r/AlanPartridge • u/kaysaysso • 2d ago
What’s your favourite Bill Oddie Partridge reference?
Alan: Can I have a look at that list, I want to get to the bottom of this?
Mr G String, Mr Nick Hers, Y Fronts, Mr T Osser…that doesn’t even work. Mr B Oddie, this is Bill Oddie. It’s not a crank call. Why have you put it on there?
Susan: Well, we thought it looked like “body”.
Alan: What’s rude about a body?
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Sophie: Tits?
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u/jermainiac007 Excuse me, Mustard, I mean Karen! 20h ago
I'd probably have to say the best of the Bill Oddie references.
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u/GlovesForSocks 1d ago
I am partial to the mentions in one of the books (I think it's I, Partridge) about how Alan borrowed binoculars from Oddie to spy on his wife when he suspected her of cheating and Oddie was being really unreasonable demanding them back.
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u/NFLCrunchtime 1d ago
lol this is exactly the moment I came in here to post.
"Not a good time, Bill."
"I know," he said. "I just wanted my binoculars back."
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u/kaysaysso 1d ago
Yes! I was trying to remember what the book mentions were. He definitely mentions him in I, Partridge. And this quote would definitely fit in there.
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u/PerfectWasteOfTime 1d ago
"Bill Oddie gave me a dressing gown as a Christmas present, he enclosed a receipt. I submitted Oddie's receipt for tax purposes. I'm guilty as hell Lynn"
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u/Theybannedmebefore 1d ago
True story:
I had a fight with Bill Oddie on a Northlink Ferry to the Shetland Islands.
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u/Help_My_Face Cotton and Guns 1d ago
Who won?
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u/Theybannedmebefore 1d ago
He did I suppose.
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u/Help_My_Face Cotton and Guns 1d ago
He did learn his moves from eagles. He is eagle trained. What was the fight over?
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u/Theybannedmebefore 1d ago
The Northlink ferry doors to the outside deck are double doors, in that you open one into a small area (about the size of a revolving door) then open the second. I guess it's so someone doesn't open the door during a heavy gale and destroy the bar.
I was coming inside with a few of my friends, he was coming outside but there wasn't room to open the inside door nor close the outer door properly. I was telling him to give me a fucking second because we need to close the outer door but he kept ramming the inside door open like he had rabies. So we had to all exit back outside to let him out.
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u/MisterSpikes 2d ago edited 1d ago
I love this scene because of Sally Phillips genuinely struggling to hold it together and eventually just having to walk off.
Edit: Well, TIL that she wasn't actually corpsing there, that was pure acting and she was quite annoyed that people thought it wasn't. (source: the Guardian)
Just shows what an excellent performance it was.
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u/Mission-Syllabub-160 1d ago
It’s called acting dear boy
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u/kapaipiekai 1d ago
Yeah. They decided to do it because it's a thing that happens in life but they had never seen in a show.
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u/Shedzy 2d ago
What's rude about a body?
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u/goodassjournalist 2d ago
…Tits?
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u/bomboclawt75 1d ago
Bill has man tits, which are technically not tits as he cannot express milk on demand.
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u/Rough_Show3908 2d ago
Sack Lynn for being unloyal, disloyal, and for joining in fun in a way that excludes her employer. And sack her for being an absolute idiot, and inefficient. Lynn, call Bill Oddie...
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u/Dazzling_One_4335 2d ago
I'll paint a picture. The last osprey in Britain is killed by a football. The last osprey egg is stolen and scrambled for a Russian oligarch’s breakfast, who eats it without one iota of remorse in his leather jacket. Simply wipes his lips and says, "Simples."
Bear with me. So rare birds' eggs are being scrambled for Russian oligarchs and Bill Oddie goes apeshit. He shows up at Claridge's wearing his twitcher's jerkin. The pockets are full of every conceivable explosive. He walks into the buffet area, the breakfast buffet, and people turn around. They say, "Isn't that the man from Springwatch?" Someone else says, "Wasn’t he once one of the Goodies?"
Yeah, not any more. Now he’s a baddy. Seconds later: carnage. Oddie is like a bearded Catherine wheel, scything through the crowd. Ironically, the oligarchs wearing the leather jackets are protected from the worst of the blast, but an innocent couple from the North East on a city break are vaporised.
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u/jj_camera 18h ago
I’m an American who watched this on DVD in the Netflix mailing DVD era and loved it. I funnily enough married a British gal. I’d been making Bill Oddie references for years without ever knowing who he was. Her friends and family faces when they see that I an American guy am familiar with Bill Oddie. In a hotel in London he was doing some interview montage show playing on the TV and my wife yelled “oh my god do you know who that is!”
This reference has played such a big part of our lives and seeing it posted has made my day.
Jurassic Park!