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0118 999 881 999 119 7253 | The IT Crowd

Channel 4 Entertainment · 3.5M views · 2008-11-19 · 1:19

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Overview

A one-minute clip from The IT Crowd in which the characters hear a jingle for a memorable emergency phone number.

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HN mostly invokes it as a joke in threads about emergency numbers and phone numbers.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2011–2022

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Nrsolis · 2013-05 · Recommendation

The IT crowd, for me, is one of those happy accidents in television where the writers, producers, and actors all manage to capture the humor of a subculture without patronizing it. When I saw the first episode, I knew that these folks had done something special and I'm quite tickled that they are bringing it back for even a single episode. [VIDEO]

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isk517 · 2022-01 · Joke / meme

The XBox branding department are big fans of The IT Crowd and completely unaware that it is a comedy. [VIDEO]

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ajuc · 2021-11 · Reference

Even non-tonal languages have melodies, for example English people use a lot of intonation compared for to my native Polish. When I was in UK everybody sounded like they were talking to infants or dogs :) You don't normally use it for numbers but you certainly can, see: [VIDEO] Another useful mnemonic that for me works even better than melody is rhythm. I noticed that I have about 20-notes buffer for last-heard rhythmic phrase even if I wasn't paying attention at the time. So for example after I ran down a flight of stairs I can count them by remembering the rhythm of my steps and adding them. My friend who has way better short term memory than me can't do this, but he can see the image he was looking at recently. Now that's cheating :)

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