The Day Today

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Easter egg: On the second disc, go to Extended Scenes. Highlight the"Main Menu" option and press down. You should now see a red dot near the top of the screen. Press enter to listen to an interview with Steve Coogan.

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Easter egg: On the second disc, go to Mininews. Then return to the main menu. The balls with the presenters faces will be gone. Remain idle for a while and you will hear a conversation between Chris Morris and Alan Partridge about Princess Diana.

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Easter egg: On the second disc, go to Mininews. Highlight number 4 and press up. You should now see a red dot near the top of the screen. Press enter to watch a rather odd version of one of George W Bush's speeches.

Meganews - S1-E3

Easter egg: While watching episode 3 on the DVD, press the angle button on your remote control and switch to angle 2. You will now watch an alternative version of the episode with a man and a woman describing it for the blind.

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Easter egg: Go to the episode selection screen and press right until you get to episode 4. Then press right again to go to episode 5. You should hear Collatalie Sisters say "Seven is a bit younger, Chris." If you don't, go back to episode 4 and try again. Then while on the episode 5 screen press 7 to hear a sketch involving Collatalie. (Apparently on some DVD players you have to press enter after 7.).

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Easter egg: Enter the episode select screen on disc 1 then press title to return to the main menu. Remain idle on the main menu and you will hear an interview with Chris Morris and Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan about the destruction of the world trade center.

Stretchcast - S1-E4

Plot hole: In the Alan Partridge "Rally Driving" section he has a large camera stuck to his helmet. He says that this is so you can see all his horrible facial expressions. However when he is in the car the camera is not there but we still get facial close-ups.

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