Absolutely Fabulous: Series 3

Edina agrees to have the kitchen redecorated in order to placate Saffron, but the plans are derailed when Edina and Patsy take a massive detour during a shopping trip.

Edina's New Year's Eve plans are ruined by the sudden arrival of Patsy's acid-tongued sister Jackie.

Eddie is lamenting the outdated "size" of her bedroom, what she really wanting being a walk-in wardrobe.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.

After losing an award at a PR event, Edina fights to regain her standing in the industry, particularly in order to best her rival, Claudia Bing.

Edina's loneliness after Saffron moves out of the family home to attend university is exacerbated when Patsy drops a bombshell.

Apart for the first time in years, Edina and Patsy find adjusting to their new lives difficult.

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.

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.