"The IT Crowd" Smoke and Mirrors (2007)

Directors:

Graham Linehan
Barbara Wiltshire

Writer:

Graham Linehan (written by)

TV Series:

"The IT Crowd" (2006)

Original Air Date:

21 September 2007 (Season 2, Episode 5)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Moss invents something to help Jen with an issue she has, and this invention is an opportunity for enterprise. |

Cast

Chris O'Dowd	...	Roy
Richard Ayoade	...	Moss
Katherine Parkinson	...	Jen
Richard Attlee	...	Stephen Premel (as Richard Atlee)
Matt Berry	...	Douglas
Cordelia Bugeja	...	Abi
Amelia Bullmore	...	Helen Buley
Gemma Cousins	...	BBC Woman
Adam Farr	...	Peter
Peter Sullivan	...	John
Kirsty Wark	...	Herself

Trivia:

Moss being mistakenly interviewed live on BBC News 24 after a mixup over his name is a reference to an infamous incident in 2006. Guy Goma, who was at the BBC studio for a job interview, was accidentally interviewed on the live news channel after being mistaken for IT expert Guy Kewney.

Quotes:

Roy: Moss, I don't like to be negative about it, but everything you invent is worthless.
Moss: Ah, well, prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame set at gas mark 'egg on your face'!
[pause]
Moss: I sort of forget what I was talking about.

Movie Connections:

References "Dragons' Den" (2004)