I love the subtle lines that usually need a second watch to pick them up. "There's a boy's eye" and "Nosh is cockney for meal" are just two brilliant examples.
Mid to late 2000s. Internet was getting sufficiently fast enough to download a movie under an hour, social media didn't reign supreme like it does now and megaupload et al.
It was the ITV history lesson that catapulted Alan to the top of the prison pecking order, by convincing the rest of the inmates that he was completely insane.
Fellow Partridgeologist here; been a fan since his The Day Today TV debut. (Circa 1994) And I can indeed confirm; with a certificate I've written myself if need be, that this is indeed, classic Partridge!
@@BarterTom No, just because Alan thought he looked a bit less tough than the other two and Alan can't help but insult people whenever he opens his mouth.
Please tell me someone else noticed the 10 king Road reference!..(the fake address AP gave a copper when busted for stealing a traffic cone back in 97).... Its that attention to detail that makes partridge the greatest comedy character of all time 😂
Reading out archive TV listings for the sheer heck of it, really is the worth of boast worlds. Armchair Thriller is actually brilliant. I was pleased to see Alan mention it.
I have just served a 2 years 2 month sentence in an adult prison and after watching this episode I went around saying “I’ll leave that in your capable hands” to the screws. Only I got it but it was a way of staying sane. 😂
And they were all crap! I remember discussing the series Tintin with a colleague who came from Coventry. I watched it on Rediffusion he on ATV. I said we only ever seemed to get one episode - The Crab with the Golden Claw. He said the same but his was Red Rackhams Treasure! Variety of the most pathetic kind !!!
"It slowly dawned on me that Morris was asking questions he knew he and I both knew the answers too, which felt like cheating, then again altough a bit simplistic for the likes of me, it was perfect for daft lads"
How he described organising the drawer actually made a lot of sense. At the end of say a month you could discard the least used item and replace it with another item that you may potential use in the future , Spice World.
I honestly think the new show is just as funny if not funnier than the classic AP. The difference? No laugh track to tell people without much of a sense of humour when to laugh. There are a ton of clever lines in this but they pass by without fanfare. YOU have to see the humour in them. Of course someone might be reading this who thinks they do in fact have a good sense of humour and that they still don't find the new stuff very funny and that's okay, maybe it's missing something that made the old stuff work for you besides the canned laughter BUT I still maintain that This Time series 2 is up there with I'm Alan Partridge and Knowing Me Knowing You and I hope I'm not alone in thinking that.
Coogan has changed the voice, look and mannerisms of Partridge. To longstanding Partridge fans from On The Hour, The day today, KMKY and IAP this character is now unrecognisable. The character has had its personality ripped out and replaced. Partridge smothered chocolate mousse over Jill and found it hilarious taunting Bridie McMann about Lesbian slang names. In this series of This Time Alan is pleading not to be reported because a makeup artist played a joke on him. I get the satire on today's society but its not actually that funny. Partridge is supposed to be a spoof of egotistical z list TV personalities , not a satire on the state of social change. Both Coogan and the new writers are completely over thinking everything.
@@nudisco300 Some interesting points there. In an online interview with BFI Steve addressed the fact that Alan's character has changed a lot by saying that Alan has developed as a person and that one would be quite different 20 years later, I know I am. You have to remember that in I'm Alan Partridge he is having a breakdown. Everything in his life has gone to shit, his marriage, his career, his housing situation and in that situation you would go a bit mad but he's had a lot of time to move past that. The breakdown in I'm Alan Partridge is itself a new development not present in the original chat show. However, Alan's most defining personality traits remain today: his pedantry, his social awkwardness and his tendency to get bogged down with insignificant details. As for his new voice, one can easily pick up a different accent in a new town. It does happen. As for the emergence of overt political commentary, I can see how that would be jarring for some. After all, Alan always used to be pretty right wing. Reading as he did the Daily Mail and making homophobic comments. Nowadays Alan is aware of how going to a public school helps you get a job at the BBC. It is, one can imagine, just Coogan's way of expressing his own left wing values, which one could say means breaking character. I enjoy it and find it funny, but it's a fair criticism of the writing. Again, one could imagine a person flipping from one wing of politics to the other over a twenty year period, but it isn't the norm.
I don’t find it funny because the writing is very poor. The classic AP shows stand up to rewatches, these new shows don’t. As for the laughter track missing that has no relevance, it’s usage isn’t a cue for those that don’t know when to laugh, to suggest that is nonsense, The successful Carry On films never had a laughter track, audiences react because the writing is good. The other element which you’ve overlooked that is missing is Armando Iannucci. He’s the driving force that would’ve made this show distinctive quality entertainment that’s leagues ahead of the rest. Armando Iannucci follows on from a long line of talent that knows comedy inside out, Geoffrey Perkins was another master of producing great shows.
And the girl is great too. A typical simpering BBC female announcer acting so caring but a hard faced cow underneath! Simon doesn't ring true, but is quite amusing. Partridge is still vile, but more self aware than he was, which diminishes the comedy a bit ! As for the bit part players. Lynn is totally underused. The black girl reporter is a bit contrived, but the oily presenter now engaged to Sally is superb! The BBC is full of his type !!
@@johnsaunders2109 I think part of the problem is that this is a completely different type of show then the comedy sitcom and those jokes would not work. I think Lyne is in the show because they don't know how to make a story make sence with him having a new personal assistant when she stays with him despite his horrible behaviour. This Alan seems to be more based off of the origanal one.
this show is a bit poor when there doing there chat show scenes,until Alan does his own thing outside the studio there very well written and very funny,loved the silence of the monks,very slapstick and quality stuff.....
I put my essential kitchen utensils on hooks, like scissors and can openers, they all have holes in them for this purpose. The knives and forks have their own trays and the rest is chucked in the draw all easy enough to find. Alan had obviously gone demented overnight naming his ping pong ball and thinking of unnecessary utensil ordering, thankfully not some kind of dirty protest.
