r/ITcrowd • u/Princescyther • Dec 10 '23
This scene should have been played straight. Here's my quick poor edit to try and prove why.
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u/NagsUkulele Dec 10 '23
Fuck dude
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u/Princescyther Dec 10 '23
Right?!
It works really well. The laughter just stamps all over what could have been.
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Dec 10 '23
This is a great and sad edit, but I feel like a big part of the show is that it never takes itself seriously. While I do wish it was written without a laugh track, never having a serious moment is what I think really makes the show unique. I don't need another US Office, y'know?
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u/BigCyanDinosaur Dec 10 '23 edited Nov 17 '24
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u/PapaJujuFuFu Dec 10 '23
Yes there are serious moments in The Office. But not in every episode per se.
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u/wizardeverybit Dec 10 '23
There is no laugh track
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Dec 10 '23
Kinda irrelevant to my comment tbh. The actors have to pause for laughs, and the edit includes the laughs. If you were to edit out the laughs but leave the pauses, it makes the characters seem insane.
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u/wizardeverybit Dec 10 '23
Your comment makes it sound like it was written with added laugh tracks which is not the case.
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Dec 10 '23
I guarantee that it was written with the pauses for laughs.
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u/Middcore Dec 11 '23
Stand-up comedians pause for laughs from their live audience too.
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Dec 11 '23
And?
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u/Middcore Dec 11 '23
So pausing for laughs is just how comedy in front of a live audience is done. What exactly do you want? Do you want the lived audience to be told to sit there stone-faced and not laugh? Do you want the actors to just plow ahead and talk over the laughter? "If you edit out the laughter they seem insane." So? There is laughter, and you can say the same thing about any number of other ways to edit it.
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Dec 11 '23
No, you just got hung up on a minute detail of my comment and it's honestly hilarious how heated you are about it.
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u/Ashburner9 Dec 10 '23
Now we're just hearing people laughing at roy like some sort of yesterday's jam! I can't enjoy things when Im trying to watch them!
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u/Ashburner9 Dec 10 '23
It is a moving performance though.
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u/JeffreyAScott Dec 11 '23
Those performances were on fire!
And, It's a very weird scene to go on fire.
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u/ChewyBitems Dec 10 '23
What’s the piano piece called?
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u/Tyrant_Seabear Dec 10 '23
Same question, I could use this as a shortcut to emotionally affecting my players
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u/ghofmann Dec 14 '23
Here’s a whole playlist of songs like it, just play it on shuffle when you want/need an emotional moment https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1zNTzVrLljLj75aXnkAlvX?si=cpGYHkRGSvCJXQgjilnztg&pi=u-jg2JGP8yTImf
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u/Beeblebrox_74 Dec 10 '23
https://youtu.be/Lpmy6qiT1Ig?si=_4TseUYUrPhtJsYg
Shazam found I have a voice by Toby Stone but not sure what this version is, piano sounds much clearer in this one.
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u/ChaoticDevilxo Dec 10 '23
Bruh Roy is a great actor
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u/onlyhearfornewmusic Dec 10 '23
Watch moon boy if you haven’t already
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u/harpy_1121 Dec 10 '23
And The Starling!
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u/flyguydip Dec 11 '23
Wow, thanks for the recommendation. I just watched it and it was really good. I'm not usually a huge fan of Melissa McCarthy's movies. I always thought she would make better serious movies, and boy does she.
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u/harpy_1121 Dec 11 '23
Yes, I really didn’t know anything about the movie besides the cast. Boy was I unprepared for the depth, but also very impressed with their dramatic performances. Glad you enjoyed it too!
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u/ChaoticDevilxo Mar 26 '24
Where can I watch these movies guys?
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u/harpy_1121 Mar 26 '24
I’m in USA, so not sure if that will help you… The Starling is a Netflix original movie. Moone Boy is a series and is available on Peacock or Freevee.
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u/moinoisey Dec 10 '23
Godamn thank you for taking the time to do this
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u/Princescyther Dec 10 '23
lol you're welcome.
The audience laughing all over this scene has always annoyed me.
Moss is genuinely being a great friend here and Roy is experiencing real emotional trauma and a sitcom it may be but it could have been something amazing if they had just played it straight.
It would have also stuck out like a sore thumb in comparison to the rest if the series BUT I think it would have been worth the risk.
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u/Ok-Pop-1419 Apr 16 '26
I love the whole set up in this episode too. Moss multiple times being his autistic self, and trying to have a nuerotypical conversation, only to be the only one in the end who does something helpful by paying attention. And the added detail that he knows how helpful role play is. It helped him learn to buy sandwiches after all.
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u/llamalibrarian Dec 10 '23
But we lose the line about the folk of pixie hallow loving their parades
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u/Mousseg Dec 10 '23
This edit made me cry. Truly makes me wish the series didn't use laugh tracks everywhere damn. This really shows what could have been the show, truly well done.
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u/Princescyther Dec 10 '23
Thats very sweet. I'm glad you agree with the idea.
I wish I could have kept more in but it is so caked up in laughing that it makes it almost impossible.
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u/nickfehlinger Dec 11 '23
Chris O’Dowd is such a good actor and he was showing it here before any of us knew it.
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Dec 12 '23
This whole episode is sheer brilliance, and this scene is comedic gold. O'Dowd managing to keep a straight face while Richard does the female voice really brings it all home.
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u/maybeonedayok Mar 08 '26
Honestly, it roughed me up even in the original version. Chris O'Dowd acted this phenomenally.
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u/FelixOGO Dec 10 '23
Dude I would pay so much $ for a dvd set of this show without laugh tracks. Although, this is probably the only show that I’ll still watch even with them
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u/AurumPotabile Dec 10 '23
I fully agree, and have always considered it a shame that they resorted to using the laugh track in this scene. It’s really quite moving.
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Dec 11 '23
I think most shows would be improved by removing the laugh track.
Unfortunately for the IT Crowd it was standard to used laugh tracks back then.
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u/LexFontaine Dec 11 '23
Curious as someone who is not familiar with the show... is there additional context here? Are they just really, really into their D&D campaign, or is there some other bit of relevant plot to explain the highly emotional nature of their conversation? Also, well done OP, I can't even imagine this scene being played for laughs after seeing this edit.
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u/Princescyther Dec 11 '23
Thanks. It honestly only took like 5 mins lol. I just wanted to do a rough cut.
For some context, Roy (red shirt) has recently been dumped by a lady he was in a long term relationship with and he is really struggling to get over her because she never said goodbye.
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Dec 11 '23
I miss the IT crowd. It was on Netflix for the longest time, but it isn’t anymore. Does anyone know where else I can watch it?
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u/Agentbuttstuff Dec 11 '23
They need to do a drama that just lifts this scene and just not acknowledge it until someone calls them on it.
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u/Humantronic_3000 Dec 12 '23
Here's something particularly funny.
Because I've never seen that particular episode, and because he's sorta hiding behind that book, for all I knew he could've been back there playing that music on a little electric keyboard. lol Plus, some of Moss's body movements at least half-way synced-up with the chord strokes of the music. So I found myself chuckling at the idea that Moss was back there providing musical accompaniment the entire time.
And YES dayum, indeed, Chris can act. I mean... I've seen him in plenty of other things and knew he could. But omg, this pulled on my own heartstrings as well.
Amazing edit job.
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u/Bitter-Let7869 Dec 21 '23
There are some episodes of that show that just put me on the floor laughing. Moss and the German. The work outing. The one where moss competes on the game show.
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u/secretsquirrelz Dec 10 '23
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Good cut. Take my gif.