IT Crowd Season 2, Episode 4 -- and DVD!

The new episode of The IT Crowd -- the ass-kicking nerd comedy from Graham Linehan, creator of Father Ted -- aired this week. Season two, episode four ("The Dinner Party") is another in this season's even-funnier, even-weirder installments -- this time, Jen and her new boyfriend are having a dinner party with her three single female friends, and his male friends cancel out, meaning that the IT department have to fill in. I watched this last night in the hotel room and nearly woke up the neighbors laughing.

As usual, I watched this by downloading the torrent. Channel 4, the broadcaster, has its own streaming service, but it won't run under Linux.

In other awesome news, Mike noticed that The IT Crowd Season Two DVD is already listed for pre-order on Amazon UK. Last season's DVD featured many excellent gracenotes (including leet subtitles), and I've just ordered the new one.

Link to ISOhunt Torrent, Link to Mininova Torrent, Link to "The Dinner Party" on YouTube (Thanks, Dave, Tian and Mike!)

(Disclosure: I was an unpaid consultant on series one of The IT Crowd, and my fiancee is about to start work at Channel Four)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Anonymous

Completely awesome and way-unexpected early Guided By Voices track at the end of the episode. Another reason to love the show.
Anonymous

The Channel4 streaming service is only for people in UK. :( I tried to play it in U.S., and it failed.
Anonymous

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Chris Brewer

I want to know what Firefox extension Roy was going to email Peter…

Nice awareness branding placement of the EFF poster.
Anonymous

I thought this episode wasn’t as good as most other episodes, but still had its moments. I loved the bit in the program which the picture for this blog entry is from.
Anonymous

I’ve seen Ep 2 and half of Ep 3, and so far I think the writing isn’t as tight as the first season — there just aren’t as many laugh-out-loud moments for me.