"You just work in a shop, you know!"

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"You just work in a shop, you know!"

Posted: 10/25/10 at 2:10pm

Really, one of my all-time favorite Absolutely Fabulous lines.

What about yours?

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'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 2:18pm

All my favorite ones are about fat drunk people....

How anyone less than perfect in weight was a punchline...

I loved that....

Made my ribbons twirl...

"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up." - Billie Holiday

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 2:19pm

"If the models get any younger they'll be chucking foetuses down the catwalk."

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 2:22pm

LOL!!! That's a great one. Young thin models!

"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up." - Billie Holiday

Updated On: 10/25/10 at 02:22 PM

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 2:31pm

Eddie: Oh, God. Why am I so fat?
Saffie: You're not SO fat.
Eddie: I am! Why?
Saffie: Well, for start, you eat too much, you drink too much and you take no excercise.
Eddie: Darling, darling, please. It's far more likely to be an allergy to something, you know... You know, sort of a build-up of toxins, or something, or hormone imbalance, isn't it? Hmm? And also, sweetie, did you know I've got a very heavy aura? Did you know that? That's why animals love me, darling.
Saffie: They just see you as something to hibernate in.

"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up." - Billie Holiday

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 2:32pm

Eddie: You're very thin, aren't you, Bubble
Patsy: She's emaciated, like her brain!
Bubble: I know, it's awful. I can eat as much as I like and I just don't get fatter. I cannot put on weight.
Eddie: Oh, how terrible...
Bubble: I know. I wish I was more curvy. I wish I had breasts like yours.
Eddie: No, you don't.
Bubble: Yes, I do.
Eddie: No, you don't.
Bubble: I do! Great, big, large, pendulous breasts. I'd like to fill a bra.
Eddie: No, you wouldn't. Just stop saying you do. You don't know what it feels like. You think, just because you feel better with a couple of oranges stuffed down your cups, that you know what it feels like. Well, you don't. It's hell.
Bubble: I don't have to wear a bra. I just stuff the oranges down me vest.
Eddie: Listen, you little bookmark. You know I only employ you because you make me look better, don't you?
Bubble: I've remembered what she's called. Penny Caspar-Morse!

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"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up." - Billie Holiday

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 2:36pm

"I'll adopt a Romanian baby!"
"You wouldn't!"
"I would."

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 2:38pm

"Ivan Lendl, hmmm?"

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'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 2:41pm

LOL

That is My all-time favorite episode of that show.

#10

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 2:41pm

Patsy: The last mosquito that bit me had to book into the Betty Ford Clinic

I love the alki jokes.....they rock!!!!!

"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up." - Billie Holiday

#11

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 3:03pm

Eddie (watching Saffy writing): Pen. Pen. Pen. What's this darling? Observations dreary.
Saffy (grabbing it back) Diary!

#12

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 4:11pm

I love that one. But my second favorite is: "Is it a dwarf?" Ah, that Bubble.

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Updated On: 10/25/10 at 04:11 PM

#13

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 4:14pm

Eddie: What you don't seem to realise is that inside of me there is a thin person screaming to get out
Mother: Just the one dear?

Updated On: 10/26/10 at 04:14 PM

#14

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 4:14pm

When Saffy, in a fit of annoyance, tells Eddie that she's a lesbian, prompting Eddie to embrace her screaming "hurrah!" Saffy of course has to burst Eddie's bubble, and Eddie is terribly disappointed:

"I was hoping there'd be one interesting thing about you."

#15

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 4:34pm

"Get a haircut and a boiler suit so I don't have to keep explaining you to my friends!"

#16

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 4:46pm

There's that one odd little moment in the episode where they're all in France on vacation. The accommodations aren't what was expected, and Eddy is not enjoying herself in the rustic setting, and tries to explain why to Saffy:

"I know I should be enjoying it, darling. It's like a joke no one's let me in on. It's more your type of fun."

One of the few moments where Eddie displays anything like introspection in the series.

#17

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 5:02pm

And excuse me if I sue when I die prematurely of passive boredom. Of dull-as-dishwater-daughter-induced stress.

#18

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 5:04pm

Roscoe, I've always loved that moment.

#19

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 5:05pm

HAHAHAHAHA! I love that show!

KFTC!!!!!

#20

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 5:19pm

Patsy: Anyway, she wanted to see the world.

Eddie: I don't think the white slave trade was quite what she had in mind.

#21

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 5:49pm

My third favorite, from Edina: "Had two husbands, one was too short, one was gay. Still sweetie, if you want to know how to peck a dwarf on the cheek as he's walking out of the house to the disco in your dress, then I'm your girl."

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#22

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 6:06pm

Eddie - I want total sensory deprivation and backup drugs.

Saffie - My life just passed before my eyes.
Eddie - What was it like? A Bergman film without the jokes?

Eddie - Mother, are you still on the computer?
Gran - Yes dear, sometimes you get in a porn loop and just can't get out.

Updated On: 10/25/10 at 06:06 PM

#23

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 9:27pm

Saffy: It's a sticker with a green tree on it.
Edina: Yes.
Saffy: What does that mean?
Edina: Kind to trees, sweetie.
Saffy: How are they kind to trees?
Edina: Well they ain't made of wood, how kind do you want!?

#24

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 9:35pm

"Just finish the beaujolais and walk away from it."

#25

'You just work in a shop, you know!'

Posted: 10/25/10 at 9:47pm

Patsy picks up a magazine and looks at the cover:

"Meg Ryan a superstar? I'll be the judge of that."

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