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Absolutely Fabulous Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 1995 - 1996
Episode 1
Door Handle
29 mins
Eddie is planning on turning over a new leaf in believing her new electronic day timer will be able to organize her life for her to her sensibilities, past and future. The one thing it has not been able to do as witnessed by the mess is figure out what to do about the still empty kitchen following the fire much to Saffy's chagrin. The empty kitchen is despite Eddie having examined kitchen idea after idea, the only thing she knowing being that there is a specific door handle she likes, but can't even remember where she's seen it to get it. Beyond the kitchen, Saffy seems to be waiting for something else from her mother this day. What Saffy is waiting for isn't quite what Patsy wants to speak to her about, Patsy who doesn't know who else to turn about matters she doesn't quite understand or perhaps doesn't want to understand.
Episode 2
Happy New Year
29 mins
It's New Year's Eve. Saffy is hosting a small party at the house consisting of Gran, Justin, Oliver, her friend Sarah, and at the last minute Bubble solely as Bubble somehow found her way to the house to have New Year's Eve dinner there despite not knowing what New Year's Eve really is. The plan for the evening is to ring in the New Year watching the festivities on television. While Saffy would like her mother there, she who is unusually in town rather than off to New York City, Eddie is planning on hitting the "in" club with Patsy. Patsy is even more excited about their night out when she learns at the eleventh hour that her sister, Jackie, who she idolizes as a more extreme and glamorous version of herself and who she hasn't seen in twenty years, is coming from France for an extended visit. Patsy expects that Jackie will take their night out to the next level. As Jackie does affect what happens with their planned fun evening out much to Eddie's chagrin, Patsy will discover that, as much as she doesn't want to notice, Jackie is not quite the same person she was twenty years ago.
Episode 3
Sex
29 mins
Eddie is lamenting the outdated "size" of her bedroom, what she really wanting being a walk-in wardrobe. With Saffy denying Eddie her preferred option of knocking down the wall to overtake Saffy's bedroom, Eddie entertains the least preferred of the two options: to overtake Serge's bedroom, which she has left somewhat as a shrine, locked and untouched, ever since he left six years ago seemingly for good as they have not seen or heard from him at all. Eddie deciding at least to enter the room with Patsy's help, Eddie, Patsy and Saffy find that it is literally and figuratively reeking of testosterone, one of those figurative manifestations bringing up the issue between Eddie and Patsy that while Eddie has led a wild life, she has gone without sex for a good number of years, partly in always picturing Mum looking over her. As such, Patsy convinces Eddie that they should not only have an orgy, but that the most prudent way to get the necessary men is, gasp, to pay for them. What happens is affected by Saffy and her friends preparing for a video presentation at school on genetics and ethics.
Episode 4
Jealous
29 mins
Eddie is in the running for a PR industry award which she literally can't lose, although she does end up doing so, losing that is, to her smug rival, Claudia Bing, who was probably as underhanded in the win as Eddie thought she was being. She is feeling figuratively at a loss in PR being a large part of her identity, so much so that it affects the way she deals with an issue between Saffy and her psychology professor, Gerard, to who she is nervously attracted. Eddie has to find a way to get her PR mojo back, and thinks she has the way in a speech she is to make a PR industry luncheon. But with the best laid plans, they may easily get waylaid.
Episode 5
Fear
29 mins
Despite their frequent conflicts, Eddie feels lost when Saffy moves out to live in college--so lost that she drinks herself unconscious. When she wakes up, she finds Patsy and her colleagues in her kitchen: their magazine has gone bust and Patsy is considering a move to New York for another job offer. Despite the inevitable set-to between Patsy and Saffy when the latter returns for her things, Eddie ends up arguing with Patsy for abandoning her leading to a major decision.
Episode 6
The End
27 mins
Eddie, Patsy, Saffy and Mother are not with any of the other three for the first time in years. Saffy is living at the college dorm and hanging out with her friends on campus. Patsy has moved to New York in accepting a fashion magazine job working for Magda. Largely because of the falling out with Patsy, Eddie has decided to find herself in attending a hippie retreat. And with Eddie being away from home, Mother is at Eddie's apartment left to her own devices with her new "best friend", their activities which are aided by something belonging to Eddie. Saffy finds that as much as she wants things to be different, she has to get out of a certain mentality to make it different. And both Eddie and Patsy may not find that being apart in different and unfamiliar environments is all that it's cracked up to be.
Episode 7
The Last Shout: Part 1
42 mins
In what she considers some much needed "me" time, Eddie is going away on vacation with Patsy to Val-d'Isère. Beyond packing, they both have some last minute tasks/errands, including Patsy having a scheduled interview on a specific fashion topic, Eddie needing to connect with Bubble about some housekeeping while she's away, and Eddie wanting a trip to the gym to get some exercise to be able to handle the exertion of snowboarding. But Eddie gets caught up in another matter, namely an interview she did a few months ago with radio host Sue Lawley which is airing this day. While the interview irks Saffy, it's something that Saffy does with relation to her quietly condescending Italo-British boyfriend Paolo that irks Eddie. What Eddie wants to get out of the vacation is to hobnob with the jet set to feel like she is one of them. But while Patsy gets out of the trip what she expected, Eddie not makes her examine her friendship with Patsy. Meanwhile, Mother is picking up some friends at the airport that she hasn't seen in forty-four years, she having what she considers a surefire way to recognize them after all this time.
Episode 8
The Last Shout: Part 2
42 mins
Eddie and Patsy have returned from Val-d'Isère in the midst of Saffy's wedding planning which is the central issue in the house, or should be. External chaos is however all around Saffy, including: the arrival of Mother's friends Millie and Mac, who are living in their camper van outside the house and who mistakenly believe they are the hippest people in the world, they in the process transforming Mother into one of them; Bo still being at the house in hiding from the Scientologists while she waits for Marshall who has infiltrated their compound in search of John Travolta for his next project; and Eddie believing in her near death experience in Val-d'Isère that she is now Jesus minus the crucifix. Eddie's focus changes when she learns that Paolo's parents are well known jet-setters, like the ones she was hoping to hobnob with in Val-d'Isère, Eddie willing to do anything to show them that she is one of them. The situation changes further with the arrival onto the scene of Patsy, who had been away starting a new job for Magda covering the launch of Christian Lacroix's latest line.
