{"id":3690,"date":"2006-02-08T14:49:29","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T22:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/08\/the-it-crowd\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T09:07:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:07:28","slug":"the-it-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/08\/the-it-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"The IT Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6955,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.boingboing.net\\\/2006\\\/02\\\/07\\\/the_it_crowd_the_gee.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100210203109\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.boingboing.net:80\\\/2006\\\/02\\\/07\\\/the_it_crowd_the_gee.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 18:25:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 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10:37:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 10:28:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 05:13:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 13:45:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 13:45:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/02\/07\/the_it_crowd_the_gee.html\" title=\"Boing Boing: The IT Crowd -- the geek comedy I've been waiting for all my life\">Cory&#8217;s right<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/channel4.com\/entertainment\/tv\/microsites\/I\/itcrowd\/\" title=\"Channel4: IT Crowd\">The IT Crowd<\/a> is great.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Creator Graham Linehan has produced a cast of characters who exemplify everything I loved about Father Ted: complete, over-the-top silliness, likable villainy, and great comic foolishness. The setup for the show is as silly as Father Ted&#8217;s: two IT geeks in the basement of a large, abusive corporation get a new boss, a woman who lied about her IT experience on her resume. What follows isn&#8217;t funny because of its intricate plotting, but because of its willingness to lard absurdity on absurdity, so that each episode gets progressively weirder as it progresses (for example, in episode two, there&#8217;s a screamingly funny running gag about a fire that&#8217;s broken out in the basement, which has to be hidden from the abusive CEO when he comes down to check on everyone&#8217;s morale).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>British humor and geek jokes (<em>lots<\/em> of &#8217;em, too, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venganza.org\/\" title=\"Open Letter - Intelligent Design\">Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a> posters to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RTFM\" title=\"Wikipedia: RTFM\">RTFM<\/a> t-shirts to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/\" title=\"Electronic Frontier Foundation\">EFF<\/a> &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/campaigns\/stickers\/\" title=\"EFF: Stickers\">Fair Use Has a Posse<\/a>&#8216; stickers&#8230;essentially the entire set dressing) combined. Bonus points for basing the theme song off of <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fphobos.apple.com%2FWebObjects%2FMZStore.woa%2Fwa%2FviewArtist%3Fa%3D2780160%26s%3D143441%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"iTMS: Gary Numan\">Gary Numan<\/a>&#8216;s &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fphobos.apple.com%2FWebObjects%2FMZStore.woa%2Fwa%2FviewAlbum%3Fp%3D73737266%26i%3D73737027%26s%3D143441%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"iTMS: Gary Numan: Living Ornaments '80: Are 'Friends' Electric?\">Are Friends Electric?<\/a>&#8220;, too. Fire up your <a href=\"http:\/\/thepiratebay.org\/search.php?q=the+it+crowd&amp;video=on\" title=\"The Pirate Bay: The IT Crowd\">bittorrent<\/a> clients and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"Get iTunes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DInformation Society%2526songTerm=Are Friends Electric?%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Are Friends Electric?' on the iTMS\">Are Friends Electric?<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DInformation Society%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Information Society' on the iTMS\">Information Society<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DInformation Society%2526albumTerm=Darkest Hour, The%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Darkest Hour, The' on the iTMS\">Darkest Hour, The<\/a><\/em> (1997, 4:27).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British humor and geek jokes (_lots_ of &#8217;em, too, from Flying Spaghetti Monster posters to RTFM t-shirts to EFF &#8216;Fair Use Has a Posse&#8217; stickers&#8230;essentially the entire set dressing) combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[6,8,3257],"class_list":["post-3690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-humor","tag-television","tag-the-it-crowd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}