Meteor Video

They do it on purpose, Lynn!

You could be forgiven for thinking that this one is centred around Miami Vice, what with the neon-esque colour and font choices going on here, but no. Or actually…maybe?? In the sense that the source I’m working from (link is safe for work!) could be influenced by that. What I’m getting at is: porn. And let’s not get carried away with the visceral insanity of modern American pornography. I’m talking about the soft, almost wholesome (by today’s standards) 80s British stuff. I mean, Joanna Lumley was in one of them, which I think speaks volumes.

The reason for this is that in the world of Partridge, Meteor Video are responsible for similar output, with notable videos being Boob Olympics, The EuroVision Thong Contest and Wet Christmas. I say ‘videos’. This was 2002, so presumably we’re looking at a VHS / DVD hybrid model here. Both mostly obsolete nowadays. RIP physical media. Anyway, Alan’s association is less to do with their wet t shirt division, more their traffic collision division, being as he presents Crash! Bang! Wallop! What a Video! – a clear play on the Alistair Stewart classic Police Camera Action! show.

This particular episode kicks off the second series of IAP and it’s kind of weird to see what the young Coogan / Iannucci set consider a 47 year old man to look like. I believe we’ve established that they went a bit overboard with the aging and it is a bit weird when you consider that – at the time of writing – Steve Coogan himself is nearly 60 years old and looks younger than Alan in this series. It’s the company you keep, I suppose. So Courtney Love and a smattering of young glamour models. Which kind of loops nicely back to Meteor, in a way.

I’m 45, she’s 21. Back of the net.