Only The Good Is Alright

[Ben Saunders]

…but in the mirror universe, does Rimmer have an enormous cock, or a fanny? When I was young I assumed it was a fanny, but now I’m older I’m thinking enormous cock.

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[bloodteller]

in the mirror universe, shouldn’t Rimmer have become a black female mechanoid called remmiR? since it’s meant to be a universe where everything turns opposite, after all.

by that logic, Red Dwarf would be blue and also not in space but on land. a landship.

(to answer the question, yes his cock is huge)

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

I always assumed it was lady bits too. Bet then he doesn’t have tits so who knows.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

I always assumed it was lady bits too. Bet then he doesn’t have tits so who knows.

[Ben Saunders]

My nine-or-whatever-year-old self didn’t know that differently sized penises/anxiety thereof was a thing, so defaulted to “the opposite of a willy is a vagina”, and laughed at the joke anyway.

It doesn’t matter in the slightest, but if I ever see Doug Naylor I’ll be sure to ask him.

Shouldn’t a mirror universe not exist, because ours exists? Etc

[International Debris]

Only the Good definitely isn’t alright.

[Lily]

It never occurred to me that it would be anything other than a massive cock.

How many other dick jokes went over nine-year-old you’s head? Bodyswap and double polaroid spring to mind for a start.

[bloodteller]

i still don’t quite understand the dick joke in Bodyswap

[bloodteller]

what was in Lister’s pants that shocked Rimmer so much?

[GlenTokyo]

A big dick because Rimmer has never seen one.

[Pete Part Three]

I think we debated this fairly recently.

Huge cock / manky cock

[Lily]

I think we debated this fairly recently.

Huge cock / manky cock

I’d go for huge cock. The manky hygiene jokes are in the following shower scene.

[Hamish]

Giant death worm.

[Ben Saunders]

With the hindsight of Only The Good, I now assume Lister has an enormous penis (compared to Rimmer, anyway), but when I was young idk what the fuck I thought it was. A manky piss colour, I should think.

The double polaroid definitely went over my head. Even now, how enormous must Kryten’s cock be for it to take up two pictures, and how strange does it look that it isn’t immediately obvious what the photograph is of from just one of them?

Do all the Red Dwarf crew members have really strange cocks? Cat’s would be barbed, right?

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

> what was in Lister’s pants that shocked Rimmer so much?

I always thought this was his urine being green … he sees it, is shocked, then tells Lister it isn’t right.

[Pete Part Three]

>Even now, how enormous must Kryten’s cock be for it to take up two pictures

These cocks are far away.

[Hamish]

> Do all the Red Dwarf crew members have really strange cocks? Cat’s would be barbed, right?

Someone has obviously not read Backwards…

[Ben Saunders]

I’m working on it mate I’ll have it read by 2020

[bloodteller]

does kochanski have a big penis in the mirror universe?

[GlenTokyo]

does kochanski have a big penis in the mirror universe?

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/354/018/b57.gif

[Ben Saunders]

This just in: The Series VIII deleted scenes confirm that Rimmer does, indeed, have a gargantuan knob

[bloodteller]

but what about kochanski

[Lily]

>The double polaroid definitely went over my head. Even now, how enormous must Kryten’s cock be for it to take up two pictures, and how strange does it look that it isn’t immediately obvious what the photograph is of from just one of them?

Men are generally -really- bad at taking photos of their dicks. Too close up, over-exposed, bad angles. If he’s holding the camera so close that he needs a double polaroid, it’s just going to look like a random veiny body part. Trust me on this one.

[Jawscvmcdia]

Lily, may I ask, presuming you are a girl, how do you know this?

[Rubber]

My experience of photographing my own dick is that it’s difficult for me to get the angle right.

[Ben Saunders]

It’s really easy if you’re lying down.

[Moonlight]

does Rimmer have an enormous cock, or a fanny?

Technically, having a pair of buttocks on the front would ALSO count as opposite, so the question still holds if you go by the American meaning of “fanny”.

I’d love to see how the BBFC deals with the fact that we use it as a harmless child-friendly word for bum.

[Dave]

Well, they used to happily show “The Nanny” on TV before the watershed over here.

[flanl3]

Well, Kryten was laying down the entire time in DNA, and if the underwear elastic went “across the room” then I’d absolutely go for it being monster and not just a bad photograph. Maybe the first one looked more like a picture from Rimmer’s telegraph pole collection, and the second one more like the front cover from “In Search of the Far Side”.

[flanl3]

Oh, and in Bodyswap, that’s the face of being shocked at the size, not disgusted by poor hygiene. That would be a completely different face.

[flanl3]

Also, in Only the Good…, in the mirror universe faces and genitals could also swap since they’re opposites, and it “just so happens” that the censor bar they’ve put over Rimmer’s genitals looks exactly like his face (and with everybody else), and in face when he lifts the covers under there is his face looking at a willy (or maybe twat) looking back at him from off his head. Gives a whole new meaning to Belgian kissing doesn’t it? Then again, one could also make the argument that raping your sister in public whenever you see her is standard reaction in an opposite universe. Also, does she really mean it when she’s disgusted? If it’s opposite, then maybe what she says is the opposite of what she means? Also, why would he be in bed to rest when he should be exercising by running on a treadmill on the roof to rest? And why isn’t every color inverted? And why are they in space when they should be in a Jeep? And why aren’t there 961,1 people instead? And why does Rimmer drink through his genitals and not with his face? And why doesn’t he have legs where his arms should be and buttocks on his chest and an anus in the back of his neck? And why wasn’t everybody dead?

[flanl3]

Good night, everyone.

[Pete Part Three]

Only The Good is a brilliantly, meta deconstructionist piece of television as it’s the complete opposite of what Red Dwarf should be.

[Moonlight]

As a kid I always interpreted that line as “underpants-o-lastic”, as if it was some strange term he made up for stretchy underwear.

[Rubber]

The thing I always hated the most was the ellipsis in the title. When did Red Dwarf become a programme with terrible little cliche sitcom/Casualty-style episode titles based around bits of well-worn phrases and adages? Plus it totally fucked up the alignment of the lists of episode titles I used to enjoy making as a kid. YOU WERE ALL THE SAME, shut up.

[Ben Saunders]

Hollister has a massive cock too if Pete is to be believed. Stopping a lift door from closing when you aren’t catching a lift etc.

[bloodteller]

why oh why didn’t they just call it “Mirror/rorriM” like it was originally called? that’s a much better title than “Only the Good…”

also, what the FUCK does ‘only the good die young’ even mean? it sounds like a song title

[bloodteller]

rimmer’s not even particularly young

[Ben Saunders]

It’s a saying, innit. And Rimmer is supposed to be the she he was in Series I, which is……………

[Ben Saunders]

The age*, he’s not trans

[bloodteller]

still not that young though, is he? he’s around 30-something

[Plastic Percy]

For the record, it is a song by Billy Joel. There’s also an Iron Maiden song of the same title.

I always took Rimmer’s use of it to mean that only the good die young sacrificing themselves in a heroic, noble manner. But complete cowardly custard gits and connivers like him would put self preservation above everything.

[Lily]

Bit older than Billy Joel.

“He whom the gods love dies young” Menander, greek playright, 300BC

The gods loving the talented, virtuous, heroic ‘good’ and wanted those mortals with them in the afterlife so took them young.

[Me Own Stunts]

Only the Good is not alright. It is deeply shit.

/thread

[Ben Saunders]

It’s a series of skits and the mirror universe thing comes out of nowhere, but at the end of Series VIII I’m just glad to have a couple of laughs

[International Debris]

There are laughs in Only the Good…?

[Ben Saunders]

A few, yeah.

Funniest thing about it though is the cast pissing themselves laughing at Ackerman’s “super suck” on the commentary, though

[bloodteller]

i might’ve liked Only The Good… if it were executed better. as it stands, it’s way too focused on stuff like Talia (who IS she?) and the escalating pranks shit, wheras it really should have had more of a focus on the Dwarfers’ actual escape from prison and the Mirror Universe.

[bloodteller]

for the 3 episodes of setup it took to actually get them INTO prison, it felt like such a copout for it to just jumpcut to them smashing open an airvent and crawling out.

[Plastic Percy]

I’m not in love with VIII, but I thought it would have been a better use of it’s time if we’d had Back in the Red as one episode (extended or not) and then the next seven being a mix of Canary missions and Porridge-esque prison scams.

[Dax101]

Just think if Doug had his way originally Red Dwarf would have ended with Series 8 with the crew getting back to earth in that kinda VIII shinanigans sort of way.

Can only imagine that would have either stopped BTE to XII being made or it wouldn’t have and Doug would have ignored or made up some parallel universe excuse to allow the show to keep going.

After all its not like he cares all that much about the ending of Only the Good.

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