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IT Crowd - Have You Tried Turning It Off And On Again?

Cam G VideosCited 3× on HN, 2011–2023
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comedy · general · evergreen · 2011–2023 on HN

The classic IT Crowd scene in which tech support answers every call with 'Have you tried turning it off and on again?'

HN posts it as the canonical joke for restart-as-fix situations.

3 comments from Hacker News

@ly3xqhl8g92023-03 · in “Microsoft Designer”

Yes, and that makes it even more funny (and disheartening): 2023's self -fixing technology is the old classic "have you tried turning it off and on again" [1]. [1] ▶ this video

@isostatic2018-04 · in “Half of European flights delayed due to system failure”

Decade old UK tv series on BBC two? I imagine most have never heard of it. I was thinking more of an even older show: ▶ this video

@dolinsky2011-04 · in “"... so now I will jiggle things randomly until they unbreak" is not acceptable'”

At the risk of causing a bunch of you to spend the rest of the day watching the whole 3 seasons of The IT Crowd....The canonical answer to 'Have you tried turning if off and on again': ▶ this video