The IT Crowd

[zoooo]

I loved Roy going up and down on the wheelchair lift.

 

[wishface]

Jen's got a lovely bum in that skirt she wears.

She ain't half bad lookin'!

 

[Poot]

The structure was great on Friday as Jen simultaneously discovered Roy was disabled and Moss was on the theatre staff.

I loved that bit! I very nearly did the nose trick with the beer I was drinking.

 

[Termite Man]

I missed it ! Does anyone know if it will be repeated before next weeks episode ?

 

[chupucabras]

Hmm, I remember quite liking the first series of this, but that episode was horrible. The basic idea could have worked okay, but all the gay and disabled stuff was just nasty and unfunny.

 

[spartacus mills]

I think it's hilarious! I laughed like a buffoon.

So did I. It was much better than I expected. I watched it again on 4+1 and still made me laugh out loud.

 

[stavros]

I missed it ! Does anyone know if it will be repeated before next weeks episode ?

Not that I know of, but I don't think that'll detract from this week's because the episodes seem to work alone. It's quite an insular show in terms of settings, at least it was until last Friday, with almost everything taking place in their office. In that sense it's a bit different from a lot of other modern sit-coms which like to film more cinematically and dispense with the laughter track, a la The Royle Family or Peep Show.

 

[WouldBe]

I missed it ! Does anyone know if it will be repeated before next weeks episode ?

It's on Channel 4 isn;t it?

If so you can download programs from the last 7 days from theur website, provided you have XP and windows media player 10 IIRC.

 

[stdPikachu]

Meh. Seems to have traveresed out of the realm of being a quirky comedy about IT to having absolutely nothing to do with IT at all - now it just seems to be your standard comedy set in an office. Meh.

This episode just seemed to be a continued exercise in lets-all-laugh-at-our-lack-of-political-correctness. Seen all that before, and executed much better too. Girl goes out with man who turns out to be gay? You're repeating yourself Linehan, you did that in Black Books!

Richard Ayoade still rocks though. Moss (Moz?) is a brilliant character and I wish they'd have done more with him.

 

[Ranbay]

watched it twice i liked it so much

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I'm hoping that Chris Morris isn't involved with this series.

I think a friend of mine has taken his place so I don't think he is.

The last series was super shit so I won't be going out of my way to watch this. That black fella with the specs that is doing nerd by numbers is appaling.

 

[5t3IIa]

I've met Chris O'Dowd - he's super top totty IRL, phwoar

 

[lostexpectation]

Thirty seconds in and I've switched it off. The canned laughter is worse than Friends.

I'm hoping that Chris Morris isn't involved with this series.

its filmed infront of live studio audience as is friends :?

but I hate the overacting.

 

[stdPikachu]

It may be filmed in front of a live studio audience, but I'm prepared to chop off my testicles if half of the laughter in that wasn't added in the edit suite.

Next week on the IT Crowd - the lovable techies must deal with meeting a bunch of dungaree-wearing militant feminist lesbians and unintentionally ruin a funeral, with hilarious consequences!!! <raucous laughter>

Sigh.

 

[5t3IIa]

It's really fucking dreadful isn't it? I watched Roman's Empire purely to look at Roy and it was better, even though they all SHOUTED ALL THE TIME FOR NO REASON too.

 

[foo]

unfunny predictable shit, imo.

quite fancy the irish chap though.

 

[sparkling]

I wanted to enjoy this but found it predictable crap which only just managed to raise an odd smile in me. I won't be wasting time on it again.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

its filmed infront of live studio audience as is friends :?

but I hate the overacting.

I know they are not supposed to but I also know they do add extra laughs.

 

[5t3IIa]

unfunny predictable shit, imo.

quite fancy the irish chap though.

I met him! I met him! At a party! He's lovely - you'd've been proud (yes, complete strangers ) at how I was. "So," I sauved "What do you do?" :drool:

 

[ovaltina]

I thought it was funny... nice to have a sit com to watch again.

 

[Silva]

I kind of miss the nerdy jokes. I want Moss checking on the internet how to put out a fire and Roy's pre-recorded tech advice.

 

[stdPikachu]

I kind of miss the nerdy jokes. I want Moss checking on the internet how to put out a fire and Roy's pre-recorded tech advice.

Apart from the lazy comedy-by-numbers approach (which, admittedly, was common in the last series, but it poked fun at the geek/nerd subculture rather than resorting to laughing at gay/disabled people), this was the biggest disappointment of the latest episode as well.

"Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot? You see the driver hooks a function by patching the system call table, so it’s not safe to unload it, unless another thread’s about to jump in there and do its stuff, and you don’t want to end up in the middle of invalid memory… hello?"

Made me larf Probably because I've had very similar conversations myself...

 

[sojourner]

"Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot? You see the driver hooks a function by patching the system call table, so it’s not safe to unload it, unless another thread’s about to jump in there and do its stuff, and you don’t want to end up in the middle of invalid memory… hello?"

Made me larf Probably because I've had very similar conversations myself...

Yes, I laughed out loud to that one too, same reason

Not watched the new series yet, but if there's no IT jokes, I don't see the point of it

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

i saw the first episode of the first season and hated it

 

[goldenecitrone]

Unmitigated rubbish. Badly written, terribly acted and about as funny as a Home Alone dvd as a Christmas present for the McCann family.

 

[stavros]

Channel 4 do still occassionally come up trumps with sit coms; Peep Show, Green Wing and now this, although The IT Crowd is third of those three in my eyes.

 

[sojourner]

Channel 4 do still occassionally come up trumps with sit coms; Peep Show, Green Wing and now this, although The IT Crowd is third of those three in my eyes.

Loved Peep Show, but no matter how much I tried (and one really shouldn't have to try!) I thought it was unfunny shite. Too many posers and not enough comedy

 

[stavros]

I guess with the second bit you're talking about Green Wing. I know it's got a bit of a Marmite reputation, but even the haters might concede it was different in format? I myself love that tightrope between surrealism and serious drama.

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

Gave it another six minutes tonight...Still utter shite.

 

[tommers]

I don't get it? It's had me laughing like a drain.