Absolutely Fabulous (TV Series)

ISO Tank (1992)

Jennifer Saunders: Edina

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Quotes 

• Eddie : You can't even tell Patsy about arranging balls, darling. She was always very good at genetics.

  Saffron : I'm not surprised. She's been a walking sperm bank most of her life.

• Eddie : Right. sweetie, I'm going to go to my isolation tank now. I may be some time. I could sink!

  Saffron : Not with your ballast.

• Eddie : Bubble? Listen! What is your job?

  Bubble : What's me what?

  Eddie : What is it you do, darling?

  Bubble : I don't really know. Nothing. Get paid?

• [first lines] 

  Saffron : [phone rings]  Hello?

  Eddie : Saffy, it's me. Listen... Darling, I'm in the isolation tank in my bathroom. Don't leave the house without telling me. Alright? I'm going to see if I can last another fifteen minutes.

  Saffron : A call came through for Patsy, but I couldn't find her.

  Eddie : Alright. Okay.

  [to Patsy] 

  Eddie : There's a call come through for you Pats.

  Patsy : I'd better go, Eddy.

• Eddie : Is champers all right with you, Pats?

  Patsy : Lovely, sweetie.

• Eddie : Now, Pats, shall we finish off the Beluga or should we have some smoked salmon nibbly things?

  Patsy : Oh, whatever sweetie.

  Eddie : All right, we'll finish off the Beluga.

• Saffron : Look, mum, it's not my fault I dont't want to loll around naked, painted day glow, with a flower stuck in every orifice... humping the air to Jefferson Airplane.

  Eddie : It was The Grateful Dead, darling.

• Eddie : Sweetie, if you don't let me come. I'll adopt a Romanian baby. I would.

• [last lines] 

  Patsy : You want to hear a new joke, darling?

  Eddie : Oh, yeah.

  Patsy : It's not in very good taste.

  Eddie : No.

  Patsy : The thing is this... You know Elizabeth Taylor?

  Eddie : Mmm...

  Patsy : Well, I hear that she is the new ride at Disney World.

• Eddie : Is champers all right with you, Pats?

  Patsy : Lovely, darling.

  Eddie : Should we finish off the beluga or should we have some smoked salmon nibbly things?

  Patsy : Oh, whatever, sweetie.

  Eddie : All right, we'll finish off the beluga.

• Patsy : Well, shall we have a bitch through "Hello!" magazine and the "Enquirer"?

  Eddie : Oh... no...

  Patsy : Come, on, sweetie. Catherine Oxenberg, Liz Taylor, Khashoggi, Shahpari Khashoggi, darling. All that money and she's still got a moustache. Oh, sweetie, one more facelift on this one and she'll have a beard. And darling, why do we think Pricilla Presley wears gloves?

  Eddie : Oh, I don't know.

  Patsy : Liver spots, sweetie. Don't you remember?

• Eddie : Oh, where is Bubble? What's happening here? What is it? What's happening?

  Bubble : I'll just go through a few of the things in this week's diary.

  Eddie : Alright.

  Bubble : Charity: Emporio Armani, drinks, lunch, launch, Gucci opening. Invites for fashion shows: Westwood, Hamnett, Jackson, Richmond. I said yes to all. But you can do Westwood. Party, party, party, party, party... Koo Stark is having a retrospective of work she has yet to do. That'll be drinks and a press call. Book launches: One. Bill Wyman's "Coping With Cystitis". Press call and ribs at Sticky Fingers. Party, party, party, movie meetings. Two. Paula Yates, her book, "If I Can't Have A Career, Why Should They?". There will be a party, and she will be expressing milk throughout.

  Eddie : Oh, I'm not going to that.

  Bubble : Linda McCartney, Joan Collins, Emma Freud, Marie Helvin, Ivana Trump. Ivana Trump, the launch of her new perfume "The Smell That Lingers Longer Than He Does". Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York, Paris...

• Patsy : [seeing Saffron]  Oh, my God, there's something horrible on the stairs.

  Saffron : It's me.

  Patsy : I'm not blind.

  Saffron : What are those pills?

  Patsy : Don't question me.

  Saffron : Mum?

  Eddie : Darling, they're just hormones, so I can breast feed the Romanians when they come.