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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goonalan" data-source="post: 5226017" data-attributes="member: 16069">The fact that the IT Crowd chose to use RPG/D&D is fantastic, to have Moss and the others behave in any other way (than their usual) would be... wrong. The use of stereotypes in all media is shorthand and simplistic, and therefore ideal for a mass audience appeal.The fact that Graham Linehan (I think he writes it still) thinks that D&D is zeitgeisty enough is to be applauded. I teach/lecture in a UK University, nerds are very cool in my world, the jocks and meatheads are the odd ones out (even the ones that play D&D)-Award-winning sitcom from Graham Linehan. Banished from the ivory towers of Reynholm Industries, the IT crowd lurk below ground, avoiding work and social contact in equal measure...So an underground subculture (how cool is that- see every Hollywood Anti-Hero), avoiding work (oh how I (we all) dream about...) and social contact- well except with each other (and us the audience).We may laugh at them but we also know that for the most part we're laughing at ourselves, or our friends, but mostly that part of ourselves.I don't watch the IT Crowd as a rule, but strangely enough to a man (and I mean to a man- 22 males) the IT department where I work all watch it, and several of them are working towards the stereotype, they quote chunks of it to each other (cf Monty Python and gamers).Also over in the UK (and elsewhere) we show our love for a thing by 'ripping the p***' out of it, it's almost the highest form of flattery.To be honest it doesn't get any better than this...Oh and read 'The Elfish Gene" by, I think, Mark Barrowcliffe, it too is wonderful.<a href="http://www.elfishgene.com/" target="_blank">http://www.elfishgene.com/</a></blockquote>

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