Dreams
Patsy from Ab Fab I'm in a kind of factory or office. My job is to observe some strange machine. Then my mate Luis is doing the job. There seems to be a large audience watching us. Luis goes to the machine and inspects it. It seems to be manufacturing eels or herring or such in big long strips. I tell Luis to be careful as he puts his head underneath some of the machinery, but he's alright.
Scene shifts to a very verdant garden and lush mansion or palace. Patsy from Absolutely Fabulous is there poncing about. Suddenly she says, "I haven't had a girlie in ages," and then proceeds to make secret preparations to go out and pick one up. I'm the only one entrusted with this fact, but I tell someone that she's 'bi'.
Scene shifts and Patsy's talking with her female lover and showing her this pamphlet she's produced at her work. The weird thing is, she's used the production of the pamphlet, which details in bright, dayglo colours some kind of useless statistical information - which is apparently what we do at the mansion/palace - as a cover for her finding a 'girlie' (or her expenses in wining and dining her lover have been diverted from the pamphlet's production?). I'm thinking at the time this is brilliant. I'm so envious that she can do this - that she can expend all these expensive business resources for basically something meaningless in order to further her sex life, and get away with it.
Patsy's lover now becomes some business collegue who she's answerable to, and who doesn't know about her 'arrangements'. Patsy now takes the lover/business collegue through a section of the pamphlet that cheekily tells the story of 'Patsy's Seduction of a Girlie'. She passes it off as fiction - a piece of fiction (or perhaps autobiography) in a statistical analysis! And Patsy's drawn on her recent experience to tell it! At the bottom of one section of the pamphlet there's now a budget and expenses sheet, which says something like '$10,000 (and bubbly)'. It strikes me as funny, because Patsy is going to get caught out by the 'bubbly', because she and her lover were drinking it - and it's not a legitimate business expense. So the business collegue/lover realises her deceit.
Patsy does a double-take, realising her blunder, then just raises her glass of bubbly, scene shifts, and she continues kissing her lover as they drive down a freeway in an open sports car.
This one had various references. The eels and herring come from a chapter in Anne of Avonlea, which I'm reading. The statistical analysis stuff seems straight out of Love on a Branch Line, which I watched last night. And I remember reading an article (probably from TV Week) about Joanna Lumley (who plays Patsie) having a "girlie kissing scene" in some show, and she said it was quite nice, but she prefers men. So much for analytical psychoanalysis!