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Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

RandyRandomCited 3× on HN, 2014–2025
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comedy · general · evergreen · 2014–2025 on HN

A one-minute clip from The IT Crowd (S03E02) in which Roy and Moss memorize fake football jargon to pass as real men. The scene's punchline is the ludicrous made-up football talk.

HN uses it as a joke reference, dropping the quote or clip when a thread's topic echoes the scene.

3 comments from Hacker News

@chongli2025-03 · in “Who's Afraid of Tom Wolfe?”

It's the American version of "Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"!!! [1] [1] ▶ this video

@chatmasta2020-03 · in “I have seen things”

In an effort to cut through this meta-irony, here is a link to the reference: ▶ this video Maybe it should be included in the bootcamp!

@tripzilch2014-06 · in “How can an introvert Asian engineer like me make friends?”

Source: ▶ this video (for people that don't know IT Crowd , go watch it, it's excellent, and not that many episodes were made)