22nd May 2023
The Speech - S3-E4
April Shepherd: Could you be more specific? It's just, I'm trying to build a picture of your role in Reynholm Industries.
Douglas Reynholm: Well, I'm the boss. Head Honcho. El Numero Uno. Mr. Big. The Godfather. Lord of the Rings. The Bourne Identity. Uh, Taxi Driver. Jaws. I forgot the question quite a while back. Who are you again?
17th Feb 2021
Continuity mistake: The way Jen's books are stacked changes after she says "pedal stool." The book with the red pages moves to the top.
4th Jul 2020
Roy: Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again? [Sighs] OK, well, the button on the side, is it glowing? Yeah, you need to turn it on. Uh, the button turns it on. Yeah. You...Yeah...You do know how a button works, don't you? No, not on clothes.
Moss: Hello, IT. Yeah huh. Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?
Roy: No, no, there you go. No there you go. I just heard it come on. No, no, that's the music you hear when it comes on. No, that's the music you hear when... I'm sorry, are you from the past?
Moss: You see, the driver hooks a function by patching the system call table so it's not safe to unload unless another thread's about to jump in there and do its stuff And you don't want to end up in the middle of invalid memory. [Laughs]. Hello?
8th Jun 2020
Calamity Jen - S1-E2
Question: In this episode, there's a commercial about "999" being changed to a ridiculous long number. While I get why it would be funny, was there some basis for joke itself? Like, was there talk about the UK changing the emergency number or something? Or is it just completely random. And when Roy says "how hard is it to remember 911, I mean 999", is this just a joke for American viewers to understand what 999 is? Or do British people say or use "911" too?
26th May 2017
Continuity mistake: When Laura Knightly leans against Roy for the cameraman to take a couple photos, her face is even with Roy's. In the next shot she's above him so her chin is at Roy's eyes.
16th Sep 2015
The Haunting Of Bill Crouse - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: The voicemail Jen leaves for Bill is different than the one Bill listens to. For example, Jen says "stop telling everyone", but when it's played back, we hear her say "stop telling people."
11th Sep 2015
Jen: Mr. Reynholm, I don't need to remind you of the report that denounced Reynholm Industries as an institutionally sexist organization.
Douglas: Now you hold on a minute, sugar tits. Everybody saw through that report. And, I even got that award off those feminist. The one shaped like the ice cream fellow.
Jen: That's the Shithead of the Year award. It actually says it on the base, "Shithead of the Year." Did you not read the base?
23rd Aug 2015
Roy: [phone rings.] Hello, IT, have you tried turning it off and on again? Have you tried sticking it up your arse? [hangs up phone.] Oh, yeah, yeah, I just realized that was my mother.
23rd Aug 2015
Roy: It's like they're all pally-wally when there's a problem with their printer, but once it's fixed-
Moss: They toss us away like yesterday's jam.
Roy: Yes! Yesterday's jam! That is what we are to them. Actually, you know what. That doesn't really work as a thing, because jam lasts for ages.
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Answer: It's a joke on the "118" numbers in the UK. 118 numbers were used for directory enquiries and adverts for them on TV always tried to give a way to easily remember one for a particular company. The fake ad in the show takes it to the extreme. People in the UK do not use "911", the point of the joke was that Roy had forgotten "999" while saying it was easy to remember.