IT Crowd Series 4

[Pete Part Three]

I think there’s an even split in series 4:

Good : Bad Boys, The Final Countdown
Reasonable : Jen The Fredo, Italian for Beginners
Awful : Something Happened, Reynholm vs. Reynholm

Nice article, Phil.

[Alex]

It has always worried me that Linehan thinks series 4 is the strongest. It makes me a little concerned for the upcoming Count Arthur Strong collaboration.

[Phil]

>Good : Bad Boys, The Final Countdown

I’m a little less charitable toward the ones you listed as “reasonable,” but I agree without reservation that these were the two best in the series. They both had issues that held them back from being great (IMHO, of course), but there’s no shame in being only very good. Honestly, Bad Boys would probably rank among my favorite episodes if not for the stretched-way-too-fucking-long tech support garbage. Most of what that episode does it gets right…but shit are those tech support sequences tedious.

Interesting that both of the best episodes in this series are Moss heavy. Or not interesting…that other thing.

>It has always worried me that Linehan thinks series 4 is the strongest.

Now I’m terrified too.

[Pete Part Three]

>I’m a little less charitable toward the ones you listed as “reasonable,”

Italian for Beginners makes it just for the seaparks stuff, to be honest.

[Phil]

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-it-crowd-is-returning-for-one-final-episode,97452/

[MANI506]

Best episodes are The Red Door, The Work Outing, Are We Not Men and The Final Countdown.

I often do a Matt Berry impression when there’s somebody at the door.

Can’t wait to see this! Anyone on G&T blagging tickets to the recording?

[si]

I often do a Matt Berry impression when there’s somebody at the door.

So glad that I’m not the only one.

[Alex]

>Anyone on G&T blagging tickets to the recording?

If I see them up for grabs in time then I’ll be applying.

[MANI506]

I tried to get tickets for series 4 but failed, I’ll try harder this time!

[Joey TORDFC]

This the best news of today!

[Pete Part Three]

THEN SEE IT NOW.

[ChrisM]

Just…. one… more?

Okay, I guess I’m being a glass-half-empty kinda guy.

So from different stance:

Great! Another episode!

[takerdemon]

I can’t wait to hear Douglas banging on about sexy sex again. Perhaps another Chris Morris cameo from beyond the grave too?

[Phil]

Do you want to be in the IT Crowd Special?

G+T represent.

[Jonsmad]

http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/the-it-crowd-will-return-for-one-off-final-episode/320925

Next Friday 40 minute episode special.

[pfm]

Apparently Roy wins a Golden Techie award and makes a speech about all the people who’ve fecked him over down the years…

[JamesTC]

I enjoyed it.

Felt like The IT Crowd’s Series VIII.

[Ridley]

‘Twas enjoyable.

[pfm]

Lump in throat time as Moss stood there at the end…

[si]

I laughed like an idiot.

Nothing new there, of course, but just thought I’d say.

Didn’t get to watch it til this morning, but, as always, some inspired, hilariously embarrassing lunacy. It was almost like a Greatest Hits tour. :)

[Ben Paddon]

It ended rather abruptly, I think. Not sure how I feel about that. And doing the “flicking off the light switch” ending so soon after Community made fun of exactly that trope is, perhaps, misguided. But as a whole, I loved it.

[genericnerdyusername]

I thought the flicking off fit with how the characters are realising that their lives aren’t very realistic. Not an original idea, granted, but done better than when that other sitcom did it recently(ish).

[Phil]

That was the best episode since series 2.

[Ridley]

I hope you don’t blog about it on Breaking Bad Chatter, your Breaking Bad blog for Breaking Bad episodes.

[Phil]

You know, I thought about writing a review, but yeah, with the final Breaking Bad airing tomorrow I didn’t think tonight would be a good time to post it. It’d just be shoved down too quickly.

Having said that, I’m considering reviewing all of the IT Crowd episodes next. No promises…maybe I’ll open it up to a vote or something, or otherwise end up picking a different show…but The IT Crowd would be a great one to do episode by episode. For a lot of reasons. Which I won’t list now, because then there’d be no reason to do it. :(

[Connell]

I personally really enjoyed it. It was a very self-aware episode but it felt like it was allowed to be, had trademark I.T Crowd gags and memorable lines I’ll be chirping out for days.

Personal highlights: Small-person racist, and when Douglas smashes the window in on his own car.

[NoFro]

I thought this was brilliantly funny. The IT Crowd has never been the most consistent show, with the last two series in particular having some absolutely inspired stuff and then some pretty abysmal stuff, but in terms of laughs this show definitely ended on a high.

[Pete Part Three]

I wasn’t that keen. Some really great moments of visual humour, but the dialogue was a little lacking. It suffered from the extra length as the story couldn’t sustain it. But, despite having that extra time, the conclusion seemed rushed and under-developed.

[Jonsmad]

I like that they ended up above ground so to speak and a fitting last line for Roy. But the “ah lets just stop” line from Graham on the voice over at the end sort of sum it up better that they couldn’t find enough more in the show to really do a series 5 so crammed the not so strong final ideas remaining into this last episode with a bit more time to throw in some final callbacks. Jen is looking a little more like she shouldn’t be trapped with the rest of them any-more anyway, and Moss, Roy, and Douglas story lines werent as good as some of the better episodes. Got Richmond back but i wonder if that scene was last minute with only one of them there with him and hardly any point to his being there.

[John Hoare]

Douglas shouting “Check your privilege!” made me laugh A LOT. Series 2 seems so far away – these days, Matt Berry is my favourite part of the show, and he never used to be even close to that. That’s as much to do with me clicking with Matt Berry as much as anything else, though. (Can’t wait for the series of Toast of London later this month – I thought the pilot was great, and I’m hard to please with new comedy, especially single-camera.)

Anyway, with The IT Crowd, I was very drunk whilst watching it, so can’t give a proper well-considered opinion – but on first watch, it felt like it was cut extremely fast. I would have liked it to slow down occasionally. Especially with it being a final episode. The final revelation about the fate of our heroes seemed to finish before it had even been started.

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