Bless you, you confused human, there's nothing to read into the letter, the fact that there is a letter from Denholm describing that he jumped out the window which he couldn't possibly have written is the joke.
Couldn't agree more, I normally quite enjoyed his reactions but like most of these "reactions" from across the pond they spoil it by being far too serious all the time and insist on reading far too much in to things thus missing the whole fact that it's a comedy and it's sole purpose is to make folk laugh, not think, that's what documentaries are for!
The set up of the man who looks like a magician is great. They tell you what is about to happen and you think -- he can never be as magiciany as I am thinking, then the cut blows all expectations out of the water. It makes me laugh every single time I see it.
As a non-sports fan, the amount of ice I’ve broken in pubs by saying “did you see that ludicrous display last night?” reinvigorates my faith in humanity more than almost anything else
I can't believe I've only just noticed: At the end of the episode Moss is counting money in increments of £50, but the notes are of a £20 denomination as indicated by the purple colour - £50 notes are red.
Indeed, I was at a company where the owners son took over after his father retired after running it for 25 years. The company closed after the son had been running it for three years.
@@peterjf7723 I ran my father's business for a couple of years after he passed away, but it wasn't what I wanted in life, neither was it what my sister wanted and I needed her help because my mum was getting older and it wasn't for her in the long term either... It was sad to wind things down but the best thing for our family in the end. Sometimes that's just how it is, but watching shows like The Bear shows me it can be done, even if at great detriment to those around you. It wasn't that I hadn't learnt how to run it, I just wanted to work 5 days not 6 and not have to do the bookkeeping, VAT returns etc for less overall income to the household than a job could cover in the same space of time. Revenues weren't bad but sometimes that 9-5 just fills the gap with less stress.
@@TheChiraagG In the situation the company I mentioned was in I am not sure if the owners sons were actually incompetent. Though many of their clients thought they were, due to them laying off most of the experienced staff and taking on cheap mostly unqualified college leavers. This resulted in the quality of work dropping and the company losing many clients. They then re-hired some people they had layed off and the business lasted a couple more years. I was able to get another job a year before they folded. The thing is, I am not sure that their long term intention was to keep the business going. They owned two large properties, which once the business folded they converted into apartments. So much easier to manage and make good profits, without having to employ around thirty staff.
Many classmates, colleagues, friends etc. have asked me "what do you think of last night's match". Their question assumed that I watched it & have an opinion of it, when in fact I didn't even know which sport they were referring to. When I said that I don't follow sport, their response was as though I'd said I don't eat, sleep or breathe. They were puzzled & angry with me for not sharing their devotion, as though it's compulsory or at least de rigueur.
Some time back I told two colleagues I'd seen "Hamilton" over the weekend. They replied with "What, the Grand Prix?". Never have I felt so completely disconnected from them 🙂
@@stevebills5716 Some asked me what I was doing when I "should've been watching the match, like everyone else". When I said I was watching sitcoms, they reacted like I said something weird, dangerous or illegal!
This is one of my favorite episodes because I had a friend who liked to wear a Miami Dolphin shirt, yet knew nothing about the NFL. So I told him a few things to say when people talked to him about the team. It blew up in his face too as the conversation continued and he didn’t know what the guy was talking about! Luckily he didn’t get involved in a robbery.
The panel show - ''Was It Something I Said? - presented by David Mitchell, with Richard Ayoade as one of the team captains. Just one series of 8 eps. ALL on YT. Should have caught on, coz it's Pretteee good.
It just occoured to me. West Ham is actually East Ham as Ham is in West London (very posh, near Richmond on Thames). So West Ham is actually east of Ham.
Damn, it's been so long since I've seen this show, I forgot about the robbery in this episode. A similar scenario happened to the son of someone I work with. The son was starting to hang out with a guy he worked with, they were becoming friends but didn't know a whole lot about each other. One day, this guy said his car broke down and asked for a ride. So he picked this guy up, not knowing that the guy had just robbed a store at gunpoint. The cops caught them and arrested both men. Now my coworker's son is doing 5 -10 years in prison, poor guy.
Many people pretend they're into something they're not in order to gain popularity, but it brings more problems. If you're obviously faking interest, you'll be seen as dishonest. If they believe you, they'll talk to you more about it, invite you to places etc. You'll quickly be out of your depth in conversations because you don't know the info, terminology etc. that a real fan would.
One of the bessst episodes and such a good reaction. In the UK you hear so many quotes from TV shows, the ones from this show mostly come from this episode.
That "innocent getaway driver" thing happened to my brother, but with a bank robbery. Luckily it was New Hampshire and not Alabama, they let him go with no arrest.
The gang in this are a representation of the hypermasculine type, contrasting them with Moss & Roy. Like many IT Crowd eps, it shows the main characters trying to fit in, improve their image etc. & their attempts failing badly.
HiNeil! Long time fan and subscriber. Love watching the shows that are reactions to some of my own favourite! Regarding your online poll for the next suggestion may I go back to Father Ted? You will not regret it. I will also suggest a sitcom called ‘Black Books, written again by Graham Linehan with IT Crowd and Father Ted. Black Books also has an embittered Irishman at the helm. Along side Bill Bailey. My last choice is a sitcom based in a satellite-based Global-wide News Company. What was clever was how they finally had a script by Tuesday, practice Wednesday, film on Thursday and broadcasted Friday night. Also as well as being current, it was also brilliantly funny.
For the "clear hints that the note wasn't written by his father" from last episode... I think you're just over-interpreting the jokes in it! "...but as you know, in the end I jumped out of a window" is one of my favourites lines from this whole show, but it is just a joke, nothing hinting at anything suspect!
Same for the ending of series 1 where they all ended up in bed with each other... the basic rules of sitcom apply here - everything is reset back to normal at the start of each episode unless the writer so decides it should be brought up again!
This is finally the episode for me that seems like Jen is more like a side or additional character like Douglas. The show really is about Moss and Roy, and saying that, I just love how these two gets themselves into so much mess
I'm disappointed with myself.... I usually watch your IT Crowd reaction when I get home after work... But today.......... well I'm gonna be late for work 🤣 Loving your reactions to this show, most of the episodes are very strong, now I gotta wait another 7 days....
Don't know if this is a spoiler but I think you're over thinking Douglas' trip to heaven, it changes him not a jot and he remains as despicable as he ever was
Never under estimate the bravery and self confidence of an intelligent person who is DREADFUL with humans or human emotion, but thinks that they have the rational solution to a problem. What would be the most likely explanation for two men in an alley that tops them being part of the gang just a little further on? Because Moss is dreadful with humans, he's never going to check in with how Roy felt about it either. It doesn't occur to Moss, just like the kiss was the obvious solution to the police, and nothing more.
I've been an IT guy, and the IT Crowd is pretty much what it is like. I'm from a rugby town and get that kind of banter from non-IT people, and I've just never been interested in it and have to make stuff up as these guys did.
You're reading too much into it. The IT Crowd is a leave your brain at home and just enjoy. The episodes only loosely connect together but it's not important 😊
I can't agree. There's nothing wrong with enjoying this show as a "leave your brain at home and just enjoy" experience, but let's not discourage the analytical aproach. Even surface level comedies occasionally have deeper layers/messages/contexts to them, even if they were unintended by the creators. And while you may, more often than not, find yourself overanalyzing something that was just a basic joke, without that analytical approach, you miss the oportunity to catch the deeper moments. Besides, Neil's really good at it. It's a big part of why I love his channel so much.
From my point of view the best episodes are the ones without Douglas in it. I know others think differently but I enjoyed this one much more for his absence.
The return of the rarely seen Harry, wasn't he last seen in the first episode "enjoying himself" in the toilets when Jen first goes down to the basement?
I just replied to acomment about you overanalyzing this show, but noticed there are a handful of others in similar vein. So responding to a comment may have been a teribly inneficient, and possibly even counterproductive, way to go about that. Let me just say here that I absolutely love your analytical approach to reactions, and that you bring it undiminished to all shows you watch, regardless of genre or intended depth. Some might think a show like this unworthy of it, or that it somehow constitutes a fundamental misunderstanding of what you are watching, but I can't agree. It may often lead to you overanalyzing something that proves to be nothing more than it first seemed, or anticipating the development of connected story arcs that don't exist, but without it, you would miss the oportunities to recognize deeper meanings and patterns and contexts when they do exist, even if unintended by the show creators. It's a large part of what I love about your channel. And you do it very well. Thanks for all your reactions!
What do you mean "focused on gender"? I don't recall any episodes that have touched on this other than one that you havnt watched yet which is also not very focused on issues. Has your uncomfortableness with the character of dougless manifested some thoughts that you somehow think this is more edgy than it actually really is? Switch the hypercriticalness off so you can to enjoy it more.
Bless you, you confused human, there's nothing to read into the letter, the fact that there is a letter from Denholm describing that he jumped out the window which he couldn't possibly have written is the joke.
Couldn't agree more, I normally quite enjoyed his reactions but like most of these "reactions" from across the pond they spoil it by being far too serious all the time and insist on reading far too much in to things thus missing the whole fact that it's a comedy and it's sole purpose is to make folk laugh, not think, that's what documentaries are for!
I swear that was in the last episode he watched or am I going crazy
Yes, no need to overthink the "impossible" letter, it's just a bit of surreal nonsense. Nice to see Chris Morris though.
@@WTL-f5u Yeh it was,but he spoke about it at the start of this....
The set up of the man who looks like a magician is great. They tell you what is about to happen and you think -- he can never be as magiciany as I am thinking, then the cut blows all expectations out of the water. It makes me laugh every single time I see it.
As a non-sports fan, the amount of ice I’ve broken in pubs by saying “did you see that ludicrous display last night?” reinvigorates my faith in humanity more than almost anything else
What was Wenger thinking putting Walcott on that early?!
The thing about arsenal is, they always try and walk it in
I can't believe I've only just noticed: At the end of the episode Moss is counting money in increments of £50, but the notes are of a £20 denomination as indicated by the purple colour - £50 notes are red.
I only just clocked that too. Wild.
As a person who lives in a sports obsessed town, I feel this episode. One of my favorites.
Have you seen the Mitchell & Webb football sketches?
Many businesses are run badly by the son/daughter/niece/nephew of the previous owner/manager. Douglas is a hilarious representation of that.
Indeed, I was at a company where the owners son took over after his father retired after running it for 25 years. The company closed after the son had been running it for three years.
@@peterjf7723 You'd think that if your parents run a business, you'd pay a lot of attention to how it's run - yet many clearly don't.
@@peterjf7723 I ran my father's business for a couple of years after he passed away, but it wasn't what I wanted in life, neither was it what my sister wanted and I needed her help because my mum was getting older and it wasn't for her in the long term either... It was sad to wind things down but the best thing for our family in the end. Sometimes that's just how it is, but watching shows like The Bear shows me it can be done, even if at great detriment to those around you.
It wasn't that I hadn't learnt how to run it, I just wanted to work 5 days not 6 and not have to do the bookkeeping, VAT returns etc for less overall income to the household than a job could cover in the same space of time. Revenues weren't bad but sometimes that 9-5 just fills the gap with less stress.
@@TheChiraagG In the situation the company I mentioned was in I am not sure if the owners sons were actually incompetent. Though many of their clients thought they were, due to them laying off most of the experienced staff and taking on cheap mostly unqualified college leavers. This resulted in the quality of work dropping and the company losing many clients. They then re-hired some people they had layed off and the business lasted a couple more years.
I was able to get another job a year before they folded.
The thing is, I am not sure that their long term intention was to keep the business going. They owned two large properties, which once the business folded they converted into apartments. So much easier to manage and make good profits, without having to employ around thirty staff.
@@peterjf7723 yeah seems a common occurrence tbf
Many classmates, colleagues, friends etc. have asked me "what do you think of last night's match". Their question assumed that I watched it & have an opinion of it, when in fact I didn't even know which sport they were referring to. When I said that I don't follow sport, their response was as though I'd said I don't eat, sleep or breathe. They were puzzled & angry with me for not sharing their devotion, as though it's compulsory or at least de rigueur.
Some time back I told two colleagues I'd seen "Hamilton" over the weekend. They replied with "What, the Grand Prix?". Never have I felt so completely disconnected from them 🙂
@@stevebills5716 Some asked me what I was doing when I "should've been watching the match, like everyone else". When I said I was watching sitcoms, they reacted like I said something weird, dangerous or illegal!
This is one of my favorite episodes because I had a friend who liked to wear a Miami Dolphin shirt, yet knew nothing about the NFL. So I told him a few things to say when people talked to him about the team. It blew up in his face too as the conversation continued and he didn’t know what the guy was talking about! Luckily he didn’t get involved in a robbery.
Well done on getting the Debbie McGee ref, I'm amazed, very good reaction 👏👏
I'm so glad you got the reference in the title!
I'm glad I've never seen The IT Crowd, because I really enjoy watching it in your "company" :D
I believe I'm the first one here haha. I'm excited all week for your Avatar and IT Crowd reactions man. As always, much love and respect from England
Have you watched ‘Was it something I said’ David Mitchell and Richard Ayoade together. It’s old and was canceled long ago but I love it.
The panel show - ''Was It Something I Said? - presented by David Mitchell, with Richard Ayoade as one of the team captains. Just one series of 8 eps. ALL on YT. Should have caught on, coz it's Pretteee good.
This is one of my favourite episodes.
It just occoured to me. West Ham is actually East Ham as Ham is in West London (very posh, near Richmond on Thames). So West Ham is actually east of Ham.
I'm afraid you're overthinking Douglas : )
Damn, it's been so long since I've seen this show, I forgot about the robbery in this episode. A similar scenario happened to the son of someone I work with. The son was starting to hang out with a guy he worked with, they were becoming friends but didn't know a whole lot about each other. One day, this guy said his car broke down and asked for a ride. So he picked this guy up, not knowing that the guy had just robbed a store at gunpoint. The cops caught them and arrested both men. Now my coworker's son is doing 5 -10 years in prison, poor guy.
I love this episode so much! As an amateur magician jens part was hilarious and the football part was also incredible
I always forget about the magician sub plot in this one.
Great bit of casting all round for the geezer types, and Michael.
Many people pretend they're into something they're not in order to gain popularity, but it brings more problems. If you're obviously faking interest, you'll be seen as dishonest. If they believe you, they'll talk to you more about it, invite you to places etc. You'll quickly be out of your depth in conversations because you don't know the info, terminology etc. that a real fan would.
One of the bessst episodes and such a good reaction. In the UK you hear so many quotes from TV shows, the ones from this show mostly come from this episode.
Jen's storyline is one of several in which her new guy has something significantly disappointing about him which she doesn't initially realise.
So just like real life then. 😄
And then she calls a taxi.
That "innocent getaway driver" thing happened to my brother, but with a bank robbery. Luckily it was New Hampshire and not Alabama, they let him go with no arrest.
The gang in this are a representation of the hypermasculine type, contrasting them with Moss & Roy. Like many IT Crowd eps, it shows the main characters trying to fit in, improve their image etc. & their attempts failing badly.
that just made me realize the dinner party episode is also gone :/
HiNeil! Long time fan and subscriber.
Love watching the shows that are reactions to some of my own favourite! Regarding your online poll for the next suggestion may I go back to Father Ted? You will not regret it. I will also suggest a sitcom called ‘Black Books, written again by Graham Linehan with IT Crowd and Father Ted. Black Books also has an embittered Irishman at the helm. Along side Bill Bailey. My last choice is a sitcom based in a satellite-based Global-wide News Company. What was clever was how they finally had a script by Tuesday, practice Wednesday, film on Thursday and broadcasted Friday night. Also as well as being current, it was also brilliantly funny.
Great job..... Love how you reviewed the new taskmaster so quickly 💎🇨🇦👍☮️🎥
For the "clear hints that the note wasn't written by his father" from last episode... I think you're just over-interpreting the jokes in it! "...but as you know, in the end I jumped out of a window" is one of my favourites lines from this whole show, but it is just a joke, nothing hinting at anything suspect!
Same for the ending of series 1 where they all ended up in bed with each other... the basic rules of sitcom apply here - everything is reset back to normal at the start of each episode unless the writer so decides it should be brought up again!
There are bloopers somewhere on youtube - a fun thing to watch and maybe react to
It's great throwaway humour , almost every episode is stand alone . I'm glad Neil picked this as I haven't seen them all .
Denholme's letter was just a joke. Maybe you've been watching too much Rick and Morty :)
This is finally the episode for me that seems like Jen is more like a side or additional character like Douglas. The show really is about Moss and Roy, and saying that, I just love how these two gets themselves into so much mess
I'm disappointed with myself.... I usually watch your IT Crowd reaction when I get home after work... But today.......... well I'm gonna be late for work 🤣 Loving your reactions to this show, most of the episodes are very strong, now I gotta wait another 7 days....
Don't know if this is a spoiler but I think you're over thinking Douglas' trip to heaven, it changes him not a jot and he remains as despicable as he ever was
Love the channel. Please do reactions to Peep Show! You seemed to like David Mitchell on WILTY so you’ll love it
Yes, Peep Show is even better than The IT Crowd.
It's always just milk. Moss doesn't drink alcohol.
Probably my favourite episode, especially the first half. Never have I empathised with two characters more 🙂
The note from the previous episode was just a joke, nothing more
Never under estimate the bravery and self confidence of an intelligent person who is DREADFUL with humans or human emotion, but thinks that they have the rational solution to a problem. What would be the most likely explanation for two men in an alley that tops them being part of the gang just a little further on?
Because Moss is dreadful with humans, he's never going to check in with how Roy felt about it either. It doesn't occur to Moss, just like the kiss was the obvious solution to the police, and nothing more.
I've been an IT guy, and the IT Crowd is pretty much what it is like. I'm from a rugby town and get that kind of banter from non-IT people, and I've just never been interested in it and have to make stuff up as these guys did.
You're reading too much into it. The IT Crowd is a leave your brain at home and just enjoy. The episodes only loosely connect together but it's not important 😊
Neil reading too much into something???? Nooooooo I cant believe it
I can't agree.
There's nothing wrong with enjoying this show as a "leave your brain at home and just enjoy" experience, but let's not discourage the analytical aproach. Even surface level comedies occasionally have deeper layers/messages/contexts to them, even if they were unintended by the creators. And while you may, more often than not, find yourself overanalyzing something that was just a basic joke, without that analytical approach, you miss the oportunity to catch the deeper moments.
Besides, Neil's really good at it. It's a big part of why I love his channel so much.
It’s a certain type of humour isn’t it.
Have the US tried to replicate it? (We all know they wouldn’t be able to).
Yes they made a carbon copy, word for word remake with Richard Ayoade in his role as moss, he was the only one that funny.
From my point of view the best episodes are the ones without Douglas in it. I know others think differently but I enjoyed this one much more for his absence.
The return of the rarely seen Harry, wasn't he last seen in the first episode "enjoying himself" in the toilets when Jen first goes down to the basement?
I thought he was wiping his arse?
I'd have to go back and check, but doesn't he deliver the multiple editions of Harry Potter so that Moss can compare the texts?
Nothing matters its like the simpsons or father ted.
This Ep IS about gender, tho.
I mean the title is "are we not men" lol
I just replied to acomment about you overanalyzing this show, but noticed there are a handful of others in similar vein. So responding to a comment may have been a teribly inneficient, and possibly even counterproductive, way to go about that.
Let me just say here that I absolutely love your analytical approach to reactions, and that you bring it undiminished to all shows you watch, regardless of genre or intended depth. Some might think a show like this unworthy of it, or that it somehow constitutes a fundamental misunderstanding of what you are watching, but I can't agree. It may often lead to you overanalyzing something that proves to be nothing more than it first seemed, or anticipating the development of connected story arcs that don't exist, but without it, you would miss the oportunities to recognize deeper meanings and patterns and contexts when they do exist, even if unintended by the show creators.
It's a large part of what I love about your channel. And you do it very well.
Thanks for all your reactions!
What do you mean "focused on gender"? I don't recall any episodes that have touched on this other than one that you havnt watched yet which is also not very focused on issues. Has your uncomfortableness with the character of dougless manifested some thoughts that you somehow think this is more edgy than it actually really is? Switch the hypercriticalness off so you can to enjoy it more.