While I love the character and the show, I always feel an odd melancholy when watching this show - and it is nothing to do with Alan's sort in life. There is something beige and mildly unpleasant about the world of the show that always bums me out. It's almost like feeling of synesthesia that makes me smell mothballs whenever I watch.
Watching it on any sort of modern screen exacerbates this, the standard def image becoming grainier and somehow enhancing the smothering mundanity of late '90s England. A sitcom that has become slightly liminal with time, ridiculous as that sounds.
The Chris Rea rant is right up there with his best work. "Come on Lynn, these people are starting to annoy me". Genius.
I often thought "That was a negative and right now, I need two positives" was an underrated line. I love saying it in my personal life.
and then, explaining the logic of it, of course.
@artschull well strictly speaking youre adding not multiplying
Very clever line 👏
So do I mate ever since I was 25 lol.
Who is under rating it?
It’s the low-key partridge quotes that really get me such as “I’ll drop you at a cab rank”
Even in his hypothetical scenarios he alienates everyone. XD
Poor Chris Rea was on the receiving end of Alan before they even met. No wonder Chris became a recluse.
Only Alan could get annoyed by a theoretical conversation. Brilliant writing.
I love those occasional non-jokes. "Finished it off with the jack". "Deaf school; does that mean there will be more or less noise"
LYNN IM NOT COMING TO YOUR BAPTIST CHURCH
THEY ALWAYS GET U WHEN YOUR DOWN
CLASSIC ALAN
The older I get, the more I realise that I'm turning into Alan.😅
Do you like mini Kiev’s?
I love em but my wife’s vegetarian
Doesn’t matter she can have fish
No she won’t eat that either
OH FORGET IT!
you people!
Love the way he invites, has an argument and then uninvites him in one imaginery conversation
Hahahaha
Just hilarious how AP's mind functions 😅😅😅 it's brilliant.
Come on Lynn, these people are starting to annoy me!
drive to a cab rank at 3am in the morning very gentlemanly!
Interesting to know where Lin lived in relation to the cab rank.how much further a drive was it for Alan...
He probably drove passed her house to get to the rank.
He’s paying her £8k a year. Surely he shouldn’t have to taxi her home as well
@@seankingsirtarquin6412 probably related to Trigger.
so much of their dialogue in the car was actually improvised.
Lynn I'm not coming to your Baptist church!
JET!
While I love the character and the show, I always feel an odd melancholy when watching this show - and it is nothing to do with Alan's sort in life. There is something beige and mildly unpleasant about the world of the show that always bums me out. It's almost like feeling of synesthesia that makes me smell mothballs whenever I watch.
Its satire, not real life.
@@sarahholland2600 You’re one clever cookie.
It has this strange haziness to it, being standard quality but not to the pint it looks like a crappy VHS
I suppose its got a very haunting quality
Watching it on any sort of modern screen exacerbates this, the standard def image becoming grainier and somehow enhancing the smothering mundanity of late '90s England. A sitcom that has become slightly liminal with time, ridiculous as that sounds.
you’ve articulated a feeling i haven’t quite been able to fathom. i get it now - it’s a world of cheap polyester trousers and plastic slip on shoes
I always thought that the person who invented cats' eyes was the same person who invented the rest of the cat.
If the cat had been facing the other way, he would have invented the pencil sharpener instead.
@@explorer806 Lynn? You couldn’t invent a….cat!
You've correct. Ian Cat invented the Cat
Jet!
Where he is of course singing about his Gladiator idol :)
What episode
2:27 LOL
Right minibar 😂
Chris Rea's wife seems like a lot of work
I realised I was having a theoretical conversation with myself the other day and got annoyed.
That's Portsmouth and its Mike Oldfield
You people 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
What was he not expecting?
This was after he messed up his meeting with Tony at the BBC. "Smell my cheese".
@@carolineg1872 People who reject me can smell my cheese.
oh forget it! LOL
Oh forget it
You people
Why would you be cooking mini kievs on a barbecue?
@kevone because my wife’s a vegetarian
Why would you be cooking them?
@@thewilk8556I hope not all of the time
You people.
It’s too much
nbes tcomedy ever wont be beaten BY NOTHING
Kate Bush is dreadfully overrated. Haaaaaaah
Jet!
😂