Absolutely Fabulous (TV Series)

ISO Tank (1992)

Joanna Lumley: Patsy

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Quotes 

• Patsy : [about Saffy]  Don't let her talk to you like that, Eddy. Tell her she's adopted.

• [first lines] 

  Saffron : [phone rings]  Hello?

  Eddie : Saffy, it's me. Listen... Darling, I'm in the isolation tank in my bathroom. Don't leave the house without telling me. Alright? I'm going to see if I can last another fifteen minutes.

  Saffron : A call came through for Patsy, but I couldn't find her.

  Eddie : Alright. Okay.

  [to Patsy] 

  Eddie : There's a call come through for you Pats.

  Patsy : I'd better go, Eddy.

• Eddie : Is champers all right with you, Pats?

  Patsy : Lovely, sweetie.

• Eddie : Now, Pats, shall we finish off the Beluga or should we have some smoked salmon nibbly things?

  Patsy : Oh, whatever sweetie.

  Eddie : All right, we'll finish off the Beluga.

• [last lines] 

  Patsy : You want to hear a new joke, darling?

  Eddie : Oh, yeah.

  Patsy : It's not in very good taste.

  Eddie : No.

  Patsy : The thing is this... You know Elizabeth Taylor?

  Eddie : Mmm...

  Patsy : Well, I hear that she is the new ride at Disney World.

• Eddie : Is champers all right with you, Pats?

  Patsy : Lovely, darling.

  Eddie : Should we finish off the beluga or should we have some smoked salmon nibbly things?

  Patsy : Oh, whatever, sweetie.

  Eddie : All right, we'll finish off the beluga.

• Patsy : Well, shall we have a bitch through "Hello!" magazine and the "Enquirer"?

  Eddie : Oh... no...

  Patsy : Come, on, sweetie. Catherine Oxenberg, Liz Taylor, Khashoggi, Shahpari Khashoggi, darling. All that money and she's still got a moustache. Oh, sweetie, one more facelift on this one and she'll have a beard. And darling, why do we think Pricilla Presley wears gloves?

  Eddie : Oh, I don't know.

  Patsy : Liver spots, sweetie. Don't you remember?

• Patsy : [seeing Saffron]  Oh, my God, there's something horrible on the stairs.

  Saffron : It's me.

  Patsy : I'm not blind.

  Saffron : What are those pills?

  Patsy : Don't question me.

  Saffron : Mum?

  Eddie : Darling, they're just hormones, so I can breast feed the Romanians when they come.