Subtly changing Red Dwarf

[Warbodog]

Minor dialogue changes can significantly affect how the characters come across. Observe:

V1: Curious

V2: Creepy

V3: Random

V4: Distracted

Topic

[Warbodog]

You know, if the images showed. Update: Fixed with Copy Image instead, so nothing can stop my hilarity.

V1: Informal

V2: Inappropriate/Non sequitur

V3: No longer acceptable reference

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[Technopeasant]

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[Ian Symes]

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[Warbodog]

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[Nick R]

Normal: 

Admiring an exemplary example of someone with a certain name:

Asking about the gender of someone being discussed:

Who was the SI unit of power named after?

A spectacular point in rugby:

Wasn’t Charles Laughton great in Mutiny on the Bounty?

Expressing his admiration for Ace in a more specific way:

A Geordie meeting his friend:

James Bond is good at his job, isn’t he?

That pigpen is impressive! 

That infected spot on your eyelid is impressive!

Proposing a way of cooking a meal:

Offering a suicide pact:

And now, this final question is for £1 million. What was the first name of the Gunpowder Plot member who was also known as “Guido Fawkes”? Is it:

A: Guy

B: Robert

C: Craig

D: Norman

What phrase is used to exclude certain people from an application? 

Can I ask an intrusive question? 

Did your plan fail? 

“Who did Peter Kay play in Phoenix Nights? Brian something… Potter, was it?”

Say “pottery” in a very bad, exaggerated Brummie/Black Country accent. 

Where does your solar power come from? 

Please mildly insult someone in an old-fashioned way.

Can you name a feature on the coastline of Newfoundland?

Marsupial spotted!

[clem]

[International Debris]

[Flap Jack]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Given we know Mr Rimmer gave Arnold the hologram to play when he had made it, and given Arnold keeps telling Mrs Rimmer passed his exams and is a Rear Admiral, it’s easy enough to draw a line to that Mr and Mrs Rimmer believing Arnold has played the hologram and that Mrs Rimmer’s letter actually refers to Bongo 

[Flap Jack]

Interesting idea, but it seems unlikely that Rimmer’s mum would go from never directly acknowledging him as Rimmer’s father at all to referring to him as “your father” in correspondence without any in-between.

Also, you mean Dungo. Bongo is too young to be Rimmer’s dad, plus he’s from a different universe.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

I do mean Dungo, yes 

Unfortunately he name isn’t Frank so it’s easy to forgot. 

[Nick R]

[Warbodog]

given Arnold keeps telling Mrs Rimmer passed his exams and is a Rear Admiral

I never liked that detail (of the otherwise impeccable scene). I don’t know why Rimmer would inform her each time he took an exam (unless she just knows it’s procedure for officers every year to advance, or something?) It seems implausible that she’d never know the truth all those years, since any family members who did know would delight in informing her. Plus, I just want her to despair of him.

[Rudolph]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

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[Nick R]

[Jonathan Capps]

[Jonathan Capps]

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[Jonathan Capps]

[Technopeasant]

[Warbodog]

[Nick R]

Minor dialogue changes that spoil the punchlines:

[Jonathan Capps]

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

[Technopeasant]

[Technopeasant]

 Also, you mean Dungo. Bongo is too young to be Rimmer’s dad, plus he’s from a different universe.

Also, if he’s been married 35 years then he isn’t too young. New conspiracy unlocked.

And in fairness to Quinn, this thread has provided ample prompting to have Bongo on the brain.

[Nick R]

In honour of the YouGov poll on swearing, I’m going to try upgrading some Red Dwarf slang and euphemisms to the next tier of offensiveness:

(I notice that scene’s Smega-Drive subtitles have inconsistent ellipsis punctuation!)

[Warbodog]

Generously going with the airdate, since Bobby was still in the womb 35 years before the scene was recorded.

[Jonathan Capps]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

[Technopeasant]

Generously going with the airdate, since Bobby was still in the womb 35 years before the scene was recorded.

He definitely seems written as an older man in Backwards.

[Technopeasant]

And here I thought todger meant arse

[Warbodog]

And here I thought todger meant arse

I thought “tits” referred specifically to nipples (“teats”) for a while, and that people really admired those specifically.

[Technopeasant]

You mean you don’t?

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