The IT Crowd Complete

Episode list

Series 1 (2006)

Overall No. Series No. Title Directed by Written by Original air date

1 1 "Yesterday's Jam" Graham Linehan Graham Linehan 3 February 2006

Jen (Katherine Parkinson) is interviewed for a position at Reynholm Industries by Denholm (Christopher Morris). Fooled by her claim on her CV that she has "a lot of

experience with computers", Denholm hires her, and while she believes she will be the new Ally McBeal, he banishes her to the basement with "standard nerds" Roy (Chris

O'Dowd) and Moss (Richard Ayoade). Resistant to the idea of a new manager, and in the belief that Jen knows nothing about computers, Moss and Roy set out to expose

her, but when Denholm threatens to fire the whole team over their lack of teamwork, they pretend to get on with her, without exposing her secret. When Denholm asks why

they came to see him, Roy invents an excuse that they came to inform him that they had just installed voice-activation software on his computer, and the episode ends

with Denholm repeatedly trying to get the computer to respond to his voice.


2 2 "Calamity Jen" Graham Linehan Graham Linehan 3 February 2006

Jen is obsessed with a pair of shoes in a shop window. Despite the fact they are several sizes too small, Jen later sneaks out to buy them. Denholm starts a war on

stress, threatening to fire anyone who is still experiencing stress by the end of the day. As a result, the trio are persuaded to attend an anti-stress class which Roy

continually disrupts. To avoid being fired, Moss builds a copy of the stress measurement machine from the class, and Roy steals the original. Moss sets the office on

fire after leaving a soldering iron switched on, and e-mails the fire brigade for help since he can't remember their new number (0118 999 881 999 119 7253). Denholm

comes down to test Jen on the stress machine, and despite being hysterical due to the fire and her injuries from the shoes, the threat of being fired is enough to save

her. The fire brigade eventually arrive after it is revealed that the stress machine was not working.


3 3 "Fifty-Fifty" "50:50""50/50" Graham Linehan Graham Linehan (contributory writer Adam MacKessy) 10 February 2006

Roy's date with a woman goes horribly wrong after she mistakes some chocolate on his head for faeces. Despite Roy's insistence that "it's not shit", he declares that

the woman didn't like him because women only like "bad boys" and devises a plan to prove his theory by posting a despicable singles ad. After getting many responses,

Roy arranges a date with a surprisingly good-looking woman and sets out to act like a "bastard" to progress their relationship. Jen has been impressing the temporary

security guard with her fluke-knowledge of obscure facts and after he tells her he will call at a certain time, it is revealed that he has selected her as his "phone a

friend" on the quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. After being asked out on national television, Jen is presented with the real "big question", and things

inevitably go awry. Moss suggests that Roy and Jen take their dates to a great restaurant called "Messijo's", but they fail to spot his mispronunciation and end up at

"Messy Joe's", a popular family restaurant. After the ineptitude of both is exposed, Roy and Jen's dates leave together, and Roy ruins what could potentially have been

a close moment between him and Jen.


4 4 "The Red Door" Graham Linehan Graham Linehan 17 February 2006

Moss finds himself frustrated at repeated theft of his mug. To prevent further recurrence, he gets a new mug that no one could possibly steal, as it has a picture of

his head on the bottom – but the inevitable happens. After heading upstairs to resolve an IT problem, Roy finds himself in an uncomfortable situation under a female

employee's desk. After Roy calls Moss for help to escape, Jen investigates a strange red door in the department. Despite repeated instruction to not open the door,

Jen's curiosity gets the better of her, and she discovers Richmond (Noel Fielding), a lonely goth and the fourth employee of the IT department. A series of flashbacks

paint a bleak picture of Richmond's fall from grace at Reynholm Industries – Richmond was Denholm's right-hand man until the death of Denholm's father and

(coincidentally) Richmond's discovery of the dark-wave band Cradle of Filth. Touched by his story, Jen sets out to help and restore Richmond to his former glory.

Meanwhile, Roy continues to be trapped under a desk, leaving him fighting a losing battle to not become a "desk rabbit" (a term coined by Moss), but Jen rescues him by

successfully distracting the two women from their desks. The episode ends with Moss searching through a mountain of china to find his missing mug, with which Richmond

and Denholm are both seen.


5 5 "The Haunting of Bill Crouse" Graham Linehan Graham Linehan (contributory writer Adam MacKessy) 24 February 2006

After a terrible dinner date, Jen finds herself continually trying to avoid Bill "The News" Crouse (played by Adam Buxton). She asks self-confessed "terrible liar"

Moss to cover for her, and he tells Bill that Jen has died. Moss believes that the problem is solved, but the story quickly gains momentum, and Bill continues to tell

anyone who will listen that he was the last person to sleep with Jen. Meanwhile Jen, who is blissfully unaware of Moss's lie, continues to go about her daily business,

but it appears that her spirit is haunting all of Reynholm Industries, especially Bill. Roy is trying to attract the attention of Julie, the attractive girl from the

fifth floor (a place Roy refers to as "The Land of the Beautiful People"), but his effort only succeeds in drawing the admiring glances of someone at the opposite end

of the scale – Judy, the office cleaner. Elsewhere, Small Paul dies, and the office holds a memorial service for Jen, to which Denholm invites his good friend, Elton

John. However, Jen crashes the ceremony, mistaking it for her "Employee of the Month" award presentation. The episode ends with everyone attending Small Paul's

memorial service and Elton John playing the piano.


6 6 "Aunt Irma Visits" Graham Linehan Graham Linehan 3 March 2006

Jen's period (nicknamed "Aunt Irma" and explained to Moss as "the first scene from Carrie") has unexpected consequences as her colleagues begin to suffer sympathy

pains. Moss sends an e-mail out to everyone he knows, and as a result many IT staff learn of the problems Roy and Moss are suffering, turning them into Internet

celebrities and inciting "Aunt Irma" riots throughout the world. Back at Reynholm, with "Project Icarus" complete, all the teams are assembled before Denholm. Thanks

are dished out to everyone except the IT department, and Roy and Moss insist that this "always happens". Moss has been having sessions with the attractive company

psychiatrist (whom Roy insists looks exactly like his mother), but she informs him that he no longer needs her help. Later, she goes to the IT department to tell Moss

she stopped seeing him as a patient so she could explore her feelings for him. The gang initially decides not to go to the celebration party at work, but with their

night in with scented candles and the movie Steel Magnolias not helping, they decide the only solution is a big "girls' night out". They attend the party, Moss meets

up with the psychiatrist, and they all get incredibly drunk. The next morning, Moss emerges from Jen's bathroom, Roy wakes up to the psychiatrist offering him a cup of

tea, and Denholm wakes up with Richmond. The episode ends with "To Be Continued", but these events are never mentioned again.



Series 2 (2007)

Overall No. Series No. Title Directed by Written by Original air date

7 1 "The Work Outing" Graham Linehan Graham Linehan 24 August 2007

Jen is asked on a date by "Phillip from Six" to watch a play, and when Roy and Moss doubt the heterosexuality of her date, they invite themselves along in the hope of

hilarity ensuing. Roy and Moss's suspicions are further reinforced when the play turns out to be a production of "Gay! – A Gay Musical", during which the two are

mistaken for a couple during the audience participation segment. During the intermission, Moss and Roy are unable to urinate in the gents' due to the presence of a

toilet attendant, so they use the staff and disabled facilities respectively. However, after mistaking the emergency cord for the toilet flush, Roy pretends to be

disabled, resulting in him being taken to Manchester as part of a group of gay disabled men, while Moss pretends to be a staff member, which results in him becoming a

bartender. Jen confronts her date about his sexuality and when she mentions his interest in her Heat magazine, he comes clean, saying he hoped his relationship with

Jen would work because she looks like a man.


8 2 "Return of the Golden Child" Graham Linehan Graham Linehan 31 August 2007

Moss discovers an internet site that calculates when people will die by analysing their personal details. Despite Roy's refusal to partake, Moss discovers that Roy

will die on Thursday at 3pm. Denholm, threatened by police who want to investigate "financial irregularities" in the business's accounts, commits suicide by jumping

out of a window during a meeting, and his funeral is also set for Thursday at 3pm. Roy buys a new mobile phone with lots of features but, finding himself disappointed

by the weak vibrate setting, he allows Moss to "pimp your phone, girlfriend". Having set the vibrate function to the highest setting, the phone mistakenly goes off

during Denholm's funeral, and to make matters worse, Roy mistakes it for his impending death and reacts accordingly, screaming and swearing. Before the funeral,

Denholm's successor announces his plan to fire the entire IT department because he despises them, but he finds himself fired when Denholm's son Douglas (Matt Berry) –

his rightful successor – storms the funeral and takes over Reynholm Industries. Roy and Moss give Douglas the now unwanted mobile phone, and having felt the vibrate

function go off in his trousers, he declares "meet me at the station", giving a hint of things to come.


9 3 "Moss and the German" Graham Linehan Graham Linehan 7 September 2007

Worried that his life is stagnating, Moss enrolls in a German cookery course. However, it turns out that the advert contained important translation errors, and the

German is actually a cannibal who is seeking someone willing to be eaten (a parody of the Armin Meiwes incident). Meanwhile, despite some exaggerated attempts to stop

him, Roy is trying to watch a pirated DVD from South Korea; after his failed attempts, he deceptively volunteers to be the German cannibal's next meal so that he can

watch the film on the German's impressive home entertainment system. However, when the police raid the house, it seems that the German's plan is not what the police

are interested in. Elsewhere, Jen, who recently started smoking again, finds the only place in the building where she can now enjoy a cigarette, which is not unlike

Soviet Russia (a parody of bleak and melodramatic Dr. Zhivago-style films). The Korean movie with the title '새벽의 황당한 저주' is in fact Shaun of the Dead.


10 4 "The Dinner Party" Graham Linehan Graham Linehan 14 September 2007

Jen has finally found love with her new boyfriend, and to celebrate their happiness, they host a dinner party for six of their single friends. Their joy turns to

disappointment when all of the men are unable to come, so Jen reluctantly invites Roy, Moss and Richmond to take their places. On arrival at the house, Jen drills the

three of them on how to act normally, and for a while, things seem to go well. Roy chooses to sit with a model, but discovers that she was recently in a car accident

and her face is wrapped in bandages, so he is uncertain whether or not she is still as beautiful as she used to be; Moss pairs up with another of the three single

friends, and the two of them inadvertently start acting as if they are married; Richmond unexpectedly hits it off with the last of Jen's friends. During the dinner

party, Roy and Moss discover that Jen's boyfriend's name is Peter File, which sounds similar to the word 'paedophile', which causes much amusement. At the end of the

episode, Jen and her new boyfriend set off for a romantic holiday to Paris, but she abandons him at the airport as his name is too embarrassing.


11 5 "Smoke and Mirrors" Graham Linehan Graham Linehan 21 September 2007

Roy comes back from a stag night wearing lipstick; he passed out and the other men decided to put makeup on him as a prank. Jen loses concentration during an important

meeting after wearing a "bad bra" to work; as a result, Moss gets over his usual sensitivity to ladies' undergarments and with the help of his mother's underwear

drawer, designs the ultimate bra. Naming it the "Abracadabra" and fearing retribution from established bra companies, Moss adopts a pseudonym he has trouble

remembering. As the design goes forward, both Jen and Roy help prepare him to pitch his invention on well-known TV series Dragons' Den, in exchange for a return of the

eventual profits. However, things start to go down the drain on arrival at the television studio – while waiting to do a TV interview, Moss confuses his pseudonym with

the name of a spokesman for the Ministry of Defence, and ends up on a television news interview discussing the Iraq war (a parody of the Guy Kewney / Guy Goma mixup).

Things go from bad to worse for both Jen and Moss when he fails to rid the bra of its Achilles heel: randomly catching fire.


12 6 "Men Without Women" "The Joy of Sex" Graham Linehan Graham Linehan 28 September 2007

Douglas travels far and wide in his quest to bed Jen and is given a love potion by a mysterious, blind, Irish sorcerer. On his return to Reynholm Industries, and

following a lengthy campaign of pointless phone calls to the basement, Douglas offers Jen a position as his personal assistant. Having realised she's wasting her life

in the position she's in, she accepts, but this leaves Moss and Roy free to wreak havoc in the basement as they engage in a day of not wearing trousers and playing a

form of golf where Roy tries to pot a ball in Moss's mouth. However, this soon wears thin, and as Douglas continues his efforts to bed Jen, he resorts to the

sorcerer's potion, which turns out to be Rohypnol. Roy and Moss eventually rescue Jen from Douglas's sexual advances, but soon find themselves threatened by him; she

locks them both in with him when she finds out they replaced her with an answering machine and pandemonium ensues.



Series 3 (2008)

Overall No. Series No. Title Directed by Written by Original air date

13 1 "From Hell" Graham Linehan Graham Linehan 21 November 2008

Roy goes to Jen's house to retrieve £5. While there, he recognises Jen's builder as a "Builder From Hell". Convinced that he will urinate in her sink, Jen sets out to

keep an eye on him. Moss is harassed by a group of teenagers, and Roy tries to teach him how to stand up to them. Douglas, oblivious to the fact he is ruining Reynholm

Industries after spending the pension fund on erotic art and gold flakes in the water supply, finds a service revolver and a note from his father telling him to shoot

himself if he is too overworked. Jen continues to disrupt the builder, convinced that he has ideas that do not include renovating her house, and installs a CCTV system

to monitor his movements. Douglas, playing with the gun, shoots himself in the thigh, and after summoning help from Moss, tells him to contact the emergency services.

Moss, however, takes the gun, and uses it to threaten the teenagers, leaving Douglas to his own devices. Still struggling from his wound, Douglas heads into an

important meeting with a Japanese investor via video link. Jen finally spots the builder doing the deed in her sink, but when she tries to record the incident, swaps