Lines from something else that sound like they’re from Red Dwarf

[loadoftottnumb]

Well it’s the natural follow on isn’t it?

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[RunawayTrain]

Farscape references?  Frell yeah!

[Technopeasant]

I realize Yahtzee quickly disowned his comics (written when he was 18), but damn man…

I wouldn’t mind if he had just left the fine plan bit out. Also it being incredibly out of character for Arthur to say sir…

[International Debris]

I’m definitely overdue a Farscape rewatch, it’s been ages. 

[Technopeasant]

[MANI506]

Lousy plan!

[Hamish]

I am reminded of how Americans were panic buying toilet paper during the last big port strike even though most of their supply is produced domestically.

[Technopeasant]

In fairness, the column later expounded that triggering a panic buying situation was kind of the con, though apparently a lot of the north east states do get bog roll from Ontario.

[Technopeasant]

Sandy’s Abominations

Just wanted to observe that two of these finalists had Sandy Petersen as a major designer.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/article/angry-birds-frogger-and-others-are-finalists-for-the-world-video-game-hall-of-fame/

Not bad for someone whose true love has always been table top games.

[Ben Saunders]

[Dave]

Saw something today about the new series of Black Mirror having an episode about a person who can literally step into old photographs. Hmmmmm.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

As long as no-one decks Hitler no copyright infringement has occurred 

[Dave]

If Paul Giamatti eats a Banana N Crisp sandwich then we’ll know for sure.

[Technopeasant]

https://www.livescience.com/technology/virtual-reality/in-a-first-breakthrough-3d-holograms-can-be-be-touched-grabbed-and-poked

[Warbodog]

[Ben Saunders]

Persona 3 Reload

[Nick R]

[Technopeasant]

[Warbodog]

Chainsawsuit (2011)

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Minor Squid Game spoilers for S02E07 I guess

[Technopeasant]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/07/does-your-child-identify-as-a-cat-theres-a-man-in-texas-who-can-help

Say what you will about the hysterical nature of the bill, you gotta admire the tortured initialism…

[Dave]

[Warbodog]

[MANI506]

Any Queen fans can have ‘fun’ by singing ‘spit on her wrist’ along with the song ‘Flick Of The Wrist’

[Ian Symes]

A song which always makes me think of Red Dwarf anyway, as it includes the phrase “tongue-tied”.

[Warbodog]

Watching The Abyss (1989) for the first time. Did it influence Back to Reality, or are all underwater levels just bound to be similar?

Opening scene:

[Dave]

Rewatching Doctor Who’s Blink, the whole DVD easter egg scene (with the characters having a conversation with a recording of the Doctor, with their responses based on having watched the recording before, but which then lines up perfectly with it and prompts the correct answers from him the second time around) feels like a very close cousin of the What Things scene from Future Echoes.

[Warbodog]

The Abyss (1989)

The ominous Navy SEALs drum theme from 0:31 is a bit Cassandra.

[International Debris]

Rewatching Doctor Who’s Blink, the whole DVD easter egg scene (with the characters having a conversation with a recording of the Doctor, with their responses based on having watched the recording before, but which then lines up perfectly with it and prompts the correct answers from him the second time around) feels like a very close cousin of the What Things scene from Future Echoes.

It actually reminds me more of the two Listers scene from Fathers & Suns.

[Ian Symes]

Rewatching Doctor Who’s Blink, the whole DVD easter egg scene (with the characters having a conversation with a recording of the Doctor, with their responses based on having watched the recording before, but which then lines up perfectly with it and prompts the correct answers from him the second time around) feels like a very close cousin of the What Things scene from Future Echoes.

Last of the Doctor Dwarfs

[Nick R]

Smeg4Brains’s video version from those comments is still online, 17 years later!

[Podey]

Just watching ‘GLOW’ on Netflix…

[Dave]

This is also a gag in Stranger Than Fiction.

[Warbodog]

Found another one in Simon the Sorcerer. My kid was mucking around and tried to eat the giant, Chris Barrie said he prefers chicken.

[Dave]

Ryan Reynolds has pitched an ‘R-rated’ Star Wars. What would that look like?

This particular line caught my eye:

[Ben Saunders]

He does that in Lego Star Wars 2.

Keep Reynolds away from Star Wars please. Is what I would have said ten years ago when I still cared. But random shit like “dude let’s do [thing] but it’s [x]” is an example of how these franchises become oversaturated and don’t mean anything anymore beyond brand recognition and getting people to pay attention to your shite because it has Star Wars in the name.

Now, the officially-licensed LEGO games, THAT’S real Star Wars right there.

[Dave]

He does that in Lego Star Wars 2.

Yeah and it’s a reference to a line in the original movie. It’s just the specific wording of it that caught my eye.

[Nick R]

This might have been mentioned one of the previous times the Smegazine -> Nigel Kitching -> Sonic the Comic connection was brought up, but there’s also this, from the Decap Attack strip in STC #37:

[International Debris]

Good to see them socking it to the boomers even back then.

[Warbodog]

I guess it’s referring to a Sonic boom, though that’s only just occurred to me after 30+ years.

[Technopeasant]

Wasn’t there actually talk of Tarantino doing a Star TREK film awhile back?

[Technopeasant]

https://www.ecoportal.net/en/solid-light-created-brighter-than-white/8398/

[Ben Saunders]

Not a line of dialogue, but a visual — if anybody here has played Persona 3 Reload…

[clem]

Not a line of dialogue, but a visual

Red Dwarf things that look like they’re from something else

[Warbodog]

I found these bits from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989, book 1952) a bit Terrorformy.

[Nick R]

This sign from Nathan Barley: 

[Dave]

Also:

[Nick R]

[Technopeasant]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/fill-the-marathon-shaped-hole-in-your-life-with-supplice-the-best-prog-heavy-boomer-shooter-youve-never-heard-of/

“The AIs here are less aspiring godheads and more malfunctioning black boxes, full of quirks and flaws inherited from their training data, inspired by contemporary (and frequently awful) water-guzzling chatbots. What might initially seem like malice often turns out to be the AIs just being a little bit shit.”

[Nick R]

[Warbodog]

Just learned about this breaking news from 1995:

UK Man Jailed For Making Virus

A 26-year-old Briton has been jailed for 18 months after being convicted of creating a computer virus. Christopher Pile, who dubbed himself “The Black Baron,” is said to be the first person in Britain to be jailed for such an offense. The Reuter News Service quotes Judge Jeremy Griggs in the court in Exeter in southwest England as saying millions of pounds’ worth of damage could be caused when Pile copied programs and games, infected them with a virus and then put them back on computer bulletin board systems.

“Those who seek to wreak mindless havoc on one of the vital tools of our age cannot expect lenient treatment,” Griggs said. “Once Pandora’s Box is opened, like Pandora’s, it can’t be closed.” Reuters says Pile, a selftaught computerist, created viruses Pathogen and Queeg, based on expressions used in a cult television series, Red Dwarf. The detective who tracked down Pile told the court the viruses were the most sophisticated he had ever encountered.

“What made them doubly dangerous,” says Reuters, “was another virus, an encryption engine he called Smeg, which could be attached to the other viruses, scrambling them every time they were run.” Prosecuting counsel Brian Lett told the court many of the viruses were detected within days of use, but they could not be defined and cleansed because of the Smeg cloaking device he had created to disguise the virus.

Lett alleged the defendant acted deliberately and maliciously, and that his actions remain potentially damaging, adding, “Some further damage is probable and its extent incalculable.” Prosecuted under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act for creating and planting computer viruses, Pile admitted five unauthorized accesses to facilitate crime and five unauthorized modifications of computer materials between October 1993 and April last year. Reuters says he also admitted inciting others to contravene the Act via a BBS.

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