BBT is a show about smart people for dumb people. The IT Crowd is a show about smart people.
The big bang theory was not for geeks or nerds. It was pure shit.
Misogynistic pure shit.
No… the IT crowd is a sitcom FOR geeks. That other shit just makes fun of us
No no IT Crowd is a show about sysadmins, not geeks lol. There’s a very clear difference.
And Moss was a nerd not a geek. He wasn’t obsessing about comics, videogames etc. like the characters in BBT.
Flashbacks to the rett & link “nerd VS geek” music video
I also think this is a cultural difference. The comic book obsession seems more like an american thing. In the Netherlands and Belgium there is also a big comic book appreciation, but it’s much less about heroism and more humorous.
Okay but he didn’t obsess about the British equivalent of comic books either. Geeks obsess about consumerist pop culture whether it’s comics, LEGO or Harry Potter. And Moss did non of that.
While I like IT Crowd it’s unfortunately written by a TERF activist so I will never watch it again. Also explains why there is an episode about a trans woman getting beat up
Edit: before you downvote me maybe lookup what kind of activism Graham Linehan has been doing after he made IT Crowd.
A man so abhorrent his wife and family wants nothing to do with him.
If anyone is wondering, it’s totally okay to like both.
I mean people are allowed to like different things. There is no gatekeeping to be done on something as subjective humor
no, but i can gatekeep it for its misogynistic and abelist rhetoric, or its racist depictions, or having musk in an episode.
British humour is infinitely funnier than the laugh track pandering American sitcoms.
The Office would like to have a word with you.
The American version of the office has a visual laugh track, every time a character sideeyes the camera and smirks.
Some particular shows are better as Americans versions, I’ll not deny that.
I haven’t watched either of the Offices, but I have watched the entire American “Shameless” and that was glorious and fitting. The British version I glanced at was really meh. And whilst British comedy in general might be better, good comedy in a bad show is less valuable than mediocre comedy in a good show.
It’s like good food. Good side dishes won’t completely cover for a bad main dish, but if the main dish is really moorish, you won’t care about the side dishes being so-and-so.
Edit also do you like to think your username is pronounced “rhee-ri”, or “rhow-eh-ri”. People ask me about the pronunciation of mine sometimes and just made me question how you think yours…?
Fair point.
do you like to think your username is pronounced “rhee-ri”, or “rhow-eh-reh”. People ask me about the pronunciation of mine sometimes and just made me question how you think yours…?
It’s “Rory,” but I’d never thought it could be pronounced any other way until now. Lol.
I’d imagine yours is pronounced: “Dah-suse”?
“Rory"
Yeah okay that’s a simpler way of writing the latter way, then way I thought it probably would be.
Dah-sus is more or less how I imagined it originally yes. Like the “da” from “da man” as in “the” and the “sus” not from the phenomena a few years ago where everything was “sus”, but from the Finnish word for wolf, “susi”.
I know it’s cringe but it was like 2002 when I came up with it.
And I’ve had friends go “deyh-sus” “deissus”, sort of, and I’m comfortable with it, but it’s not like how I meant it.
Rory… Amy relation? (Pun intended.) (so bad-ass btw)
Love Doctor Who, love Rory, but no. No relation. It’s just a name. Boring, but the truth.
If I had to rate the IT crowd out of ten, I’d give it 01189998819991197253
Moss, how many times have I told you to shave those sideburns?!
I’ve always saw BBT as just a way to re-normalize making fun of neurodivergant people.
IT Crowd S02E01 is probably the funniest episode of any sitcom I’ve seen
Yes yes. That’s my introductory episode for people who haven’t seen the IT crowd yet.
How did they steal your wheelchair?
Mournfully: “I don’t knooooow”
Cracks me up every time
“I’m disabled”
The situation just keeps getting more and more ridiculous and amazing
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Absolutely. My favourite of the IT crowd.
Aside from all the hilarity inbetween, the set ups to the last few gags are ridiculous and the payoff is brilliant.
Jen, talking to Roy, figuring out why on earth he’s in that wheelchair only to turn around in desperate need of a drink, to see Moss politely ready to serve her at the bar…
“Willys, willys, I like willys” “I love willys…” “What?” “It’s I LOVE WILLYS!” “—Sir, would you keep it down!?”
My favourite too, mate. So bloody good.
That episode is a masterpiece
I think the first couple seasons of BBT are brilliant and then it rapidly became worse. There are only so many maths and physics jokes you can crack before it gets boring.
Also, it seems like the characters went from likable, socially awkward goofballs to just straight up being assholes all the time. Except for Howard, who kinda always was one.
Agreed. I enjoyed up to season 3.
