# Hey! Why didn't I hear about this AbFab New York special? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 9, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-why-didnt-i-hear-about-this-abfab-new-york-special/153810 "2003-02-09T02:32:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-why-didnt-i-hear-about-this-abfab-new-york-special/153810/1 "2003-02-09T02:32:43Z")
Hey, this one sure snuck by me. I didn’t hear squat about a new AbFab special, the last twenty minutes of which I just caught on the Comedy Channel. Edina and Patsy go to New York to go to fashion shows, and meet up with the elusive Serge. I won’t spoil it for anyone, but I will point out that it was completely hysterically funny, at least the twenty minutes that I saw. It was an hour and a half long and I missed most of it! ::sulking:: Somebody should have tipped me off. **Eve** , had you heard about this? ---
**Author:** ![Witch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Witch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Witch)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-why-didnt-i-hear-about-this-abfab-new-york-special/153810/2 "2003-02-09T02:42:38Z")
The gods shone down upon me and not only did I hear about it 10 minutes before it came on…I had a blank tape!!! Sorry. Don’t mean to gloat. ---
**Author:** ![3waygeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e95f7d/32.png) [@3waygeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3waygeek)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-why-didnt-i-hear-about-this-abfab-new-york-special/153810/3 "2003-02-09T02:55:20Z")
Don’t worry, **pugluvr** ; CC will undoubtedly run it again and again and again… ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-why-didnt-i-hear-about-this-abfab-new-york-special/153810/4 "2003-02-09T03:16:09Z")
It was very funny, and it’s being re-run at 1:30 AM Chicago time… check your Comedy Central listings. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-why-didnt-i-hear-about-this-abfab-new-york-special/153810/5 "2003-02-09T04:25:42Z")
If you had read The Advocate online, you would have known. They have a [review](http://www.advocate.com/html/stories/882/882_abfab.asp) here, but be warned, they didn’t like it. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-why-didnt-i-hear-about-this-abfab-new-york-special/153810/6 "2003-02-09T07:39:32Z")
God damn this memory of mine! Couldn’t keep in it for one day the fact that AbFab was tonight! Argh! ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-why-didnt-i-hear-about-this-abfab-new-york-special/153810/7 "2003-02-10T19:15:14Z")
I have to agree with that Advocate review for the most part. Almost the entire show felt pathetically out-of-date. If you remember the original series was designed entirely to spoof the in-the-minute hipness of the fashion world, every passe reference just hurt more and more. The one great scene was with Whoopi Goldberg, in which Eddy and Patsy pretend to be a bickering gay couple. That worked and was funny. The rest… BTW, The credits run by so fast you can’t read them. Fortunately, I had it on tape and hit the slow button. Jane Horrocks plays both Bubbles _and_ Lola. Had no idea at all. Also, do you realize that Jennifer Saunders is closer in age to Julia Sawalha than to Joanna Lumley?