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

3.2M views · Nov 16, 2010 · 2:05 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2011–2023

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

Why Hacker News points people here: HN posts it as the canonical joke for restart-as-fix situations.

What Hacker News said 3

JokedolinskyApr 2011

“The canonical answer to 'Have you tried turning if off and on again'”

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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': this video

in “"... so now I will jiggle things randomly until they unbreak" is not acceptable'” · view on HN
JokeisostaticApr 2018
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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

in “Half of European flights delayed due to system failure” · view on HN
Jokely3xqhl8g9Mar 2023

“2023's self -fixing technology is the old classic "have you tried turning it off and on again" [1].”

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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