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

Name: IT Crowd - Have You Tried Turning It Off And On Again?
Description: 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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Cited on HN 3 times, 2011–2023, never outright recommended score 0

Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

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

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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@dolinsky Apr 2011 Makes a joke

on HN thread "... 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]

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@isostatic Apr 2018 Makes a joke

on HN thread 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]

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@ly3xqhl8g9 Mar 2023 Makes a joke

on HN thread 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]

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