"Sometimes I worry I wouldn't be such a feminist if I had bigger tits" is brilliant and left me reflecting for the whole day. What a funny way to say something so profound.
I love how British humor is centered around simultaneously saying exactly what they mean because they don't give a shit what you think, and yet never say what they mean because they feel an overwhelming need to stay polite.
@@zarminaparvez basically normally the priest goes 'peace be with you' and everyone in the church goes 'and also with you' (I think) but here fleabag says 'and also with you' when a response wasn't needed so it sounds ridiculous
Haven't they changed in recent years "and also with your spirit" or smt like that? Haven't been to Mass in ages and mines not in English anyway, but heard from other bummed out Catholics 😅 the one thing trully common among all Catholics, I'd say, we simply abhor changes in the liturgy 😅 once in a hundred years is already too much 😂
Yeah, that was awesome...and she was freaked out when he noticed..I was sure that they would end up together because of the attention he paid her and chemistry they had..alas :(
Can anyone tell me why is that? I have always wanted to know this. Why he is the only one in the entire show who could tell that she is looking at the camera and why not others?
everything is awesome - Because he is the only that see’s she needs help. She caused her best friend to commit suicide, and is reminded every day of it with the hamster. Failed relationship, aloof weak father, bitch stepmother, impossibly successful sister who’s a hole husband set her up by assaulting her, business is going under. Everything is wrong in her life and she buries it so deep, and talks to the camera like an escape, like a pressure valve. The priest see’s her burying her emotions and pain under this ridiculous, funny exterior she has and can see when she fades out into herself because he is attentive and cares for her. The others are just too wrapped up in themselves. That’s my personal view of it, I am sure someone else will see it another way
@@everythingisawesome2903 I've seen some theories that posit that she has a mental illness, but I much prefer the Deadpool theory: both she and Deadpool are aware they are being observed and decide to simply have fun with it.
Purba Mukherjee - she is so trapped by her life she has become everything she hates and has just shut down...Claire just wants to break free which she finally does. Every character, every story arc...superb, even the bank manager- absolutely brilliant
@@bossrabbit yeah clearly you're on a whole other level above from all of us idiots. preference is a thing. dont state your opinion as fact free as you are to express them. it makes you look, ironically, like an idiot who cant grasp the basic concept of preferences.
@@bossrabbit nice to meet you and your opinion in the comment section of a best of fleabag video. this show must have made you furious to even come here and comment :D
Best scene was after the priest says good bye at the bus stop and a fox appears and she points and says "He went that way"....priceless. I thought the priest was delusional...very funny scene.
That scene - which was probably originally a throwaway line - was the most expensive. Phoebe assumed it'll be straight forward to film. But two foxes later, it transpired that foxes can't take direction, and CGI was used. There's an interview on YT somewhere about it.
I think it was very cool and clever way to end FLEABAG show ( series )…. it was REALLY sad and funny....priest leaving her because of the god and fox showed up and Fleabag said....HE WENT THAT WAY. I think she meant GO and scare the shit out of him because he chose GOD and not me !! Right ? My opinion.
Ivan B I did read an interesting article about the ending (it was from vulture) I feel like if I explain it i won’t do it justice. It was a very interesting read.
Fun fact: in real life, only siblings have names. I mean, how often do you actually refer to people by name? Your partner will have a nickname, your parents are generally not adressed by name, when with friends you're either adressing everyone anyway or target specific people via looking at them and when you're with loose acquantainces you don't want to mess up their names so you find ways around using them.
@@DrZaius3141 well, that's a load of bollocks. The only ones I don't address by name are my parents, but most people I know (including myself) call friends and significant others by their name. Also...if you don't know somebody's name and don't want to mess it up, the best way around that is to actually ask their name and practice using it.
Damn I always thought it was because she felt weird that he was now actually almost her husband, turns out I didn't understand what she said at all ahah
@@DrZaius3141 That's uh... not true at all. Co-workers, who you spend almost the same amount of time with as family, are all addressed by name. Your children are addressed by name. Your friends are definitely addressed by name unless you literally ONLY hang out in groups and ONLY refer to them as a singularity. You literally call every one in your life by their names EXCEPT parents.
You should have included “Get your hands off my miscarriage.” It was the perfect balance of dark comedy that this show handles so well. Sian Clifford is so underrated.
@Wren Poldark, I’m not suggesting the miscarriage itself was funny, or that it was laugh out loud comedy. But the line itself was pure black comedy, mixed with the emotional punch that came after with her “it’s mine” line. This show can be darkly comic and heartbreaking in the span of two lines.
My favorite Claire moment-- "Positive energy takes work. In the last six months, I’ve excelled. I take all the negative emotions and just bottle them and bury them and they never come out. I’ve basically never been better.”
@Leah Warrington You didn't know that Phoebe said Season 2 was the last season? She originally said Season 1 was but thankfully she changed her mind. I don't think she will for Season 3 though. Not anytime soon at least. If I recall correctly I think she said something about wanting to see how the characters were doing when she was like 50 so there is always hope for Season 3 in like 20 years.
"all good things". WAS THE last StarTrek TNG episode. Maybe she will find other roles. Some stars did. I'm happy with this. She would do OK on the bridge like a new Kate Mulgrew or what's her face Kirstie Alley. I'm sure she has it in her. 🦅
it's a funny breaking of the fourth wall moment -- aimed at the fact that the character of dad doesn't have a name/there is never a mention of his name
She didn’t accidentally tell the priest about his neck. The priest actually notices when Fleabag talks to us. It means that of all the people in Fleabag’s life, the priest really does see her and understand her
If there were an Emmy award for 'Best Emotionally Unhinged Character in a Television Series,' Sian Clifford (who portrays Fleabag's sister, Claire, brilliantly) would win the award hands down. Claire is such a deeply conflicted and hilariously neurotic train wreck that I would watch the show for her performances alone.
My impression of the scene where the stepmom forgets her soon-to-be husband's name is that he's basically another token in her life (evident in the way she introduced the others--deaf, lesbian, bisexual Syrian); only she's reduced him down so drastically to that particular supporting role that she cannot even recall his name. This show was a masterpiece; I don't genuinely think I've laughed so hard at a tv series...ever.
My favourite scene is when she’s sitting with the priest and she keeps looking at the camera, and he asks what she’s looking at but eventually gets fed up and screams 😂😭
Thank you for this video. Claire telling the old man she’s not a part of “this” is probably the funniest part of the whole series. Claire in general is the best part of this brilliant show.
I love that the step-mum''s character is so relatably but over-the-top obnoxious. I feel like everyone has a family member or colleague like that that is so obnoxious and pretentious and the step-mom just brings it to another level, with the pretentious art and the token minority friends who she reduces to that minority identity ("my syrian bisexual refugee friend", "she's a lesbian", "my friend who's deaf") to make herself sound edgy and woke lol
The priest knows when she's breaking the fourth wall because it shows that he's the only one who understands Fleabag completely. They're completely meant for each other which makes the ending that much more heartbreaking.
That scene with her and her dad was one of the most heartwarming things I’ve seen! Phoebe is a genius and deserved her 3 Emmys for her spectacular series! I will miss it!
Shiiiit, I only just found it- in particular, yeah, 2nd season. Which is better than S1, imho. It was ready to branch out, go bigger places. Whyy'd they let it die?
Watching this season was like that relationship where you’re immediately obsessed with each other and it’s like animal magnetism and you think you’re going to be together forever because he’s clearly your sole mate and then he suddenly ghosts you so you just glide through life with a pit in your stomach wondering if it really even happened at all.
When godmother is talking about her friend Daniel and she waves her hands, “Oh I just love that!” It gets me every time! I really hate her sometimes! 😂😂😂
The "hair is everything" bit, the trophy dropping and running, Claire refusing to speak...it was perfect. All of it. Sian Clifford is as extraordinary as Phoebe!
The part where she looks too good for her mothers funeral is absolutely brilliant. I crack up every single time. All other scenes is also sooo good! I write stories too and Fleabag definitely made my writing and thinking better. Phoebe Waller Bridge is a genius!
The scene where Fleabag sees a picture of Christ posing half naked and she just looks into the camera and says half afronted, half seductively, "Jesus!" 😂😂😂
I find it funny, that no-one has commented on Claire’s husband...he is so vile and unlovable, but all he wants is love, I equally liked and despised him
That's when you realise how much of a genius Phoebe is. Claire's husband was terrible, yet we saw more of him and at the end we were all conflicted when his wife left him... I still hate him, but I also felt so bad for him
@@darhug1968a He was entirely undeserving of Claire and knew it but was too deeply flawed and emotionally powerless to change that dynamic. He also knew on her announcement he'd never do nearly as well romantically ever again, fully aware his connection to her was the only thing good about his life
@@barbaraaraneda8971 I understand your point but for me there was no conflict. They were so mismatched I always felt it was just a matter of time. All she had to do was finally get mad enough and that would be the end. It might not have been as it turned out to be in the series - it could easily have been later instead. But my sense was at some point she wouldn't be able to take his selfish whiny insipidness anymore and would vamoose.
There was nothing to like about the guy. Almost all vile, unlovable people are pitiful and needy when they lose and play for sympathy. They'd turn around back to their old self in an instant as soon as they feel stronger. Good luck to you if you feel compassion for these types. They'd use it over and over.
@@lakemichigan6598 SOME PEOPLE JUST HAVE SHIT PERSONALITIES, LOOK AT JAKE!! HE IS SO FUCKING CREEPY....BUT ITS NOT HIS FAULT. THE BASSOON IS HIS CRY FOR HELP
Series 2 was SO GOOD, improvement on already great series 1- best moment for me was episode 3 as a whole, especially when she dropped the trophy lool DEAD
I loovved when she sees the fox and full on to its face says "he went that way." Fox on a mission, go on haunting priestboy! [It's a good route to him becoming Moriarty, when you think on it. *g*]
I loved the part when the banker looked after the cafe and then he said “The new guinea pig [hamster] is in with Hillary. They shared the cucumber, ok? Which was quite sweet”
rosslynstone Yes, that’s part of the joke. The banker doesn’t know the difference. He thought he gifted her a guinea pig, but it was actually a hamster. But thanks for telling us what we already know.
Can anyone tell me why is that? I have always wanted to know this. Why he is the only one in the entire show who could tell that she is looking at the camera and why not others?
Phoebe Weller -Bridge is a national treasure. Gifted beyond belief, not only is she a very talented script-writer, she is a superb physical comedian. The scene when Fleabag drops the ultra-expensive glass award is in the same league of vintage Laurel And Hardy. Her fourth wall peeks at the camera is a homage to Oliver Hardy. Phoebe is in another league. To think she is only in her early 30s........
Such a fantastic cast. I think more than 6 characters have been my favourites at one time or another between the 2 seasons, and the acting is incredible for all of it. I think Olivia Coleman’s simple “oh that’s 3 colours” backhander to Fleabag is SO good. Everyone has their own favourite moment which shows just how great the scriptwriting and acting truly is!
what I love about claire is that we know her. everyone has a claire in their life. phoebe is a genius, she doesn't have to make new characters, she gives us ones that we already know. similar to fleabag herself, we can all relate to her. doesn't matter who you are, what age you are, we're all fleabag, one way or another :)
In the UK sitcoms are written by individuals or just a couple of people and they only run for a few episodes and only a few series, compared to the US where there are teams of writers. There are pros and cons for both, the UK approach allows shows to go out on a high and not milked to death and eventually dropped when people have stopped watching.
Fun fact - Andrew Scott actually took PWB to the quacker meeting when they had a meetup and PWB pitched the character of the Hot Priest to him (which she wrote specially for Andrew). Apparently, it was empty at that point and they sat there and discussed the ideas for the show. And then she included it in the script.
I don't suppose you actually mean "Quaker," do you? Quackers are ducks; Quakers are members of the Religious Society of Friends, founded in England in the 17th century by George Fox. THAT's a "fun fact."
@@joewilson9962 Thank you for taking your time and bringing attention to my silly mistake. Not a native speaker here and English orthography does tend to be tricky at times.
Also Asif is played by Steve Ali, a Syrian refugee who lives with the comedian Deborah Frances-White. He sells silver jewellery on a website called Road to Damascus, they're really beautiful.
The irony in Anthony's line, "Hair isn't everything" when he actually works at or owns a hair salon to pay his bills while being bald is hahahaha. I don't know if Phoebe had this in mind while writing or I'm just a genius for figuring this out but whatever.
In season 1, there's no best scene than the one in the bathroom when she gets in the bathroom with a knife and Harry loses it all. My sister and I laughed so hard that my jaw was sore afterwards.
'Harry''s acting makes that scene, because it's so straight and full on horrified. That and how he keeps saying he's OK then breaking down crying again.
Just wanted to post my theory and maybe encourage some to watch again. 🦊 Imagine for a moment that we aren’t watching a show at all. Imagine that fleabag is actually a real person in real life where there is no fourth wall. 🤯 Her life is just playing out and it’s heartbreaking and sad but funny and wild. Now remember the “show” takes place in a particular timeframe, in season one it’s after the death of her best friend. Yet if this were real life the “show” actually starts prior to that with the death of her mother in season 2. 🕰 We watch this “show” and in our heads we are an audience but what if I told you we are actually fleabags mother and best friend. 🤨 It dawned on me when my own mother who was my best friend passed away. For awhile it almost felt like she was there at times watching unable to speak but fully interactive in her own way. 🤕 Now I know this theory requires evidence but I come prepared... 🤗 First off the therapist scene: I initially like everyone else thought she was talking to us I mean she even said “they are always there”👻 Yet it dawned on me this entire “show” has never been about us so why now of all moments does she take the time to include us. I believe this is a misdirect. ➡️↗️⬅️ Fleabag is a master at misdirection even down to the core of the show she doesn’t want us to know who we truly are to her as the audience member. (Her mother and best friend)💭 The second clue is the transference of love. The timeframe when her mother appears from the other side is at the funeral and during this time fleabag does no fourth wall breaks she is unaware of the presence of her mother but her mother is watching. She does this right up until the moment that she knows that the love fleabag has for her will be with her best friend. This allows her to leave and gives us no episodes of a “show” the entire timeframe in between until the passing of her best friend. The loss of her best friend then causes the “show” to resume with her watching with fleabags mother from the other side. ♥️ Smaller clues that add up, ➕⬆️ The priest and the paintings Whether it’s subtle or not the church scenes shows that there’s other worldly things at play. If paintings can fall o so conveniently at the mention of not believing then why can’t people see from the other side. 🧐 Lastly the simplest reason is comfort and no name. 🌐 Fleabag is oddly comfortable with us almost like “WE” are her best friends, she includes us like we have been together for years. “We” don’t need her name because “we” already know it and “we” already know her. She farts in elevators and has us watch her have sex. She bears her soul but never feels ashamed with us. It’s because it’s not us, it’s them. It’s a feeling that only a mother and a best friend could give. She never opens up to anyone the entire “show” expect people that are able to see her true self and not judge for example like the banker outside the retreat. He got her to open up and even connected deeper when he gave her the loan for the cafe. Yet there’s only one person who could see her mother and best friend. Even if only for a glimpse and it just so happens that it’s the priest. Coincidence? 🤔 Remember when she walked away she broke the fourth wall not because she didn’t have the priest anymore but because she knew that in order to live and love in her life she had to finally say goodbye. Her having the statue to remember her mother and the shop to remember her best friend she could let them move on she said in the beginning of the season that this is a love story and we thought it was a love story about the priest but remember what her best friend said after her mom passed away. She said “she had to find a place to put the love she had for her mother” and she finally did . Like the therapist said she knew what she had to do... she had to love herself. She’s saying bye to her mom and best friend because she finally loves herself and I’m so happy for her. At least that’s my theory please watch again with this in mind and let me know what you guys think. 👋🏽 -- piglet 🐷 Thank you so much for reading and hope the best to you all
"Sometimes I worry I wouldn't be such a feminist if I had bigger tits" is brilliant and left me reflecting for the whole day. What a funny way to say something so profound.
Well I have big tits and I sometimes think that life would be MUCH easier if I were a man. ☺
How true
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It’s a line of genius.
"Hair. Is. Everything." LoL.
I love how British humor is centered around simultaneously saying exactly what they mean because they don't give a shit what you think, and yet never say what they mean because they feel an overwhelming need to stay polite.
That just about sums a lot of us up:)
Nut shell 👌
Very similar to us Southerners here in the US.
@@MR-cp2zp Well bless your sweet little heart.
economicist2011 middle class British humour. Working class humour is not polite.
"Oh what the hell? You look incredible."
I love how upset Claire is about that.
I love Boo's indignation in that scene.
Fleabag: "I'm not wearing any makeup!"
Boo: "WhAt?! WhAt HaS hApPeNeD?"
and fleabag saying "you look perfect"😭
My favourite line ever it’s just so good 😭😭😭
THE DELIVERY IS FLAWLESS
Its the "Oh, God!" at the end that gets me, and her instantaneous understanding of the crisis of looking too good.
"please be seated" "and also with you"
What does it mean?
@@zarminaparvez basically normally the priest goes 'peace be with you' and everyone in the church goes 'and also with you' (I think) but here fleabag says 'and also with you' when a response wasn't needed so it sounds ridiculous
Gotta use that somewhere LOL
Haven't they changed in recent years "and also with your spirit" or smt like that? Haven't been to Mass in ages and mines not in English anyway, but heard from other bummed out Catholics 😅 the one thing trully common among all Catholics, I'd say, we simply abhor changes in the liturgy 😅 once in a hundred years is already too much 😂
@@chrissiek8706 I mean idk I'm basing this off the few times I went to church as a child with my primary school. Could be American who knows
I love how Hot Priest notices our girl even when she talks to us: her exit into the fourth wall is only noticed by him.
Yeah, that was awesome...and she was freaked out when he noticed..I was sure that they would end up together because of the attention he paid her and chemistry they had..alas :(
Can anyone tell me why is that? I have always wanted to know this. Why he is the only one in the entire show who could tell that she is looking at the camera and why not others?
everything is awesome - Because he is the only that see’s she needs help. She caused her best friend to commit suicide, and is reminded every day of it with the hamster. Failed relationship, aloof weak father, bitch stepmother, impossibly successful sister who’s a hole husband set her up by assaulting her, business is going under. Everything is wrong in her life and she buries it so deep, and talks to the camera like an escape, like a pressure valve. The priest see’s her burying her emotions and pain under this ridiculous, funny exterior she has and can see when she fades out into herself because he is attentive and cares for her. The others are just too wrapped up in themselves. That’s my personal view of it, I am sure someone else will see it another way
@@velocitymg I think you got it in one
@@everythingisawesome2903 I've seen some theories that posit that she has a mental illness, but I much prefer the Deadpool theory: both she and Deadpool are aware they are being observed and decide to simply have fun with it.
Clair as a character is so underrated she’s hilarious
1.1K likes and not a single comment?
Not underrated by me I promise
@@tacbleded202 Because we're not part of this! We shouldn't have to... no, sorry, no!
Shes so funny ... Hahahahaha
She's relatable! Aside from the rich part
I look like a pencil.
Claire is my favorite
😂😂🤣🤣
Best ! 😂😂😭
OMG SAME FUCK
Claire is hilarious...I know so many people like her
I LOVE CLAIRE. SHE IS SO SERIOUS IT'S HILARIOUS!!
She’s literally me I cannot
Purba Mukherjee - she is so trapped by her life she has become everything she hates and has just shut down...Claire just wants to break free which she finally does. Every character, every story arc...superb, even the bank manager- absolutely brilliant
velocitymg I didn’t even realize that the bank manager had a character arc I’m screaming
LPempty - oh shit !! I sincerely hope I didn’t spoil anything....
velocitymg hahahahaha nah you’re good I watched this show like 4 times but never noticed even the smallest character is super well written
Phoebe Waller bridge is a genius
Yes, she must be a genius to get this trainwreck of a show commissioned and praised by idiots around the world.
@@bossrabbit yeah clearly you're on a whole other level above from all of us idiots. preference is a thing. dont state your opinion as fact free as you are to express them. it makes you look, ironically, like an idiot who cant grasp the basic concept of preferences.
@@bossrabbit nice to meet you and your opinion in the comment section of a best of fleabag video. this show must have made you furious to even come here and comment :D
@@bossrabbit Incel...
@@bossrabbit As your so accomplished , can you let us know what award winning show you have written and performed in?
Best scene was after the priest says good bye at the bus stop and a fox appears and she points and says "He went that way"....priceless. I thought the priest was delusional...very funny scene.
Raephaele Masirnille - I must have been too emotional...I completely missed that
That scene - which was probably originally a throwaway line - was the most expensive. Phoebe assumed it'll be straight forward to film. But two foxes later, it transpired that foxes can't take direction, and CGI was used. There's an interview on YT somewhere about it.
Joseph Coen will have to find it...thank you
I think it was very cool and clever way to end FLEABAG show ( series )…. it was REALLY sad and funny....priest leaving her because of the god and fox showed up and Fleabag said....HE WENT THAT WAY. I think she meant GO and scare the shit out of him because he chose GOD and not me !! Right ? My opinion.
Ivan B I did read an interesting article about the ending (it was from vulture) I feel like if I explain it i won’t do it justice. It was a very interesting read.
"This is-- God, how extraordinary, I always call you 'darling'!" 5:03 meta-humour on the fact that many of the characters don't have names.
I didn't realise that most characters didn't have names until I saw it in all these yt videos after
Fun fact: in real life, only siblings have names.
I mean, how often do you actually refer to people by name? Your partner will have a nickname, your parents are generally not adressed by name, when with friends you're either adressing everyone anyway or target specific people via looking at them and when you're with loose acquantainces you don't want to mess up their names so you find ways around using them.
@@DrZaius3141 well, that's a load of bollocks. The only ones I don't address by name are my parents, but most people I know (including myself) call friends and significant others by their name. Also...if you don't know somebody's name and don't want to mess it up, the best way around that is to actually ask their name and practice using it.
Damn I always thought it was because she felt weird that he was now actually almost her husband, turns out I didn't understand what she said at all ahah
@@DrZaius3141 That's uh... not true at all. Co-workers, who you spend almost the same amount of time with as family, are all addressed by name. Your children are addressed by name. Your friends are definitely addressed by name unless you literally ONLY hang out in groups and ONLY refer to them as a singularity. You literally call every one in your life by their names EXCEPT parents.
The way Olivia Colman says "C*NT" tore me up 😂
I've never laughed so hard in my life😂😂😂 I'm rewatching it every few days and sometimes try to say it in the same tone when I'm angry at someone 😂😂😂
That scene makes me laugh so hard each time and I rewind it each time I watch it LMAO!!!
You should have included “Get your hands off my miscarriage.” It was the perfect balance of dark comedy that this show handles so well. Sian Clifford is so underrated.
David Sinnott I completely agree, sian clifford is immense and that scene is incredible
I agree. 20 times watched 1 episode and 20 times a tear appeared on this moment
Yes! ;)
Whoooaa I have to admit I didn't find that funny at all, just heartbreaking.
@Wren Poldark, I’m not suggesting the miscarriage itself was funny, or that it was laugh out loud comedy. But the line itself was pure black comedy, mixed with the emotional punch that came after with her “it’s mine” line. This show can be darkly comic and heartbreaking in the span of two lines.
I don’t even know how to describe this humor
LPempty 🇬🇧 Quintessentially British
British™
English 😊
It’s like adult Miranda. It’s so comforting , I’m a very lonely person but I don’t feel lonely watching this idk
It's lovely and funny
My favorite Claire moment-- "Positive energy takes work. In the last six months, I’ve excelled. I take all the negative emotions and just bottle them and bury them and they never come out. I’ve basically never been better.”
"Hello"
"No! I'm not - this isn't - I'm not part of this. I shouldn't have to - I don't want to tell you that, no, sorry. No."
So relatable hahaja
Absolute favourite scene
BobbyG Yessssss the best part 😂😂
I'm like this in Brazil
I love that part she’s so funny
This show will be so missed.
I'm happy it swept the Emmys though.
@Leah Warrington You didn't know that Phoebe said Season 2 was the last season?
She originally said Season 1 was but thankfully she changed her mind.
I don't think she will for Season 3 though. Not anytime soon at least.
If I recall correctly I think she said something about wanting to see how the characters were doing when she was like 50 so there is always hope for Season 3 in like 20 years.
"all good things". WAS THE last StarTrek TNG episode. Maybe she will find other roles. Some stars did. I'm happy with this. She would do OK on the bridge like a new Kate Mulgrew or what's her face Kirstie Alley. I'm sure she has it in her. 🦅
When the stepmom forgot her husbands name I LOOOOSSSTTTT ITTTTTTTT
I don't know either... They always call him darling or Dad
Peridot Facet-2F5L Cut-5XG it’s on purpose, for subtext.
The question is... did she even know it in the first place?
@@katiewest5520 dude wtf
it's a funny breaking of the fourth wall moment -- aimed at the fact that the character of dad doesn't have a name/there is never a mention of his name
you missed out the bit where she accidentally told the priest he had a beautiful neck when she was supposed to say it to us😭😭 it took me out
abbie ugh I’m so annoyed I forgot that😂
She didn’t accidentally tell the priest about his neck. The priest actually notices when Fleabag talks to us. It means that of all the people in Fleabag’s life, the priest really does see her and understand her
awesomesauceusername play that bit again and focus on where fleabag is looking when she utters those words
awesomesauceusername As another comment said, it was actually Fleabag that mixed up talking to us and the Priest.
@@awesomesauceusername Wrong. She wasn't talking to us. She was looking at him.
"No matter what I do with my hair, it just keeps falling in this really chic way" (pat, point)
I can't articulate why this makes me laugh out loud.
It's not just her saying it. It's how she says it. Her tone. Her movement and pointing to it. The whole scene is perfection.
And Claire's reaction omg
It's how she points her finger at it that cracks me up.
And boo saying *wot, wot has happened?!*
If there were an Emmy award for 'Best Emotionally Unhinged Character in a Television Series,' Sian Clifford (who portrays Fleabag's sister, Claire, brilliantly) would win the award hands down. Claire is such a deeply conflicted and hilariously neurotic train wreck that I would watch the show for her performances alone.
S Rowe you’re so right, Sian Clifford is so insanely talented
I would give anything for a Claire show 😭😭😭😭😭
Claire is easily the best character
Okay but the guy she checks out when she's running is really handsome damn
Nah, I am more into Asif, the bisexual Syrian refugee
Gradiator definitely
Well yeah that's the point.
My vote also goes to Asif the bisexual Syrian refugee. We're all in with a chance.
@@TomRipley7350 lol
My impression of the scene where the stepmom forgets her soon-to-be husband's name is that he's basically another token in her life (evident in the way she introduced the others--deaf, lesbian, bisexual Syrian); only she's reduced him down so drastically to that particular supporting role that she cannot even recall his name. This show was a masterpiece; I don't genuinely think I've laughed so hard at a tv series...ever.
😂😂so true
"I look like a pencil" that line made me laugh for about 5 mins. My mum thought I had gone mad.
Me too. Hate that nobody else found it funny when I showed it to my friends. I was so pissed.
3:46 I think even Phoebe Waller-Bridge herself was surprised about how well Olivia Colman managed to say that while shooting
"This is going to be *spectacular*".
Claire reacting to a stranger trying to engage in friendly conversation with her is SUCH a mood.
".. Tooting"
"my priest is here, and he really needs some guidance" 😂
-Putting pine nuts on your salad doesnt make you a grown-up
-FUCKINDOES
Nothing beats:
"You shat... in a SINK"
Francesca Lever such an UNDERRATED line😂
@@imogenedits it's the way she says it;)
Followed by "When you do something better!"
My favourite scene is when she’s sitting with the priest and she keeps looking at the camera, and he asks what she’s looking at but eventually gets fed up and screams 😂😭
My favourite moments are basically every single moment involving Claire
“You look well, where have you been?”
“Boots”
I laughed so hard at this line. So unexpected 😂
z 123 ok help me out because I’ve never gotten that...?
Boots is a pharmacy/drug store in the UK...like CVS or Walgreens@@allisonjones357
the most british of jokes :)
Thank you for explaining that. I never understood. I thought she changed her restaurant's name to Boo's
@@bearcatty ooooooooooo! i thought it was a city or something in the uk
Thank you for this video. Claire telling the old man she’s not a part of “this” is probably the funniest part of the whole series. Claire in general is the best part of this brilliant show.
Armando León I’m glad you like it! Claire is definitely one of the best characters!
What does that imply?
Tooting
I love that the step-mum''s character is so relatably but over-the-top obnoxious. I feel like everyone has a family member or colleague like that that is so obnoxious and pretentious and the step-mom just brings it to another level, with the pretentious art and the token minority friends who she reduces to that minority identity ("my syrian bisexual refugee friend", "she's a lesbian", "my friend who's deaf") to make herself sound edgy and woke lol
3:45 Olivia thought she was still on the set of The Favourite.
haha so true
OMG ACCURATE
oh my god. is that the same actress. that film was fantastic!!
The priest knows when she's breaking the fourth wall because it shows that he's the only one who understands Fleabag completely. They're completely meant for each other which makes the ending that much more heartbreaking.
I agree!
why is the ending heartbreaking? i felt it was just open for interpretation
It's actually 3 colours
shantanu panda it’s the way she delivers that line😂
That scene with her and her dad was one of the most heartwarming things I’ve seen! Phoebe is a genius and deserved her 3 Emmys for her spectacular series! I will miss it!
Gutted this is over now miss fleabag and Claire.
Shiiiit, I only just found it- in particular, yeah, 2nd season. Which is better than S1, imho. It was ready to branch out, go bigger places. Whyy'd they let it die?
I loved the first season, but it’s so rare to find a second season that is absolutely stunning, remarkable, even better than the first.
my favorite part will always be after fleabag tells Claire she's seeing someone, a priest, and Claire's just silent resignation.
Watching this season was like that relationship where you’re immediately obsessed with each other and it’s like animal magnetism and you think you’re going to be together forever because he’s clearly your sole mate and then he suddenly ghosts you so you just glide through life with a pit in your stomach wondering if it really even happened at all.
NotgreatBOB! That is an excellent description!
Stop, so depressing 😭😂
I hate and love everything you just said ...
Gosh you put it in words
'sole' mates usually dont last. maybe next time try a soulmate.
When godmother is talking about her friend Daniel and she waves her hands, “Oh I just love that!” It gets me every time! I really hate her sometimes! 😂😂😂
The "hair is everything" bit, the trophy dropping and running, Claire refusing to speak...it was perfect. All of it. Sian Clifford is as extraordinary as Phoebe!
The part where she looks too good for her mothers funeral is absolutely brilliant. I crack up every single time. All other scenes is also sooo good! I write stories too and Fleabag definitely made my writing and thinking better. Phoebe Waller Bridge is a genius!
The scene where Fleabag sees a picture of Christ posing half naked and she just looks into the camera and says half afronted, half seductively, "Jesus!" 😂😂😂
I find it funny, that no-one has commented on Claire’s husband...he is so vile and unlovable, but all he wants is love, I equally liked and despised him
That's when you realise how much of a genius Phoebe is. Claire's husband was terrible, yet we saw more of him and at the end we were all conflicted when his wife left him... I still hate him, but I also felt so bad for him
@@darhug1968a He was entirely undeserving of Claire and knew it but was too deeply flawed and emotionally powerless to change that dynamic. He also knew on her announcement he'd never do nearly as well romantically ever again, fully aware his connection to her was the only thing good about his life
@@barbaraaraneda8971 I understand your point but for me there was no conflict. They were so mismatched I always felt it was just a matter of time. All she had to do was finally get mad enough and that would be the end. It might not have been as it turned out to be in the series - it could easily have been later instead. But my sense was at some point she wouldn't be able to take his selfish whiny insipidness anymore and would vamoose.
There was nothing to like about the guy. Almost all vile, unlovable people are pitiful and needy when they lose and play for sympathy. They'd turn around back to their old self in an instant as soon as they feel stronger. Good luck to you if you feel compassion for these types. They'd use it over and over.
@@lakemichigan6598 SOME PEOPLE JUST HAVE SHIT PERSONALITIES, LOOK AT JAKE!! HE IS SO FUCKING CREEPY....BUT ITS NOT HIS FAULT. THE BASSOON IS HIS CRY FOR HELP
The pencil bit was the funniest part. Love Claire so much
The whole season 2 are the best bits
Series 2 was SO GOOD, improvement on already great series 1- best moment for me was episode 3 as a whole, especially when she dropped the trophy lool DEAD
I actually cried laughing when this happened, it is my most favourite scene in the entire 2 seasons.
The timing is perfection "ooh that's he-".
I saw a fox today and it bought back fleabag feels and i started sobbing
H Clark ugh that is a mood, i miss the show so much
@@imogenedits me too! My cinema is showing the theatre show live so I'm going to that next month!!
Ah wow! Have fun! I saw it at the cinema last week and it was incredible! You’re going to love it!
@@imogenedits i cant wait!!!
I loovved when she sees the fox and full on to its face says "he went that way." Fox on a mission, go on haunting priestboy! [It's a good route to him becoming Moriarty, when you think on it. *g*]
This show is 100% the best thing to happen in tv. The dialogue, the characters and the cast are amazing I can’t get enough of this show
"My priest is here. And he really needs some guidance."
Can't get over this line. :D :D
I loved the part when the banker looked after the cafe and then he said “The new guinea pig [hamster] is in with Hillary. They shared the cucumber, ok? Which was quite sweet”
A guines pig is 3 times bigger than a hamster
rosslynstone Yes, that’s part of the joke. The banker doesn’t know the difference. He thought he gifted her a guinea pig, but it was actually a hamster. But thanks for telling us what we already know.
Good video, but not enough hot priest moments! (Some of my favs is when he calls her out for talking to the camera)
Can anyone tell me why is that? I have always wanted to know this. Why he is the only one in the entire show who could tell that she is looking at the camera and why not others?
@@everythingisawesome2903 it's because he truly knows her and notices her
@@everythingisawesome2903 Because it was in the script.
everything is awesome I think it’s to symbolize that he sees her for who she truly is.
everything is awesome because he has superpowers
"We're not friends. We're sisters!"
Should be lesbians funnier
2:24 Her expression...I died.
-what's your favorite period film?
- Carrie.
🤣🤣
1:43. This joke brought to you by a multiple Emmy Award winning actress and writer.
Phoebe Weller -Bridge is a national treasure.
Gifted beyond belief, not only is she a very talented script-writer, she is a superb
physical comedian. The scene when Fleabag drops the ultra-expensive glass award
is in the same league of vintage Laurel And Hardy. Her fourth wall peeks at the
camera is a homage to Oliver Hardy.
Phoebe is in another league. To think she is only in her early 30s........
Such a fantastic cast. I think more than 6 characters have been my favourites at one time or another between the 2 seasons, and the acting is incredible for all of it. I think Olivia Coleman’s simple “oh that’s 3 colours” backhander to Fleabag is SO good. Everyone has their own favourite moment which shows just how great the scriptwriting and acting truly is!
2:18 seeing a hot guy while you're in a hurry 😂
« I look like a pencil » always makes my day. 😄😄
0:55 I absolutely love this look of her's at the camera. It's like her saying "here we go again" with just one look
God I laughed so hard when she dropped the prize in Claire's office and also her first reaction Claire's tragic haircut was golden
0:40 when someone tries to communicate with me
God the way Clair says no is perfect
“I look like a pencil” - gets me every time 😂
her reaction shot after her godmother says 'I always call you darling!' is legendary
"Hello." "NO."
Whenever strangers try and make conversation with me lmao
"Please be seated."
"And also with you." 😌
I was watching this with headphones in, and I gasped SO loudly when she dropped the glass award.
what I love about claire is that we know her. everyone has a claire in their life. phoebe is a genius, she doesn't have to make new characters, she gives us ones that we already know. similar to fleabag herself, we can all relate to her. doesn't matter who you are, what age you are, we're all fleabag, one way or another :)
All the characters are PHENOMENAL, but ive always loved her sister especially😂😂😂
I feel like i’m 80% Claire and 20% Fleabag. They way she recoils when the man starts talking to her is absolutely me
I love it when they be like
"how's the ......?"
"it's good. it's really good. it's really really good"
"sounds like it's really good"
"it is"
Part of me wants a season 3, but I know it could never live up to the perfection of season 2.
antonzap I agree, I think the ending was perfect
Believe me it's PWB we're talking about....she's a genius...she can outdo anything.....
rash I mean she’s said she wants to revisit fleabag when she’s 50! Which would be very interesting to see
In the UK sitcoms are written by individuals or just a couple of people and they only run for a few episodes and only a few series, compared to the US where there are teams of writers. There are pros and cons for both, the UK approach allows shows to go out on a high and not milked to death and eventually dropped when people have stopped watching.
1:35 I love his face as he takes this in
Fun fact - Andrew Scott actually took PWB to the quacker meeting when they had a meetup and PWB pitched the character of the Hot Priest to him (which she wrote specially for Andrew). Apparently, it was empty at that point and they sat there and discussed the ideas for the show. And then she included it in the script.
I don't suppose you actually mean "Quaker," do you? Quackers are ducks; Quakers are members of the Religious Society of Friends, founded in England in the 17th century by George Fox. THAT's a "fun fact."
@@joewilson9962 Thank you for taking your time and bringing attention to my silly mistake. Not a native speaker here and English orthography does tend to be tricky at times.
@@Aloizza For a non-native English speaker you do quite well. It is said to be one of the most difficult to master.
idk why but the stepmom not knowing the name of the guy she's about to marry is literally the funniest thing i've ever seen
2:09 My favourite bit from that whole season
Damn Asif is fine.
Also Asif is played by Steve Ali, a Syrian refugee who lives with the comedian Deborah Frances-White. He sells silver jewellery on a website called Road to Damascus, they're really beautiful.
and bisexual 😍😍
He sure is 😍
too fine
Hands down, the best sitcom ever.
The irony in Anthony's line, "Hair isn't everything" when he actually works at or owns a hair salon to pay his bills while being bald is hahahaha.
I don't know if Phoebe had this in mind while writing or I'm just a genius for figuring this out but whatever.
In season 1, there's no best scene than the one in the bathroom when she gets in the bathroom with a knife and Harry loses it all. My sister and I laughed so hard that my jaw was sore afterwards.
'Harry''s acting makes that scene, because it's so straight and full on horrified. That and how he keeps saying he's OK then breaking down crying again.
“No matter what I do with my hair, it just keeps falling in this really chic way!” I love this fucking series so much!
“ You look well, where have you been?”
“ Boots, it’s lovely there this time of the year.”
Then she looks at the camera. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I need season 3 seriously.
this show influenced me in such a bad way. Anyways where can I get myself a hot priest?
Right?
Mangoo - ever seen a hot priest in real life - didn’t think so 🤭
@@velocitymg Fact. Still, going into churches after fleabag has been an adventure
Mangoo - lucky you...if you come across a hot female priest / priestess...might tempt me back into the fold😇
@@velocitymg Yeahhh I think we'll have to wait a long time for female priests... yay churches...! ugh.
I love psychotherapist scene! The reaction, the intro. Briliant 😂
Bro that haircut on Claire was horrifying, when I first saw the face shot I legit YELLED
I don't know why the 'And Also with You' line makes me laugh so much!
“My priest is here and he really needs some guidance.”
The full-body reaction I had when she dropped the glass trophy
I'm convinced I was supposed to be born and bred in England. This is my brand of humor to a T.
Fleabag Series 2 best bits is just the entirety of series 2.
Just wanted to post my theory and maybe encourage some to watch again. 🦊
Imagine for a moment that we aren’t watching a show at all. Imagine that fleabag is actually a real person in real life where there is no fourth wall. 🤯
Her life is just playing out and it’s heartbreaking and sad but funny and wild. Now remember the “show” takes place in a particular timeframe, in season one it’s after the death of her best friend. Yet if this were real life the “show” actually starts prior to that with the death of her mother in season 2. 🕰
We watch this “show” and in our heads we are an audience but what if I told you we are actually fleabags mother and best friend. 🤨
It dawned on me when my own mother who was my best friend passed away. For awhile it almost felt like she was there at times watching unable to speak but fully interactive in her own way. 🤕
Now I know this theory requires evidence but I come prepared...
🤗
First off the therapist scene:
I initially like everyone else thought she was talking to us I mean she even said “they are always there”👻
Yet it dawned on me this entire “show” has never been about us so why now of all moments does she take the time to include us. I believe this is a misdirect. ➡️↗️⬅️
Fleabag is a master at misdirection even down to the core of the show she doesn’t want us to know who we truly are to her as the audience member. (Her mother and best friend)💭
The second clue is the transference of love. The timeframe when her mother appears from the other side is at the funeral and during this time fleabag does no fourth wall breaks she is unaware of the presence of her mother but her mother is watching. She does this right up until the moment that she knows that the love fleabag has for her will be with her best friend. This allows her to leave and gives us no episodes of a “show” the entire timeframe in between until the passing of her best friend. The loss of her best friend then causes the “show” to resume with her watching with fleabags mother from the other side. ♥️
Smaller clues that add up,
➕⬆️
The priest and the paintings
Whether it’s subtle or not the church scenes shows that there’s other worldly things at play. If paintings can fall o so conveniently at the mention of not believing then why can’t people see from the other side. 🧐
Lastly the simplest reason is comfort and no name. 🌐
Fleabag is oddly comfortable with us almost like “WE” are her best friends, she includes us like we have been together for years. “We” don’t need her name because “we” already know it and “we” already know her. She farts in elevators and has us watch her have sex. She bears her soul but never feels ashamed with us. It’s because it’s not us, it’s them. It’s a feeling that only a mother and a best friend could give. She never opens up to anyone the entire “show” expect people that are able to see her true self and not judge for example like the banker outside the retreat. He got her to open up and even connected deeper when he gave her the loan for the cafe. Yet there’s only one person who could see her mother and best friend. Even if only for a glimpse and it just so happens that it’s the priest. Coincidence? 🤔
Remember when she walked away she broke the fourth wall not because she didn’t have the priest anymore but because she knew that in order to live and love in her life she had to finally say goodbye. Her having the statue to remember her mother and the shop to remember her best friend she could let them move on she said in the beginning of the season that this is a love story and we thought it was a love story about the priest but remember what her best friend said after her mom passed away. She said “she had to find a place to put the love she had for her mother” and she finally did . Like the therapist said she knew what she had to do... she had to love herself. She’s saying bye to her mom and best friend because she finally loves herself and I’m so happy for her.
At least that’s my theory please watch again with this in mind and let me know what you guys think.
👋🏽 -- piglet 🐷
Thank you so much for reading and hope the best to you all
IAMWALDOBLACK wow this is so great!!
I rewatched 1:28 so many times 😭 the internal struggle & lack of impulse control had me rolling
I can't believe that I have only just started watching this programme it is the funniest thing I have watched in the last 5 maybe even 10 years