Not great, but an improvement.
I suppose Moss gets to go on the roundabout next week.
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If Matt Berry's reading, I'm sure he's loving all this "the three of them" talk.
He just plays himself, doesn't he? I doubt he'd be here as he's not aware it's a sitcom 
Dan
The weekly game "Which bits of Spaced and Seinfield has he stol....paid tribute to?" was much harder this week.
(If you are playing at home and don't want to know the answer, then look away now)
The mashed potato/Close Encounters was in Spaced and one of the seals in the Seapark was named 'slippery pete', a Seinfeld character.
Quote: Jinky @ July 17 2010, 1:08 PM BSTThe weekly game "Which bits of Spaced and Seinfield has he stol....paid tribute to?" was much harder this week.
(If you are playing at home and don't want to know the answer, then look away now)
The mashed potato/Close Encounters was in Spaced and one of the seals in the Seapark was named 'slippery pete', a Seinfeld character.
You're just being mean now! There's no reason to suggest he took the mash bit from Spaced, rather than just from its original source material! Leave poor Linehan alone you meany!
Quote: Matthew Stott @ July 17 2010, 1:51 PM BSTYou're just being mean now!
Actually, I think that having a bit of Spaced/Seinfeld in every episode is some kind of in-joke.
That may be part of the reason I feel strangely alienated when I attempt to watch The IT Crowd. I haven't yet seen Spaced (I may view it soon, with an open mind) and I have only seen one episode of Seinfeld, and that was far too much. I do find IT find way too trendy for me, it just looks as though he (Linehan) does not want me, a non 20/30 something with no affinity with pop culture to be part of his trendy, ever admiring, audience. Liked Father Ted and most of Black Books, but this show just leaves me cold. It is not a true sitcom, it is trendy posturing rubbish. IMO
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ July 17 2010, 5:45 PM BSTThat may be part of the reason I feel strangely alienated when I attempt to watch The IT Crowd. I haven't yet seen spaced (I may view it soon, with an open mind) and I have only seen one episode of Seinfeld, and that was far too much. I do find IT find way too trendy for me, it just looks as though he (Linehan) does not want me, a non 20/30 something with no affinity with pop culture to be part of his trendy, ever admiring, audience. Liked Father Ted and most of Black Books, but this show just leaves me cold. It is not a true sitcom, it is trendy posturing rubbish. IMO
There is no adequate response for a post like this.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ July 17 2010, 6:17 PM BSTThere is no adequate response for a post like this.
(Just tell him that the bit with the egg cartons was a fanboy-gamer pun on 'eggs-box' and watch him explode....)
Quote: Jinky @ July 17 2010, 1:08 PM BSTThe mashed potato/Close Encounters was in Spaced and one of the seals in the Seapark was named 'slippery pete', a Seinfeld character.
Slippery Pete is also the name of the device my vet forces down my cats narrow urethra to help clear it... Yes, Linehan's guilty of taking his Seinfeld infatuation a bit far at times, but in this episode they were merely passing nods. If that, because I certainly didn't get the Slippery Pete reference.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ July 17 2010, 5:45 PM BSTThat may be part of the reason I feel strangely alienated when I attempt to watch The IT Crowd. I haven't yet seen Spaced (I may view it soon, with an open mind) and I have only seen one episode of Seinfeld, and that was far too much. I do find IT find way too trendy for me, it just looks as though he (Linehan) does not want me, a non 20/30 something with no affinity with pop culture to be part of his trendy, ever admiring, audience. Liked Father Ted and most of Black Books, but this show just leaves me cold. It is not a true sitcom, it is trendy posturing rubbish. IMO
You seem a bit hung up on this trendy/non-trendy argument. I think shows are either good or not. The IT Crowd has been very good in the past, not so great this series. It doesn't strike me as a particularly trendy or cool show, though.
For trendy, I think of shows like Misfits or Being Human. And comedy wise, Peep Show or The Inbetweeners. All of which are also very good.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ July 17 2010, 5:45 PM BSTThat may be part of the reason I feel strangely alienated when I attempt to watch The IT Crowd.
It's not.
Quote: Aaron @ July 16 2010, 10:44 PM BSTVery funny this week, very funny indeed.
However, still relatively few scenes with all three of them - they're largely off on their own again. Nice to have some jokes a little more IT- and geek-y as well, at long bloody last. Pity they weren't actually to do with their jobs, but heyho.
As long as it's funny does anything else really matter?
Quote: Chappers @ July 17 2010, 9:38 PM BSTAs long as it's funny does anything else really matter?
No, but there are ways in which the humour can be improved, and indeed more of it fit in, more satisfyingly.