints, giant gold Venus symbol necklaces, and hats galore, she went gaga over Christian Lacroix ensembles and showed off her acquisitions whenever possible. Truthfully, the style of clothing during that decade wasn’t exactly something to fondly look back on, but Edina was a slave to fashion.
Her passion for fashion is just as strong, but less than keen.
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A lover of excess, particularly food and booze, the constant joke throughout the run of the series is her weight problem, which the show has always inflated as her being “two stone” overweight (around 28 pounds in our customary units).
She receives a decent amount of financial assistance for its upkeep thanks to two ex-husbands. She lives in a lovely, multi-floor home in the Holland Park section of London, firmly and loudly insisting as to its location whenever someone questions if it’s in the less tony section of Shepherd’s Bush. In Absolutely Fabulous, Edina Monsoon (Saunders) is the head of a moderately successful public relations firm, even though she only has a handful of clients. But thanks to Comedy Central importing it to the US, Americans were able to be enamored by two characters that I feel were England’s answer to Lucy and Ethel. The series was based on a sketch created by Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French for their own show, French and Saunders (French would strike sitcom gold herself a couple of years later with the wildly funny The Vicar of Dibley). Premiering in 1992 on the BBC, this bawdy buddy comedy set in a posh London neighborhood was anything but typical. Sweetie darlings, I’m talking about Absolutely Fabulous (or AbFab if you’re in the know). This certainly rang true when it came to my teenage television habits in the early part of that same decade however, one specific Britcom surpassed anything else for me back then.
Bean, Blackadder and Prime Suspect, remain staples and continue to attract new viewers. For those of us in Generation X, such phenomenal shows produced in the United Kingdom during that period, including Keeping Up Appearances, Mr. Witty, whimsical, naughty, with a certain je ne c’est quoi that attracted so many of us here in the States to begin with, they were unlike what most domestic television was at the time.
There was a veritable flood of shows from across the Atlantic that became smash hits in this country, going as far back as the late ‘60s ( Monty Python’s Flying Circus) and early ‘70s ( Are You Being Served?), not to mention those that were adapted into classic American sitcoms ( Sanford and Son, All in the Family ). If you were around in the 1990s, you were undoubtedly privy to another British invasion we had here in America: this one on our television screens.
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