The IT Crowd
“Have you tried turning it off and on again?”
The comedic misadventures of Roy, Moss, and their grifting supervisor Jen, a 'motley crew' of IT support workers at a large corporation headed by a hotheaded yuppie.
Details
First Aired: 2/3/2006
Languages: English
Created by: Graham Linehan
Type: Scripted
Production
Channel 4Companies: Talkback Thames, Channel 4 Television
Countries: United Kingdom
Where to watch · US
Seasons
Season 1
In season one, Roy and Moss toil in the squalid basement of a huge company, fielding IT help-desk calls. Roy has a lousy attitude coupled with an eye for the ladies, while Moss is dressed by his mother and has an aerosol can of water clipped to his belt with which to spray his ear when it gets hot. Into their life of users, pizza, science fiction and firewalls comes middle manager Jen, a punky can-do career gal who doesn't know one end of laptop from the other.
Season 2
In the second series, team cohesion in IT at Reynholm Industries is running at capacity, largely thanks to work outings, dinner parties and the manipulation of cannibals in order to watch pirate DVDs.
Season 3
For Moss, Roy and Jen, social networks and problems with naked calendars are welcome distractions from important duties, like protecting a certain little black box that's also known as 'the internet'.
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Timefox881
This, along with stuff like Inbetweeners, Black Books, Friday Night Dinner etc, is an example of where Brits go a little overboard in rating their humor too highly. Plus, Americans hear a British accent and think it must "British humor". There's nothing British about the humor in this show. It's standard, straightforward universal sitcom humor. None of these shows are doing anything challenging or inventive. It's safe predictable joke after safe predictable joke. You can see the formula like a baseball pitcher winding up his pitch. And the punchline comes right when and where you'd expect it to land. If you're interested in seeing some decent British comedy, check out Detectorists, Camping, Mister Winner, Mandy, This Country, Yonderland or even Plebs. There's nothing going on in The IT Crowd that you haven't seen 100 times before.
