The IT Crowd + other stuff

Feb 10, 2006 09:39

Mmmmm. Just watched the first episode of The IT Crowd (new british comedy, written by Graham Linehan, who also wrote Father Ted and the first season of Black Books), and was struck by a couple things.  (1) English comedy's use of loud laugh tracks often pisses me off.  (2) This show is okay, some parts good, some bad, nothing all that special.  (3)  The writers and set designers are either avid nerds, cool people, or possess good researchers.  Among other set items (millions of EFF stickers and such), one of the two tech nerds has a Flying Spaghetti Monster picture behind him (see pastarianism or FSM).  Even cooler, the other character has a huge poster of Frank by Jim Woodring, which is not nerdy at all, but instead, incredibly cool (for the tragically uninformed, Frank is an amazingly cool wordless comic best described as "a psychedelic Pilgrim's Progress", that is not only incredibly clever, but brilliantly illustrated too).

While on other Frank topics, I should also point out that StrangeCo (cool bizarre toy manufacturer) is making a line of Jim Woodring toys, which bend my mind in circles.  Must not spend large amounts of money on useless vinyl toys.....

And in other BBC news, the head of the British Video Association has suggested their research suggests that video piracy does not hurt sales (people who download movies spend just as much on dvds and the cinema).  Link to article. Quick summary from boingboing.net.

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