The IT Crowd (TV Series)

Smoke and Mirrors (2007)

Katherine Parkinson: Jen Barber

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Quotes 

• Helen Buley : Reynholm industries has come a long way in the past few years if a young woman like this can blossom within its walls. I remember when the atmosphere here was a lot less conducive to what I can remember one executive calling "working skirt".

  John : Yes, well I think we're all a little older and a little wiser now, Helen.

  Helen Buley : One would hope so.

  [Jen has a pained expression] 

  Helen Buley : Are you OK, Jen?

  Jen Barber : My tits... Oh! Oh, oh, oh, my tits are hot! Oh, oh they're really, really hot! Oh... oh my tits are on fire! Yes, my tits are on fire, they are on fire. My tits are on fire! Ahh! Ahh!...

  Office Junior : Oh, yeah! All right!

  [applauds] 

• Jen Barber : With all due respect, John, I am head of IT, and I have it on good authority: if you type 'Google' into Google, you can break the Internet. so please, no one try it, even for a joke.

• Jen Barber : Where'd you get pizza?

  Roy : Some idiot left it in the toilet!

• Dragon's Den offscreen announcer : Jen, Roy, and Maurice are IT professionals with Reynholm industries. They walk up the stairs and across the room. They nod at the Dragons. One of them, Maurice, puts a case on a chair.The Dragons are beside piles of money, with pens.

  Jen Barber : [nervously]  Women in the workplace...

  Dragon's Den offscreen announcer : Take your time.

  Jen Barber : Women working... in a workplace environment, work... in workplaces... um, where they work. And, as a woman... as a worker... As a woman worker who... works in workplaces... Um, sorry, a bit of asthma.

  [after an awkward silence, Moss opens the brief case and holds up a bra, which spontaneously bursts into flames. He drops it and stamps it out] 

  Roy : We are looking for £400,000 at 2%.