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...
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...
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
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.
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"
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".
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...
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 😎
Well done to Chris Dale for taking seven minutes to very humorously explain (with a great choice of clips) something we’ve honestly all known for decades. But we still watched anyway. Because we’re Gerry Anderson and Thunderbirds fans. And I remember a certain writer for NME magazine back in the late 1980s saying it stood for “Funderbirds Are Biz!”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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!!!
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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!
I always just thought it was short for FABULOUS! although I suppose that given that I was probably three or four years old when I first watched it, it could have been "Funderbirds Are Brilliant" 😉 Anyway, how is it I still love this show even though I'm in my mid-fifties 😂
It was always the "For Always Brothers" one that stuck in my head until I saw the Gerry Anderson interview (in this clip) and that solved that one :) So for the fun of it I would suggest F****** Ask Brains :)
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.
Yes..but did you understand what SuperMarionation described Peter?..before the internet and Google i hope..(if you're in my age group)...it took me a lot of years to figure it out..
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!”
There's a nautical term, 'Full and By' (or Bye). It means sailing with all sails full and lying as near the wind as possible: sailing close-hauled. I read it in at least one of C.S.Forester's Hornblower book. Perhaps gerry Anderson did the same.
I remember watching Thunderbirds. I was more interested in Thunderbird 2 more than anything. It wasn’t until I purchased the VHS version of the film Thunderbirds Are Go did I ever hear F.A.B.. The scene after the second launch of the spacecraft to Mars, Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward suggests visiting a nightclub that she describes as “Fab.” I didn’t think about the acronym F.A.B. . But I knew that it meant that the message was received and acknowledged. Nothing more than that. The 60’s had words like fab or mod. It was a sign of the times, especially in England.
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"! 😂
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...
Well, she was definitely right about it being a talking point. This video is proof of that.
@@kaferere Yes, milady ...
@@kaferere Damn you. Now I'm annoyed that I didn't think of that. Nice one. ;-)
Wow - don't suppose you ever got Lamont Cranston in the cab?
@@daveroche6522 No.
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.
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...
Who as a 7 year old didn't fancy Tintin?
@@mvnorsel6354 Angel interceptres were my fancy
As a ten year old Cockney East End kid, I thought it meant Funderbirds Are Brilliant.
That's it! It's gotta be that one.
😂, I just saw this after I'd written something very similar 👍
🤣 Good one
Even in West lundan we fought that 😜
Brilliant! 😂😂😂
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.
I remember having this discussion with my parents years ago, and we thought it meant “Father And Brothers”.
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
I have to laugh. Have a friend that says "F***ing Awesome Baby" all the time. Fits well enough.
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That sounds more like Austen Powers!!
That must have been a Team America saying.
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.
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"
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".
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...
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 😎
F.A.B: Fun And Brilliant! Well done Chris Dale!
Well done to Chris Dale for taking seven minutes to very humorously explain (with a great choice of clips) something we’ve honestly all known for decades. But we still watched anyway. Because we’re Gerry Anderson and Thunderbirds fans.
And I remember a certain writer for NME magazine back in the late 1980s saying it stood for “Funderbirds Are Biz!”
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.
My dad told me it was "Fast as buggery!" and he was a teacher so he must be right!
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
It's not fast if done properly 😉
@@pughpughbarneymcgrew4221 😅😅😅😅😅
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.
Family Action Begun.
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.
Jack is typically British as in “I’m all right Jack”. Bruce sounds more Australian
For all brothers.
@@williamisbellcreativeservi1721 that's just snafu.
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?
My god I would love that
@@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.
@@AgentofLADON God I wish I could make that a reality
Freeview shows Thunderbirds
@@AgentofLADON Freevee
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
Yul Brynner
@@kb6kgx Thank you for the correction, typing on my cell phone and can barely see the letters on the keypad.
In my part of the world, FAB stands for Flaming Amy's Burritos - a burrito restaurant in Wilmington NC.
Loved the Thunderbirds and of course Lady Penelope!! 💕💖💕🎉🎊
Glad you explained this.
I've been wondering about it since 1965.
"This is Thunderbird 2. I've got the equipment you requested, Scott."
"Fantastic And Beautiful, Virgil!" 😁
Fully Advised and Briefed
I always equated it to the American space program's usage of the letters, "A-O-K", which means, "A okay", which means... groovy.
Formidable Anderson Broadcast
The dry wit of this series is really charming and... fab!
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.
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
2015 version is actually the best !
I really love it ❤️
FAB !
Agreed!
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.
I thought the answer was
Funderbirds Are Brill.
I just wrote a very similar comment before noticing yours :D
@@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.
Something to do with ice lollies?
...and before Captain Anorak and his humourless cohort point out that the the Fab lolly came after Thunderbirds, I know. It was a joke.
And before the lollies, we had sprouts.
@@helenabranagh9383 making them preFAB?
@@denvillehall3845 Alberqurqe
I never knew the FAB ice lolly and Thunderbirds were related! That’s cool!
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.
Fully Acknowledged Broadcast. (I was kinda right).
I think your answer is most likely right
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.
I would kill to see a primer on Turbocharged Thunderbirds. I... truly want to know the full story behind that disasterpiece.
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.
Fly as Briefed sounds like an ad for Y Fronts.
@@pughpughbarneymcgrew4221 😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤢🤮💀
Fully aware and briefed
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.)
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.
Forward And Beyond!
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!!!
Something they made up back in the 80s
Short for fabulous LOL like The Fab Four
I was right !!!!
When I was nine years old, I used to swear it stood for "Finished After Broadcast".
Forever a FANderson!
Lego Thunderbirds: Everything is A.W.E...
Thunderbird Control: WE HAVE NO TIME FOR SINGING!!!!
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.
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!!
I always thought it meant “Fab”. I can’t believe I was actually right about something!!
After so many years guessing the meaning the answer is fabulous 😉😀
Formally Acknowledged Broadcast
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.
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.
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.
Check out our other FAB video where Jeff explains almost exactly this!
Damn! A reply from the actual channel! Thank you very much!
Now showing on ITVX plus other Gerry Anderson series.
Here in London we always thought iy stood for Funderbirds Are Brill.....
That was exactly my first impression of FAB. Fabulous. It's like saying A-OK.
I want to see beyond Anderson series
Love the use of the clips from so many Anderson shows.
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!
I always just thought it was short for FABULOUS!
although I suppose that given that I was probably three or four years old when I first watched it, it could have been "Funderbirds Are Brilliant" 😉
Anyway, how is it I still love this show even though I'm in my mid-fifties 😂
I was always under the assumption FAB was short for Fabulous And Brilliant when receiving orders to indicate acknowledgment
I would swear I heard one of the characters in an episode say "Fine and bye!"
I always thought it was Full Ahead Boost…but am happy with Gerry’s recorded statement, after all he should know! 😎🚀
It was always the "For Always Brothers" one that stuck in my head until I saw the Gerry Anderson interview (in this clip) and that solved that one :)
So for the fun of it I would suggest F****** Ask Brains :)
That one I liked!!! LOL!!!
Excellent !
Great editing/selection of clips to explain this age-long conundrum. 😊
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.
Imagine if instead of saying FAB father, Virgil had said "That's fab dad... absolutely fabby-o daddy-o."
As a kid, I convinced myself it stood for "Fly All Birds".
Found And Bewildered
I always thought it stood for, Fire all boosters, heard that years ago
It stands for "Funderbirds are brilliaaaaaaant!!!"
Freakin’ Awesome, Bro!
I guess that wouldn’t work for Dad, though.
I knew it, I knew it had to be fabulous yeah!
Your editing skills are 10/10 😀👏👏
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.
I always thought FAB meant Full After Burners, for some reason. I actually interviewed Gerry Anderson but I never thought to ask him!
I prefer the tenuous connection to the movie 'The Right Stuff' (1983 - years later) where Virgil Grissom says "Fucking eh, Bubba"
what I say at the end of every Thunderbirds episode: Fings Are Bootiful!
My mum would joke that it meant “Fings Are Blossoming”. I have no idea what that means either 🤣
I don't have a suggestion for what FAB means but I loved "super mario nation" in the captions!
Yes..but did you understand what SuperMarionation described Peter?..before the internet and Google i hope..(if you're in my age group)...it took me a lot of years to figure it out..
I've just started going 'it means F.A.B.' and then refusing to elaborate XD
Gerry got drunk and said Funderbirds Are Bo.
Frickin' Awesome Bro
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!”
I believe it was Jeff Tracey when he had a cold saying "Funderbirds are bo".
Well done Chris Dale!
Hear hear!
Extremely impressive number of scene clips used here … must have taken A LOT of time
Fully acknowledged broadcast. Fab.
There's a nautical term, 'Full and By' (or Bye). It means sailing with all sails full and lying as near the wind as possible: sailing close-hauled. I read it in at least one of C.S.Forester's Hornblower book. Perhaps gerry Anderson did the same.
I thought it stood for " Firing All Boosters " great series as a kid, so were all the others.
I remember watching Thunderbirds. I was more interested in Thunderbird 2 more than anything. It wasn’t until I purchased the VHS version of the film Thunderbirds Are Go did I ever hear F.A.B.. The scene after the second launch of the spacecraft to Mars, Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward suggests visiting a nightclub that she describes as “Fab.”
I didn’t think about the acronym F.A.B. . But I knew that it meant that the message was received and acknowledged. Nothing more than that. The 60’s had words like fab or mod. It was a sign of the times, especially in England.
Message received and understood
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"! 😂
We used to say it means 'Funderbirds Are Brill'. I convinced a kid at school is stood for 'Fearless And Brave'.
Followed Acknowledged Briefed. I read that somewhere once.
Fucking Amazing, Bro.
i was always told it meant Fully Aware and Briefed
FAB means: Força Aérea Brasileira which can be translated to Brazilian Air Force.
Cool 😎
I have one question why is all the. Gerry Anderson set in?