2008

The following events occurred in the year 2008 (MMVIII):

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Jen Barber hires Gary to do some construction work on her house.
Douglas Reynholm accidentally shoots himself in the leg after discovering his grandfather's old service revolver.
Roy Trenneman and Maurice Moss meet a group of football fans and begin socialising with them.
A robbery takes place on Denbury Road.
Roy Trenneman is thrown out of his workplace, Reynholm Industries, for not wearing a shirt. He then has to spend three hours as a tramp.
Jen Barber, Maurice Moss and Roy Trenneman successfully sue Douglas Reynholm for sexual abuse.
Jen Barber attends a job interview with June.
Maurice Moss gets hit by a door and is slightly concussed.
October: Jen Barber wins Employee of the Month of Reynholm Industries.
Maurice Moss and Roy Trenneman convince Jen Barber that a small plastic black box is the Internet and persuade her to use it in her Employee of the Month speech.
Douglas Reynholm dates April Shepherd and promptly ends the relationship after he discovers she was born a man.
Jen Barber's school reunion takes place.
December: Roy Trenneman, Maurice Moss and several others help make a nude calendar with a theme of geeks.
Douglas Reynholm becomes Richest Magazine's Man of the Year 2008.

Series 3 of The IT Crowd is set in 2008 ^[1].
November 21: From Hell, the first episode of the third series of The IT Crowd, is first broadcast.
November 28: Are We Not Men?, the first episode of the third series of The IT Crowd, is first broadcast.
December 5: Tramps Like Us, the third episode of the third series of The IT Crowd, is first broadcast.
December 12: The Speech, the fourth episode of the third series of The IT Crowd, is first broadcast.
December 19: Friendface, the fifth episode of the third series of The IT Crowd, is first broadcast.
December 26: Calendar Geeks, the sixth and final episode of the third series of The IT Crowd, is first broadcast.

↑ In The Speech, Jen's plaque "Jen Barber: Employee of the Month, October 2008"