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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!"
That so many people seem to think there's some sort of objective measure for what is and isn't funny.
Some people like it. Some people don't.
Brilliant. If I had to guess, I'd say you were offended by the programme's portrayal of "IT people as social inadequates", which perhaps means you missed the point a little
Sounds more like a typical *nix user setup, you did know that OS X is a UNIX system, right?
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Yes, but that is also true of just about any other show, including those that appear on CSPAN.
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Glad to be wrong on that front, though if there's also selective recording / replay of the audience reaction, then I consider myself at least partly right ;)
One thing that surprised me was the difference between takes. There'd be different styles, sometimes different dialogue (a lot is improvised, at one point Chris O'Dowd was clearly just making it up on the spot and reducing the writer to fits of laughter let alone us in the audience) - the point of the scene stays the same but there's much more variation than I was expecting to see.
Perhaps, if they do cut'n'paste laughter from take to take, that's why it sometimes seems out of place? There were a couple of takes I can think of that were for a purely technical reason (shadow was falling in the wrong place) and they repeated that three or four times. Perhaps if they use laughter from take one where it's fresh to us, but then use video from take four where it's technically right then that's why it sometimes sounds out of place. I've no definite knowledge they're doing this, but it would seem to make sense.
Cheers,
Ian
I watched one episode of this garbage when it first came out. A few weeks later I accidentally watched a small portion of another episode. Never again.
If you have no sense of humor, why were you watching a comedy? I mean, how can anybody not enjoy the character Moss? Forgettable dialog? Yeah right. "You there, computer man. Fix My Pants." is not forgettable dialog.
... and then they built the supercollider.
One-dimensional, cliched characters that portray IT people as social inadequates.
I'd say The IT Crowd takes these cliches to absurd levels, which actually makes them less cliche and more just parody. I believe that if you see through it, they actually make fun of the cliches you mention it, instead of embracing them.
Now, if you want to see real cliched characters (and storylines), try watching an episode of The Big Bang Theory.
Is that a WHOOSHing sound that i hear?
Why yes, yes it is.
The whole point of the show is to poke fun at clichés and 1D character personae.
Surely you weren't offended by the portrayal of IT types as idiots?
Tacky sets? That was only the basement set, which was a mess on purpose due to being built around the personality of the characters.
It showed other IT people as perfectly normal people going about their day as well, in perfectly decent sets in office buildings.
You can't form a solid opinion on something with such a short exposure time to it, which you admitted.
All shows also have their "bad" episodes too. Of course, the level of badness is defined by the viewer.
People like some humor, some hate it, blah blah etc.
Laugh tracks are done because laughter is a communal thing - other people laughing at something can make you find it funnier than it otherwise would be. So it's not to tell you that it's funny, it's to make it funnier.
Of course, none of that excuses bad laugh tracks, or ones done to try to disguise a poor quality programme.