I'm Alan Partridge 1:- Watership Alan

This episode Watership Alan provides arguably some of the most quotable Partridge stuff that has ever been written- and we see the birth of the Lady Boy- read on to find out about what those are, although I'm sure many of you will already know! It is episode three in the I'm Alan Partridge first series

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A Room with an Alan
Alan Attraction

Things are starting to look up for our hero. He has managed to land a new gig as the presenter of a promotional boat video for Hamilton's Waterbreaks, but bringing things back down to earth, he is managing to inflame the farmers again... accusing them of producing infected spinal columns... in a bap. 

Initially Alan has been asked to ask his ex wife Carol to film alongside him in the boat video. I find this a little difficult to believe, but it perfectly accommodates Alan and Lynn getting wrapped up together very awkwardly in the telephone cable! During this coming together, Alan 'comes free at the side' but replaces them with the classic 'the boys are back in the barracks!' Instead, he tells Lynn to ring Sol Dangerfield's casting agency and find him a forty year old scorcher!

Ladyboys

When Alan meets the men making the video- expertly played by Simon Pegg and Peter Baynham (affectionately known as Dr. No... vocal chords), we see Alan at his best trying to fit in with these 'lads' from the 1990s. He even creates the finest drinks combination ever made- the Lady Boy- a pint of lager, a gin and tonic and a Bailey's chaser... a drink I have enjoyed many a time, as have most of the Partridgian community! Alan very quickly becomes too drunk to carry on and returns to his room, after which he goes downstairs, has his breakfast, doesn't even wash his hands... cos he's a bloody bloke!

Hamilton's Waterbreaks

While Alan is making the video, we see more classic Partridge quotes such as 'This is a Saniflo 33, and this little babe can cope with anything, and I mean anything. Earlier on I threw in a pound of mashed up Dundee cake, not a trace... piece of mind I'm sure, especially if you have elderly relatives on board..."

Call Cliff Thorburn

Alan is doing well, but obviously the video ends tragically as he is, by the end, trapped under a a dead cow on the boat and is replaced by snooker player Cliff Thorburn... plus he also ends up making the farmer situation worse by angering Peter Baxendale-Thomas, a big posh sod with plums in his mouth, and the plums have mutated and have got beaks (again played expertly by Chris Morris (genius)) to whom he states that farmers make pigs smoke, and keep 20 foot high chickens inside giant sheds that nobody's allowed in...

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