“You threw a monkey in the sea. That’s awful. I was fishing for some sort of funny story. That’s just upsetting.”
In context
Michael: So I picked it up, and I threw it in the sea.
Alan: You threw a monkey in the sea?
Michael: Well, he’d eaten all me fags, man.
Alan: You threw a monkey in the sea. That’s awful. I was fishing for some sort of funny story. That’s just upsetting.
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The scene
Alan asks Michael for a cheering army prank story and gets something much darker.
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Quick answers
Who says "You threw a monkey in the sea. That’s awful. I..."?
Alan Partridge says it in I'm Alan Partridge.
Where is this Alan Partridge quote from?
It is from Episode 4 – Basic Alan (I'm Alan Partridge). The full script is on this site.