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Absolutely Fabulous

New Best Friend

Season 2, Episode 4, Aired Feb 24, 1994

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Edina's old friends, Bettina and Max, are coming to stay with her. Eddie remembers them as being notoriously minimalistic and tries to make the house presentable, eventually telling Patsy to leave. Patsy is hurt by this and leaves to find herself a new best friend. Meanwhile, Bettina and Max arrive with a new baby and soon Eddie's house resembles the the inside of a laundry basket.moreless

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Adrian Edmondson

Hamish
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Jo Brand

Carmen
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Meera Syal

Suzy

Jane Horrocks

Bubble, Katy Grin, Lola
Joanna Lumley

Patricia "Patsy" Stone
Jennifer Saunders

Edina "Eddy" Monsoon
Julia Sawalha

Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon
June Whitfield

Mrs. June "Gran/Mother" Monsoon

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a Good filler episode.

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By harryathouse, Apr 16, 2008

Edina's old friends, Bettina and Max, are coming to stay with her. Eddie remembers them as being notoriously minimalistic who don't want or need posessions and she tries to make the house look tidy and nice, and ends up telling Patsy to leave the house. Patsy isn't very happy when she gets told this and she then leaves to find herself a new best friend to make Eddie feel jealous and guilty. Meanwhile, when Bettina and Max arrive they have their baby with them and are loaded with bags and baby stuff, turning Eddie's house into the inside of a laundry basket.moreless
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- Bettina was mentioned in the French and Saunders sketch which led to the creation of the Absolutely Fabulous series.
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- Edina: What's the matter? Patsy: I'm not happy. Eddie: Well, take the car. Just go, go. Patsy: I don't want the car. Eddie: Just go and be unhappy somewhere else, go on!
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- Saffron: You were checking the fly, weren't you? Edina: I have to, darling! Saffron: I didn't think you still did that. It's been ten years since you saw that film, and Jeff Goldblum is now full-sized, wingless and living happily ever after in L.A. Edina: I know that, darling, but you'll be laughing the other side of your face the day you squash something with a little tiny human head against that window, darling. And it screams out "No, no! I'm a professor of physics! Take me back to my laboratory!" You'll wish you were a Buddhist then, darling.
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- Patsy: I'm not happy. Eddie: Take the car. Just go, go. Patsy: I don't want the car. Eddie: Just go and be unhappy somewhere else, go on!
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- (on minimalism) Bettina: (monotone) We like it. We think it's the new millennium.
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- Edina: Lacroix, baby spew. Lacroix, baby spew.
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- Gran: (Listening to Edina cheat with Max on the baby monitor) ...Is that Radio 4 dear?
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- Patsy: (About Bettina) Neat? She was so anally-retentive, she couldn't sit down for fear of sucking up the furniture!
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- This episode was meant to play 2nd, until the BBC changed the order at the last minute.
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- Saffron: You were checking the fly, weren't you? The exchange between Saffron and Edina in the kitchen regarding a fly on the wall is a reference to the 1986 film, The Fly.
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