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* EveryoneHasStandards: Alan, despite being a [[DirtyCoward well-known coward]], makes little effort to hide his disgust at Greg Frampton eagerly escaping at the first opportunity and leaving the women behind as hostages.
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* LyricalDissonance: At one point, Pat "commissions" (at gunpoint) a radio jingle for the show he's broadcasting during the hostage situation. This leads the various hostages improvising a cheery-sounding little number about how Pat's been fucked over by Gordale Media and plans to execute the hostages -- "even the ones with kids!" -- if his conditions aren't met.
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* HiddenDepths: When Alan picks up the bass.
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-->'''SFO Steve Stubbs:''' And if you do anything to endanger the lives of those hostages, so help me God I will take off this police uniform and make you pay for it.
-->'''Alan Partridge:''' You want me to pay for your police uniform?
-->'''Alan Partridge:''' You want me to pay for your police uniform?
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-->'''SFO Steve Stubbs:''' And if you do anything to endanger the lives of those hostages, so help me God I will take off this police uniform and make you pay for it.
-->'''Alanit.\\
'''Alan Partridge:''' You want me to pay for your police uniform?
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'''Alan Partridge:''' You want me to pay for your police uniform?
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* TheLastDJ: With the North Norfolk Digital station being rebranded as "Shape" and old timers like Pat Farrell being fired, Alan likes to think of himself as this.
* LowSpeedChase: Alan, Pat and Michael lead the police on a low speed chase in the mobile studio, broadcasting traffic information about the low speed chase while they do so.
* LowSpeedChase: Alan, Pat and Michael lead the police on a low speed chase in the mobile studio, broadcasting traffic information about the low speed chase while they do so.
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* TheLastDJ: With the North Norfolk Digital station being rebranded as "Shape" and old timers old-timers like Pat Farrell being fired, Alan likes to think of himself as this.
* LowSpeedChase: Alan, Pat and Michael lead the police on alow speed low-speed chase in the mobile studio, broadcasting traffic information about the low speed low-speed chase while they do so.
* LowSpeedChase: Alan, Pat and Michael lead the police on a
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* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: Alan loses his trousers and underpants while wriggling out through a window. Before he can retrieve them, he is confronted by an armed police officer and a paparazzo.
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* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: Alan loses his trousers and underpants while [[StrippingSnag wriggling out through a window. window]]. Before he can retrieve them, he is confronted by an armed police officer and a paparazzo.{{paparazz|i}}o.
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** At the end of the movie, a police sniper reacting to gunfire comically misses Pat and instead accidentally shoots Alan, who was standing a good five metres away from him.
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** At the end of the movie, a police sniper reacting to gunfire comically misses Pat and instead accidentally shoots Alan, who was standing a good five metres meters away from him.
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** After escaping from Pat on the pier, Alan arms himself with an air rifle from one of the amusement arcades. However, when he tries to shoot Pat, it is revealed the gypsies who run the arcade have messed with the sights, meaning he comically misses him by a good few metres.
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** After escaping from Pat on the pier, Alan arms himself with an air rifle from one of the amusement arcades. However, when he tries to shoot Pat, it is revealed the gypsies who run the arcade have messed with the sights, meaning he comically misses him by a good few metres.meters.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
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''Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa'' (known in the United States as ''Alan Partridge'') is a 2013 British action comedy film featuring fictional radio and television presenter Series/AlanPartridge, played by Creator/SteveCoogan.
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''Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa'' (known in the United States as ''Alan Partridge'') is a 2013 British action comedy film featuring fictional radio and television presenter Series/AlanPartridge, Franchise/AlanPartridge, played by Creator/SteveCoogan.
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''Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa'' (known in the United States as ''Alan Partridge'') is a 2013 British action comedy film featuring fictional radio and television presenter Series/AlanPartridge, played by SteveCoogan.
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''Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa'' (known in the United States as ''Alan Partridge'') is a 2013 British action comedy film featuring fictional radio and television presenter Series/AlanPartridge, played by SteveCoogan.
Creator/SteveCoogan.
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* StrippingSnag: Alan loses his trousers and underpants when he squeezes out through a narrow window, leaving him naked from the waist down.
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* ExcrementStatement: Narrowly avoided. As Pat discovers that everything was his pal Alan's fault while in the mobile studio, the only hiding place available for Alan is the van's septic tank. Upon discovery and after a short chat, Pat begins to unbutton his pants, before the ttank gives way and Alan escapes.
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* ExcrementStatement: Narrowly avoided. As Pat discovers that everything was his pal Alan's fault while in the mobile studio, the only hiding place available for Alan is the van's septic tank. Upon discovery and after a short chat, Pat begins to unbutton his pants, before the ttank tank gives way and Alan escapes.
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* HostageSituation: After being fired, Pat returns to the studio with a shotgun and takes everyone hostage.
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* ExcrementStatement: Narrowly avoided. As Pat discovers that everything was his pal Alan's fault while in the mobile studio, the only hiding place available for Alan is the van's septic tank. Upon discovery and after a short chat, Pat begins to unbutton his pants, before the ttank gives way and Alan escapes.
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* ActorAllusion: Pat's late wife was called [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Molly]].
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* BadBoss: Alan, although less so than in previous appearances. After accidentally clobbering Simon with a fire extinguisher whilst escaping the siege, he makes no effort to help him get out. Also, his treatment of Lyn throughout the film shows him to be a less than desirable person to work with.
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* PoliceAreUseless: At the end of the movie, a police sniper reacting to gunfire comically misses Pat and instead accidentally shoots Alan, who was standing a good five metres away from him.
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* PoliceAreUseless: At The police, and especially the firearm officers, are portrayed as pretty gung-ho and unprofessional throughout the film.
**The chief firearms officer threatens to beat Alan up if he endangers the lives of the hostages.
**Another firearms officer asks Alan if he wants to see his sidearm, and then proceeds to jokingly get him in a headlock and threaten to shoot him in the head.
**One of the uniformed officers accidentally prints out a picture of a young male model for Pat Farrell's criminal profile, despite knowing he is well over 50.
**At the end of the movie, a police sniper reacting to gunfire comically misses Pat and instead accidentally shoots Alan, who was standing a good five metres away from him.
**The chief firearms officer threatens to beat Alan up if he endangers the lives of the hostages.
**Another firearms officer asks Alan if he wants to see his sidearm, and then proceeds to jokingly get him in a headlock and threaten to shoot him in the head.
**One of the uniformed officers accidentally prints out a picture of a young male model for Pat Farrell's criminal profile, despite knowing he is well over 50.
**At the end of the movie, a police sniper reacting to gunfire comically misses Pat and instead accidentally shoots Alan, who was standing a good five metres away from him.
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* BigDamnMovie: Radio Norwich is being held hostage by a disgruntled DJ and the hapless presenter becomes a siege negotiator.
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* BigDamnMovie: Radio Norwich North Norfolk Digital is being held hostage by a disgruntled DJ and the hapless presenter becomes a siege negotiator.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Alan, when he is being briefed by the chief firearms officer before entering the building:
-->'''SFO Steve Stubbs:''' And if you do anything to endanger the lives of those hostages, so help me God I will take off this police uniform and make you pay for it.
-->'''Alan Partridge:''' You want me to pay for your police uniform?
-->'''SFO Steve Stubbs:''' And if you do anything to endanger the lives of those hostages, so help me God I will take off this police uniform and make you pay for it.
-->'''Alan Partridge:''' You want me to pay for your police uniform?
* JurisdictionFriction: Between Janet Whitehead, the Chief Constable of Norfolk Police and Martin Finch, a hotshot hostage negotiator from Scotland Yard.
* MexicanStandoff: Between Pat and Alan on the pier, however Alan is only armed with an air rifle.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: Played straight; Alan gets shot non-fatally in the shoulder.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: Played straight; Alan gets shot non-fatally in the shoulder.shoulder and the leg.
* PoliceAreUseless: At the end of the movie, a police sniper reacting to gunfire comically misses Pat and instead accidentally shoots Alan, who was standing a good five metres away from him.
* PoliceAreUseless: At the end of the movie, a police sniper reacting to gunfire comically misses Pat and instead accidentally shoots Alan, who was standing a good five metres away from him.
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* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: Alan attempts to fling Pat's shotgun into the sea. It lands on the pier railing and goes off, shooting Alan.
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* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: ReliablyUnreliableGuns:
**After escaping from Pat on the pier, Alan arms himself with an air rifle from one of the amusement arcades. However, when he tries to shoot Pat, it is revealed the gypsies who run the arcade have messed with the sights, meaning he comically misses him by a good few metres.
**Alan later attempts to fling Pat's shotgun into the sea. It lands on the pier railing and goes off, shooting Alan.
**After escaping from Pat on the pier, Alan arms himself with an air rifle from one of the amusement arcades. However, when he tries to shoot Pat, it is revealed the gypsies who run the arcade have messed with the sights, meaning he comically misses him by a good few metres.
**Alan later attempts to fling Pat's shotgun into the sea. It lands on the pier railing and goes off, shooting Alan.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Alan is just a little bit nicer in the movie than he is in several of the other things he's appeared in. The ending, where he takes pity on Pat upon learning of the death of his wife, is one of the few occasions he's ever shown any kind of sympathy or empathy for someone else.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Alan is just a little bit nicer in the movie than he is in several of the other things he's appeared in. The ending, where he takes shows pity on towards Pat upon learning of the death of his wife, is one of the few occasions he's ever shown demonstrated any kind of sympathy or empathy for someone else.
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* ButtMonkey: Sidekick Simon has any number of unfortunate calamities befall him in this movie, most of them by Alan's hand.
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''Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa'' (known in the United States as ''Alan Partridge'') is a 2013 British action comedy film featuring fictional radio and television presenter [[Series/AlanPartridge]], played by SteveCoogan.
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''Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa'' (known in the United States as ''Alan Partridge'') is a 2013 British action comedy film featuring fictional radio and television presenter [[Series/AlanPartridge]], Series/AlanPartridge, played by SteveCoogan.
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''Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa'' (known in the United States as ''Alan Partridge'') is a 2013 British action comedy film featuring fictional radio and television presenter Alan Partridge, played by SteveCoogan.
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''Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa'' (known in the United States as ''Alan Partridge'') is a 2013 British action comedy film featuring fictional radio and television presenter Alan Partridge, [[Series/AlanPartridge]], played by SteveCoogan.
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When famous DJ Alan Partridge's radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege.
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When famous ([[SmallNameBigEgo in-his-own-head]]) DJ Alan Partridge's radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege.
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* JugglingLoadedGuns: Just about everyone who gets hold of a gun in the movie manages to do something stupid (and hilarious) with it.
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* JugglingLoadedGuns: Just about everyone who gets hold of a gun in the movie manages to do something stupid (and hilarious) with it. Highlights include someone with a taser shooting someone holding a shotgun, and Alan tossing away a loaded shotgun so that it goes off when it lands.
