Watership Alan (S1, E3)

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Synopsis

After making various unsympathetic comments about farming on his radio show, Alan becomes an object of hatred for local farmers. But he does not have time to worry about this as he is more concerned with shooting an advertisement for a small-boating holiday company. In the hotel's bar, during an initial interview with the video executives (Peter Baynham and Simon Pegg), Alan panics and invents the ladyboy drink combination, the effects of which result in him phoning Carol, where he tries to insult her partner's car.

On his radio show, Alan interviews the leader of the local Farmers' Union (Chris Morris), but instead of apologising, enrages local farmers even further by making increasingly insane comments about farmers. On the day of the video-shoot, Alan attempts to blend in with the hard-drinking crew and again displays his chronic lack of basic social skills. During the shoot, riddled with examples of Alan's pathetic ineptitude, he is crushed by a dead cow thrown from a bridge by the disgruntled local farmers.

Alan returns from hospital with a neck brace and broken fingers, and is forced to humiliate himself by phoning reception and asking Susan to 'make pornography come on my television', after previously asking for such channels to be disconnected after the staff found out that he had watched Bangkok Chickboys. He discovers his request to be a pointless waste of time, due to his hand injury.