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IT Crowd (UK) Coming Back For Season 4
sammyF70 writes "Every geek's favourite non-sci-fi show (the original UK one, not the abysmally bad German and US remakes) is coming back for a fourth season! According to the IMDB's message board, it should be on the air 'Juneish.' While you wait, you can check out what kind of vintage hardware will be on the show this time, and remember: if you illegally download movies, you will face the consequences!"
I was part of the audience the other week for the filming of the last episode for this season. The laughing? It's real, and this season round some of it will be from me.
Though obviously it takes a long time to film and so things don't flow as seamlessly as the TV episode itself, and perhaps they reuse laughs from one take over the top of acting from another take...it's still actually real. The writer came out to the audience and specifically talked about laugh tracks - he said he filmed in front of a live audience so that a) he was sure enough things were funny and b) because the actors could spark off the reactions.
I'm not going to give anything away about it, but we saw two episodes - one already filmed and edited, the other was being filmed on the night. They are both great, so tune in and have a watch this time.
Cheers,
Ian
Of course the characters are one-dimensional and cliched. IT Crowd pokes fun at the stereotypes (and not just at the ones about the computer nerds either.) So you don't like over the top British humor. I feel sorry for you.
Forgettable dialog? Have you tried turning it off and on again? You wouldn't steal a car! Peter File. There are some police men here, they say they need to speak to you about irregularities in the pension fund. Memory IS RAM! I have it on good authority: Never ever type Google into Google! This, Jen, is the internet.
There was "Das iTeam - Die Jungs an der Maus", which was a crappy shot-by-shot remake. It was really bad.
-- no laugh-track should be an option
MASH on disc has the option to disable the laugh track on some (not all) episodes
Here is a sample.
"DRM is like the Ford Pinto: it's a smooth ride, right up the point at which it explodes and ruins your day."-C.Doctorow
b) As I just wrote in another comment, laugh tracks are obnoxious, but eh, I overlook them generally. When I was small, I thought that they were all recorded from the "live studio audience," but that's just what they *want* you to think.
See above. The laughing is real, is recorded in the studio and well...I was alive the last time I checked.
Cheers,
Ian
Fun Fact in regard to d) - The guy doing the voice-over on the piracy ad is Peter Serafinowicz (the voice of Darth Maul).
Assuming we're talking about comedies that are somehow geek related and aren't sci-fi, would be Spaced.
Actually he's done a lot more than that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Serafinowicz
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Memory is RAM!
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
As Mr. Linehan has stated, "This is a British Sitcom. It has nothing whatsoever to do with reality, for example, Goths actually can't cling to the ceiling."
I suppose you found "Office Space" and "Real Genius" equally unrealistic and unfunny.
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I haven't seen the show
Perhaps you should change that and come back later, then.
What do you want me to do? Shall I recite whole dialogs, for example the one about the internet (the WHOLE internet), which is a small, light, wireless black box with a blinking LED, sits on top of Big Ben (because that's where you get the best reception) and has been demagnetized by Stephen "The Hawk" Hawking himself in preparation for Jen's speech, where she will - with the approval of the Elders of the Internet - present it to the higher-ups of the company? That wouldn't even begin to describe the humor though, because it's just the setup of the prank. You'll have to watch it yourself.
Yes, someone could make a logical analysis of why IT Crowd is funny, but why kill a perfectly good comedy just to know what you've missed out on?
Thank god they didn't air the American version of the show.
Here's the cure for that (slightly spoilery if you haven't seen Breaking Bad Season One):
Breaking Bad: Acid Bath
(Note: I'm not trying to imply that you should be dissolving your non-geek friends in acid here.)
"MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."