Reminds me of a time when I was working at the hospital. I was heading down to the cafeteria for lunch. When in the elevator, the doors open and staring at me are about 6-8 police and a guy wearing an orange jumpsuit, with handcuffs. All of them had kevlar on. After a moment I said, "going down?" The man in orange starts to walk forward but is stopped and pulled back by one of the police. Who says, " we'll get the next one." (elevator doors shut)
This episode was hilarious from beginning to finish. Theres the bet that Roy won't say 'Have you turn it off and on again'. The laptop from the exorcist. The french support number and the Windows Vista joke. My favourite episode, so funny.
@@PrograError That actually happened to me. I had to activate a Windows 10 over the phone. An Indian with a sketchy english accent took the call. So funny.
I kid you not! Back in the nineties I worked in an inhouse 'tech' support area for a major bank and the first question asked was 'have you tried turning it off an on again!' 🤣 Problem was people were having to use their computers without any real training. Best call we got was a Senior General manager (GM, God to us) ringing to say his 'cup holder' wasn't working. The poor tech spent over an hour trying to work out what was going on when he realised the GM was using the CD loader tray to sit his coffee cup on!....... Priceless!!!!!!
@@SubjectiveObserver I thought it was bs for years but the start up sequence has a troubleshoot for faults and can fix a surprising amount of issues with most tech, learned whilst working for phone provider
I honestly Love how that one lady tells the police officer who apparently isn't paying any attention to go arrest the one guy who's actually going to help fix the problem. It's like American policing 101
@@s.aslahahmadfaizi4687 hence why s/he said "it's like American policing 101" Key word in there being 'like' to imply similarities. This is a word play in the English language called a simile. Simile - "a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion )." - Oxford English Dictionary
" What kind of operating system does it use? It's ehhh... VISTA! WE'RE GOING TO DIE!!" That's the best insult to Windows Vista I've ever heard. I loved Vista though, but may depend on that I was a naive and stupid kid back then.
I was a kid back then too but whenever I had to use vista I wished for the good old xp back, even worse after 7 came out and half of the school pcs were still running vista, the horror
@@DMSBrian24 I was bored with XP. Though I miss XP now to another level, it was the pinnacle of A Os back In. 01-07. Than I bought Vista one day after work and I feel in love with it because it felt modern. But then you got the pop up for every fucking action you did in the Os. But I found a way to disable it, so it went actually good with me. Was a few crashes here and there, but I liked it. Then 7 came around and GODDAMN WHAT AN OS.
The first time I saw The IT Crowd, I was in stitches. It just reminded me of the two guys in IT where I worked. They were like Siamese Twins, never apart, and every job they had to attend together 😂
Working in IT years back, a user rang to say his computer wasn't working; even turning it off and on again didn't help - all he had was a black screen. Is the screen switched on? I never turn it off he says. Eventually I have to go and investigate only to find the the monitor isn't even plugged in. He can't understand it. Turns out the cleaner used the socket to plug in her new vacuum because it had a shorted lead.
It was the version after XP and before 7. It was a actually a great operating system if your computer was powerful enough to run it (it was very resource intensive) but if not the experience wasn't very good.
Vista's actually the last OS I nostalgically remember, and I loved it back then. I'm cool with what I'm using now, but it doesn't have the nostalgia factor for me - I even have to look up what I'm using now in order to know what OS it is, and I wouldn't be able to remember the start up or the shutdown sounds if you paid me.
Bruh was the guy at the end pretending to speak dutch or something? If not damn... he got close to actually sounding pretty dutch without intending to.
IT people can be very evasive, often taking the very long way round the workplace to avoid getting tangled up in problems as they walk through the office. One IT guy was fun to wind up. I’d walk purposefully towards him looking right at him and then simply say “Morning” and walk by. He really hated being asked “Where the f*** have you been hiding?” Companies don’t stand for that anymore and rightly so.
As an IT guy, I completely understand the evasion. 99% of all issues are down to people not following the instructions, or thinking it can do things it can not. There is even a Term for it PEBKAC or problem exists between keyboard and chair. I don't blame them from hiding because they have more important things to do then tell you how to switch the thing on.
I mean, I'm 23 and I remember Vista. This neighbour I had was better at computers than me. He installed Vista on my PC and said it would help run NFS UG2 better. The entire system slowed down to a crawl, I remember waiting 10 seconds for word doc to fully load. For some reason, NFS now ran perfectly smooth.
Funny how Reynholm is the only one with his hands in his pocket while everyone looks stunned at Roy and Moss. He really doesn't give a damn about his employees.
He doesn't give a damn in general. About most things. Hence why he goes: "Wow, a gun!" and then proceeds to pull the trigger five times while pointing the barrel into his mouth.
1st level support internal sure, but there's more to IT then internal helpdesk work Maybe they should do a second series of IT crowd where they moved on with their careers into bigger gigs, like doing 2nd-3rd level support for a company that delivers services or software b2b
Can corroborate. In the web design studio I worked in during the early 2000s I was Roy, and the coders and programmers were Moss. It's uncanny how realistic this is, and as such, is only funny to those of us who know.
You know it was. I am serious here. Even today they use Windows for critical infrastructures and when they use Linux they just get a great deal from Microsoft. That happened for example here in germany in munich. And a lot of IOT stuff that would work fine on a Pi zero has often an entire windows OS. Robots are often controlled on Windows. Only God knows why.
Working in IT and always below basement level in the darkest unpainted hell hole in the building, we could relate 100% to every part of this series. We were rolling out the latest OS at the time of this episode, it was Vista. This scene was too funny...and accurate.
Unfortunately, the writer (Graham Lineham) is persona non grata. He's either "fighting woke cancel culture", or rabidly transphobic, depending on who you ask.
I remember looking over a control panel for a small gas powerplant. It ran on Windows XP. The year was 2018 (I think) and the equipment looked rather new.
@@jonathanwessner3456 I used to work in a restaurant about 5 years ago and they were still running this ancient point of sale system called “Aloha”, no wonder they went out of business (the fact that they hired me of all people as a shift manager place probably should’ve been the first sign that the business was going down the shitter)
I'm a Windows user, but even in 2010, nobody used Vista for embedded hardware. Hell, most *home PC users* were already onto Windows 7 by then. No wonder he shat his pants hearing that.
That's because you can't shut those things down, and nobody wants to go futzing around in old code trying to understand it. Tons of banking software still around is coded in COBOL
@@salsamancer false. software updates are important for patching security flaws. old software and os that isn't updated anymore shouldn't be used (especially) for things like that because of how vulnerable they are.
It's pretty funny because i only ever called microsoft support once because of some kind of SQL issue (idk) and it was literally a french person who could barely speak english
I like how when he runs away, he deliberately gets closer to the bomb and steps over it rather than running in the opposite direction
I mean it hasnt gone boom set so why not i guess
@@RandmAnimal Because physical vibrations can activate bombs…
It's cos he's running for the pavement 😌 bless
@@DeathnoteBB So? What are some kinds of elephant?
@@Diabolical-Tyrant …How much force do you think it takes to set a bomb off?
Reminds me of a time when I was working at the hospital.
I was heading down to the cafeteria for lunch. When in the elevator, the doors open and staring at me are about 6-8 police and a guy wearing an orange jumpsuit, with handcuffs. All of them had kevlar on.
After a moment I said, "going down?"
The man in orange starts to walk forward but is stopped and pulled back by one of the police. Who says, " we'll get the next one."
(elevator doors shut)
This is so funny
Irl comedy skit
The older this scene is, the higher the comedy!
"higher" is right
The better the comedy?
What?
But by the same token… the more expensive the scene, the gooder it is too
You must need to be told when to use the restroom...laugh tracks let you know its okay to laugh... if you take it out its just boring slapstick
One of my favorite bits in the whole show.
"What operating system does it use?"
"Windows Vista."
"We're going to die!"
still more modern than some of the things at my work.... windows 3 using fools
@@ramsesbams Where do you work, 1994?
@@ramsesbams "Modern" isn't the issue. Vista is by far one of the shittiest operating systems Microsoft has ever developed.
@@LucifronzVista was great, it was just misunderstood.
@@daniel.s.stefanov👍👍👍😂
As soon as I saw the customer support guy all I could think was, "Oh, yeah. That's dude's done for."
This episode was hilarious from beginning to finish. Theres the bet that Roy won't say 'Have you turn it off and on again'. The laptop from the exorcist. The french support number and the Windows Vista joke. My favourite episode, so funny.
Modern day version would have been an Indian support at night ...
@@PrograError That actually happened to me. I had to activate a Windows 10 over the phone. An Indian with a sketchy english accent took the call. So funny.
@@PrograError Indian support would have had a better English
My favorite is still the gay theatre
@@RoronoraZoro666 "I'm disabled!"
I kid you not! Back in the nineties I worked in an inhouse 'tech' support area for a major bank and the first question asked was 'have you tried turning it off an on again!' 🤣 Problem was people were having to use their computers without any real training. Best call we got was a Senior General manager (GM, God to us) ringing to say his 'cup holder' wasn't working. The poor tech spent over an hour trying to work out what was going on when he realised the GM was using the CD loader tray to sit his coffee cup on!....... Priceless!!!!!!
My favourite from the 90's was "I can't find the any key".........
@Nny I miss IRC wars with my eggdrops 😊
Holy crap, I thought I was the only one that had a manager ask about the ‘cup holder’.
@@johnbiggscr I thought that was just a joke! People actually did that?
@@SubjectiveObserver I thought it was bs for years but the start up sequence has a troubleshoot for faults and can fix a surprising amount of issues with most tech, learned whilst working for phone provider
I honestly Love how that one lady tells the police officer who apparently isn't paying any attention to go arrest the one guy who's actually going to help fix the problem. It's like American policing 101
It's set in UK
@@s.aslahahmadfaizi4687 hence why s/he said "it's like American policing 101"
Key word in there being 'like' to imply similarities. This is a word play in the English language called a simile.
Simile - "a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion )." - Oxford English Dictionary
@@bakersmileyface wow! You managed to explain that perfectly AND sound like a condescending prick at the same time!
@@lucasrobin2788 Indeed. It was a very British reply.
@@tycarne7850 You mean, 'It's UK comment replies 101". I'm just bringing this thread full circle, before everyone piles on me here.
" What kind of operating system does it use?
It's ehhh... VISTA!
WE'RE GOING TO DIE!!"
That's the best insult to Windows Vista I've ever heard.
I loved Vista though, but may depend on that I was a naive and stupid kid back then.
I was a kid back then too but whenever I had to use vista I wished for the good old xp back, even worse after 7 came out and half of the school pcs were still running vista, the horror
@@DMSBrian24 I was bored with XP. Though I miss XP now to another level, it was the pinnacle of A Os back In. 01-07.
Than I bought Vista one day after work and I feel in love with it because it felt modern.
But then you got the pop up for every fucking action you did in the Os.
But I found a way to disable it, so it went actually good with me.
Was a few crashes here and there, but I liked it.
Then 7 came around and GODDAMN WHAT AN OS.
@@DMSBrian24 I remember that in school in 2006, our pc's used 95,98 and 2000.
2000 was awkward.
The best thing about vista was its version of movie maker being the last good one
Vista was horrible mate, Windows XP was top class!
I never noticed Douglas just being deadpan during the whole thing lol
never seen this show, but best line ever. Vista, WERE GONG TO DIE !! XD
I highly recommend it. It was WAY ahead of its time. It's on Netflix if you'd like to try
You need to watch it. Now. Trust me. You can thank me later.
As soon as the bloke in the call Center picked up the EOD tech knew it was game over 😂
calls the wrong department lol 🤣
IT Crowd , for ever :D
P.S. Have You Tried it Turning it On and Off again :D
AAAAAAH.
I've just won a hundred quid.
Huh, this whole time I thought that they were against ever...
I don't understand how that phrase, of all things, hasn't become a meme.
At least it wasn't running Crowdstrike Falcon.
Too soon?
I loved this series, one of the funniest, sometimes I laughed so hard, I cried!
A fire? At Seaparcs?
The first time I saw The IT Crowd, I was in stitches.
It just reminded me of the two guys in IT where I worked.
They were like Siamese Twins, never apart, and every job they had to attend together 😂
This show has the same genius kind of writing I loved about Father Ted. Just you know. Completely different. Lol
Father Ted was even more absurd.
IIIII LOOOV MY BRICK
@ The Pack Rat yes
I love this show so much.
that french tech supp part had me rolling lmao
This scene is up there with the 'A FIRE in a Sea Parks?' 🤣
it crowd is such a gem
This is such a classic episode. 😂
Love Kevin Eldon..such an underrated talent..
Oh no, this is relevant today
1:02 lol door opening sound effect from Doom.
Well spotted 🙂
This is the apex of the British comedy
2:15 aww moss scored
This show is so funny. First two seasons are my favorite.
Still my favorite show
LOVE THIS SHOW
Remember Peter File?😀
Would've been funny if Roy answered the call
Working in IT years back, a user rang to say his computer wasn't working; even turning it off and on again didn't help - all he had was a black screen. Is the screen switched on? I never turn it off he says. Eventually I have to go and investigate only to find the the monitor isn't even plugged in. He can't understand it. Turns out the cleaner used the socket to plug in her new vacuum because it had a shorted lead.
Haljö, kan I bæ of assistancè?
Ah, yes, I remember Windows Vista.
Very buggy it was!
Damn, this is so good.
When he said "Vista" I said "they're going to die" and then XD!
"I just won 100 quid" LMFAO
This show and Smiling friends have the same vibe.
VISTA !!
ROFL!!!
I love the IT Crowd
i love this comment
There's a good opera scene in this film
yo, is that E92 M3? That is sick
@9 seconds actors on the left . See no evil. Say no evil hear no evil:)
Woutmemes anyone?
I'd forgotten how much the laughtrack detracts from any humour.
Hooray!
Vista is such a mess, rather than explaining u can just play this clip as a warning to all future generations.
I thought it sound 'IT' from Pennywise...truthly, it is an IT
People don’t even remember Vista anymore. I think they were the OS before XP.
It was the version after XP and before 7. It was a actually a great operating system if your computer was powerful enough to run it (it was very resource intensive) but if not the experience wasn't very good.
Vista's actually the last OS I nostalgically remember, and I loved it back then. I'm cool with what I'm using now, but it doesn't have the nostalgia factor for me - I even have to look up what I'm using now in order to know what OS it is, and I wouldn't be able to remember the start up or the shutdown sounds if you paid me.
I hate laughing tracks
They make it impossible to watch for me
I’ll not have the windows vista slander, it was so good and looked great
Lmao thanks for reminding me that Vista was an awful mistake
Bruh was the guy at the end pretending to speak dutch or something?
If not damn... he got close to actually sounding pretty dutch without intending to.
vista? oh we gonna die :(((
IT people can be very evasive, often taking the very long way round the workplace to avoid getting tangled up in problems as they walk through the office.
One IT guy was fun to wind up. I’d walk purposefully towards him looking right at him and then simply say “Morning” and walk by.
He really hated being asked “Where the f*** have you been hiding?”
Companies don’t stand for that anymore and rightly so.
As an IT guy, I completely understand the evasion. 99% of all issues are down to people not following the instructions, or thinking it can do things it can not.
There is even a Term for it PEBKAC or problem exists between keyboard and chair.
I don't blame them from hiding because they have more important things to do then tell you how to switch the thing on.
WE'RE GOING TO DIE!!
robots use linux
The nerd mannerism sounds a lot like Wallace from Wallace and Grommet.
0:09 why does the guy over Jen's shoulder look like he's playing peak a boo with a kid?
Vista 😅
2:15 hooray ahhh 😂😅
Can young IT guys even imagine what Vista was like?
I mean, I'm 23 and I remember Vista. This neighbour I had was better at computers than me. He installed Vista on my PC and said it would help run NFS UG2 better. The entire system slowed down to a crawl, I remember waiting 10 seconds for word doc to fully load. For some reason, NFS now ran perfectly smooth.
Funny how Reynholm is the only one with his hands in his pocket while everyone looks stunned at Roy and Moss.
He really doesn't give a damn about his employees.
He doesn't give a damn in general. About most things. Hence why he goes: "Wow, a gun!" and then proceeds to pull the trigger five times while pointing the barrel into his mouth.
@@theothertonydutch That moment is one of my favorite tv moments of all time. kills me everytime
Probably thinks it's a film
@@trafficoan1811 probably would kill you everytime, thats what bullets do!
Like a boss!!
I would like to confirm that this show is the perfect representation of what it’s like to work in IT
1st level support internal sure, but there's more to IT then internal helpdesk work
Maybe they should do a second series of IT crowd where they moved on with their careers into bigger gigs,
like doing 2nd-3rd level support for a company that delivers services or software b2b
Have you tried turning it off and on again is so damn true. Giving dumb basic advice that you have zero confidence will work but it does.
Former 1st and 2nd level here. Can relate.
People work in IT, not the ones I have dealt with, talked about Doom all day and the new graphics card they are getting
Can corroborate. In the web design studio I worked in during the early 2000s I was Roy, and the coders and programmers were Moss. It's uncanny how realistic this is, and as such, is only funny to those of us who know.
Imagine if vista was actually used for this type of thing
Roy and Moss would die!
You know it was. I am serious here. Even today they use Windows for critical infrastructures and when they use Linux they just get a great deal from Microsoft. That happened for example here in germany in munich. And a lot of IOT stuff that would work fine on a Pi zero has often an entire windows OS. Robots are often controlled on Windows. Only God knows why.
@@p0r5ch3911 Because MCSE. Once you're through the mirror, everything outside looks backwards.
A more terrifying thought is how most nukes are still running on Windows 95
@@OMGSAMCOPSEY Windows 95 wasn't that bad. As long as you don't try to connect a printer to that nuke it should work just fine.
I love how they're quaking in their boots because of the bomb, and then Moss goes out of his way to jump over it when he runs away
Windows vista is more terrifying than a bomb.
Working in IT and always below basement level in the darkest unpainted hell hole in the building, we could relate 100% to every part of this series. We were rolling out the latest OS at the time of this episode, it was Vista. This scene was too funny...and accurate.
Loved the whole IT Crowd series.
I think they did right by ending it properly. So many series outlive their theme.
It was necessary...the new age of smartphone, viral videos, and the cpu crisis the show portrayed...perfect timing if i might say
Ending the show was definitely a good decision! 😂
This whole episode was damn funny... I love this show
Damn good bloody good damn good funny!
What's the name of that episode?
@@Ronsharo Season 4: "Bad Boys"
The "scared straight" bit with Moss talking to the kids lives in my head rent free. 😂
Wish they did a new series of this, things haven't changed that much, still love the internet box episode...😂🤣😀
This time without the annoying fake laugh track please.
This Jen, this is the internet! *shows a black box*
I dont know if the Elders of the Internet would be too pleased with that.
Unfortunately, the writer (Graham Lineham) is persona non grata. He's either "fighting woke cancel culture", or rabidly transphobic, depending on who you ask.
@@jackroutledge352 he’s the best comedy writer in the UK
This is a very accurate portrayal of how fancy robots work
I remember looking over a control panel for a small gas powerplant. It ran on Windows XP. The year was 2018 (I think) and the equipment looked rather new.
Our school radio runs on vista and me and my mate constantly quote it.
Lol
I love how for the entire scene Reynholm stays emotionless
0:04 the poses they got the extras to do lol
I love how Moss runs right passed the bomb when he could go almost any other direction.
The "vista" joke was underrated
That Vista joke was gold
This show is pure Gold, never gets old
Laugh tracks are cancer
Imagine explaining the Vista joke to Gen Z
Lmao I work in a bank and half the software we use is from the late 90s 😂
I used to work in a restaurant and all their stuff is still the 90's software they originally used.
You're lucky it's even THAT new!
Citrix? aka the bane of my existence.
Same with medical record systems in the US. I'll never work as a developer for a healthcare company.
@@jonathanwessner3456 I used to work in a restaurant about 5 years ago and they were still running this ancient point of sale system called “Aloha”, no wonder they went out of business (the fact that they hired me of all people as a shift manager place probably should’ve been the first sign that the business was going down the shitter)
vista we going to dieeee 😂😂
I'm a Windows user, but even in 2010, nobody used Vista for embedded hardware. Hell, most *home PC users* were already onto Windows 7 by then. No wonder he shat his pants hearing that.
Roy could've easily won his bet with jen if he had just said: "have you tried rebooting?"
What's rebooting? How do I do that? 😉
Or got Moss to say it.
Some people wouldn't know what rebooting is.
He did say that didn't he?
With current OS, even turning Pc off and on again won’t work as long as quick start option is enabled.
My favorite british comedy series. Chris D' Dowd has great comedic timing.
For me nothing beats the smokers zone skit where they parody life in Eastern Block communist states. Love this show!!
No need to remake this show, it's still as fresh as when it was on.
You would be surprised at how many government systems still run on dos
An idea for a new Microsoft OS ad - 'Microsoft windows 95 - powering your nuclear deterrent'
@@richardhockey8442 the royal navies missile system- running on windows XP since 2010
That's because you can't shut those things down, and nobody wants to go futzing around in old code trying to understand it. Tons of banking software still around is coded in COBOL
@@salsamancer false. software updates are important for patching security flaws. old software and os that isn't updated anymore shouldn't be used (especially) for things like that because of how vulnerable they are.
@@xioxialt doesn't matter if these things are offline and air gapped
Love how Douglass expression doesn’t change at all in this scene.
I never understood why he got arrested
Watch the full episode, they were loitering around shops
Yeah, I've seen it, it was just why make such a large effort to arrest someone for loitering?
That's why it's funny
Well I guess that just flew over my head completely haha
FFS he wasn't loitering... He Stole a DVD
Douglas is the voice of a droid in The Boba Fett. He has a great overacting voice.
i recognized it immediately when I heard it. I kept shouting "fire! fire!" at the TV
It's pretty funny because i only ever called microsoft support once because of some kind of SQL issue (idk) and it was literally a french person who could barely speak english
Hmmm it looks like I need to revisit the series. I don't remember this part. Maybe I didn't watch the whole series.
I searched years for this quote.
Let's be honest...
It was probably Windows 98.
Haha brilliant.. Vista... We are going to die
One of the great British comedy series.
Vista! We're going to die! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'd come to that same conclusion!
The reaction to the unsolicited kiss is in stark contrast to what would happen in 2023
I would like to think this is what early drafts of the Doctor Who episode “Boom” were like
One of the funniest shows on TV.
Love to see a return special or mini series.
The team could be running a rocket launch facility and hit the ISS.