The IT Crowd

8.2
2006

Production

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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.

Trailers & Videos

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TOP 5 The IT Crowd Best Moments | Series 1

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The IT Crowd Trailer

Seasons

6 Episodes • Premiered 2006

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.

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1. Yesterday's Jam

7.5

It's Jen's first day at Reynholm Industries and she is assigned the position of manager of the IT department. Roy and Moss quickly find out that she has absolutely no knowledge of computers whatsoever.

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2. Calamity Jen

7.6

Denholm tries to reduce stress in the work place and invites a stress expert to give the employees a class about dealing with stress. Meanwhile, Jen buys new shoes that are a few sizes too small, which leads to a very painful result.

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3. Fifty-Fifty

7.8

Moss and Roy go on a lonely hearts website. Meanwhile Jen meets the man of her dreams.

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4. The Red Door

7.3

After being told that she can never open the red door, Jen finds a way to find out what the mystery is all about.

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5. The Haunting of Bill Crouse

7.9

When her date Bill turns out to be a jerk, Jen asks Moss to send him away if he stops by. When he does and Moss can't convince him to leave, Moss has to lie and ends up telling Bill that Jen is dead.

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6. Aunt Irma Visits

7.6

Roy and Moss get the same symptoms as Jen when it's her time of the month.

Cast

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Chris O'Dowd

Roy Trenneman

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Richard Ayoade

Maurice Moss

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Matt Berry

Douglas Reynholm

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Reviews

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Timefox881

5/10

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.

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