Smell My Cheese You Mother! - I'm Alan Partridge - BBC

[@MrMarcusirish]

As most have commented on here, half of Alan's ideas would make C5 and ITV look good these days...

[@TonyEnglandUK]

I'd pay good money to finally see _"Alan Attack"_

[@stevebrazilio]

I do like the idea of monkey tennis or arm wrestling with Chas and Dave.

[@BarterTom]

Swallow would have been funny, and Cooking in Prison did sound good.

[@wisteela]

Still applies now

[@antiseptic71]

It's a toss up between monkey tennis and youth hostelling with Chris Eubank for me. Both of those would do well figures wise. Hostelling with Eubank is a golden idea. Imagine

[@vermilliongecko]

As an M.E sufferer myself, I roared with laughter when I first saw this. It was the first decent joke about my condition on British television. Steve Coogan, Peter Baynham and Armando Iannucci were a brilliant writing team.

[@mannixflinn6227]

ME is just another way of saying loafer.

[@JonJonJonJonJonJonJonJon]

Go gluten free.

[@0okamino]

Alastair Jackson - Nevertheless, it's good to keep the energy up.

[@jettcord6834]

What is M.E.?

[@SagaciousFrank]

@@jettcord6834, "Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also referred to as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is a medical condition characterized by long-term fatigue and other persistent symptoms that limit a person's ability to carry out ordinary daily activities." (From Wikipedia).

[@Morphstock]

In the years after this was shown more and more new TV programmes sounded as if they'd been pitched by Alan at this meeting - Ghost Hunting With Girls Aloud springs to mind.

[@TonyEnglandUK]

lol that would be SO Alan.

[@leighatkins22]

Omg... 🤦‍♀️

[@theculturedthug6609]

Cooking in prison with Gordon Ramsay.

[@adsyoffinch]

They’re still at it on channel 4: Huge Homes with Hugh Dennis 😂

[@augustjackson1148]

There's a whole twitter page dedicated to his ideas 😆

[@watchspotting]

I love how Alan described this scene in the book. He made it seem like he was clever and suave and humiliated Hayers, and then received a standing ovation.

[@StrangelyBrownNo1]

Needless to say, he had the last laugh.

[@simonsimon325]

Yeah, I love how he rejigs things we all know the truth about. It's a great idea. And to be honest I've done shit like that myself. Rescripted something in my head after the fact to make it feel less like I was a total bell end.

[@ExcitingBob]

​@@StrangelyBrownNo1 Needles to say - you did drugs

[@StrangelyBrownNo1]

@@ExcitingBobdo you shave your crackling?

[@buddyalbert5808]

This scene is absolutely brilliant! I’ve watched many times and still laugh.

[@gwasgray9309]

Gordon Ramsay eventually did Cooking in Prison.

[@gordonm7038]

George Begbie Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank is Holy Grail for me.

[@calvin3005]

This is probably what gave him the idea.

[@alexojideagu]

I think Jamie Oliver did too wanting to improve the quality

[@nunyabizniz1983]

@@alexojideagu but it didn't involve turkey twizzlers 🙄

[@NoahSpurrier]

When I heard him suggest Cooking in Prison I thought, "that actually sounds interesting". And there's a KZbin channel, After Prison Show, that has made a lot of videos on prison cuisine and cooking. It involves a lot of creative uses for ramen noodles.

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

I would totally watch 'A partridge amongst the pigeons'.

[@KrillLiberator]

@Chocolate Elvis You don't exist.

[@deformednutsack9886]

Oh god😂

[@delphiproductionsmusic]

Would be far better than what's on now

[@aaronturner9976]

and youth hostelling with chris eubank

[@thegoodstuff6130]

The idea of Alan trying not to flinch or lose focus while pigeons surround him and fly about while he presents 😂 I’d see it too

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

During a WWE Pay Per View a fan held up a homemade sign that said quite clearly : Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank

[@weezersthebluealbum9479]

Pat Tanackered Which show was that?

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

@@weezersthebluealbum9479 Wrestlemania 2011

[@judyhopps9380]

and it eventually got made :D

[@gordonferrar7782]

Channel 4 ran with youth hostelling with Chris Eubank and there is a pub sumo in pubs in the West Country. Fat men get wound up and heave each other out a circle I saw it on Eurotrash.

[@bungle3912]

I remember that, someone paused it and took a screen grab of it.

[@ad-mc]

Turns out he was onto something with "Who do you think you are?"

[@monstermunch4956]

Me in Trafalgar Square feeding the pigeons going awww gawddd

[@Reclusive247]

His description of this meeting in his autobiography, I Partridge, was hilarious

[@watchspotting]

“It’s an open secret at the BBC that you _smell_ like cheese.”

[@hbk441]

I choose to believe Alan's version of events. Tucking a crisp 100 pound note in Hayers' jacket pocket.

[@shellsbignumber2]

Youth Hosteling with Chris Eubank, surly only a matter of time.

[@AlisonBryen]

shellsbignumber2 One can only hope! !!!

[@Jayfive276]

It happened in a sense - it was a bunch of adverts for Hostelworld :)

[@DuderinoDeux]

It's Been done

[@kiryuchan860]

I might just go pitch it but with me instead

[@quirkypurple]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3iqZoKeesijhbM

[@gezzarandom]

Alan’s detective series idea Swallow actually happened, it was called New Tricks and at least one of the detectives was a maverick who wasn’t afraid to bend the rules. Plus more detective series were produced, Death In Paradise, Father Brown and Inspector George Gently. He really was a visionary. 😂

[@Pebble_Collector]

... Monkey Tennis?

[@nigelnyoni8265]

Cooking in prison. Gordon Ramsay

[@dannycheesums]

@@Pebble_Collector in Japan it’s a thing!

[@SDRockman]

@@nigelnyoni8265 "UFO Hunt" with Wesley Snipes and Dale Winton

[@HammerHeart3229]

Ah but did it put Norwich on the map?

[@QFIhawkman]

Train journeys with Michael Portillo.... I think that was from an Alan pitch.

[@peteg3596]

I shared a tube ride with portillo...cracked me up the whole journey

[@CaptainKenway]

@@peteg3596 Why, was he on fire?

[@dcarbs2979]

Great show, learnt a lot from it.

[@DaveyMulholland]

@@peteg3596 who's tube were you sharing?

[@a.tanner8524]

I’ve got the entire series in DVD. Very interesting show it was too.

[@JeansWebbTv]

3:29 The subtle sound effect as the cheese hits the face is great.

[@lukeowen4989]

Coogan's superb of course, but I really love David Schneider's understated work here.

[@johnmc3862]

Like looking at Coogan!

[@janeybundybird]

What was he doing on the bloody roof?

[@SuperMojoRisin]

Terrible acting

[@goonerfactor62006]

Probably why he jumped off his roof while getting the aerial

[@MrJonezy541]

This scene is extra hilarious of you read Alan's take on it in 'I. Patridge' makes himself out to be a smooth, confident hero which culminated in the restaurant giving him a round of applause.

[@bumly7149]

I was snorting when I heard that part. He's most definitely an unreliable narrator 🤣

[@sonicdiablo8968]

"Needless to say, I had the last laugh"

[@feddomeijerwiersma6955]

@@sonicdiablo8968 don’t be blue, Peter!

[@weldonwin]

The sad thing is, that Inner City Sumo show, probably sounds like something that actually would get made

[@HAZMOLZ]

If it turned out Channel4 or BBC3 were making it I wouldn't be surprised

[@phuckaducker5070]

ITV have already made a show called Spotless about people spraying each other with paint. Alan was way ahead of his time.

[@RadagonTheRed]

This is great banter!!

[@smokepepsi]

In Japan

[@seamusolunacy]

weldonwin I'd watch

[@johnmaveric5]

'Smell My Cheese' is one of the greatest comedy lines ever !!! ❤👌

[@mcscootie]

All of Alans ideas would have made him a multi millionaire on Australian tv

[@zapkvr]

Or in Italy

[@stephthestar90]

What's Australian TV like?

[@ZuluRomeo]

I get the feeling David Schneider was genuinely laughing at some of those suggestions.

[@gordonm7038]

Zulu Romeo He almost corpses a few times!

[@js3244]

He is you can see it with different actors throughout both seasons

[@thegoodstuff6130]

@@js3244 no shocker, I’d have the hardest time not breaking character with him 😂

[@simonsimon325]

He's very good in this scene. He has that glint in his eye that Tony Blair used to have in interviews with people he saw as beneath him. It's a look that says I love the fact I hold all the cards and you have no idea how much of a loser I think you are. Kind of sociopathic really.

[@danw1374]

​@@simonsimon325A legend in his own mind...

[@theopeneye]

Can't wait to see Alan rejected from TV and radio, being forced to become a KZbin influencer. But being so Alan, he'd make the right seem left and the left seem right. Observational comedy gold. The movie made me lol every 10 seconds and sometimes I was laughing on top of the previous laugh so hard that my abs were looking hench by the next day. Steve, you are outstanding.

[@adrianmackie6684]

"Who Do You Think You Are?" Was of course commissioned only a few years later. I bet Alan didn't see a penny.

[@HotJalapeno_YT77]

3:58 love how lynne almost pukes with the smell of the cheese😂😂😂

[@gregjones8412]

"Opening sequence...me in Trafalgur Square feeding the pigeons, going 'Oh God'..."

[@UnbelievableOdyssey]

Any of these would be better than 90% of what is on terrestrial TV at the moment

[@danw1374]

Alan's ideas were prophetic!

[@paulharries9558]

Only Alan Partridge would attack a television executive with cheese.

[@lsmoulton]

............it's got Walnuts in. 😄

[@twenkmcwanzer]

For me, the greatest comedy begins at 3:34. Absolutely superb. Announcing "I've got cheese - this is cheese" while running through a restaurant wealding a large cheese on a fork is a great manifestation of the inability to accept criticism. "It's got walnuts in - lets go" is my favourite part. It's either brilliant writing or brilliant improvisation. It's adds so much depth and insight to Alan's mental state. Roger Moore is a towel thief.

[@KrillLiberator]

"Inner City Sumo" "No." Ten years later: Total Wipeout.

[@harrynking777]

I would love to see Inner City Sumo. I think it would be very entertaining. Interviews could be carried out before and after.

[@insideoutface]

"I've been bad, Lynn!"

[@reggiewarrington4586]

insideoutface is it not A bit badly..:?

[@mcgrorymachined7596]

i get the impression this was the first time Tony's actor heard Alan's ideas and is genuinely amused by them!

[@sfshinz]

I would watch "Youth Hosteling With Chris Eubank", but only if Greg Davies was the host.

[@sfshinz]

@DnB and Psy Production Monkey tennis?

[@anubusx]

I want to watch Swallow.

[@RealmsOfThePossible]

Starring Chris Eubank and a monocle.

[@SirBorisHayter]

He could have a partner called spit. On first meetings, they could look at partridge and legitimately ask Spit or Swallow?

[@DaveyMulholland]

@@SirBorisHayter surely Seaman

[@gezzarandom]

Been done, it’s called New Tricks. 😂

[@NoContextRDH]

Youth hostelling with Chris Eubank.. That always sends me into a convulsion of laughter

[@oldmanc2]

I think it would be great entertainment!

[@arturskozlovskis124]

I would have watched youth hosteling with Chris Eubank!

[@seamusolunacy]

Its been made

[@danw1374]

Arm wrestling with chas & dave. Now theres a thing.

[@CelticSaint]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3iqZoKeesijhbM

[@gezzarandom]

It’s been done

[@MelliaBoomBot]

"It's got walnuts in............."

[@hotelmario510]

"That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is people like them, let's make more of them." To be fair to Alan, that's basically what the BBC's commissioning editor has been doing for the last 25 years. Also, I love that Alan's idea of a "maverick" cop is one who travels 80mph on the motorway

[@raithrover1976]

Whoo. Whooo. Who do you think you are?

[@pizzaman71]

Which actually became a programme !

[@PlanetZoidstar]

I met Steven Coogan today in Brighton doing a book signing. Awesome man.

[@JonJonJonJonJonJonJonJon]

Greatsaiyakirby could you fit the book in the side pocket of a fashionable pair of combat trousers ?

[@jacksdjfam]

I bumped into him in the sealife centre in brighton. Good guy

[@JurassicGear3k3]

If you didn't smell his cheese i will be annoyed.

[@dcarbs2979]

The irony that I met Chris Eubank in Brighton at around the same time. Wonder if they were meeting about that youth hosteling show.

[@veritas4364]

Did Sue Cook pull out?

[@jaytorr6701]

I would watch inner city sumo. Brilliant! He was ahead of his time

[@marvinc999]

"No-one had heard of Oxford before Inspector Morse" I'm reliably informed that that is a scientific FACT ! (it came as a bit of a surprise to me, too)

[@davidjames579]

Yes, it's true, Oxford University had a real hard time getting students as no one had heard of the place.

[@ihathtelekinesis]

The writer must be a Tab.

[@exeterjedi6730]

There's absolutely no evidence for it, but it's a scientific fact.

[@sparklesthefairy8482]

The things that Alan lists, half of them I have seen on youtube or they actually have been made into television shows

[@killboggins]

I remember seeing this for the first time and nearly had to be hospitalised from laughing so much

[@vantheman1238]

“Smell my cheese you Mother” was the one liner we used all season at Portsmouth RFC in 2001.

[@paulokeefe4419]

was is really 20 years ago?!

[@SANDSCORCHER]

That's what I was just wondering to myself. It simply doesn't feel possible. Twenty years is a bloody long time.

[@carlt9265]

27 now 😮😮 scary i watched this when i was 11 when it came out 😮

[@MrMikey54]

Not going to lie I would binge watch the inner city sumo show

[@markcowley1369]

"Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank, Monkey Tennis..." These are the lines that have lived with me for over 25 years and still crack me up. 😂

[@aaloo69]

Lynn’s retching at the end 😂

[@travisbest9041]

When Partridge runs with the cheese screaming and having a meltdown its so dark it's almost not funny. Like those scenes in 'Punch Drunk Love' when Barry flips out.

[@craigroaring]

"I've been bad Lynn."

[@hanniballecterspsychiatris8613]

Travis Best The line he says outside about the gravy train was ad libbed. Comedic genius.

[@mf103]

This episode came out the year Channel 5 started broadcasting, basically foreseeing its future programming.

[@SujoyChakravarthi93]

I love that we live in a world where Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank manifested itself into reality. I dont intend to watch it ever - just want to go the rest of my life basking in the glory of this occurrence

[@jareroken9127]

"Youth hostelling with Chris Eubank!"

[@marcusmaher-triskellionfil5158]

Monkey Tennis is actually Love Island through the prism of psychedelic drugs.

[@deanronson6331]

Let us not overlook the fact that BBC and American TV companies' programing geniuses had their initial reservations about such iconic shows as Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, or Seinfeld.

[@robertjsmith]

"Knowing M.E knowing U"

[@Chasemcloud5745]

Need some of Alan’s ideas on tv now to see us from tosh like love island

[@howardeveson3503]

So good grinning from ear to ear😊

[@crow-dont-know]

“This will put Norwich on the map” “Why would I want to do that?” “Fair point”

[@ForestKicks]

Goof: After the cheese goes in @ 3:30 the waiter grabs Alan from the right then suddenly appears on the left in the next shot

[@UnbelievablyGauche]

“Who do you think you are?”, was his best idea. It’s probably still going and they even do an American version.

[@mrpeter4691]

@2:05 That laugh was genuine.The line certainly wasn't in the script.

[@stevejelly3161]

I think that !!!! ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, it's so funny !!!!!!

[@TonyEnglandUK]

That...that...that's bollocks, but go on.

[@tomgeorgearts]

"I evolve but I don't revolve" - best line not in this clip...

[@yosieposiejones6590]

You can see he's thinking "Oh shit" as he's saying it 😂

[@forthrightgambitia1032]

"Very cheap to make, do it in a pub carpark"- this was filmed a couple of years before Big Brother aired and launched reality TV - prophetic.

[@Dead-Ball-Situation]

I now need two positives, Lyn. One to cancel out the negative and another...just to have a positive.

[@kena3133]

Steve should get royalties from present day tv for pinching all his programme ideas.

[@KentDonaldson]

“They stated badly, your programs your programs”.

[@stevejelly3161]

It's funny in Alan's autobiography he does mention this incident ,,,,,,,,, and how he respectfully declined the "lesser" offers offered by Tony Hairs as he yearned a further challenge. Can you honestly imagine Alan misconstruing the true version of events ????? ,,,,,,,, NO !!!!,,,,,,, Neither can I ??? Ha Ha

[@Dilkingt0nne]

'Dogs on the dole' could easily have been part of this sketch

[@Jimmy-r3b]

First time ever noticing, "It's got walnuts in." Made me laugh out loud.

[@josephpickard3108]

Sounds like he described Luther when discussing Swallow

[@stevebinning977]

"Cooking in prison" hasn't Gordon Ramsey done that one?

[@gezzarandom]

Yes and Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank happened as well.

[@BobBarker-o9k]

"Yea gimmi a second series ya shit" 😂😂😂

[@stephensimpson4022]

I found a certain irony a few years back when channel 4 made a programme about Gordon Ramsey teaching prisoners how to cook. Now where did they get that idea from?🤔

[@chriswyatt9869]

Just Googled inspector morse. Now i also know that oxford exists

[@nitaigauranga3849]

Season one is only second to Fawlty Towers.

[@Harriet-Jesamine]

Nitai Gauranga Exactly!

[@bewd4310]

I'm sorry I love Alan partridge but you can't compare it to Fawlty towers it's a different time and comedy style. Alan partridge is funny but Fawlty is hysterical.

[@danw1374]

The best 'Alan attack' of all!

[@theculturedthug6609]

"All on the BBC gravey train... Wish I was." lol.

[@PrivateAckbar]

Going "oh God!"

[@lonestar6709]

_"No. I'm sorry, no. Stop!"_

[@kh2475]

The withering desperation, and psychological displacement behaviour is almost so real as to not be comedy. I've been on dates like that. Such nuanced acting and writing holding a mirror to ourselves, as the art has done for millenia.

[@theovolz3073]

The BBC boss actor, David Schneider, said he could feel the prongs of the fork coming through the end of the cheese!

[@ab8jeh]

Just to say, second series in the bag, you're all on board... and, who left this coffee cup here?

[@MasterControl-MCP]

When Gordon Ramsey did that cooking in Prison show, I always thought of this scene 😂

[@nicolataylor6011]

Think the TV producers must have been watching this episode as so many of these programme ideas are out there..maybe with a few tweets..

[@deformednutsack9886]

Swallow sounds awesome 😂

[@slobodanreka1088]

"The BBC gravy train". This phrase grows in truth with each passing year.

[@GreenthumbsGarden]

Inner City Sumo sounds great 😂🤣🤣

[@BarterTom]

The way Tony looks so tortured after having the cheese shoved in his face.

[@caitthenerd7470]

I know it's random, but I rather like the font they used for the 'Television Centre' sign...

[@TonyEnglandUK]

That is such a Partridge-esque comment.

[@TonyEnglandUK]

Dear Ricky Gervais, Where did you REALLY get the idea of David Brent from?

[@hollingsworth_hound]

Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank 🤣🤣🤣

[@garrywitcomb2334]

Classic Alan, so thanks 😆

[@douglasladowski6342]

OMG, now when i get angry I just yell Smell my cheese!!

[@andyasdf2078]

"That-that-that's bollocks, but go on.." lol

[@noreenmcgick2355]

Joke's on Tony, Chris WAS very keen on that one!

[@edfinch1237]

".....monkey tennis?"

[@andycollier1268]

its got walnuts in

[@shreyanshmohanty4967]

Where can I watch full episodes?

[@zapkvr]

Knowing ME knowing you. 🤣

[@jackincorporated8480]

I'd pay good money to watch arm wrestling with Chas and Dave.

[@liamsproston5647]

It's got walnuts in it