What Does FAB Mean? | The famous Thunderbirds acronym decoded!

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  • @mikethecabbie8476
    @mikethecabbie8476 3 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    I drove Sylvia Anderson many times in her final years, and we often talked about Thunderbirds ( which had a HUGE impact on my childhood!). The acronym, she said, meant nothing; but sounded good, and made for a talking point...! One of the few things I miss about my life a a taxi driver was talking to her; she was an absolute joy of a passenger. R.I.P. Lady Penelope...

    • @Elwaves2925
      @Elwaves2925 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Well, she was definitely right about it being a talking point. This video is proof of that.

    • @mikethecabbie8476
      @mikethecabbie8476 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@kaferere Yes, milady ...

    • @Elwaves2925
      @Elwaves2925 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@kaferere Damn you. Now I'm annoyed that I didn't think of that. Nice one. ;-)

    • @daveroche6522
      @daveroche6522 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wow - don't suppose you ever got Lamont Cranston in the cab?

    • @mikethecabbie8476
      @mikethecabbie8476 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@daveroche6522 No.

  • @korky7775
    @korky7775 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Gerry and Sylvia Anderson were decades ahead of the times..So many kids watched these shows , generation after generation and still do to this very day...God Bless them both...

    • @mvnorsel6354
      @mvnorsel6354 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Who as a 7 year old didn't fancy Tintin?

    • @korky7775
      @korky7775 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mvnorsel6354 Angel interceptres were my fancy

  • @stevesrover
    @stevesrover 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Actually, what’s quite nice about this video is seeing all the old shows again. Anderson created a lot of good telly over the years.

  • @occamsrayzor
    @occamsrayzor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    As a ten year old Cockney East End kid, I thought it meant Funderbirds Are Brilliant.

    • @philoshaughnessy906
      @philoshaughnessy906 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's it! It's gotta be that one.

    • @JeffJolly1
      @JeffJolly1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      😂, I just saw this after I'd written something very similar 👍

    • @craigmorgan8493
      @craigmorgan8493 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🤣 Good one

    • @koont666
      @koont666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Even in West lundan we fought that 😜

    • @bugler75
      @bugler75 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Brilliant! 😂😂😂

  • @peterward2275
    @peterward2275 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    If Gerry Anderson himself says it meant nothing other than just to be down with the kids on hip words of the day, that's good enough for me.

  • @yozzer61
    @yozzer61 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Fearless and Brave. I was a massive van of all these shows and I think as a kid I maybe made that up myself and somehow always that it was true and what it stood for. These show without question made a big impact in my upbringing. They will live on in my lifetime with much love

  • @MalcolmoftheNorth
    @MalcolmoftheNorth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I have to laugh. Have a friend that says "F***ing Awesome Baby" all the time. Fits well enough.

    • @xray86delta
      @xray86delta 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      😸

    • @warren4110
      @warren4110 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That sounds more like Austen Powers!!

    • @zer0tzer0
      @zer0tzer0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That must have been a Team America saying.

  • @iandeeley9033
    @iandeeley9033 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    F.A.B: Fun And Brilliant! Well done Chris Dale!

  • @TheScreamFace
    @TheScreamFace 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    According to the entire British Army it stands for 'Fucking ABout', which is a minimum of ten minutes added to any official time estimate to allow for the inevitable pear-shaped activities...

    • @bugler75
      @bugler75 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Except in the Royal Irish Regiment we’re it’s short for our regimental motto, Faugh a Ballagh! Otherwise the Fucking ABout comes naturally 😂😂😂
      FAB Bro 😎

  • @perfectharvestmlpstudios9152
    @perfectharvestmlpstudios9152 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I remember having this discussion with my parents years ago, and we thought it meant “Father And Brothers”.

  • @nicksmith3245
    @nicksmith3245 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    My dad told me it was "Fast as buggery!" and he was a teacher so he must be right!

    • @trainlover16
      @trainlover16 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @AgentofLADON
      @AgentofLADON 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My Grandfather made the same joke. Wonder if they knew each other. Still hilarious, we should pass it on when we introduce Thunderbirds to a new generation.

    • @pughpughbarneymcgrew4221
      @pughpughbarneymcgrew4221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's not fast if done properly 😉

    • @nicksmith3245
      @nicksmith3245 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pughpughbarneymcgrew4221 😅😅😅😅😅

  • @arguspanoptes9510
    @arguspanoptes9510 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Formidable Anderson Broadcast

  • @The2ndFox
    @The2ndFox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Here’s one I thought of a while ago: Father And Boys!
    Many years ago, I saw an interview with Gerry Anderson, so I knew that wasn’t it, but it was fun thinking of something.

  • @reynard61
    @reynard61 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "This is Thunderbird 2. I've got the equipment you requested, Scott."
    "Fantastic And Beautiful, Virgil!" 😁

  • @egonrhoodie2745
    @egonrhoodie2745 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Loved the Thunderbirds and of course Lady Penelope!! 💕💖💕🎉🎊

  • @Back2TheBike
    @Back2TheBike 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Glad you explained this.
    I've been wondering about it since 1965.

  • @basenjisofmasiyarink1831
    @basenjisofmasiyarink1831 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Fully Advised and Briefed

  • @boblowes
    @boblowes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    On a side-note, I really enjoyed the recent Thunderbirds reboot, Thunderbirds are Go. It was great fun, while true to the spirit of the original. What a pity Gerry passed away before he could see it. but it was a great wee show - one of the best things ITV have made in years. I wish they'd do a similar thing with Stingray - that could be amazing, with W.A.S.P defending a world that's seen global flooding thanks to rising sea levels, battling threats like piracy, defending commercial and private submariners (undersea mining, trans-Atlantic seabed trains), and of course the Aquaphibians. In fact, someone give me £12million and I'll do it myself.

    • @garywhitfield317
      @garywhitfield317 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Whilst I cannot say you are wrong, my view is that he would have been disappointed. Gerry spent his career, and to a large extent his life, trying to make the puppets more and more human. TBAG reversed this ideal and made the characters comically more puppet-like. If they ever do a new series of Stingray, or Joe 90, I hope they look to making the characters more realistic than puppet-like.
      Still, I am at least grateful that no-one has done the same to "The Secret Service", "U.F.O." or "Space: 1999"

    • @bobthebomb1596
      @bobthebomb1596 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I cannot get on with the reboot.
      I don't know why but my brain accepts that the original is a puppet show. I can follow the characters with no issues.
      With CGI it constantly tells me "He/She is not moving correctly" or "That looks fake".

  • @peterloohunt
    @peterloohunt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The dry wit of this series is really charming and... fab!

  • @tylerzorn6152
    @tylerzorn6152 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One-time Sylvia Anderson was interviewed and said that it meant nothing but short for fabulous end of story. and that is exactly what it stood for! it was just a short way of saying fabulous.!!
    Always always remember Thunderbirds Are Go it had incredible positive and everlasting effect on my life as a person God bless Jerry and Sylvia Anderson and all those that brought such a great show to life on TV.

  • @davfree9732
    @davfree9732 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Lego Thunderbirds: Everything is A.W.E...
    Thunderbird Control: WE HAVE NO TIME FOR SINGING!!!!

  • @steeleye2112
    @steeleye2112 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The amount of retrofitting and thought given to this proves what a genius Anderson was. A phrase, invented because it sounded cool but meant nothing, is generating so much interest. Pick your favourite and go with it. We always thought as kids that they were just spelling out the abbreviations FAB - short for fabulous and I'm happy with that to this day.

  • @JagoHazzard
    @JagoHazzard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Someone, I forget who but I think it might have been in a comic said it stood for "Fully Acknowledged, Brother." I seem to also recall someone saying that it just meant "fab," but they spelt it out to make it clearer. And I definitely recall one of the comics stating that Grandma came up with it, which I think is just super.

    • @rocistone6570
      @rocistone6570 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Family Action Begun.

    • @williamisbellcreativeservi1721
      @williamisbellcreativeservi1721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's actually a WWII era comment started by the Yanks based in Britain during the war. It's a shortened, abbreviated term, similar to FUBAR . . . which, if you know anything about the military, stands for Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. FAB, on the other hand, was a quick "Roger" passed around by ground crews, when they acknowledged that they would be working long hours on the flight line, repairing battle damaged aircraft returning from raids over Germany. FAB + "Fuckin' A, Bruce!". Apparently, Bruce is the British version of the American slang, Jack.

    • @houstonceng
      @houstonceng 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jack is typically British as in “I’m all right Jack”. Bruce sounds more Australian

    • @joebutlersnr7017
      @joebutlersnr7017 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      For all brothers.

    • @joebutlersnr7017
      @joebutlersnr7017 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@williamisbellcreativeservi1721 that's just snafu.

  • @akakjb
    @akakjb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for confirming this. Even as I watched the series during its first run here in the US., I always assumed it meant "fabulous" after I couldn't think of anything good to fit the acronym. It made sense to me because while the situation may be fabulous, the word just doesn't sound very military or professional. I love the term and use it from time to time to this day.

  • @mwooldri
    @mwooldri 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    In my part of the world, FAB stands for Flaming Amy's Burritos - a burrito restaurant in Wilmington NC.

  • @tracytron7162
    @tracytron7162 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My personal headcannon for it is Fully Acknowledged Broadcast but that it was still derived from the word "fabulous" in-universe which explains why it's sometimes used to describe a situation going well or other similar things

  • @christonabike2222
    @christonabike2222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Something to do with ice lollies?

    • @christonabike2222
      @christonabike2222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ...and before Captain Anorak and his humourless cohort point out that the the Fab lolly came after Thunderbirds, I know. It was a joke.

    • @helenabranagh9383
      @helenabranagh9383 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And before the lollies, we had sprouts.

    • @denvillehall3845
      @denvillehall3845 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@helenabranagh9383 making them preFAB?

    • @pughpughbarneymcgrew4221
      @pughpughbarneymcgrew4221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@denvillehall3845 Alberqurqe

  • @AgentofLADON
    @AgentofLADON 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Makes sense. WASP and Spectrum were established military and intelligence organisations so they should have an official code. Though International Rescue were globally recognised as heroes they were primarily a family first so it makes sense that the Tracy brothers might have used F.A.B if it was also something they used with each other before they became heroes, maybe as an in joke. Maybe they adopted F.A.B from a childhood game or it was their own secret club password? Excellent video. Glad to see the Fandersons are still global. Now where is our Anderson Cinematic Universe?

    • @tracytron7162
      @tracytron7162 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      My god I would love that

    • @AgentofLADON
      @AgentofLADON 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@tracytron7162 Maybe start with Thunderbirds to lay the Century 21 setting, tracking terrorists who manufacture disasters to spy on IR vehicles who eventually get arrested and turned over to WASP which leads to Stingray introducing the undersea races. Then Fireball XL5 to bring it into space revealing the many hostile races on Mars which branches to Captain Scarlet and then a full alien invasion all leading to Earth joining the greater universal civilisation and branching to Space Precinct, Lavender Castle, Terrahawks and others. Plus the required tie in series of Lady Penelope, Marina and the prequel early espionage adventures of Ed Straker, Commander Zero and Colonel White.

    • @tracytron7162
      @tracytron7162 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@AgentofLADON God I wish I could make that a reality

    • @sidnessthestealthinvestor6639
      @sidnessthestealthinvestor6639 ปีที่แล้ว

      Freeview shows Thunderbirds

    • @sidnessthestealthinvestor6639
      @sidnessthestealthinvestor6639 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@AgentofLADON Freevee

  • @gerardcote8391
    @gerardcote8391 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    That is what everyone assumed at the time.
    The bigger question is were these puppets faces designed to look like particular actors.
    I assumed that Miss Penelope was design to look like Sally Kellerman, Brain looked like Andy Warhol, the father looked like Lorne Greene, one of the sons looked like Michael York, the bad guy looked like Yule Brenner, the chauffeur looked like a specific British actor that always played bit parts as a butler, all the rest also looked familiar as well

    • @kb6kgx
      @kb6kgx 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yul Brynner

    • @gerardcote8391
      @gerardcote8391 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kb6kgx Thank you for the correction, typing on my cell phone and can barely see the letters on the keypad.

  • @Duckymack-72
    @Duckymack-72 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fully aware and briefed

  • @richgurusam
    @richgurusam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Gerry got drunk and said Funderbirds Are Bo.

  • @CharlieCookeActor
    @CharlieCookeActor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Formally Acknowledged Broadcast

  • @jamesreyome6091
    @jamesreyome6091 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    When I was nine years old, I used to swear it stood for "Finished After Broadcast".
    Forever a FANderson!

  • @thedocklighter
    @thedocklighter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Forward And Beyond!

  • @GizmoFromPizmo
    @GizmoFromPizmo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I always equated it to the American space program's usage of the letters, "A-O-K", which means, "A okay", which means... groovy.

  • @martythemartian99
    @martythemartian99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Imagine if instead of saying FAB father, Virgil had said "That's fab dad... absolutely fabby-o daddy-o."

  • @robm8809
    @robm8809 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It stands for "Funderbirds are brilliaaaaaaant!!!"

  • @bugler75
    @bugler75 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I never knew the FAB ice lolly and Thunderbirds were related! That’s cool!

  • @SamLowryDZ-015
    @SamLowryDZ-015 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I thought the answer was
    Funderbirds Are Brill.

    • @occamsrayzor
      @occamsrayzor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I just wrote a very similar comment before noticing yours :D

    • @K2shadowfax
      @K2shadowfax 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@occamsrayzor I was just about to pen 'Funderbirds Are Brill!', too, then I thought a quick scan of the comments might be a good idea! S.I.G. F.A.B. L.O.L.

  • @matt0044
    @matt0044 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I would kill to see a primer on Turbocharged Thunderbirds. I... truly want to know the full story behind that disasterpiece.

  • @sndshne9578
    @sndshne9578 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    2015 version is actually the best !
    I really love it ❤️
    FAB !

  • @SebbusWebbus
    @SebbusWebbus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Fully Acknowledged Broadcast. (I was kinda right).

    • @johnstereo1492
      @johnstereo1492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think your answer is most likely right

  • @metalman4141
    @metalman4141 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In Birmingham we thought it meant “Funderbirds Are Bostin”

  • @oscarkersey5027
    @oscarkersey5027 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    For a while I was told it was short for "Fly As Briefed"; I've now come to the conclusion that "fly" wouldn't work, since the term isn't always used when International Rescue is in action and not all the Thunderbirds can fly. I've now come to my own conclusion that it stand for "Fully Advised and Briefed" or "Fully Acknowledged and Briefed" as those ones make a lot more sense.

    • @pughpughbarneymcgrew4221
      @pughpughbarneymcgrew4221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fly as Briefed sounds like an ad for Y Fronts.

    • @kevnwarriner8819
      @kevnwarriner8819 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pughpughbarneymcgrew4221 😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤢🤮💀

  • @SirMotis8
    @SirMotis8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I would swear I heard one of the characters in an episode say "Fine and bye!"

  • @doctorclu
    @doctorclu 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the use of the clips from so many Anderson shows.

  • @robgibbons4650
    @robgibbons4650 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I always thought it stood for, Fire all boosters, heard that years ago

  • @unicron129
    @unicron129 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    it never meant anything in the show. HOWEVER, in an issue of the 1990s fleetway Thunderbirds comic, it was later stated to mean Fully Advised and Briefed.

  • @muzzaball
    @muzzaball 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember hearing two things, as stated Roger, or the acknowledgement of a transmission, but also it was something cool that those in the 60's said. I also heard that after the fact, they made it into Fully Acknowledged Broadcast. A wonderful show from my childhood - and adulthood!!

  • @licencetoswill
    @licencetoswill 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I always thought it was "finished all broadcasts". That's why it's at the end of the transmission. I remember a pub trivia game had that answer too.

  • @geordiedog1749
    @geordiedog1749 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I always thought it meant “Fab”. I can’t believe I was actually right about something!!

  • @johnsamu
    @johnsamu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    After so many years guessing the meaning the answer is fabulous 😉😀

  • @TheOneTrueDragonKing
    @TheOneTrueDragonKing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Even in the CGI series, when asked neither Virgil nor anyone else can provide an answer. (And he WAS asked too, in the episode where they rescued that kid and his dad from that hydromethane extraction platform.)

  • @johnbode5528
    @johnbode5528 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Goddamn the Andersons produced a lot of really cool shows, but you don't really realize it until they're all smashed together like that. Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, UFO, Space 1999, and that just scratches the surface.

  • @TheSmart-CasualGamer
    @TheSmart-CasualGamer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My dad told me (This was in the 2000s, I'm young by Anderson Fan standards) that it was "fully advised and briefed", but I've always liked to think that it was a Tracy family inside joke that ended up being used officially throughout International Rescue.

    • @GerryAndersonTV
      @GerryAndersonTV  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Check out our other FAB video where Jeff explains almost exactly this!

    • @TheSmart-CasualGamer
      @TheSmart-CasualGamer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Damn! A reply from the actual channel! Thank you very much!

  • @davescardcreations
    @davescardcreations 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    what I say at the end of every Thunderbirds episode: Fings Are Bootiful!

  • @TonyP_Yes-its-Me
    @TonyP_Yes-its-Me 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a kid, I convinced myself it stood for "Fly All Birds".

  • @fad23
    @fad23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've only ever seen Thunderbird 6, first during my youth and more recently grabbed a DVD at 7-Eleven. I'm so glad my theory about F.A.B. seems to actually have been the official reason.

  • @thomaswhalley2320
    @thomaswhalley2320 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I want to see beyond Anderson series

  • @lilyanddaddy
    @lilyanddaddy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've just started going 'it means F.A.B.' and then refusing to elaborate XD

  • @animeaddict5301
    @animeaddict5301 ปีที่แล้ว

    Now showing on ITVX plus other Gerry Anderson series.

  • @gagatube
    @gagatube 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great editing/selection of clips to explain this age-long conundrum. 😊

  • @colincampbell4447
    @colincampbell4447 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    There was an old radio signal shorthand FAB (Full Audio Broadcast) it was used when the operator had finished talking and ceasing transmissions, rather than the often used "Over" to say finish talking awaiting response, but still in a discussion or message broadcast.

    • @Bartok_J
      @Bartok_J 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Not heard that. Might you be thinking of FB = Fine Business? Still in use today by radio amateurs.

  • @tubawritaguy
    @tubawritaguy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    To be totally honest, I never really gave it much thought what 'FAB' stood for. On Captain Scarlet, SIR, SIG and SIS always meant Spectrum Is Red, Spectrum is Green, or Spectrum is Shitfaced, when something went wrong. (The last one is total sarcasm!) LOL!!!

  • @Dyynamo
    @Dyynamo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Finest Acronym Bollocks. 🙂👍

  • @johnstereo1492
    @johnstereo1492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Something they made up back in the 80s
    Short for fabulous LOL like The Fab Four
    I was right !!!!

  • @Flunkybadger
    @Flunkybadger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was always under the assumption FAB was short for Fabulous And Brilliant when receiving orders to indicate acknowledgment

  • @maltronics
    @maltronics 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Found And Bewildered

  • @Chironseth1970
    @Chironseth1970 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My mum would joke that it meant “Fings Are Blossoming”. I have no idea what that means either 🤣

  • @dale10knjdale32
    @dale10knjdale32 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent !

  • @stevenmayhew3944
    @stevenmayhew3944 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was exactly my first impression of FAB. Fabulous. It's like saying A-OK.

  • @alejandrobellomejias642
    @alejandrobellomejias642 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I knew it, I knew it had to be fabulous yeah!

  • @ryanstephenkristoferkearns1319
    @ryanstephenkristoferkearns1319 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well done Chris Dale!

  • @markjohnston7869
    @markjohnston7869 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    From the period "Fab" short for fabulous was in common usage and was probably adopted to appeal to the young audience it was aimed at.

  • @dyche01
    @dyche01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Frickin' Awesome Bro

  • @modernschoolatlas
    @modernschoolatlas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fully Acknowledged Broadcast

  • @bigfrank10538
    @bigfrank10538 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Here in London we always thought iy stood for Funderbirds Are Brill.....

  • @koll789
    @koll789 ปีที่แล้ว

    We used to say it means 'Funderbirds Are Brill'. I convinced a kid at school is stood for 'Fearless And Brave'.

  • @biro24
    @biro24 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your editing skills are 10/10 😀👏👏

  • @freyatilly
    @freyatilly 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Far Away Bro.

  • @davidsimons5944
    @davidsimons5944 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All I know is it was my favourite ice cream lolly in the 60's & was named after the famous TB letters. I think it's still sold, though like wagon wheels & many other food items I'm convinced it shrunk!

  • @ImperrfectStranger
    @ImperrfectStranger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    6:08 Interesting to see that the Japanese subtitles read "End of conversation" when Scott says FAB

  • @MorristheMinor
    @MorristheMinor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    To quote Julian & Sandy of Round The Horne - 'It was FABTABULOUSA, Mr Horne!'

    • @ursusthewhite9824
      @ursusthewhite9824 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bold, very bold!

    • @MorristheMinor
      @MorristheMinor 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ursusthewhite9824 To quote Dame Celica Volestrangler and Bickie Huckaback - 'How terribly, terribly clever to remember us' 'I know' 'I know you know' 'I know you know you know' etc, etc.

  • @DaVane
    @DaVane 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    F.A.B. = Fine and Breezy... which would be what I would be like with Tintin lounging on Tracy Island...

  • @basknippels6367
    @basknippels6367 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    For Always Brother

  • @ListerDavid
    @ListerDavid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The Code F.A.B was thought up by Agent 47 Jeremiah Tuttle when Jeff asked him if he’d had a big lunch, to which Jeremiah replied….
    “Yep, Full A Beans!”

  • @paulgavin2267
    @paulgavin2267 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Followed Acknowledged Briefed. I read that somewhere once.

  • @corthew
    @corthew 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fun As Buck!
    Farging Awesome, Bob!
    Fock All Buns!
    Fill A Biscuit!
    Fun As Butter!
    Full And Bawdy!
    Surely its one of those.

  • @julianpearce218
    @julianpearce218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Original Thunderbirds. No one cared that you could see the strings. It was just FAB!

    • @bobbyboko6317
      @bobbyboko6317 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      New Thunderbirds NVG not very good 😉

    • @stevejordan7275
      @stevejordan7275 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Couldn't see the strings on hand close-ups; they used real people working controls.
      The Thunderbirds movie (2004) played to this by using a marionette hand in one shot as a reverse of the idea.

  • @darrenlee4455
    @darrenlee4455 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i was always told it meant Fully Aware and Briefed

  • @thunderbirdsharrypotterfan
    @thunderbirdsharrypotterfan 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Message received and understood

  • @marklynch3149
    @marklynch3149 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Friends And Brothers

  • @garybillington2239
    @garybillington2239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I thought it stood for " Firing All Boosters " great series as a kid, so were all the others.

  • @mikesilva3868
    @mikesilva3868 ปีที่แล้ว

    Huge Gerry anderson fan great info 😊

  • @DHMeister
    @DHMeister 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This show was always ahead of its time "back in the day". I'm glad that they finally admitted that F. A.B. really didn't stand for anything other than an acknowledgement. However, I'd like to believe that it means "Finally A Break"! 😂

  • @nigelgunson1025
    @nigelgunson1025 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fully acknowledged broadcast. Fab.

  • @rokker101
    @rokker101 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    In one of my Thunderbird annuals it was stated that Lady Penelope worked for the Federal Agents Bureau lol ... but the word FAB is just what we used to say at the time ..and it was FAB!

  • @rodgethepundernerd2044
    @rodgethepundernerd2044 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fire Always Burns

  • @BigJimSportsCamper
    @BigJimSportsCamper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I prefer the tenuous connection to the movie 'The Right Stuff' (1983 - years later) where Virgil Grissom says "Fucking eh, Bubba"

  • @erikziak1249
    @erikziak1249 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    For me, FAB is derived from the name "Alois Fáborský", who started a successful brand of door lock cylinders under the "FAB" brand (derived from his name). This brand became associated with an image of a Mastiff (Dogue) since the 1930s, and this logo remains until today embossed on the keys. The term "fab", or "fabka" (both in Czech and Slovak) became a generic trademark for any door lock cylinder in former Czechoslovakia. I still have use a key with the image of a Dogue and the letters FAB to unlock doors today. Almost a century after the image became part of the trademark.