Help Clothe the Cast of the IT Crowd!
Via Boing Boing comes word that the UK’s wonderfully snarky geek sitcom, the IT Crowd, needs fan help to find the geekiest shirts, gewgaws, and whatchmacallits for season 3. From the original call to action:
How would you like to help in designing the look of series 3? Specifically, you’d be helping us choose the stuff that litters the main set. I’m talking about posters, comics, fanzines, T-shirts… anything you’ve seen in the last few months that you think is pretty cool or captures the spirit of the show or a particular character. By now, most of you know the kind of things I like…weird toys, indie comics, sci-fi, geek references, internet memes, boardgames…normally I’d delight in tracking down the stuff myself, but as I say, it’s just not going to happen this time round.
In the very first draft of the show I described the set as looking like “a cross between a comics shop and the batcave”. I wanted it to feel like a geek Shangri-La, and in each series I’ve felt we nearly got there. Maybe this time, with you guys involved, we’ll finally nail it.
I’ve included a clip of the series below - take note of how many inside jokes there are; it makes for plenty of geekdom eye candy. If you’ve got some ideas send them to ben.capel@talkbackthames.tv.
