Starring: Steve Coogan, Felicity Montagu, Phil Cornwell, Simon Greenall
Genres: Comedy
Continuity mistake: In the petrol station when Michael realises his badge only says 'Michael', he looks down. In the next shot he is looking at Alan. (00:07:05)
Basic Alan - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: When Alan says about putting a cone on his head in the bar, he is holding his pint on the table. In the next shot he is drinking from it. (00:21:45)
Basic Alan - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: When Alan watches Sophie and Ben kiss from his hotel window, the curtain moves between shots. (00:07:10)
Continuity mistake: When Michael tries to take Alan's big plate, Jill holds the menu in both hands. In the next shot she is holding it in just one. (00:18:25)
Alan Partridge: You work in a petrol station Michael. It's not the Gulf War. Which ironically is like a large petrol station.
Trivia: Given that the BBC are very much against product placement in their shows, its shocking the amount of placement that goes on in Alan Partridge. Its really in your face stuff. Ginsters pasties, BP petrol, Lexus cars, Flavia coffee machines, Directors bitter, Twix and Yorkie bars. In every episode the above are mentioned on numerous occastions. Not that I give a hoot about product placement myself, but am so surprised at how blatently obvious it is and yet the BBC have always been so against it.
Question: Who played the man who drew the penis on Alan's back when he was younger?
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Chosen answer: He was played by Ian Puleston-Davies. He is best known for his role as Owen Armstrong in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street.
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