9. Maurice Moss And Roy Trenneman The I.T. Crowd
Moss and Roy from The I.T. Crowd might be the only people at Reynholm Industries who understand how to use a computer but for people working in I.T. support their support skills are sadly lacking. Not only do they memorably set the office on fire in the second episode, they avoid doing any real work to the degree where at one point they are successfully replaced by an automated message. In any other sitcom this would backfire horribly but here the joke is that it doesn't: their coworkers are so technologically illiterate and the questions they ask so monotonous that they can predict the conversations and set up an automated catch-all recording without anyone realising. An honourable mention goes to their head of department and relationship manager Jen, the Head of I.T. who doesn't know what I.T. stands for and believes that typing 'google' into Google can break the internet (to be fair, the other heads of department are just as bad when it comes to computers). Although Jen is deeply unsuited for her job she's saved from making the list because she at least tries to be professional and has some success in keeping the department running smoothly. Moss and Roy might not get much work done with her around, but when she gets promoted to Douglas' assistant and moves upstairs they regress to having jousting competitions with office chairs and not wearing trousers in an alarmingly short time.
Kate Taylor has a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing and an MRes in Creative Writing. Her nonfiction, reviews and other articles have appeared on Cuckoo Review and Mookychick as well as WhatCulture. Her fiction has been published in Luna Station Quarterly, Eternal Haunted Summer and in anthologies by Paizo and Northumbria University Press. She is 23 and lives in the North of England.
