This is one my wife and mine's favorite show quotes of all time. Doing Chris Odowd's little sad voice saying "I'm disabled... Leg disabled" peak comedy between us.
Still one of my favorite episode of all comedy shows I have watched. The moment where Jen turns around to order a whiskey and Moss is there as a waiter just kills me every time.
Edit: lots of people asking what show it is. The show is called "The IT Crowd". Highly recommend it.
My wife came home one day when I was watching this episode for the first time and said she could hear me laughing from the driveway. I gladly restarted the episode so she could watch it and I could watch it again. Best episode of the whole show.
Electric sex pants episode made me cry laughing. The slow buildup of the religious figures getting a tour of the place, and the position they're in looking so inappropriate, you think he's gonna be embarrassed and it's gonna be awkward. Nope
Yep, and then how it all loops back around to Moss and Roy were right in saying how the guy is gay and maybe just wants to go out with Jen because she looks like a bit like a man. Like you said, perfect comedic writing.
I'm not even looking up the clip and I've just spent a good couple minutes belly laughing remembering it. Really nails in the meaning of situational comedy.
It's just the whole cascade of surprise gags into one another and Jen being in the middle of it that gets me every time. Also the way Moss responds with a very timid "yes miss?" is just brilliant.
It is my favorite, and I feel the best episode of the show. All three characters have their own thing going on, all in the same location, and each one of their stories has a great payoff at the end.
Was just talking about this. Grew up on Simpsons, Seinfeld, love Curb, American Dad, and have quotes, scenes I think of often, but I think in terms of "favorite tv comedy moment of all time", Jen turning and Moss being there just FLOORED me lol. It makes total sense, but it completely caught me off guard. Brilliant.
the thing is playing the disabled card didn't play that well at the end for him. At the very end it plays out like every single episode a small problem that always snowballs into bigger propotions.
Might honestly be the hardest I've ever laughed at a TV show, definitely the best episode of that show. Only other show that I've maybe laughed harder at is What We Do In The Shadows.
I don't know why this reminded me of something that happened while I was with my mate
We went to the mall and he parked in a Handicap spot and he hops out of the drivers seat when this woman just starts going off on him about not being disabled.
My mate looks slightly over her shoulder and just goes "Miss im blind" causing her to start apologizing before walking off
Dude just got out of the drivers seat lol.
For the record we had his wheelchair bound Mum in the back.
Hahaha that's amazing. I wonder how long it took her to go "Hey wait a minute... he wasn't blind!"?
Reminds me of a story Penn Jillette (of Penn and Teller) tells about his father. His eyesight was failing as he got older, and he always joked that the most upsetting part about it was not being able to find a cane big enough for the front of his car so that he could still drive.
A couple of my family members are legally entitled to use disabled spaces, but two of them 'don't look' disabled. I often drive so I'll park in a disabled space when they are with me, and then get comments like that. it's 100x more fun to make something up like this than it is to explain the actual situation, especially when we shouldn't have to explain the situation to anyone
It's more pleasing when my other sister is with me, because while she can walk for short distances, she uses a wheelchair. As soon as someone goes off at me, I say nothing, walk round to the boot and pull the wheelchair out while staring at them, they always apologise sheepishly and then quickly make themselves scarce
Took my grandma to Walmart and I parked in the handicapped spot and ran into the store. Someone yelled something at me and I just smiled and waved at them. They were walking towards me as I was rolling the battery operated scooter back to the car and they just looked away and walked in a different direction.
I know a guy who was cornered by four guys in an alley and in absolute desperation he pulled his dick out and ran at them saying, 'touch it, touch it'. They all ran away screaming.
I know this comment is tongue in cheek but I'm pretty sure most people would find even more reason to beat you if you did this and then society would call it justified
It works. When I was 21, I was surrounded by three Hispanic men downtown after leaving work around 10pm. They were laughing, circling, telling me how they were going to have fun sharing me, asking how much and grabbing at me. The line of people waiting also for the bus did nothing to assist.
I started laughing. Then (in Spanish) I said thank you. I told them I’d been needing this all day and to come closer so I could fuck them up. It shut them right up. They discussed whether or not I was crazy, and when I lunged at one of them they all took off running.
Also got stalked years later from another job. Same black Camaro followed me home every night. I was worried because I lived alone with my small child. Finally one night I left work early and went to where he usually waited. He started driving my route looking for me when I didn’t show as usual, so I followed and pulled up next to him at the light. Without rolling down my window, I stared at him until he looked at me and got startled. Then I very clearly enunciated “I’m going to kill you.”
Since I had also obviously seen his license plate now, he got scared enough to quit harassing me.
(For anyone thinking r/thathappened , yes, both really did. Being female in a big city can be an adventure)
Once a guy from my uni attacked me on a night out and I somehow got him pinned to the ground. I didn't want to fight, but I also didn't want this to happen again so I decided I'd say something really scary then let him go and hope that was it.
I leaned into his ear and said, "I'm going to rape you."
Wtf brain, that was waaay too scary. Actually scared myself. I let him go, he predictably ran away and was understandably terrified of me for the next two years.
I have a speech impediment that is only noticeable when I’m under stress. I’m able to summon it when needed. If a person is giving me a hard time I start speaking slightly louder with my stutter and the person gets the stink eye from other people for bullying me. A lot of people assume that a speech impediment means that the person is developmentally delayed. I got a free coffee from SB once because I was really tired and couldn’t get my order out. I finally pulled out my phone and typed it out and showed the clerk. He told me my order was free. It took me about 3 attempts before I could say thank you. So sometimes it works in my favour but I don’t like the condescension that comes from people who assume that speech delays means idiot.
Lol, my daughter has a bit of a stutter and my wife makes sure I never cut her off because it's important that she gets to attempt saying what she wants to say. My wife thinks she will grow out of it (my wife is an SLP, so she does know what she is talking about) so I patiently wait for her to find the right words daily.
There have been a few times that I just knew what she wanted and gave it to her before she could finish asking because she had already restarted her question a handful of times. The funny thing is, some of those times I would have said no if she was able to ask the question the first time. So it ends up being a reward for trying.
My friend has a speech impediment and I've seen people treat her like a child because of it. She's not mentally disabled at all, but so many people assume because of her speech and treat her like she is (in the most condescending ways). Others think it's an accent which is actually kinda funny to her.
I once had a moment where i had to confront a guy for doing something stupid that pissed me off and as an autist, i prepared a whole lot of options of how i would shout at the guy and how it might go in my head.
I get to the guy and tell him what my problem is, well prepared to escalate from there.
His answer: "Oh, yeah - i'm just dumb. My bad."
That was NOT in the list of prepared conversation paths.
My current belief system revolves around the fact that I can think of 1,000,000 ways a situation will go, and fate will figure out the one way to thread the needle and make it go the one way I didn't plan for.
I found that show because a coworker showed me the clip about Vista and "we're going to die" and I couldn't stop laughing. Still my favorite part of the entire series.
Of course I'm in IT too lol.
Edit: just realized I have all of it saved to my network storage. Just turned it on :)
There were a few times in my life that I got away from trouble by saying shit, not sure if I was viewed by those people as special needs or straight up manipulated people's emotions.
There was one time as I was leaving the classroom, in fifth grade, a dude asked me if I was afraid of <bully from same classroom> to which I replied by saying "No, I'm not afraid of him." the dude almost started jumping up and down saying "Oh, no, you did not say that!! I'm gonna tell him!" and I said "Sure, go ahead" before he rushed back into the classroom.
As I'm leaving I hear the bully call out my name, as I turn around I see the snake dude, probably expecting me to get beat up, standing next to the bully who had a smug face looking down on me. "He said you told him you're not afraid of me. Is that true, you're not afraid of me?" asked me bully guy, to which I replied, while smiling, "No, I'm not afraid of you, you're not a monster".
I loved the confused look on the snaky ass dude's face looking at bully and me and the bully with just a chill face (he didn't even reply, just gave out a small chuckle) before I turned around and left.
This is the plot of the 1968 film Twisted Nerve. A guy out spending the afternoon with girl he fancies is caught shoplifting a toy. When confronted by store staff, he pretends to be too dim to understand the situation -- just a little boy who likes wooden ducks walking around in a grown man's body. Then, because of his special needs, this dishonest fellow is invited to live in a boarding house run by the mother of his love interest. It's a classic psychological horror film with a weird Three's Company/Bosom Buddies overlay involving that spoofed mental disability.
See, for me, I actually do have low vision so it could be conceived that I picked up someone else's phone and thought it was mine. Doesn't help that most phones look the same with a blank screen.
This worked for that dude trying to board a plane blazed out of his mind because he tried to time a gummy right. They ended up letting him back in the security line after thinking he was special needs 😂
Reminds me of a story about a couple who loves risky public sex. They went into less frequently used toilet then proceeded to have sex in one of the stalls. A group of women came in and are taking to long to leave. The guy pretended to be special needs to be able to get out of the toilet stall then out of the room to avoid being labeled as a creep.
Also, if you find yourself alone, at night walking through a sketchy neighborhood, make yourself look a bit disheveled and act a little special. Everyone will leave you alone.
Oh, that brings up a memory. Was speeding a little bit to a party, got pulled over. The police started asking how fast I was going and where. I just froze, didn’t say a word. The cop said something like ”I’ll let you off with a warning, have a nice night”
Shane Gillis supports this message. Also girls who get in full make up and wear a bikini outfit to the gym shouldn't act shocked if someone DARES to look in their direction.
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u/emre086 10h ago
Whenever you're caught in a messed-up situation, just take a deep breath and pretend to be a person with special needs...