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Knowing Me, Knowing You With: Alan Partridge-Season 1 Episode 4

🕑 Added 2022-10-11 22:59:01 +0000 UTC

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Yea the Mad Cow thing was crazy, so much can go wrong with meat unfortunately.

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Thanks bud, glad you enjoyed it 😁

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Oh wow that is wild.

Colin Bayley

The rabies mention was because Britain had been rabies free for over a century. With the channel tunnel opening one of the scare stories going round was that it was going to lead to a resurgence of the disease over here.

Saul

Nice, thanks RSB. I'd forgotten it was Wogan. She handled it a bit better than I remembered but the designs really were absurd. The male model who suddenly emerged in a kilt, prancing around doing pirouettes, was sillier than anything on KMKY.

Right Said Brett

I found the clip for you. Lookup "Wogan Russell Harty Viv Westwood JSP" on YouTube. Thank you for mentioning this clip, as I'd never seen it before and it's a hoot! Also, yes, it's very clearly the inspiration for that particular Alan Partridge skit.

Saul

Yes, sorry to spring it on you. Just keep an eye on your brain and spine.

Edward

Anyone who lived in the UK between 1990 and 1996 for more than three months still isn't allowed to give blood in the US because of mad cow. It's cool knowing at any moment my brain and spinal cord could dissolve like a sugar cube in the shower

Manly Stump

According to IMDb the model Matt (with the corn plasters) is Christopher Morris. It does look a bit like him but I can't believe it actually is.

Josh

Great reaction, thanks for the upload :-)

Saul

Mad Cow Disease was a deadly disease that affected British beef in the 80s and 90s. We ended up having to slaughter 4 million of the big milky sods because of it and British beef was banned for quite a long time from many countries. If you ate and contracted the human variant you died in a horrible fashion, your brain and spinal cord dissolving like a sugar cube in the shower. That's Nina's reference to 'your mad cows'. I don't actually know what the 'rabid dogs' reference Alan makes is about. I even googled it and couldn't find anything. It might just have been a case that happened to be in the news that week, not sure, or maybe France has some reputation for having a lot of rabies cases? 🤷‍♂️

Saul

A few things: Peter Ustinov was an actor famous for telling entertaining and long anecdotes on chat shows. He became more famous for being a raconteur than an actor. Derrida is a deconstructionist philosopher, life is way too short to learn anything more about the absolute balls he spouted. The fashion designer is heavily based on a famous British fashion designer called Vivenne Westwood. Infamously she once went on morning TV in the UK to show off her latest(pretty crazy) designs, and got visibly angry when the audience started laughing at how ridiculous they were. I think she said to the host something like "can you tell them to stop laughing or I'm leaving." I'd link to the clip because it's quite funny, but I can't.

Nell Sun

I like the way Alan asked if she drived a Ford Mondeo after he noticed it. Like she would be up on the latest Ford model.

Nell Sun

I assumed the sign was lost with his furniture because of the French customs people. (Although I hadn't noticed it getting bigger until Josh talked about it here.)

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Oh no lol he is such a goofball 🤣

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Thanks bud 👍

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Oh ok I remember now. Thank you 😁

After Work Reactions

That is awesome bud I'll have to watch the show with commentary at one point, I bet it is hilarious 🤣

Alex Edwards

So it was Gordon Kennedy in Red Dwarf of 'Absolutely' fame. (I never realised that. Obvious in hindsight.) I can't find any credits for Newman in this episode (except possibly as himself: somebody called Newman). It really does look like GK though.

Kieran B

No, it’s not sadly

Kieran B

The motto on his blazer badge coat of arms says ‘Knowing me, aha, knowing you’ in Latin. Laughed when you pointed it out that was a distributor cap knowing that joke was coming

Kieran B

It was me that mentioned the sign, well remembered! There were signs, they were on the sides but they were slightly different - they had Alan’s and Nina’s names, but Alan’s was massive and Nina’s tiny

Jonny

No I'm not

Ben

Just heard that Angela Lansbury died, her name was mentioned in an earlier episode, it was the name that was dubbed over Jessica Tandy who had just died shortly after the episode was made.

Alex Edwards

Unless I'm very much mistaken, model Newman was the insane super-Kryten (Hudson 10) from Red Dwarf 3.6 - The Last Day ("You are all viable targets")

BelladonnicHazeyJaneII

You might have heard 'Mr Whippy' on the Peter Kay Icecream man cometh clip you did before where he has an ice cream van. But I suppose it could have been brought up in a couple of shows you've done too 🍦

Nell Sun

Yeh, 'Mr Whippy' is a reference to the ice cream. Last time I watched this was with the commentary on and they were saying by the end "You're on Alan's side now aren't you, because they're just being twats." referring to the fashion people. (If I was Alan I definitely would've made Glen a sacked man, too.)