Alan Partridge Superthread - Sponsored by Dettol

BMMachine · 05-04-2016 5:23pm #1

This thread is for a man that has been a journalist, presenter, a broadcaster, a husband and father, a company director, a vigorous all rounder with a fascinating past and an amazing future. Gregarious, popular, a philanthropist but never happier when he's relaxing in his own 5-bedroom self built house with three acres of land and access to a private stream. But who the hell is this mysterious enigma? This mysterious enigma is Alan Partridge.

Almost 25 years of gracing our TV screens and radio waves and proving to be a cultural pillar and cornerstone of British Comedy and yet he hasn't got a ruddy thread on boards. He has just finished season 2 of Mid Morning Matters With Alan Partridge (MMMWAP) which of course was 10 on 10 and he looks to continue for a long time yet. What are your favourite Alanisms, scenes and characters? What is your favourite King and Car combination? (Henry 8th - Range Rover, Vogue 4.6, Petrol, Sage Green with a Saddle Tan interior).

I realise he has his haters (naysayers) and is quite divisive but hes not the type to let that bother him, just water off a ducks back really and anyway, hes far better than Eamonn Holmes.
So let battle commence!

A-ha!

DopeTech · 05-04-2016 5:36pm

Cashback!

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Terrontress · 05-04-2016 5:38pm

I watched the first four shows off season one last night.

Jurassic Park!

Diabhal Beag · 05-04-2016 6:23pm

THAT, was a goal.

05-04-2016 6:45pm

My comedy hero!

DopeTech · 05-04-2016 7:09pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hzpTynpLHw

Skid X · 05-04-2016 7:42pm

Lovely stuff.

We need to talk about Alan.

Welsh Megaman · 05-04-2016 8:03pm

Skid X wrote: »

Lovely stuff.

Not my words, Michael...the words of Shakin' Stevens.

sligojoek · 05-04-2016 8:14pm

Mr.Nice Guy · 05-04-2016 9:53pm

Lynn, some of these people have come from STOKE.

I love Alan. His radio shows from the early nineties are worth checking out if anyone hasn't heard them before. I listened to them about a year ago and loved it. I must check them out again.

Strazdas · 05-04-2016 10:04pm

sligojoek wrote: »

His first ever meeting with Dan was epic too. You can imagine his glee at discovering Dan reads the Daily Mail, drives a Lexus and wears Lynx

Edward Hopper · 05-04-2016 10:54pm

I'm not retreating, Pat's tugging me off.

Yamanoto · 05-04-2016 11:14pm

XR3i · 05-04-2016 11:17pm

it's the japanese mercedes

BMMachine · 06-04-2016 1:08am

absolutely love the specials like Anglian Lives and Places of My Life
also, his radio intros are solid gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGI9L1wwlwY

Welsh Megaman · 06-04-2016 5:46am

Der's more to Oirland...dan dis.

Mushy · 06-04-2016 6:52am

Strazdas wrote: »

His first ever meeting with Dan was epic too. You can imagine his glee at discovering Dan reads the Daily Mail, drives a Lexus and wears Lynx

THEY'RE SEX PEOPLE LYNN!

Watched the one where he aims for the Bond marathon over a long weekend, his negotiating skills for Lynns rise leave a lot to be desired!

Rarely a Sunday goes by without mentioning the hardships of a Sunday to my OH too.

MillField · 06-04-2016 7:31am

stimpson · 06-04-2016 8:23am

Lovely stuff. Not my words Michael, the words of Shakin' Stevens.

Jeju · 06-04-2016 11:02am

You smell like a brewery run by tramps.

alchemist33 · 06-04-2016 11:07am

"Sunday Bloody Sunday. What a great song. It really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday, doesn't it? You wake up in the morning, you've got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you've got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you just think 'Sunday, bloody Sunday!'"

MillField · 06-04-2016 11:12am

"Sack Lynn for being unloyal, disloyal. And for joining in fun in a way that excludes her employer. And sack her for being an absolute idiot and inefficient. Lynn, can you call Bill Oddie and…"

Penn · 06-04-2016 11:16am

"LYNN I'VE PIERCED MY FOOT ON A SPIIIIKE!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIqa11NCbmA

discobeaker · 06-04-2016 11:24am

"I know lying is wrong, but if the elephant man came in now in a blouse with some make up on, and said "how do I look?" Would you say, bearing in mind he's depressed and has respiratory problems, would you say "go and take that blusher off you mis-shapened elephant tranny"? No. You'd say 'You look nice... John'"

fussyonion · 06-04-2016 11:30am

I've been a huge Alan fan since I was a kid.
I love his awkwardness.

I love how he never lets the other guy speak on MidMorning Matters.
My favourite episode of I'm Alan Partridge is "The Colour of Alan", where he gets his foot stuck on the spike and has to do a presentation for Dante Fires.

I thought the bit where he's pitching to the South African guy was hilarious; especially when he's trying to balance the table and imitates the guy's accent.
I laugh til I cry whenever I re-watch it.

Loved when he was being told to give Lynn a raise by her boyfriend and he started singing "Tell you what, I tell you what..."

I've just always loved Alan Partridge and I only saw the film the other night and thought it was great.

damienirel · 06-04-2016 11:34am

"Kate Middleton, a welcome drop of mongrel blood in an otherwise stagnant gene pool"

Big Vern · 06-04-2016 11:38am

That was Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell, a song in which Joni complains they ‘Paved paradise to put up a parking lot’, a measure which actually would have alleviated traffic congestion on the outskirts of paradise, something which Joni singularly fails to point out, perhaps because it doesn’t quite fit in with her blinkered view of the world. Nevertheless, nice song. It’s 4:35am, you’re listening to ‘Up With The Partridge’.

rubadub · 06-04-2016 11:55am

XR3i wrote: »

it's the japanese mercedes

lawred2 · 06-04-2016 11:56am

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

THAT, was a goal.

he's got a foot like a traction engine

SEPT 23 1989 · 06-04-2016 12:12pm

"You join us live at the Berlin Olympics on "Grandstand" in 1938 on this pleasant summer morning in Nazi Germany. Everyone's here. Hitler's in his box, Jesse Owens just waved to him. He doesn't like that."

ahlookit · 06-04-2016 12:17pm

an oldie but still one of the best

keano_afc · 06-04-2016 12:40pm

KMKYWAP was brilliant. "Knowing me Alan Partridge knowing you the Police, a-ha"

"Do you know what this bathroom says to me? Aqua. Which is French for water. It's like being inside an enormous Fox's Glacier Mint. Which, again, to me is a bonus."

stimpson · 06-04-2016 1:23pm

ahlookit wrote: »

an oldie but still one of the best

I love the Day Today. This is one of my personal favourites. NSFW if you work somewhere that disapproves of heavily compressed implied nudity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI3P0bB2Dqk

Michael8000 · 06-04-2016 2:49pm

Lynn has some great lines too!

In Alpha Papa after he gets Pat (Colm Meaney) sacked.

Alan: I've got to be honest, Lynn, I'm feeling pretty crummy.

Lynn: Pat's Irish, isn't he?

Alan: To be sure.

Lynn: Why don't you donate £50 to Sinn Fein?

Alan: I will

In fact his whole fascination with the IRA is hilarious.

Big Vern · 06-04-2016 2:49pm

keano_afc wrote: »

KMKYWAP was brilliant. "Knowing me Alan Partridge knowing you the Police, a-ha"

"Do you know what this bathroom says to me? Aqua. Which is French for water. It's like being inside an enormous Fox's Glacier Mint. Which, again, to me is a bonus."

I do like that toilet. It's very futuristic, isn't it? Very, sort of, high-tech, space age. I can imagine Buck Rogers taking a dump on that. In the twenty-first century

keano_afc · 06-04-2016 3:38pm

Big Vern wrote: »

I do like that toilet. It's very futuristic, isn't it? Very, sort of, high-tech, space age. I can imagine Buck Rogers taking a dump on that. In the twenty-first century

"How much is it on the market for?"

"£325,000"

"Oh, will you take £324k?"

lovelystuff · 06-04-2016 3:45pm

You know what this room says to me? Aqua. Which is French for water. It's like being inside an enormous Fox's Glacier Mint, which again, to me, is a bonus.

I use so many Alan Partridge quotes in everyday conversation! Also, in my username

ahlookit · 06-04-2016 4:07pm

Textbook Alan

Welsh Megaman · 06-04-2016 4:22pm

Jill, what do you think about the pedestrianisation of Norwich City Centre?

XR3i · 06-04-2016 10:06pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YllyBr_4Kxk

cc · 07-04-2016 6:28am

"Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle."

Aglomerado · 07-04-2016 7:24am

"My peephole Pringle is modelled on a SAS Balaclava"

:D:D

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Sultan of Bling · 07-04-2016 7:52am

When Alan tells Ben he's a beatles fan, Ben asks, what's your favourite beatles album.

Alan replies: I would have to say, the best of the beatles.

loyatemu · 07-04-2016 8:09am

Sultan of Bling wrote: »

When Alan tells Ben he's a beatles fan, Ben asks, what's your favourite beatles album.

Alan replies: I would have to say, the best of the beatles.

"Who are Wings?"

"Only the band the Beatles could have been!"

keano_afc · 07-04-2016 8:22am

Every time I hear the Black Beauty song now I think of Alan playing it in his hotel room.

Big Vern · 07-04-2016 8:25am

keano_afc wrote: »

"How much is it on the market for?"

"£325,000"

"Oh, will you take £324k?"

Yes, it's an extender! Fantastic. That is the icing on the cake.

loyatemu · 07-04-2016 8:27am

I always love Alan's interactions with Michael - it's a shame he's not in Mid-Morning Matters...

Michael: So, are we having the full English breakfast?
Alan Partridge: Yes, please. Can I have my sausages burnt to a crisp, please? So that they can only be identified by reference to their dental records.
Michael: OK. Either that or their fingerprints, eh?
Alan Partridge: Can you fingerprint a sausage?
Michael: Yeah, well, I suppose technically y'could, aye.
Alan Partridge: I suppose if I was a burglar and I wanted to avoid detection I could strap sausages to my fingers. Probably survive a couple of break-ins before they started to fall apart.
Michael: Aye. Maybes, maybes just have, like, a beefburger for your palm, y'know?
Alan Partridge: No, that's a bit too far-fetched. I do enjoy these chats in the morning.

philstar · 07-04-2016 8:38am

"so how many people died in the potato famine??"

.red. · 07-04-2016 8:38am

For me the best episode of I'm Alan Partridge was "Watership Alan". I still cry when i see it. My favourite quote is probably the rant he goes on about the farmers.

"You are a big posh sod with plums in your mouth, and the plums have mutated and they have got beaks. You make pigs smoke. You feed beef burgers to swans. You have big sheds, but nobody's allowed in. And in these sheds you have 20ft high chickens, and these chickens are scared because the don't know why they're so big, and they're going, "Oh why am I so massive?" and they're looking down at all the little chickens and they think they're in an aeroplane because all the other chickens are so small. Do you deny that? No, I think his silence speaks volumes"
That and the
"Old Robert a bit slow on the uptake there, dunno what he had for breakfast this morning... Presumably an infected spinal column in a bap"
Dr. No, Vocal Chrods is another classic.

.red. · 07-04-2016 8:43am

Very good write up here on both Alan and Steve.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/feb/16/back-of-the-net-25-years-of-alan-partridge-steve-coogan

Olishi4 · 07-04-2016 8:48am

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

THAT, was a goal.

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