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  • Edina muses that without Saffron around to provide that "soupcon of guilt" hedonism just isn't as pleasurable. Fortunately Patsystopheles knows just what to say to make misbehavior fun again.
    Patsy: You deserve nothing. It is FORBIDDEN... to have breakfast at Patisserie Valerie [a famous bakery in London].
    Edina: [bites bottom lip] ...That would be very naughty.
    Patsy: It is forbidden.
    Edina: It would be very, very naughty.
    Patsy: Very naughty.
  • Edina's outrageously childish tantrum when told she can't come to Saffron's college open day.
  • Patsy eagerly following Saffy's attractive friend Danny upstairs as he leaves.
  • Later on, it's implied that Patsy successfully seduced him.
    Eddie: I'll ask Patsy, shall I? (dials phone) Oh, Danny, is Patsy there? Okay. Pats. Darling.
  • After recalling how Patsy was injured after getting tangled in Bettina and Max's home decorations, consisting of bars suspended by wires, Saffron delivers an insult.
    Patsy: I should've sued. I was cut to ribbons, I was scarred for life.
    Saffy: Extraordinary how it managed to hit you in exactly the same place behind each ear.
  • Eddie deciding to get rid of visiting friends Max and Bettina to mend her friendship with Patsy by sleeping with Max within range of the baby monitor being aired to Bettina, Saffy and Mother in the kitchen. Bettina remains frozen with a grimace and a thousand yard stare. Saffy looks horrified, while Mother seems confused.
    Max: I can't! It's been so long since I did it! (heavy panting)
    Eddie: ...is that it, darling?
    Mother: (after they finish) ...is that Radio 4, dear?
  • Saffron, finding out Patsy was in the kitchen when it caught on fire. "She inhaled our kitchen!"
  • The surgeon describing his intended procedure for Patsy's facelift.
    Doctor: Oh, it'd be a doddle. Just grab her by the scalp, shake her up and down a bit and chop off the slack!
  • Eddie's dream in the hospital while under anesthetic, featuring Patsy and family being played by different actors as idealized versions of them.
    • Patsy (played by Mandy Rice-Davies) telling Eddie she looks beautiful.
    • Saffy (played by Helena Bonham Carter!), wearing a Lacroix at last and tells Eddie she won't go to university and instead bum around Europe experimenting on drugs as she always wanted.
    • Justin (played by Richard E. Grant) telling Eddie he was never gay, and just used that as an excuse as he would never find another woman that could replace her.
    • The Nurse (played by Suzi Quatro) playing a song for her.
    • Also, Lady Penelope from Thunderbirds is present.
  • Eddie and Patsy arriving at a funeral, drunk out of their minds, and both of them fall into open graves.
  • Eddie and Patsy stuck on the airport baggage carousel.
  • Eddie and Patsy's defence in court regarding the crimes they did that day, including driving while drunk and shoplifting.
    Patsy: My name is Patsy Stone and I'm an alcoholic. And what she did was an act of humanitarian mercy.
    Judge: That is hardly a reason for stealing a crate of champagne.
  • In a flashback to Edina's birth, Mother is showing no signs of pain whatsoever from the childbirth and looks as though she's patiently having her toenails painted.
  • Patsy's reaction when she enrages Saffy enough for her to slap her has to be seen to be believed.
  • Eddie and Saffron finally raid the unseen Serge's locked bedroom to find something, and accidentally come across Serge's hidden Porn Stash. When they start leafing through the stack of Pornographic magazines called Razzle...
    Patsy: What year?
    Saffron: 1972.
    Patsy (more urgently): WHAT MONTH?!
  • In the next moment they take a look at the contents of the magazine.
    Edina: Oh my god, look at that, look at that, wait, don't look at that...
    Saffron: It's disgusting, that is so degrading to women!
    Patsy: What do you mean? She's got the whip.
  • When Saffron finally flees to the safety of the university dorms, she's horrified by the rank amateurs at partying she's surrounded herself with.
    Saffron: Oh for GOD'S SAKE that roach isn't properly rolled tight!
  • In the episode "Fat", this Dark Humor exchange regarding Penny, an old acquaintance who used to mock Edina for her weight.
    Patsy: Edie, great news!
    Edina: (gasps) She's fat.
    Patsy: No, no, no. Better than that!
    Edina: She's dead!
    Patsy: No... she's blind.
    Edina: YES!!!
  • When Edie and company are frantically running around Saffy's university campus looking for her room before she starts playing the raunchy sex tape accidentally switched with her presentation, there's this exchange between their acquaintances.
    David: What are we looking for?
    Christopher: Oh I don't know, we're just caught up in the drama! Run!
  • Gran repeatedly mistaking drag queen David for Patsy.
  • Saffron's play "Self Raising Flower" in season 4. Highlights include the actress playing Edina being unsure whether it was a tragedy or comedy before settling on comedy, Patsy being played by a man, and Edina and Patsy in the audience thoroughly enjoying it. Also Bubble's facial expressions.
  • The snarky nurse from season 2 returning in season 5 to give Eddie a spray tan.
    Nurse (holding nozzle like a gun): Any last words?
  • Patsy being rude to customers at the upper class store Jeremy's.
    Patsy (to a customer that just set off an alarm): You can't come in, you're too fat. Get out.
  • Patsy cosmetically enlarging her lips a little too much.
    Minnie Driver: First rule, mouth should be smaller than face.
  • Saffron delivering a Hurricane of Puns as insults to Patsy when she considers enlarging her lips with collagen.
    Patsy: Darling, darling, do you think it's time for a bit of- you know- bit of collagen?
    Saffy: It'd take more than collagen to fill your face.
    Patsy: Just a little plumping...
    Saffy: How many whales will have to die to fill those crevices?
    Eddie: Oh shoosh, sweetheart.
    Patsy: Just a little filling!
    Saffy: Call out the whaling fleet, they might not be able to cope with the demand.
    Eddie: Shoosh, sweetheart, just a little... filler!
    Saffy: Mountaineers have died falling into shallower ravines than your wrinkles!
  • Bubble being completely oblivious as to who or what Minnie Driver is.
    Bubble: Is it a dwarf?
  • Bubble reacting to the news that Elton John will be attending their party by randomly bursting out a chant from the Lion King. Eddie and Patsy glare at her in shock.
  • During the party, Yoko Ono appears via video link, only she's standing much too close to the camera.
  • In the episode White Box, the scene of the now clinically insane minimalist interior designer Bettina and her ex-husband Max renovating the kitchen.
    Bettina (pointing to last remaining table): I want that out!
    Max: We can't get it out!
    Bettina: Why?!
    Max: Because you've taken out the stairs!
    (Edina enters the scene falling into the empty stairway)
  • Edina and Saffron make the same snarky comment about Patsy in unison, and then stare at each other in horror.
  • In a deleted scene, Saffy tells Eddie and Patsy that she's moving out of the halls of residence and returning home. Patsy responds by snarling a gutteral "NO!!!", which makes Jennifer Saunders corpse with laughter. She explains that it was because she watched Hellraiser the previous night.

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