Home › Forums › Ganymede & Titan Forum › Misheard lines Search for: This topic has 475 replies, 65 voices, and was last updated 4 months, 1 week ago by Moonlight. Scroll to bottom Viewing 50 posts - 201 through 250 (of 476 total) 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 8 9 10 Author Posts March 4, 2018 at 11:36 am #228900 Me Own StuntsParticipant And imagine if in Porridge it turned out that Fletcher was his own Dad, but nobody seemed to mind because they had one good scene together in an episode with all racist vending machines. March 4, 2018 at 1:27 pm #228903 Flap JackParticipant To be fair, is there any particular reason why Kryten could not have just tinkered with the rejuvenation shower to alter what time period it sent you to? Yeah, this is why I said it was “believable” that they wouldn’t be able to use the other time travel methods to get back to Earth, rather than, say, “made clear”. Take the rejuvenation shower. Its intended function isn’t time travel, and even with effort they’re only able to go back and forth between 23 AD Earth and present day Red Dwarf. They may not actually explain that they can’t reverse engineer the shower to take them back to Earth in the correct time period, but it’s not too difficult to assume that. With the time drive, they actually straight up show us that they can use it to get to anywhere in the universe at any point in time, and then they also show us that they can direct it perfectly. That’s why the time drive (in Series 7 at least) is the laziest time travel plot device. Also, can I just apologise for helping completely derail this decade old thread about misheard dialogue? I’m so sorry. March 4, 2018 at 2:41 pm #228907 Ben SaundersParticipant >If memory serves, Kryten poses the question “Did the rod do this?”…and it’s never actually answered. Obviously, the intention is that the rod *did* do it, but it’s never explored. All of Kryten’s “best guess”-es are basically this, he just happens to be right March 4, 2018 at 2:56 pm #228908 Ben SaundersParticipant Also they stick together because Stockholm Syndrome/the’ve grown to like each other (aw bless)/this is the only life they’ve known for 30 years/it would be difficult for them to re-integrate into society/Rimmer would probably have to be turned off/What would they do with Kryten in the past March 4, 2018 at 6:10 pm #228915 bloodtellerParticipant >this is the only life they’ve known for 30 years i think they covered that at the end of the Backwards novel, didn’t they? where lister finally gets back to Red Dwarf, is genuinely happy to see the others again and realises that maybe this is where he truly belongs- it’s his home. probably helped a bit that they had already found Earth by then and it was all covered in garbage and stuff though March 4, 2018 at 10:29 pm #228934 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant At the end of The Beginning, Rimmer echos “the slims coming home” line from The End (god damn you Doug Naylor!!) Anyway … you could read that as the crew now treating Red Dwarf as their true home, and not just a place to stay on their return to Earth. At this point all the characters have spent more time in deep space than on Earth. In fact, Lister may well be the only character to have ever actually lived on Earth. Rimmer is from Io, Kryten was likely built off world then switched on on the Nova 5. Cat grew up on Red Dwarf. I can buy them not really bathing to try and get back, but just live day to day in floating through space and convienently ignoring ways in which they could get to Earth if they wanted. March 4, 2018 at 11:17 pm #228938 bloodtellerParticipant i guess you can say that ultimately the ship has become their home, and maybe the trip back to Earth was more about the journey than the destination, but I still think it leaves a huge loose end open if they never get back. then again i suppose the show definitely absolutely ends forever once they do get back, so i guess it’s only fair that they aren’t in any real hurry March 5, 2018 at 1:00 am #228945 Flap JackParticipant I don’t mind believing that Lister and Rimmer have grown to accept their situation, see Red Dwarf as their home now etc., but if they get handed an easy and instantaneous way to get back to Earth/Io, to see friends and family, to see human civilisation again, then you’d think they’d at least discuss the idea at great length, not just never mention it or casually dismiss it in a few lines of dialogue cut from the broadcast version of the episode. “Look out Earth – the slime’s coming home!” is something of a mission statement for the whole series. If they’re going to completely change their minds about trying to achieve that, it should be properly acknowledged. If they’re not going to change their minds, then Doug shouldn’t hand them that show-concluding equipment unless he actually intends to conclude the show. March 5, 2018 at 1:08 am #228947 Ben SaundersParticipant Slim’s Coming Home? Is Eminem going to guest star in Red Dwarf XIII? March 5, 2018 at 1:11 am #228948 Ben SaundersParticipant >to see friends and family Rimmer doesn’t care about his family and Lister doesn’t have any, though? And Lister’s friends died on Red Dwarf, then were resurrected so he could see them again, then dies again. March 5, 2018 at 7:52 am #228954 Flap JackParticipant You think a gregarious person such as Lister would have no friends whatsoever apart from his work colleagues? And Rimmer may hate his family, but Better Than Life showed that his feelings towards them were not black and white. Essentially, the idea that Rimmer and Lister have come to terms with their situation and are happy on Red Dwarf is fine, but the idea that they would actively choose it over getting to speak to/touch other human beings than each other, over seeing the ocean again, over touching grass or smelling flowers, over seeing the sun rise – without even thinking about it – is 100% absurd. March 5, 2018 at 8:05 am #228955 HamishParticipant > I can buy them not really bathing to try and get back I’m sorry, I make errors like this all the time, but this made me laugh too much not to draw attention to it. I apologize again. March 5, 2018 at 9:19 am #228961 DaveParticipant You think a gregarious person such as Lister would have no friends whatsoever apart from his work colleagues? Didn’t Chen, Selby and Petersen work in catering? They weren’t Lister’s work friends. I know they were ‘colleagues’ in the sense that they all worked for the same company, but then so did everyone on Red Dwarf (apart from the secret prisoners, I guess). But yes, I’m sure he had other friends back on Earth too. March 5, 2018 at 12:57 pm #228969 International DebrisParticipant I’m sure they’d go back to Earth on curiosity grounds alone. “Hey, shall we see what’s happened to Earth?” “Nah, let’s stay here with only each other for company until we die” April 1, 2018 at 9:02 am #230053 bloodtellerParticipant i always heard the line about the cooking contest in The Beginning as “Not if it a shoe pastry, you won’t!” turns out it’s actually “choux” which is a much funnier line. i just find it humorous that an insane rogue droid somehow knows how to make obscure pastries. maybe he met ainsley harriott at some point April 1, 2018 at 9:54 am #230054 Pete Part ThreeParticipant Not a mishead line, but certainly a misdelivered line that always sticks out for me. Just watched Polymorrph and Chris says (about Rimmer’s mum): “Very prim, very proper. Some say austere” Later, when Kryten (played by Robert Llewellyn) “quotes” Rimmer’s words, it’s become: “Very prim, very proper. Almost austere” I’m guessing it’s Chris who fluffed, as his line after it is “Some people took her for cold” and the repeat of “Some” never sounds right. April 1, 2018 at 11:02 am #230056 WarbodogParticipant Misremembered scene (if this thread can be about anything now): I saw Out of Time a couple of times before VII aired (TV repeats), but never remembered or even noticed that Future Starbug shot Present Starbug to make it explode (which happens), I thought it was all down to Rimmer. I’m not claiming a Mandela Effect, I probably just blinked. I assumed Rimmer’s plan was to intentionally blow up the ship by shooting some vital system or other (I didn’t realise it was the Time Drive), so that the future selves wouldn’t have a chance to exist and they’d all be back to normal. When I saw Tikka and bought the Xtended video, I was sure they’d inserted the firing clip because they wanted to retcon it as a blunder of the future selves, completely robbing Rimmer of his heroic, temporary sacrifice. A sacrifice he admittedly needn’t have bothered making, since they were already being shot at anyway, but come on, I was 11. It’ll always be one of my favourites, but the ending of Out of Time is quite unsatisfying as it stands, and confusing since I get mixed up with what’s real, what I thought was real and what was supposed to happen but didn’t, even though I wish it had. The original/deleted ending is much better than the one they or my past self came up with. As long as you cut out “smeg, I’m a hero” which is just awful. Sorry, I don’t know what this post is. April 1, 2018 at 11:07 am #230057 DaveParticipant I’ve always been convinced that the original airing never showed the one Starbug firing on the other, as I don’t remember it either. I remember thinking it had been left very ambiguous as to which one it had shown being destroyed. April 1, 2018 at 11:08 am #230058 WarbodogParticipant >Sorry, I don’t know what this post is. Oh, I remember now: are we supposed to have assumed Rimmer had the “smeg, I’m a hero” gentle fade-out happy ending in mind when he raced to shoot the Time Drive? But was scuppered from doing so by a shocking ending… that will obviously have the same effect anyway? I still don’t like that Rimmer didn’t actually do anything. To Be Continued was still exciting even if there was no jeopardy. April 1, 2018 at 12:16 pm #230061 Pete Part ThreeParticipant >are we supposed to have assumed Rimmer had the “smeg, I’m a hero” gentle fade-out happy ending in mind when he raced to shoot the Time Drive? Yes, I think so. That’s consistent with every ending. His intention is always that “there’s a way out of this”. The only difference is the detail on whether he’s ultimately responsible for saving the day: -BROADCAST VERSION- Laser from bottom right of screen destroys Starbug. Likely Intention: The Timedrive is destroyed by Rimmer, would have been destroyed anyway a second later. Consequence: Rimmer = heroic intentions, but doesn’t *technically* save the day. -URINE RECYC VERSION- A Starbug blows up in an identical explosion, but there’s no red laser and *another* Stabug is also present in the same shot. Possibly intended that the Starbug that explodes is the future Starbug, er, disappearing from existence. Consequence: Rimmer saves the day. Everyone drinks piss. -“SMEG, I’M A HERO VERSION”- Rimmer destroys the timedrive. Nothing blows up? The future Starbug fades from existence? He has time to say “Smeg, I’m a hero” Consequence: Rimmer saves the day. -TIKKA TO RIDE VERSION- Additional shot of the other Starbug inserted to reinforce the point that the future selves killed them, and the stuff about Rimmer being the hero wasn’t actually required and confuses things slightly, as he didn’t technically succeed. Consequence: Rimmer = heroic intentions, but doesn’t *technically* save the day. April 1, 2018 at 1:00 pm #230062 WarbodogParticipant Oh yeah, I forgot you only see the laser firing in OOT (as I’ve forgotten every time I’ve ever watched it ever, including recently… no, it’s gone again). Pre-Tikka, Rimmer blowing up the ship seemed more likely and memorable to me; post-Tikka the added Starbug clip never sat right, but I didn’t have OOT on video for years to compare, just Tikka and the Smeg Ups botch. April 1, 2018 at 1:08 pm #230063 International DebrisParticipant There’s some alternate universe out there where the original ending was used. I’m 100% confident it’s a better universe. April 1, 2018 at 2:21 pm #230065 bloodtellerParticipant i always assumed Rimmer blowing up the timedrive was what caused the timelines to reset and such, and that it was nothing to do with the future selves blowing up the ship. if he had arrived a second later, the ship would’ve blown up before he could do anything and everyone would have died for real etc. side thought: rimmer is unusually serious and responsible in tikka to ride. don’t know if that was intentional or not, but it feels like the events of out of time made him change as a person- he’s genuinely angry with lister for tricking them into using the timedrive again after all that’s happened etc. April 1, 2018 at 2:22 pm #230066 WarbodogParticipant My Out of Time false memory was probably reinforced because I remember I wrote about it in the diary I’d recently started keeping, inspired by Barry Chuckle starting a diary on Chucklevision. I like how I can remember THAT but can’t remember the famous ending of an episode I’ve watched about 20 times. It seems like a lot of people don’t notice the missile in Out of Time or are mixing it up in their memory. From a couple of quick googles: http://www.reddwarfforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3193 He blasts…..there’s a massive explosion…and it ends with “To Be Continued” http://www.reviewsbygavrielle.com/dwarf6.shtml The crew decide to fight their former selves – all are killed except Rimmer, who blows up Starbug with a bazookoid. To be continued…. … I nearly cheered when Rimmer put the episode out of its misery. http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/red-dwarf/feature/a837305/red-dwarf-plot-holes-continuity-errors-unanswered-questions/ the ‘Stasis Leak’ Lister may have been the ‘evil’ Lister who became a brain in a jar in ‘Out of Time’, before the boys killed them off by destroying the time drive [Out of Patience] April 1, 2018 at 3:07 pm #230069 Pete Part ThreeParticipant >if he had arrived a second later, the ship would’ve blown up before he could do anything and everyone would have died for real etc. But the timedrive is on the ship and the ship blows up…? I don’t get the distinction between Rimmer shooting it with a bazookoid or it exploding with the rest of a Starbug a second later via a missile. April 1, 2018 at 4:27 pm #230071 bloodtellerParticipant yeah but it’s cooler if you see it as rimmer blowing up the timedrive seconds before it’s too late, rather than rimmer blowing up the timedrive but none of it mattering really April 1, 2018 at 11:25 pm #230081 WarbodogParticipant If Rimmer hadn’t bothered to do anything and the ship hadn’t fired, Future Rimmer could have come aboard the crippled Starbug and had his way with the Time Drive, since he was presumably the only one still around. So Rimmer had the right idea and his future self was an idiot. Alternatively, Starbug would fly out the other side of the unreality bubble and find out the encounter with their future selves was disappointingly just a dream. I forgot there was an alternative to all the alternatives. April 2, 2018 at 2:27 am #230082 Ben PaddonParticipant My thinking was that Rimmer had succeeded, which was so unbelievable to the others that they refused to accept that he’d been able to display anything even vaguely resembling competency and assumed their future selves had succeeded in destroying the ship. But I’m basing that on precisely zero actual evidence. April 2, 2018 at 7:44 am #230084 Pete Part ThreeParticipant >Future Rimmer could have come aboard the crippled Starbug and had his way with the Time Drive, since he was presumably the only one still around. I’d love to know the thinking process behind the editing of those final moments. The jolt the crew experience when the gyroscope is hit being identical to the effect used when they enter an unreality pocket is either a silly accident, or entirely intentional. The fact that there’s two versions of the same SFX shot means that there was a conscious decision to depict things a certain way. The removal of the other Starbug and the overlay of the laser seems odd, when you consider that (our) Rimmer says “the hull’s going to go”, so the (possible) original intention was that Starbug just blew up from the original barrage of missles. Old Rimmer would probably not have known the hull was gone, but knew the others were dead, so yeah, it would make sense for him to try and board and steal the timedrive rather than continue to fire. And the “To be continued” seems kind of strange too. The assurances there was more Red Dwarf means that these guys weren’t going to stay dead. It’s not quite a cliffhanger ending. Alas, I’m guessing everyone involved has now forgotten the fine details. April 9, 2018 at 12:33 am #230327 WarbodogParticipant In VIII days, I didn’t make the fingers-in-pies connection when Lister says Bob the Skutter has “a claw in every pie.” I thought it was a way of saying you get good value with Bob, as if a free metaphorical Skutter claw is included with every pie. That well-known meaning of the phrase. April 13, 2018 at 10:55 pm #230494 cwickhamParticipant When Rimmer says “clitoris” in Polymorph, I always thought he said “spit on her wrist”. April 13, 2018 at 11:32 pm #230496 Paul MullerParticipant Eleven year old Paul was convinced the Cat had spotted a Cheese String in Kochanski’s spinning laundry. He would go on to explain that it was ‘black and really, really small’ due to the high temperature inside the washing machine. He would also have told you that AstroCuts was located in the ‘Feeder Sector’, and that Red Dwarf’s Second Officer was a guy called Todd Hunter. Basically, what I’m saying is – he was an idiot. April 14, 2018 at 12:11 am #230498 Ben SaundersParticipant Well Toddhunter/Todd Hunter is perfectly understandable April 14, 2018 at 7:34 am #230499 bloodtellerParticipant “My name is Katerina Bartikofsky, in past I was Red Dwarf science officer. Stradfordshire.” in fact, i still don’t know what she’s saying there tbh April 14, 2018 at 9:22 am #230502 Ben SaundersParticipant I always thought Kryten was referring to Kochanski as his mother for whatever reason, as in “Ms. Kochanski, mom”. April 14, 2018 at 11:03 pm #230522 pi r squaredParticipant in fact, i still don’t know what she’s saying there tbh Zdravstvuyte – a polite hello in Russian. On a related note, there doesn’t seem to have been any news on how Sophie Winkleman is getting on after her car accident a few months back. I wonder how she is doing. April 14, 2018 at 11:21 pm #230523 Ben SaundersParticipant Hadn’t heard about that. Also didn’t know she was Claudia’s (half?) sister, as all the articles readily point out. I guess Claudia is more famous? I only know her from Would I Lie To You. All I could find was “The actress remains in hospital and faces weeks of recuperation following the crash 11 days ago”, in an article from December. April 16, 2018 at 12:24 pm #230540 LilyParticipant >Well Toddhunter/Todd Hunter is perfectly understandable I’m glad you say that, as I always thought it was Todd Hunter … April 16, 2018 at 12:50 pm #230541 DaveParticipant It’s Todd Todhunter. April 16, 2018 at 5:43 pm #230543 HamishParticipant Todd a mighty Hunter before the Lord. April 16, 2018 at 6:16 pm #230544 bloodtellerParticipant when i was younger there was a boy at my school called todd hunter, so naturally i thought todhunter was also called todd hunter. April 16, 2018 at 6:33 pm #230545 flanl3Participant I once knew this guy called Jaron and he was a prick so I assume the inquisitor is called Jaron April 16, 2018 at 9:29 pm #230552 International DebrisParticipant Weirdly, I never once thought he was called Todd Hunter. Despite having never come across anybody with the surname before, it just sounded right to me. Maybe also because everybody else was called by their surname so it made sense in that context. April 16, 2018 at 11:01 pm #230558 pi r squaredParticipant Me too, I think it’s that the stressed syllable is wrong for it to be two different names. Todd Hunter would be TODD-HUNT-er, whereas Tod(d)hunter is more like TODD-hunt-ER. Difficult to explain phonetically (and without going down the route of “what do you want me to call you, rim-MER!?”) but a subtle enough distinction that I think my brain just processed it as one word without me realising. And, you’re right, everyone else is just one name – no-one thinks there’s a guy called Peter Son. April 16, 2018 at 11:28 pm #230559 WarbodogParticipant I read Todhunter’s correctly-spelled name in the programme guide (and novel?) before I had the chance to see any of his many episode, so I didn’t have that confusion. I wonder if kids today with their ubiquitous media ever have to rely on reference materials and their imagination to fill in the blanks? Maybe Doctor Who fans who’ve read up on lore like the Valeyard but can’t be bothered to actually watch the old serials. April 16, 2018 at 11:55 pm #230562 Plastic PercyParticipant I think for me it stemmed from Kochanski in ‘Duct Soup’ where she seems to pronounce it as Todd Hunter. In ‘The End’ it’s closer to Tod-unter. April 17, 2018 at 10:57 pm #230586 MoonlightParticipant You could argue that’s down to dialect. April 18, 2018 at 7:33 pm #230602 Toxteth O-GradyParticipant I always misheard Spare Head 3’s line as “me circuit boards may have gone bandit..”. I only recently, after 20 odd years, realised he says “bandy”. What’s more, as a result of that mishearing, I’ve spent the same 20 odd years believing the word “bandit” to have an extra definition: adj. meaning crazy, out of control, or malfunctioning. I’ve even used the word bandit, with this made-up definition, in conversations over the years; oblivious to the fact that I was talking bollocks. April 18, 2018 at 9:51 pm #230603 Ben SaundersParticipant Beautiful. As a kid I had no idea what shoals were, so I had many interpretations of that line over the years, including “goldfish shites” April 18, 2018 at 11:05 pm #230604 bloodtellerParticipant i think i mentioned this on another thread, but when i first watched VIII i thought Kill Crazy was called “Kilk Razey” and it was meant to be a sort of cool punk-type future person name like Zaphod from Hitchhiker’s. i also remember watching either Dimension Jump or Tikka To Ride for the first time and hearing Ace’s catchphrase as “don’t be a gimpo, i’ll be back for breakfast” due to the line being muffled as he puts his helmet on Author Posts Viewing 50 posts - 201 through 250 (of 476 total) 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 8 9 10 Scroll to top • Scroll to Recent Forum Posts You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Log In