British Comedy: The IT Crowd

Years: 2006-2013
Broadcaster: Channel 4
Genre: Sitcom
Written by: Graham Linehan
Stars: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade
Episodes: 25
Episode Average: 8.480*

BEST EPISODES:
The Final Countdown (2010), The Work Outing (2007)

*including specials

VERSION 1.0

(2006)
6 episodes
Series Score: 52
Episode Average: 8.67
Perfect 10's: 2

S1E1

YESTERDAY'S JAM

Originally broadcast: 3 February 2006
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Ben Gosling Fuller
Written by: Graham Linehan

Jen gets made Head of IT after lying on her CV, Roy tries to prove that she knows nothing about computers, and Moss tells a room of people the wrong story about Amsterdam.

"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

HOLY GODIVA 4 - ONION JACK 4
TOTAL: 8

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S1E2

CALAMITY JEN

Originally broadcast: 3 February 2006
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Ben Gosling Fuller
Written by: Graham Linehan

Jen squeezes into a pair of shoes, Roy and Moss disrupt an anti-stress class, and Moss has to deal with a golf in the office.

"I'll just put this over here with the rest... of the fire."

HOLY GODIVA 5 - ONION JACK 5
TOTAL: 10

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S1E3

FIFTY -FIFTY

Originally broadcast: 10 February 2006
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Ben Gosling Fuller
Written by: Graham Linehan

After proving to be somewhat of a shithead, Roy posts a singles ad pretending to be a bastard, and Jen makes a fool of herself on national television.

"I think if your date proved anything, Roy, it's that women like men without poo in their foreheads. That's our 'type'."

HOLY GODIVA 4 - ONION JACK 3
TOTAL: 7

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S1E4

THE RED DOOR

Originally broadcast: 17 February 2006
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Ben Gosling Fuller
Written by: Graham Linehan

Moss gets a mug with his picture on to stop it being stolen, Jen wonders what's beyond the red door, and Roy gets stuck under a desk.

"I just made that up. But that's probably going to be what they start to call people like Roy. But Roy's not a desk rabbit, he's my best friend, and unless you do something it's just gonna be you, me and Tim Burton over there."

HOLY GODIVA 5 - ONION JACK 4
TOTAL: 9

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S1E5

THE HAUNTING OF BILL CROUSE

Originally broadcast: 24 February 2006
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Ben Gosling Fuller
Written by: Graham Linehan

Moss tells a lie to cover for Jen, Roy attracts the attention of a woman in the office, and Jen's overjoyed to discover that everybody loves her.

"Ok, if that Judy woman comes down, I don't work here, you've never seen me, just make up something, just get rid of her. She's easy to spot, she has three rows of teeth."

HOLY GODIVA 4 - ONION JACK 4
TOTAL: 8

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S1E6

AUNT IRMA VISITS

Originally broadcast: 3 March 2006
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Ben Gosling Fuller
Written by: Graham Linehan

The IT team are forgotten again when Denholm gives thanks to all the departments, Jen's time of the month leads to riots around the world, and Moss's psychiatrist reveals her feelings for him..

"Of course it is. I've been feeling very gloomy all day. Not my usual cheery self at all."

HOLY GODIVA 5 - ONION JACK 5
TOTAL: 10

VERSION 2.0

(2007)
6 episodes
Series Score: 51
Episode Average: 8.5
Perfect 10's: 2

S2E1

THE WORK OUTING

Originally broadcast: 24 August 2007
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Barbara Wiltshire
Written by: Graham Linehan

Roy, Moss, Jen and her date go to see a gay play, Roy pretends to be disabled, and Moss ends up working behind the bar.

"Never been. But I've always liked the idea of the theatre. The smell of the grease, the roar of the paint. I've often thought if I hadn't ended up in computers, I would've gone into the theatre."

HOLY GODIVA 5 - ONION JACK 5
TOTAL: 10

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S2E2

RETURN OF THE GOLDEN CHILD

Originally broadcast: 31 August 2007
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Barbara Wiltshire
Written by: Graham Linehan

Roy finds out that he's about to die, Moss pimps the vibrate on Roy's phone, and Douglas takes over the company after Denholm commits suicide by jumping out of a window.

"I'm not putting it up to eight, Moss. It'll blow my cock off!"

HOLY GODIVA 4 - ONION JACK 4
TOTAL: 8

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S2E3

MOSS AND THE GERMAN

Originally broadcast: 7 September 2007
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Barbara Wiltshire
Written by: Graham Linehan

Roy's trying to avoid finding out about a twist in a pirated film that he can't get around to watching, Moss meets a man with strange dinner preferences, and Jen's finding it harder and harder to enjoy a cigarette.

"Tell you what, if I did have tits, I wouldn't mind letting someone have a go on them for a ride in a helicopter."

HOLY GODIVA 4 - ONION JACK 4
TOTAL: 8

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S2E4

THE DINNER PARTY

Originally broadcast: 14 September 2007
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Barbara Wiltshire
Written by: Graham Linehan

Jen invites her workmates to a dinner party to make up the numbers, and there's much amusement when Jen's new man is revealed to be 'Peter File'.

"Well, um, not that it's any of your business, but I was planning to have a little poo."

HOLY GODIVA 5 - ONION JACK 5
TOTAL: 10

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S2E5

THE HAUNTING OF BILL CROUSE

Originally broadcast: 21 September 2007
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Barbara Wiltshire
Written by: Graham Linehan

Roy wears lipstick to work, Moss invents a bra after Jen has problems with hers, and there's fire in the Dragon's Den.

"Ah, well, prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them, along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame, set at gas mark egg on your face. I sort of forget what I was talking about."

HOLY GODIVA 4 - ONION JACK 4
TOTAL: 8

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S2E6

MEN WITHOUT WOMEN

Originally broadcast: 28 September 2007
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Barbara Wiltshire
Written by: Graham Linehan

Douglas is determined to bed Jen, Jen moves out of IT, and Roy and Moss do all the things they weren't allowed to do before.

"Oh, please, please dress as my sexy dead wife."

HOLY GODIVA 3 - ONION JACK 4
TOTAL: 7

VERSION 3.0

(2008)
6 episodes
Series Score: 53
Episode Average: 8.83
Perfect 10's: 1

S3E1

FROM HELL

Originally broadcast: 21 November 2008
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Richard Boden
Written by: Graham Linehan

Roy convinces Jen that her builder has been on TV, Moss is having problems with bullies, and Douglas shoots himself in the leg.

"I don't fancy you, you big, ugly builder. I'm trying to stop you having a piddle party in my house."

HOLY GODIVA 4 - ONION JACK 4
TOTAL: 8

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S3E2

ARE WE NOT MEN?

Originally broadcast: 28 November 2008
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Richard Boden
Written by: Graham Linehan

Moss learns to talk like a real man after discovering a football-speak website, Jen dates a man who looks like a magician, and Roy finds himself in the middle of a robbery.

"Just promise we won't do anything else with them. I want go back to being weird. I like being weird. Weird's all I've got... that and my sweet style."

HOLY GODIVA 4 - ONION JACK 5
TOTAL: 9

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S3E3

TRAMPS LIKE US

Originally broadcast: 5 December 2008
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Richard Boden
Written by: Graham Linehan

Moss forgets what he knows about computers, Roy gets thrown out of the building, and Jen goes for a job interview.

"God...damn these electric sex pants!"

HOLY GODIVA 5 - ONION JACK 5
TOTAL: 10

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S3E4

THE SPEECH

Originally broadcast: 12 December 2008
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Richard Boden
Written by: Graham Linehan

Jen wins Employee of the Month, Roy and Moss write her speech and manage to get her the internet to show to the audience, and Douglas's new woman has a confession.

"You best put your seatbelt on your ears, Roy, cos I'm going to take them for the ride of their lives."

HOLY GODIVA 4 - ONION JACK 4
TOTAL: 8

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S3E5

FRIENDFACE

Originally broadcast: 19 December 2008
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Richard Boden
Written by: Graham Linehan

Jen persuades the others to join Friendface, a reunion means that Moss must play happy husband, and Roy meets up with an obsessive ex-girlfriend.

"Hey, if I'm pretending to be married, I'm pretending to be sexually active. Don't worry Jen, I plan on earning this £10."

HOLY GODIVA 4 - ONION JACK 5
TOTAL: 9

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S3E6

CALENDAR GEEKS

Originally broadcast: 26 December 2008
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Richard Boden
Written by: Graham Linehan

Roy's asked to do the photography for a nude charity calendar, but things don't turn out as he hoped.

"Apparently we're living in the kind of society that sees a man who just want to take some naked photos of some old ladies as some sort of weirdo who deserves to be chased and shouted at and beaten... and chased..."

HOLY GODIVA 4 - ONION JACK 5
TOTAL: 9

VERSION 4.0

(2010)
6 episodes
Series Score: 49
Episode Average: 8.17
Perfect 10's: 1

S4E1

JEN THE FREDO

Originally broadcast: 25 June 2010
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Richard Boden
Written by: Graham Linehan

Jen's asked to entertain Douglas's business associates, Douglas wins the 'Shithead of the Year' award, and Moss helps Roy get over a relationship breakdown with Dungeon's & Dragons.

"Oh, shut up Dumpo, the elephant who got dumped!"

HOLY GODIVA 4 - ONION JACK 4
TOTAL: 8

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S4E2

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

Originally broadcast: 2 July 2010
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Richard Boden, Derek Hallworth
Written by: Graham Linehan

Moss is challenged to a game of Street Countdown, Roy's determined to let an old friend know that he isn't a window cleaner, and Jen's curious about secret meetings involving people in bath robes.

"I came here to drink milk and kick ass... and I've just finished my milk."

HOLY GODIVA 5 - ONION JACK 5
TOTAL: 10

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S4E3

SOMETHING HAPPENED

Originally broadcast: 9 July 2010
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Richard Boden
Written by: Graham Linehan

Douglas becomes a spaceologist, Jen starts dating someone from a band, and Roy's traumatised after a visit to a masseur.

"I can't make that decision for you, Roy. You've just got to ask yourself one thing. If you don't take the stand, how many more unsolicited bum kisses will be administered by that lip-happy bastard?"

HOLY GODIVA 4 - ONION JACK 4
TOTAL: 8

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S4E4

ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS

Originally broadcast: 16 July 2010
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Richard Boden
Written by: Graham Linehan

Roy's confused when his girlfriend tells him that her parents died in a fire at a sea lion show, Jen claims she can speak Italian, and Moss goes to extreme lengths to replace his iPhone.

"Roy, when I was on holiday, I lived at Sea Parks. It's the
funnest, wettest, most splish-splashy place in the world."

HOLY GODIVA 5 - ONION JACK 4
TOTAL: 9

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S4E5

BAD BOYS

Originally broadcast: 23 July 2010
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Richard Boden
Written by: Graham Linehan

Roy bets Jen that he can go the rest of the day without saying 'Have you tried turning it off and on again?', Moss gets carried away with bunking off and steals some DVD's, and there's a bomb scare.

"Jeremy, yes. Jeremy's a drunk. And Jen, Jen lacks basic computer skills. Like thinking that IT stands for Internet Things."

HOLY GODIVA 3 - ONION JACK 3
TOTAL: 6

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S4E6

REYNHOLM VS REYNHOLM

Originally broadcast: 30 July 2010
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Richard Boden
Written by: Graham Linehan

Douglas wants a divorce from his wife who suddenly shows up, Jen's job as 'Relationship Manager' takes on a new meaning, and Richmond might have the key to the whole case.

"Oh, yeah, no, the famous phrase 'to be put on a peddle-stool'. Pedestal!"

HOLY GODIVA 4 - ONION JACK 4
TOTAL: 8

THE INTERNET
IS COMING

(2013)

SPECIAL

THE INTERNET IS COMING

Originally broadcast: 27 September 2013
Directed by: Graham Linehan, Richard Boden
Written by: Graham Linehan

Roy and Jen become internet hate figures, Moss takes to wearing women's slacks, and an appearance on Secret Millionaire goes wrong for Douglas.

"I don't have any homeless beef!"

HOLY GODIVA 3 - ONION JACK 4
TOTAL: 7

ROY TRENNEMAN

Played by Chris O'Dowd
25 episodes
in... Smoke and Mirrors (2007)

MAURICE MOSS

Played by Richard Ayoade
25 episodes
in... The Work Outing (2007)

JEN BARBER

Played by Katherine Parkinson
25 episodes
in... Something Happened (2010)

DOUGLAS REYNHOLM

Played by Matt Berry
17 episodes
in... The Final Countdown (2010)

DENHOLM REYNHOLM

Played by Christopher Morris
7 episodes
in... Calamity Jen (2006)

RICHMOND FELICITY AVENAL

Played by Noel Fielding
7 episodes
in... The Red Door (2006)