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** Prostrating himself in front of the newsdesk as if it was a religious altar.

** Taking off his wig to reveal a massive mane of long, blond hair.

{{quote| '''Reporter''': If this happened to you, would you know what to do? Your chances would be considerably improved if you made sure someone on the ground had one of these. It's a pocket shepherd, it costs just £59. A small price to pay for the gift of a functioning body that works properly.}}

* [[Crapsack World]]: Set in contemporary Britain, where bombdogs are set off by the IRA, dentists are forced into illegal, backdoor operations on the streets, motorways collide with each other and the Queen and the Prime Minister have a massive fight at Buckingham Palace.

{{quote| '''Hennety:''' Maria! Mariaaa-aa-aa-aa!}}

* [[Sound to Screen Adaptation]]: First began as ''On the Hour'' on BBC Radio Four.

** ''KMKYWAP'' retains in-universe continuity, with Alan Partridge ''somehow'' ascending from sports correspondent to prime-time chatshow host.

** ''KMKYWAP'' remained on the BBC, while Morris took ''Brass Eye'' over to Channel 4 to [[Biting the Hand Humour|bite their hands instead]]. Morris eventually turned up in KMKYWAP's own spin-off, ''[[I'm Alan Partridge]]'', as posh twat Peter Baxendale-Thomas.

{{quote| '''Sylvester Stuart:''' Starting in the south-east...Devon and Cornwall should have some fairly heavy and prolonged showers, a bit like jagged metal piercing old flesh. The Midlands now...it'll be warm at first but turning cocky later, at around twelve, and there should be some cloud around in the shape of a whore. In Scotland now...thunderstorms in the evening but the sun should come through later, so it'll be a bit like being woken up in the night by strange men shining powerful torches in your eyes. In summary then? Dispassionate. And that's all the weather.}}

* [[Witty Banter]]

** The theme tune, at least, gets more and more overblown as the series progressed.

* [[Zany Scheme]]: Alan Partridge's soccermeter, an intensely confusing device causing Partridge to make a fool of himself trying to demonstrate how it works.