IT Crowd Season Two - the sexy finale September 30, 2007
The season finale of The IT Crowd aired last week — the sex episode, where Jen ends up working as personal assistant to her lecherous boss, leaving the boys to go all Lord of the Flies. This is probably the funniest episode so far — and remarkably restrained for a sex episode. Hard to believe the season’s over already — here’s hoping for season three!
Eric adds:
I loved The IT Crowd so much, I went searching for other shows with the same actors. So far, both shows I’ve sampled have been fantastic. They’ve been mentioned in comments by BB readers, but never in an actual post:
“Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace” is a fantastic show featuring both Richard Ayoade (Moss) and Matt Berry (new this season as Douglas Denholm). It is a send up of 80s horror/scifi — spoofing Dr. Who style production on bad Steven King plotlines. A previous BB reader called it “the single best reason to have a multi-region DVD player”.
Another show with Berry in it is “The Mighty Boosh”, though he’s only in four out of fifteen episodes. However, guess who one of the co-stars is: Noel Fielding, IT Crowd’s Richmond. His character in Boosh, Vince Noir, is a too-cool punk zoo keeper, and yes it’s as funny as it sounds.
(Disclosure: I was an unpaid consultant on series one of The IT Crowd, and my fiancee works at Channel Four)
See also:
Previews of IT Crowd episode six
IT Crowd, season 2, episode 5: the boob joke episode
IT Crowd Season 2, Episode 4 — and DVD!
IT Crowd Season 2, Episode 3: Great anti-piracy PSA sendup
IT Crowd Season 2, Episode 2 — keyboard-destroying nerd sitcom
The IT Crowd — season two, episode one
Mario villains scarf
Love love LOVE this pattern for a chunky, handmade Super Mario villain scarf.
(via Wonderland)
Last Game
Damn Dodgers!
Woman dies in TSA custody at airport
Gothamist reports (via a story in the NY Post)…
Manhattan resident Carol Ann Gotbaum, who is married to the stepson of [NYC] Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, died in a Phoenix airport holding cell while in police custody. Phoenix authorities believe she may have died while trying to get out of her handcuffs.
New Blade Runner: OMG Deckard is a [REDACTED]
The NYT’s Fred Kaplan has a piece about the “new” Blade Runner today — won’t include any spoilers in this post, but the Director’s Cut DVD reveals a “secret” about Harrison Ford’s character. Snip:
“Here we are 25 years on,†Mr. Scott said, “and we’re seriously discussing the possibility of the end of this world by the end of the century. This is no longer science fiction.â€
The special effects that produced this vision were amazing for their day. Created with miniature models, optics and double exposures, they seemed less artificial than many computer effects of a decade later. But like film stock, they faded with time.
For the new director’s cut, the special-effects footage was digitally scanned at 8,000 lines per frame, four times the resolution of most restorations, and then meticulously retouched. The results look almost 3-D.
Link. O!M!G! I CAN’T! WAIT@ TO SEE IT! (Thanks, Susannah Breslin!)
Geek exercise challenge: Walk to Rivendell
Out-of-shape? Middle Earth geek? Why not walk to Rivendell, and join a worldwide community of Hobbit-fancying power-walkers, logging your daily paces as you leg the distances traversed by the hairy-foot set.
Walk, run, hike, bike, blade, swim - if you can measure the distance, you can do this challenge. Keep a log, and record your daily or weekly miles and the type of exercise. For walkers and hikers, you might want to invest in a walking meter, they look like wristwatches. Otherwise, you can estimate your distance at 1 mile for every 20 minutes of brisk walking on a flat surface. Our original suggested deadline was the opening of The Return of the King, December 17, 2003. As this glorious day is now past, we are setting new goals, new times:If you would like to set a long term distance goal, choose any one of the following…
1625 miles: Take the road home with the hobbits from Minas Tirith to Hobbiton.
* 535 miles from Minas Tirith to Isengard
* 693 miles from Isengard to Rivendell.
* 397 miles from Rivendell to Bag End.
(Thanks, Bear!)
Pratchett’s Discworld: a reading-order guide
In yesterday’s review of Terry Pratchett’s latest Discworld book, Making Money, I mentioned how daunting it must be to be confronted with Pratchett’s 33 Discworld novels and try to figure out where to start. Part of the charm of these books is that they’re not written in any main sequence, but rather in several interrelated series that follow the lives of many different characters and subplots. Each book does a pretty good job of standing alone, and they all incorporate major characters from other lines as minor characters in their own, which makes the whole thing very meaty and extra fun to read.
In the comments for the post, Techbuzz pointed out the Discworld Reading Order Guide, maintained in several languages by Krzysztof Kietzman of Lspace.org (Pratchett readers will recognize the reference to “Library Space” — the virtual Borgesian world in which all potential libraries exist simultaneously). This is a remarkably handy little chart — all the main lines of the Discworld books are laid out in their chronological sequence, with dotted lines showing how each line intersects with the rest. This is an indispensable guide for the Pratchett novice.
Bad signs of the world: Flickr pool
I just lost half an hour of my life to the highly amusing “Bad Signage” Flickr pool, which sports hundreds of photos of bad and weird signs. This is a favorite photographic subject of mine — I think because bad signs are a kind of window into the most demented minds of other people, their humor, their malapropisms, their authoritarian tendencies, and their anxieties.
(Photo credit: The cropped, downsized thumbnail above is reproduced on the basis of fair use from Excard1970’s photo, “Best sign of the year (so far)”)
Web Zen: retro zen
Archive link for this week’s edition. Web Zen is produced weekly by Frank Davis, and republished here on Boing Boing with kind permission. Web Zen Home and Archives, Store (Thanks Frank!).
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