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The show grew out of a sketch on French & Saunders, which featured an obnoxious, partying mother and her sober, responsible daughter. This became the basis for Edina's and Saffron's characters.
Came 17th in ''[[
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* [[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
* 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.
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* [[Frothy Mugs of Water]]: Ginger ale is substituted for champagne. A gag reel however shows the side effects of using real wine over multiple takes...
* [[Frozen Face]]: Happened to Eddy due to too much of a Botox-like injection.
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Subverted in the 2011 Christmas episode with Sarah, having established she had been unable to visit Saffron in prison due to being sectioned (held for psychiatric care against her will) apparently due to schizophrenia, she makes jokes about prison sex causing Saffron to slap her. Sarah then runs away screaming "The voices have come back!"
* [[The Ghost]]: Edina's son Serge for the majority of the series. Whenever some important event occurred he was always "taking lava samples in Sumatra," or some similar scientific activity to explain his absence. Finally showed up for the special "New York" in which it was revealed that he was actually working in a bookstore in New York City all the time, and that the rest of his family had conspired to keep this a secret from Edina.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Edina and Patsy. Patsy in particular seems lost whenever they are apart.
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** [[Up to Eleven|Taking it even further]], the Patsy character is [[Running Gag|played by]] a [[Drag Queen]].
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Edina may qualify, although she also tends to hate this sort of character.
* [[Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense]]: Edina. Her ex-husbands cut her off at one point when they find out she has been scamming them for years, and she fears becoming poor. But it turns out that even without them she's still wealthy -- Saffy just lets her think she'll be poor to teach her a lesson. [[Captain Obvious|Doesn't work]].
* [[Screaming Birth]]
* [[Slapstick Knows No Gender]]
* [[The Snark Knight]]: Saffron, and how!
* [[Spin
* [[Straight Gay]]: Edina's son, Serge. Much to her dismay, as she wanted him to turn out to be a [[Camp Gay]].
** Edina's ex-husband Justin also qualifies.
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