The IT Crowd
Show summary: At the UK company Reynholm Industries, their corporate high-rise towers are full of beautiful happy people with one success story after another. Well, except for the employees that work in the basement - the IT department. While their colleagues work in fantastic surroundings, Jen, Roy and Moss must work below ground in the dark and horrible basement, struggling to make it into normal society.
Jen (Katherine Parkinson) is a career person who is looking to climb the corporate ladder. Unfortunately, due to fibbing on her CV (resumé), she finds herself the manager of the IT Department. The problem is, she knows nothing about technology! Roy (Chris O'Dowd) and Moss (Richard Ayoade) make up the IT Department and share a love of technology, science fiction and not having to work if at all possible. What they don't like is the idea of being supervised by someone who knows nothing about computers.
Seeing that Roy and Moss may know a lot about computers, but very little about working with people, Jen takes on the role of "Relationship Manager" to help the guys and help herself in the process.The IT Crowd is a playful and somewhat surreal look at what it's really like to be the underof every company - the IT Department.
In 2008, The IT Crowd won the Rose D'Or for Best Comedy.
Episodes
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Season 4 Episode 6
Douglas discovers that marriage agrees with him for all of a fortnight. He then finds himself in court defending himself with Jen, Roy, and Moss' help. -
Season 4 Episode 5
Before heading out for lunch with Moss, Roy makes a bet with Jen that he can go an entire day without saying 'Have you tried turning it off and on again?'. Roy and Moss decide to have lunch in the park, but get delayed o... -
Season 4 Episode 4
Roy becomes obsessed by his latest girlfriend's sad family history, while Moss and Jen mention their distaste at his new jacket. Moss realises how much quicker he could answer his phone if he kept it in his shirt pocket,... -
Season 4 Episode 3
Roy is having problems with his back and sees a masseur, but the visit takes an unexpected turn when he is kissed on the bottom. Meanwhile, Douglas becomes a Spaceologist and tries to persuade his employees to follow in ... -
Season 4 Episode 2
Moss appears on the popular quiz show Countdown and beats all previously set records, which leads to an invitation to the "8+ Club", an exclusive club for exceptional former Countdown contestants. However, the jealous e... -
Season 4 Episode 1
Jen wants to stretch herself in the workplace, so she applies for the post of Entertainment Manager. But when she finds out that amusing her boss Douglas' business connections has its darker side, she turns to Moss and R... -
Season 3 Episode 6
In the final episode of the series, Reynholm Industries are proud to announce their first sexy nude calendar. Enough said, probably. -
Season 3 Episode 5
Jen introduces Roy and Moss to a new social networking website, and then finds out why some friendships are best left in the past. -
Season 3 Episode 4
As 'Employee of the Month', Jen asserts herself as manager and makes powerful enemies in Moss and Roy. Meanwhile, Douglas finds the love of his life is not all that she appears to be. -
Season 3 Episode 3
Jen, Roy and Moss find their lives moving in different directions after a disappointing settlement to a sexual harassment suit. Jen seeks pastures new, and Roy ends up out in the cold. -
Season 3 Episode 2
A new football website allows Roy and Moss to pass as 'proper' men for a couple of days. Jen goes out with a man who looks like a magician. -
Season 3 Episode 1
Douglas does his best to run Reynholm Industries into the ground, Jen has to deal with a builder from Hell, Roy loses 20 quid and Moss learns how to stand up to ruffians. -
Season 2 Episode 6
After a lengthy campaign of pointless phone calls to the basement, Douglas finally offers Jen a position as his Personal Assistant. She accepts the position, having recently realized she's wasting her life in the positio... -
Season 2 Episode 5
When Jen wears a "bad bra" to work, Moss overcomes his usual sensitivity to ladies undergarments and designs the "ultimate" bra. As the design goes forward both Jen and Roy have to help him get ready to present it on Dra... -
Season 2 Episode 4
Jen and her new boyfriend, Peter File, are hosting a dinner party for six of their single friends. However all of the men are unable to come at the last minute and Jen invites Roy, Moss, and Richmond to take their places... -
Season 2 Episode 3
Moss tries to liven up his life by enrolling in a German cookery course. It turns out that the German is actually a cannibal seeking someone willing to be eaten (a parody of the Armin Meiwes incident) and the advertiseme... -
Season 2 Episode 2
Roy buys a new mobile phone with lots of features, but a weak vibrate setting, so Moss offers to "pimp it out" for him. At the same time, Moss is subjecting Roy to an online quiz about his general health and well being, ... -
Season 2 Episode 1
When Jen is asked to the theatre for a date, Moss and Roy invite themselves along, then make her doubt the heterosexuality of her date. She wonders further when the play turns out to be a production of "Gay! - A Gay Musi... -
Season 1 Episode 6
Jen's menstrual cycle (nicknamed Aunt Irma) has unexpected consequences for the office, with her colleagues all directly suffering from the associated effects. After Moss sends an email about it to everyone he knows in t... -
Season 1 Episode 5
Jen goes on a bad date with a coworker. She doesn't want to talk to him so she tells Moss to lie to him. Moss tells him that Jen is dead. -
Season 1 Episode 4
While Roy becomes stuck under a desk with Moss attempting to rescue him, Jen investigates the strange red door in the basement, leading to her discovery of Richmond (Noel Fielding), a lonely goth and the fourth member of... -
Season 1 Episode 3
After Roy has a horrible date with a woman because he smears chocolate on his forehead and it looks like poo, the story circulates around the office. Roy decides the woman actually didn't like him because women only like... -
Season 1 Episode 2
Moss, Roy, and Jen are summoned to a company wide meeting with Denholm in which he "declares war" on stress and sets up a staff seminar on dealing with stress and its effects. Moss and Roy attend, but Jen is distracted b... -
Season 1 Episode 1
Denholm Reynholm, the technically challenged boss of a large corporation, interviews Jen Barber for a position. Fooled by her "techno-bluffing", he appoints her as manager of the IT support office, where she demonstrates...

