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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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holyzombiejesus

Nomad. Alan bemoaning the fact that he hadn't had chance to visit "Neil Buchanan's flat or Michaela Strachan's commune."

Cuellar

"If I had a pound for every time someone used an acronym that actually extended syllable count I'd be a...mil-"
"Billionaire"
"No..millionaire" *hilarious facial expression and hand gesture*

Crabwalk

OTH:

'Keith won! Great!'

The 'Summer of Sport' package might be my most cherished slice of Partridge. Christ knows how many times I've listened to those few minutes over the past 25 years. Sheer genius, right up to the last line '...as well as the Olympics'.

Of course, Alan was a slighter character when he was essentially a David Coleman parody, but I love the pure silliness and absurdity of early Partridge and that glorious voice, still unfettered by naturalism.

KMKY R4:


'I'm sorry...I'm not very good with kids. But you are a little shit'.

The Simon Fisher interview is the funniest Partridge interview on either medium, for me. The way a child decimates him on just his second appearance as a talk show host, pricking all his social and intellectual insecurities, making him combust and thus setting the pattern for his whole career, is great.

KMNY TV:

Yvonne Boyd: 'What if your arm bursts?'

Alan Partridge: 'What?'

Yvonne Boyd: 'What if your arm bursts?'

Alan Partridge: 'Sorry, I've heard of a nosebleed, but in my 14 years of professional broadcasting, including 3 years as a hospital radio disc jockey, I've never had anyone come up to me and say "My arm's just burst. Could you play a dedication?"'

Fuck me, that's an unheralded highlight alright. I really love those fashion characters in the radio series too. 'I can still see it!' I can't get it out of my head!'. In the talk show Alan often looks a total prat but he regularly gets some sort of last laugh over anyone pompous or pretentious. I love him rubbing up against those types.

IAP:

'Got your big plate Alan?'

Susan gets this line of course, from the back of the shot, and it's just a perfect moment. His attempt at a dignified retreat to his room - for his choclolate mousse-fulled attempted romp with Jill - is shattered at the last moment as his scam is blown wide apart. 'Alan Attraction' is my favourite TV episode of Partridge and is crammed with superb, quotable lines but that's an especially brilliant pay-off I think. And then it cuts to that failed attempt at twisting a towel around his neck - a fantastic little sight gag in its own right.

Enough gushing.

Bacon

'She's made more hot dinners than I've had hot dinners'

jobotic

I'm sure it's not forgotten but "So just to re-emphasise one more time, her contract has been terminated."

Paul Calf

IAP: The Norfolk Bravery Awards when he introduces 'Single-Hand Sue'. The look on his face as he steals glances at her prosthetic hand is just sublime.

It's here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8Uu0UMLSrI&feature=youtu.be&t=1m10s

non capisco

#96
Diddle-di-dit-di-dee, two ladies! Diddle-di-dit-di-dee, two ladies! Diddle-di-dit-di-dee, and I'm the only man, ja! Diddle-di-dit-di-dee, I like it! Diddle-di-dit-di-dee, they like it! Diddle-di-dit-di-dee, this two for one, ba-dum-ba-dum-bum.........I'm sorry, that was misjudged.

Alan's intonations of those lyrics is a joke I only fully appreciated when I actually saw Cabaret some years after KMKYWAP.

Crabwalk

^ Yes, the same thing happened to me! Saw it in the West End and almost jumped out of my chair when that bit came up!

MoonDust

Some great gems in here!

"Sonia, you are not the chancellor of the exchequer!"


Cuellar

At the beginning of Scissored Isle

"The clip went viral" - shot of the clip on youtube, 150 views in the bottom corner.

Mobius

Quote from: Cuellar on January 25, 2017, 10:08:23 AM
At the beginning of Scissored Isle

"The clip went viral" - shot of the clip on youtube, 150 views in the bottom corner.

Also has Lynn's Youtube comments

"only god can smite him"
"what is revenge porn"

Cuellar

I'll stop adding to this thread soon, but one more came back to me.

Towards the end of Nomad, when he's 'finished' the walk and is back in the pool and breaks down when talking to Dawn.

He says "When I finish speaking there's a silence, broken only by the sound of another boy doing a bomb".

That 'another' is so well placed, and reveals so much about Partridge; still the boy belittled by his father. I've always liked those moments, more prevalent in the later Partridge. 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.

Hangthebuggers

Nomad - When he's walking down the dual carriage way backwards with a cats eye in his mouth.
--

There's nay porn on it.

Was she born in a wheel chair?

Come on Pete back on your feet!

That tree looks like a spider!

What an odd man. Are we absolutely sure he's actually a Vicar? I mean... Where's he going?

And then I fought some zombies with a boy in care.

MoonDust

I actually signed myself in under the name 'the Real IRA'! I'll just go and let them know it's me...

....change of plan....crossed wires.

yesitsme

Quote from: Cuellar on January 25, 2017, 11:01:32 AM
I'll stop adding to this thread soon, but one more came back to me.

Towards the end of Nomad, when he's 'finished' the walk and is back in the pool and breaks down when talking to Dawn.

He says "When I finish speaking there's a silence, broken only by the sound of another boy doing a bomb".

That 'another' is so well placed, and reveals so much about Partridge; still the boy belittled by his father. I've always liked those moments, more prevalent in the later Partridge. 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 was thinking of that bit where he claims to have 'bested' Dawn - he didn't, we've seen he can't swim and while anyelse would have learned to swim I'm sure Alan's powerful mix of  procrastination and pride wouldn't have allowed him.  That reminded me of the bit where he's interviewing someone in a pool and he's struggling to keep his head above water then it jump cuts to him nodding to their replies.

In the shallow end.

mrapollo

"Nice action, very nice action.... that is a very nice action... quality action... I've got one though"

Also, from Ray Woollard: "A famular man..."


holyzombiejesus

The footnote in IP where Alan expresses remorse for his 'kid in a sweetshop' comment when a homeless Glenn Ponder had to move in to a YMCA.

Making Lynne spit her (own) mint out as she didn't deserve one, due to her being disloyal. Lynne is such a brilliant character and the relationship between her and Alan (and Alan's frequent jibes about her mum) is such an intrinsic part of what makes IAP so special.

They do it on purpose, Lynne!

Daniel

"...and the racist mother of my assistant (don't know name)."

MoonDust

Quote from: mrapollo on January 25, 2017, 01:56:21 PM
"Nice action, very nice action.... that is a very nice action... quality action... I've got one though"


Haha! My friend got a Dolce Gusto coffee machine, and when I moved that little lever at the top that goes left to right I said "Nice action."

It really is nice action. Go into an appliances shop and try it.

mrpupkin

I think they're worse than scum. I think they're...I want to say sludge?

yesitsme

Quote from: MoonDust on January 26, 2017, 10:53:51 AM
Haha! My friend got a Dolce Gusto coffee machine, and when I moved that little lever at the top that goes left to right I said "Nice action."

It really is nice action. Go into an appliances shop and try it.

'Nice action', 'what if your arm bursts?', 'sub-human scum' and many many more are now in my daily lexicon.

Norton Canes


Glebe

Quoted it as a fave before, but "In 1967 I misdiagnosed myself with cancer of the ball bag" is possibly the funniest line in I, Partridge.

mrapollo

The whole interview with Mel Hudson's Hawker in Anglian Lives is brilliant:

"Could be throat cancerrr"

"Fun fun fun fun funny hawker"

"Told you to drop it"

"I'm sure there's some sicko out there who'd put a mini-cam on a hawk and train it to believe that 'knickers is home'"

MoonDust

Quote from: yesitsme on January 26, 2017, 12:08:06 PM
'what if your arm bursts?'

I love this line. One of the very few times when I'm on Partridge's side at being bewildered at his guest's comments. Usually he's just ignorant and being a dick, but there I'm like "Yeah, what do you mean 'what if your arm bursts'??"

batwings

From a KMKYWAP radio show:
"You will not show your veracity on my show!"
"Ladies and Gentlemen, she just showed me her... woman's area!"
"I can't get it out of my head!"

Enzo

Digital Dave had some great bits

Did you had a favourite uncle? "My Uncle Harry. He died last year a virgin"

What's your favourite place in the world? "Gatwick Village" (His facial reaction when answering this is great)

Captain Z

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.

vic spanner

... but he's a deeply ugly man.

Not my words Carol, the words of Top Gear magazine!