The IT Crowd · Season 2 · Episode 1 · 24 August 2007
S2E1 The Work Outing
THE MOMENT Moss's wheelchair gambit in the disabled toilet - a sequence that requires the setup of the entire episode to land.
A night at the theatre spirals into a masterwork of compounding misunderstandings. The episode runs three simultaneous farce tracks, with Roy, Moss, and Jen each locked into increasingly mortifying situations, and keeps them all aloft to the end.
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The IT Crowd Season 2 Episode 1 'The Work Outing' aired August 24, 2007 on Channel 4. The series won the BAFTA for Best Situation Comedy in 2009; IMDb audiences scored the series 8.6. A night at the theatre spirals into a masterwork of compounding misunderstandings: the episode runs three simultaneous farce tracks, with Roy, Moss, and Jen each locked into increasingly mortifying situations, and keeps them all aloft to the end. The Work Outing is the episode most frequently cited when fans explain the show to new viewers, and the Moss wheelchair sequence is the specific moment most imitated and quoted. The episode demonstrates the structural confidence - multiple farce threads maintained without dropping any - that Series 1 was building toward. Matt Berry's Douglas Reynholm takes his first full-series bow this season.