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The following is a list of fictional characters from the BritishChannel 4sitcomThe IT Crowd.
- 1Main characters
- 2Recurring
Main characters[edit]
Roy Trenneman[edit]
Roy is a work-shy Irish IT technician who spends most of his time playing video games or reading comics in the office.[a][b][c] His work attire is casual compared to his colleagues; choosing to wear jeans and geek chic T-shirts.[a][1][2] Prior to his IT job, he worked as a waiter, where he said he would carry the food of rude customers in his trousers before serving it to them.[d][e] Whenever he answers phone calls, he often uses the phrase 'Have you tried turning it off and on again?',[3][4] even using an automated recording of this phrase in 'Fifty-Fifty'.[f] The series 4 episodes reveal Roy to have globophobia (fear of balloons)[g][5] and being extremely uncomfortable when a masseur planted a kiss on his bottom.[h][i] In the episode special 'The Internet Is Coming', Roy's new girlfriend remarks he is 'emotionally artistic' although it is later revealed she probably said 'emotionally autistic'.[6]
Roy's last name was not given in the first three series.[d][i] Following the broadcast of the episode 'The Speech' in 2008, Linehan blogged a graphic showing Roy's last name as Tenneman,[7] and later changed the spelling to Trenneman for the broadcast of the series 4 episode 'Something Happened' in 2010.[h] Roy's immediate family members do not appear in the series, but in the episode 'Aunt Irma Visits', he finds the resemblance of Moss's psychiatrist to his own mother disturbing.[j]
In the documentary 'The IT Crowd Manual', Roy is described as a worker who is engaged beneath his capabilities. O'Dowd said that Roy is slightly more capable of talking to people than Moss, but is still a man-child and slightly socially inept. Critic Boyd Hilton has said that Roy thinks he is on the cool edge of nerdiness. Author Cory Doctorow said that Roy's snark and misanthropy is identifiable to a certain tribe of nerds. Regarding his friendship with Moss, O'Dowd said that it seems as if they met in college. Linehan likened the two to 14-year-olds who like spending time with each other. Linehan said he originally thought the role should not be played by an Irish person, but that O'Dowd was the best man for the job, especially appreciating his physical performances.[8]
Maurice Moss[edit]
Maurice Moss, who goes by Moss, is a computer nerd with a side-parted afro and dark-rimmed glasses.[9] The humour in his character is derived from his socially awkward comments and his complex and in-depth knowledge of specialised technical subjects, including chemistry and electronic engineering. Moss has some quirky habits: He switches through glasses of various sizes in reaction when he and Roy scheme; when his ears get hot, he sprays them with a bottle;[a][9] he uses inhalers;[k] he can detect chemicals such as rohypnol by smell.[l] When faced with conversation concerning women's topics such as bras, he faints; he also spaces out when confronted with sports topics such as football. He lives with his mother,[m] who sends him to work with an apple each day,[n] and had sued him when he was eleven for breaking a window.[i][9] He admits he is horrible at lying, and demonstrated this with his lies concerning Jen in the episode 'The Haunting of Bill Crouse' where he tells Bill that Jen has died.[d] He suppresses his urges to cuss and does not like to break the rules, with an exception in the 'Bad Boys' episode when he and Roy ditch work after lunch and he gets in trouble for shoplifting, consequently having to do three hours of community service and give a Scared Straight! talk to some kids.[g]
In the documentary 'The IT Crowd Manual', Linehan said that Moss was an amalgam of various stereotypes with some uniqueness brought together by him and Richard, and described him as a really nerdy guy and a geek. Parkinson said Moss was a classic square, a timeless nerd. Ayoade said Moss was very childlike and positive. He had used his normal voice for Moss, and he liked that Moss sometimes adopts a confident persona like a child would do. Linehan said that he built the show around Richard so it was appropriate that he ended the show by turning out the light in the final episode.[8]
Jen Barber[edit]
Jen becomes the relationship manager of the IT department, having been assigned by Denholm at the start of the series because she had impressed the latter by listing computers on her curriculum vitae. She knows very little about electronics and computers,[10] pretending to work even when her desktop and landline phone were revealed to be unplugged or disconnected,[a][b] making statements at executive meetings such as searching 'Google' on the Google website would cause the network to crash,[m] and believing that the Internet resides in a physical box.[o] In 'Tramps Like Us', during a job interview, she struggles with not knowing what IT even stands for.[p][11]
She gets obsessed by pursuits such as buying cute shoes even though they are sized too small for her feet,[k] and trying to impress good-looking men,[f][c] but her relationships usually turn out to be disastrous.[8] In series 2, Jen reveals that she was a heavy smoker several years prior; she briefly takes up the habit again, but quits when she realises the anti-smoking regulations have made her more socially isolated.[e][q]
In an interview with The Independent, Parkinson said that Linehan originally wanted Jen to be 'likeable' but 'I know what he wanted now – he wanted her to be the more normal person people could relate to.” Although she would act as the straight woman to the two guys, her klutziness was well received by the audience.[12] Arts critic Rupert Christian describes Jen as the normal person going against the new technology.[8] Parkinson also said that Jen is sometimes shallow and egotistic.[8]
Douglas Reynholm[edit]
Douglas is introduced in series 2 where he takes over Reynholm Industries after his father Denholm's death. Having been away for seven years because of a court case, he attends Denholm's funeral in a dramatic fashion. He has been described as awful, sex-crazed,[13] and a serial dater.[14] He has a history of sexual harassment, which is one of the conditions he has to control in order to take over the company. He flirts with Jen during the funeral,[e] and later tries to flirt with her when he makes her his personal assistant.[l] As part of the subsequent sexual harassment settlement, he was required to wear 'electric sex pants' that deliver shocks whenever he is aroused at work, although Moss disarms them later.[p] In the episode 'Something Happened', he practices the religion of 'Spaceology' where he applies 'space star ordering' and has his hand replaced with a robotic one.[h][15] He sometimes brings up the topic of denying having killed his first wife, and in the series 4 finale, he reunites with an ex-wife Victoria for two weeks before they break up and he is sued for a large sum of money.[i] In sharp contrast to his father, who was a shrewd and very skilled businessman, Douglas lacks even basic business skills, and his takeover marks a significant downward spiral in the company's fortunes and finances, not helped by his extravagant spending and wasting of company time and resources.
In an interview with Radio Times, Linehan said 'I could easily spend an hour, or half an hour, with Douglas. He's my favourite way of making fun of people that I really loathe, like Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump. I basically just have happen to him all the things that I'd love to happen to them, and it's basically a really enjoyable process.' Linehan also likes Berry's extraordinary voice and gift for comedy.[16] In an interview with Slant, Berry said that the part was written for him,[15] and in Digital Spy, he said he tried to 'do his own thing' regarding his portrayal.[17][8] In 'The IT Crowd Manual', Berry described Douglas as so confident and privileged that he did not care where things would come out wrong, cause offence, or make him look like a fool.[8]
Recurring[edit]
Denholm Reynholm[edit]
Denholm is the director of Reynholm Industries at the start of series 1, having started the company with 'two things in my possession: a dream, and six million pounds.' He openly boasts about employing attractive people who do very little work and who engage in adulterous relationships. In his office, he had a picture of himself on the wall, and of the members of The A-Team on the desk.[a] Whenever he hires a new member of staff, he likes to give them a long, hard stare to assess them.[a] He enjoys setting up initiatives intended to boost performance in a company; for example, he 'declares war' on stress, mandating employees to attend a stress management seminar, after which he threatens to fire anyone who does not pass a stress test that same day.[k] In the series 1 finale where he celebrates the success of Project Icarus, he forgets to acknowledge the IT department which did most of the work on the project, preferring to thank everyone else including the janitors.[j] In 'Return of the Golden Child', during a company executive meeting, he congratulates himself for being so rich, however, when the police arrive to inquire about irregularities in the company's pension fund, he simply opens a window and jumps to his death.[e] He makes a guest appearance in series 3 when he beckons his son to join him in a place initially presumed to be heaven until Adolf Hitler appears in the doorway.[r] In 'The IT Crowd Manual', Denholm is described as strict and slightly sociopathic. Linehan said that Morris had set the tone of the series that the characters cannot be realistic.[8]
Richmond Avenal[edit]
Richmond is a mild-mannered, posh-accented goth who resides in the IT department server room. A former up-and-coming executive reporting to Denholm, he discovered dark metal band Cradle of Filth and changed his appearance, causing Denholm to feel rather uncomfortable with his appearance and attitude, especially after Richmond had recommended Denholm's grieving mother also listen to Cradle of Filth.[b][18] Richmond's absence from series 3 is explained as him having scurvy,[r] but Linehan noted in an episode commentary that Fielding was too busy on other projects.[19] In the series 4 finale, he returns without his goth makeup to testify for Douglas Reynholm's divorce case, having founded a business called Goth2Boss where he helps his fellow goths work in society.[i] In 'The Internet Is Coming', he is seen in his original goth costume again. He explains Goth2Boss didn’t work out as planned and he now works as a voiceover artist.[6][8]
In 'The IT Crowd Manual', Parkinson likened Richmond to a damaged bird and vulnerable. Guest star Lucy Montgomery described Richmond as bit of an Edward Scissorhands. Fielding said he based Richmond's voice on Roger Waters' after watching a Pink Floyd documentary.[8]
Notable guest appearances[edit]
- Paul (Danny Wallace):[3] A cultural adviser who is fired by Denholm for his choice of gift to a Japanese company, but regains his position due to his quick use of a 'Profanity Buzzer'.[k]
- Daniel Carey (Oliver Chris): A security guard that Jen falls for, but unfortunately her plans for romance go pear-shaped after she fails to help him as a 'phone a friend' on Who Wants to be a Millionaire?. While he is charismatic and good-looking, he is shown to be quite violent and immature when he brutally beats up a clown with the clown's own shoe for mocking his failure on TV.[f][18]
- Bill Crouse (Adam Buxton): Goes on a date with Jen, and after being told by Moss that she'd subsequently died, proceeded to tell the entire office that he was the last person to sleep with her. Nicknamed 'The News' because of his propensity to announce those who he has slept with. Subsequent encounters with Jen make him think she was a ghost haunting him.[d][20][21]
- April (Lucy Montgomery):[3] A trans woman journalist working for Richest magazine. April becomes romantically involved with Douglas while writing a magazine article about him.[o][8]
- Nolan (Tom Binns) is introduced in series 3 while Reynholm Industries is experiencing financial turmoil worsened by Douglas's cavalier behaviour, Nolan is Douglas's responsible and serious right-hand-man who is trying to hold the company together.[r] He was also the one who introduced Jen to the shareholders during her speech for winning Employee of the Month.[o]
- IT Tech Support (Kevin Eldon): Appearing in 'Bad Boys' as a laptop phone technician who responds in a strong and incomprehensible French accent. Linehan had based Eldon's character on his real-life interactions with a French technician. Eldon said that at first, he was upset about the character's silliness but looking back at his role, he said that Graham was exactly right, and that his only criticism was that he should have made him more French and more silly.[22]
- Dr. Mendall (Frances Barber):[8] The company psychiatrist who has a crush on Moss, and the feeling is mutual. Roy claims that she looks exactly like his mother. A drunken Roy sleeps with her after a staff party.[j]
Graham Linehan also had cameo appearances in the series. He portrayed The Blind Sorcerer in the episode 'Men Without Women', a Restaurant Musician in the episode 'Fifty Fifty' and a panicked businessman in 'The Speech'.
Notes[edit]
- ^In 'The Haunting of Bill Crouse', Roy presents a business card that shows only his first name.
Works cited[edit]
- ^ abcdef'Yesterday's Jam'. The IT Crowd. Series 1. Episode 1.
- ^ abc'The Red Door'. The IT Crowd. Series 1. Episode 4.
- ^ ab'The Work Outing'. The IT Crowd. Series 2. Episode 1.
- ^ abcd'The Haunting of Bill Crouse'. The IT Crowd. Series 1. Episode 5.
- ^ abcd'Return of the Golden Child'. The IT Crowd. Series 2. Episode 2.
- ^ abc'Fifty-Fifty'. The IT Crowd. Series 1. Episode 3.
- ^ ab'Bad Boys'. The IT Crowd. Series 4. Episode 5.
- ^ abc'Something Happened'. The IT Crowd. Series 4. Episode 3.
- ^ abcd'Reynholm vs. Reynholm'. The IT Crowd. Series 4. Episode 6.
- ^ abc'Aunt Irma Visits'. The IT Crowd. Series 1. Episode 6.
- ^ abcd'Calamity Jen'. The IT Crowd. Series 1. Episode 2.
- ^ ab'Men Without Women'. The IT Crowd. Series 2. Episode 6.
- ^ ab'Smoke and Mirrors'. The IT Crowd. Series 2. Episode 5.
- ^'Friendface'. The IT Crowd. Series 3. Episode 5.
- ^ abc'The Speech'. The IT Crowd. Series 3. Episode 4.
- ^ ab'Tramps Like Us'. The IT Crowd. Series 3. Episode 3.
- ^'Moss and the German'. The IT Crowd. Series 2. Episode 3.
- ^ abc'From Hell'. The IT Crowd. Series 3. Episode 1.
References[edit]
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- ^Goodacre, Kate (27 September 2013). ''The IT Crowd' finale: Did Roy, Moss and Jen get a fitting send-off?'. Digital Spy. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^Hogan, Michael (27 September 2013). 'The IT Crowd, Channel 4, review'. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^ abchttp://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/channel-4-reboots-the-it-crowd-night
- ^Freeman, Hadley (18 May 2012). 'Chris O'Dowd: from The IT Crowd to Hollywood'. The Guardian. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ^Marnell, Blair (16 April 2010). 'The IT Crowd 4.05 'Bad Boys''. CraveOnline. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^ abWollaston, Sam (28 September 2013). 'The IT Crowd – review'. The Guardian. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^Linehan, Graham (13 December 2008). 'What Roy was actually looking at tonight... - Why, That's Delightful!'. Why, That's Delightful!. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
- ^ abcdefghijklThe IT Crowd Manual.
- ^ abcRenshaw, David (16 May 2013). 'The IT Crowd – box set review'. The Guardian. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^'The IT Crowd'. Channel 4. 18 December 2008. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ^Hale, Lyra (2 September 2015). '4 Reasons to Watch The IT Crowd, Like Now'. Tell-Tale TV. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^Gilbert, Gerard (8 June 2015). 'Katherine Parkinson interview: Sherlock actress on likeability and being 'intimidated' by America'. The Independent. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ^'Inside The Studio Of The IT Crowd's Matt Berry'. Synthtopia. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^Susanna Lazarus. 'Toast of London's Matt Berry: I'm typecast as lady-obsessed and sleazy'. RadioTimes. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^ abAubry D'Armino (20 August 2010). 'Interview: The IT Crowd'. Slant Magazine. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^Liam Martin (28 December 2014). 'The IT Crowd creator Graham Linehan wants Douglas Reynholm spinoff'. Digital Spy. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^Mayer Nissim (28 December 2011). 'Matt Berry: 'Replacing Chris Morris in The IT Crowd was daunting''. Digital Spy. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^ ab''Fifty-Fifty'/'The Red Door' · The IT Crowd · TV Review'. The A.V. Club. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ^Episode commentary for 'From Hell'. The IT Crowd Series 3 (DVD).
- ^Stuart Kemp. 'Graham Linehan and Adam Buxton writing Channel 4 sitcom The Cloud'. the Guardian. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^Johnny Dee. 'Six to watch: Adam Buxton'. the Guardian. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^Claire Hodgson (20 December 2013). 'IT Crowd: Watch behind the scenes on Christmas Eve special documentary - Mirror Online'. mirror. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
The IT Crowd is a Channel 4sitcom written and directed by Graham Linehan and starring Richard Ayoade, Chris O'Dowd and Katherine Parkinson.
- 2Episodes
Series overview[edit]
| Series | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | ||||
| 1 | 6 | 3 February 2006 | 3 March 2006 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 24 August 2007 | 28 September 2007 | ||
| 3 | 6 | 21 November 2008 | 26 December 2008 | ||
| 4 | 6 | 25 June 2010 | 30 July 2010 | ||
| Special | 26 September 2013 | ||||
Episodes[edit]
Series 1 (2006)[edit]
| No. Overall | No. in Series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 'Yesterday's Jam' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 3 February 2006 | |
| Jen Barber (Katherine Parkinson) is interviewed for a position at Reynholm Industries. Based on the claim on her CV that she 'has a lot of experience with computers', Denholm Reynholm (Chris Morris) places her in charge of the IT department. She discovers to her dismay that her office is on the basement floor with 'standard nerds' Roy (Chris O'Dowd) and Moss (Richard Ayoade). The two are resistant to her leadership, which is affirmed when they discover she knows very little about computers. However, Denholm's adversity to non-teamwork forces the trio to get along. Jen hosts a party to boost the department's popularity, but it backfires when Moss tells them about an encounter he and Roy had with two prostitutes in Amsterdam. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | 'Calamity Jen' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 3 February 2006 | |
| Denholm mandates his employees to attend a stress seminar, threatening to fire those who still experience stress by the end of the day. Roy, who has annoyed the seminar's instructor, later steals his stress-measuring machine. Moss tries to make his own version, but when he leaves a soldering iron switched on, he starts a fire in the office. Jen buys and wears a pair of red high heels that are far too small, mangling her toes. She inadvertently angrily rebukes a visiting executive who was planning on doing business with Denholm. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | 'Fifty-Fifty' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan & Adam MacKessy | 10 February 2006 | |
| Roy's date with a woman goes horribly wrong after she mistakes some chocolate spread on his head for faeces. Despite Roy's insistence that 'it's not shit', he declares that the woman did not like him because women only like 'bastards' and devises a plan to prove his theory by posting a singles ad which makes him sound despicable. After receiving many responses, Roy arranges a date with a surprisingly good-looking woman and sets out to act like a 'bastard' to progress their relationship. Jen impresses a company security guard by correctly guessing obscure facts; she is later selected as his 'phone a friend' on the ITV quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The security guard asks her out, following which Jen is unable to answer the quiz question correctly. Roy and Jen take their dates to the same restaurant on Moss's recommendation. Following a scene in which a restaurant entertainer is assaulted by Jen's date after mocking him for failing on Millionaire, Roy and Jen's dates leave together. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | 'The Red Door' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 17 February 2006 | |
| Frustrated at the repeated theft of his coffee mug, Moss shows off a plain white one which supposedly has a picture of his head on the bottom; however, he is unable to find it. After heading upstairs to resolve an IT problem, Roy finds himself trapped underneath the desks of two female employees like a 'desk rabbit'. As Roy phones Moss for help to escape, Jen investigates what's behind a strange red door in the department that Roy and Moss have forbidden her to open. Inside, she discovers Richmond (Noel Fielding), a lonely goth whose job is to watch over some blinky lights on a machine. Richmond shares the story of how he was Denholm's right-hand man until the death of Denholm's father and (coincidentally) Richmond's discovery of the dark wave band Cradle of Filth. Touched by his story, Jen sets out to help and restore Richmond to his former glory. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | 'The Haunting of Bill Crouse' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan & Adam MacKessy | 24 February 2006 | |
| After a terrible dinner date with co-worker Bill Crouse (Adam Buxton), Jen wants to avoid his asking for a follow-up date, so she tells Moss to lie and say that she is too busy. However, when Bill arrives and is about to uncover Moss's lie, Moss tells Bill that Jen has died. Things escalate when Bill spreads the rumour that he was the last person to sleep with Jen, while Moss lies to Jen that the flowers and sympathy card are because she was made Employee of the Month. When she starts reappearing in the office, Bill thinks she is haunting him, which is made worse when she later calls him and shows up at his house to take back the rumour. Meanwhile, Roy gets a request from a girl from the fifth floor (a place Roy calls 'The Land of the Beautiful People'), but confuses the attractive Julie with the ugly Judy, the latter of whom made the request. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | 'Aunt Irma Visits' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 3 March 2006 | |
| Following a meeting in which Denholm thanks everyone except for the IT department for their involvement in a successful project, Jen becomes exceptionally moody and irritable. When Moss and Roy ask about it, Jen replies it's a visit from her 'Aunt Irma', a euphemism for premenstrual syndrome. Moss has been having therapy sessions with an attractive company psychiatrist (Frances Barber), but when the latter wants to halt the sessions, Moss gets angry and starts swearing. After being personally thanked by Denholm for his work, Roy experiences strong emotional feelings. Jen reasons that the recent mood changes must be 'Aunt Irma', but Moss mistakenly shares this insight to the IT community and it goes viral, turning them into Internet celebrities and inciting Aunt Irma riots throughout the world. To settle their emotions, Jen, Moss and Roy have a 'girls' night out' where they watch Steel Magnolias. They then go to the company's celebration party where they all become drunk and wake up with unexpected partners the next morning. | ||||||
Series 2 (2007)[edit]
| No. Overall | No. in Series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 1 | 'The Work Outing' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 24 August 2007 | |
| Co-worker Phillip asks Jen on a date to watch a play. Doubting Phillip's sexual orientation, Moss and Roy invite themselves along; their suspicions are reinforced when the play turns out be a musical with strong homosexual themes. During the intermission, Moss and Roy are unable to urinate in the gents' room due to the distracting presence of a washroom attendant, so they use the staff and disabled facilities respectively. Roy mistakes the emergency cord for a flush; when the staff arrive to assist, he pretends to be disabled in order to avoid condemnation for using the disabled toilet; however, he is subsequently grouped with other wheelchair-bound attendees and brought backstage for a meet and greet. Moss has meanwhile become the theatre's bartender, having been mistaken for a member of staff. Jen eventually confronts Phillip about his sexuality, and it is revealed that he is, indeed, gay. | ||||||
| 8 | 2 | 'Return of the Golden Child' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 31 August 2007 | |
| Asking Roy questions about his lifestyle, Moss enters Roy's data into an Internet site that estimates a person's date of death; they discover Roy will die on Thursday at 3pm. Denholm, upon receiving a visit from police who want to investigate 'financial irregularities' in the pension accounts, casually opens a window and jumps out of it to his death. Denholm's successor dislikes the IT department and plans to fire them. During the funeral, Roy notices his death time is coming and reacts violently when his pimped-up phone goes off at 3pm. Denholm's son Douglas (Matt Berry) storms the funeral where it is announced he will be taking over Reynholm Industries. | ||||||
| 9 | 3 | 'Moss and the German' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 7 September 2007 | |
| Roy and Moss try to watch a zombie film on DVD when Roy's friend calls him and is about to spoil the movie's plot twist. When they realise they have been spending a lot of time together like an old married couple, Jen suggests they try new activities to make new friends. Moss enrols in a German cookery course, only to find that his instructor is actually a cannibal who made some translation errors in the advert. Douglas invites Roy to watch the DVD but when Douglas learns it's that movie with a plot twist, he tries to guess it. Roy volunteers to be the German cannibal's next meal so that he can watch the film on the latter's impressive home entertainment system. However, they are raided by the police who are concerned that the video was pirated. Meanwhile Jen struggles with the company's increasingly harsh treatment of smokers, presented humorously as Soviet-style authoritarianism. | ||||||
| 10 | 4 | 'The Dinner Party' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 14 September 2007 | |
| Jen has finally found love with her new boyfriend, and to celebrate their happiness they host a dinner party for six of their single friends: three men and three women. When the boyfriend suddenly announces that the men are unable to attend, Jen reluctantly invites Roy, Moss and Richmond to take their places. Jen briefs her colleagues on how to act normally. Roy sits with a model who was involved in a car accident and had to undergo surgery on her face; Moss pairs up with a woman who acts promiscuously when drunk; and Richmond unexpectedly hits it off with the last of the women. During the dinner party, Roy and Moss discover that Jen's boyfriend's name is Peter File, which sounds similar to 'paedophile', and causes much confusion and discomfort. At the end of the episode, Jen and Peter set off for a romantic holiday to Paris, but she abandons him at the airport when his name is announced on the airport's public address system. | ||||||
| 11 | 5 | 'Smoke and Mirrors' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 21 September 2007 | |
| Roy comes back from a stag night unaware that he has been wearing lipstick. Jen loses concentration during an important meeting after wearing a 'bad bra' to work, but when Moss invents a bra that doesn't lose its comfort or form, Jen is able to have an effective meeting. Moss gets an opportunity to pitch it to Dragons' Den. Things go sour when the bra has overheating issues, ruining another meeting for Jen, and when Moss cannot remember his pseudonym and ends up on the wrong interview segment. Roy and Jen try to help Moss with the pitch in exchange for a cut of the profits, but it goes horribly wrong when Jen ends up repeating phrases, and the bra catches fire. | ||||||
| 12 | 6 | 'Men Without Women' 'The Joy of Sex' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 28 September 2007 | |
| Douglas travels far and wide in his quest to bed Jen and is given rohypnol by a mysterious blind sorcerer. Douglas offers Jen a position as his personal assistant. Having realised she is wasting her life in her current position, she accepts. Moss and Roy engage in a list of activities that they would not be able to do with Jen around, such as not wearing trousers, jousting with bicycles and broomsticks, and Roy's trying to hit a golf ball into Moss's mouth. When Douglas tries to make sexual advances on Jen, he is refused, and resorts to putting the rohypnol in a drink. Roy and Moss rescue Jen, but when Jen realises she was replaced by an answering machine, she leaves Roy and Moss trapped in the room with Douglas, who has drunk the rohypnol and has become inexplicably aroused. | ||||||
Series 3 (2008)[edit]
| No. Overall | No. in Series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 1 | 'From Hell' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 21 November 2008 | |
Roy suspects Jen's handyman Gary is a 'builder from hell' who has a reputation of urinating in customers' sinks. Jen spends a day at home to observe Gary, causing the latter to think she must be flirting with him, and prompting Jen and Roy to install closed-circuit cameras. When Jen finally spots the disgruntled Gary urinating in her bathtub, she botches her attempt to record the incident and accidentally sends the footage to a monitor at an investor conference. Moss has been regularly harassed by a group of teenagers on the way to work, prompting Roy to teach him by role play how to stand up to them. | ||||||
| 14 | 2 | 'Are We Not Men?' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 28 November 2008 | |
Moss and Roy use a football translation website called Bluffball[a] to gather quotes to pass themselves off as knowledgeable football fans in order to make new friends and get free drinks. They are invited to an actual game, and Roy is invited to a poker night, but when Roy finds himself in debt to one of his new acquaintances, he offers to do them a favour by driving them to their event. However, he is shocked to discover that the event is a bank robbery. Jen has trouble dating a man after Roy remarks that he looks like a stage magician. | ||||||
| 15 | 3 | 'Tramps Like Us' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 5 December 2008 | |
| Following the events of the series 2 episode finale, Jen, Moss and Roy receive a disappointing settlement from their sexual harassment lawsuit. Moss suffers a concussion from running into a door, and forgets everything he knows about computers. Jen pursues a new job, but finds herself tongue-tied when asked what IT stands for. Roy, who had his t-shirt dirtied and his jacket given away to help an elderly co-worker, is chased around the office by security and kicked out for being shirtless and without his door pass. He is forced to wander the streets begging for money. Douglas, who was forced by the settlement to wear 'electric sex pants' – underpants that shock him whenever he becomes aroused – cannot perform even simple functions without getting zapped, so he gets Moss to disarm it. | ||||||
| 16 | 4 | 'The Speech' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 12 December 2008 | |
| Jen boasts about winning Employee of the Month and makes Roy and Moss write her acceptance speech. Seeing an opportunity to humiliate her, Roy and Moss trick Jen by lending her 'the Internet' in the form of a small black box with a blinking light. They explain that if anything were to befall it, there would be worldwide chaos. Douglas finds the love of his life in a journalist named April, but mishears that she used to be a man, thinking she said that she is from Iran. At the shareholders meeting, Moss and Roy find their prank has backfired when the shareholders hang on Jen's every word about the Internet. After learning the truth about April, Douglas breaks up with April but their ensuing fist fight disrupts the shareholder meeting, crushing the Internet, and causing panic. | ||||||
| 17 | 5 | 'Friendface' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 19 December 2008 | |
| Jen persuades Roy and Moss to join the social networking site Friendface.[b] After reuniting with a successful classmate and making tall tales about her own progress, Jen attends her high school reunion where she asks Roy and then Moss to pretend to be her husband. But Roy has to meet up with an old date who was known to wear so much makeup that when she cries she resembles the Joker. At the reunion, Moss brags about Jen, but Roy and his date crash the party where Roy and Moss then argue over who really loves Jen. | ||||||
| 18 | 6 | 'Calendar Geeks' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 26 December 2008 | |
| Roy is overjoyed when the women from the seventh floor decide to make a nude calendar as a fundraiser for one of the women's debilitatingly 'boss-eyed' brother, and Roy is asked be the photographer. Jen, who is offended by the idea, complains and persuades the women to do a calendar of their grandmothers instead. But when Douglas makes Jen personally responsible for making at least a million pounds from the calendar, she and Roy decide to employ friends of Roy and Moss, leading to a 'geek chic' concept. | ||||||
Series 4 (2010)[edit]
Series 4 was recorded at Pinewood Studios in the spring of 2010.[3][4]
| No. Overall | No. in Series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1 | 'Jen The Fredo' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 25 June 2010 | |
| Roy is depressed over his recent breakup with his girlfriend. Jen applies to be the company's Entertainment Manager, despite not caring that the position was originally done by a man who acted as a pimp and took clients to seedy places. Roy likens Jen's job to that of Fredo from The Godfather. Douglas tries to have a feminist committee take back the 'Shithead of the Year' award they gave him. Following a disappointing visit with the clients to see The Vagina Monologues, Jen turns to Moss and Roy for ideas. Moss, who has been devising his own Dungeons & Dragons-styled role-playing game, invites Jen's clients and Roy for a session - which the clients dislike at first but like by the end. Douglas throws the award out of his window; it narrowly misses Jen, who is standing on the pavement below. | ||||||
| 20 | 2 | 'The Final Countdown' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 2 July 2010 | |
| Following a successful run on the popular quiz show Countdown, Moss is invited by a mysterious guy named Prime (Benedict Wong) to '8+', an exclusive club for previous champions of the game show who have appeared over eight times. He is later challenged to 'Street Countdown'. Roy is visited by a window cleaner (Limmy) who leaves his stuff at Roy's flat. He later meets an old acquaintance who has become rather successful, but worries when he is seen in multiple circumstances as a window cleaner. Jen is suspicious of Douglas's secretive manager meetings where the attendants are wearing dressing gowns, and finds a way to get in, only to discover they have changed the meeting to an aerobics class. | ||||||
| 21 | 3 | 'Something Happened' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 9 July 2010 | |
| Douglas becomes interested in 'Spaceology' – a new age-styled religion that employs cosmic ordering – and tries to persuade his employees to follow in his footsteps. Roy injures his back while moshing at a Sweet Billy Pilgrim concert event. When he sees a masseur for treatment, the masseur kisses him on the backside, and Roy takes him to court for sexual harassment. Jen, who has fallen in love with the band's geeky-looking keyboard player (who has a fixed stare), becomes a groupie and tries her luck as the band's singer. | ||||||
| 22 | 4 | 'Italian For Beginners' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 16 July 2010 | |
| Jealous that her co-worker Linda has been impressing everyone at their executive meetings, Jen pretends to be fluent in Italian so she can become Douglas's interpreter for an upcoming meeting. Moss brags about realising he can put his mobile phone in his shirt pocket for easier convenience, only to have it fall into the toilet, and tries to get an iPhone that he sees in a claw crane machine. Roy discovers that his latest girlfriend (Nathalie Cox) has a traumatic past, but is befuddled when he learns the highly improbable details: her parents died in a fire at a sea lion show at Sea Parks. Moss helps Jen with a phone conference by installing voice-translation software on her laptop, but when the Italian businessman comes for a face-to-face visit, Jen is denied use of the laptop. | ||||||
| 23 | 5 | 'Bad Boys' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 23 July 2010 | |
| At a Scared Straight!-styled talk, Moss is the first to present, recalling the events of the episode. Following lunch at the park, Roy and Moss find their path back is blocked by a bomb threat. When they decide to 'bunk off', Jen is disastrously left alone to represent the IT department. Roy and Moss loiter on a bus and at an entertainment shop. After Moss shoplifts some DVDs, the two are ejected by a security guard. On the way back they walk into danger when they encounter a bomb disposal robot outside the building. Moss is recognised by a shopkeeper from the mall and is arrested. | ||||||
| 24 | 6 | 'Reynholm vs Reynholm' 'Douglas and Divorce'[5] | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 30 July 2010 | |
| Douglas's second wife Victoria (Belinda Stewart-Wilson), who had disappeared after two weeks of marriage, reunites with Douglas. But after another two weeks and a divorce, she sues him for £220 million. Douglas attempts to represent himself in the trial, with Jen's assistance. Roy and Moss prove poor witnesses due to their prior traumatic legal experiences. Richmond returns as a surprise witness, having shed his goth image to start a business called Goth2Boss. After Douglas unsuccessfully fakes a heart attack, Jen pleads for the court to overlook his pathetic behaviour and to consider the workers at Reynholm Industries who would lose their jobs. Victoria offers to settle for £70 million, to which Douglas hastily agrees. | ||||||
Special (2013)[edit]
In October 2011, Graham Linehan stated that a one-off special would air to end the series.[6] On 8 May 2013, it was confirmed by Channel 4 and the BBC that the special would begin shooting in a few weeks, and would air later in the year.[7] Den of Geek's spoiler-free review revealed the title as 'The Internet Is Coming',[8] though the title of this episode has been incorrectly referred to as 'The Last Byte' by some sources.[9][10][11] The special had a running time of 48 minutes, which is twice the standard length of all the regular episodes.
| No. Overall | No. in Series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 1 | 'The Internet Is Coming' | Graham Linehan | Graham Linehan | 27 September 2013 | |
| Jen falls for a flirtatious coffee barista and recommends her colleagues to try the place, but when Roy goes, he gets a bad cup of coffee from a 'small man' barista. After getting negative feedback from Jen concerning his Web show on board games, Moss is encouraged by Douglas to wear women's trousers to boost his confidence. Jen and Roy visit the coffee shop, but Roy's presence disrupts Jen's barista and she is served bad coffee. Meanwhile, Roy places a complaint on a post-it note at the counter the small barista is working and leaves with Jen. When she tosses the coffee aside, she splashes it on a homeless woman, while the short-stature barista confronts Roy and is then hit by a van. A video of Jen and Roy's behaviour soon goes viral and reveals their identity. Jen and Roy turn to Moss, who makes his pepper spray into a useful product, but it backfires in a demo. Meanwhile, Douglas participates in Secret Millionaire and tries to relate with some youths but gets in trouble after serving them alcohol and becomes a wanted fugitive. Before going into hiding in the IT department, he chooses Jen, Roy, and Moss as his successors. The credits show how Reynholm Industries is revolutionised with the former IT trio in charge. | ||||||
Notes[edit]
- ^Going to the website 'bluffball.co.uk' takes the user to a message where it is announced the site is coming soon.[1]
- ^Going to the website 'friendface.co.uk' takes the user to a notice from Reynholm Industries saying the site has been blocked.[2]
References[edit]
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- ^'Bluffball.co.uk - Your guide to football parlance'. bluffball.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 January 2009. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^'Friendface.co.uk - a great new site for meeting people!'. friendface.co.uk. Archived from the original on 27 January 2009. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^'Twitter / Graham Linehan: @kerrylovesthis it's on in...'Twitter. 23 April 2010. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
- ^'Chris O'dowd - It Crowd Writer Linehan Hopes For Fourth Series'. contactmusic.com. 7 January 2009. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
- ^'The IT Crowd, Version 4.0'. iTunes Store. 6 October 2010.
- ^'Graham Linehan AMA on Reddit'. reddit.com. 20 October 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
- ^'BBC News - The IT Crowd to return for special one-off episode'. Bbc.co.uk. 8 May 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
- ^'The IT Crowd special spoiler-free review: The Internet Is Coming'. Den of Geek. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^'The IT Crowd, Channel 4, review'. Telegraph. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
- ^'The IT Crowd - The Last Byte (2013 Special) - The Last Episode Ever [YouTube] [48:33] : geek'. Reddit.com. 1 October 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
- ^'The IT Crowd - The Internet Is Coming - British Comedy Guide'. Comedy.co.uk. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
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