Jokes you don't/didn't get

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

Yeah, floppies sounds about right for Red Dwarf.

[cwickham]

The CD was scratched and is skipping, and “the tape got twisted” is a colloquialism.

[RunawayTrain]

Ooh, floppy disks could warp, not quite the thorough definition of ‘twisted’ but close enough.

My own personal imagining was of a reel of slim tape, slim enough to fit in the case.  I guess there’s no reason a futuristic cassette would have to have the bump at the bottom though, so a redesigned cassette which happens to fit into what we see as a CD case could also explain it.

[Hamish]

Of course we do actually see them using Microcassettes in Bodyswap and they look exactly like they do today. Or rather, exactly as they did in 1989.

[Unrumble]

The CD was scratched and is skipping, and “the tape got twisted” is a colloquialism.

[GlenTokyo]

Computer slug is tape too.

[Warbodog]

[Dave]

[Jonathan Capps]

haha, holy fuck

[clem]

[si]

[RunawayTrain]

1422 was not “somewhere nice and safe and dull”, it was in the middle of the Hundred Years’ War (and not during one of the truces either).

My history education clearly was not much better than Lister’s!

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

Imagine them getting back to Earth in 1421, there’s a “five minutes later” caption, and they’re all running for their lives from King Henry’s army.

[Formica]

Imagine them getting back to Earth in 1421, then there’s a “nine years later” caption and they’re all back on Red Dwarf like nothing ever happened.

[Ridley]

Imagine them getting back to Earth in 1421, orbiting the planet from a safe distance for a bit.

[Formica]

Imagine them gettirg back to earth in 1421 but the gigabots have turned it into a massive fucking Red Dwarf

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Imagine making love to a woman.

[Dave]

Imagine there’s no heaven, no hell, and the only purpose of existence is to lead a worthwhile life.

[Starbugger]

It’s easy if you try.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

Imagine we’re all characters in a television series and we’re all about to be killed off in a final episode but it’s actually a fake-out and we were dreaming all along.

[Moonlight]

Imagine if one day we actually heard a sexy detail.

[Jonathan Capps]

It’s easy if you try

[Dave]

[Formica]

[Moonlight]

The fuck does this mean?

[Jonathan Capps]

“NO DUELS”

[Flap Jack]

I’m not very good with languages, but I’m pretty sure it means “delicious pineapple”.

[Dave]

The fuck does this mean?

[SmegHammer]

Not so much a joke but a bit that always seemed complete nonsense. Maybe you could just put it down to Series VIII madness

Implying he will go far and achieve good things. But then goes on to say

[Ian Symes]

Maybe Hollister is saying, sarcastically, one of *his* ambitions is to have someone like Rimmer looking up to him in that way.

Or, he’s saying that Rimmer has become like him, because of the attempts to blackmail his way up the ranks with the confidential files, like he did in his donut boy days.

[cwickham]

Is it meant to be a call-back to Dennis the Doughnut Boy, or would that have not been possible given the timeline of the various VIII reshoots?

[International Debris]

The fuck does this mean?

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[SmegHammer]

I refuse to believe that its a callback to Dennis the Doughnut Boy on the grounds that I don’t want to believe he would do it twice. I prefer to think of that joke as a one off, lost in time like tears in rain

[Moonlight]

I looked this up and I still don’t get it.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

There’s supposed to be a lot of old people in Eastbourne? Doesn’t seem there’s much to get.

[Rudolph]

Eastbourne is, or was, a popular location for the elderly to either retire to or go on holiday. Colloquially known as God’s Waiting Room.

[International Debris]

Yeah, it was sort of considered the retirement capital of the UK (or England, at least). I think that’s a lot less of a thing these days, with that whole area of the Sussex coast turning into a Brighton overspill, but at the time it was pretty much the only thing Eastbourne was known for.

[RunawayTrain]

I remember a PSE teacher telling us an anecdote about when he drove the school minibus in Eastbourne and sat at a zebra crossing waiting for an interminably long line of old people to finish crossing.  20years later I have no idea why and cannot recall any of the details (it must have been the way he told it) but I found it absolutely hilarious and couldn’t stop laughing for the rest of the lesson.

Anyway, that’s why I got the joke (and every time I hear that line, I enjoy the memory too).

[Moonlight]

Oh, so the American version would be “no word for Florida.”

[GlenTokyo]

See also: Eastbourne Zimmer frame relay team

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

Oh, so the American version would be “no word for Florida.”

Why, is Florida the old people capital?

[International Debris]

A lot of people retire to Florida, yeah. I don’t think it would quite work in the same way, partially because it’s a state rather than a town, and it’s also known for holidays, Disney etc. 

[Moonlight]

I still think you could make the same joke with “Florida” and it would instantly scan to any American.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

Wouldn’t scan so well elsewhere though.

Maybe that’d be the US version of the joke.

[Dave]

Maybe that’d be the US version of the joke.

[Ridley]

Wouldn’t scan so well elsewhere though.
Maybe that’d be the US version of the joke.

It gets mentioned in American shows plenty.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

I guess I haven’t seen enough American TV.

[Stabbim]

Imagine there’s no heaven, no hell, and the only purpose of existence is to lead a worthwhile life.

[Moonlight]

Wouldn’t scan so well elsewhere though.
Maybe that’d be the US version of the joke.

Oh, so the American version would be “no word for Florida.”

You mean maybe it would the be the very thing I explicitly said it was?

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