I'm Alan Partridge (TV Series)

Towering Alan (1997)

Felicity Montagu: Lynn Benfield

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Quotes 

• [in the farewell party in his hotel room, Alan turns round to see the others all looking into the drawer containing something he doesn't want anyone to see. They all jump back. After a moment of awkward silence, Lynn spontaneously breaks into a song] 

  Lynn Benfield : [singing rapidly in a Scottish accent]  O, rattling, roaring Willie, O, he! Well, he's off to the BBC! O, rattling, roaring Willie, O, he! He's off to the BBC! O, Willie goes there, O, Willie goes there, O, Willie goes there, O, there, O, there! O, Willie goes there, O, Willie goes there, O, Willie goes there, O, there, there, there!

  Alan Partridge : Extraordinary.

• Lynn Benfield : Your mind's flying.

  Alan Partridge : Of course my mind's flying, Lynn. I've been living in a hotel for 26 weeks. 182 days in a Travel Tavern. Look, see this, look - sanitary bags! They put these in my room every day! They know I'm a man! I keep loose Werther's Originals in them. Look at this! See this?

  [he picks up a cardboard box and tips lots of little shower gel bottles onto the bed] 

  Alan Partridge : That is 182 bottles of body lotion. I was going to sell them at a car boot sale. I can't remember what it's like to dial a number from a telephone without hitting 9 first.

  [as he says this he picks up the phone and taps a button on it] 

  Alan Partridge : [into the phone]  Hello? Reception? Sorry, I must have hit a zero.

  [he puts down the phone] 

  Alan Partridge : Lynn, I was at a friend's house the other night. I was trying to make a phone call, I thought there was something wrong with the phone, I'd been hitting 9, Lynn! I felt like a ruddy idiot! I just left, I couldn't stay there after that.

• Alan Partridge : [on the phone]  What? Really? Oh my God.

  [to Lynn] 

  Alan Partridge : Tony Hayers is dead.

  Lynn Benfield : Yes!

• [Mike Sampson, an odd hotel guest who keeps laughing and whom Alan finds very irritating, has showed up to Alan's farewell party for the hotel staff] 

  Alan Partridge : What's he doing here?

  Lynn Benfield : You said invite a guest.

  Alan Partridge : Lynn, that's just a phrase. I didn't mean it.

• Lynn Benfield : How did the country show go, Alan?

  Alan Partridge : Um... I walked off.

  Lynn Benfield : Who's upset you this time?

  Alan Partridge : Just people. I just hate the general public.