History Series / TheITCrowd

** Jen breaks up with a man for looking like a ''[[AcceptableTargets magician]]''.

Frequent guests included Creator/ChrisMorris as the [[LargeHam aggressively eccentric]] (to the point of complete madness) company chairman Denholm Reynholm, Creator/NoelFielding as reclusive {{goth}} sys-admin Richmond Avenal, and Matt Berry as Douglas Reynholm, Denholm's [[ReallyGetsAround extremely promiscuous]] son who appears in the second series to take over the business.

Frequent guests included Creator/ChrisMorris as the [[LargeHam aggressively eccentric]] (to the point of complete madness) company chairman Denholm Reynholm, Creator/NoelFielding as reclusive {{goth}} sys-admin Richmond Avenal, and Matt Berry as Douglas Reynholm, Denholm's [[AnythingThatMoves extremely promiscuous]] son who appears in the second series to take over the business.

* PowerWalk: Moss introducing Roy to the 8+ club.

* TransRelationshipTroubles: A infamous example in "The Speech", Douglas dates April, a transgender reporter, who is pleased to find that he is so open-minded about accepting her gender reassignment. Unfortunately, it turns out that this was only due to OneDialogueTwoConversations: When she told Douglas "I used to be a man," he was [[CloudCuckoolander only half listening]] and thought she said "I'm from Iran." She proceeds to start a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on him, crashing right through a shareholder meeting.

** It's even lampshaded by multiple characters in one episode: "It's not for you, Jen."

* StupidStatementDanceMix: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBtvt0f7voM God Damn these Electric Sex Pants!]]

* ExcitedShowTitle: ''Gay! A Gay Musical''

An American remake was commissioned with Creator/JoelMcHale as Roy and Richard Ayoade reprising his role as Moss. 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.

A British SitCom written by Graham Linehan (of ''Series/FatherTed'' and ''Series/BlackBooks'' fame), set in the fictitious [[WorldOfHam Reynholm Industries]]: a prominent London-based corporation filled with "[[TheBeautifulElite a lot of sexy people]] [[OneHourWorkWeek not doing much work]] and [[EverybodyHasLotsofSex having affairs]]". Unfortunately for them, the "standard nerds" who make up the IT Department are not part of this glamorous world. Consigned to the squalid basement, they're looked down upon and disregarded by everyone else despite keeping the entire place running smoothly.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Quite a few minor examples in the show's run, but the most notable is Douglas' incredibly violent and [[RefugeInAudacity hilarious]] fight with April in season 3.

** Douglas is this to Jen, and apparently the women who took him to court.

* AffablyEvil: The cannibal in "Moss and the German".

* AllPeriodsArePMS: Jen's "[[UnusualEuphemism visit from Aunt Irma]]". To make matters worse, Roy and Moss start exhibiting the same symptoms as though their cycles are synchronizing, even though neither of them has a uterus.

** Friendface is obviously an ersartz Facebook/Myspace

** Moss.
** Richmond, a little.

** In the final special, when Jen and Roy are despised by pretty much everyone on the internet, Jen thinks she has a solution. She goes into her office and gets [[spoiler: the black box with a red light on that Moss and Roy convinced her was "The Internet" in S3, and suggests that they hide it. Apparently they hadn't told her they'd been joking]]

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Some viewers who are not up on the BlackMetal genre have been surprised to learn that Richmond's favorite band Music/CradleOfFilth is in fact a real group.

*** Adding to the AluminumChristmasTrees moment, ''Coffin Fodder'' is a real ''Cradle'' song too. Only it's actually track ''eight'' on the respective album, 2004's ''Nymphetamine''.

* CourtroomAntics: Including a fake heart attack [[spoiler: from Douglas]], a jury of TheComicallySerious, and a sex tape based on ''Franchise/StarTrek'' [[spoiler: also from Douglas]].

* EmbarrassingCoverUp: Roy grows obsessed with his girlfriend's bizarre story about her parents' deaths, and when she catches him researching the matter on his laptop late at night, he ''covers'' by quickly claiming that he was masturbating. ''And then looks relieved that he got away with her not finding out the truth''.

* CasanovaWannabe: Roy definitely qualifies.

** Roy manages to snag dates, hook-ups and even relationships with some seriously hot, model-calibre women throughout the series, despite his dead-end job, scruffy appearance and geeky demeanour. However, his relationships never last.

** A [[Main/PoorMansPorn lingerie catalog]] called ''Penelope's Fancies''.

* {{Geek}}s and {{Nerd}}s. Standard ones.

* HollywoodNerd: Averted; Roy and Moss are more like the reality than usual.
** Roy is at least. Moss and the friends he brings to the photo shoot for the charity calendar are all very stereotypical nerds.

* TokenTrio: Averted. One of the male characters is black and the other is Irish, but, aside from a few token mentions of the latter, ethnicity never really comes into play. Unless {{Nerd}} is an ethnicity. Jen often tries to be TheChick but fails miserably.

** Jen shouts a string of mostly profanity at a Japanese executive after he stomps on her injured foot by mistake. The executive is confused for a bit... until his interpreter begins to [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments repeat the tirade for him in Japanese]]. PlayedForLaughs even more in that all the cursing by Jen was bleeped out - to the characters and not just the audience, as it is revealed one of Denholm's subordinates was slamming a big red "Profanity Button" on the wall at every cuss word. Denholm follows this up by immediately turning to Jen and shouting "You fucked up!" at her, which the subordinate is too late to bleep out.

-->'''Moss:''' That was a nice evening wasn't it? [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments With Brandy and Crystal.]]

* JugglingLoadedGuns: Douglas opens a random drawer and finds a unloaded revolver. Whilst attempting to conceal it, he accidentally shoots himself in the leg after putting bullets in it, and spends the rest of the episode trying to hide his injury from his staff. Amusingly, that happens after he checks if it's loaded by ''putting the gun in his mouth and pulling the trigger five times.'' He is supposed to be TooDumbToLive, but ''damn''. In TheStinger, Moss waves the gun around to drive off the bullies in the park. "I've got a gun! I've got a ruddy gun!"

An American remake was commissioned with Creator/JoelMcHale 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.

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

** Moss is a man in his thirties who acts and speaks like a 4 year-old most of the time, doesn't swear, still lives with his mother and sobs uncontrollably when confronted by bullies...

** This backfires on her so badly that a promising, muti-million dollar deal with an Italian businessman [[EpicFail is catastrophically destroyed in just a couple of minutes]].

** Deconstructed and Reconstructed in "Tramps Like Us". Jen comes to the realisation that, as the only thing she does is take care of Moss and Roy and play Guitar Hero, she is wasting her life and potential in a dead end job. Roy points out that idea that he and Moss require babysitting at all is a bit insulting, as they're both grown men. By the end of the episode, however, Moss and Roy prove that they really do need Jen to balance out their lives because they're terrible at coping with real life situations, and Jen finds the feelings of fulfillment in simply being needed by them (as she has no other skills to offer).

** In the second episode of the first series Moss and Roy reference an incident in which a unattended soldering iron caused a golf... I mean fire.
** One of Roy's girlfriends told him how her parents were killed in a fire. At a Seaparks, while watching a sea lion show, in a concrete, outdoor amphitheatre with at least a dozen exits. At this point she refuses to go into further detail, and Roy spends most of the episode trying to figure out how it was possible. Eventually he does, after building a scale model of the amphitheatre - but before he can tell anyone, the model burns out of control, putting him in hospital, and he likewise refuses to talk about it.

** The subtitles on Netflix claim that at one point Moss complains about having to use the "motherfucking stairs", something extremely out of character for him and his squeaky-clean dialect to say, but he clearly is saying "[[GoshDangItToHeck motherfudging]]" instead, making this an accidental kind of subversion.

--> '''Classmate''': ...I hope that's not a rude question.
--> '''Jen''': No nonononono no no...
--> '''Classmate''': It'd be awful if I just listed all our successful friends and you were stuck in some terrible, dead-end job you hated.
--> '''Jen''': Oh God, yeah, that'd be an absolute fucker.

* PunBasedTitle

* RunningGag: It is never made explicitly clear exactly what Reynholm Industries ''does''.
** Lampshaded when Jen refers to another company as the "top makers of a product that has something to do with our company"

* ScreamingBirth: Parodied in "Italian for Beginners" when Jen helps Moss "birth" an iPhone.
* ShapedLikeItself: A fair few of these from Moss.

* SkewedPriorities: At the end of ''Moss and the German'', the police break into the the cannibal's flat and arrest... Roy and Moss for [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil owning and watching a pirated film]].

* 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]].

* StrawFeminist: Jen in "Calendar Geeks", who convinces the girls on seventh to make a nude calender featuring [[Film/TheFullMonty unemployed men]] or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_girls grannies]] instead of them, arguing it's "oppressive" and "sexist". Of course, when Douglas tells her she'll be accountable if it's not a success, she immediately tells Roy to use them, calling it "empowering". It appears to be a combination of jealousy, and screwing Roy over by forcing him to photograph old women until she is made responsible for it.
** And when she ropes 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.

* ThreeAmigos
* ThisIsntHeaven: In one episode Douglas has a near death experience. [[spoiler:His father is welcoming him towards a big white door, and it's all very white and glowy. Then Hitler pokes his head out, and Reynholm unconvincingly tries to explain that "we're having a Heaven party. That was a Hitlergram".]]

* TranshumanTreachery: Douglas experiences a humorous small scale version of this when he starts destroying his office with his new robot hand and [[LargeHam laughs maniacally]].

* TransRelationshipTroubles: In an infamous episode, Douglas dates April, a transgender reporter, who is pleased to find that he is so open-minded about accepting her gender reassignment. Unfortunately, it turns out that this was only due to OneDialogueTwoConversations: When she told Douglas "I used to be a man," he was [[CloudCuckoolander only half listening]] and thought she said "I'm from Iran." She proceeds to start a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on him, crashing right through a shareholder meeting.

-->'''Jen:''' Why'd you let him in?
-->'''Roy:''' He was very persuasive. I think...

-->'''Roy:''' Every man has a story like this.
-->'''Jen:''' This is not the first story you've told me like this.
-->'''Roy:''' Every man has a few stories like this.

* Main/PoorMansPorn: Roy 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]].

* TransRelationshipTroubles: In an infamous episode, Douglas dates April, a UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} reporter, who is pleased to find that he is so open-minded about accepting her gender reassignment. Unfortunately, it turns out that this was only due to OneDialogueTwoConversations: When she told Douglas "I used to be a man," he was [[CloudCuckoolander only half listening]] and thought she said "I'm from Iran." She proceeds to start a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on him, crashing right through a shareholder meeting.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: DoubleSubverted when, in a B-plot, Douglas embarks on a successful relationship with a {{Transgender}} woman -- but it comes crashing down when he [[PoorCommunicationKills realises]] that she was saying "I used to be a man," not "I'm from Iran."