List of The IT Crowd episodes

Denholm Reynholm, the technically challenged boss of a large corporation, interviews Jen Barber for a position. Fooled by her "techno-bluffing", he appoints her as manager of the IT support office, where she demonstrates a complete lack of knowledge in technical matters.

After Roy has a horrible date with a woman because he smears chocolate on his forehead and it looks like poo, the story circulates around the office. Roy decides the woman actually didn't like him because women only like "bad boys", and sets out to prove his point by posting an ad that makes him sound horrible in the local classifieds.

Meanwhile, Jen has been impressing the temporary security guard with her (guessed) knowledge of obscure facts and he puts her on his "phone a friend" list for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

• Guest stars: Graham Linehan as a Mariachi singer, Chris Tarrant as himself
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Moss tells an extraordinary lie to help Jen escape the attention of Bill "The News" Crouse—telling him that she is dead. The story spreads, and the office gathers for a memorial. Denholm invites his friend Elton John, and Bill starts telling everyone that he was the last person to sleep with Jen. Meanwhile Roy has garnered the attention of Judy, the unattractive office cleaner, instead of Julie, the attractive girl from the fifth floor, and is trying to shake her.

Jen's menstrual cycle (nicknamed Aunt Irma) has unexpected consequences for the office, with her colleagues all directly suffering from the associated effects. After Moss sends an email about it to everyone he knows in the IT Community it incites "Aunt Irma" riots and disturbances throughout the world. It's decided that the only cure is to have a big "girly night in" with scented candles, and watching the movie Steel Magnolias, but they are obliged to go to the company "Thank-You" party, where they get incredibly drunk.

• Notes:
• • The domain ladyproblems.com was registered by series producers Freemantle on 24 August 2005, but was never put into use.
  • The episode (and the first series) ended with "To be continued", but the second series ignored the cliffhanger.
  • The song played at the end of the episode is a sped-up version of the show's normal theme.

When Jen is asked to the theatre for a date, Moss and Roy invite themselves along, then make her doubt the heterosexuality of her date. She wonders further when the play turns out to be a production of "Gay! - A Gay Musical", during which Moss and Roy are mistaken for a couple during the audience participation segment. At intermission, neither Roy nor Moss are able to use the toilets because of an attendant, so they use the disabled and staff facilities (respectively) and are forced to adopt appropriate identities when caught. In the end, Jen confronts her date about his heterosexuality because of the play they just saw, and he tries to cover it up by saying you don't have to be gay to like a gay musical. However, when Jen mentions how he wanted to read a copy of Heat, he then buckles and comes out about his homosexuality, saying he hoped a relationship with Jen would work because she looked like a man.

• Guest stars: Nicholas Burns - Jerome, Director of "Gay! - A Gay Musical", Ash Atalla (series producer) - Rampant Gay Man
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Roy buys a new mobile phone with lots of features, but a weak vibrate setting, so Moss offers to "pimp it out" for him, where he sets the vibrate setting up so high that they decide to put it in their pants and let it vibrate for fun. At the same time, Moss is subjecting Roy to an online quiz about his general health and well being, which tells him he is going to die Thursday at 3pm. When Denholm commits suicide during a meeting, his funeral is set for Thursday at 3pm. Before the funeral, Denholm's successor reveals that he despises the IT department and wants nothing more than to fire them. Moments before Denholm's successor goes through with his termination of the IT department, Denholm's estranged son—and rightful successor—Douglas (Matt Berry) bursts into the funeral and takes over the company, thereby saving their jobs and firing Denholm's original successor. The episode ends with Roy and Moss giving Douglas Roy's phone, and having him let it vibrate in his pants (which takes him "almost to the station").

• Notes: Jen mentions in this episode that she hasn't smoked in three years before taking up the habit again at the end.
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Moss tries to liven up his life by enrolling in a German cookery course. It turns out that the German is actually a cannibal seeking someone willing to be eaten (a parody of the Armin Meiwes incident) and the advertisement contained some fairly important translation errors. Meanwhile, Roy is trying to watch a pirated DVD, and after a couple of failed attempts volunteers to be the German cannibal's next meal in order to watch it on his impressively large home entertainment system. In a separate subplot, Jen, now a smoker again, finds the company smoking area reminiscent to the atmosphere of a Communist regime (in a parody of bleak and melodramatic Dr Zhivago-style films).

• Notes: At the end of the episode, Johann plays the theme song to the show on his cello.
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After a lengthy campaign of pointless phone calls to the basement, Douglas finally offers Jen a position as his Personal Assistant. She accepts the position, having recently realized she's wasting her life in the position she's in, which leaves the guys with free rein to wreak havoc in the basement (including not wearing pants, and playing a form of golf where Roy would attempt to hit a golf ball into Moss' mouth). Douglas, however, spends the bulk of his time with Jen attempting to bed her.

• Notes:
• • The on-screen title of this episode is 'Men Without Women', but listing magazines billed it as 'The Joy of Sex'.^{[citation needed]}
  • In the original script, the series ended with Roy and Jen getting together romantically, because writer Graham Linehan "wanted them to have a sort of ‘Sam and Diane’ Cheers thing going that would spin series 3 in a new direction." ^[2]