Stereotypes In I. T. Crowd

I.T. Crowd is a British sitcom centered around three individuals: Jen Barber, Maurice Moss, and Roy. These three individuals make up the infamous I.T. department set in Reynholm’s industries, a company whose service is remained obscure. Jen Barber is the head of the department and is absolutely inept about computers or anything related to I.T., Maurice Moss is the opposite, he is known to be a socially inept, a geek and genius. Roy, is Irish and unmotivated worker, who searches for more ways to get of doing his job. Each of these individuals portrays their own stereotypes that promote prejudices and discrimination from the rest of the company.
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Maurice Moss, the quintessential geek, has his humor derived from his highly sophisticated knowledge mixed with socially awkward comments furthering his image of being this all encompassing nerd. He has an unusual attachment with his mother, who he is still living with despite being adult. This portrayal of being weird leaves him being shunned to the basement and ultimately underappreciated by the rest of the company. The way Moss is portrayed, leaves viewers with the set of oversimplified view, that the majority people in the technology sector are socially inept and tremendously geeky. Roy, however, is a worker who is engaged beneath his capabilities and finding out ways to get out of doing work, leaving him with his notorious catchphrase: “Hello, IT, have you tried turning it off and on again (Linnehan, 2006)?” His basic work ethic is to do the least amount of work as possible, leaving him to invent various gadgets to achieve this. The fact that he operates beneath his capabilities paves way for him just being attributed to as being Irish, which in a later episode, is stereotyped as being lazy. This anti-Irish sentiment can lead to profound complications in which viewers are left with a false sense of reality in which all Irishmen are lazy. Naturally, being stereotyped this way paves way for prejudicial treatment to perpetuate to society. In 2015, It