Misunderstandings from my childhood

I didn’t understand the Confidence & Paranoia joke about Murder on the Orient Express. I assumed Holly was just bad at working out the culprits in mystery novels.

I had no idea what “don’t go and see run for your wife” was supposed to mean. But then, no one else had heard of that film either.

You may still, because the joke was about the play!

These won’t all be from childhood, but there will doubtless be plenty that are: https://www.ganymede.tv/forums/topic/jokes-you-dont-didnt-get/

They may have “got on great” because Young Lister didn’t realise he was being made fun of, but Rimmer was absolutely being sarcastic.

Yeah, it took me a while to understand that too. But I think “keep writing those hits, kid” makes it fairly explicit that that’s the intention. 

When I first read the Rimmer-in-disguise sequence at the start of Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, I’d never heard the word “brothel”. So I read that whole section assuming the word was pronounced to rhyme with “brother”, with the first vowel more of a “u” sound. 

I think Rimmer was being sincere? The gag being that present Rimmer and past Lister got on great. 

Oops. I always thought this, too. Other posters seem to have corrected me/us…

He has notoriously shit taste in music, so it doesn’t stretch the imagination at all that he genuinely enjoys it. It’s a baffling performance, really, either way. He could either be genuinely really eager or pretending to be, extremely poorly. Is it Chris or Rimmer who is being unconvincing?

I’ve never thought it was anything other than Rimmer trying to thwart adult Lister’s plan, by convincing the young him that he’s a great musician and should persevere with that, rather than taking the Tension Sheet suggestion.

Maybe he does it in an ‘uncharacteristic’ way, but he’s trying to fool a young man who doesn’t know him, so is trying to affect an affability that he doesn’t really have, which seems to work (“what a nice guy”), but potentially is also trying to not make it too obvious to adult Lister that’s what he’s doing.

My reading of it has always been: Lister wants his younger self to do a thing (that will lead to Rimmer being jealous) that his younger self won’t do, therefore Rimmer is “cheerleading” the younger Lister both to annoy adult Lister and to encourage his younger self to continue on the path that adult Lister is trying to divert him from. I never thought he genuinely liked him, nor that he actually liked the Om song, that was all just him twisting the knife in to adult Lister.

I don’t think I get this one to this very day 

It was sort of discussed here: https://www.ganymede.tv/forums/topic/what-are-shirt-tails-for/

A couple of people seemed to agree that they’d be useful for wiping his arse on, though you’d then have a shitty shirt hanging off you…

That directly supposed that pants only exist in case you shit yourselt

Also, Rimmer is definitely not sincere with young Lister. He is just trying to convince him not to go the tension sheet route 

Right, I’ve just rewatched and I still think Rimmer likes the song, hence walking into Red Dwarf still ‘singing’ it. I accept he may at the same time be trying to thwart present Listers plan. 

I also noticed for the first time, present Lister says ‘I’ll see you lot later’ then returns a full 15 seconds ‘later’ with past Lister who seems to know exactly who present Lister is already. Maybe there was some cut dialogue between the other 3. 

I always assumed the Kevin Keegan book was real until very recently when googling it and only getting Red Dwarf results.

I’m still trying to track down Gary Lineker’s Book of Ghost Stories from Father Ted.

But how does that Rimmer even know of it? Rimmer clearly first heard it after he died.

I always assumed the Kevin Keegan book was real until very recently when googling it and only getting Red Dwarf results.

But confusingly, I did have this book when I was a kid:

And of course between Timeslides and Krytie TV Lister goes back to liking the song again.

And of course between Timeslides and Krytie TV Lister goes back to liking the song again.

He always liked the song. He was just embarrassed in front of his mates.