"For one, because The IT Crowd wasn’t about IT any more than Father Ted was about Catholicism."

?!?!?!?!?!?

I have worked in the IT industry nearly 30 years. It's VERY MUCH about being in IT. A friend of mine in IT for some 20 years and I identify with it - for being about IT - VERY much, as do other acquaintances of mine in IT.

This alone tells me you don't get it...