The IT Crowd - Stereotypes January 30, 2006
Posted by CamdenKiwi in : Miscellany , trackbackIn a nice bit of marketing, Channel 4 have put the first episode of their sitcom ‘The IT Crowd’ online, so everyone who can work out how to do so can watch it.
The first episodes of these things are often a bit laboured as characters settle into themselves, and this is no exception, but has a few nice lines - the plonker senior manager telling the new hire he always sizes people up by staring at them, the new manager seeing the beautiful view from the top floor before being sent down to the basement - and will no doubt improve with time.
But did they have to make the female character, who is the new manager of the IT Dept, completely ignorant of computing? If the joke had been a Jewish accountant who wouldn’t spend money it couldn’t have been more stereotyped. It will be interesting to see how this develops, but it could easily be very very boring.
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