
IT Crowd - Have You Tried Turning It Off And On Again?
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The classic IT Crowd scene in which tech support answers every call with 'Have you tried turning it off and on again?'
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HN posts it as the canonical joke for restart-as-fix situations.
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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': [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗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: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗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] [VIDEO]
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