Home › Forums › Ganymede & Titan Forum › on today's episode of "What The Fuck", Thanks For The Memory Search for: This topic has 121 replies, 21 voices, and was last updated 6 years ago by International Debris. Scroll to bottom Viewing 50 posts - 51 through 100 (of 122 total) 1 2 3 Author Posts August 5, 2018 at 10:43 pm #235619 WarbodogParticipant Why does Kryten say “come rain or shine, we’d always make time for curry night” when there’s no weather on Starbug??? Don’t give me this “he’s speaking colloquially” smeg. August 5, 2018 at 10:47 pm #235620 GlenTokyoParticipant Another low key super dystopian Red Dwarf thing. The hologram that reads the news, presumably they pay her, but she’s a privately operated hologram so her wages go in part to sustaining her form, so if she gets sacked or leaves or otherwise isn’t earning, she gets switched off when she can no longer afford it. Or they don’t pay her, brought her back and they use her as free labour. August 5, 2018 at 11:46 pm #235625 HamishParticipant She could just be a limited newscaster hologram, not the sum of an entire person’s personality and knowledge like Rimmer and company are. August 6, 2018 at 1:01 am #235626 Ben SaundersParticipant Groovy Funky Channel 27 would be all about hologram rights though so they would probably treat her like a real person August 6, 2018 at 2:47 am #235627 bloodtellerParticipant >Why does Kryten say “come rain or shine, we’d always make time for curry night” when there’s no weather on Starbug??? Don’t give me this “he’s speaking colloquially” smeg. Well there’s a wind tunnel on Starbug so maybe there is weather August 6, 2018 at 6:18 am #235628 flanl3Participant He’s using a common saying. “Please explain to me why Lister was the only person who survived the accident, but don’t give me any of this ‘he was in stasis and everybody else was in the path of the radiation leak’ smeg.” Unless you were making fun of this thread, in which case, well played. August 6, 2018 at 4:45 pm #235651 Seb PatrickKeymaster I don’t think you can say that for certain. There’s nothing in the dialogue to indicate that it’s the first dimension he jumps to. In fact, I’ve always found the line “I’m sorry, you reminded me of a fellow I once knew” jarring, as it could be read that he hasn’t seen Spanners for quite a while. I mean, you could infer it, sure, but the through line of the episode is very much “Ace goes to another dimension and meets Arnold Rimmer. He then, according to the text scroll at the end, goes off through countless other dimensions and finds other Rimmers who aren’t as pathetic.” I think that’s somewhat scuppered if the time he arrives to meet “our” crew is just the latest in a long line of other meetings. It would also be a bit weird that he talks about potentially staying, but then decides to move on because Arnold is such a maggot. He brings up the possibility of countless other universes as if it’s the first time it’s been thought about. IN CONCLUSION if you want to retrofit a load of different Ace adventures (and possibly even this being an actually different guy from the start of the episode) inbetween the first few minutes of Dimension Jump and the rest of it, there’s nothing in the episode that specifically precludes it, but I also don’t know why you would or what it would serve. August 6, 2018 at 4:53 pm #235652 bloodtellerParticipant Honestly the whole thing of Ace travelling to multiple different dimensions and meeting all kinds of different Rimmers sounds like an interesting concept for a whole series. Each week he meets a completely different Rimmer etc. August 6, 2018 at 4:54 pm #235653 bloodtellerParticipant I suppose that would get tiresome after a while but I’d watch it for at least 6 episodes August 6, 2018 at 5:00 pm #235654 International DebrisParticipant It’s one of the better Red Dwarf spinoff possibilities. Certainly more potential than Camille and Hector in the lab for 22 episodes. August 6, 2018 at 5:46 pm #235656 Pete Part ThreeParticipant >It would also be a bit weird that he talks about potentially staying, but then decides to move on because Arnold is such a maggot. It’s already a bit weird that someone who decided to leave their own dimension in the course of a 2 minute conversation with Bongo, would even consider stopping his adventures after one jump and settle down in deep space with only 4 humanoids for company. That’s a bit of a downgrade, Shirley?. Maybe he’s not seriously considered it at all, or maybe he’s already jumped around to so many dimensions that he’s considering settling down. August 6, 2018 at 7:10 pm #235660 DaveParticipant Maybe Dimension Jumping was a horrible, unpleasant experience that he never wants to repeat. August 6, 2018 at 8:49 pm #235665 bloodtellerParticipant I don’t think Rob and Doug even thought it through this far, so I’d say it’s open to interpretation August 7, 2018 at 7:53 pm #235717 Ian SymesKeymaster Honestly the whole thing of Ace travelling to multiple different dimensions and meeting all kinds of different Rimmers sounds like an interesting concept for a whole series. Each week he meets a completely different Rimmer etc. It did, kind of, in comic strip form in the Smegazine. Ace of the Rovers was a particular highlight. August 15, 2018 at 2:44 pm #236095 peas_and_cornParticipant Why did Starbug have dog food when they have a no pets rule? August 15, 2018 at 2:45 pm #236096 DaveParticipant For the dog that produced the dog’s milk. August 15, 2018 at 3:33 pm #236098 International DebrisParticipant I asked that recently. Some good answers were given. I can’t remember many of them, however. Guide dog, maybe? August 15, 2018 at 8:18 pm #236118 Ian SymesKeymaster Only *unquarantined* animals are explicitly banned. August 16, 2018 at 2:50 am #236132 HamishParticipant “The rules about dinosaurs aboard JMC mining ships are very clear. No pets. Am I right? Am I right!?” – Captain Hollister, Pete Part Two August 16, 2018 at 2:59 am #236134 bloodtellerParticipant >Why did Starbug have dog food when they have a no pets rule? There was a man who had a roverostomy on Red Dwarf, they needed it to feed him. Sorted August 16, 2018 at 6:05 am #236137 Bargain Bin HollyParticipant Why did Red Dwarf have a cow onboard August 16, 2018 at 6:18 am #236138 Pete Part ThreeParticipant Would you like some seed? August 16, 2018 at 8:52 am #236139 Flap JackParticipant Hollister doesn’t really understand the rules. He’s Dennis the Doughnut Boy, remember? Or, please accept one of the following explanations: Pets aren’t allowed, but assistance/working animals are. The “No pets” rule only applies to prisoners. Dog food was kept in storage as an emergency food for the human crew, because JMC are cheap. Hollister was just joking. Other people had smuggled dogs aboard in the past, and they brought the dog food on board then. Pete isn’t canon. I mean, even Pete itself contradicts the “No pets” thing, because bird guy is able to bring Pete aboard while he’s still in bird form, and nobody ever confiscated him. Or maybe there was a line where they say that he was keeping Pete a total secret this whole time, but like hell I’m going to rewatch the episodes to check. August 16, 2018 at 8:58 am #236140 Bargain Bin HollyParticipant Ye, Birdman gives the explanation that he was smuggling Pete up his asshole when Lister and Rimmer first meet him; that’s what makes the joke of Pete shitting on Hollister funnier due to the irony. Surprised you don’t remember that, it’s pretty funny on repeat viewings August 16, 2018 at 9:16 am #236143 Plastic PercyParticipant What about the laboratory mice? August 16, 2018 at 9:25 am #236144 DaveParticipant Or the squirrel in the botanical gardens. August 16, 2018 at 9:51 am #236147 Bargain Bin HollyParticipant Both were smuggled by Birdman too, in his rectal compartment; this was all explained in the deleted scene, why do you think he’s in solitary confinement anyway? August 16, 2018 at 11:25 am #236156 bloodtellerParticipant >Why did Red Dwarf have a cow onboard Surely the whole joke of that scene is how utterly bizarre it is that they managed to find a whole frozen cow onboard? Hence the line “The whole hog? Like it wasn’t hard enough getting the whole cow?” As for where it came from, I dunno. Maybe they needed it for beef August 16, 2018 at 11:49 am #236158 International DebrisParticipant The ‘no pets’ line is obviously said in a jokey way, so it may well not be true. Also they might use dogs for security, for customs, etc., as well as assistance dogs. August 16, 2018 at 3:16 pm #236166 Seb PatrickKeymaster The dog food was found “in the tool cupboard”. Maybe it was in a toolkit left there by a forgetful engineer who serviced Starbug on shore, and also owned a dog. August 16, 2018 at 3:38 pm #236169 DaveParticipant Maybe the Dog from Parallel Universe gave it to Cat as a present when they dropped off Jim and Bexley between series II and III. August 16, 2018 at 4:11 pm #236171 Flap JackParticipant Red Dwarf is a mining ship, yeah? So they must have mined it. They drilled down deep into the crust of Purina, the dog food planet, and mined the hell out of that dog food. Or, OK, maybe they were just transporting it. Either way, they only had it to sell, not to give to dog passengers. All of these explanations for the dog food are canon at the same time as far as I’m concerned. August 16, 2018 at 4:33 pm #236176 GlenTokyoParticipant Maybe that Starbug was transferred from civilian ownership and they had a dog. August 16, 2018 at 4:34 pm #236177 DaveParticipant I like the idea of a little old lady owning a Starbug and only using it once a week to go to the supermarket. August 16, 2018 at 6:59 pm #236191 GlenTokyoParticipant I always go on the books and the Hoppers basically being Blue Midgets (remastered) so maybe a Starbug is like a Campervan in the Red Dwarf Universe. August 16, 2018 at 7:01 pm #236193 Ben SaundersParticipant >Hence the line “The whole hog? Like it wasn’t hard enough getting the whole cow?” One of the greatest British comedy writers of all time came up with that line. Christ. Don’t give up on your dreams, people. August 17, 2018 at 5:45 pm #236219 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant >Hence the line “The whole hog? Like it wasn’t hard enough getting the whole cow?” One of the greatest British comedy writers of all time came up with that line. Christ. Don’t give up on your dreams, people. *shame mode* – I actually quite like that line. August 17, 2018 at 5:57 pm #236221 GlenTokyoParticipant I feel like that line is the kind of thing idiot Lister would have said in the first or second series. He got cleverer in III. Far from the worst thing about that episode. August 17, 2018 at 8:03 pm #236225 bloodtellerParticipant >I feel like that line is the kind of thing idiot Lister would have said in the first or second series. He got cleverer in III. But Lister doesn’t say that line, Cat does >*shame mode* – I actually quite like that line. Yeah, same August 17, 2018 at 8:14 pm #236226 GlenTokyoParticipant >But Lister doesn’t say that line, Cat does Memory fail. A sign of my sanity that I don’t know Pete off by heart? Still makes sense though, it does sound like an idiot Lister line. I don’t have a problem with it as a cat line either really. He’s gained most of Lister’s stupidity when Lister became quite intelligent but lazy. August 17, 2018 at 11:05 pm #236227 tombowParticipant I watched DNA recently and it seemed unbelievable that Kryten has served humans for a long time but has such ignorance about them (socket up the bum etc) August 18, 2018 at 12:23 am #236229 Bargain Bin HollyParticipant I just chalk it up to computer senility from Kryten’s 3 million year imprisonment aboard the Nova-5 I wonder if the three girls just got old and died onboard or they knew there was no way out of this and killed themselves August 18, 2018 at 9:50 am #236235 International DebrisParticipant I watched DNA recently and it seemed unbelievable that Kryten has served humans for a long time but has such ignorance about them (socket up the bum etc) Yeah, given that he’s generally the one they turn to for medical issues, it’s a bit odd that he thinks turning nipples can receive radio transmissions. August 18, 2018 at 11:36 am #236236 Bargain Bin HollyParticipant Think the first time Kryten acted as the medical droid was in Justice after D.N.A. August 18, 2018 at 1:43 pm #236237 GlenTokyoParticipant Maybe a lot of his knowledge is cloud based and when he was made human he lost the ability to access it. August 18, 2018 at 2:00 pm #236238 UnrumbleParticipant I guess it makes sense. With a human brain, he’d presumably lose the sheer capacity/processing power of his mechanoid CPU, and would get confused. August 19, 2018 at 8:56 am #236240 tombowParticipant I guess with the nova 5 girls they must have died at the same time. after all if one died the others would have not allowed Kryten to play they were alive. October 21, 2018 at 2:23 pm #238274 DaveParticipant “Well, he did warn you!” at the end of Confidence & Paranoia. How did the new Rimmer know? October 21, 2018 at 3:29 pm #238276 bloodtellerParticipant The double has the original Rimmer’s memory up until the point he is turned on, presumably. Either that or he just made a very good guess October 21, 2018 at 4:30 pm #238280 DaveParticipant The double has the original Rimmer’s memory up until the point he is turned on, presumably. I wondered about that, but it doesn’t fit with what we know of holograms. Plus, part of the episode is about how ‘our’ Rimmer has already changed a little bit as a result of living with Lister – I thought the idea was that the new Rimmer was the same as the Rimmer we saw come back as a hologram in The End. Not a big deal anyway, just a thought. Author Posts Viewing 50 posts - 51 through 100 (of 122 total) 1 2 3 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