I'm Alan Partridge 1- Towering Alan

This is final episode of the excellent series I'm Alan Partridge. Alan is obviously very affected by the events of the previous episode To Kill a Mocking Alan where crazed fan Jed Maxwell pretty much kidnapped him in his horrific fan room!

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We open by seeing Lynn trying to calm Alan down with his fears of being assassinated-a hangover from the previous episode. At least he is cheered by the fact that his sleeveless jacket gives the appearance of a bullet proof jacket- the attacker would be forced to take a head shot, and he wouldn't even know what had happened!

Alan is very much cheered by the fact that Chief Commissioning editor of the BBC Tony Hayers has actually died whilst removing an aerial from his roof- Spiceworld- things are looking up for Alan! Even better than that is the fact that Chris Feather, who likes Alan (God knows why) has taken up the role! 

Onto judging the vegetable contest at The Swaffham Country Fayre- he absolutely loves the plums- just put nice plums- but is confused by the protusions from the onions... are they a good things or a bad thing? They would make an excellent murder weapon- beat someone to death then eat the evidence!

Sadly, Alan then attends the funeral of Tony Hayers (you've never looked evil in the face until you've looked into the eyes of the man who has just cancelled your second series). He eventually manages to speak to new BBC boss Chris Feather, who tells Alan that he needs to back on TV- Jurassic Park!

The series ends on a strange note in Chris Feather's office. Chris promises Alan a new 5 year contract with the BBC, on a salary of £200,000 per year... but dies just before he signs it... however, in a sinister way, Alan grabs Chris' hand and signs it anyway! 

So after a terrible start for Alan, at least things are looking up by the end of the series! However, things do change quite alot for Alan Partridge before the start of I'm Alan Partridge series 2

Don't forget to check out the quotes from series one of I'm Alan Partridge.. and use them in your everyday life and see if people notice

I'm Alan Partridge 1:- Basic Alan

Alan is effectively on lockdown... no not like Coronavirus, but because the Linton Travel Tavern is being refurbished and Alan is the only guest!

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Susan starts to despise Alan
Don't sing Susan... it sounds baaaaad! Susan the Manager starts to show her discontent with Alan's behaviour by playing a few jokes on him- You'd be the perfect Judas... betray me then kiss me... to which she replies that she doesn't want to kiss, she wants to go the whole way, making Alan feel rrrrraaaaather uncomfortable...

Love's young dream... interrupted
Alan is increasingly jealous of the budding romance between Ben and Sophie, so much so that when the young couple start messing about for 15 minutes he asks for a very complicated lunch request... a sandwich, cheese sandwich, with cooked meat, a hot egg, with a crescent of crisps, and a side clump of cress to be delivered any time... any time in the next 15 minutes...

Alan is bored
Nothing can satisfy Alan- he is completely at a loose end- the sounds of the panpipes... calling his son Fernando to tell him that he is wasting his life for being in bed with a girl... calling Curry's and stating that a basic grasp of latin is surely essential in the retail sector... to the one of the best moments when he walks to the petrol station and buys 12 bottles of windscreen washer fluid whilst singing Goldfinger...

Shitty Zombies
Trying to join in the fun, following being impersonated by Michael, Ben, Susan, Lynn and Sophie, he dresses as a zombie- shower curtain as a cape, tungsten tipped screws for claws (never gonna use em, never gonna use em), biscuits for dry face skin, tomato ketchup for a bloody mouth and the flex off a kettle for a tail. This disguise obviously frightens rather than entertains, only to contribute to the staff's dislike and amusement at Alan's expense.

Cone but not forgotten...
This towering episode culminates when Alan and Michael (I'd like you to lay the eggs you chicken) get apprehended by the police for finding traffic cones and saying look at me I'm a giant witch! This only serves to provide a source of jokey humour by Dave Clifton on the morning breakfast show!

Alan Partridge Fan Art- Dave Woodcock

Ok, so here is the Ferrari of the Alan Partridge Fan Art world- Mr Dave Woodcock. He started by making rude daubings and realised he had talent that was the tragedy. So he decided to create his own artwork business which you can find by clicking on the below link!

Terrible Cult Artwork (don't say that quickly...)

He also has a Terrible Cult Facebook Book (again don't say it quickly)

I once said it quickly and gave a paper cut to a man from Nestle

I'm Alan Partridge 1- A Room with an Alan

During I'm Alan Partridge, we start to see more of Alan's off screen character. Particularly in A Room with an Alan, he provides us with a great range of quotable material and jokes- one of my favourite
episodes...

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Plotlines
So A Room with an Alan is the first episode in the first series of I'm Alan Partridge, and after the first 2 minutes, we start to realise just how deep Alan's fall from grace has actually been! He is ploughing the graveyard shift on local Radio Norwich, and after leaving his wife Carol, he is living in the Linton Travel Tavern.

Upon Alan's entry to the hotel, it represented a great opportunity to intro all of the characters for the series ahead including Dave Clifton, the smug DJ from the infinitely more popular breakfast show, the smily hotel manager Susan, hotel worker Sophie (expertly played by Sally Phillips) and the wonderful odd job man Michael. This is not to mention the introduce of Alan's PA Lynn Benfield, with whom it quickly apparent that Alan treats her like a rubbing rag.

House Viewing
But things are not all bad for Alan... he has a big house viewing upon the horizon- his 5 bedroom bastard house! The sequence where Alan views this potential new abode is one of my absolute favourite bits of the whole of Partridge. Quotes like... 'What's this little sink... a rinser... get rid of it" and "Yes it's an extender!" have gone down in Partridge folklore. Eventually very happy with the house, partially because it has a Buck Rogers toilet that flushes on the first yank... he puts in an offer (£324,000 when it was on for £325,000) and the house is his... or is it? The estate agent plays along a bit with Alan's madness, but when he says he loved Alan's TV show, but doesn't get the A-ha reference, we know he is lying! He was never a Partridgian!

BBC Meeting with Tony Hayers
This is the first point where we feel badly sorry for Alan. Tony Hayers, played by David Schneider, completely wrecks Alan's dreams when he denies him a second series (interspersed with shots of Alan's lap dancing dreams...). He then completely tears apart all of Alan's programme ideas- incidentally many of which have actually been made- including Swallow, A Partridge Amongst the Pigeons, Cooking in Prison and the hilarious Monkey Tennis, until Alan's arguably suffers his first minor mental breakdown by stabbing a huge cheese with his fork and running back through the BBC to his car and the watchful gaze of Lynn his PA.

In an sad ending, we see Alan hanging around the house he can no longer afford, comforted by Lynn... he states that 'that was a negative and right now I need 2 positives..." one of which is the ability to get an irish coffee delivered to his room in the Travel Tavern...