The IT Crowd: "What kind of Operating System does it use...?"

FremantleMedia International. © 2013 · The IT Crowd, Season 4, Episode 'Bad Boys'.
//Thank you for watching!
//P.S I personally use Linux O.S :)

[@thomasd3104]

I like how when he runs away, he deliberately gets closer to the bomb and steps over it rather than running in the opposite direction

[@RandmAnimal]

I mean it hasnt gone boom set so why not i guess

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@RandmAnimal Because physical vibrations can activate bombs…

[@Gloamy17]

It's cos he's running for the pavement 😌 bless

[@Diabolical-Tyrant]

@@DeathnoteBB So? What are some kinds of elephant?

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@Diabolical-Tyrant …How much force do you think it takes to set a bomb off?

[@Atlastheyote222]

I would like to confirm that this show is the perfect representation of what it’s like to work in IT

[@stijnvandamme76]

1st level support internal sure, but there's more to IT then internal helpdesk work Maybe they should do a second series of IT crowd where they moved on with their careers into bigger gigs, like doing 2nd-3rd level support for a company that delivers services or software b2b

[@VAFranky]

Have you tried turning it off and on again is so damn true. Giving dumb basic advice that you have zero confidence will work but it does.

[@kass1089]

Former 1st and 2nd level here. Can relate.

[@billkingston4402]

People work in IT, not the ones I have dealt with, talked about Doom all day and the new graphics card they are getting

[@funkydozer]

Can corroborate. In the web design studio I worked in during the early 2000s I was Roy, and the coders and programmers were Moss. It's uncanny how realistic this is, and as such, is only funny to those of us who know.

[@fabriceclement6587]

Funny how Reynholm is the only one with his hands in his pocket while everyone looks stunned at Roy and Moss. He really doesn't give a damn about his employees.

[@theothertonydutch]

He doesn't give a damn in general. About most things. Hence why he goes: "Wow, a gun!" and then proceeds to pull the trigger five times while pointing the barrel into his mouth.

[@trafficoan1811]

@@theothertonydutch That moment is one of my favorite tv moments of all time. kills me everytime

[@staley101]

Probably thinks it's a film

[@Moonwired]

@@trafficoan1811 probably would kill you everytime, thats what bullets do!

[@CaptainLuckyLuke]

Like a boss!!

[@RandallHallKaizenReiki]

One of my favorite bits in the whole show. "What operating system does it use?" "Windows Vista." "We're going to die!"

[@ramsesbams]

still more modern than some of the things at my work.... windows 3 using fools

[@kabob21]

@@ramsesbams Where do you work, 1994?

[@Lucifronz]

@@ramsesbams "Modern" isn't the issue. Vista is by far one of the shittiest operating systems Microsoft has ever developed.

[@daniel.s.stefanov]

​@@LucifronzVista was great, it was just misunderstood.

[@byde6673]

@@daniel.s.stefanov👍👍👍😂

[@crazyconan28]

The older this scene is, the higher the comedy!

[@rolls_8798]

"higher" is right

[@LC-qi5ff]

The better the comedy?

[@Yermizx]

What?

[@BlackLeaf_Studio]

But by the same token… the more expensive the scene, the gooder it is too

[@Hvleos]

You must need to be told when to use the restroom...laugh tracks let you know its okay to laugh... if you take it out its just boring slapstick

[@zacharysheetz3701]

Reminds me of a time when I was working at the hospital. I was heading down to the cafeteria for lunch. When in the elevator, the doors open and staring at me are about 6-8 police and a guy wearing an orange jumpsuit, with handcuffs. All of them had kevlar on. After a moment I said, "going down?" The man in orange starts to walk forward but is stopped and pulled back by one of the police. Who says, " we'll get the next one." (elevator doors shut)

[@AlexanderTheMiddle]

This is so funny

[@claudius3359]

Irl comedy skit

[@elbob099]

Imagine if vista was actually used for this type of thing

[@racecarjonny8460]

Roy and Moss would die!

[@p0r5ch3911]

You know it was. I am serious here. Even today they use Windows for critical infrastructures and when they use Linux they just get a great deal from Microsoft. That happened for example here in germany in munich. And a lot of IOT stuff that would work fine on a Pi zero has often an entire windows OS. Robots are often controlled on Windows. Only God knows why.

[@ajwright5512]

@@p0r5ch3911 Because MCSE. Once you're through the mirror, everything outside looks backwards.

[@OMGSAMCOPSEY]

A more terrifying thought is how most nukes are still running on Windows 95

[@p0r5ch3911]

@@OMGSAMCOPSEY Windows 95 wasn't that bad. As long as you don't try to connect a printer to that nuke it should work just fine.

[@ilonachan]

I love how they're quaking in their boots because of the bomb, and then Moss goes out of his way to jump over it when he runs away

[@Skoopyghost]

Windows vista is more terrifying than a bomb.

[@mastadonking3816]

As soon as I saw the customer support guy all I could think was, "Oh, yeah. That's dude's done for."

[@adem-Savs]

Working in IT and always below basement level in the darkest unpainted hell hole in the building, we could relate 100% to every part of this series. We were rolling out the latest OS at the time of this episode, it was Vista. This scene was too funny...and accurate.

[@grimftl]

Loved the whole IT Crowd series. I think they did right by ending it properly. So many series outlive their theme.

[@marccram2664]

It was necessary...the new age of smartphone, viral videos, and the cpu crisis the show portrayed...perfect timing if i might say

[@LRM12o8]

Ending the show was definitely a good decision! 😂

[@ajejebrazov2]

I love how for the entire scene Reynholm stays emotionless

[@oliverwilson11]

This is a very accurate portrayal of how fancy robots work

[@TUDORMARCU16]

I remember looking over a control panel for a small gas powerplant. It ran on Windows XP. The year was 2018 (I think) and the equipment looked rather new.

[@KrayvenDraak]

This whole episode was damn funny... I love this show

[@andmicbro1]

Damn good bloody good damn good funny!

[@Ronsharo]

What's the name of that episode?

[@ErgonomicDesk]

@@Ronsharo Season 4: "Bad Boys"

[@ellicel]

The "scared straight" bit with Moss talking to the kids lives in my head rent free. 😂

[@marcofreire]

This episode was hilarious from beginning to finish. Theres the bet that Roy won't say 'Have you turn it off and on again'. The laptop from the exorcist. The french support number and the Windows Vista joke. My favourite episode, so funny.

[@PrograError]

Modern day version would have been an Indian support at night ...

[@marcofreire]

@@PrograError That actually happened to me. I had to activate a Windows 10 over the phone. An Indian with a sketchy english accent took the call. So funny.

[@laum5371]

​@@PrograError Indian support would have had a better English

[@RoronoraZoro666]

My favorite is still the gay theatre

[@krashd]

@@RoronoraZoro666 "I'm disabled!"

[@willoweable]

I honestly Love how that one lady tells the police officer who apparently isn't paying any attention to go arrest the one guy who's actually going to help fix the problem. It's like American policing 101

[@s.aslahahmadfaizi4687]

It's set in UK

[@bakersmileyface]

@@s.aslahahmadfaizi4687 hence why s/he said "it's like American policing 101" Key word in there being 'like' to imply similarities. This is a word play in the English language called a simile. Simile - "a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion )." - Oxford English Dictionary

[@lucasrobin2788]

@@bakersmileyface wow! You managed to explain that perfectly AND sound like a condescending prick at the same time!

[@tycarne7850]

@@lucasrobin2788 Indeed. It was a very British reply.

[@nameforcomments4092]

@@tycarne7850 You mean, 'It's UK comment replies 101". I'm just bringing this thread full circle, before everyone piles on me here.

[@royster3345]

Wish they did a new series of this, things haven't changed that much, still love the internet box episode...😂🤣😀

[@shivavision8223]

This time without the annoying fake laugh track please.

[@sinjull2256]

This Jen, this is the internet! *shows a black box*

[@undead890]

I dont know if the Elders of the Internet would be too pleased with that.

[@jackroutledge352]

Unfortunately, the writer (Graham Lineham) is persona non grata. He's either "fighting woke cancel culture", or rabidly transphobic, depending on who you ask.

[@ralphclark]

@@jackroutledge352 he’s the best comedy writer in the UK

[@itneeds2bsaid528]

I love how Moss runs right passed the bomb when he could go almost any other direction.

[@darconious524]

I never noticed Douglas just being deadpan during the whole thing lol

[@joeydr1497]

Our school radio runs on vista and me and my mate constantly quote it.

[@dronespace]

Lol

[@misterdude6694]

" What kind of operating system does it use? It's ehhh... VISTA! WE'RE GOING TO DIE!!" That's the best insult to Windows Vista I've ever heard. I loved Vista though, but may depend on that I was a naive and stupid kid back then.

[@DMSBrian24]

I was a kid back then too but whenever I had to use vista I wished for the good old xp back, even worse after 7 came out and half of the school pcs were still running vista, the horror

[@misterdude6694]

@@DMSBrian24 I was bored with XP. Though I miss XP now to another level, it was the pinnacle of A Os back In. 01-07. Than I bought Vista one day after work and I feel in love with it because it felt modern. But then you got the pop up for every fucking action you did in the Os. But I found a way to disable it, so it went actually good with me. Was a few crashes here and there, but I liked it. Then 7 came around and GODDAMN WHAT AN OS.

[@misterdude6694]

@@DMSBrian24 I remember that in school in 2006, our pc's used 95,98 and 2000. 2000 was awkward.

[@meercreate]

The best thing about vista was its version of movie maker being the last good one

[@thathandsomedevil0828]

Vista was horrible mate, Windows XP was top class!

[@PratikBhattacharya3010]

The "vista" joke was underrated

[@robleary3353]

I kid you not! Back in the nineties I worked in an inhouse 'tech' support area for a major bank and the first question asked was 'have you tried turning it off an on again!' 🤣 Problem was people were having to use their computers without any real training. Best call we got was a Senior General manager (GM, God to us) ringing to say his 'cup holder' wasn't working. The poor tech spent over an hour trying to work out what was going on when he realised the GM was using the CD loader tray to sit his coffee cup on!....... Priceless!!!!!!

[@lvthud]

My favourite from the 90's was "I can't find the any key".........

[@izhamsham843]

@Nny I miss IRC wars with my eggdrops 😊

[@johnbiggscr]

Holy crap, I thought I was the only one that had a manager ask about the ‘cup holder’.

[@SubjectiveObserver]

@@johnbiggscr I thought that was just a joke! People actually did that?

[@jackcrook6330]

@@SubjectiveObserver I thought it was bs for years but the start up sequence has a troubleshoot for faults and can fix a surprising amount of issues with most tech, learned whilst working for phone provider

[@RhysClark97]

0:04 the poses they got the extras to do lol

[@jonathanwessner3456]

That Vista joke was gold

[@MarcoRuotolo]

This show is pure Gold, never gets old

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

Laugh tracks are cancer

[@Scott_Stone]

Imagine explaining the Vista joke to Gen Z

[@IceMetalPunk]

I'm a Windows user, but even in 2010, nobody used Vista for embedded hardware. Hell, most *home PC users* were already onto Windows 7 by then. No wonder he shat his pants hearing that.

[@masterzombie161]

Love how Douglass expression doesn’t change at all in this scene.

[@rometherevenant8749]

My favorite british comedy series. Chris D' Dowd has great comedic timing.

[@CittizinKane]

As soon as the bloke in the call Center picked up the EOD tech knew it was game over 😂

[@somerandomguy9156]

calls the wrong department lol 🤣

[@gonefing1234]

Roy could've easily won his bet with jen if he had just said: "have you tried rebooting?"

[@AnoraJohnson]

What's rebooting? How do I do that? 😉

[@JustapErson]

Or got Moss to say it.

[@N1Zer0]

Some people wouldn't know what rebooting is.

[@xenablaiserocamora3277]

He did say that didn't he?

[@mukundiyer5290]

With current OS, even turning Pc off and on again won’t work as long as quick start option is enabled.

[@serolrom]

No need to remake this show, it's still as fresh as when it was on.

[@Vespyr_]

This show has the same genius kind of writing I loved about Father Ted. Just you know. Completely different. Lol

[@stijnvandamme76]

Father Ted was even more absurd. IIIII LOOOV MY BRICK

[@anthonybkr]

@ The Pack Rat yes

[@Littletime839]

The reaction to the unsolicited kiss is in stark contrast to what would happen in 2023

[@lokitakahashi3042]

never seen this show, but best line ever. Vista, WERE GONG TO DIE !! XD

[@crowhaveninc.2103]

I highly recommend it. It was WAY ahead of its time. It's on Netflix if you'd like to try

[@TheNefastor]

You need to watch it. Now. Trust me. You can thank me later.

[@kyleholmes3160]

This scene is up there with the 'A FIRE in a Sea Parks?' 🤣

[@BobbyBasnyat]

IT Crowd , for ever :D P.S. Have You Tried it Turning it On and Off again :D

[@fabriceclement6587]

AAAAAAH. I've just won a hundred quid.

[@Acidlib]

Huh, this whole time I thought that they were against ever...

[@TheNefastor]

I don't understand how that phrase, of all things, hasn't become a meme.

[@BF1GUN]

The first time I saw The IT Crowd, I was in stitches. It just reminded me of the two guys in IT where I worked. They were like Siamese Twins, never apart, and every job they had to attend together 😂

[@zacbob1149]

I would like to think this is what early drafts of the Doctor Who episode “Boom” were like

[@dorothytanner332]

I loved this series, one of the funniest, sometimes I laughed so hard, I cried!

[@krashd]

A fire? At Seaparcs?

[@bhaskard8405]

I love this show, wish they did more seasons

[@umbra9472]

I searched years for this quote.

[@ondrejsedlak4935]

At least it wasn't running Crowdstrike Falcon. Too soon?

[@Eckdirt]

I love this show so much.

[@DemonicAdj]

I loved the lead in. "Its a robot. I've never seen one in the wild! Where you come from, fella?"

[@likeabaus]

that french tech supp part had me rolling lmao

[@thedolphin5428]

As a one time tech support, I once asked that same question --"What operating system does it use?". The customer's reply was - "A keyboard with a mouse". Hmmm, technically true. 😅😅😅

[@neonfroot]

tbh thats not a bad answer. I wouldve said the same thing as a kid.

[@theepicone1]

Lmao I work in a bank and half the software we use is from the late 90s 😂

[@jonathanwessner3456]

I used to work in a restaurant and all their stuff is still the 90's software they originally used.

[@timparenti]

You're lucky it's even THAT new!

[@3rodox]

Citrix? aka the bane of my existence.

[@MrC0MPUT3R]

Same with medical record systems in the US. I'll never work as a developer for a healthcare company.

[@Acidlib]

@@jonathanwessner3456 I used to work in a restaurant about 5 years ago and they were still running this ancient point of sale system called “Aloha”, no wonder they went out of business (the fact that they hired me of all people as a shift manager place probably should’ve been the first sign that the business was going down the shitter)

[@hobbitninja]

Oh no, this is relevant today

[@zlcoolboy]

it crowd is such a gem

[@davidharrison9324]

Love Kevin Eldon..such an underrated talent..

[@ecb116]

My fav scene right here from IT CROWD

[@thathandsomedevil0828]

For me nothing beats the smokers zone skit where they parody life in Eastern Block communist states. Love this show!!

[@markswishereatsstuff2500]

One of the great British comedy series.

[@OneWingedRose]

That we're going to die at Vista is so genuine and hilarious lol.

[@ASChambers]

This is such a classic episode. 😂

[@Variodyn]

It's pretty funny because i only ever called microsoft support once because of some kind of SQL issue (idk) and it was literally a french person who could barely speak english

[@user-yv2sc5qv7x]

Love the scene where The Team are texting each other while in the same room. Never thought it'd be a real thing...

[@50PullUps]

1:02 lol door opening sound effect from Doom.

[@OidHunter]

Well spotted 🙂

[@Coillcara]

The whole episode is brilliant!

[@Talsedoom]

- What kind of Operating System does it use...? - Vista... - We are going to DIE!

[@WillHendersonTX]

it could be worst, they could still be using Windows ME.

[@Justin-Theobald]

"I think it's a bomb disposal Roy" no it for cleaning the u bend

[@vjgaming4066]

This is comedy gold. American TV will never be able to touch this level. Vista dig was brilliant !!

[@myslef7636]

why couldnt the wite guy move

[@Chainsawyou]

You would be surprised at how many government systems still run on dos

[@richardhockey8442]

An idea for a new Microsoft OS ad - 'Microsoft windows 95 - powering your nuclear deterrent'

[@flyingrat492]

@@richardhockey8442 the royal navies missile system- running on windows XP since 2010

[@salsamancer]

That's because you can't shut those things down, and nobody wants to go futzing around in old code trying to understand it. Tons of banking software still around is coded in COBOL

[@xioxialt]

@@salsamancer false. software updates are important for patching security flaws. old software and os that isn't updated anymore shouldn't be used (especially) for things like that because of how vulnerable they are.

[@AngryApple]

@@xioxialt doesn't matter if these things are offline and air gapped

[@Geffo555]

One of the funniest shows on TV. Love to see a return special or mini series. The team could be running a rocket launch facility and hit the ISS.

[@Ranshin077]

The laugh track is strong in this one.

[@Cobb]

He ran over the bomb when running away...

[@CHOCOLATIONZ]

This is the apex of the British comedy

[@RealAadilFarooqui]

"It's a....Vista" "We're going to Die"

[@bleebbleepbleeb3842]

Remember Peter File?😀

[@AWhileHanlin]

Vista used to make my computer fan run like a jet engine

[@wisteela]

Such a brilliant scene

[@TellyMan200]

2:15 aww moss scored

[@Edud62Alugetha]

I never understood why he got arrested

[@Dr.Schrutes]

Watch the full episode, they were loitering around shops

[@Edud62Alugetha]

Yeah, I've seen it, it was just why make such a large effort to arrest someone for loitering?

[@Dr.Schrutes]

That's why it's funny

[@Edud62Alugetha]

Well I guess that just flew over my head completely haha

[@PerfectBlue7]

FFS he wasn't loitering... He Stole a DVD

[@fakshen1973]

When the RAID your boss said was indestructible and denied your recommendations packs up and his toadies try to "fix" it while you're on holiday.

[@fpvDRE]

vista we going to dieeee 😂😂

[@kimvibk9242]

Loved the clip...I heard of this show but I never got to watch it. Now I ordered the box set!

[@HNedel]

It’s on netflix, i remember it from back when it was first aired, and revisit some episodes from time to time. Still find jokes that i missed

[@kazumahazeuzumaki]

I watched this entire series on a Vista.

[@TheNefastor]

And you're still alive ??? 😳

[@TXPeach]

Moss: Everything's gonna be okay -Hooray!

[@rusticgiraffe4262]

Reminder that the bag contained a balloon. Who saw the bag and immediately reported it as a bomb? …probably Reynholm.

[@rachmanfachri]

I remember binging this show when lockdown happened and imagine how many noise complaint I got from my landlord 🤣🤣🤣

[@ura4321]

This show is so funny. First two seasons are my favorite.

[@fishnchips6627]

One of my favourite British sitcoms!

[@diabl2master]

"What kind of operating system does it use?" was the funniest line and the audience didn't laugh... curious

[@alastairrabie5428]

IT Crowd was the best during my later teens. Moss is the BEST!!!

[@BeastOrGod]

Would've been funny if Roy answered the call

[@kiranduba]

One of the classic episode 😂

[@Sohailali1]

Hmmm it looks like I need to revisit the series. I don't remember this part. Maybe I didn't watch the whole series.

[@lukeo5908]

Haljö, kan I bæ of assistancè?

[@kaduisaui4596]

I really like this show.

[@eduardocosta86]

10 years and still funny

[@colaoliver1587]

My son was in Law School in NYC when students had to have a laptop running Vista to take exams. He discovered after talking to various IT people that Vista seemed to crash at semi regular intervals requiring a complete reinstall of everything, at least in my son's case. He said it was not uncommon during an exam to have some poor soul scream a string of obscenities as his Vista machine crashed. I bought my son his first MacBook Pro to use for his regular work and saving the Vista machine for exams only. One can only imagine how many man hours and money has been lost due to Microsoft's buggy unstable software.

[@kaspercederlund4393]

My schools windows 10 lapstops have updates cinstantly, and it has happened that people hadn't updated their computer before exams, so sometimes peoples computers will just start to update during the exams

[@slash2bot]

That was the funny thing, Vista wasn't shit because of buggy Microsoft code. The MS code was good, it's just that Vista was the first windows OS where security was even a thought, so they had to change a lot of stuff, including the driver model. That was where the crap part of Vista came from. Most laptops and peripherals had buggy drivers, which caused Vista massive issues. Add on top of that the entire marketing scandal where they slapped on Vista ready stickers even in machines that clearly couldn't run it, cemented Vista's reputation. By the time Windows 7 came out, the driver issues were sorted out, the UI adjusted, people trained and hardware sufficiently powerful enough that Win7 gained a solid reputation. Vista by that time was good too.

[@philipmcfarlane]

@@slash2bot Vista was incredibly resource intensive due to the sheer volume of features they introduced. Unfortunately computers were being marketed in 2 different ways; 'Vista Ready' - for computers that were actually powerful enough to run the OS properly and 'Vista Compatible' - for computers where it would technically install and run but the experience was terrible. I suspect that the laptop in question, from the original post, would have been in the latter category.

[@slash2bot]

@@philipmcfarlane Yes, unfortunately that was also when the trend of cheap netbooks also started. They were fine if you ran Linux on them, which a lot of them did run. But a lot of them also had XP, Vista and even 7 on them. A task for which they were truly unsuitable for.

[@ghfudrs93uuu]

macbook is cheap trash

[@acetrigger1337]

Let's be honest... It was probably Windows 98.

[@milsims100]

Working in IT years back, a user rang to say his computer wasn't working; even turning it off and on again didn't help - all he had was a black screen. Is the screen switched on? I never turn it off he says. Eventually I have to go and investigate only to find the the monitor isn't even plugged in. He can't understand it. Turns out the cleaner used the socket to plug in her new vacuum because it had a shorted lead.

[@TaddiestMason]

This show was so good.

[@ducknorris233]

Douglas is the voice of a droid in The Boba Fett. He has a great overacting voice.

[@noapparentfunction]

i recognized it immediately when I heard it. I kept shouting "fire! fire!" at the TV

[@OhWowInteresting]

Still my favorite show

[@violetguavapeachee5573]

Bloody love this show definitely my in my top 5

[@wittywarbler1117]

This show had its moments of brilliance. Almost makes the iffy parts of it tolerable

[@SingleTrack66]

What ?

[@theshlauf]

Sitcoms in a nutshell.

[@burntgrahamcracker2866]

Iffy parts?

[@lypsoty1123]

@@burntgrahamcracker2866 The show had some moments that just felt like weird attempts at humor that I can't imagine working for the majority of the audience. Usually awkward stuff, there's Roy being creepy as hell,...

[@Acidlib]

Nice profile picture!

[@arleas]

Roy can't move because he's leg disabled