Gavin and Stacey v I'm Alan Partridge
Get ready for a other comedy showdown in the last quarter-final of our Sitcom World Cup where we pit the heartwarming quips of "Gavin and Stacey" against the cringe-inducing gaffes of "I'm Alan Partridge". From the endearing oddities of Pam's storytelling to the awkward brilliance of Alan Partridge's bar encounters, we've got a delightful analysis that adds a whole new layer to your favorite sitcom scenes.
Hold onto your seats – or rather, your funny bones – as we explore the rich tapestry of relationships and identity crises that make "Gavin and Stacey" a modern classic. And if you've ever wondered how a TV episode could transform into a stage play, our creative brainstorming might just inspire your next thea re outing. Picture Pete and Dawn's marriage woes under the bright lights, or Smithy's emotional gift exchanges played out in front of a live audience – it's sitcom magic reimagined!
We then look at one of the longest running comedy characters of all time in Alan Partridge. Hear how Alan deals with a group of irate farmers and cringe at his desperation to fit in with 90's lads culture .
As we wrap up this comedic journey, we look ahead to the semi-finals and invite you to join the banter. Whether you're rooting for the down-to-earth charm of "Gavin and Stacey" or the awkward hilarity of "I'm Alan Partridge," we're eager to hear your thoughts. Catch us on Twitter at livingwithmade1 or drop us an email at livingwithmadely@outlook.com – because when it comes to British sitcoms, we're all in this laugh riot together!
Gavin and Stacey v I'm Alan Partridge
Get ready for a other comedy showdown in the last quarter-final of our Sitcom World Cup where we pit the heartwarming quips of "Gavin and Stacey" against the cringe-inducing gaffes of "I'm Alan Partridge". From the endearing oddities of Pam's storytelling to the awkward brilliance of Alan Partridge's bar encounters, we've got a delightful analysis that adds a whole new layer to your favorite sitcom scenes.
Hold onto your seats – or rather, your funny bones – as we explore the rich tapestry of relationships and identity crises that make "Gavin and Stacey" a modern classic. And if you've ever wondered how a TV episode could transform into a stage play, our creative brainstorming might just inspire your next thea re outing. Picture Pete and Dawn's marriage woes under the bright lights, or Smithy's emotional gift exchanges played out in front of a live audience – it's sitcom magic reimagined!
We then look at one of the longest running comedy characters of all time in Alan Partridge. Hear how Alan deals with a group of irate farmers and cringe at his desperation to fit in with 90's lads culture .
As we wrap up this comedic journey, we look ahead to the semi-finals and invite you to join the banter. Whether you're rooting for the down-to-earth charm of "Gavin and Stacey" or the awkward hilarity of "I'm Alan Partridge," we're eager to hear your thoughts. Catch us on Twitter at livingwithmade1 or drop us an email at livingwithmadely@outlook.com – because when it comes to British sitcoms, we're all in this laugh riot together!
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Speaker 3:Hello and welcome to the podcast Living with Ma, this series seven, episode eight of the uh sitcom world cup, and it's the final quarter, the final quarter, final. That sounds wrong, but that's that's the match today. I'm, liam, andrew is with me. How are you, sir? I'm very good mate. How are you? Yeah, marvelous. I'm excited to get this episode out so we can get the voting out there yeah, as soon as this goes out, vote is going to be out.
Speaker 4:We were going to try and do this a bit quicker, but you were on holiday. Now we're on holiday, but you know we're going to try and get the semis a bit quicker, aren't?
Speaker 3:we? Yeah, we'll try and get. So, basically, after this episode, you've got two semi-finals, a final and then a post World Cup analysis episode. Yes, today the match-up is Gavin and Stacey and it's going up against Alan Partridge or I'm Alan Partridge, I should say. So I think let's just get straight into it. Let's get started with Gavin and Stacey. Tidy.
Speaker 4:So shit.
Speaker 1:Tell me tomorrow, I'll wait by the window for you.
Speaker 3:Tell me tomorrow I'll wait by the window for you over egg the pudding a little bit. Am I gonna have to give? Give a false representation? Well, what I can say is, before we get into the detail of the episode, I really enjoyed this it. It really made me laugh and it was much better what's the word? It's much better put together than I, than I thought it would be.
Speaker 4:So, yeah, I watched that play when this got through, I watched a couple of episodes from the first series and I I really disappointed, actually, but then we picked this one out to do because I do remember this episode and I'm the same as you. It's one of those episodes where you think I can see why so many people watched it. Definitely it's coming back, by the way, we should probably mention it. We've brought it back, haven't we? This podcast? Obviously, corden's thought shit might be going out here. I need some publicity.
Speaker 3:Well, he might have thought like oh, you know, public have turned on me a bit, and then seen our World Cup and thought oh, come on, I'm still going, they still love me, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 4:Either way, we are to blame for James Corden still going strong.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, we do condone James Corden, we don't. Yeah, that's it. Uh. So we start off and, uh, we see an airplane landing. This is series two, episode one. By the way, and I'm gonna play the first clip again. These episodes are clip heavy because we're really analyzing episodes, so, and they're both. Actually it's worked out quite well because these two episodes are both about 28 minutes, I think so another good ones to compare. First first clip is the first bit that made me chuckle and it's right to start. So it's uh, it's good effort.
Speaker 2:And here's the clip from stacy why she, why she's gone, and gavin's kind of coming off the plane on his own he just walked off, I know, but there was this woman next to me in a veil, fiddling with her shoe, and I thought oh my God, terrorist.
Speaker 3:Oh right, so you're just going to leave me here to get bombed.
Speaker 2:I know and I do feel bad, but I was going to text you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and the reason why they've been away, which I didn't mention they've been on their honeymoon, although Smithy refuses to call it that later in the episode. So we go to Pam and Mick mick, which is gavin's mom and dad, pam's one of my favorite characters in the whole thing. She's made this banner to welcome him in. It's brilliant, because he doesn't really want to hold it up and he says look, everyone's looking at us because you're a lanky, miserable git, or something like that. They've been away for 22 days. And one thing I picked on here and this is not critical of the show, but as they all walk together back through the airport, if you want to see an example and I've never been an extra, by the way, have you?
Speaker 4:not, I thought you had been on a few things. Actually, I don't know. You could easily play if anyone wanted someone who looked like Paul McCartney in the 60s.
Speaker 3:I don't know why they want that as an extra Imagine that, in the background of a cafe?
Speaker 3:Surely, that'd be a little. If anybody wants me to play you McCartney, I'm up for that, depending on the fee. But yeah, if you want to see the most obvious extras in the world, watch the scene where they're walking towards camera and the people behind them are just shuffling about Nobody's talking. They're all sort of just trying to get a face in camera, almost I. I thought it was brilliant. Um, there's a big, tall guy with a tash isn't there, like wandering around, there's one in like a white suit sort of pops up and turns his head and then walks off again.
Speaker 3:It's the most unnatural background scene I've ever seen. But then we hear pam telling one of her stories. So so they're talking about the service they've received where they've been background scene I've ever seen. But then we hear pam telling one of her stories. So so they're talking about the service they've received where they've been. And, uh, pam starts telling us that they once went to a hotel and she suspected they weren't having a bed. She's chained every day. So she set a wine gum trap and put some wine gums in a pillow. But it's kind of the way it's shot, it's quite good. It's their whole, their whole journey. So however long it's taken them to get out of the airport into the car and say, oh, she's clearly been telling this joke about how she's kind of confronted this hotel, yeah.
Speaker 3:A final clip of it.
Speaker 2:Well, I hit the roof, didn't I mate? I'll say so. I've got him by the throat, this Stelios, look me in the eye and tell me that Bo Sheep Hang on a minute.
Speaker 4:It's brilliant because, like, obviously, like I don't know like he's in the background, isn't he Gavin?
Speaker 3:He's just sort of rolling his eyes throughout A hundred times before he's heard this story yeah, and then, as they're in the car, we get a phone call and it's the first time we're introduced to probably the best character in the whole thing. I think everyone would say and it's Bryn and I'm going to play. I love this clip. Obviously, his niece has been away, but this is kind of what he's excited about. Now they're back.
Speaker 1:All right, bryn, welcome home. Young man, do you have a tan? Are you bronzed A?
Speaker 4:little bit. Yeah, oh, I can't wait to see it. It's brilliant because Gavin is so uncomfortable. Gavin's in the car at the back, he's so comfortable. Stacey's completely oblivious to how weird this is. She's laughing along and he's just so confused.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a running joke, I mean I don't. Well, I'm saying he clearly is. I think he's written as a gay character. I think so, but he's never come out?
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think so, but he's never, come out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's why.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we might know in the finale, won't we? What's coming soon, yeah, I suppose.
Speaker 3:So yeah, but yeah, bryn is absolutely fantastic. And then, in this kind of very sort of quirky way that they have certain characters in this show, rather than phoning Nessa to confirm, bryn uses his what do you call them like a sort of truckers radio, isn't it? Yeah, it'd be radio, is it not a walkie talkie? But yeah, same, similar sort of thing. She's got a walkie talkie, aren't you nessa? Nessa's got walkie talkie. Uh, brin's got one and I can't play too many clips, but yeah, she, she's annoyed with him because he doesn't use her code name over the radio.
Speaker 3:He says I can't remember what. What is it? Oh, it's Robert McGarvey.
Speaker 3:Yeah it is his name and it is his name, judy Dench. Yeah, and a really well shot. And one thing I'll get more to this in the second half of the episode, but one thing I've kind of noticed in this is I think it's really well shot. I think there are scenes that are a little bit clumsy like again we'll come to in the forced extras but I really like some of the sort of cutaways and the aerial shots and the music they're playing, the razor light as they put pointers drive yeah and I just really like that shot.
Speaker 3:I thought brilliant yeah, I've not.
Speaker 4:It is really well shot and I'm not sure. Um, that is like obviously we're going to do partridge next. It's a much lower budget. Even the potters, you know. I'd say it's a bigger show. I mean it works with many people. I'm not sure on that, to be honest, but that looks. Obviously it's a long time ago as well, compared to Gavin and Stacey. But that looks a bit like what? Two or three cameras or whatever. It's probably more than that, whereas this actually could set almost like a film, isn't it? Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3:It's well. You get the feeling it's kind of got a reasonably high sort of budget for shooting it. I'm not sure. And then the first time we mentioned Smithy, so Gavin asked if he's okay. The last time they saw him was obviously on their wedding, but they do fantastically well, gavin and Stacey. They have some great sort of names of characters that are just thrown in there and we're told by Pam that last time they saw him, him Dirtbox and Chinese Alan were going up and down in the lift for an hour because they passed out.
Speaker 4:Amazing. I love Chinese Alan.
Speaker 3:So obviously it's the first time, but they're coming now to live at Gavin's family home, so he carries her over the threshold. And another fantastic clip from Pam. I've got to play this bit because this made me laugh out loud.
Speaker 2:I remember being very disappointed the day I lost my maiden name. What was it? Griglischewska, pamela Andrea Griglischewska, which, you know, always felt quite glamorous, and then, in the space of one day, to go from that to Shipman. You know, shipman. I felt quite flat, if I'm honest with you, the day after we got married, felt like I'd lost my identity. You know, like Anne Frank, after they found her.
Speaker 4:She's brilliant, Pam. The acting and everything out of it I mean the acting, to be fair, is fantastic throughout this. I think he's brilliant. Larry Lamb, obviously, is the dad. They've all got it spot on.
Speaker 3:Well, she's as well. This is one of them. I think Frank Skinner refers to idiotic eureka moment where you think you kind of realise something, but everyone knew it. I remember thinking, seeing her age and thinking God, she looks so much younger than her age and saying to people everyone's like, yeah, everyone always says that, but I can't remember how old she is, but she looks fantastic for her age.
Speaker 3:Pam as well. So Bryn and Gwen arrive, and I probably should have said actually. So Gwen is Stacey's mum and Bryn is Stacey's uncle. Bryn's had a T-shirt printed. So unfunny though it's funny, it doesn't really work because nobody laughs. But he's so delighted with himself, he's got a t-shirt. He's had it done for himself that says my niece went to I can't remember where they went Greece and all I got was this lousy t-shirt. He's so happy with himself and nobody else laughs at all, yeah, and then Nessa pulls up in a big truck in the background and gets. And then Nessa pulls up in a sort of big truck in the background and gets out, and obviously Nessa's quite an imposing character. But I love some of the stories she's got and they are so well done. It's a bit cliché, do you know? Whenever Nessa's there. There's going to be some story about I don't know she went fishing with Peter Stringfellow. There's always going to be something there, but Pete Townsend gets mentioned.
Speaker 3:Aren't there some sort of serious accusations?
Speaker 4:yeah. So what she says is she used to tour with the who, but I left after what happened with Pete Townsend, after I heard some stuff about Pete Townsend. If people don't know Pete Townsend was, he was taken in by the police and questioned about downloading child pornography and he said he was doing it because he were writing a book, his autobiography. And he said that he was sexually assaulted as a kid. So he said he were right. But the books never come out, as far as I know.
Speaker 4:When this so nessa goes and so goes, and I just said to him where's the book?
Speaker 3:And what I said is I said it to his face. I said where's the book?
Speaker 4:Yeah, really controversial joke there for something that's really, I think, quite family friendly. They do it a lot.
Speaker 3:I mean, for anybody who doesn't know, the main characters are the Shipmans and the Wests. That's never mentioned as anything really other than that's just their names, which, to be fair, they certainly could be. But it's clearly deliberate.
Speaker 4:But there's quite a few bits in this that, even though it's not that old, I don't know if they do this now, certainly not on a BBC comedy, I think yeah, I mean, look, if we were writing a script now or something and you said you'd come up with that, I'd be really wary legally, like where you stand with that. But obviously you know it's a great line.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. So Smithy comes in. I mean he's absolutely fantastic. He is great in this. Whether you like Corden or not, he is absolutely. This role is so good for him and he's actually. You know, he steals the scene almost in every scene. He's in really. You know he steals the scene almost in every scene. He's in really. But this is great. He comes in. He's absolutely got a face on with Gavin. But I love how sort of everybody acknowledges him but Bryn stands up and gives him a big hug. They're like have a proper embrace, even though he's scowling at Smithy throughout.
Speaker 3:I'll play a clip of Smithy and why he's so upset yeah, but it wasn't just a holiday, it was the best time of my life, when I went to Malaga with Lucy and her nana right, I called you every day, sometimes twice, sometimes thrice Back off. Mick, you were only ringing for the West Ham scores. That was an excuse, you fool. I was getting the updates on my mobile.
Speaker 3:I was ringing you, I was ringing you because I missed you, smithy. I missed you these last three weeks and it's been horrible. So after that we get Stacey, kind of he's going to march out of the room, but Stacey stands up and this is the first time that I noticed this and I don't know if this is deliberate or not, but I thought this could be a stage show. This one episode could be a stage show Because the way she stands up and the camera's behind him and it's just shot really well where she says, oh, smithy, he did miss you, and it's he sort of turns and yeah, I just thought really well put together and great acting the. Uh. She says something like oh, come on, gav, cheer him up, get him the present. And uh, gavin says what now? I love how smithy responds as well as her and says yeah, now yeah.
Speaker 3:He's so desperate for his present. And it turns out it's a bottle of something that they've seen on an advert.
Speaker 4:I presume it's some kind of what's that thing that makes you hallucinate Like an absinthe or something like that it's a really strong light, sort of a brilliant bit when he gives it in and then Bring goes as if there were a massive scene going on.
Speaker 3:He's such a dick here, love how, like, not only does he, he kind of inspects the bottle, he turns it upside down and like yeah it's really well shot. It gives him a hug, everything's great. And it turns out that they're off to Capriccio's for an Italian meal.
Speaker 4:And this is why you mean, by the way well, you great comment this actually about the how it could be a play other than the beginning bits, when they're in the car and stuff. The entire episode is set in two places that the how you could you could have done this entire thing in the house, and then the the restaurant. So this is almost like the interval you know after that bit and now the rest of the episode is set in the restaurant well, the way I picture the first bit being shot.
Speaker 3:So you'd have on stage all at once, side by side, nessa in her truck, you'd have bryn and gwen, and then you know, and you just move the spotlight from each one, depending on who we're looking at. Then this bit yeah, this could all be one scene and then the last bit. I was thinking we'll come to why, but I think you'd actually have a kind of split stage, with the meal on one side and the toilet on the other side.
Speaker 4:We should do it, fuck it, fuck these. Maybe they're fucking quitting after this, we'll do this.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so if they want to turn one episode into a play or maybe even a musical, I think this would work quite well, well, we've got the rights on it now.
Speaker 4:I mean we've got the rights on it now. I mean, we haven't written any of it, it's their show, but it's our idea.
Speaker 3:We've got the spotlights and the split stage, so yeah, and he has to be reading Liam and Andrew?
Speaker 4:No, he doesn't, because that'd be weird, wouldn't it? Anyway, carry on. We've just come back from our honeymoon.
Speaker 3:Where are we? So I love that. It's not a big joke, but it is funny to me and obviously because something that happened to your mum, but it's called Beppe, the guy that owns it. Do you want to tell the Beppe story? And my mum is called Bev.
Speaker 4:But my nan got it wrong and he actually said Beppe. I don't know if she's still got it.
Speaker 3:I'll have to ask her she's got a dressing gown with the name Beppe.
Speaker 4:Beppe on it because she got it wrong. I can only imagine that my nan she did it over the phone and then she picked it up. It's unbelievable. I sent you a picture, didn didn't I? Christmas Day when?
Speaker 2:I saw it, Beppe yeah.
Speaker 3:So in the restaurant they go in to grab themselves a table a big group of them, and two fantastic characters, Pete and Dawn, are sat at a table and another again. I'm probably going to bang on about this now, but another sort of stage shot where we're shown them two at a table and everybody kind of panned around them in a semicircle looking at them. So all eyes are on them. They look incredibly awkward.
Speaker 4:These two were my favourite characters in the entire thing.
Speaker 3:They are brilliant, but it's a really awkward scene where they're sort of sat almost just saying, right, okay, you can go now, and then a young chap comes in and sits down with him. I mean, I think it's quite clear early on although they do explain this later that they've been looking to get him involved in a kind of sexual yeah, threesome. Basically yeah, yeah, is it a threesome, or is he coming into sex with her or whatever it is anyway, these two, constantly from the first series, argue all the time.
Speaker 4:They're always trying to save the marriage and they always have little bits where they go I love you. And the next minute they're arguing again. So this is like the latest thing.
Speaker 3:So he comes down with Seth. Obviously he's got no idea what's going on. While they're all sat around him, they both try and explain who he is at the same time he's from down the butcher or something like that. So quite clearly the story doesn't align and everybody's incredibly awkward. I'm going to play another clip here because I liked it. It's Bryn deciding what he's going to have for his Italian meal. Now, this is a tough one.
Speaker 4:I'm in a bit of a pickle here. You might have to come back to me. No, no, no, no, I've got it, I've got it. It's a toss-up between the gnocchi, the carbonara, the polo tagliatelle or the risotto. I'll come back to you. I'm having the gnocchi there. It is, pam. It's done. It's the knocky. Apologies for the wait. These things take time. Hey, gwen, I've gone with the knocky. Mick, I'm having a wonderful time.
Speaker 4:This is amazing. This because we all do this when we're having a. We've got a menu. We think I could have that, but it says everything out loud it.
Speaker 3:I could have that, but he says everything out loud like it's the whole thought process, isn't it?
Speaker 4:yeah, we all do it. We look down the menu.
Speaker 3:I could have that the best bit and obviously it won't work as an audio clip. But after he's decided, gwen comes back from the toilet, I think, and she sits down and he says I'm going to go with the knock.
Speaker 3:He punches the air yeah he's like, and then one of these again sort of quirky things. We find out about Nessa, so she orders in perfect Italian. Yeah, smithy looks stunned and Smithy big gag from him here I've just played a clip so I'm not going to play this one but he it basically orders. There's quite a few months where he does stuff like this, but it's still funny. He orders a salad with no dressing and sort of closes the menu and puts his head down and everybody like goes quiet and sort of glancing at each other.
Speaker 3:But then, in fact, do you know what I'm going to play it? Just because I like the way that, within his gag, he tells him how he wants it cooking yeah yeah, just a Caesar salad. Thanks, no dressing.
Speaker 4:I'm joking. I'm joking, I'm having a steak media, look at his face if you notice on that scene, by the way, they're all laughing at it, apart from Nessa who just looks the other way yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, so we're kind of going to get into the, the main part of the story now. So again structured quite well. So they start talking about paragliding. It actually blows Bryn's mind. He can't. There's like loads of bits where it comes back to him and he's saying so let me get this right. I'm tethered to a boat, the boat's moving, he can't get his head around it.
Speaker 3:But nessa goes to the toilet, stacy joins him and this is where I think you know this from the end of the first series. But certainly in this episode. This is where we're told that nessa is pregnant, that smithy's the dad and that, despite the fact she told stacy she was going to tell him while they were away, she hasn't. Yeah, and actually in in that moment where they're debating it, gwen has come in or comes out from a cubicle or or is in there for whatever reason, and she hears that, yeah, so we're back at the table. We've got more brin really confused by what a paraglider is and how it works, everybody explaining to him. I think the food's starting to arrive, so pam decides to go and get everyone from the toilet and again we get this back and forwards between the table and the toilet um dawn runs in hysterical and pam gives her a slap I love that yeah, there's a great line in there because, well, there's a couple of funny bits in there.
Speaker 3:So so dawn's explaining what's going on and she says, yeah, we've've got him to get involved in a threesome with us and we were trying to explain certain rules of it. And Pam and Gwen both sort of say yeah, boundaries, code words, and Dawn's nodding, saying yeah, and Stacey looks horrified in the background.
Speaker 4:Yeah, she looks at Gwen. She kind of knows these conventions. Yeah, she looks at Gwen like a mom going what? How the fuck do you know that? And Nessa's just nodding.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, tidy, tidy, yeah. And I love the bit where she says you know, he said he couldn't do it anymore.
Speaker 4:we don't look like the pics that we sent and she says absolutely amazing, she's brilliant in there, she's brilliant in everything I've seen her. She's not in enough things um.
Speaker 2:Julia.
Speaker 4:Davis, her name is. She's married to Julia Davis. Julia Davis, she's married to thingy, isn't she Howard Moon? That's not his name. What's his name?
Speaker 3:yeah, I know what you mean. Yeah, yeah, she's brilliant, you know that I love. Well, you do as well, nighty Night and uh of well, you do as well, nighty.
Speaker 4:Night. Julian Barrett, I can't think of his name. I can't keep calling him Howard Moon. He's done Darkplay, but Jesus Christy.
Speaker 3:Jesus Christy. This is again I know I'm making a big point of this, but I've never seen this before but trying to analyse it for the first time. I've noticed it, it's set up very much like a stage show, where every time somebody comes into the bathroom they have to explain to him the story and it always finishes on Ness is pregnant. And then the growing group says and Smithy's the?
Speaker 2:father, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Yeah, already, so yeah um, so, uh, where have I got to? Because basically this bit kind of repeats.
Speaker 3:So so, smithy, they got back to smithy and they said that then gavin goes before that, smithy's having another go at gavin in a yeah, there's a good line there actually, where, uh, brin again I think they kind of insinuated some kind of sex jokes there picks up the sort of pepper grinder, goes, oh, that's a big one there, yeah. And Gavin says, hey, you want to see this one when we were in Greece. And he goes oh, for God's sake, is that all we're going to hear about? Greece, greece, this. He's absolutely fuming.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he's furious.
Speaker 3:He's mentioning his honeymoon, and that's when he says why he won't refer to it as a honeymoon.
Speaker 4:brilliant so, but he's so easily pleased because Gavin yeah, gavin gets round it, doesn't he? By saying I did miss you because there were ones where Stacey can't play tennis and I thought we'd have a good game. And he's so happy, smithy, he's like we bloody would have as well, yeah, and then.
Speaker 3:So the next one to leave is Gavin, who, on the way, picks up Pete. Sorry, mick's already been in to find out what's going on. There's a great line there, actually, where he says to oh, here he is, michael, mick, what's it like to be you? You've got the looks, you've got the woman and you've got the girth.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you've got the girth. Yeah, I love that, yeah.
Speaker 3:So they end up in a twat. They've already found out. Gavin's gone in, we get the same line again and Smithy's the father, with everyone in it. Leave Smithy and Bryn at the table. They've decided to be best mates.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I love this. Smithy's decided he needs a new best mate. Now Gavin's in his head letting down by getting married, he asked.
Speaker 3:Bryn, how old he is and he Mattel, which. I've never heard that before.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 3:And then the bit that I love at the end of that bit. So obviously he's drunk, smithy, and he wants a new best mate. He feels let down by Gavin. But remember that Bryn lives in the south of is it south Wales?
Speaker 3:South Wales yeah, Remember that he lives in Wales. So Smithy says to him I'll tell you what let's me and you meet up every weekend in Swindon. Yeah, he pauses with Bryn and then he says, okay, yeah, okay, he's up for being in Swindon every weekend to be best mate with Smithy, which is quite sweet.
Speaker 4:It's brilliant I mean Bryn, to be fair though then turns around, doesn't he, and starts being like the fatherly figure and says you've got to accept his decision and all that sort of and he tries to talk a bit sense into him, we get another well shot stage shot.
Speaker 3:Yeah, gavin's pacing up and down, everybody's behind him in a semicircle and Mick sort of makes the point that look, the only person who doesn't know this is the person who should know this. So that's it. Ness is off to tell Smithy and they sort of march out in procession and I think it's great acting. Actually, ness tells him and he doesn't actually do anything. He just kind of holds his expression, obviously clearly stunned, but I thought, yeah, well done. Then we cut to the theme tune.
Speaker 3:Hold on, Cut to the theme tune, which is I never knew the name of this. Did you know what it is? No, I don't actually know it's run by Stephen Fretwell, Tell me tomorrow I'll wait by the window for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's good, it's a great theme.
Speaker 3:And I think it's a good ending. There's loads of laughs in there, but it ends on quite a big moment. I thought, yeah, it's good. It's actually made me want to finish watching series two.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I enjoyed. That was same as you. I thought that's probably the weakest out of the eight or whatever that we've got left, but really did enjoy it, really enjoyed it. And, like I said, I came to it after watching a couple episodes of series one a couple of weeks back where I thought, you know, I'm not really sure about this but. I genuinely thought that were a great episode of that.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, and I I suppose what's good for me, because I've probably not seen it many times, whereas when we come to what you're going to take us through, I could have probably done this without re-watching it almost.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But yeah, you're going to move us on now, aren't you two? I'm Alan Partridge.
Speaker 4:I'm Alan Partridge and this is Series 1, episode 3, watership. Alan, the string back just gives you a bit of extra purchase. So I'm alan portage. So we've actually got here, uh, one of the newest sitcoms, probably the newest sitcom. Gavin and stacy are the ones that we've uh got through. So, uh, to this stage again. So I think it's the second oldest alan portage behind father ted. So quite a mix. I you know quite a difference in the two. So people who don't know, alan Partridge is a TV host and before this particular series that they did, he'd actually lost his job after accidentally shooting a man on his TV show.
Speaker 3:Knowing Me, Knowing you Live, wasn't it?
Speaker 4:Yeah, live on Knowing Me, Knowing you. So after that he found his career, has gone downhill and he's only real regular work. Now he's hosting up with the partridge on radio norwich and even then he's in the graveyard 4 am to 7 am slot. What I love about it is that you're a prime time presenter and then likei think this is like set, what a year after.
Speaker 4:Not even that because obviously he buys a house in this series, thinking he's gonna get a second series and, knowing me, knowing you, even though he shot someone. But then he doesn't get the second series. That's when he smell my cheese, you mother. So now he lives in a travel tavern and he's desperate for work and that's the entirety of the whole series is essentially him trying to get back on TV and living in a travel tavern. I think it's a year, isn't it? I think he lives in this travel tavern.
Speaker 3:It might not quite be, but yeah, it's certainly like Because does he have his anniversary? Oh no, that's his leaving party, isn't it? Yeah, Anyway, it doesn't really matter, does it? But?
Speaker 4:it's quite a long time, it's months anyway isn't it? So every episode starts with Alan Portrait on his radio show, and in this particular one he off farmers by saying this very much remain.
Speaker 1:This morning's farmer a bit slow on the uptake there. Uh oh, he had for breakfast presumably an infected spinal column in a bag brilliant.
Speaker 3:I mean, there's a line just before that that I love and I will have to try not to sort of quote everything from this, but I love it. He's fidgeting around doing something and, uh, he speaks to a farmer and he says it's just before that bit. And he says, uh, you know, I'm just uh, I'm bringing in the cows. And partridge says, uh, yeah, pop the strape jackets on him. Crazy, this idea. He's got farmers and what they're doing with animals this is one of my favorite bits.
Speaker 4:This is probably the entire episode of all. The farmers are throwing him, him up, having a go at him, basically ruining his show, and demanding an apology for what he said. And obviously, partridge being Partridge just doubles down, doesn't back down whatsoever, and this is what he does.
Speaker 3:I just didn't find it very funny, that's all.
Speaker 1:Well, I wouldn't eat one of your tomatoes if it came up and said eat me, which? Is not unlikely considering all the rubbish you stick in them, considering all the rubbish.
Speaker 3:You're sticking up.
Speaker 1:You ignorant shit.
Speaker 3:Caroline, line four hello, hello, alan. Hello, have you got a brain or is your head?
Speaker 1:just full of shit. Ok, Mike from Polgrave, are you there, sir?
Speaker 3:Oh, you ignorant cunt. I love how pleased he is that he catches the last one.
Speaker 4:There's only one swearing at him but he manages to catch the last one and press the button over it. It's brilliant. There's a fantastic bit in the second series where he does something similar to this, where he's doing alan's deep bath and he goes you relax in your bath and he's putting sound effects on, like water running and stuff, and he accidentally presses daddy french at his jazz night. So after this, anyway, we find out alan's potentially got a job promoting a Hamilton's Waterbreak video and it's between him and Cliff Thorburn, who's not even a fucking he's just a snooker.
Speaker 4:He's just a snooker player.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, canadian snooker player. He won the World Championship, didn't he? But yeah, the scene there is. So we go to the travel tavern. He's got the smallest shorts on in the world, hasn't?
Speaker 4:he yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean this is the thing. He's got these really small shorts on and he's basically badgering Hamilton's waterbrain to give him this job. He's like because Cliff Thorburn keeps backing out and he says he's unreliable, and then so they actually they give in and they give him the job and we get one of his now, or wait for cliff thorburn.
Speaker 1:But if cliff thorburn goes awol, you're up slack alley. Now who's it to be me or cliff thorburn? Thank you very much indeed. Kiss my face brilliant.
Speaker 3:First time I saw that I will. I'll cry and yeah fantastic, this fantastic one.
Speaker 4:What's the bit where he goes? I'm batman.
Speaker 3:Like there's a little lot back of the net, that's another one, I think, is that where he asks her out on a date I can't remember, but yeah, he's got. Yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I he asks her out on a date I can't remember, but yeah, he's got a few. Yeah, I think it is. Yeah, I'm Batman Hamilton's anyway want Alan to have his wife on the video. But Alan is no longer with his wife. They got divorced from his wife, called Carol, and she's now living with I think it's a gym instructor.
Speaker 1:I don't think we ever find out.
Speaker 4:But Alan just refers to him as a sports pimp. Drinks that yellow stuff in tins.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think it goes into a bit more detail in the audio books. But yeah, he's a fitness instructor, I think. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Alan tries to get into contact with Carol, but he won't speak to her because he's such a coward. So he puts Lynn on who's Alan's PA. The thing about Partridge there's not many characters. There's Mike Michaels in this as well. I don't think I've got any notes on him because he's only been there for a short period, I think, in this. But Lin and Michael are basically the main two side characters, and so he puts Lin on.
Speaker 3:Just on Michael, by the way, there is a great bit there where he's in the room and Partridge has got a bit of a thing, as you'll see in the episode, about Bangkok ladyboys. He finds out Michael's been to Thailand and he says what was it like? And he's saying some beautiful architecture. Michael, michael, tell me about the ladyboys.
Speaker 4:Yeah, because he's really over the top of it. I mean, I've come on to it later, but he's over the top of like. I'm not attracted to him but and he clearly is.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I just find it confusing.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he's fascinated by as he calls ladyboys, or Bangkok chickboys, as he watches later.
Speaker 3:And there is a great bit in there, sorry, where he's telling the story, michael, and he says some sergeant goes out with a ladyboy or something and he reaches down and he grabs hold of something, so he thinks I paid my money, and he flips him over and he and funnily enough it lands on his wheels because he sees a link and he changes his story and he's so confused, partridge, yeah then Partridge goes strangest story I've ever heard but he turns around and goes, ah right.
Speaker 4:But then he even has to clarify after so the end of that story wasn't just him flipping on, he's oh no, no. I had to say, ah right, right, fair enough, yeah, so, um, alan's trying to get in contact with carol, his ex-wife, but he puts lynn on. I love this scene.
Speaker 2:We say it quite a lot as well carol, would you like to be in alan's corporate video, right? She says no and she wants to speak to you. Tell him.
Speaker 1:I'm not here he's not here. She says you can hear your voice um, call a fat cow, then hang up, call a fat cow, so childish.
Speaker 3:That's like the resort you want to play with your wife, not really call a fat cow and hang up.
Speaker 4:Alan has no respectful in. There's a bit where he needs a wife for this video and she says I could pretend to be your wife and he literally just says nothing he looks so disgusted, doesn't he?
Speaker 4:yeah, and he says to Sue, after he was the receptionist in the travel tabloid, he goes. I think she runs the travel tabloid actually he goes. Yeah, she's very much like Burt Reynolds very reliable. But she's got a moustache. I did not expect. I've seen this loads of times but I've not seen it for ages. I did not expect that punchline at all. I thought you were going to say something completely different. She hasn't got a moustache.
Speaker 3:There's a great interaction there with Sophie as well. I don't know if you've kind of got that. Yeah, I've got this.
Speaker 4:So Sophie keeps All the way through this episode. He mentions Lady.
Speaker 3:Belief Sophie's a receptionist, isn't she?
Speaker 4:Sophie's the receptionist. He's fascinated by these Thai transsexuals and there's a bit where it's revealed by Sophie the receptionist that he's been watching Bangkok Chick Boys in the hotel. He claims he was actually trying to watch Miss driving, miss Daisy and he says like he goes. Oh, it's just really confusing. And then Sophie's boyfriend comes in, who's another receptionist there or like works there. He's like what happened is he'll come up and said do you want to watch Bangkok Chick Boys?
Speaker 3:And you'll have hit yeah, he goes. Yeah, exactly, it's really confusing. Well, what you should have done is press the button that said no, yeah, he goes.
Speaker 4:Do you want me to come and show you how to do it later on? He goes, yeah, yeah, he's so horrible. But, like I say, I can see why people nowadays might find this offensive, but I think it's absolutely on character, for Partridge right-wing guy thinks he's a modern man, but he isn't and he's basically Richard Maynard. Let's be honest, that's what he is, and I think Richard Maynard would be fascinated by this and refuse to admit that he's attracted by him as well. Like throughout, he's a more attractive.
Speaker 3:There's no way of speculating that, by the way. You're just saying that type of character, aren't you?
Speaker 4:Yeah, talking about the character, yeah, but of character, yeah, um, but yeah. But he's always trying. Wherever he can, he'll mention ladyboys um, like wherever he can. He's absolutely fascinated by it. So the guys from hamilton water break um turn up, played by peter banyan and simon pegg. Simon pegg actually went for the role of oh, come on, liam, he went for the role of you. You know, alan's biggest fan.
Speaker 3:Ah, right, okay.
Speaker 4:Jed Maxwell. Yeah, yeah, simon Pegg went for that role and didn't get it, but you forget to work with him yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I think he could have done it. I think the guy who plays it I don't know his name actually does it really really well.
Speaker 4:But yeah, I can imagine peg pulling that off, no problem so sam and peg and peter, banyan and this are playing the uh, the people who are shooting the hamilton's water break video. Banyan's character's got no vocal cord so he has to speak through an electronic box, which just totally throws alan. I'm gonna play a clip here hi, I'm Steve Bennett.
Speaker 1:I'm the director of the.
Speaker 4:Hamilton's Waterloo Right, we spoke on the phone, yeah, this is Hugh Morris.
Speaker 1:He's the marketing director for Hamilton's. He's going to be coming along with us, sort of keeping an eye on us. Make sure I don't sink the boat and drown everyone like a big twit.
Speaker 3:No, I'll be down the pub, probably, what? I love it makes no attempt to hide, like he's just staring at him really sort of angrily almost.
Speaker 4:He's what he's so rude. He does this all the time. He's got no filter at all. He later says that he could be a baddie in a James Bond film, Dr no Vocal Chords. I've heard it loads of times, but he's still a fun act.
Speaker 3:So these producers Actually, when he says that he says a couple of jokes, Peter Banyan's character sort of keeps as he laughs with his vocal cord thing. He steps towards him with his thumb up. Partridge looks like, yeah, he's horrified, doesn't he?
Speaker 4:I don't know why every time he drinks he goes ah, like that, or like that. And Partridge the dirtiest looks like he's never come across anyone like this before, who's got no vocal cords and uses a voice box.
Speaker 3:He's absolutely throwed him. Yeah, he can't kind of hide what he's seeing. And, by the way, there's a moment in there where he orders a gin and tonic. I want to get to that. Have you got that on your list? Yeah, I'm going to get to that.
Speaker 4:Just the producers doing the video are proper lads, lads, lads, aren't they? They're all like oh, we don't care about work, we're just going to be in the pub getting pissed. So immediately Partridge tries to start being really ladder and he's obviously thinking on the spot and he goes. Yeah, last night I was that drunk, I fell asleep like this and he just stood up in a pose.
Speaker 2:And eight hours like that yeah.
Speaker 4:Then he says this morning I didn't even wash my hands when I went for breakfast because I'm a bloody bloke. But then he offers to get him a drink and we get this incredible line again of Peter Banyan's character.
Speaker 1:Anyway, there's the bar. Gentlemen, Choose your weapons. What I'm offering you a drink. Oh, right Now you're talking my language. Well, I hope not?
Speaker 4:Yeah, so Alan is already drinking, if you want to go through this bit.
Speaker 3:In fact, what you were about to say, so he's already ordered Before he meets these guys. He's ordering a drink and he says, well, michael says the usual, mr Partridge, and he says no, I'll tell you what I'll do tonight. Can I get a glass? Put in some tonic water, some ice, a bit of lemon, and then could you add some Gordon's Gin, please, a gin?
Speaker 4:and tonic.
Speaker 3:And he says yeah, yeah, gin and tonic, yeah. And then he's ordered a Baileys for Lynn, who's ended up leaving when they've gone. So he's already got a gin and tonic and a Baileys. But because these two laddish blokes want a beer each, he decides he's going to have a beer. So then they say what, you've already got those two drinks and a beer. He says yeah, these are chasers. So you've got a pine, a baileys and a gin and tonic chaser. He says yeah, and he tells him it's called a lady boy, which he goes.
Speaker 4:What's it called? He goes, lady boy, they drink it. It's obviously horror.
Speaker 3:He goes oh, lady boy. But then what I like is so he says oh, come on, have you ever tried a ladyboy, do you want one? And they say yeah, but for some reason, even though he's already got one and there's two of them, he orders four ladyboys. I get that. And then he says to Michael, how much is that going to be? And he says £33. It looks horrified. He just bought nine drinks For three people. No, sorry, he's bought 12 drinks. He's bought four spirits, but 33 quid. I mean we were paying that for about four pints on Saturday, I know this is set a long time ago, but how?
Speaker 3:shocked he is by that value of £33, I thought he's probably not worth much money.
Speaker 4:He's living in a fucking travel tavern. He's not at work, he's working. I don't know how much you get paid on Radio Norwich from 4am till 7am, but probably not a lot. So the scene fades out and he comes back in and Partridge is asleep at the bar. They wake him up and he goes. How long have you been drinking? And Simon Pegg Parcher's got to go to bed because he's too pissed. He's only been drinking 45 minutes 45 minutes Brilliant.
Speaker 4:He goes into the kitchen by accident and goes I'm going to cook all the food, Brilliant, and he phones his wife up again, doesn't he? And starts having a go at her.
Speaker 3:It's a great bit that. Yeah, I don't know if you're playing a clip or not. I can do. I'll play it.
Speaker 4:find a clip or not, I can do it, I'll play it. He's having a go at a new ex, a new boyfriend, the guy who drinks yellow things in tins. A new boyfriend having a go at his car.
Speaker 1:How's Mr Planet of the Apes man? Is he still driving that Renault Megane? Can I just read you something from Top Gear magazine? That's right, I've got it here. I've got it here. With a mere 90 brake horsepower available, progress is too leisurely to be called fast, but on a motorway, in fifth gear, the Megane's slow pace really becomes a pain. Uphill runs become power-sappingly mundane, while overtaking National Express coaches can become a long drawn-out affair. Not my words, Carol, the words of Top Gear magazine. Hello.
Speaker 3:I love how he starts that. He said yeah, he's still. Is he there, your boyfriend? He says yeah, Is he still driving that Renault Mégane? Can I just read you something?
Speaker 4:yeah, I love it the day after. This is a fantastic scene I think you have to watch. I don't know why it made me laugh so much. He goes to meet the Hamilton guys again and he's trying to be all laddy again. A woman walks past and they're all like, oh, look at the legs on her. It's a massive close-up of his face, right smiling, trying to get in. He just goes ooh, I'd like to have it off with her. It's so funny how close his face is.
Speaker 3:It's ridiculous that bit. He says she was certainly first in the queue when God was handing out chests. And then he says, like you say, camera's just on him. He's like he's sort of growing into this role as a lad a bit. He goes I'd love to have it off with her.
Speaker 4:And then he goes ooh, sex yeah ooh, there's like a little ooh like that after Like it's so good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 4:So he starts filming the video. He's filming scenes. There's all these farmers going Partridge. You wanker in background as he's doing it. So there's a great bit where he starts interviewing this woman about why she likes to use Hamilton water breaks and she goes. I like to go on a boat alone so I can read a book and look at the scenery, and he goes. Nah, she sounds weird.
Speaker 3:It's just again so rude because now she just to her face, yeah, and then as she's walking away she's through the sort of the other guys like now, but a bit odd, yeah, it's just like you say no filter so then it cuts to.
Speaker 4:he's in the radio. I could play all this scene but I'm not if you want to come in and like, pick some stuff out that you want to say. Then he goes to his interview and peter baxendale played played by Chris Morris, and he's from the Norfolk Farmers Union. Peter's quite aggressive with Alan and says he's ignorant and he hopes this interview is going to dig him out of his ugly hole. And I think Partridge is quite taken aback, because Partridge is brilliant with things like this. He'll never admit he's wrong in any way and when someone argues with him it just doubles down. So this farmer starts getting personal because you alienate everyone you come across, including your wife. You live in a lay-by which describes it as a sordid little grief hole. Yeah, I love that line and they have a big argument and I'm just going to play the end of the argument. It might be quite a long clip this, but I'm going to play the end of the argument.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you what you farmers, you don't like outsiders. Do you Like to stick to your own? What do you mean by that? I've seen the big-eared boys on farms. For goodness sake, If you see a lovely field with a family having a picnic and there's a nice pond in it, you fill in the pond with concrete, you plough the family into the field, you blow up the tree and use the leaves to make a dress for your wife, who is also your brother. Have I got anything else to say here? Listen, I'll tell you what the point is. You have big sheds that nobody's allowed in, and inside these big sheds are 20-foot-high chickens because of all the chemicals we've put in them. And these chickens are scared. They don't know why they're so big. They go oh, why am I so massive? And they're looking down on all the other little chickens and they think they're in an airplane because all the other chickens are so small so peter storms, so the farmer storms out it's just before that, by the way, because I know you can't play the whole clip.
Speaker 3:But a couple of bits that I love are when he's speaking. You can see Partridge getting madder and madder as Peter Baxendale Thomas is talking. So he just, really loud, goes moo, and it's sort of like it's taking a back, like he says yeah. The other bit that I love is where he says look an awful lot of my colleagues, partridge goes yeah farmyard animals.
Speaker 4:Chris Morris is fantastic at playing that serious character.
Speaker 4:And it's brilliant how they bang off each other there. So he storms out Peter and he gets. So Partridge is so childish gets, gets linen to pretend to be the farmer, so he goes. So you agree with everything I have said so far. And then lynn goes yes, and he goes, yes, it's so shit, actually, doesn't it? Because there we go. So he goes back to filming uh for hamilton's and he's doing a segment on a boat and there's some uh farmers on the on the bridge above and they just drop a dead cow on him and this is a scene you have to watch. It's chaos. It's some uh farmers on the on the bridge above and they just drop a dead cow on him and this is a scene you have to watch.
Speaker 4:It's chaos it's almost like play on the wall this bit in it, because it's just little bits of scene from everyone everyone's saying there's a cow, there's a cow on a boat.
Speaker 3:You've got him with his voice book saying get up get off the boat.
Speaker 4:Get a cow off the boat. Get a cow off the boat. It's just proper chaos. Um so, so basically, alan Alan, I think he's like broke his arm.
Speaker 3:There's a great line there isn't there where he says get Cliff Thorburn on the phone. Yeah, yeah. Cliff Thorburn is not primarily a TV presenter. He's a retired snooker player and he says, yeah, but he's not under a cow.
Speaker 4:Amazing, Absolutely amazing. So then the little punchline at the end is he's laid in bed back in his travel tavern with his arm bandaged up and his neck in a brace. He phones reception and says can you put pornography on for me please? He's so like a child. Then they put it on and he realises he can't have a wank because his arm's in a sling. And that's how it ends. Look, this is just a fucking. I could have played. I've been really sort of trying. I could have played the entire episode of this. I really could. I've tried really hard not to play as many clips as yeah, I think as well.
Speaker 3:Like you know. I'm sure people listening it's apparent. You know I've chipped in a lot with that. I notice I've watched it a lot of times. I kind of came into this expecting it to win, but actually Gavin and Stacey has been stronger than what I remember, and also from some of the people we've talked to they've said potentially some of this might have dated a bit. So I think possibly it depends when you watched it first.
Speaker 4:Maybe it's interesting I've not seen Alan Partridge for ages. Again, he's very much like Phoenix Knights in that. I don't think it's repeated that often, is it? Because he's on Saturday obviously, Obviously, the character is still going which is incredible Going to one of the longest-running sitcom or comedy characters of all time. So you never really get those old series of that I've seen anyway. So I've not seen this for a while and I think that's always great when you come back to it and you know I remember it all but you do.
Speaker 3:It's just so good, it's absolutely fantastic I think, yeah, I think it's perhaps closer than when, when it all started working out, we could see who would be playing who. I think I thought that would be more one-sided. I'm not so sure now. We'll.
Speaker 4:We'll find out well, whoever wins that the one. So that's on posh versus gavin and stacy. We'll go on to play the winner of the office and Extras. And we put a poll out last week, which we didn't do any promotion for, so very few people actually voted in it. We put a poll out saying who looks sadder Ant from Ant Dec or Les Dennis in the Extras episode that we did, and Ant's won. Ant's won 64.3% to 35.7%, so congratulations to Ant.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I wonder if we should just retweet. You can't vote now, can you? No, it's gone. It's done If anybody wants to check it out. If they've not seen the pictures, you can't vote now. But if you want to see who's sadder, I think if you go to last week's. Yeah, it's got the third clip down the third quarterfinal you've posted it as the episode, then the links and then the poll. I think so, if you want it it's there.
Speaker 4:So this is where you can vote now. So we're going to put all the votes out. Last time, people don't seem to understand that. So we got loads and loads more votes on the first match, which I think was Royal Family versus Thick of Air, because people didn't seem to understand that they were.
Speaker 3:You've done it as a thread, haven't you? That's it, that's the word.
Speaker 4:I'm looking for A thread.
Speaker 3:Are you going to do this one as four separate posts, then? I could do it as four separate posts. What do you reckon?
Speaker 4:I think so because I think some people clicked on it, voted and then I'll do it as a thread but I'll retweet them as a separate post. You get what I mean. Yeah, okay, it's probably more complicated, but you know, retweet them on the hour, every hour, so you can vote. So the first match up was Thick of it vs Peep Show. The second one was Father Ted vs Phoenix Knights. Then we had the Office vs Extras, and obviously today's Gavin and Stacey vs I'm Alan Partridge get voting. And then the next time you hear from us, office vs Extras, and obviously today's Gavin and Stacey vs I'm Alan Partridge Get voting. And then the next time you hear from us, well, the next week. What we're going to do next week is three things that we love about it, that we haven't mentioned so far, whatever gets through, and three things that we think I'm not sure if that actually works. So it's going to be a bit of a critical one.
Speaker 3:So actually, yeah for anything that's left in. If you have any sort of real things that you think it did better than anybody else, more original, or if there's certain things you don't like, this is the time to let us know and we will mention it in the episode. I think that's this one done. As you said, if you're listening to this, the voting is open, so go and let us know what you went through into the semis. Thank you very much for the recording, anderson.
Speaker 4:Yes thank you very much for the recording, anderson. Yes, thank you very much and I will see you for the semi-final. What's that off? Semi-final? I'm sure that's off something. Is that off EA Sports or something? Fifa or something? Semi-final, I think it's Semi-final American thing, isn't it? Yeah, oh, that's Chad and Noah.
Speaker 3:Anyway, right, Thank you very. If anyone wants to get in touch with us, send us anything. Find us on Twitter at livingwithmade1, or you can send us an email at livingwithmadely at outlookcom.