Tuesday 21 April 2015

IT Crowd Audience Pleasures

Today we learnt about audience pleasure in the IT Crowd.

Moss is a highly intelligent young man with a lack of social skills. He is presented as a "standard nerd" who struggles to communicate with anything that does not have a keyboard. Moss lives at home with his mother, who also dresses him and packs him lunch which represents him as reclusive and he likes to avoid social contact, he takes everything literally, and doesn't know when to shut up. Tries to mimic "proper men" by taking online course in how to talk like football fans, but really he is a buttoned up boy, with large glasses and awful hair.

Roy is a laid-back IT technician from Ireland. He goes to great lengths to fob off workmates so he can sit around doing nothing. However, when something does happen, he is always the one who gets the wrong end of the stick and is constantly either injured or in distress. He and his co-worker Moss are described as "standard nerds". Roy is desperate for a girlfriend but as much as he tries  he is hated by the rest of company. He is almost like a teenage boy as he wears teenage T shirts, behaves immaturely, makes sexist jokes and plays with toys and reads comic books. He does want to be a ‘real man’

Jen is made Head of IT computer illiterate so she lands in ludicrous situations. She is represented as an agony aunt to the boys. Jen wants to find a boyfriend but as much as she tries the boys seem to get involved and mess it up for her (e.g. the theatre)