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The IT Crowd · Season 1, Episode 15

Harold Tong, aka "Prime", Roy and others in “Unfinished Business”

[The 8+ Club are playing Street Countdown]

HTHarold Tong, aka "Prime"

Eighteen letters, I've never seen so many... he is the One.

Roy

[incredulously] What are you...

PPrime

Shh! This is the longest word yet on Street Countdown! Unlike normal Countdown, you see—

Roy

I don't care.

[The 8+ Club finish an acapella version of the Countdown music]

PPrime

Negative One?

NONegative One

Twelve.

Moss

Sixteen.

PPrime

Your word, Negative One.

NONegative One

Enormousness.

Moss

I shall give my answer, if I may, in the form of a joke.

PPrime

This is most irregular...

Moss

What do you call Negative One sitting alone in an empty room?

PPrime

I don't know, what do you call Negative One sitting alone in an empty room?

Moss

Overnumerousness!

PPrime

Gyles?

[Pan to Gyles Brandreth in a makeshift Dictionary Corner]

GGyles

Yes, that is a word! And the joke does make sense!

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