Only the Good… possible outcome

[Bargain Bin Holly]

Since the users of this site are perpetually doomed to repeatedly bring up Series VIII in every discussion no matter how unrelated, I thought I could bring up this question revolving around the thing Doug Naylor fears will be asked everytime he has a fan Q&A session.

How do you think Only the Good… bridges into Back to Earth, basically, what happened to lead us into the Dave-era in the continuity of the show.

Personally, I like to believe nano-Rimmer is the current Rimmer in BTE-XII, so I just imagine after he kneed Grim in the testes he sodded off, obtained the luck virus from Captain Hollister’s quarters (Since the same vending machine that he meets outside Hollister’s room is the same one he is next to at the end of the episode, he should be pretty close to his room), and used it to repair the ship. But, Rimmer being Rimmer, he manages to axe himself off in a boneheaded way ala Timeslides.

The rest of the crew (Lister, Kryten, Cat, Kochanski, Holly) all crossover from the parallel universe and thats what leads them to the depressed state of affairs in Back to Earth doing jackshit for about ten years or so and still far from Earth. But that’s just me.

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[Dax101]

In series 1 and 2 Hollister was the Captain. in Series VIII and Skipper he is a bad captain and thats what makes it funny.

[Paul Muller]

I really like S1-2 Hollister. Mac is basically playing his character from Aliens, which I’ve always enjoyed. He’s an incredibly funny guy so I can see why the temptation was there to give him more jokes and turn Hollister into a comedy character – but I think the series suffers from it – especially as he’s the primary antagonist throughout the series. Once you’ve seen him buggered by a dinosaur, struggling to hide an erection, admitting to being Dennis the bloody doughnut boy, any looming sense of threat that he might represent evaporates completely.

[Dave]

Once you’ve seen him buggered by a dinosaur, struggling to hide an erection

Removing the comma from this sentence makes it even funnier.

[Bargain Bin Holly]

Would it not have already been retconned in Justice that Hollister wasn’t a good judge of character since its heavily implied the leadership should’ve never gotten Rimmer of all people to try and repair a drive plate.

[flanl3]

To be clear, the Dennis the doughnut boy line doesn’t actually mean that Captain Hollister’s real name is Dennis, right?

[bloodteller]

no

[Warbodog]

I used to wonder if it was an unfamiliar American pop culture reference (apparently not), like the weird “barney with Barney” in Pete that deftly blends a US-coddling reference with US-alienating cockney slang.

[Ben Saunders]

Tbf Barney is pretty universally recognised, I knew who he was as a young child and I’m Scottish. Don’t you remember the playground rhymes about him?

“Barney is a dinosaur from my imagination, stick a pencil up his arse and give him constipation” and I love you, you love me, let’s tie Barney to a tree with a rifle and a shotgun pointed at good head, la la la la Barney’s dead” were both recited daily at my school in about primary 4/5. We were lovely little kids.

[Ben Saunders]

At his head*

[Warbodog]

I was aware there was a purple educational dinosaur called Barney, but hadn’t ever seen it on when I used to watch kids’ TV (i.e. up to 1-2 years earlier). Maybe it was on a different channel or arrived late here? The reference has always stuck out because I figured the average UK adult viewer wouldn’t know who Barney was, since I barely did. I was used to Red Dwarf references being ones I’m too young to get, not somehow too old to get even at 13.

[Warbodog]

It looks like Barney & Friends was broadcast by Channel 5? That explains why I didn’t see it then.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

There’s no way Barney was only on channel 5, I used to watch it as a kid before channel 5 was even a thing.

That said, I can’t find any reference to what channel it did air on, other than when it came back in 2002 which was on channel 5.

[Warbodog]

I was CBBC loyal, so it could have been on ITV or C4 was and I wouldn’t have seen it. Or CBBC after mid-1997. I watched Teletubbies religiously when that first came out and recognised that it was the height of the art form, so abandoned children’s TV after that.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Yeah I was CBBC loyal too … although I did betray that to CITV when it came to Power Rangers. It might have been on there around then.

[Warbodog]

I never saw Power Rangers either. I think we’ve determined the problem is me.

[International Debris]

When I was a kid Barney was a loveable sheepdog.

[Ian Symes]

I’d quite like to see Ricky Grover and Jake Wood punch a sheepdog.

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