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I'm Alan Partridge :: A Room with an Alan (01x01)
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Episode Information |
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| Title: | A Room with an Alan |
| Episode #: | 01x01 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday November 03rd, 1997 |
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Episode Summary |
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The first episode of the series, but not the first Alan Partridge. This follows the Christmas special Knowing Me, Knowing Yule, With Alan Partridge, and focuses on his life. In this episode, Alan is trying to get his life back and career back on track as he prepares for a meeting with the Chief Commissioning Editor for BBC Television.
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Episode Notes |
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The Linton Travel Tavern does not actually exist, and in fact the scenes are shot in the studio. Furthermore, outside the main 'entrance' of the hotel is actually a painted backdrop, despite it's appearance of realism.
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| Artist | Song Title | Played When | | •Paul McCartney and Wings | Jet | | | •Yazoo | Don't Go (Released as a single in 1982) | |
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Alan: Hello Tony! How are you?
Lynn: (playing the role of Tony Hayers)I'm fine. How are you?
Alan: Um, Oh, very busy; I've been working like a Japanese prisoner of war. But uh, but a happy one.
| Alan: One more question: on the way here, quite nearby, I saw a community certre with a mural on the side.
Estate Agent: School for the Deaf.
Alan: Right. Does that mean there will be noise or there won't be noise? Difficult one to figure out, that. But they're just deaf, not deaf offenders.
Estate Agent: They're just deaf.
| Alan: ... in that case, you've got yourself a deal. I'll take the house. (holds out hand to shake)
Estate Agent: Well! Gonna make an offer? (Nervous laughter)
Alan: Oh! Yes, of course... how much is it?
Estate Agent: It's on at 325,000.
Alan: Oo, ah... will you take three hundred... and.. twenty four?
Estate Agent: (Surprised) Yeah. (They shake hands)
| Alan: I loved your, er, article in The Guardian, by the way.
Tony Hayers: Really?
Alan: I loved that phrase you used, it was very very clever, where you said, ah, "revolution not evolution."
Tony Hayers: No, it was the opposite, "evolution, not revolution."
Alan: Well, whatever. (stutters) Because that is me, because I evolve, but I don't... revolve.
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When Alan is putting the cheese in Tony Hayers' face, the waiter abruptly appears to the left of Alan and places his hand upon his chest. A moment later, however, he is standing to the right of Alan.
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Cultural References |
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Alan: That was Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell . . .
Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell was released in 1970 on the album 'Ladies of the Canyon'.
| Alan: Dolphin Bathrooms?
Dolphin Bathrooms can be found at 28 London St., Norwich (Tel. 01603 764711): just in case you wanted to try to get 'two power showers out of them.'
| Alan: Idea for a film extravaganza; plot thus: Malcolm McDowell is trapped in the future, and pursued by a cyberpunk from the past, played by Rutger Hauer.
Malcolm McDowell is an actor you may know as the voice of South Park's Pip; and Rutger Hauer is a well known action film 'star'.
| Alan: (Singing) She's a killer queen . . . guaranteed to blow out your mind.
Alan is singing the Queen song Killer Queen, released in 1974 on 'Sheer Heart Attack'.
| Alan: . . . right up to 20th century well-toned women like Sharron Davies and Jet from Gladiators.
Diane Youdale was 'Jet' from Gladiators (1992-1995); and Sharron Davies (mis-spelled as 'Sharon' on the DVD subtitles), is a swimmer from England, and was also a Gladiators star: Amazon.
| Alan: That's rubbish! I know for a fact Martin Lewis got two 'power showers' out of them.
Martin Lewis is known as a humourist as well as producer.
| Alan: Not you Lynn! Um, stay here, er, get on the phone pester Debenhams for, uh, free lamps, free lampshades, you know, whatever you can blag off them.
Debenhams is a well known department store chain throughout the UK and Ireland; and yes they do have lamps and lampshades, but they're not free.
| Alan: (Referring to the bathroom) It's like being inside an enormous Fox's Glacier Mint.
Fox's Glacier Mints are one type of confectionery made by the Fox's Confectionery based in Braunstone, Leicester. These mints are known for their transparency.
| Alan: It's very Cluedo this house, isn't it?
For American viewers: Alan references 'Cluedo', which is the UK name for the board game 'Clue'.
| Alan: I can imagine Buck Rogers taking a dump on that.
Buck Rogers is a fictional United States Army Air Corps officer, who first appeared in a 1928 Sci-Fi magazine Armageddon 2419 A.D.. The character was created by Philip Francis Nowlan, but has been adapted since then and used in various medias, including TV.
| Tony Hayers: I don't think wine's an elitist thing any more, you can get good wine in Tesco's now.
Tesco, for those of use who aren't British, is a huge grocery store chain.
| Tony Hayers: I think I'll have the Fettuccini à l'Arrabbiata, please.
While eating they order pasta in an Arrabbiata sauce, which is just a red (tomato) sauce with spicy red pepper.
| Alan: Just give me half a bottle of Blue Nun, please.
Blue Nun is a sweet German white wine (Liebfraumilch) that was popular in the UK in the mid-1970s. It has a reputation for being poor quality; however, in 1996 it was taken over by new owners who are trying to revamp and improve it.
| Alan: I loved your, er, article in The Guardian, by the way.
The Guardian is a national newspaper with the third highest circulation in the UK.
| Alan: I suppose, what you're trying to say is, you don't want another Chris Evans on your hands.
Chris Evans is a TV and radio producer who had a BBC 1 Radio show until he failed to show up for work based on a despite to have Fridays off. His show did, however, receive high ratings.
| Alan: Shoestring, Taggart, Spender, Bergerac, Morse: what does that say to you about regional detective series?
Shoestring was a private investigator BBC television program (Sept. 1979 - Dec. 1980) set in Bristol; Taggart is a Scottish based detective series that began in 1983, and being the longest running program of its kind, it's still going; Spender was set in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and ran for three seasons from '91 to '93; Bergerac spanned over a decade lasting from 1981-1991and was set on Jersey (Crown owned island off the coast of Normandy, France); lastly Morse, as in DCI Endeavour Morse, was both a series of novels by Colin Dexter, but also a 1987-2000 TV series set in Oxford.
| Alan: 'Arm Wrestling with Chas and Dave.'
Chas & Dave are British rock 'n' rollers who have a distinctly Cockney edge.
| Alan: 'Knowing M.E., Knowing You.'
M.E. (myalgic encephalitis) is better known in layman's terms as 'chronic fatigue syndrome'.
This is also a reference to his earlier series, Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partidge.
| Alan: If you don't do it, Sky will.
Sky is the most popular TV subscription service in the UK.
| Alan: Opening sequence: me in Trafalgar Square, feeding the pigeons, going, "Oh God!"
Trafalgar Square, in London England, is one of the most famous squares in the world, and known for its abundant pigeon population. It does not, however, have any partridges.
| Alan: 'Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank.'
Christopher Livingstone Eubanks (Chris Eubank), is a prominent middle-weight boxer who is renowned for his eccentricities, including 19th century attire and lisp.
| Alan: . . . 'Join me tonight when my guest will be,' I don't know, 'Chris Rea.'
Christopher Anton Rea is a popular British singer-songwriter.
| Alan: Kate Bush there, the lovely Kate Bush, with The Man with the Child in His Eyes.
Kate Bush's debut album '' (1978), featured the song The Man with the Child in His Eyes.
| Alan: . . . Mr. Stephen Brai, whose father invented Catseyes.
Catseyes, or the little bumps on the road that separate the lanes, were not invented by someone named Brai, rather, Percy Shaw.
| Alan: This is Huey Lewis & the News.
Huey Lewis & the News were a famous rock group throughout the 1980s; you may be familiar with their 1985 song The Power of Love from the Back to the Future soundtrack.
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During the strip-tease/dream sequences Alan is always talking about a second series, this refers to the continuation of his chat show, Knowing Me, Knowing You, With Alan Partridge, which is also a real-life comedy TV series. This again is referred to as he is leaving from viewing the house, telling the estate agent he'll be back on TV.
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