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    The IT Crowd Smoke & Mirrors | Full Episode | Series 2 Episode 5

    23:32 10/9/2024 The IT Crowd🇮🇱 Subtitled

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    The IT Crowd Smoke & Mirrors | Series 2 Episode 5 Ep 5 - Smoke and Mirrors Roy comes back from a stag night wearing lipstick; he passed out and the other men decided to put makeup on him as a prank. Jen loses concentration during a meeting after wearing a "bad bra" to work; Moss gets over his usual sensitivity to ladies' undergarments and with the help of his mother's underwear drawer, designs the ultimate bra. Naming it the "Abracadabra" and fearing retribution from established companies, Moss adopts a pseudonym he has trouble remembering. As the design goes forward, both Jen and Roy help prepare him to pitch his invention on well-known TV series Dragon's Den, in exchange for a return of the eventual profits. However, things start to go down the drain on arrival at the studio – while waiting to do a TV interview, Moss confuses his pseudonym with the name of a spokesman for the MOD, and ends up on a news interview discussing the Iraq war. Things go from bad to worse for both Jen and Moss when he fails to rid the bra of its Achilles heel: randomly catching fire. Starring Chris O'Dowd as Roy Trenneman, Richard Ayoade as Maurice Moss, Katherine Parkinson as Jen Barber, Matt Berry as Douglas Reynholm. Director Graham Linehan Writer Graham Linehan The IT Crowd is a British sitcom originally broadcast by Channel 4, written and directed by Graham Linehan, produced by Ash Atalla and starring Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, and Matt Berry. Set in the offices of the fictional Reynholm Industries in London, the series revolves around the three staff members of its IT (Information Technology) department: technical genius Maurice Moss (Ayoade); work-shy Roy Trenneman (O'Dowd); and Jen Barber (Parkinson). #theitcrowd #fullepisode #itcrowd

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    צוות ה-IT: עשן ומראות | פרק מלא | עונה 2 פרק 5

    בפרק הזה, רוי חוזר ממסיבת רווקים כשהוא מאופר בשפתון, תוצאה של מתיחה עסיסית של חבריו. ג'ן מתקשה להתרכז בפגישת עבודה בגלל חזייה לא נוחה, ומוס, בצעד מפתיע, מתגבר על רגישותו לתחתוני נשים ובעזרת מגירת התחתונים של אמו, מעצב את ה"אברקדברה" – החזייה המושלמת. הוא מאמץ שם בדוי מתוך חשש מתאגידי הענק, וג'ן ורוי מסייעים לו להתכונן להצגת המצאתו בתוכנית הטלוויזיה "Dragon's Den" תמורת אחוזים מהרווחים. אלא שהעניינים מסתבכים במהרה – מוס מבלבל את שמו הבדוי עם דובר משרד הביטחון ומוצא את עצמו מרואיין בחדשות על מלחמת עיראק, ובהמשך, כשהחזייה שלו נכשלת באופן סדרתי ומתלקחת באקראי, הוא וג'ן מבינים שהחלום על מיליונים עשוי להתפוגג בעשן.

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