The Internet Speech The IT Crowd | Series 3 Episode 4

[@KaityKat117]

"Why isn't anyone laughing?" i love how they assumed the shareholders would be smarter than Jen on technology.

[@fcass]

sodding internet wankers

[@mogadon7]

Remember the bomb detector in Iraq - it was originally a novelty golf ball detector, LOL !

[@InconspicuousChap]

One of the shareholders is the support guy on laptops. He seems to have lost his terrible accent, may be due to the shock.

[@greengoat5654]

​@@mogadon7 trophy systems are related to golf ball trackers??

[@Milfuelle100]

“A laptop and the larger one.” 😂

[@Quasihamster]

Yeah, even I know the difference between a laptop and the larger one: The larger one is heavier, too!

[@XdjdaleyX]

The large one is my preference because its faster because its bigger

[@KFN-d1g]

he wants to say a larger laptop, i guess

[@Kennypce]

@@XdjdaleyX That's actually true.

[@Wehiremonkeys]

A laptop attached to a docking station presumably. I use one with 2 external displays, a graphics tablet and a mechanical keyboard.

[@J.W.Ellenhall.BookLover]

"No flash photography. You'll harm the internet," is burned into my brain now as one of the funniest lines ever written.

[@israelayoade]

😂😂😂

[@AttilaAsztalos]

Not nearly as random as you'd think. "The Internet" has of course nothing to do with it, but early electronics often included EPROM chips, which were UV light erasable, and there is some anecdotal evidence towards the fact that a badly-timed xenon photo flash (which DOES produce some UV) could actually corrupt enough bits inside that EPROM to get the thing to fail. Which is why those chips (easily recognizable by the quartz window on the top) normally had A STICKER over that window, to prevent just such shenanigans.

[@0xbenedikt]

@@AttilaAsztalos Even today, flip-chip designs not covered in opaque epoxy can be susceptible to bright light. For instance the second generation of the Raspberry Pi crashed when flash photographed due to the CPU voltage regulator being in a light-exposed package.

[@voornaamachternaam6159]

A fast running Spiderman will break the internet

[@dbreardon]

Also, remember, never to type Google into Google or you will break the internet.

[@Blitzentine]

Tell that to every high school teacher I ever had.

[@loki6626]

Aah but what happens when you Google "askew" ?

[@salty4]

one of my friend used to do tha

[@kaitoracing9391]

@@salty4 I always type google in chrome address bar lol

[@russelllay100]

Somebody typed google into google

[@OnlyEpicEmber]

As an elder of the internet, I approve of this speech. I also regret letting this idiot borrow the internet. It took us ages to repair it.

[@MartiW]

A repair would needed to be tested fully. You did an OK job. But Facebook and Twitter remain. And people are still posting pictures of their food before they eat but not after.

[@zbeebs]

An elder of the internet? An elder of the internet....is posting comments on KZbin!?!?!?!

[@dutchsailor6620]

@@zbeebs Yes, an elder, a real elder of the internet. We are not worthy!

[@catherinerobilliard7662]

All Hail the Elder of the Internet!

[@firkinfright5168]

hub.docker.com/r/gprestes/the-internet/ You'll love this one

[@GiratinaofFury]

I love how "the Internet" makes a cameo in a later episode.

[@lunaracc914]

oh yeah it was in the finale and I also love her reaction when she found it wasn't the internet

[@JasFJF]

@@lunaracc914 How come the Internet wasn't returned to the Big Ben where it has the best reception haha!

[@thelastmotel]

@@JasFJF Because Big Ben is the name of the largest bell in the tower, not the name of the tower itself ;)

[@bretterry8356]

The clock is called Tickety Ted the Time-Telling Bitch.

[@PikkaBird]

@@thelastmotel Yes, yes... but why wasn't The Internet returned to it?

[@richardsunday1612]

classic IT Crowd, love the cutaway to the little boy tearing tissue, perfect

[@Mi_Fa_Volare]

Me too. It's that little silliness like that box getting crushed even though it was over a meter away from the woman who fell.

[@Texaca]

2:58...I missed that part, and I've seen this episode dozens of times 😄

[@circattle]

it's a callback to an earlier joke in the episode

[@SocialWorkProfessor]

From her speech, "an angry child with a napkin". 🙂

[@BruceWayne-cb2ys]

Well stated, well done cast!!!

[@falcychead8198]

This is highly relatable, the delight at watching someone make a fool of themselves turning to horror as you realize that everybody else is just as stupid.

[@another3997]

Ignorance is not the same as stupidity. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education, research and understanding. For every 'fact' that you know, there are thousands that you don't know, and likely never will. Calling people "stupid" because they lack knowledge of a particular subject is rather silly, because you lack knowledge of many things too... but are you stupid?

[@NewhamMatt]

I tried explaining to one of my friends at work that "vaccines cause autism" had been long debunked. She hadn't heard that, and it actually changed her position on vaccines. Once she'd left the room, half the damn staffroom turned on me.

[@Texaca]

@@NewhamMatt ...why? 🤔

[@NewhamMatt]

@@Texaca They were still anti-vaxxers.

[@brucesekulic5443]

@@NewhamMatt jumping jimminy they’ll be storming the capitol building next 🧐🤣

[@VonBetelgeuse]

Working as a developer let me tell you that 3/4 of people working in tech are Jen.

[@ArsonistArborist]

Lux Creativity working as a developer of the internet, I can approve this message

[@kaylamitchell1982]

Lux Creativity so they don't know the difference between memory, flash memory, SSDs and hard drives?

[@BigDogCountry]

And 3/4 of the Jens get paid 75 percent more than you.

[@Clem_Fandango11]

Big DogCountry ain't that the truth.

[@brilligandscore]

What if you have an odd number of people working in tech? You'd have to cut a few people to make it 3/4. :P

[@hobanagerik]

2:09 I love the hidden “Fuckin’ idiot!”

[@anthonybanderas9930]

Oh shite

[@crs2385]

Sounds like Graham Linehan's voice

[@Mytimekid]

​@@crs2385it is indeed. Similar to his "Fuckin hell" in Father Ted and just as hilarious.

[@xzxz-wj5kh]

@@Mytimekid thank you for that comment, i just discover this show

[@Mytimekid]

@xzxz-wj5kh you're welcome mate.

[@kakurerup8279]

This is why everything on the internet is more compressed.

[@IsiahTomas]

How would one go about pressing a com. ?

[@navneetsoni847]

It should be titled as "The speech that broke the internet"

[@o0_User999_0o]

I've seen this thousands of times and still make me laugh! this was really an awesome show

[@onehappynegro]

i guess it's more like a super meme for us old nerds.

[@frogsoda]

And that is seriously one of the best fight scenes in all of Comedy.

[@KrytenMark]

Yep, and it's still awesome to this day. ☺

[@jdmattinson8552]

The elders of the Internet 😂

[@HighTen_Melanie]

The elders of the internet KNOW WHO I AM?!

[@lunaracc914]

They love it when people get promoted

[@Djarra]

You know they really do exist.

[@joshuamcmahan9392]

Dont tell people about us.

[@RicktheCrofter]

I want to be one of the Elders of the Internet. The one in charge of pictures of pretty girls.

[@gopalrao8174]

1:03 That quick glance at the page that she throws away is so genuine. Always has me in splits... 😂

[@j9andphoenix]

I totally ADORE the IT Crowd - So ludicrously on point.

[@aididdat1749]

Yeah like that ludicrous game last night

[@fluhartz]

Roys face just smiling at all of the chaos s just so great.. This is still one of my favorite shows ever.

[@P0rd0]

2:10 "fucking idiot" LMAO!!!

[@BobGnarley.]

HOW have i never noticed that. lmao

[@Kevin-lj5pq]

Rofl that is amazing

[@christiannewman7351]

Literally here to see if anyone else noticed that lol

[@clothilde1623]

It reminds me of the sheep episode of _Father Ted_ (also written by Linehan) where you can clearly hear someone in the background loudly say “Fucking hell” twice 😂

[@NClass468]

@@clothilde1623 Linehan is actually the person in both of these episodes who shouts fucking hell/fucking idiot.

[@projectevo1]

This entire scene is just pure gold. I'm just crying with laughter.

[@InvaderWakkoReborn]

This is exactly how my office responds when the wifi goes down for a minute.

[@BlatentlyFakeName]

I always loved how IT crowd isn't all that far from reality. A huge organisation relies on IT to function, but the handful of underpaid staff who keep it all going and keep the all accountants and salesmen rich get treated like dirt.

[@OnaMission922]

That's not my experience. IT are very well paid.

[@MrStopTrollin]

@@OnaMission922but we still get treated like dirt.

[@nthgth]

If there were such a thing as a drudgeon, that is what we'd be to them

[@zeffmalchazeen3429]

tech shows like IT crowd and Silicon Valley is close to reality.

[@ScottieMacF]

I've watched the IT Crowd series three or four times, but I've watched this episode at least ten times. One of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV. Then they reference it in the finale and it's still funny.

[@GreyHulk2156]

That’s a disguised Graham Linehan saying “We’re all gonna die!” :)

[@bonzupippinpaddleoxacoppil484]

Fun fact: that wasn’t in the script he just screamed that cause he saw a trans person.

[@morshem]

They should have tried turning it off and on again.

[@gavmusic]

Sadly true (but brilliantly funny). I was once asked to build a new PC by a client. When I took the finished machine to him he was keen to see inside the tower. He asked many questions about the motherboard and was curious that the hard drive took up so little space. Eventually he was happy and I started up his new PC. We chatted for a little while and I asked him what line of work he was in - "Oh, I'm head of IT at ********** College". I was stunned for some time afterwards.

[@jeronimo196]

Well, at least he was curios about it...

[@nkt1]

This gives me hope. I’ve upgraded various bits of umpteen computers over the years, could probably build one if I put my mind to it. But my mental health has kept me stuck in NMW jobs for 25 years.

[@hoof31]

was this when computer were invented

[@CH-bd6jg]

to be fair, he could entirely have been on the software side for decades, and his last experiences with hardware would have painted a somewhat different image, as stuff has changed a hell of a lot over time.

[@SuperMilhauz]

Cmooon

[@emulus4000]

This, for me, was the best episode from the entire show

[@KrytenMark]

2:49 Graham's cameo right there always makes me smile! 😆

[@johndeereoli]

And at 2:10

[@olliegueret2963]

@@johndeereoli No, it's not him. Did anyone hear someone say 'you f**kin idiot' at 2:08

[@yermanoffthetelly]

​​​​​@@olliegueret2963The voice saying "f**kin idiot" sounds like Graham alright, similar to his "f**kin hell" line in the king of the sheep episode of Fr. Ted!

[@mikeb3936]

I love the tone of her voice.

[@jonascale]

working in IT i can confirm that most users are jen

[@Howyaduing]

That is very disconcerting

[@jonascale]

@@Howyaduing very true

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

Yupp, i concur! I am a 5 year helpdesk survivor. And L-users are most definitely capable of anything. Like putting a laptop underneath bicycle binders without a case..... or a candle on the table with the laptop screen over it. Or PENS inbetween the keyboard and the screen and then put it in a way too full bag.........

[@Christian-rn1ur]

Once a colleague tried to accue me of hacking because I used the task manager to close an unresponsive program.

[@shmoyph]

@@Howyaduing Keeps us in a job

[@autodidacticpoly]

I especially like the part where you put a link to a different video over the fist-bump at the end.

[@anotherdave5107]

sarc?

[@benjaminkasson2587]

@@anotherdave5107 No that was definitely his favorite moment, mine too.

[@garryiglesias4074]

@@anotherdave5107 Isn't it your best one ?

[@funquay2219]

I think KZbin does that automatically now. And yes, it is very annoying!

[@marcelolibermandeloreto5252]

This is so silly and brilliant at the same time.

[@fluhartz]

yes, but mostly brilliant

[@FrancoCatrin]

"We all gonna die!!" Is that Graham Linehan at 2:48 ?

[@fredslipknot9]

Yep.

[@nicosmind3]

I was going to state that fact. The creator of IT Crowd and Father Ted

[@agt155]

@@nicosmind3 He says it in the plane crash episode of Father Ted too.

[@luasdublin]

He's also the guy who says a sneaky 'fucking idiot' in the background at about 2:10

[@tomdonnellan7920]

The fucking idiot is the follow on from fuckin' hell from Fr Ted

[@adrianhudson1116]

I've watched this quite a few times and never noticed the "angry child with a napkin" actually appears when there's mayhem at the end

[@SardonicALLY]

This brings back the trauma of me trying to explain the difference between cell service and Wifi to my Mom... it was horrific. I had to resort to sock puppets and Harry Potter.

[@MW-vg9dn]

It's actually painful to watch because it's so real.

[@spyderlogan4992]

"Please no flash photography..."

[@kougashuko8896]

i remember this episode but i completely forgot Moss and Roy were there, i laughed so hard that my belly is aching!

[@LostDarkCloud]

Well I won't lie. Two Best Friends got me here and I'm glad they did, because now I know about this gem.

[@kkroeger5868]

I haven’t laughed this hard in months.

[@y2k704]

I cried laughing at this scene, such a brilliant show

[@visyel]

hahahahha I miss this show. I wish they'd revive it

[@Tybearius]

2:32 - I always found it amusing when April was thrown through the window, they was no where near the internet; yet the next shot, it's squished.

[@DodgyDaveGTX]

Can we acknowledge how cool of a logo design that Reynholm Industries has?

[@Ch1pp007]

Yeah, I just noticed that. Better than half the corporate logos out there.

[@HordrissTheConfuser]

It even uses negative space. So cool.

[@Spurdospaerde692]

No, you do not have my permission to do that. Since you for some inexplicable reason asked.

[@fernandosanchezm]

"fucking idiot", hahaha always get me how sneaky it is said

[@qwanom]

"The IT Crowd" was an awesome discovery for myself! Thank you for the show!

[@5pctd2br98]

The kid tearing the napking killed me. This show was better than The Office and The big bang theory.

[@XiwantD]

3:12 best "Brofist" ever

[@generalpublic3744]

Reinforces my philosophy that IT is 10% knowledge and 90% BS. Thanks for this little gem of an upload.

[@Kal_El1994]

Yes, the speech and internet and the introducer is hilarious - but Roy's giggle at 0:05 always gets me hahahahah

[@photogeen]

"Society would tear itself apart like an angry child with a napkin..." 2:59

[@Random_Tangent]

Ironic that this episode is partly why there won't be anymore.

[@garygomesvedicastrology]

This, for me, was the single funniest moment on the show... and that's saying a lot because I loved every aspect of this show.

[@coolconfusion2707]

Graham Linehan is a legend ❤

[@nostartia]

SO SPOT ON AS TIME GOES BY. Comedy is always the right angle to view reality. always gives the best answers.

[@seanasnow8]

I was giggling when she said that....The intro song and living in a refrigerator myself with servers up the ying yang, Eye Tee cRowd!

[@noelpeterson5591]

I love Jen.

[@jpkarbunko]

"planes would drop from the sky like tables"

[@Scotto_desu]

It wasn’t until the 10th time watching this glorious scene that I noticed the toddler tearing up the napkin 😬

[@dangale123]

I’ve just renamed my wifi router as “The Elders of the Internet” so my clued up neighbours can wonder which one of us is the IT Crowd fan.

[@tonymusic720]

How do you stop an Internet troll? Seize their memes of production.

[@noelht1]

Literally every PMO who ever went to work on an IT project is Jen. 100% of them.

[@rabronin]

2:32 "Oh that? The boss just broke up with his girlfriend." 😂

[@PsychoRavager]

"WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!"

[@hotelmario510]

Fun fact: The Internet does actually weigh something - the number of electrons that make it up mean that it weighs about as much as a strawberry.

[@JohnnyNatrium]

@@weplaywax Are you excluding the storage medium from that? Because those obviously go down in weight per storage capacity as efficiency increases.

[@Bapuji42]

Except, the Internet isn't just electrons. It arguably consists of the physical hardware that it runs on. In the OSI model of computer networking it's known as the "physical layer". It also includes transmission media i.e. wires and fiber. So, the internet probably weighs many tons.

[@brettknoss486]

The internet is a suite of protocols. It's software, and not hardware in any form.

[@Turno-Nocturno]

The internet doesn´t even exist.

[@lovelywaz]

"Internet doesn't weigh anything." 😇😇 Yeah, tell that to Atlas! 😬😬

[@InconspicuousChap]

Well, she promised violence if the Internet is broken, and here it is.

[@SolidSnakeAce]

I cried laughing hard when I watched this episode

[@jo6hanna]

I love the one person who calls that chick a f’en idiot for inquiring about the internets weight

[@percsinoh]

This is definitely my favourite from the series!!!

[@pablopiblito7955]

It's amazing that this very video and my comment as well are inside that tiny box right now!!

[@stefanoshatziyiannis9119]

The kid with the napkin 😂😂… jenious and funny moment

[@PlaydropUK]

They literally "broke the internet" :)

[@stevieliyaz1058]

hehehe 😂

[@garygomesvedicastrology]

The man screaming "We're all gonna die!" is Graham Linehan

[@warrenookland8169]

I did not know the Internet has a flashing red light on it. You learn something everyday.

[@septicgirl668]

I love the IT crowd

[@markfrancome8593]

This is how everything went down today.

[@Todd21212]

one of the best scenes in the it crowd 😂

[@LemonViper00]

Moss’ clapping when she goes on stage is priceless.

[@laurengriffiths4501]

Only *really* rewatching to see Moss applaud. Again, and again.

[@thechurchchronicles8580]

Great to see Graham Linehan doing a Cameo at the end. A writer on a par with the very best ever.

[@TheITCrowdChannel]

Jen gives 'The Speech' about the internet to Reynholm Industries, everything goes smoothly until.... Subscribe for more best moments: bit.ly/SUBSCRIBE_THEITCROWD

[@ZXSpectrumHotel]

It never gets old 😂

[@elliscox2179]

Probably my favourite episode

[@ZXSpectrumHotel]

Ah, it's a "jumping the shark" moment. There are too many Jens in IT still in 2021.

[@winsomehax]

Ties two great story lines together. Douglas and his girlfriend from Iran and the jen+Internet story. Brilliant.

[@vanjesstube]

and I think that is why the show was cancelled... unbelieveble

[@CathrineMacNiel]

From Iran eh? That's just her thing then and he didn't cared.

[@taudvore259]

@@vanjesstube IT Crowd got another series after this episode, so this episode didn’t get it cancelled. The whole show was also made a little before cancel culture escaped Tumbler and gained any real world influence.

[@hiphopgrind1]

Laughed my ass off first time i saw this 🤣

[@quartzarenite5003]

It’s in episode 4 of the third series I think …which is mysteriously missing from channel 4 and Netflix’s streaming services.

[@larrytron1992]

Their little fist bump at the end 😂 mission accomplished

[@OColpin]

The internet actually weighs about 50grams

[@ToxicWrench]

Don't be that guy

[@OColpin]

Jon Lambert Ok, sorry

[@ryankrage77]

He's right though.

[@kaylamitchell1982]

O Colpin actually probably several megatons, as the internet is all the hardware

[@BigDogCountry]

How much is that in USCS? 38 cents?

[@AlexOrozco-Social-Pariah]

Did somebody break the internet today? Whatsapp, FB and IG became an angry child with a napkin

[@doodlestrudel1991]

It's [2:58] being a strong example on why i love the humor of The IT Crowd Jen explaining that Society would be torn apart like a napkin from an angry child and low and behold we get a child symbolizing humanity like that But also a secret metaphor in my mind that since everyone at the conference is just as cluelessly dumb, Society to humanity as a whole had already been broken due to extreme amounts of incompetence, The quickening drop of IQ and straight up stupidity in choices to try and make their better future

[@giantred]

Glad Steven Toast could make it to bollocks everything up haha

[@tiggywinkle1000]

Your video clip reminded me of one of my favourite IT jokes - it goes like this: A ballooonist was lost with no idea at all of where he is, so he descends to 30 feet and drops his land anchor. He sees a man on the ground and calls to him, "Where am I?" The man replies, "You are 30 feet in the air, suspended by a balloon." The balloonist says, "You must work in Information Technology," The man, surprised, says, "Yes, I am. How did you know?" "Well," says the balloonist, "it's because your answer, though it is technically perfect, still does not help me at all to find my way out of the mess I'm in." "Oh," replies the man. "So you must be a Management Consultant, then?" "Why yes," says the balloonist - "how did you know?" The man replies, "Because you don't know where you are, or how to get to where you're going - you are in the same predicament you were in before you met me - but now you have someone to blame."

[@64offsuiter]

I love how Graham Lineham always randomly appears in moments of chaos in Father Ted/Dark Place/IT crowd

[@TheAnwaarali]

Accurate description of end users 😂

[@AvengerII]

Moss and Roy are always at their best when they're playing imps to Jen's naivety! LOL

[@313power]

3:13 That's an epic brofist !

[@gregbester3855]

Obscure fact. When Jen says, "You really like me!", it's a reference to the speech by Sally Fields to her peers at the 1985 Academy Awards: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4jXhol6fJqAZ9k

[@NewhamMatt]

Watching this clip just now, it hit me like a ten-tonne truck. I knew the reference and knew it had to be deliberate, which left me wondering...how the hell hadn't I noticed it before?

[@LeftIsBest001]

We know 🙄

[@jadedrakerider518]

Product managers. The kid with the napkin gets me every time.

[@NewhamMatt]

Did anyone notice that, when April gets thrown through the window, the internet is very clearly miles away from where she lands? It probably wouldn't have been knocked off the table, let alone crushed.

[@faucethose9734]

DON'T QUESTION THE WAYS OF THE INTERNET!

[@SamuelBlack84]

@@faucethose9734 The elders of the internet shall punish them with the vengeful spirit of the Hawk!

[@kejiri3593]

@@SamuelBlack84 The fight rippled time and space. And it infuriated the wrath of the elders of the internet

[@SamuelBlack84]

@@kejiri3593 It ultimately resulted in a demonic entity created out of pure computer data ram which Moss and Roy contained behind the door with the demon door knocker

[@hamanakohamaneko7028]

They didn't want to destroy the internet, so they made a separate crushed replica