Misheard lines

[Danny Stephenson]

Does anyone have any quotes from Red Dwarf that they’ve misheard and took it as read, only to find that years later you’ve got it all wrong?

Now i’ve wrote this topic starter I can’t think of an example. Bollocks

Anyways…

Discuss.

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[Technopeasant]

Unfuck thread

When in Rome…

[Moonlight]

[International Debris]

I always heard it as…

Whatever that means. 

[Rudolph]

[Ian Symes]

Just remembered that as a ten-year-old unfamiliar with The King and I, I had never heard of Yul Brynner, and thought that Rimmer had never been mistaken for “urine-a”.

[Technopeasant]

More people remember him from Westworld these days surely?

[Moonlight]

I watched The Ten Commandments last month. Am I allowed to remember him from that? I still want to say I know him from Westworld and I’m not sure I’ve seen that in 15 years.

[Frank Lewis]

I misheard Danny in White Hole; – thought he’d been referring to Rimmer & Kryten as Weirdly Named Characters from obscure cartoons.

[Warbodog]

I misheard Danny in White Hole; – thought he’d been referring to Rimmer & Kryten as Weirdly Named Characters from obscure cartoons.

I only knew Laurel and Hardy as an unremarkable cartoon when I was a kid. It probably wasn’t until I saw Meltdown or read about it in the Programme Guide that I learned they were more significant figures.

Similar with the Pink Panther and probably more things I didn’t know were really other things.

[Technopeasant]

Similar with the Pink Panther and probably more things I didn’t know were really other things.

And probally still more you don’t know yet.

[Ben Saunders]

I love Oliver & Hardy as a kid for some reason, probably because my parents did. I went to the museum and had several DVDs.

[Flap Jack]

I love Oliver & Hardy as a kid for some reason, probably because my parents did. I went to the museum and had several DVDs.

On first pass I read these two sentences as completely unrelated to each other.

[Technopeasant]

A true cinephile in possesion of literally several DVDs.

[International Debris]

I, too, have visited a museum.

[Moonlight]

I once kissed a girl under the space shuttle at the National Air and Space Museum, and yet NASA ignores my applications.

[Dave]

I love Oliver & Hardy as a kid for some reason

They weren’t as good as Stan & Laurel.

[Dave]

I once kissed a girl under the space shuttle

I’ve never heard it called that before.

[clem]

I love Oliver & Hardy as a kid for some reason

Could it have been because they’re very funny? 

[Rudolph]

When Lister is talking about his vibrator-using teacher in Queeg, I thought he was saying they went on a camping trip to ‘The Ganymede’ rather than ‘Deganwy’.

[Technopeasant]

[Warbodog]

The trains discussion reminded me that I used to think Lister was randomly putting on some kind of accent and saying Rimmer would be in charge of making sure the ship’s rail system ran on time (having seen this after reading the novel), as if that was really any more of a tedious chore than his current duties.

Lister saying “latrines” in his normal accent clicked eventually.

[gerrydelasel]

This whole time I thought he said “thermosanitroglycerine”, like a futuristic version of the chemical. Only just spotted the correct line in the smegadrive!

[Podey]

Journeying through the Smega-Drive’s ‘random’ mode last night alerted me to the fact I never correctly heard the “reproductive system, baby” line in Tongue Tied. I always thought it was “think we’ve lost the system, baby”, but I’ve no idea what I thought that actually meant.

[Flap Jack]

That’s a shame, because when I first saw Parallel Universe, them singing a refrain of “reproductive system, baby” while doing pelvic thrusts was one of the funniest bits of the song to me.

[Podey]

That’s a shame, because when I first saw Parallel Universe, them singing a refrain of “reproductive system, baby” while doing pelvic thrusts was one of the funniest bits of the song to me.

I was 4 years old when it aired so I almost certainly heard the single before I saw the visuals, years later.

[Moonlight]

Nothing’s worse for your comprehension of a show’s dialogue than having repeatedly watched it since you were a kid and some of those kid misunderstandings slipping through the cracks until you suddenly realize decades later.

[Dave]

Nothing’s worse for your comprehension of a show’s dialogue than having repeatedly watched it since you were a kid and some of those kid misunderstandings slipping through the cracks until you suddenly realize decades later.

“A ham with your homework”

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