[ SECRET POST #2960 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2960 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

04. http://i.imgur.com/T9ptHZO.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

It's not like the male characters weren't stereotypes to be laughed at and pathetic human being, amirite?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, and IT guys know nothing about sports or talking to women and are always socially awkward. It's full of stereotypes, but it's still funny. I'll never forget the time Jen broke the Internet.

[(Anonymous)]

You had to be there, I guess.

FYI Jen and her shoes obsession was just part of who she was.

Why not watch with an open mind and without the prejudgment and then make up your mind.

[(Anonymous)]

This is why I hope the rumours of another American reboot attempt are wrong. It's awesome for what it is, but so amazingly sexist.

(See also the remake of "The Women", which was a sexist but awesome movie in 1939)

[sabotabby]

It got better. That episode and the one with the trans woman really rankled, but there was enough hilarity in the other ones that it kept me watching.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought that that episode was hilarious, mainly because I always thought she was the funniest character. The actress had perfect delivery, omg.

Overall though I don't think the show is really that hilarious. I hate to say it but "British humor", at least in terms of the cheap comedies, isn't really a selling point to me. I don't mean British shows can't be funny, but the shows everyone talks about when they talk about "British humor" as a pseudo genre usually don't do it for me.

[(Anonymous)]

IA

British humor isn't really a distinct genre. It's just humor. With its own emphases and style, as with every other culture, but it's just humor.

[(Anonymous)]

No, it's always been really broad and unfunny. It is a bad show. Pee pee doo doo.

[(Anonymous)]

...did you really just say pee pee doo doo.

[(Anonymous)]

It was always a bit of a lazy episode, but for reasons of lazy stereotypes all round. I think you're suggesting its portrayal of women wasnt that good but it wasn't unbalanced in that way unless you completely ignore how silly the guys' reactions are.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought the joke was not so much Jen being crazy on her period, but the two guys being awkward and freaking out about it.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I remember this episode and if we're talking Jen vs. Roy and Moss, which one of them was made up like a demonic Kiss band member to reflect her supposed state of mind brought on by a physiological change? I mean look at the make up, the silly demon voice and tell me it's not about Jen being crazy on her period.

[(Anonymous)]

I will always love this show for having a woman and two men as the main characters and never having any UST or romance subplot between them. So refreshing.

[(Anonymous)]

And now I'm imagining Jen's face if you suggested her getting together with either Moss or Roy.

Although bless Mr Linehan, he did give us comedy Roy/Moss.

[(Anonymous)]

Man, I now work in the same type situation as Jen with a Roy and a Moss and the dynamic between the three of us is so much like theirs I have a new layer of appreciation for the show. They really don't know what to do when I'm pms-ing. It's kind of funny.

no.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it was going to be any funnier in 2006.

[lentils]

Yeah, I mean, the humor for me comes from the guys being like OH GOD WHAT DO WE DO, but I can definitely agree that it's lazy comedy.

That being said, I still love this show, though I have to be in the right mood for it. My favorite episodes are the one where Moss has to deal with the fire, and the one where they all go to the theater.

[(Anonymous)]

The show had a German cannibal named Gunther (or something similar).
IT techs who set the office on fire because they don't pay attention.
Smokers alluding to Jewish people travelling to Israel when they got barred.
Pretending to be disabled looked like being a dainty flower in a wheelchair.

Um. I'm convinced everything there is supposed to be offensive. Never watched Jen's episode with PMS, did see the shoe one.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know why, but this show just seems unwatchable to me, and I usually enjoy British comedy.

Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Image: cover art of The IT Crowd and Jen, her hair standing on end, looking angry

Text: I want to love this show, honest. It’s British humor! It’s about computer geeks!

But you see this?

Yeah. They made a whole episodes about periods and how scary ladies get when they’re on their periods and how the poor men are just helpless to do anything except pacify them with chick flicks and spa treatments until they’re no longer shriek ragemonsters. LOL!

Haha, bitches be crazy!

P.S. Jen also loves shoes because that’s how ladies are like, amirite?

Maybe this was funny in 2006?

[(Anonymous)]

I tried to watch this series because I enjoyed Father Ted and Black Books but it's nigh unwatchable, IMO. I don't know exactly why, I like the people in it (especially Richard Ayoade) but the writing is so juvenile... not even in an entertaining way. It's like watching a show written by people whose attitudes about everything are stuck in 1982.

But even that isn't half as annoying as the people who try to argue that it's okay that Jen's a crazy period-having satan lady because oh look, there are lots of stereotypes on the show! Yeah, that's what makes it unwatchable. All the unfunny, stale stereotypes.

[(Anonymous)]

I think Graham Lineham might be part of the problem. He seems to have some outdated views that worked well in Father Ted but definitely less well overall in IT crowd. The show still has some brilliant moments though. Guess it's whether the good can outweigh the bad.

[(Anonymous)]

I mostly got tired of all the "HAHAHA SEXUAL HARASSMENT IS SO HILARIOUS" jokes.

But yeah, this was tiresome too.

I had so many (mostly male) friends tell me how much I would love this show, and when I finally watched it... there was some funny stuff but mostly it just creeped me out.

[(Anonymous)]

I would be more offended by the episode where her boss tried to roofie her and we were supposed to think it was funny.