Jokes you don't/didn't get

[bloodteller]

i know there’s the thing of “the joke isn’t funny if you explain it” but were there ever gags in Red Dwarf you didn’t get? and if so, what?

i never quite got what Cat’s “stan and ollie” line in White Hole was about, for example. nor did i get what “see you in ten minutes?” (repeat x10) from Pete was all about, and also Rimmer’s “steers and queers, which are you boy?” joke from Meltdown

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[Technopeasant]

Watching The End – The Original Assembly and finally got that Rimmer was guessing the meaning of the acronym CUTIE rather than random gobbledygook. Only took me a quarter century.

[Warbodog]

I think this means Lister was lazy and slacking off, but thinking retrospectively from later in the series, it could be genuine and due to his unwise/dangerous dietary choices. I don’t think that’s what they meant though?

[Warbodog]

…Then in the very same episode, it turns out those 500 requests were over approx 240 days! (Maybe it was an exaggeration in the first place).

[Unrumble]

[Warbodog]

All in the open-air bunkroom bog.

[Nick R]

A Red Dwarf-adjacent joke I only recently got:

The reason why Steve Coogan’s production company is called “Baby Cow Productions”.

Maybe that reason was mentioned at some point in one of the XI/XII DwarfCasts, but if so, I’d forgotten it. Also, apparently I never bothered to look up the company’s Wikipedia article, because it turns out it’s explained there.

[Warbodog]

I guess a Paul Calf reference? I hadn’t thought about it before.

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