Absolutely Fabulous.

[LucilleBluth]

I'm the watching them all on Netflix with DS2 (14). It still holds up and I'm sat with a glass of wine laughing my arse off. We're on the Max and `Petunia episode, it has Jo Brand in it, not to mention so many amazing women.

Ab Fab and everything Julia Davis writes proves that women are wonderful at comedy.

I love it, I watched that one last night!

I watched it last year on a netflix thing with my son ( about 19 / 20 at the time ) and he laughed himself silly at it - yes it is great I think. In our house when we leave we still do the thing when they are are going on holiday and have they got all their clothes etc etc and then the door opens and they come back in " Money . Keys. Passports "

Loved it to death but seems a bit dated now. I'm happy to chuckle over my memories- especially the French episode. The 'specials' and film made me cringe. Everyone is so greedy. The Farty Towels model is best- only 12 episodes. Leave them wanting more!

See I don't think it has dated. The clothes and general style are firmly 90s but the writing and physical comedy is still sharp. Eddy and Patsy stuck on the luggage carousel in Morocco for example will always be hilarious. Patsy revealing herself after the kitchen burned down, classic.

I love Poor, especially when they have road rage and harass and scream at that poor woman and when they’re in the supermarket and drive home drunk 😂 there’s actually a great parody on YouTube of that episode

The treatment of saffy has dated terribly. And the issues of consent- the episode in Morocco in particular.

I do still think it's funny and the writing very good but the concepts and what was deemed ok has definitely dated.

I think it has dated. I watched it recently and didn't enjoy it as much. It might be because of the striking resemblance to how my mil was. I really hated how they treated Saffy too. It was so good in the day.

I loved the episode with the absolutely fabulous Anita Pallenberg in, she of course played the devil to Marianne Faithfulls god.
They had some amazing guests over the years.

"I just want clean lines and surfaces, I don't want things on places".

Licking the light switch still makes me cry laughing.

I'm watching them with DD (14) at the mo. We saw the Morocco one last night and I was .

Slightly alarming that DD thinks we're quite similar to Edina and Saffy !

I love the road rage one I can laugh about for hours! Saffy darling let me in

Yes, the treatment of Saffy is dark for. BBC sitcom but the audience know that Eddy is behaving appallingly. I love it when Saffy writes a play and gets her own back.

Magda (Kathy Burke) is my favourite, I wish she'd been in more episodes!

The Morocco episode with the dirty old man, Humphrey.

@LucilleBluth
Yes, the treatment of Saffy is dark for. BBC sitcom but the audience know that Eddy is behaving appallingly. I love it when Saffy writes a play and gets her own back.

Strange you say that because that is the episode where, imo, they are the nastiest and most horrible to Saffy out of any episode in the entire series and the film. It's a funny episode but I think the argument between Saffy and Eddy and Patsy was one of the most dark and tense moments in Ab Fab.

My favourite show! I could watch ‘Poor’ and ‘France’ again and again! Patsy is definitely the star of the show.

What is the parody called MissionItsPossible?

@CordeliaGoode
It looks like it was made in Canada or America but they have got the accents and characterisation pretty good:

Just love AbFab. I don't see that it's dated,it's incredibly well observed of that social set.

Thanks @MissionItsPossible that was quite spot on! Especially the woman playing Eddie

When Patsy was asked if she had any advice, her reply was “you can’t have enough shoes and handbags”. Another time she was asked when she last had something to eat and she replied’ eat, I haven’t eaten anything since 1978”. When they went to France and parked the car in the middle of the village with just the front of the car barely on the parking space and the back end partly blocking the road. There are too many to remember. We would record them and watch them two or three times because there was always something you missed.

I have the urge to re-watch these now!

I seem to recall my favourite one being Edina's 40th.