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Oft-forgotten gems from the Alan Partridge canon

Started by MoonDust, January 21, 2017, 08:57:22 AM

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Lemming

"It's got the straps option."

And, from the same scene:
(after swinging the bag at the travel tavern staff) "WATCH IT"

Gulftastic

'I just want to be able to say "I'm Alan Partridge. Join me tonight when my guests will be, I don't know, Chris Rea".
Actually, he lives in the area. I could have had him over.
"Alright Chris!", "Hello Alan I didn't know you'd moved in"
"Yeah, just moved in, last week. I'm having a barbecue, fancy coming over?"
"I'd love to! Do you mind if I bring my guitar?"
"I'd rather you didn't, it's not that kind of area. Do you like Mini Kiev's?"
"I love them! But my wife's vegetarian"
"Doesn't matter. She can have fish"
"No she won't eat that either"
"Oh forget it!. You people"


Shay Chaise

That might be my favourite ever bit of Partridge.

ASFTSN

Quote from: Cuellar on January 25, 2017, 11:01:32 AM
Like when he recognises his old teacher in Places of My Life (I think) and gets out and confronts him. From the mimes you can tell the teacher wasn't very nice to him.

I love this bit.  Really pretty sad though, no?  The bit of miming which is clearly 'Did it make you feel big to do that to a kid that was only THIS TALL', the fact that the teacher is now confined to a mobility scooter and very clearly at the end of his innings and so utterly not a threat to the man towering over him, Alan's shaken facial expression when he gets back in the car.  I agree Coogan is really good at that sort of thing in later Partridge.


ASFTSN

Quote from: Captain Z on January 27, 2017, 06:45:33 PM
Just put "nice plums".

Cabbages. Don't like cabbages at all. Come one. Let's get through this lot. They're all rubbish, so take your pick.

Indicating a display of prize courgettes

I knew a bloke that had fingers like these.

He's dead now.

jobotic

Quote from: Gulftastic on January 29, 2017, 12:03:21 PM
'I just want to be able to say "I'm Alan Partridge. Join me tonight when my guests will be, I don't know, Chris Rea".
Actually, he lives in the area. I could have had him over.
"Alright Chris!", "Hello Alan I didn't know you'd moved in"
"Yeah, just moved in, last week. I'm having a barbecue, fancy coming over?"
"I'd love to! Do you mind if I bring my guitar?"
"I'd rather you didn't, it's not that kind of area. Do you like Mini Kiev's?"
"I love them! But my wife's vegetarian"
"Doesn't matter. She can have fish"
"No she won't eat that either"
"Oh forget it!. You people"

Let's go Lynn. These people are starting to annoy me.

non capisco

I have an annoying and unshakeable tendency to do an impression of Alan singing Kate Bush's line "Oooh, it gets dark!" when it's dusk or when someone turns a light off.

non capisco

"Is he going to get any petrol?"
"No, he's just using the forecourt to turn around. He thinks he's Rod Stewart."

non capisco

The meeting with Tony Hayers scene just gets quoted as "Monkey tennis?" and "Smell my cheese, you mother!" when the best bit is him having to think up the concept to 'A Partridge Amongst The Pigeons' on the hoof and saying "Errr....opening sequence...me in Trafalgar Square feeding the pigeons going 'Oh, God!'".

Shade

"Through the chicaaane. Then all the others. Through the chicaaane. Amazing."

Hangthebuggers

When he mentions missing a night's sleep and hallucinating on his breakfast show and jumping out of the way of a motorbike during traffic and travel.

Captain Z

"I'm a firm friend of Dale Winton - one of the gayest men in Europe"

MoonDust

Quote from: ASFTSN on January 29, 2017, 01:27:32 PM
Indicating a display of prize courgettes

I knew a bloke that had fingers like these.

He's dead now.

Probably the best bit in that whole vegetable judging scene.

BritishHobo

Quote from: Hangthebuggers on January 30, 2017, 01:16:48 PM
When he mentions missing a night's sleep and hallucinating on his breakfast show and jumping out of the way of a motorbike during traffic and travel.

I always have to rewind his too-aggressive traffic jingle from IAP.

YOU COULD GET A BUS THROUGH THERE, YOU *beep*ING C*beep*NT!

Bacon

Quote from: BritishHobo on January 30, 2017, 03:26:47 PM
I always have to rewind his too-aggressive traffic jingle from IAP.

YOU COULD GET A BUS THROUGH THERE, YOU *beep*ING C*beep*NT!

In a similar vein, the bleak monday morning jingle from MMM, followed by

'cheer up me old mate'

Dr Funke

Not really a forgotten one but always loved the reveal of the Castrol GTX bomber jacket, and the following conversation with the widow, at Tony Hayers' funeral.

Shay Chaise

Is Partridge pound-for-pound the best comic creation ever?

Sounds like a Partridge-ism, but serious question.

non capisco

"Fire! Fire! The fair's on fire!.........Not really."

'You're always going on about Benjamin Netanjahu. Give it up, Lynn, you're never going to meet him."

The bit where he's singing along to Hot Chocolate and the chorus takes him by surprise so he comes back with it more forcefully. "Y..YOU DON'T REMEMBER ME DOOOOO YOUUUUU?"

I could be here all night.




Twed


Repeater


Berthas Fat Leg

"The man was a perfect gentleman. But if you told me 25 years ago that I would be talking about rigid inflatable hulls with Dale Winton I would probably have spat at you."

ASFTSN

Quote from: Shay Chaise on January 30, 2017, 08:14:58 PM
Is Partridge pound-for-pound the best comic creation ever?

Sounds like a Partridge-ism, but serious question.

Now that the two audiobooks and MMM have been added to the canon, I would say it's a yes.

Cuellar

"I mean, even the NOISE he made sounded like a siren"

Norton Canes



yesitsme

Tell you what I like about Partridge World, all the ancilary characters are so realistic.  Alice, who just likes to go on barge holidays on her own like a wierdo, the band who play 'Close to You' in too high a key or the bloke who's selling the five bedroom bastard house all seem like real people plonked in a TV show.


Uncle TechTip

Quote from: non capisco on January 31, 2017, 12:07:33 AM
"Fire! Fire! The fair's on fire!.........Not really."


Is this the PA at the county show? I love when he goes off script. "I don't know if you're familiar with BBC commissioning policy..."

The panic that ensues when the keyboard won't stop playing at the afternoon with Sue Cook.

Cuellar

Been revisiting MMM thanks to this thread, and this little corpse by Tim Key is nice:

http://dai.ly/x5a6a08?start=456

nec1974

'You shot Telly Savalas?'
'Put a Conrad Knight sock in it'
'On that double vehicular loss...for Alan Partridge'

All the Las Vegas KMKY radio episode is glorious. One radio outing that is oft-forgotten is Knowing Knowing Me Knowing You, the fly-on-the-wall documentary.

'Up, up, up, down, down, down, jiggy, jiggy, jiggy, around and around'.