The IT Crowd Gets Together For One Final Episode

[Daveman]

Acting like something it's a big deal for the world, when it's actually something mundane it's kind of silly, I think. Just because I like old videogames, it doesn't mean that they can't be the butt of a joke. I find going to the stadium half-naked painted with the colors of your team silly, and I find equally silly the way Sheldon is obsessed with certain parts of his life. It doesn't negate their value to those who like these things because that... Would be silly. ^_^

It's not that it can't be the butt of a joke, it's that the act isn't a joke on it's own. And I don't necessarily associate these things with being nerdy either so often it's *thing I do that is normal* => *laughter*, for instance to use the sport analogy imagine if the scene with the N64 was football fans instead and they said "I've got the special TV package so we can watch the game here today" and there was laughter. It would mean they thought the idea of somebody enjoying that being funny. I don't really know, it's more of a vague feeling now that I've gone ages without seeing it.

IT crowd is different in that I don't see that. For instance Moss getting super-excited for getting on Countdown could be interpreted in the same way, but then we later have somebody saying countdown groupies are the most attractive and sexually voracious of all groupies. So I can take the whole thing as less serious I suppose. Not that I go into all comedies with a serious mindset.

I'm not sure why I care so much, I genuinely once rejected an attractive girl's advances because she said my T-shirt reminded her of the Big Bang Theory. My friends have said it's pathetic.

 

[mdqp]

It's not that it can't be the butt of a joke, it's that the act isn't a joke on it's own. And I don't necessarily associate these things with being nerdy either so often it's *thing I do that is normal* => *laughter*, for instance to use the sport analogy imagine if the scene with the N64 was football fans instead and they said "I've got the special TV package so we can watch the game here today" and there was laughter. It would mean they thought the idea of somebody enjoying that being funny. I don't really know, it's more of a vague feeling now that I've gone ages without seeing it.

IT crowd is different in that I don't see that. For instance Moss getting super-excited for getting on Countdown could be interpreted in the same way, but then we later have somebody saying countdown groupies are the most attractive and sexually voracious of all groupies. So I can take the whole thing as less serious I suppose. Not that I go into all comedies with a serious mindset.

I'm not sure why I care so much, I genuinely once rejected an attractive girl's advances because she said my T-shirt reminded her of the Big Bang Theory. My friends have said it's pathetic.

Well, it might be more along the lines of "I got this 1960 footage of the super bowl, and we are going to watch it as we do every friday". It just looks a bit excessive to others who aren't really into that sort of things. But yeah, as I said myself, it's not like that part is really all that fun or clever, so I concede the point.

The IT crowd is more "british" in its humour, unsurprisingly, and the situations depicted often start or spiral into a much more absurd setting, so it's hard to take it any seriously, I suppose. Maybe TBBT strikes a little closer to real life, that's why it becomes uncomfortable?

Your friends should have chased you with torches and pitchforks! You should have taken that as a chance to teach her the "truth" about the show, and score with a sexy girl. Two birds with one stone, and all that. ^_^

 

[EeveeElectro]

*sniff* ;_; the good die young.

I love The IT crowd, the humour is just spot on, probably thanks to the legend that is Linehan.
I suppose I'm glad it's finishing before it get unfunny and repetitive.

I assume Chris Morris and Noel Fielding will be making a return which just makes everything good.

 

[Furism]

One of the best cross-over ever in the history of TV Shows would be an episode where The IT Crowd meets The Big Bang Theory. It would be great to see Sheldon and Moss together, they are rather alike while being totally different.