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[Dave]

Also, this might be my new favourite reaction gif.

[clem]

[Moonlight]

All this talk of nomming makes me go :3

[Dave]

All this talk of nomming makes me go :3

[Hamish]

Why does Lister insist on spilling half of it down his front anyway?

[Unrumble]

[MichelleLyons]

Paula has apparently returned from her holidays, and so they’ll be returning to Dave-era RD shortly. In the meantime Kat did a couple of Patreon-only movie reactions – latest one that went up last night (and that I just watched, due to my dreadful sleeping pattern) was Robocop. They liked it a lot, which was very pleasing to someone like me who’s seen it a billion times – my last screening was about two months ago at my local cinema for the 4K director’s cut!

[Podey]

Just watching their Twentica reaction and it made me realise I have absolutely no idea what the name is a play on.

I’m sure it was discussed at the time and I’ve just forgotten. Anyone?

[cwickham]

It’s a portmanteau of “twenties” and “America”

[Formica]

It invokes the right feel in the imagination but it still may well be the worst episode title in the whole run.

[Formica]

Are Twentica and Cured the only two episodes in which an assumed historical figure later turns out not to be?

Do we ever do setup/reply-style forum games around here? Giving two episodes and trying to guess a thing that they and only they have in common seems like it could have a bit of fun in it.

[Dave]

Are Twentica and Cured the only two episodes in which an assumed historical figure later turns out not to be?

I guess it depends whether you/the characters initially buy that the wax droids were really who they’re pretending to be in Meltdown. Lister initially seems to think the matter paddle might have sent them back in time after meeting Hitler and his crew.

[Podey]

There’s also Jesus.

[Flap Jack]

Confidence & Paranoia. That wasn’t the real Mayor of Warsaw.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Queeg. That wasn’t the real Queeg

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

That was a joke but seriously 

Better Than Life, both Marylin Monroe and Napoleon 

[clem]

Craig Charles in Back to Earth

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Ainsley Harriet was real, it’s the characters that weren’t. 

New headcanon. Can’t Smeg Won’t Smeg was an Ainsley Harriet fever dream. 

[Dave]

That was a joke but seriously 
Better Than Life, both Marylin Monroe and Napoleon 

But nobody (characters or audience) initially thinks they’re the real versions. 

[Ian Symes]

The triple-headed skeleton in DNA wasn’t actually Glenn Miller.

[Nick R]

Are Twentica and Cured the only two episodes in which an assumed historical figure later turns out not to be?

Ace Rimmer in Stoke Me A Clipper turns out not to be the Ace they met in Dimension Jump.

(Ace counts as a historical figure to them because the deep sleep in Psirens means they met him hundreds of years ago.)

[Nick R]

It’s a portmanteau of “twenties” and “America”

You know, it never occurred to me that the “twen-” in the title referred to “’20s” – I always assumed it was for “20th century”.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

I’d also assumed the “ca” was Vic and Bob introducing Ulreka Johnson

[Ben Saunders]

The people who come to rescue Rimmer from Rimmerworld are not actually Derek, Kit and Titan.

[Formica]

The resurrected crew in Series VIII are net really, in fact, the original crew

[Podey]

[Flap Jack]

I am trying to think of examples for “applies to exactly 2 episodes”.

Are Bodyswap and Timeslides the only 2 episodes where both Lister and Rimmer – the actual ones, not alternate versions of them – are played by people other than their primary actors?

[Warbodog]

Are Bodyswap and Timeslides the only 2 episodes where both Lister and Rimmer – the actual ones, not alternate versions of them – are played by people other than their primary actors?

If you’re prepared to broaden it out from people, the light bee prop plays Rimmer in The Inquisitor alongside the more conventionally human Listers.

Edit: Never mind, you specified not alternate versions.

[Warbodog]

I checked Stasis Leak for a Lister body double to go with the Rimmer one (there isn’t one), but was amused to see this normally unnoticeable split screen error when he closes the door on himself.

[Flap Jack]

Yeah, if I included alternate versions, then I would be foiled by Parallel Universe and Back to Reality. No need for anyone to argue that a character can be “played” by a prop.

[Formica]

Are Bodyswap and Timeslides the only two episodes in which somebody is shown to be presumed dead shortly after eating food on-screen?

[Warbodog]

No need for anyone to argue that a character can be “played” by a prop.

Are these dolls playing them, or some kind of blurry slide of the actors?

[loadoftottnumb]

Not in the same episode but Ouroboros has a different actor playing the original Lister, and Dimension Jump and the beginning has someone else playing original Rimmer. 

[Unrumble]

[Technopeasant]

Are Bodyswap and Timeslides the only two episodes in which somebody is shown to be presumed dead shortly after eating food on-screen?

In the abridged Better Than Life audiobook someone is literally dead after eating food.

[Technopeasant]

In Polymorph Howard is played by someone other than Mark Dexter, unless he is the one filming.

[Technopeasant]

[Technopeasant]

And in Kryten a different actor played the original Kryten.

[Technopeasant]

[Warbodog]

The poultry and rodent actors who played Lister in DNA aren’t listed in the credits or IMDb, so why does Allison get a credit in Stoke Me a Clipper?

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

The poultry and rodent actors who played Lister in DNA aren’t listed in the credits or IMDb, so why does Allison get a credit in Stoke Me a Clipper?

It was a Creditdile

[Podey]

There was also that time in Back In The Red Part 3 when the main cast sans Rimmer were all played by plasticine.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

There was also that time in Back In The Red Part 3 when the main cast sans Rimmer were all played by plasticine.

Probably the most animated we see Kochanski in all of Series VIII.

[sleepey]

Lister & Rimmer get played by Kryten in Krytie TV.

[clem]

Do we ever do setup/reply-style forum games around here? Giving two episodes and trying to guess a thing that they and only they have in common seems like it could have a bit of fun in it.

I’m game. Marooned and Beyond a Joke 

[Formica]

I’m game. Marooned and Beyond a Joke 

Only two where a mechanoid is at the helm for a Starbug crash?

[Unrumble]

There was also that time in Back In The Red Part 3 when the main cast sans Rimmer were all played by plasticine.

Probably the most animated we see Kochanski in all of Series VIII.

[Flap Jack]

I’m game. Marooned and Beyond a Joke.

Only two where a mechanoid is at the helm for a Starbug crash?

That doesn’t apply to Marooned… ?

[Dave]

That doesn’t apply to Marooned… ?

Well, if you want to get all picky about it.

[Warbodog]

There was also that time in Back In The Red Part 3 when the main cast sans Rimmer were all played by plasticine.

In Quarantine, Lister and Rimmer talk over the radio and their characters are both played by speakers.

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