History Series / ImAlanPartridge

** Alan, Alan, ALAN!

* OverlyLongGag: "Dan. Dan. DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN..." (Dan ignores him.)

*** And on the valance ('the skirt thing round the side of the bed')

** Although it's important to note that the joke seems to be about how bizarre and neurotic Alan can be in his approach to women and sex. After all, one of the things that upsets him most is that there's now chocolate on the bet's linen.

** "Spiceworld!**

* EroticDream: A recurring gag in the first series has Alan frequently segue into a kind of daydream in which he offers to do a lap-dance for a variety of men whilst wearing a leather codpiece and one of his Pringle jumpers with the nipples cut out, whenever he's whoring himself to get back on TV.

* AmbiguouslyBi: The only characters Alan develops crushes on or ends up being together with are women, but he has bizarre [[EroticDream daydreams]] in the first series, which ''all'' involve dancing for men, and then there's his obsession with 'ladyboys'. He has displayed slight homophobic tendencies, however (describing himself as a homosceptic), but later becomes more tolerant in his attempts to be seen as politically correct.

** He's a blinkered hypocrite.[[note]]He snidely calls Joni Mitchell 'blinkered' for not acknowledging his pedantic point above, despite the fact that he's the one apparently completely failing to spot the intended metaphor and lyric poetry in order to make a pedantic point that supports his political views.[[/note]]

** Although it's important to note that the joke seems to be about how bizarre and neurotic Alan can be in his approach to women and sex.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: A downplayed example, since it's more "Shallow Cannot Comprehend Depth". During a promotional video for a local company who run charter houseboats for holidaymakers, Alan interviews a young woman who reveals that she likes to book a boat so that she can spend some time on the lakes reading and enjoying the scenery by herself. Alan seems genuinely disturbed at the idea that someone can just spend their time peacefully and quietly enjoying nature by themselves.

1997-2002 BritCom starring Creator/SteveCoogan as Alan Partridge, a failed chat show host and candidate for the most UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist of all time. An utterly loathsome, pathologically narcissistic and self-absorbed failure of a human being with a permanent sneer, a wardrobe of Pringle jumpers and a fascination with 'ladyboys', Partridge, after a failed chat show in which he failed to get an appearance from Creator/RogerMoore, shot a guest dead, and punched his BBC boss with a partridge (''Series/KnowingMeKnowingYouWithAlanPartridge''), is reduced to the graveyard shift on local radio and living in a motel after being kicked out by his wife. The series took a close look at Partridge's life (such as it was) and his increasingly desperate attempts to get back on television. A second series was broadcast in 2002, which showed Partridge -- following an off-screen nervous breakdown -- as slightly more successful and a lot more smug. Other important characters include:

* {{Sequel}}: To ''KnowingMeKnowingYouWithAlanPartridge''

1997-2002 BritCom starring Creator/SteveCoogan as Alan Partridge, a failed chat show host and candidate for the most UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist of all time. An utterly loathsome, pathologically narcissistic and self-absorbed failure of a human being with a permanent sneer, a wardrobe of Pringle jumpers and a fascination with 'ladyboys', Partridge, after a failed chat show in which he failed to get an appearance from Creator/RogerMoore, shot a guest dead, and punched his BBC boss with a partridge (''KnowingMeKnowingYouWithAlanPartridge''), is reduced to the graveyard shift on local radio and living in a motel after being kicked out by his wife. The series took a close look at Partridge's life (such as it was) and his increasingly desperate attempts to get back on television. A second series was broadcast in 2002, which showed Partridge -- following an off-screen nervous breakdown -- as slightly more successful and a lot more smug. Other important characters include:

1997-2002 BritCom starring Creator/SteveCoogan as Alan Partridge, a failed chat show host and candidate for the most UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist of all time. An utterly loathsome, pathologically narcissistic and self-absorbed failure of a human being with a permanent sneer, an entire wardrobe of Pringle jumpers and an unhealthy fascination with 'ladyboys', Partridge, after a failed chat show in which he failed to get an appearance from Creator/RogerMoore, shot a guest dead, and punched his BBC boss with a partridge (''KnowingMeKnowingYouWithAlanPartridge''), is reduced to the graveyard shift on local radio and living in a motel after being kicked out by his wife. The series took a close look at Partridge's life (such as it was) and his increasingly desperate attempts to get back on television. A second series was broadcast in 2002, which showed Partridge -- following an off-screen nervous breakdown -- as slightly more successful and a lot more smug. Other important characters include:

* Lynn: Alan's mousy personal assistant-slash-doormat, who organizes his life to such an extent that he can't survive without her, but whom he nevertheless treats with thoughtless contempt.

* BlessedAreTheCheesemakers: "SMELL MY CHEESE, YOU MOTHER!"

1997-2002 BritCom starring Creator/SteveCoogan as Alan Partridge, a failed chat show host and candidate for the most UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist of all time. An utterly loathsome, pathologically narcissistic and self-absorbed failure of a human being with a permanent sneer, an entire wardrobe of Pringle jumpers and an unhealthy fascination with 'ladyboys', Partridge, after a failed chat show in which he failed to get an appearance from RogerMoore, shot a guest dead, and punched his BBC boss with a partridge (''KnowingMeKnowingYouWithAlanPartridge''), is reduced to the graveyard shift on local radio and living in a motel after being kicked out by his wife. The series took a close look at Partridge's life (such as it was) and his increasingly desperate attempts to get back on television. A second series was broadcast in 2002, which showed Partridge -- following an off-screen nervous breakdown -- as slightly more successful and a lot more smug. Other important characters include:

* BriefAccentImitation: Alan finds this trope pretty funny, Michael less so, and John the builder even less so.

* MrFanservice: John the sexy builder.
* MomentKiller: Lynn decides that Alan's date with Jill is a good time to deliver his fungal foot powder.