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Came 17th in ''[[Britain's Best Sitcom|Britains Best Sitcom]]''.
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* [[Acting for Two]]: Jane Horrocks, who plays both Bubble and overly cheerful TV star Katy Grin.
* [[Always Camp]]: The vast majority of fashion people Edina and Patsy encounter in their careers.
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* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Both Patsy Stone and Joanna Lumley are Bond Girls.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Bubble. Occasionally Gran as well.
* [[Crossover]]: Eddy and Patsy appeared in a Halloween-themed episode of ''[[Roseanne]]'' that first aired in 1996. Eddy and Patsy meet Roseanne and Jackie at a high-profile cocktail party in New York. Upon hearing about Roseanne's multi-million dollar lottery winnings, Eddy wastes no time in becoming Roseanne's PR agent and talking her into funding a plan to clone Jackie Kennedy using the method from ''Jurassic Park''. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]...
** The context by the way, was the fact that Roseanne had (at the time the episode aired) acquired the rights to produce an American version of the show. This also makes the episode look like a [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]]; looking like Roseanne flew over Jennifer and Joanna to play Eddy and Patsy to see if the show's humor would fly in America.
* A flashback scene involves Patsy appearing a her supposed 70s self, which looks remarkably like Joanna Lumley's "Purdey" character from ''[[The Avengers]]''
* [[Cultural Translation]]: The sitcom ''[[Cybill]]'' was sort of an unofficial Americanized variation; an official remake never got past the pilot stage.
** Roseanne had the US remake rights for it for almost a decade but sat on them after ABC told her, point blank, that for them to consider a remake of the show airing on the network, all references to drugs would have to be nixed and that much of the humor bowdlerized.
** Also ''High Society'', another attempt to adapt the show for US audience with Mary McDonald as a Edina-Expy and Jean Smart as a Patsy-Expy.
* [[Dawson Casting]]: 16-year-old Saffron is played by 24-year-old Julia Sawalha. Also somewhat inverted with Edina: when Edina turned 40, Jennifer Saunders was actually only 34.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Saffron, although most characters have their moments.
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