Alan's Obsessed Fan - I'm Alan Partridge - BBC

[@loungejay8555]

He didn't invent the word, but Steve Coogan definitely put "mentalist" into the public lexicon with this scene.

[@jj9749]

and spastic

[@carpetfluff35]

Really made it hard for me to take that US drama show seriously.

[@w8m4n]

Derren Brown is a mentalist, but not a big spastic

[@alexojideagu]

@@jj9749 Spastic was one of the most used insults at school over 30 years ago. Nothing to do with Steve Coogan. That's why Scope changed their name from the Spastic Society in 1994

[@jj9749]

@@alexojideagu 40 years ago not 30 years ago

[@RiskyIOM]

Argh, why does this cut off the last bit of this clip where he realises it's a dead end and legs it through a field?!

[@RealityCheck6T9]

Cos it's the BBC. They're not like you and me.

[@Tmuk2]

I remember watching this episode when it first aired - literally rolling on the floor laughing at that bit

[@ab8jeh]

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[@Zerofightervi]

I'm surprised they didn't cut it before he said "spastic". Oh times have changed, we didn't know any better, blah blah blah.....

[@thagrammarnazi]

Zerofightervi Couldn't get away with it these days blah blah PC police blah blah SJW blah...

[@stephendines1936]

Jed I'll level with you, I'm really scared.

[@aestheticaltwat]

In fact, I think I’ll go.

[@Jimjam-lk4ud]

@@aestheticaltwat no stay!

[@shaynebergwever6268]

And we all laugh😆

[@stevensmith4549]

@@shaynebergwever6268 let's do an interview

[@JedidiahRose1]

Let's do an interview...

[@meanmachine3453]

“I can see that he’s losing the Battle of the Wall Space.” Such a simple punchline but that one had me crying

[@DaveDexterMusic]

so simple you quoted it wrong

[@fuckamericanidiot]

"I can see that he's losing the battle for wall space."

[@decgar07]

THAT'S RIGHT!!! IT'S AN ARIELATOR!!!

[@billybear2333]

@championchap chill out, fuckin hell

[@josevaldez4695]

@@billybear2333 that is tremendous

[@ModMokkaMatti]

That is liquid football detergent.

[@MelissasArt]

😂😂 Cracks me up every time that.

[@callum0592]

This is my favourite episode I couldn’t breathe when I first so this

[@stevechristie2569]

Callum Lewis something you had in common

[@iorekby]

If you enjoy this scene, read or listen to _I, Partridge_ in which Alan recalls this event, but he makes himself seem like Jason Bourne in a big fight sequence lol!! He's an example of how it's described by Alan in the book!: _I bring my elbow back, hearing the satisfying sound of bone on gland. I’ve turned his testicles into a couple of bollock pancakes and it feels good. “Would you like lemon juice with them, sir?” I roar inside my head_ It's hilarious.

[@iorekby]

@@BradPiano HAHA!!!

[@w8m4n]

@@iorekby yes yes yes!!! I couldn't agree more, the audiobooks are brilliant!

[@MrJonezy541]

@@iorekby I just downloaded the audio book, I'm so glad I read your comment lmao.

[@planetofthegapes]

One of the great moments in TV history.

[@martinkingston1498]

" Not my face, I'm doing a photoshoot for Vision Express" ...lol... .

[@Weegie2]

The best 30 minutes of TV comedy ever. Just when you think the episode can't get any funnier, it moves into a whole new level. Timeless comedy, it's still pretty frightening when Jed walks in with the tea 😂

[@HackneyShark]

I remember watching this on TV and crying with laughter.

[@mattsimpson8920]

“Chester. Near north Wales off the M56” 😂😂

[@lffit]

I have been searching for ages to find this clip, hilarious!

[@fooman65]

lffit missed the very end bit off tho

[@lffit]

Yes doesn't he chase him down the road to a field? lol

[@comanchio1976]

lffit I was only searching for a couple of seconds. You must be shit at Google

[@shughy1]

This to me is like the Monty python "parrot" sketch or two Ronnie's "fork handles" sketch, it's such a classic iconic piece of British comedy, and the other actor is fantastic, a true classic

[@stevechristie2569]

Nicely put!

[@ChristiandenBoer]

Alan Partridge is such an icon. Remember watching this when I was in high school and didn't realize back then that the character had existed for years. Amazing to realize that they have kept adding to the character with books, podcasts and other series using multiple writers. I know more about Alan's life than I should. Give him a second series you swine!

[@ulture]

Shame Stewart Lee could never use it after this, seeing as they based it on something that happened to him in real life.

[@nayden5834]

This was the scene that made me a big fan of the show. I couldn't stop laughing.

[@thecollector75]

Just one of so many amazing scenes that have me in tears well over 20 years fro. When I first watched them when first broadcast

[@waynecrothers2012]

He definitely was a one off,used to love watching this show on the 90's, good times...

[@satireisnotdead5804]

0:50: If you look just to the left of Jed, you can see a picture of Alan when he went to the owl sanctuary, which means that Jed had probably been stalking Alan ever since he moved to the Travel Tavern. Whilst this episode is very amusing it has a much darker tone than the other ones.

[@23Daves]

Wow! I genuinely hadn't noticed that detail before.

[@satireisnotdead5804]

You do have to strain your eyes quite a bit to notice it

[@jennytaylor3324]

I take my hat off to you, good sir. You're hardcore!

[@peternoble3691]

Wow! What a spot!

[@Adam-fj9px]

Good eye

[@phuckaducker5070]

I'll see you for a pint with my brother in Leeds then!

[@MarcZERO1980]

NO WAY YOU BIG SPASTIC, YOUR A MENTALIST!

[@davidjames579]

It was Brother-In-Law in the scene before

[@ftumschk]

"I think I'm slightly constipated... Surprising, really, considering the circumstances".

[@aarongorton1984]

it cut the best bit when alan drives into the field then RUNS ON FOOT AWAY FROM HIM LMAO

[@kevone-eo6pq]

it's a dead end!

[@timmorodgers4271]

The cut the best bit off the end!

[@HappyinJapan358]

You can clearly see camera crew in window reflection when he drives off

[@Wongzilla515]

damnit, they cut out the end of him running on foot.

[@brianm2881]

That's probably the funniest bit in the whole series. I think it's the idea of Alan being so high on adrenaline that he's able to jump clear over a 5 foot fence, accompanied by that little moan of abject fear as he does so.

[@yallgeekin7036]

“Chester, near north wales off the M56” is one of my favourite Alan lines ever

[@adampowers6423]

Interesting trivia: This is based on something that actually happened to the comedian Stewart Lee. The ‘obsessive fan’ later turned out to be radio DJ Christian O’Connell. The whole story was obviously exaggerated for Partridge, but that’s where the sketch originated.

[@brendandoe3082]

Now there is a really unfunny bitter leftist so called comedian.

[@DN21Media]

@@brendandoe3082 yeah like right wing comedians are really funny. Not.

[@brendandoe3082]

@@DN21Media adding "not" to the end of a sentence... you really know your comedy don't you!! 😂😂😂🤡

[@DN21Media]

@@brendandoe3082 haven’t you got poor people to kick you good old Tory you?

[@obsoleteworlds]

@@brendandoe3082 sorry to disappoint you but Steve Coogan is left wing, literally hosting rallies for Jeremy Corbyn. Maybe you confused him for fictional character Alan Partridge.

[@BubblyJubbly]

“Not the face! I’m doing a photoshoot for Vision Express!”

[@explorer806]

The reveal when they turn the lights on this room is the best bit (just before this clips starts unfortunately).

[@jakobcelen4737]

Thank you BBC!

[@garethmorgan3665]

The mentalists' accent makes me laugh.

[@ryanpostlethwaite9147]

Still hilarious all these years on!

[@naturalbornchiller158]

"Leeeeeeeeeeds"

[@Tetlee]

Thank god Alan was firm on not accepting the mini metro.

[@aestheticaltwat]

“Not my face, I’m doing a photoshoot for Vision Express!”

[@thehotyounggrandpas8207]

3:35 Kills me!

[@pr9062]

Absolute comedy genious this episode.

[@rockys201]

So this is how you end up when you leave Emmerdale, lol

[@KKTR3]

rockys201 ????

[@shafiq1537]

rockys201 lol

[@ZanzibarBreeze]

"To Jed Maxwell from Alan Smith. Who's he? Never heard of him"

[@daveangelew]

Yip

[@Klurpaderp]

Omg this still cracks me up 🤣

[@crappymeal]

The yanking of the steering wheel side to side while escaping

[@gitsurfer27]

That Alan Partridge mask is nightmare fuel.

[@TokyoJoe703]

You're a mentalist!

[@sturycroft]

For many years I never realised he said “glory be!” due to the terrible canned laughter drowning all the audio… I thought he said “blimey!” in some weird pseudo Aussie accent 😆

[@shokdj1]

You’d never get away with saying spastic now days

[@davidhealy4534]

No,you have to call them Slap Wristers now🤣

[@michaelmarron8441]

You couldn't then either. It was a 70s insult and Alan is a man living in the past

[@SweetNightmareASMR]

One of my favourite episodes 😂😂

[@greg_4201]

-''...hope you won't be a stranger'' -''Oh.. dost.. desowvis... no.. weho... won't be''

[@becausegang7266]

I often think I should uh swallow this whole and let it sort of slosh around my system dispensing the coffee

[@quirkypurple]

I wonder who wrote that bit. There are a few lines where we get to hear Alan's imagination and it's always mental. Like the time when he's making up memories of seeing Bono eating the biggest bowl of Alpen. Or when he hears the guy with the voice-box and thinks he sounds a bit like a bad guy from Bond; "Dr. No..Vocal Chords." Or when he see's Dan's "promotional" video tape of him and his wife and he accidentally hits fast-forward Alan remarks "it's like a hardcore Benny Hill." He seems to have this consistent, playful imagination that I find really charming. I wonder if it was someone in particular on the writing team that always wrote things like that. Was it Coogan, or perhaps Ianucci? Alan 2.0, not so much, so maybe it isn't Coogan.

[@quirkypurple]

@Withnail Good observation. I absurdist humour found in Morris/Iannucci's work. I think without Ianucci Partridge lacks a bit of soul. But Coogan is so good and knows the character inside out, it's almost hard for him to mess it up.

[@danw1374]

He could have had the biggest bowl of Alpen, but that was saved for Bono.

[@alexnorman4919]

First Class Lynn. Textbook.

[@aarongorton1984]

BEST SCENE IN COMEDY LMAOOO THISMAde me piss s o hardfor weeks lmao

[@blacktoothfox677]

haha - just posted this to a buddy. 'kin hilarious!

[@asobstoryforeverysong9853]

"I think I'm a bit constipated. Remarkable really considering the circumstances"

[@michellemealey2569]

Genuis gets me every time 😂😂😂

[@krisscanlon4051]

Glory be!

[@neilrobson3064]

Jed Maxwell - played to perfection……

[@FaithfulWriting]

Plot twist: this was actually filmed in Steve Coogans house.

[@aarongorton1984]

NOT

[@winsomehax]

This quote is why British people laugh when you mention the US TV show... the Mentalist (2008-2015). Mentalist is still hanging around as an insult today.

[@Mark-lj1dj]

For me this is the second most quotable tv show in history just after the inbetweeners 😂 so many classic quotes

[@karlsmith8212]

You can catch the sound recording crew in the reflection on the windows lol

[@peternoble3691]

My friend named his little boy Chester, but I always think of him as 'Ch-Ch-Chesta!' while simultaneously imagining the smell of a scotch egg burp. 😅

[@v35tan27]

Chester.

[@Amethyst_Friend]

Chas-taa!

[@ShahPhilLeotardo]

Jed Maxwell wants Alan to be his missus.😂

[@markoglesby4778]

The telephoto lens line didn't get the recognition it deserved.

[@LALakersNornIron]

Can you explain it? I never really got the relevance of the line

[@D82234]

'Well now you know where I live - I hope you'll not be a stranger' 'Wow er nop no won't be one...'

[@jul30ie]

You can see the camera and sound boom reflected in his car window at the end

[@davidcorbett341]

want he in Emmerdale Farm yrs ago

[@themanftheworld8439]

Yes Ian Sharrock played Jackie Merrick.

[@Htheorphanarian]

This is up there with the father ted black stain on the window for greatest tv moments

[@originalpickaxe]

He'll be your " Mrs " Alan.......

[@dkizxpt-su3ze]

I got it even if no-one else did 👍🏼

[@adamoram7159]

brilliant

[@j1592]

CHESTER NEAR NORTH WALES OFF THE M56

[@calvin3005]

Wow... I bet his bedroom's like Alan's 'mentalist' fan's bedroom!

[@aarongorton1984]

BEST FRIENDS IN WHOLE WORLD LMAO

[@popitinpete]

Rare shot of the film crew at 3:59

[@radders4190]

Classic Partridge

[@bipbipbopbop]

You're the biggest so you better have the mug! Brilliant.

[@leebeard3309]

Absolutely in pieces 😂😂😂

[@brwhizz]

You can very clearly see the filming equipment reflected in Alan's car in the last few seconds.

[@karlsmith8212]

brwhizz I’ve said the same lol

[@Pippistrelle72]

Yes I saw that too as I paused the screen lol

[@followtheboat]

Appreciate the clips from the greatest comedy ever, but cutting it short at the best bit?

[@cackyraphael8981]

Exactly, the noise he makes as he jumps the fence and the running across the field are hilarious.

[@TallSilentGuy]

I think at one time or another during our primary school years we all found ourselves in that position where you're trying to speak while someone's pressing on your windpipe.

[@frontman1977]

Film crew reflection in the car window at the end there at 3:59. The mentalists.

[@crispincattermole]

Anyone know where I can get one of masks?

[@thurmanmerman2720]

All good novelty shops and Welcome Break service stations in the South-East.

[@placidrenegade]

Are you a crank caller?....yeah thought so!

[@Mark-lj1dj]

Except for B Oddie, that was Bill Oddie

[@Snotlingfondler]

Whenever Leeds is metioned in any way my brain reacts with "oHHh LeEEeeds" Same with "Chaestur"

[@_SliK_]

3:56 Omd😂😂😂 legit had to pause it to laugh.

[@jonathancooper4914]

They don’t make ‘em like this any more.

[@markleaning107]

So funny 😂😂😂😂😂

[@williamsterben]

Jackie Merrick.

[@gordonm6108]

AHHH YA BASTIDD!

[@hiradnateghi3354]

1100000th subscriber

[@trivianinjaturtle]

Where where where where've they gone?! Lol

[@theheaterguyryan5052]

Who would have thought Jackey from Emmerdale would be so funny 🤣

[@jondickinson2864]

Ive always wondered where I recognised that actor from until now!

[@derekmccormack5900]

The part where he runs for the door and gets grabbed and when he gets chased down the rode is very Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[@dkizxpt-su3ze]

It's Carlin's missus

[@colinrgage]

I'm really scared lol

[@martytdd1606]

Iv'e been using 'mentalist' ever since that moment 🤣

[@richardcook3310]

Yes... it's an extender

[@spencerd9325]

Chester!

[@juddaphidcinnamonelliot6530]

this was based on an experience Stewart Lee had with Christian O'Connell

[@stevechristie2569]

More details

[@bobbyshaftoe409]

Brilliant!

[@christschinwon]

Leeeeds!

[@BarterTom]

The Chester reference made me laugh because it’s such a non-place.