History Series / ImAlanPartridge

** And Sue Cook: in reality inoffensive and mild-mannered, in the Alan universe she becomes a foul-mouthed, abusive heavy smoker. Cook sent a letter to Coogan after the show apologising for her behaviour.
* {{Sequel}}: To ''Series/KnowingMeKnowingYouWithAlanPartridge''

* SimilarSquad: Alan's chance meeting with Dan. Dan. Dan. DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN...

* EpicFail: Alan's attempt at giving an awards speech to a fire-heater company in "The Colour of Alan". It ''starts'' with him impaling his foot on a spike while trying to climb the fence into the venue after being denied access... and goes even further downhill from there when he stubbornly insists on going through with it and not going to the hospital.

* OverlyLongGag: "Dan. Dan. DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN..." (Dan is too far away to hear him)

* 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, who is of course a huge narcissist who emotionally collapses if he doesn't have an audience of some kind, seems genuinely disturbed at the idea that someone can just spend their time peacefully and quietly enjoying nature all alone.

-->'''Jed:''' ''[proudly]'' It took five hours! I fainted three times!

* {{Narcissist}}: Alan is extremely arrogant and believes he's better than most people he comes across. He genuinely thinks that he's should be treated like a top celebrity, and one of his main driving forces throughout the series is getting other people to recognize it.

* VocalRangeExceeded: Alan's rendition of "Close to You", where he starts too high, tries to correct for it, then just gives up.

-->"I didn't know you were into music. I know you're a DJ but I've heard your show."

*** And on the valance! [[note]]The skirt thing round the side of the bed[[/note]]

-->'''Alan''': Yeah, well, you could end some of your chapters with "''needles'' to say... I took drugs".

* JadedWashout: Alan. The show is all about "The bitter life of a failed chat show host".

* LoonyFan: Alan's "biggest fan" has an [[StalkerShrine entire room devoted to photos of him]], with a life-size mannequin in it. He also has a tattoo of Alan's face across his entire chest.
-->'''Fan:''' ''[boastfully]'' It took four hours! I passed out twice!

* {{Determinator}}: One of Alan's few virtues is on full display in "The Colour of Alan," where he insists on presenting a sales conference despite a badly-wounded (and still bleeding) foot. Alan pushes through his presentation as best he can, and even dismisses Lynn's (very justified) urging to cancel his commitment out of hand.

* {{Determinator}}: One of Alan's few virtues is on full display in "The Colour of Alan," where he insists on presenting a sales conference despite a badly-wounded (and still bleeding) foot. Alan pushes through his presentation as best he can, after first dismissing Lynn's (very justified) urging to cancel the commitment.
-->'''Alan:''' Lynn, some of these people have come from ''Stoke''.

->'''"... Monkey Tennis?"''

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Having bullied a fan into telling him what's wrong with his autobiography - namely that anecdotes are apparently not Alan's thing - Alan embarks upon a ''Series/BluePeter''-related one that actually ''works'', unlike a lot of his attempts at humour.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All famous movie titles with the word "Alan" awkwardly inserted into them.

* IronicEcho: In the first episode, when Alan and Lynn are role-playing Alan's upcoming meeting with Tony Hayers, Alan gets Lynn to act out Tony's reasons for the worst case scenario of not giving him a second series. Lynn's in-character response is that the ratings for his show started badly and got worse. This spooks Alan and he eventually forces her to just tell him that he's getting a second series. Later, when Alan actually meets with Tony, when Tony finally puts his foot down and informs Alan he's not getting the second series his reasons are worded almost exactly as Lynn predicted word-for-word.

** His career isn't going very well. [[note]]The time check is for 4.30AM -- not exactly a peak hour for radio listeners.[[/note]]

-->"It's difficult to understand you when you say 'splidding' as I know in real life you say ''splitting''. It's interesting, the way you substitute a D for a T when you're broadcasting. If you ask me it's the behaviour of a ''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar dosser]]''."

** Yhe hilariously distracting "[[FunnyBackgroundEvent background]]" traffic noise he uses for a traffic report in series 2, which has Alan delivering a screamed bleeped-out ClusterFBomb.

1997-2002 BritCom starring Creator/SteveCoogan as Franchise/AlanPartridge, 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:

1997-2002 BritCom starring Creator/SteveCoogan as Series/AlanPartridge, 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:

* BullyHunter: In the last episode of series two, Lynn introduces Alan to her friend, a retired policeman who attends her church, who reveals that he's heard all about Alan -- and has managed to piece together exactly what sort of a man he is, informing him in no uncertain terms that if he doesn't stop bullying Lynn and treating her like a doormat he'll get what's coming to him. Alan is sufficiently intimidated to start by raising her salary.

* BrickJoke: In the first season, Alan speaks to his ex-wife's new boyfriend (a fitness instructor) about switching on the immersion heater to get a deep bath. In the second, one of Alan's radio segments is called ''Alan's Deep Bath''.

* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe example; When Alan is screeching about ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' having been taped over, he declares that he wanted ''"to see Roger Moore necking with Fiona Fullerton!"'' - which actually happens in ''Film/AViewToAKill''. Curious, given Alan is a huge fan of Film/JamesBond and Roger Moore in particular.

* OverlyLongGag: "Dan. Dan. DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN..." (Dan ignores him)
** Dan doesn't ignore him (he and Alan are good friends at this point), he just doesn't see/hear him.
* PrecisionFStrike: Alan's response when Dave Clifton attempts a series of traffic cone {{pun}}s. Dave is genuinely shocked, and points out they're on the air, to which Alan smugly responds that they're now in Dave's slot and therefore it's his problem.
** Also one of the very last jokes of the second series; having imparted a fan with a Blue Peter-related anecdote, having been criticised for them, Alan caps it off with "...needless to say, ''I'' had the last laugh, now ''FUCK OFF''."

* SoundEffectBleep: Alan finds a few suitable farm animal noises to use on the angry farmers.
** And the hilariously distracting "[[FunnyBackgroundEvent background]]" traffic noise he uses for a traffic report in series 2, which has Alan delivering a screamed bleeped-out ClusterFBomb.

* Michael: Alan's only friend -- a emotionally tortured and desperate ex-soldier who is, possibly, even more of a loser than Alan is.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Having bullied a fan into telling him what's wrong with his autobiography - namely that anecdotes are apparently not Alan's thing - Alan embarks upon a Blue Peter-related one that actually ''works'', unlike a lot of his attempts at humour.

** Although in a subversion of this, the ''character'' has been carried across several series, including Series/TheDayToday and Series/KnowingMeKnowingYouWithAlanPartridge, the latter of which serves as a direct lead into this series. Alan has since appeared in various specials, produced an ''actual'' version of the 'Bouncing Back' book from series two with [[Literature/IPartridgeWeNeedToTalkAboutAlan I: Partridge]], and made a film debut with [[Film/AlanPartridgeAlphaPapa Alpha Papa]], all of which have created a surprisingly cohesive continuity for the character.

* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe example; When Alan is screeching about Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe having been taped over, he declares that he wanted ''"to see Roger Moore necking with Fiona Fullerton!"'' - which actually happens in Film/AViewToAKill. Curious, given Alan is a huge fan of James Bond and Roger Moore in particular.
** He also thinks ''Sunday, Bloody Sunday'' is a song about how boring and depressing Sundays in general are, and not a song about the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry.

** He's a pedantic KnowNothingKnowItAll with some reactionary views.[[note]]He criticises Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" for the lyric "they paved over paradise to put up a parking lot" by pedantically arguing that this would reduce traffic congestion around paradise.[[/note]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: Whereas the previous seasons basically showed Alan's public persona as a hapless, dimwitted buffoon, the fact that this episode was set in Alan's day-to-day life meant that it exposed more of Alan's personal flaws, desperation and bitterness.

* EveryoneHasStandards: While Alan is not above discussing revenge fantasies in an Apache Attack Helicopter with Michael, he becomes visibly worried when Michael discusses his fantasy in great detail.