Fleabag helps with an event at Claire's work which inevitably ends in disaster, but an introduction to Claire's colleague proves intriguing. A chance meeting with a stranger opens her eyes.
WAR
117.9
Wins Above Replacement
“Episode 3” ranks #2 of 12 Fleabag episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 100.0 — Elite. The episode packs 67 scored jokes at 3.4 per minute, averaging 7.8 on craft and 7.7 on impact, with Fleabag landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
The Priest: The Priest: 'Where'd you just go? You just... went somewhere.' — noticing Fleabag's camera-break / fourth-wall moment
The Priest Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Belinda · Fleabag: Belinda's favourite 'period film' is Carrie.
The Priest: The Priest: 'We're not gonna have sex.' — delivered quietly, directly, unprompted
The Priest Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Belinda: Belinda: 'Look at me. Listen. People are all we've got. People are all we've got, so grab the night by its nipples and go and flirt with someone.'
Belinda Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Claire · Fleabag: 'It has to go like "cockwork."' / 'Like what?' / '"Cockwork."' / 'Claire, your brain is somewhere else right now.'
All Jokes — 67 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Claire · Fleabag: Culminating instruction: 'Just don't... don't be yourself.' / 'I won't.'
Fleabag: 'Fuck's sake.' — Fleabag's reaction to being caught in the corridor / the building by someone who knows Claire
Fleabag Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Fleabag: 'Put her in a quiet room with a nice breeze she'll have a panic attack... She's so happy.'
Fleabag Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Fleabag: 'Just to make sure it's not pink or anything horrifically female.'
Fleabag Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Fleabag: 'It's perfect. It looks like a sperm.'
Fleabag Visual Gag Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Claire · Fleabag: Claire receives an emotional 'thank you' from Fleabag for helping with the event, then immediately: 'Don't play with that.'
Fleabag: Physical comedy: Fleabag drops/nearly drops the heavy award — 'Oh, that's heavy. Argh!'
Fleabag Physical/Slapstick Visual Gag Claire · Fleabag: 'You're sweating so much.' / 'Sorry.' / 'It's attention-grabbing.' / 'It's only on one side.'
Fleabag: 'Yeah, especially sad when you have to tell your family not to touch each other up by the photocopier.'
Fleabag Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Claire · Fleabag: 'Stop making jokes.' / 'I'm sorry. I can't help it.' / 'You can.'
Belinda: Belinda on courgettes: 'You can treat them appallingly and they still grow.'
Belinda Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fleabag · Claire: Fleabag to camera after meeting Belinda: 'She seems lovely.' / Claire: 'Yeah, she's great.' — and then Claire's immediate denial of being nervous.
Klare · Fleabag: 'I ate a sausage over there, thinking it was a prune. Fifteen years of vegetarianism, gone. Like bang, bang.' / 'We do actually call them "bangers."' / 'Ah! That's funny! Yes, it was.'
The Priest · Fleabag: 'Oh, just when I'm with you.' (off the wagon for champagne, specifically when with The Priest)
Fleabag: 'I just said, "Let's go fuck like crazy tonight."'
Fleabag Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Claire · Fleabag: Fleabag reveals: 'His name is Klare.' Beat. 'What?' 'His name is Klare.' 'Don't.'
Fleabag · Claire: Fleabag's reaction beat to 'Klare' — the beat before she says 'Don't.' [Claire's pre-emption]
Fleabag: Fleabag announces 'Klare Korhonen' as a nominee, apparently accidentally — 'Oh, uh, sorry. I-I think there's been a mistake here.'
Fleabag Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Claire · Fleabag: 'It has to go like "cockwork."' / 'Like what?' / '"Cockwork."' / 'Claire, your brain is somewhere else right now.'
Fleabag: Fleabag steps up to replace the apparently incapacitated Sylvia: 'Um, I'm sorry. It appears that Sylvia is busy, which shouldn't come as a surprise, really.'
Fleabag Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Fleabag: 'It's been a big year for business. Particularly women in business. Men have been pretty hands-on the past few decades.'
Fleabag Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Fleabag: '...family really shouldn't touch each other up next to the photocopier.' (repeated as formal speech)
Fleabag Callback Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback Party guest: In-room reaction: 'Funny!' — someone in the audience responds to Fleabag's photocopier line
Fleabag: 'Well, I was going to say this is a bit on the nose, but she doesn't seem to have one.'
Fleabag Wordplay/Pun Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Claire: 'It's not fine. I awarded her with a pair of tits.'
Claire Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Claire · Fleabag: Claire ordering Fleabag to 'Chase her down' and Fleabag questioning this — 'Chase her down?' / 'It's a stolen piece of art.'
Belinda: Belinda in the corridor: 'I'm trained in martial arts. It's just the basics, but it is enough.' — said to Fleabag who is apparently trying to retrieve the award
Belinda Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Belinda · Fleabag: 'Oh, it's infantilising bollocks.' / 'Well, don't you think it's good that...' / 'No. No. It's ghettoising. It's a subsection of success.'
Belinda: 'Ah, it's the fucking children's table of awards.'
Belinda Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Belinda: Belinda's reason for attending despite hating the award: 'Because I'd be an arsehole not to.'
Belinda Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Belinda · Fleabag: Belinda's favourite 'period film' is Carrie.
Fleabag: Fleabag's reaction to 'Carrie' — 'God.' followed by 'God, you are a tonic.'
Fleabag Reaction Beat Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Belinda · Fleabag: Fleabag, asked if she's a 'woman in business': 'I run a café. / Oh, good for you. / Did you make the canapés? / Uh, no, actually, I stole them.'
Belinda: Belinda's speech: 'Women are born with pain built in... Men don't. They have to seek it out. They invent all these gods and demons... so they can feel guilty about things, which is something we do very well on our own. And then they create wars so they can feel things and touch each other, and when there aren't any wars, they can play rugby.'
Belinda Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Belinda: Belinda on the menopause: '...the most wonderful fucking thing in the world. And yes, your entire pelvic floor crumbles and you get fucking hot, and no one cares, but then... you're free.'
Belinda Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Belinda: 'It is not a party until someone flirts with you.'
Belinda Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Belinda · Fleabag: Belinda: '...grab the night by its nipples and go and flirt with someone.' / Fleabag: 'Mm. No, that's not what I meant.'
Belinda: Belinda: 'Look at me. Listen. People are all we've got. People are all we've got, so grab the night by its nipples and go and flirt with someone.'
Belinda Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Belinda: Belinda: 'Oh. I wish you were my type.'
Belinda Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Belinda: Belinda: 'I can't be arsed, darling.'
Belinda Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fleabag · Belinda: 'And what had Jesus done by 33? / Died? / Exactly. So get out there and flirt.'
Claire: Fleabag returns; Claire: 'Thought you might be snogging Finland.'
Claire Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback Claire · Fleabag: Claire's eruption: 'You just think you can do whatever you like, say whatever you like, steal whatever you like, kiss whoever you like.' / 'He kissed me!' / 'Oh, I know!' / 'You know?'
Claire: '...with your quirky café and your dead best friend.'
Claire Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Claire · Fleabag: Claire: 'If you mention the size of my office, I will scream.' / Fleabag: 'It's huge.'
Claire: 'We're not friends. We are sisters. Get your own friends.'
Claire Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch The Priest: The Priest: 'This is a bit embarrassing, but recently I've been really enjoying going to bed at 9:30.'
Fleabag · The Priest: Fleabag: 'I just fancied a drink and a priest and a chat, maybe.' / Priest: 'Oh, that's my whole job.'
The Priest · Fleabag: 'We'll have to be quiet though because Pam's a bit of a sound tyrant in the evenings.' / 'Pam lives here?'
Fleabag · The Priest: Fleabag identifies 'inconsistencies' in the Bible: 'The world was made in seven days... light came... and then a few days later, the sun came.' / Priest: 'Yeah, that's ridiculous.'
The Priest · Fleabag: Fleabag: 'But you believe that.' / Priest: 'But it's not fact. It's poetry, it's moral code. It's for interpretation...'
Fleabag · The Priest: 'We can arrange that.' / 'A father of many.' / 'I'll go up to three.' / 'It's not gonna happen.' / 'Two, then.' / 'OK, two.'
The Priest: 'I like that you believe in a meaningless existence.'
The Priest: The Priest: 'No, I'm not being funny, foxes have been after me for years. It's like they have a pact or something.'
The Priest: The Priest's train toilet anecdote: '...a toilet of a train, and when the train stopped, a fucking fox tried to get through the window. Of a train! Its face was in the window.'
The Priest: The fox monastery story: 'And once, when I was at a monastery, I woke up just feeling a bit weird — like there might be a fox about — and a fox was sitting underneath my window, looking at me like this. Pointing at me like, "You... we're watching you. We're having you."'
Fleabag · The Priest: Fleabag: 'Lucky God got there first.' / Priest: 'Well, yeah.' / Fleabag: 'You could be a fox boy by now.' / Priest: 'And we all know what happened to them.'
Fleabag: Fleabag interrupts herself mid-word with 'Oh, it's a fucking fox!'
Fleabag Callback Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Callback The Priest · Fleabag: Priest: 'Chill out about the fox.' / Fleabag: 'Oh, sorry. I just don't know what they want from me.'
The Priest: The Priest: 'Celibacy is a lot less complicated than... romantic relationships.'
The Priest Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch The Priest: The Priest: 'We're not gonna have sex.' — delivered quietly, directly, unprompted
The Priest Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fleabag · The Priest: Fleabag: 'I know that's what you think you want from me, but it's not.' / Priest: 'Well, it might.' / Fleabag: 'It won't.' / Priest: 'I've been there many times... before I found this.' / Fleabag: 'How many times?'
Priest: Priest: 'I know that's what you think you want from me, but it's not.'
Priest Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Priest · Fleabag: 'I've been there many times... before I found this. Many, many times. / How many times?'
The Priest · Fleabag: Priest: 'I'd really like to be your friend, though.' / Fleabag: 'I'd like to be your friend, too.' / 'We'll last a week.'
The Priest: The Priest: 'Where'd you just go? You just... went somewhere.' — noticing Fleabag's camera-break / fourth-wall moment
The Priest Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fleabag: Fleabag: 'Nowhere.' — her response to 'where'd you just go?'
Fleabag Deadpan/Understatement Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback