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The IT Crowd

 
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Season 1

1 Yesterday's Jam 2006-02-03

24 Min.

Jen Barber faked IT knowledge when she applied for a job at a London company and therefore gets the job as head of the IT department at her interview with the incompetent manager Denholm Reynholm. There work the two nerds Roy and Maurice, who quickly find out that Jen has not a clue about computers.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Noel Fielding

2 Calamity Jen 2006-02-03

24 Min.

Boss Denholm declares war on stress and therefore arranges for a stress seminar to be held at the company. But nerd Roy soon upsets the seminar leader, while Maurice replicates his stress measuring device. Jen has seen shoes in a store and is desperate to get them. The fact that they are a pair of sizes too small doesn't stop her from buying them.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Noel Fielding

3 Fifty-Fifty 2006-02-10

24 Min.

Roy fails a date because the woman thinks he smeared shit on his forehead. In fact, it was only chocolate, but Jen makes sure that the mishap is known everywhere. Roy now wants to prove to Jen that women like bastards and puts up an online dating ad. Meanwhile, Jen tries to impress security guard Daniel and pretends to know classical music.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Noel Fielding

4 The Red Door 2006-02-17

24 Min.

Roy and Maurice have made it clear to Jen that she is not to open the red door in the office under any circumstances, but when Roy gets stuck under a desk after an assignment and Maurice goes to help him, Jen takes the chance. But what she finds behind the door gives her a huge shock.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Noel Fielding

5 The Haunting of Bill Crouse 2006-02-24

24 Min.

Jen had a disastrous date with her colleague Bill Crouse, so the next morning she tells Maurice not to let Bill into the office. To prevent this, Maurice can think of nothing better than to tell Bill that Jen has died overnight. The news quickly makes the rounds in the company and leads to great sympathy, but Jen is clueless.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Noel Fielding

6 Aunt Irma Visits 2006-03-03

24 Min.

Jen has a visit from "Aunt Irma" - that's what she calls it when she has her period - and is therefore quickly irritable. Soon Roy and Maurice also notice changes in themselves, as if they were also menstruating. Because Maurice sends out a circular e-mail about it, the whole country soon knows of it. In addition, Maurice goes to psychotherapy with a much older woman, but he finds her attractive.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Noel Fielding

Season 2

1 The Work Outing 2007-08-24

24 Min.

Philip invites Jen to the theater. She hopes for a date, but Roy and Maurice also invite themselves to the performance, because in their opinion Philip is gay anyway. The play reinforces their opinion, because it is about homosexuals, which Roy and Maurice do not like at all. They actually want to leave during the intermission, but Roy's urge to urinate causes him to end up in a wheelchair.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Noel Fielding

2 Return of the Golden Child 2007-08-31

24 Min.

Maurice takes an online test with Roy, which reveals that Roy will die next Thursday at 3pm. He is somewhat shocked, but before that there is another death: Boss Denholm jumps out the window when the police want to question him about irregularities in the pension fund. Denholm's funeral is at 3 pm on Thursday, of all days...

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Noel Fielding

3 Moss and the German 2007-09-07

24 Min.

Roy wants to watch a movie with Maurice before a buddy tells him the ending. But his TV breaks down and Maurice thinks they both spend too much time together anyway. On Jen's advice to meet other people too, Maurice signs up for a German's cooking class. But this is a misunderstanding, because he is a cannibal and is looking for someone to be cooked.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Noel Fielding

4 The Dinner Party 2007-09-14

24 Min.

Jen has a new boyfriend, Peter, with whom she wants to give a dinner party. But then the invited men cancel and Jen has no choice but to fill their gap with the three guys from her IT department, although she strongly doubts that they will behave appropriately towards the invited ladies.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Noel Fielding

5 Smoke and Mirrors 2007-09-21

24 Min.

Jen has problems with her pinching bra at work and tells Maurice about it. He's not used to talking about women's underwear, which is why he's preoccupied with the subject until he has an idea for a perfect-fitting bra at night. Jen is thrilled by it, and so Maurice wants to look for investors on television with his invention.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Noel Fielding

6 Men without Women 2007-09-28

24 Min.

Company boss Douglas still wants to end up with Jen, so he makes her an offer to become his personal assistant. Because Jen doesn't want to be stuck in the basement in the IT department, she accepts. Roy and Maurice, meanwhile, use their new freedom without Jen to do what they weren't allowed to do before.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Noel Fielding

Season 3

1 From Hell 2008-11-21

24 Min.

Jen has a handyman working in her apartment. Roy thinks he recognizes him from the TV show Builders from Hell in which it was shown how a craftsman secretly peed in the sink of his client. This gives Jen no peace of mind. Boss Douglas, meanwhile, is having increasing financial problems with the company, and Roy tries to help Maurice fight bullies.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Matt Berry

2 Are We Not Men? 2008-11-28

24 Min.

Roy wants to get out more. It helps him that Maurice has found an Internet site that contains sayings with which one can pretend to know something about soccer. As a result, the two actually make the acquaintance of some soccer fans in a bar, in constant danger of being exposed. Jen, meanwhile, is dating a man Roy thinks is a magician, which now gives her no peace.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Matt Berry

3 Tramps Like Us 2008-12-05

24 Min.

Because Boss Douglas sexually harassed Jen and the two men from IT, he has to wear pants that give him electric shocks when he gets aroused. Jen is now at a job interview. Meanwhile, Maurice spills coffee on Roy and injures himself, so Roy has to walk around the company topless. Without Jen, the two are obviously helpless...

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Matt Berry

5 Friendface 2008-12-19

24 Min.

Jen has signed up for the social network "Friendface" and gets Roy and Maurice to do the same. Soon the three of them are only communicating via it. But Roy is contacted there by a woman he no longer wanted anything to do with, and Jen meets an old school friend. Because everyone from her school is successful, she introduces Maurice as her husband at a class reunion.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Matt Berry

6 Calendar Geeks 2008-12-26

24 Min.

Roy is with the attractive female colleagues of the seventh floor and makes fun of a photo of a man. It turns out to be the sick brother of one of the ladies. The women come up with the idea of raising money for him with a nude calendar and Roy immediately volunteers to be the photographer. But Jen wants their grannies to be pictured instead of the colleagues themselves.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Matt Berry

Season 4

1 Jen the Fredo 2010-06-25

24 Min.

Jen applies to be the company's entertainment manager, which until now has been done by a man for good reasons, because Boss Douglas's business partners are just as sexist as he is. Jen can't satisfy the three businessmen and in her distress turns to Moss, who gives role-playing games a try. Roy, meanwhile, is good for nothing because of a lost love.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Matt Berry

2 The Final Countdown 2010-07-02

24 Min.

Moss was successful in the TV quiz show "Countdown" and is therefore invited by a mysterious man to an exclusive club. At Roy's place, a window cleaner has dumped all his equipment. When he wants to get rid of it again, Roy meets an old college friend who now has to believe that he only made it as a window cleaner. Meanwhile, Jen is no longer allowed to attend company meetings.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Matt Berry

3 Something Happened 2010-07-09

24 Min.

Boss Douglas is a follower of a new religious movement called Spaceology and has his wishes granted by the stars. Roy invites Moss and Jen to a rock concert, where Jen falls in love with the odd keyboard player, while Roy hurts his back. He goes for a massage, where the masseur gives him a kiss on his bare bottom at the end, which disturbs Roy deeply.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Matt Berry

4 Italian for Beginners 2010-07-16

24 Min.

Jen is jealous of a colleague and therefore brags about speaking Italian at a meeting. Now she is supposed to interpret at meetings with a potential Italian investor, but in actually she doesn't know the language at all. Roy has a new girlfriend. But when she tells him that her parents died in a fire at a water park, he just can't believe it.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Matt Berry

5 Bad Boys 2010-07-23

24 Min.

When the road to their company is closed after lunch because of a bomb threat, Roy and Moss decide to take the rest of the day off work and loiter around town, even though they were supposed to attend a party for a colleague. However, the unusual behavior goes to Moss' head and he even commits shoplifting.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Matt Berry

6 Reynholm vs Reynholm 2010-07-30

24 Min.

Victoria, Boss Douglas' wife, who has been missing without a trace for a long time, suddenly reappears. But Douglas soon wants a divorce. Since he believes that Jen works in the legal department, she is supposed to support him in the court case. But Victoria demands a sum so high that it threatens the company's existence.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Matt Berry

7 The Internet Is Coming 2013-09-27

48 Min.

Final special in double length: Jen has fallen for the barista of a new café, but Roy is served there by a small man and is not satisfied with the result, so there is a quarrel. In addition, Jen accidentally pours her coffee over a homeless woman. Both events are filmed and go viral. Meanwhile, Moss becomes more confident wearing women's pants.

Director: Graham Linehan Author: Graham Linehan with: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Matt Berry