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[Formica]

That doesn’t apply to Marooned… ?

Big old genius me. About five different things came to my head while thinking, and every time, I realized it was Backwards I was thinking of. Somehow forgot to run that check for my final answer.

[Nick R]

I’m game. Marooned and Beyond a Joke 

From a quick skim though the Smega-Drive captions for Beyond a Joke, my first guess was Lister talking about art college:

But it can’t be that because it’s not exclusive to those episodes: 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

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… ?

But does apply to Backwards and DNA so wouldn’t have worked anyway 

[Ian Symes]

 I’m game. Marooned and Beyond a Joke 

I’ve spent much of this morning trying to figure out a link between She’s Out Of My Life and He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother. The best I’ve got is: the only two episodes to reference songs that were performed on The X Factor.

[Technopeasant]

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?

What about the rabbit, chicken and hedgehog who played polymorphs?

Not to mention, the steeds in Stoke wuz robbed.

[Ben Saunders]

in Beyond A Joke, Kryten is briefly played by a lifesize doll of himself who promptly explodes

[Dave]

Is Timeslides the only episode in which an actor not only has his regular character (not a variant version) played by someone else but also himself plays another character (who isn’t a variant version of his regular character)?

[clem]

I’ve spent much of this morning trying to figure out a link between She’s Out Of My Life and He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother. The best I’ve got is: the only two episodes to reference songs that were performed on The X Factor.

Kerry McGregor did You Are the Sunshine of My Life, series 3

[Warbodog]

Is Timeslides the only episode in which an actor not only has his regular character (not a variant version) played by someone else but also himself plays another character (who isn’t a variant version of his regular character)?

Beyond a Joke, someone else is playing Kryten in this shot (not a dummy, because it moves).

[Warbodog]

Is Timeslides the only episode in which an actor not only has his regular character (not a variant version) played by someone else but also himself plays another character (who isn’t a variant version of his regular character)?

Does Chris Barrie playing the Polymorph mimicking Rimmer count as a variant version of his regular character?

[Warbodog]

Episodes where the same character is played by the most people?

– The Inquisitor in The Inquisitor / Camille in Camille (5)

– Lister in Thanks for the Memory / Holly in Queeg (3)

[Dave]

The Inquisitor in The Inquisitor / Camille in Camille (5)

Lister in the Inquisitor (regular Lister, variant Lister, old Lister, young Lister, prop playing Lister’s hand)

[Dave]

Lister in Thanks for the Memory / Holly in Queeg (3)

Lister in DNA (regular Lister, chicken Lister, hamster Lister)

[clem]

Episodes where the same character is played by the most people?
– The Inquisitor in The Inquisitor / Camille in Camille (5)

Legion in Legion (5) if this counts as the four main cast members playing the character

[Flap Jack]

Folks, come on.

The answer is Siliconia.

Everyone is playing Kryten.

[Formica]

I’m game. Marooned and Beyond a Joke

Even after thinking all day, this is my full suite of impressive ideas:

– Only two episode titles where the first word ends with the sound /nd/. Probably not what you’re after but I’m more confident in it at least being true than I was last time.

– Dunno, is it something to do with Maroon 5 and Beyonce?

[Formica]

Which Psiren is played by the most actors? Presumably this answer is unknowable, as it’s impossible to tell which were on the phone calls?

Were the video calls (1) collective psychic projections by many Psirens, (2) a psychic projection by one individual Psiren, or (3) an actual video call in which each individual woman was really in fact one Psiren.

[Warbodog]

It doesn’t seem like Psirens work together, so maybe more likely the same one? They can make them hallucinate the radar read-out saying something else, so probably doesn’t have to be an actual video?

[clem]

I’m game. Marooned and Beyond a Joke
Even after thinking all day, this is my full suite of impressive ideas:
– Only two episode titles where the first word ends with the sound /nd/. Probably not what you’re after but I’m more confident in it at least being true than I was last time.
– Dunno, is it something to do with Maroon 5 and Beyonce?

It doesn’t require any knowledge of anything other than the episodes themselves, like Ian’s X-Factor suggestion. I’ll reveal the answer at the earliest opportunity after 9:07 tomorrow morning if nobody’s got it by then, so at least 48 hours after posting the question. It’s a straightforward answer so no one is gonna be dazzled by its esoteric brilliance or anything, but I don’t really think anyone will be kicking themselves for not simply knowing it either – we are talking Beyond a Joke after all – so prepare to be underwhelmed :) 

[International Debris]

They’re the only episodes in which Kryten goes on a killing spree (other than Marooned).

I dunno, is it something to do with food?

[clem]

I dunno, is it something to do with food?

In Beyond a Joke it is.

[International Debris]

Now I’m even more confused.

[RunawayTrain]

Eating food out of a tin?  (Pure guess.  It is BaJ after all.)

[Formica]

Is the parallel food in Beyond a Joke <-> fire in Marooned?

[Technopeasant]

Eating food out of a tin?  (Pure guess.  It is BaJ after all.)

Duct Soup though.

[clem]

[Flap Jack]

Ohhhhhhh

[International Debris]

I suppose my real question is how exactly did you come up with that one?

God, that cartoonivore joke is laboured, isn’t it? As if there aren’t many examples of cartoon chickens over the years.

[Moonlight]

That’s the kind of first draft joke that makes it in when you’re paralyzed by the dread of needing to fill 8 episodes.

[Warbodog]

As if there aren’t many examples of cartoon chickens over the years.

I don’t even know what famous cartoon weevil it’s referencing in the first place.

[Moonlight]

Are you telling me there’s not some stuffy, depressing WWII-era British cartoon weevil preaching the values of turning off your lights at night and saving scrap iron?

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Are you telling me there’s not some stuffy, depressing WWII-era British cartoon weevil preaching the values of turning off your lights at night and saving scrap iron?

Oh you mean Willy Weevil the Air Raid Warden. 

[Moonlight]

He was driven to change the world after his father was killed by a zeppelin bombing raid in 1917.

[Flap Jack]

It’s a frustrating joke, because the core idea is fine but the actual example used makes no sense.

Obviously this would have been impossible to reference at the time, but if he had made Lister be worried about space rat rather than space weevil, he could have said

“Look, the rule is simple. I will not eat any animal that’s ever starred in a Pixar film. Rats, ants, clownfish… all out. I’m a carnivore, but that doesn’t mean I’ll eat Lightning McQueen!”.

[Ben Saunders]

Here’s one I came up with while trying to solve the last one: what links Stasis Leak with Marooned? Probably more than one thing, but I’m thinking of one thing.

[clem]

I suppose my real question is how exactly did you come up with that one?

I was rolling the Smega-Drive dice a little while ago, got that caption from Beyond a Joke but couldn’t place it, so I looked it up for context and then just vaguely registered that there was another Roadrunner reference in Red Dwarf besides the one I knew about. 

[clem]

Here’s one I came up with while trying to solve the last one: what links Stasis Leak with Marooned? Probably more than one thing, but I’m thinking of one thing.

Soap powder? The bar Lister takes through the stasis leak turns into power, and the fake snow in Marooned was actually soap irl?

[Ben Saunders]

Soap powder? The bar Lister takes through the stasis leak turns into power, and the fake snow in Marooned was actually soap irl?

Not what I was thinking, but that is a very good obscure connection.

[Flap Jack]

In both episodes Lister confesses to being involved in a sex crime.

[Formica]

In both episodes Lister looks at Man in Shower’s willy. In Marooned he looks off-camera at a picture he keeps of it

[clem]

In both episodes one of the main characters (Lister in Stasis Leak, Rimmer in Marooned) tells a story to the other one about an old friend of theirs whose name begins with a D (Duncan and Donald respectively). 

[Flap Jack]

In both episodes, Rimmer has a violent off screen outburst against a colleague who wronged him.

[Ben Saunders]

All good answers, but not what I was looking for. But I’ll give you points anyway.

[clem]

[Ben Saunders]

Alright alright, these two episodes have a lot more in common than I thought. 

[Nick R]

All right, but apart from the soap powder, the sex crime confession, the willy photo, the story involving a name beginning with “D”, the violent off-screen outburst, and the Cat’s rejection of shoe buffing…

… what is the connection between Stasis Leak and Marooned?

[Moonlight]

Both episodes have Lister go down to a planet / moon and something bad happens.

[Ben Saunders]

Lister go[es] down to a planet / moon and something bad happens

Thanks for the Memory, Backwards, Marooned, Justice, Meltdown, Terrorform, Quarantine, Back to Reality, Legion, Emohawk, Tikka to Ride, Epideme/Nanarchy, Cassandra, Lemons, Entangled, Twentica, Samsara, Timewave, The Promised Land.

Kryten is debateable if anything “bad” happens. Psirens is in an asteroid field. The bad stuff has mainly already happened by the time Lister gets to Rimmerworld. 

[Dave]

Someone says smeg

[Moonlight]

Kryten is debateable if anything “bad” happens.

Kryten leaves for two minutes and everyone he ever cared about immediately dies.

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