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Alan Partridge - including Alpha Papa
« on: March 1, 2004, 11:48:45 pm »
Am just watchin it now an I think its up there with Phoenix Nights an The Office as modern british sit-coms. But it never gets mentioned along side these programmes.

Is it just me who thinks its very under-rated?
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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #1 on: March 1, 2004, 11:51:14 pm »
Ahaaaaaaa

First series was brilliant, 2nd was a bit, well crappy.

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #2 on: March 1, 2004, 11:54:36 pm »
Loved the 2nd series more than the 1st one meself.

Some quality quotes in it, when he crashes the car an Lyn suffers from whiplash an he goes "calm down ya sufferin from minor womens whiplash"  ;D
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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #3 on: March 1, 2004, 11:55:57 pm »
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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #4 on: March 1, 2004, 11:57:11 pm »
Never watched an episode.
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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #5 on: March 1, 2004, 11:59:00 pm »
Jackanackanory

 ;D

Back of the net!

Never watched an episode.

Ya should do mate, its dead funny.
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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #6 on: March 2, 2004, 12:27:40 am »
Dan   Dan   Dan   Dan   Dan   Dan    Dan    Dan   Dan   Dan   Dan   Dan   Dan   Dan    Dan    Dan

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #7 on: March 2, 2004, 12:30:10 am »
Am just watchin that episode now mate.

When he eats the big spoonful of mustard as well  ;D
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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #8 on: March 2, 2004, 08:22:11 am »
I think it's quality. one of the funniest ones I have seen is at the funeral I think its in the first series, when he turns up in a castrol gtx bomber jacket :wanker

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #9 on: March 2, 2004, 08:59:00 am »
There have been some great  moments and classic lines but I think it falls a little short of true classic status.  I always thought the character worked best within a group format, as in his occasional interludes in 'The Day Today'.  The chat show series were patchy, although occasionally inspired (remember the episode from France with the pornographic clowns and Alan's sports casual fashion segment?).  The first 'I'm Alan partridge' set in the motel was superb - and this was down to the excellent supporting cast as much as Steve Coogan.  I thought the second series was strained, although with some great moments again.  Still I didn't especially rate the second Phoenix nights series either so maybe I'm just being picky...
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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #10 on: March 2, 2004, 09:15:33 am »
Dan   Dan   Dan   Dan   Dan   Dan    Dan    Dan   Dan   Dan   Dan   Dan   Dan   Dan    Dan    Dan

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #11 on: March 2, 2004, 10:16:30 am »
Don't sit down near them.... Theyre SEX people!


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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #12 on: March 2, 2004, 10:19:11 am »
Smell my cheese

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #13 on: March 2, 2004, 10:22:30 am »
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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #14 on: March 2, 2004, 10:29:36 am »
MORRIS: Alan Partridge is at Marple for today's horse races - I wonder what he's doing at the moment? Alan.

PARTRIDGE [longshot of him at a racetrack, surrounded by people]: Hi, Chris. I'm Alan Partridge. Horses - love 'em or hate 'em, from Mr Ed to Silver, that's the Lone Ranger's horse, they're all here mingling with officials. [Notices someone next to him waving at the camera] Don't do that, please. It's the 6.30 Queen Henry stakes, which is generally regarded as the litmus test for Derby form. Jockey folklore says that if you cock up the Queen Henry, you might as well ride the Derby on a cow. Which of course would be a complete waste of time. Let's have a look at the betting, the going today of course moist to tricky...

[An odds graphic, complete with animated horse rolling over and dying, appears.]

PARTRIDGE: Diabetic Charlie 3-1 favourite, Two Headed Sex Beast 4-1, and at 20-1 Mrs Boothroyd's Holiday Dancer. All the rest, 50-1 bar. That's all for now, join us again later for the race. Back to you Chris in the studio.

MORRIS: Alan, have you got a tip for us?

PARTRIDGE: I did have a tip - I was going to tip Union's Lad, but his horsebox was hit by a Volvo on the M3. Terrible mess, apparently he's dead. So bad luck there. Back to you, Chris. [To waving bystander] Stop it!

MORRIS: That's an incredible coincidence Alan, because last week Collately Sisters, you were involved in a car crash in which you were the only survivor. [Off-camera as Sisters appears:] Only because you landed in somebody's stomach.


.....


Back to the racetrack. Partridge is commentating on what he (and we) can see on the monitor.]

PARTRIDGE: Hello again, the 6.30 delayed due to a collapsed paddock, but they're sorting that out. Men and women here wandering about like ants on an anthill. Good to see Platitude Queen, a renowned... horse, well known for its sense of humour. Look at that wiggle, marvellous. [A distance marker appears on screen.] Don't know what that is. [More horses.] Two to look out for there, number 1, Zeinab Badawi's Twenty Hotels and number 3, Two Headed Sex Beast. [Bookies on the Tote appear, waving their arms around, as they do.] Great to see the deaf catered for by these real characters in anoraks. [Two kids playing about in the stands.] Couple of youngsters there fooling around, let's hope that toomfoolery doesn't escalate into blind, ugly violence. Let's face it, none of us want to see that. [Two women.] Two fat ladies, 88! Old bingo expression there. Although I'm sure that the two ladies there are not the kind of ladies that you'd find at the bingo hall. They're altogether a better class of lady. [A young woman having a snack.] Look at that, lovely girl there, chomping on a sandwich. Aaaah. [Something under a tarpaulin in a car park.] Not sure what that is, hope it's... ha ha, hope it's not a dead horse. They're not going to fit it in the back of a Volvo 340. Actually, I hope it isn't a dead horse. Sorry.


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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #15 on: March 2, 2004, 10:30:34 am »
The one when he goes to bed with his #
secretary and she covers him with mousse
or yoghurt
What the fuck are you doing girl

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #16 on: March 2, 2004, 10:50:47 am »
MORRIS: Sport now, with Alan Partridge. Alan, you're a keen fan of the law, aren't you?

PARTRIDGE: I certainly am, I support the law fully. Not too keen on those that break it, though.

MORRIS: How do you support it, then?

PARTRIDGE: Just generally... support it.

MORRIS: What, just generally turn up on a Saturday afternoon and wave at it from the touchline?

PARTRIDGE: [Totally lost] What? [Recovers] This is Sportsdesk, I'm Alan Partridge and it's a special desk of sport now, as we look back on some of the sporting highlights of the last sporting season. So lie down, relax, and let the sports commence.

[A montage of sporting events. First up, cycling.]

PARTRIDGE: If it's cycling championships you're after, you can't say fairer than the Tour De France.

PARTRIDGE [COMMENTATING]: Dave Bradaur there in the lead, swaying from side to side in his own inimitable bike-riding way. Klaus Binthere on the inside, pumping away with those gristle-like muscley legs inside those tight lycra shorts which have become his trademark. [A team car with spare bikes on the roofrack enters frame.] And I don't know what this man is playing at! No way! Surely the judges must come down like a ton of bricks on that. Carrying bikes on the top of a car is not a sportsmanlike way to run this race. [An aerial view of events.] You join me now in the helicopter as we look down on these cyclists that look somehow like cattle in a mad way, but cattle on bikes. [The finish line.] And there's Sven Gunsoon, closely followed by his close friend and teammate Klaus Bin- and the man with the bikes on his car is, yes! He's disqualified as I said, and Klaus Binthere wins. Riding none-handed! No need for that.

PARTRIDGE: It was a belter of a season for athletics.

[A 1500 metres race.]

PARTRIDGE [COMMENTATING]: 1500 metres there, and Cram... not a lot happening, quite unremarkable actually - oh good, someone's fallen! It's Peter Elliot! Yes! He's down, Peter Elliot, no relation to the late Denholm... and come on Pete, back on your feet, you can catch up with them! No, he can't be bothered.

PARTRIDGE: But it was upsets all the way in the dive championships.

PARTRIDGE [COMMENTATING]: Greg Lugani, down, double back twister, bangs his head and in. Textbook. Lovely. Let's see it again. He boings down, up in the air, double back twister, comes down, bangs his head on the board and in. Lovely! The judges surely will give him high marks for that.

PARTRIDGE: But for my money, the best punches were being pulled this season in the boxing ring.

PARTRIDGE [COMMENTATING]: ...as he's affectionately known to me. Thank goodness actually they're wearing gloves, because I've witnessed bare knuckle boxing in a barn in Somerset about three years ago, and it was a sorry sight to see men goading them on in such a barbaric fashion. And I'm rather ashamed to say I was party to that goading, two men fighting as I saw in the barn that night, naked as the day they were born and fighting the way God intended. Wrestling at points - I don't know if you've seen "Women In Love", that marvellous scene by the fire. It kind of resembled that.

PARTRIDGE: I'm Alan Partridge, and that was my sporting season. Why don't you join me for another one? Join me.



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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #17 on: March 2, 2004, 11:18:41 am »

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #18 on: March 2, 2004, 11:20:05 am »
and the top of the pile is this one.....

Dont be Blue PETER!

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #19 on: March 2, 2004, 11:21:46 am »
Alan Partridge is class....

some of my favourite quotes from the "Knowing me, Knowing You" and "I'm Alan Partridge" series' are:

"Ice white shoes, Ice white socks, who is this cool customer?"

ALAN: Ah, one more question. On the way here I did see a community centre with a mural on the side.
SALESMAN: School for the deaf.
ALAN: Right. That means there will be noise, or there won't be noise? Difficult one to figure out that. But there just deaf. They're not deaf offenders?
SALESMAN: Just deaf.

run the mouse over the words below to hear them!


want anymore? :)
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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #21 on: March 2, 2004, 11:26:06 am »
Found this site... ;D

Hire your very own.....Alan Partridge!!!!

AKA - Alan Pratridge!

http://www.pratents.co.uk/

There is a link here to listen to him....he does sound like him to be fair like.
http://www.pratents.co.uk/partridge_audio.html

He does:

Corporate Functions
 
Meet & Greet
 
Corporate Training
 
Master of Ceremonies
 
Compere
 
Weddings
 
Anniversaries
 
Murder Mysteries
 
Product Launches
 
Voice Overs
 
Radio Work
 
and this is the man himself


Ahh-Haaaaaaa
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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #22 on: March 2, 2004, 03:45:48 pm »
Never watched an episode.

Best way...

Can't stand the Alan Partridge character

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It would be rude not to...

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #23 on: March 2, 2004, 11:35:12 pm »
Fuckin hell, didnt expect all them audio clips but ta anyroad mate  :wave

and the top of the pile is this one.....

Dont be Blue PETER!

:D

NOW FUCK OFF!!  ;D
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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #24 on: March 3, 2004, 12:46:38 am »
brilliant programme, think its funny as fuck
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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #25 on: August 18, 2004, 01:50:06 pm »
No way you big spastic- you're a mentalist!!

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #26 on: August 18, 2004, 02:31:37 pm »
he is a class act, absolutely love it.

i love it when he is havin that argument with the women on "prayer wave"  and she says to him

"You have a lot of issues that you need to sort out" and then he replies "of what car magazine."


And another quality moment is when he takes the builder to the petrol station and he says, "don't be shy John, show michael your tool belt."
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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #27 on: August 18, 2004, 04:40:34 pm »
Loved Knowing Me, Knowing You at the time. The finale, with John Thompson playing ventriloquist with Cheeky Monkey, was class.

Not as good as The Day Today, though, although Partridge was a small part of that. Still laugh now at the clip of the guy scoring in the World Cup, and then kicking the ball back into the empty net as he celebrates as Partridge screams "And another!". The rest of The Day Today was as surreal and funny as it gets.

First series of I'm Alan Partridge was quality, but I liked the second series at least as much - the laughter track was irritating, mind. The presentation after he put his foot through a spike - puking and pressing the pyrotechnics buttons - was the funniest thing ever.

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #28 on: August 18, 2004, 04:57:58 pm »
The time is two minutes past 7, I'm technically a guest on your show, and you've failed to control me... Read the small print on your cone-tract.

Funny as fuck!
Series 2 is brilliant, but 1 shades it for me.

I would put the rest of that, but fellow 'Partridgeites' will know. ;D

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #29 on: August 18, 2004, 08:59:31 pm »
The radio show he did before KMKYWAP ('hello' lesbians') was class too :D

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #30 on: October 30, 2005, 04:03:28 pm »
Have you got a battery for an Ericsson?
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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #31 on: October 30, 2005, 04:08:07 pm »
Has anyone got any spare Tungsten Tipped Screws? It's just with Halloween approaching, I feel the need to dress up...... ;)

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #32 on: October 30, 2005, 04:16:38 pm »
Has anyone got any spare Tungsten Tipped Screws? It's just with Halloween approaching, I feel the need to dress up...... ;)

Why, do you see any upset zombies anywhere around here?

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #33 on: October 30, 2005, 04:18:16 pm »
Why, do you see any upset zombies anywhere around here?

Just me ;)

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #34 on: October 30, 2005, 04:18:52 pm »
Oh and by the way- I'M LEAVING YOU, YOU COW!

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #35 on: October 30, 2005, 04:21:25 pm »
Have you got a battery for an Ericsson?

don't be a dwad

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #36 on: October 30, 2005, 04:21:55 pm »
Or a dosser.

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« Reply #37 on: October 30, 2005, 04:32:14 pm »

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #38 on: October 30, 2005, 04:33:39 pm »
Nah but I've just driven up to Scotland in my bare feet. Those toblerones are nice.

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Re: I'm Alan Partridge
« Reply #39 on: October 30, 2005, 04:39:01 pm »
Nah but I've just driven up to Scotland in my bare feet. Those toblerones are nice.

Last time I saw you , you were prostrate under a cow.