| The internet is coming | |
|---|---|
| Episode information | |
| Series |
Special episode |
| Original airdate |
26 September 2013 |
| Cast and crew information | |
| Writer(s) |
Graham Linehan |
| Director(s) |
Graham Linehan |
| Chronology | |
| Previous episode |
Reynholm vs Reynholm |
The Internet is Coming, titled on Netflix as The Final Episode, is the final episode of The I.T. Crowd. It premiered on Channel 4 in 2013.
Plot[]
Jen Barber and Roy Trenneman are branded bullies on the Internet following an incident involving Jen throwing coffee on a homeless person and Roy insulting a dwarf barista worker, resulting in him getting struck by a van with breasts on it. Meanwhile, following the low ratings of his board game review online show, Moss buys women's trousers and becomes an online sensation.
Synopsis[]
Raymond asks Douglas if he is free for a party on Thursday, but Douglas finds out he's supposed to be doing Secret Millionaire and immediately calls his 'assistant' to cancel. But it is Jen he actually calls to cancel Secret Millionaire, but she doesn't know who to call, is not his assistant and repeatedly tells him not to call her Joan.
The dwarf barista discovers the comment Roy made about him and follows him into the street to confront him about it. Roy soon tells him he’s just too small to make coffee, causing the dwarf barista to say to Roy ‘up yours’, and walks across the road. Roy soon sees one of Raymond's vans with huge breasts coming towards the dwarf and tries to warn him, but is too late, resulting in the van hitting him. Jen is proclaimed 'Coffee Tramp Toss Bitch' while Roy is proclaimed 'Small Person Racist' on the Internet. Douglas is not happy about the news and chastises them, knowing it was them as he tapped their phones. Jen says that she would never throw coffee on a homeless woman and Roy tries to defend his action, saying that small people are not a race and it isn't 'Game of Thrones'. Douglas warns them to keep a low profile or he'll banish them to places lower than the basement.
When their names are revealed on the news, Douglas once again chastises the two as if it was new footage. Douglas is even angrier because he has to miss out on Raymond's tit party to do Secret Millionaire to keep his company in line. As he leaves, he does a gun impersonation with his fingers then puts it in his mouth, letting them know that they are fired the moment he returns.
Richmond makes a surprise return, revealing that he has reverted to his goth self and is now doing voiceover work after From Goth2Boss didn't work out.
Since their advertisement didn't work out, they return to the basement, where someone soon came out of Jen's office, causing her to pepper spray them. It was actually Douglas, who was dressed as a tramp to hide from the law, since he gave the boy his beer, and had it considered 'corrupting a minor.' Since he needs somewhere to hide, they let him use the basement, and also inadvertently promotes them all to heads of Reynholm Industries, surprising them all. As they prepare to leave, the Anonymous member appears on their computer to insult them, only for his parents to appear and confiscate his computer. As they all leave, Douglas has a problem with the internet, and Roy simply tells him to 'turn it off and on again' and they leave with Moss turning the lights off.
Eventually, Roy, Jen, and Moss make Reynholm Industries a better company as well as hiring the homeless person as a trolley worker, the dwarf barista, and his coworkers, as Richmond, via voiceover, advertises it.
Trivia[]
- This is one of two episodes where the word 'fuck' is censored. Douglas first says it when he tries to cancel appearing on Secret Millionaire and Moss later says it during his new 'Game Board' intro.
- Towards the end of the episode Roy makes call-backs to the episodes The Work Outing & Italian for Beginners by mentioning how him pretending to be disabled in the former episode and Moss being locked in an arcade machine overnight in the latter episode wasn't normal in a potential meta joke based on the fact that the characters are in a sitcom.