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Alan Partridge Superthread - Sponsored by Dettol

  • 05-04-2016 6:23pm
    #1
    BMMachine
    Site Banned Posts: 2,094 ✭✭✭


    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!

    partridge.jpg

    A-ha!


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  • #2
    DopeTech
    Registered Users Posts: 6,754 ✭✭✭DopeTech


    Cashback!
    alan20partridge.jpg?w=480&h=480&fit=clip


  • #3
    Terrontress
    Registered Users Posts: 3,888 ✭✭✭Terrontress


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

    Jurassic Park!


  • #4
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    THAT, was a goal.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    My comedy hero!


  • #6
    DopeTech
    Registered Users Posts: 6,754 ✭✭✭DopeTech


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


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  • #7
    Skid X
    Registered Users Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    Lovely stuff.

    We need to talk about Alan.


  • #8
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 71,590 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Skid X wrote: »
    Lovely stuff.

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


  • #9
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek




  • #10
    Mr.Nice Guy
    Registered Users Posts: 45,535 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    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.

    'It is better to walk alone in the right direction than follow the herd walking in the wrong direction.'



  • #11
    Strazdas
    Registered Users Posts: 17,972 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    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 :D



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  • #12
    Edward Hopper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 713 ✭✭✭Edward Hopper


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


  • #13
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    giant-10-lb-toblerone-bar-6160.jpg


  • #14
    XR3i
    Site Banned Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭XR3i


    it's the japanese mercedes


  • #15
    BMMachine
    Site Banned Posts: 2,094 ✭✭✭BMMachine


    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


  • #16
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 71,590 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


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


  • #17
    Mushy
    Registered Users Posts: 21,106 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    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 :D


    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.


  • #18
    MillField
    Registered Users Posts: 635 ✭✭✭MillField


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  • #19
    stimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 7,815 ✭✭✭stimpson


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


  • #20
    Jeju
    Registered Users Posts: 616 ✭✭✭Jeju


    You smell like a brewery run by tramps.


  • #21
    alchemist33
    Registered Users Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    "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!'"


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  • #22
    MillField
    Registered Users Posts: 635 ✭✭✭MillField


    "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…"


  • #23
    Penn
    Registered Users Posts: 33,214 ✭✭✭✭Penn


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

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


  • #24
    discobeaker
    Registered Users Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭discobeaker


    "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'"


  • #25
    fussyonion
    Registered Users Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    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.


  • #26
    damienirel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 949 ✭✭✭damienirel


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


  • #27
    Big Vern
    Registered Users Posts: 602 ✭✭✭Big Vern


    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’.


  • #28
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    XR3i wrote: »
    it's the japanese mercedes

    lexi2.jpg?w=460&h=253


  • #29
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,266 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    THAT, was a goal.

    he's got a foot like a traction engine


  • #30
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    "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."


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  • #31
    ahlookit
    Registered Users Posts: 1,709 ✭✭✭ahlookit


    an oldie but still one of the best



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