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Alan to Room Service: Hi, erm, can I have an Irish coffee delivered to the room please? No? Right. Tea? Erm, can of Fanta? Minibar, no I’ll get it myself.
a b c d e Husband, Stuart (5 August 2013). "Alan Partridge: the 'A-ha!' moments". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 14 September 2015. Tony: [Tony is holding a bottle of Blue Nun, laughing hysterically] Blue Nun! Alan discusses his programme ideas with Tony Hayers at lunch: Alan: People want to err… did he ever turn all the lights off in the house and run towards you with a torch, hoping to try and catch the reflection in your eyes?
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Alan Partridge: Think about it. No one had heard of Oxford before Inspector Morse. This will put Norwich on the map. Alan is seen as being unaware and arrogant,” says Baynham. “I don’t think he is. I think he’s terrified. He just can’t shut himself up. It’s a stream of consciousness. He’ll say too much. I think he knows it. He has a moment in his brain – ‘What did I just say?’ Steve does a little shudder.”
Alan [Walking up the stairs]: It’s very Cluedo this house isn’t it? Colonel Mustard in the en-suite bathroom, with a lead pipe. Battered! Tony: I don’t think wine is an elitist thing anymore. You can get good wine in Tesco’s now. I’d love to make a genuinely popular wine programme. Speaking in a 2017 documentary – Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How and Whom? – Armando Iannucci recalled telling a (real) BBC executive that they didn’t want to make any more Knowing Me, Knowing You. Instead, they wanted to make an Alan Partridge sitcom. “The man at the BBC just went, ‘Oh God,’” said Iannucci. You know what this room says to me? Aqua. Which is French for water. It’s like being inside an enormous Fox’s Glacier Mint, which again, to me, is a bonus.”
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Alan: Michael, Michael. I was just saying to Susan, bit of a job for you. Unfortunately some vandals have sworn all over my car again.
Alan to his listeners: Kate Bush there, the lovely Kate Bush. With The Man With The Child In His Eyes. Which brings us on very neatly to my next guest. Mr Stephen Brai, who’s father invented Cats Eyes. Stephen, what was it like living with the… being the son of the man who invented Cats Eyes.Heritage, Stuart (4 April 2014). "Alan Partridge: a guide for Americans, newcomers and American newcomers". The Guardian . Retrieved 14 September 2015.