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* [[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.
* [[British Brevity]]: On for eight years total, only 36 episodes.
* [[Bumbling Sidekick]]: Bubble, who takes this to new heights of incompetence. Edina keeps her around only because Bubble makes her look good. In the newest episode "Job", Bubble tells the new intern she keeps her job not because of what she does not know, but because of what she DOES know.
* [[Camp Gay]]: Serge's boyfriend, Martin.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Sweetie, darling."
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* [[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.
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