Maurice Moss is a fictional character portrayed by Richard Ayoade in the TV series The IT Crowd.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Yesterday's Jam (season 1), they were 28 years old.
They appear in all 24 aired episodes and have accumulated 42743 positive votes.
The character of Maurice Moss is mainly associated with Roy Trenneman, Jen Barber and Richmond.
Episodes25
Yesterday's Jam
episode S1.E1 february 2006Jen starts at Reynholm industries as the IT Manager. But it turns out she doesn't know anything about computers.
Calamity Jen
episode S1.E2 february 2006Denholm invites a stress expert when he starts a war against stress. Jen has a shoe problem which has a serious effect.
Fifty-Fifty
episode S1.E3 february 2006When Roy gets dumped after a date, he starts believing that girls go for "bad boys" and creates a fake profile on a dating site and, surprisingly, gets a response. Meanwhile, Jen starts flirting with a security guard.
The Red Door
episode S1.E4 february 2006Moss puts a picture of his head on his cup to make sure it doesn't get lost. Curious about the red door behind Roy's desk, Jen ignores the boys' warnings never to open it, and goes in. She finds the vampiric Richmond inside.
The Haunting of Bill Crouse
episode S1.E5 february 2006Jen goes on a bad date with a colleague, Bill. Not wanting to ever see Bill again, she asks Moss to come up with a lie that would send Bill away for good if he comes to visit her. Moss panics under pressure and tells Bill that Jen is dead.
Aunt Irma Visits
episode S1.E6 march 2006Jen has her period and she starts to see the same symptoms in the boys. They say that it's impossible but they reconsider after they start having the same symptoms as Jen. They're even given their own website after talking about it online.
The Work Outing
episode S2.E1 august 2007Jen's new boyfriend invites Roy, Moss and Jen to a controversial theatre play, which creates a series of misunderstandings that end up having unintended consequences of epic proportions.
Return of the Golden Child
episode S2.E2 august 2007Denholm dies and they have to go to the funeral and Roy is worried about dying.
Moss and the German
episode S2.E3 september 2007Jen complains that Roy and Moss spend too much time together, so Moss takes a German cooking class.
The Dinner Party
episode S2.E4 september 2007Jen has met someone normal, and plans for a nice dinner party. Things go awry when Jen invites her workmates after her original male guests cancel.
Smoke and Mirrors
episode S2.E5 september 2007To help Jen with her bra discomfort, Moss miraculously invents the most comfortable bra in the world, so the gang decides to patent it without fully testing the product first. Moss also invents an alter ego to promote the product.
Men Without Women
episode S2.E6 september 2007Jen is offered a promotion but can she trust Douglas. The boys see this as an opportunity to goof off.
From Hell
episode S3.E1 november 2008Moss is menaced by a gang of bullies at the park, Roy is forced to lend Douglas £20 and becomes obsessed with getting it back, and Jen's home is worked on by someone Roy suspects to be the infamous Builder From Hell.
Are We Not Men?
episode S3.E2 november 2008Roy and Moss' attempt to bluff their way through conversations using generic football guy-talk goes catastrophically out of control when Roy befriends the wrong crowd. Meanwhile, Jen dates a man who looks like a magician to everyone.
Tramps Like Us
episode S3.E3 december 2008Douglas is forced to wear anti sexual arousal electric pants after an incident with Jen. Jen looks for work elsewhere. Beyond his control, Roy finds himself shirtless and thrown out of the building.
The Speech
episode S3.E4 december 2008Annoyed by the fact that Jen has inexplicably been declared the Employee of the Month, Moss and Roy play a prank on her to expose her ignorance about the Internet; Douglas and a hot newswoman with a secret past fall madly in love.
Friendface
episode S3.E5 december 2008Friendface: a place to make new friends on the Internet--or is it? Jen gets seriously hooked and gets Roy and Moss to join her after mentioning Scrabble and women.
Calendar Geeks
episode S3.E6 december 2008Roy makes a move on a girl on 7th floor. He ends up fund raising for people with her brother's condition. She suggests a nude calendar with girls of the 7th floor. Roy'll take the photos. Jen doesn't buy it. It doesn't go as planned.
Jen the Fredo
episode S4.E1 june 2010Jen has to entertain a group of visiting sexist yuppie executives looking for a raunchy good time. Her solution is a role playing game with the IT Crowd. Moss also uses the game to help Roy get over his breakup with the love of his life.
The Final Countdown
episode S4.E2 july 2010Roy tries to locate a window-cleaner who left his ladders in Roy's flat, Moss becomes a member of the strange, secret, elite club of Countdown (1982) champions, and Jen investigates what's going on in the Heads of Department meetings.
Something Happened
episode S4.E3 july 2010Douglas falls under the spell of a crazy mystic, and Jen falls under the spell of a geeky keyboard player. Moss finds it all most entertaining and worthy of popcorn. Meanwhile, Roy is forced to sue his masseur for sexual harassment.
Italian for Beginners
episode S4.E4 july 2010Moss is obsessed with an iPhone in an arcade game. Roy is obsessed with a water park fire. Jen is obsessed with speaking Italian.
Bad Boys
episode S4.E5 july 2010Moss and Roy blow off work and miss a party at work they really, really needed to attend, especially since instead they wander into a restricted zone where police suspect an abandoned package is a bomb.
Reynholm vs Reynholm
episode S4.E6 july 2010Douglas' dead wife returns and sues him. Jen acts as his defence council, and Roy and Moss as his character witnesses.
The Internet Is Coming
episode S5.E0 september 2013In the series finale, Moss discovers the power of women's slacks; Roy's problem with a little-person barista turns him and Jen into social pariahs and global hate figures thanks (?) to the Internet.
- Yesterday's Jam
- Calamity Jen
- Fifty-Fifty
- The Red Door
- The Haunting of Bill Crouse
- Aunt Irma Visits
- The Work Outing
- Return of the Golden Child
- Moss and the German
- The Dinner Party
- Smoke and Mirrors
- Men Without Women
- From Hell
- Are We Not Men?
- Tramps Like Us
- The Speech
- Friendface
- Calendar Geeks
- Jen the Fredo
- The Final Countdown
- Something Happened
- Italian for Beginners
- Bad Boys
- Reynholm vs Reynholm
- The Internet Is Coming
Best moments10
- Moss and Roy blow off work and miss a party at work they really, really needed to attend, especially since instead they wander into a restricted zone where police suspect an abandoned package is a bomb.
- Roy tries to locate a window-cleaner who left his ladders in Roy's flat, Moss becomes a member of the strange, secret, elite club of Countdown (1982) champions, and Jen investigates what's going on in the Heads of Department meetings.
- To help Jen with her bra discomfort, Moss miraculously invents the most comfortable bra in the world, so the gang decides to patent it without fully testing the product first. Moss also invents an alter ego to promote the product.
- Jen complains that Roy and Moss spend too much time together, so Moss takes a German cooking class.
- Jen has to entertain a group of visiting sexist yuppie executives looking for a raunchy good time. Her solution is a role playing game with the IT Crowd. Moss also uses the game to help Roy get over his breakup with the love of his life.
- Denholm invites a stress expert when he starts a war against stress. Jen has a shoe problem which has a serious effect.
- Moss is menaced by a gang of bullies at the park, Roy is forced to lend Douglas £20 and becomes obsessed with getting it back, and Jen's home is worked on by someone Roy suspects to be the infamous Builder From Hell.
- Jen goes on a bad date with a colleague, Bill. Not wanting to ever see Bill again, she asks Moss to come up with a lie that would send Bill away for good if he comes to visit her. Moss panics under pressure and tells Bill that Jen is dead.
- Jen has her period and she starts to see the same symptoms in the boys. They say that it's impossible but they reconsider after they start having the same symptoms as Jen. They're even given their own website after talking about it online.
- Friendface: a place to make new friends on the Internet--or is it? Jen gets seriously hooked and gets Roy and Moss to join her after mentioning Scrabble and women.
- Bad Boys
- The Final Countdown
- Smoke and Mirrors
- Moss and the German
- Jen the Fredo
- Calamity Jen
- From Hell
- The Haunting of Bill Crouse
- Aunt Irma Visits
- Friendface