The IT Crowd
TV Show • 2006 • Comedy
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UK Comedy series about two I.T. nerds and their clueless female manager, who work in the basement of a very successful company. When they are called on for help, they are never treated with any respect at all.
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Is rape mentioned?
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One explicit mention when Moss exclaims that he can’t go to prison because of what will happen to him (S01E02 Calamity Jen). In S02E06 Men Without Women, Moss and Roy get locked in a room with their drugged boss and it’s implied that he at least tries to assault them. The implication of rape is always played for laughs.
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Is autism misrepresented?
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There are no canon autistic characters. Though it’s probably unintentional, Moss reads as autistic-coded (he’s ridiculously knowledgeable about computers, but struggles with social interactions, and is hilariously bad at lying), and he’s a reasonably good portrayal.
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Is someone eaten?
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No but there is a cannibal in S2E3
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Abuse
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One character is implied to have killed his wife (there’s audio of her yelling for help because her husband’s trying to kill her, and he says that it was the last time he ever saw her alive).
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Is someone gaslighted?
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No actual gaslighting, but multiple episodes feature massive lies that spiral out of control. For example, in Season 1 episode 5, a character is led to believe that their coworker has died, and doesn’t find out the truth until the end of the episode.
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Is someone stalked?
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One character thinks he’s being stalked. Another character sets up cameras to watch another character secretly.
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Addiction
Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Characters get drunk frequently. In the episode "are we not men" Roy is shown very hungover after a night of poker.
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Alcohol and tobacco are shown frequently. No hard drugs.
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Is there addiction?
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No addiction to illegal drugs, but addiction to social media and cigarettes
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Are there bugs?
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In one episode a few dead flied can be seen in the bosses (Douglas) window.
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Are there spiders?
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Referenced but not shown
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Assault
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S2:E6, a boss tries to roofie his employee (although he thinks it's a "love potion," not roofies) but is unsuccessful. The boss accidentally takes the roofies himself and assaults two other employees. The episode ends without knowing the extent or outcome. It's revealed in S3:E3 that it progressed as far as him forcibly kissing one of his employees.
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Is there pedophilia?
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No actual pedophilia, but one character’s name sounds like “pedophile”, so the word is spoken and joked about a great number of times in the episode.
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Are there jokes about sexual assault on men?
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In "Something Happened," Roy is traumatized when a male masseuse kisses him on the bottom. Jen thinks it's hilarious, but everyone else empathizes with Roy.
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Is someone drugged?
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With Rohypnol.
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Bodily Harm
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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In the episode “Calamity Jen”, Jen Barber’s toes are shown mangled after forcing her feet into some shoes that were significantly too small
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Is someone burned alive?
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S4:E4, nothing is shown, but there's detailed discussion of a fatal fire and essentially recreated in a model
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Is there a hanging?
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It is, however, referenced is S3E5 ("Friendface").
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Is there cannibalism?
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You don’t see cannibalism exactly, but in one episode a main character is a German cannibal. He talks a bit about wanting to eat a man, but it doesn’t happen.
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Is there amputation?
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One character pretends to have his arm cut off as a joke. In another episode, a character gets an infected tattoo and then gets a robotic arm (the amputation is implied but not shown). Later, the same character does not have a robotic arm and the amputation is never mentioned again.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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S2:E5, a character is very nervous while presenting, freezes, and briefly has mild difficulty breathing, citing asthma.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Top of e2
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Someone commit suicide by defenestration in S2E02, the body is not shown but we see him jumping and there is after the funerals.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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S2E2: Roy remarks that his phone vibration could "blow his c**k off".
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Children
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Death
Does someone die?
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Denholm Renholm drops himself out of a window, and an entire episode is dedicated to his funeral.
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Does a major character die?
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Denholm Renholm, who starts out as the boss of the office, drops himself out of a window and thus leaves the series.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Denholm Reynholm dies, whose son arrives at his funeral. It’s played for laughs and his son later takes over the company.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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During the episode "Moss and German", a parody anti-piracy warning shows a criminal stealing a baby.
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Fear
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Are there clowns?
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Clowns are seen in a family restaurant in the episode Fifty Fifty, verbally referenced in other episodes. They aren’t used as threats and interact with other characters normally.
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Are there ghosts?
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no but a guy thinks hes being haunted S1 ep5
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Roy is said to have vomited several times after getting drunk off screen in the episode "Are We Not Men?". It is never shown on screen or heard.
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Is there defecation?
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No actual feces, but characters mistake chocolate spread for feces.
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Does someone spit?
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"Spit takes" (i.e. a character spitting out their drink on hearing something shocking/dramatic) are used.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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No but there are a lot of jokes
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Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
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In the show’s most controversial episode, Douglas Reynholm dates a trans woman and reacts with horror when he finds out that she’s trans. It’s not suggested that she tried to ‘trick’ him, though - she actually did tell him at the beginning of their relationship, but he misheard her. Nevertheless her status as a trans woman is played as a joke and the show’s creator (Graham Linehan) is known for viewing trans women as predatory.
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Douglas has a pair of pants that shock him when he get's aroused in s3e3, it's played for jokes though
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Is there menstruation?
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Mostly just the emotional aspect, such as Jen yelling at everyone and organizing a Girls' Night once a month in "Aunt Irma".
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Mental Health
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S2, E2
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Someone commits suicide. Another character shoots himself in the leg.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Moss gets trapped in a claw machine overnight.
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S1E6: Reference to 2 accountants in the workplace dying from a suicide attempt.
*SPOILER* S2E2: Mr Reynholm jumps out of the window to his death.
*SPOILER* S2E2: Mr Reynholm jumps out of the window to his death.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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No abuse, but a character says that his ex-girlfriend called him autistic in a derogatory way.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Not an anxiety attack, but S2:E5, a character is very nervous while presenting, freezes, and has difficulty breathing, citing asthma.
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Noxious
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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in episode 4 of season 1 Richmond stares at the camera 2 times
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Pregnancy
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Is there childbirth?
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A series 4 episode shows two characters attempt to remove a phone from a vending machine- it is presented as a childbirth.
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Prejudice
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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In S3:E2, there's a single use of the word "poof" towards two men kissing, and there's some homophobic undertones throughout the series, especially S2:E1
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Not explicitly, but it’s said that a transgender character “used to be a man” and is shown in a montage of traditionally masculine interests, which may be uncomfortable to some
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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season 2 ep 5 roy wears lipstick and a big part of the episode is basically jokes about the way he looks
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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In the special, Roy has issues with a little person working as a barista. When the barista later confronts him about it, Roy says that he is too small to operate the coffee machines, resulting in a sub-par cup of coffee.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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To elaborate: A transgender woman claims that she “used to be a man”, which was outdated language even at the time. She’s a kind person and she’s seen as feminine and attractive to others, but she has great physical strength and stereotypically masculine interests. The show’s portrayal of a trans woman would be awkward at worst if it weren’t for Douglas’s reaction to her: he’s disgusted by the fact that she “used to be a man”. For what it’s worth, he regrets breaking up with her later.
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Is there hate speech?
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S3 episode the speech features a large amount of transphobia
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Relationships
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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Camera sometimes shows a clip of two people in bed afterwards. All consensual.
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no but roy mistakes moss' psychiatrist for his mom and tries to make the situation better by saying that she shouldnt be offended because he has a very sexy mother, and talks about that for awhile. later in the episode he sleeps with the psychiatrist and mistakingly calls her mom again when he wakes up
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
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potential spoilers -
in one of the episodes a hot drink is thrown over a homeless person by accident
in one of the episodes a hot drink is thrown over a homeless person by accident
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Spoiler
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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It's not shown, but a car crash is described in detail in S2:E4, and there is a brief mention of a fatal car crash in S2:E2.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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Roy is shown bleeding on some occasions. Notable examples are “Yesterday’s Jam”, in which he has a bleeding head wound after falling over, and “Calamity Jen”, in which the heel of a shoe is pushed through his hand which leads to profuse bleeding
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Does someone drown?
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There are references to drowning but nobody is actually shown or implied to have died that way
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Is there gun violence?
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And adding to the other comment, there's also a clip of a shooting in S2:E3 in a parody of anti-video piracy ads
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