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I'm Alan Partridge
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| Title: | Alan Attraction |
| Episode Number: | 2 |
| Season: | 1 |
| Season Episode #.: | 2 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday November 10th, 1997 |
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Alan has to face reality regarding his company, Peartree Productions, in the aftermath of his meeting with Tony Hayers. But all is not so gloomy as Alan gets a date for Valentine's Day! Jill, receptionist from Peartree Productions, agrees to go out for a day and night on the town with Alan, who works his charm on her.
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| | Artist | Song Title | Played When | | •China Crisis [LP: Flaunt the Imperfection 1985] | King in a Catholic Style (Wake Up) | | | •Steeleye Spain [LP: Below the Salt 1972] | Gaudete | | | •Thin Lizzy [LP: Thunder and Lightning 1983] | Thunder and Lightning | |
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| Alan: Happy Valentine's Day, how are you?
Susan: Oo, I'm a bit tired, I need my beauty sleep.
Alan: Oh, you don't need beauty sleep... well... 40 winks.
| Susan: I'm afraid I need to watch my figure.
Alan: Oo, I'll watch it for you, through my little binoculars. Whoo! ... Mind you, I can't talk, I've got a fat back.
Susan: What's that?!
Alan: It's a build up of fatty deposits just above the belt line. It's fairly well concealed in casual clothing, but ah, you don't want to see me in my underpants.
| Susan: Alan, did you send Sophie a Valentine's card this morning?
Alan: Oh God, no no, I'm old enough to be her father. Well, her older brother, either way it's incest.
| Alan: Ahh, that is the best Valentine's Day I've had in eight years.
Jill (Alan's Date): Oh, what did you do eight years ago?
Alan: I just had a better one.
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| Alan: Lion Bar?
Jill: No, I prefer Fingers.
- Lion chocolate bars, made by Nestle, are made of caramel, nuts, crispix, and of course, chocolate.
- Chocolate Fingers, made my Cadbury, are thin shortbread covered in milk chocolate.
| Alan: Time to run yourself a big bath: it's Chris Rea.
Christopher Anton Rea, or better known as Chris Rea is a popular British singer-songwriter.
| Alan: There will be no telephone Cluedo today, because of a threat of a court injunction from the makers of Cluedo.
For American viewers: Alan references 'Cluedo', which is the UK name for the board game 'Clue'.
| Alan: It's Valentine's Day; a day upon which Mr Al Capone ruined a romantic night out for many diners by massacring them. Died of syphilis he did, so there is some justice.
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, as it's known, was a 1929 Chicago gang-land shooting which left seven dead. Al Capone was probably involved, but certainly didn't die of syphilis, rather, cardiac arrest in early 1947.
| Alan: Chocolate Oranges are available from Rawlinsons.
Terry's Chocolate Orange, made by Kraft Foods, is a ball of chocolate, shaped like an orange, and flavoured with orange oil. A search for them at Rawlinsons might come up fruitless, as it doesn't seem to exist.
| Alan: You could try Watchdog, but, uh, I think they've got bigger fish to fry.
Watchdog is a consumer rights television program in the UK. They investigate scams and rip-offs, as well as provide consumer news.
| Alan: They start off the size of mini Frisbees, and they end up like actual-size Paracetamol.
- Wham-O! is the company who owns the rights to the Frisbee, which is actually a name brand despite it's almost universal application to all 'frisbees'.
- Paracetamol -- or acetaminophen -- is what most Americans will commonly know as Tylenol.
| Lynn: Alan, you're going to have to trade down your Rover 800 for a smaller car.
The Rover 800 was a executive class sedan that was discontinued after 1999.
| Lynn: I picked up these brochures for the new Metro.
The Metro has had many names, including 'miniMetro' and 'Rover Metro'. The largest engine available was a 1.3 L. Sadly, it is no longer in production, and lasted from 1980-1998.
| Alan: So's Helen Mirren.
Helen Mirren, born Llyena Lydia Mironova, is a beautiful and talented Russian-British actress who, in fact, was a little more than 52 years of age when this episode was aired.
| Lynn: So's Benjamin Netanyahu.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the 9th Prime Minister of Israel, was actually only 48 when this episode originally aired.
| Michael: So, are we having the full English breakfast?
A Full English Breakfast is possibly the greatest breakfast ever created, and usually includes a variation of the following: sausage, bacon, baked beans, toast/fried bread, fried tomatoes, and mushrooms.
| Alan: (Singing) Eighteen 'til I die, I'm gonna be eighteen 'til I die.
18 Til I Die is a song from the 1996 Bryan Adams album of the same name.
| Alan: Actually – yuh – Jill, a pipe of Pringles will suffice.
Pringles is a 'potato' chip brand name, known for it's characteristic cylindrical (pipe) shape.
| Alan: It's vulcanized rubber, which means, uh, it won't persih.
Vulcanized rubber has gone under the process of vulcanization, which, in effect, is a linking of molecules resulting in a harder, more durable rubber.
| Alan: The plague started from a 'malattended' surface.
'The plague' Alan refers to is most likely the Black Death or bubonic plague, which first arrived in Europe in the mid 13th century, however, the exact cause is unknown, and most likely wasn't a 'malattended surface'.
| Alan: . . . "We can't celebrate with the Spice Girls . . . "
Everyone should know the Spice Girls, considering they are the most successful girl group of the 20th century. They formed in 1993, broke through in 1996, and broke up in 2000.
| Alan: I'm Batman!
Batman is a famous DC superhero who lacks any superpowers/superhuman abilities. Instead, he is a brilliant mind and at a top level physically to take on and overcome any difficulties.
| Alan: I like the, um, Astroturf they, uh, placed on-on-on the wood there.
Originally called Chemgrass, AstroTurf is a not only a registered trademark name for artificial grass, but also a generic term.
| Alan: Went to Silverstone; shook Jackie Stewart's hand.
- Silverstone Circuit is a raceway that stretches more than five km and is situated in Northhamptonshire and Buckinghamshire; it is also home to the British Grand Prix.
- Jackie Stewart, or Sir John Young Stewart, OBE, is a famous Scottish Formula One driver.
| Alan: (Singing) Why do birds suddenly appear . . .
Alan serenades Jill with The Carpenters' (They Long to Be) Close to You from the album 'Close to You', released in 1970.
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