Let battle commence (it's not literally a battle, it's a poll): it's the Alan Partridge poll

Lynn's baptism scene is probably my favourite Michael scene ("Oh Nerys, right, so I know your name now.") and Alan vs Rob Brydon doing the anecdote is great.

STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO DO!!

michael is also the voice of compare the meerkat iirc

Why did you have to tell me that? 2nd series doesn't have enough Lynn in it, or it just could be that her relationship with Alan isn't as interesting and doesn't seem as important to either of them.

it also helps that linehan and mathews are in on the joke

Coogan is 'Manchester Irish', of course.

A mug of baked beans with a sausage in it is a great window into Michaels life but also totally the kind of thing partridge would actually eat

Knowing Me Knowing Yule - "God's a gas", "Do you want fanny?", weeping with a turkey fist as Mick Hucknall sings...

"Jews are good". LOLz galore.

series 2 of I’m Alan Partridge is badly underrated imo, especially the visit to Bono's house

― soref, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 02:27 (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm rewatching both and series 2 is definitely underrated. maybe people forget how many of the classic moments occurred in series 2 (the sex people, getting bond wrong, michael's apache attack helicopter anecdote, the prayer wave interview ("needles to say i took drugs"), medium-size toblerones, this, alan's pre-coital full english breakfast review, the cup of beans, climbing the fence at choristers, the wholly unsuccessful speech with the glitter cannon).

series 2 is the only alan partridge i can remember being on australian telly back then (a commercial network aired it at midnight in 2003 or 2004). it's practically unheard of here, even though mid morning matters went out on the abc last year iirc.

Voted IAP1. Funniest moment ever is when he overhears them impersonating him and comes in swinging the bag. That's season 1 right? The "dere's more to Ireland dan dis" episode

same series different episode iirc. it feels like the bag swinging happened when the hotel was shut for repairs (and alan later dressed up as a tungsten-tipped shower zombie to entertain himself).

and yeah, the travel tavern was series 1

which is the episode where he puts his foot on a spike and has that meeting on a front door with the SA man? cos that's p much the only one I know and it's the funniest thing ever

that's series 2 and it's straight up genius (michael's school teacher revenge fantasy is also in that one)

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michael is tipping my vote in favour of iap series 2, but then series 1 is the reason series 2 even exists, and kmkywap is proper genius. even welcome to the places of my life is a stunning piece of work. this is too hard.

Mentioning series 2 highlights, then "DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! … … DAN!" has to be in there.

would never have thought S1 could be topped at the time, so voted that as it's such a huge part of my life, but s2 was a great direction to take it in and it's just as good if not better.

IAP S1 for me. the rant at the farmer about sheds full of gmo chickens "THEY DONT KNOW WHY THEYRE SO BIG!!", and Michaels rude army story that ended with "so I flipped er over... and she started first go!" win for me

"...strangest story I've ever heard."

I got my quote a bit wrong lol "and he flipped her over and he fu.....and fu....and funnily enough it landed on all four wheels and they drove away."

"Theres nae porn on it!"

IAMP2 underrated? Perhaps

As good or better than S1? No chance

Did they get you on the old jeans rule? Nazis! But with excellent facilities… as had the Nazis.

I got my quote a bit wrong lol "and he flipped her over and he fu.....and fu....and funnily enough it landed on all four wheels and they drove away."

― Stoop Crone (Trayce)

I love the "ahhh I get what you were doing there" look he gives Michael when Lynn steps into the room and it finally dawns on him

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"I get 'Dan' shouted at me almost every day," Mangan told Digital Spy, adding that festivals are "a dangerous area for me. If it gets around the crowd that I'm there, I've had 6,000 people shouting 'Dan' at me.

poor dan

The Trip to Spain premieres tonight btw