History Series / TheITCrowd

* EskimosArentReal: Reynholm is interviewed. His favorite non-fictional character is SherlockHolmes. When he's told that Sherlock is fictional, he tells the interviewer to check her facts. She decides to ask him who his favorite fictional character is, which turns out to be Film/TheElephantMan.

* UnfortunateNames: Peter File. Say it out loud (but only in an English accent - which is lampshaded by Moss, who suggests he move there to avoid embarrassment).

* SublimeRhyme / UnfortunateName: Denholm Reynholm.

* UnfortunateNames: Peter File. Say it out loud (in an English accent... the fact that the joke doesn't work in an American one is lampshaded by Moss, who suggests he move there).

*** Season 4.0's menus feature "levels" identical in design and gameplay to ''VideoGame/Windosill''.

*** Season 4.0's menus feature "levels" identical in design and gameplay to Vectorpark's Windosill.

* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Jen dumping Michael for "looking like a magician". And also dumping Peter File for, well, being called ''Peter File''.

* SoundEffectBleep: Subverted mercilessly. A character's vitriolic tirade is full of bleeped-out swear words... then Denholm congratulates an employee on "being so quick on the Profanity Buzzer", which we see is a labelled button mounted on Denholm's wall. Later in the episode, another F-bomb is dropped, and the employee is a second too late on the buzzer.

-->"Nice screen saver!"
* StatusQuoIsGod: The three will never escape their basement office ghetto or get any respect from the rest of the company. [[spoiler:Until the final episode]]

** And when she ropes in Roy into not quitting the project because of the old ladies fiasco, she quickly shifts it away from using attractive women to nerdy male geeks. The project fails as badly as you would think.

* TeamMom: Jen. Roy is offended at Jen's suggestion that he and Moss need her to take care of them, but when she leaves for a job interview at another company, Moss goes amnesiac and gets his hair singed while Roy becomes homeless and starts sleeping in an old box on the street. ''All in the span of merely two hours.''

** Would you expect anything less at [[spoiler:the funeral of a character played by Creator/ChrisMorris]]? Later on, [[spoiler:his son finds a posthumous letter from him that somehow managed to correctly name his cause of death, even when his funeral tape couldn't. Seems he was aware that he had to jump out a window that day. [[MindScrew Despite having the service revolver in his desk explicitly because he wasn't planning to jump out the window]].]]

The main characters are Roy (Creator/ChrisODowd), a surly and slovenly comic-book fan who despises his own job and the stupidity of those around him; Moss (Creator/RichardAyoade), a naive and innocently-tactless savant with NoSocialSkills; and Jen (Katherine Parkinson), a twitchy career-woman with absolutely no grasp of technology but a ''smidge'' more social proficiency than the two geeks.

*** Season 2.0 has menus including ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}'', ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' and even a parody of the intro of ''VideoGame/ZeroWing'', complete with {{Engrish}}!

* NerdNanny: Jen plays this role about as straight as you can, outright telling Moss that Richmond's "going to come out and play with us for a while" just like a schoolteacher would in Richmonds debut episode.

* NerdNanny: Jen.

* OneSteveLimit: averted in Jen the Fredo, where Douglas introduces three visiting businessmen as "my good friend Paul and two men named John." This is done deliberately so that Jen, who has become a pimp-like figure, can tell Roy to "get out there and show those Johns a good time."

* Main/PoorMansPorn: Ross has a subscription to a fictional lingerie catalog called "Penelope's Fancies". [[HoldingItforAFriend He's keeping it safe so he can deliver it to his neighbor]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In 4x1 ("Jen the Fredo"), the visiting out-of-town businessmen say "Eiffel Tower" a few times while high-fiving. "Eiffel Tower" can mean a high five in a different context.

** A lingerie catalog called ''Penelope's Fancies''.

* PublicExposure: In the third season finale, the company decide to do a sexy calendar to raise money for a charity for the "boss-eyed". Roy's original attempt to use the ladies from Floor 7 is stopped by Jen, the attempt to do grannies fails and the "geek" calendar produces unattractive male geeks, instead of the Creator/TinaFey sort.

An American remake was commissioned with Joel [=McHale=] as Roy and Richard Ayoade playing Moss again. It was leaked and can be found online. The German remake ran for exactly two episodes due to bad actors, badly translated puns and therefore bad viewer numbers.

* GoLookAtTheDistraction: The entire plot where Roy is stuck under an employee's desk. Moss fails at this completely because what he says isn't much better than actually using the phrase "Go Look At The Distraction." (Jen employs [[DistractedByTheSexy a different method]].)

* YourCheatingHeart: PlayedForLaughs in "Friendface" when Jen, Moss and Roy's colliding lies force them to play out this scenario loudly and publicly.

** InUniverse, Jen [[GoLookAtTheDistraction distracts]] some co-workers by pointing out a shirtless builder. When they get up to look, it's just a flabby guy giving them a gormless look.

* WickedCultured

* NiceToTheWaiter: When Jen goes on a date with Bill, she discovers that the man is very abusive towards the staff and a complete sleazeball. When talking about the date, Roy tells her that when he used worked as a waiter he and the other staff members used to contaminate the customer's food as punishment. When asked if the waiters were snickering while giving the food to Bill, he confirms they have contaminated his food as revenge.

** In one episode, Roy tries to break up with an old girlfriend who wears a lot of make up which melts when she cries making her look like SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker. The episode ends with Douglas hitting on her in the same manner as Creator/HeathLedger's Joker hitting on Rachel Dawes in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', scars and all.

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* {{Adorkable}}: ''Moss''. Richmond also counts.

** Also happens with Douglas: "Deleting incriminating files ... Ha Ha Ha!...I just mean files.

** One episode has a running gag about how to properly pronounce "tapas". Jen says TAP-ahs, but Moss insists it's TAY-pas (in Spanish it would be TAH-pahs).
** In series two, when discussing Jen's boyfriend Peter File's unfortunate name, Moss mentions the US pronunciation "'''peh'''-d''uh''-fahyl" in comparison to the UK's "'''pee'''-d''uh''-fahyl," possibly to clarify to confused Americans why everyone freaks out when they hear the name Peter File.

* SuicideAsComedy: [[spoiler:Denholm Reynholm's suicide is played this way, being more in a "wait, did that just happen?" way than actual sadness, and even has a laugh track associated with it.]]

-->"Yes, I'm a [[PaedoHunt Peter File]]!"
* UrineTrouble: Moss stuck in the grabber game predicts this is going to happen.
-->'''Moss:''' These animals will smell of wee come the morning.

-->'''Roy:''' He was very convincing. I think...

-->'''Moss:''' It's like someone ended a relationship with [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin]].