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* [[Big Applesauce]]: One episode has Patsy and Edina visiting New York.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The punchline of one episode is that Patsy and Edina have been staying in a run-down French cottage when they were supposed to be in a fancy chateau. Three times during the episode a French man tries to explain this to them. Any audience members who speak French will have figured this out about 20 minutes before the characters do.
* [[Black Comedy]]: Edina's treatment of Saffron constitutes full-on abuse at times and it's always [[Played for Laughs]].
* [[Brainy Brunette]]: Saffron.
* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]: Inverted. Saffron is by far the most moral character on the show. Edina, on the other hand, is what happens when the Bratty Teenage Daughter grows up and has children of her own.
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** 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.
* [[Doomed New Clothes]]: Patsy's designer pantsuit in the episode ''Birthin''.
* [[Drag Queen]]: In the episode "Sex".
** Also, when Patsy goes to New York City, a group of drag queens mistake her for one. See [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]] below.
* [[Dream Sequence]]: Edina has had a couple of these, especially when under anaesthesia for a minor surgery.
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* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]: Saffron had one, which included being abandoned in the park, used to stub out cigarettes by Patsy, and more emotional neglect than seems humanly possible. Now that she's grown and still lives with her mother, she's undergoing a Hilariously Abusive Adulthood (though she has by now learned to fight back).
** Edina's other child, Serge, didn't fare much better. He loved his books more than anything in the world...so Eddy and Patsy set them on fire because "[[Refuge in Audacity|We were cold]]".
** Patsy had one as well. Her mother actively ''despised'' her, and the two were enemies right up until her death.
* [[Hollywood Dress Code]]: Saffron dresses mostly in conservative cardigans, Patsy wears dark, fashionable clothes, and Edina usually resembles an LSD hallucination. Bubble's clothes defy explanation.
** And Gran sometimes wears yellow rubber dishwashing gloves for no reason.
* [[Immune to Drugs]]: Patsy should have died ''[[No One Should Survive That|years]]'' ago. Instead she seems [[Nigh Invulnerability|functionally immortal]].
* [[Just the Introduction to The Opposites]]
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* [[Mama Bear]]: When Edina finds out the professor flirting with Saffron is married and has four kids, she punches him in the face.
* [[Must Have Nicotine]]: Patsy spends an episode secretly sticking nicotine patches on (non-smoker) Saffron, who spends the rest of the episode craving cigarettes and not knowing why.
* [[My Life Flashed Before My Eyes]]
* [[New Age Retro Hippie]]: Edina, who will jump on any fad known to man, but is especially fond of anything that reminds her of her teenaged years in the '60s.
* [[Not So Different]]: In one episode, Edina and Saffron make the same snarky comment about Patsy in unison, then stare at each other in horror.
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{{quote|'''Eddy:''' She's a testament to the power of prescription drugs!}}
** This doesn't make any sense, as Eddy and Patsy were at secondary school together.
** Actually, it's established in a previous episode that Patsy is actually older than Edina. The two went to school together because Patsy didn't start attending school until she was much older.
*** The 2011 Christmas episode established that Patsy is well over 60, as she has thousands in back payments on her pension.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Or woman, in Saffy's case.
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* [[The Snark Knight]]: Saffron, and how!
* [[Spin-Off]]: Almost. A series based on the popular recurring character Bo (girlfriend and later wife to Edina's ex-husband, Marshall) has been proposed on several occasions. Although new rumors surfaced occasionally, it never quite happened.
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** Edina's ex-husband Justin also qualifies.
* [[Studio Audience]]: Most episodes of the show were filmed in front of a live audience, save for the various scenes filmed on location.
* [[Sympathy for the Devil]]: Patsy once spun a sob story about her miserable childhood to persuade Saffron to do her a favor. It worked and Patsy was quite smug, until Edina reminded her that the story was true.
* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: Edina gets a karaoke machine for her 40th birthday, and the episode ends with her and Patsy singing a duet of "Wheels on Fire".
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