Things Exactly 2 Episodes Have In Common

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Clue for mine 

Confidence & Paranoia and Better than Life: 

It’s about 2 people

[Formica]

They’re also the only two in which the crew put money in

[Dave]

The End (licensed-music-replacement version) and Parallel Universe.

[Warbodog]

The End (licensed-music-replacement version) and Parallel Universe.

[Dave]

What gave it away?

[Warbodog]

The End (Remastered version) and Backwards

[clem]

The End (Remastered version) and Backwards

Is it appearances by the creators of Red Dwarf? The real life ones I mean, so BTE doesn’t count. There’s that shot of Rob getting an idea in Backwards, and I think Doug is one of the attendees added to McIntyre’s funeral.

[Warbodog]

That was it, but now I’m worried Doug might also be reflected in this monitor.

[Ben Saunders]

The End (Remastered) and The Promised Land (facetious)

[clem]

Waiting for God and The Beginning (cwickham)

The End Remastered and The Promised Land (Ben Saunders) Facetious

Confidence & Paranoia and Better than Life (loadoftottnumb) It’s about two people

Marooned and Can of Worms (clem) Dialogue

Polymorph and Terrorform (Ben Saunders) Dialogue

White Hole and Tikka to Ride (clem) It’s about two people

I just added that last one.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Polymorph and Terrorform (Ben Saunders) Dialogue 

Is it how Holly announces the Polymorph / Kryten hand tarantula?

she tells Rimmer/Lister not to panic and then tells Rimmer/Lister that she lost track of it

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Confidence & Paranoia and Better than Life (loadoftottnumb) It’s about two people

Two people who were together somewhere. They also share a reference from this page, but the thing is different enough to still be ok.

[Technopeasant]

I think Doug is one of the attendees added to McIntyre’s funeral.

I was this year’s old when I learned…

That was it, but now I’m worried Doug might also be reflected in this monitor.

If anything he’d be reflected in the Dave era, given he directed those.

The End (Remastered) and The Promised Land (facetious)

[Moonlight]

The End (Remastered) and Mechocracy

[Warbodog]

I think Doug is one of the attendees added to McIntyre’s funeral.

I was this year’s old when I learned…

When confirming the fact, I enjoyed seeing the historic Wikipedia edits and discussions around a couple of fans insisting it wasn’t heads added to the funeral scene, but rather “shuffling rocks” or “amorphous blobs,” such was their faith in Remastered’s logic.

[Flap Jack]

Hang on, if Remastered eps are being considered as separate entities, that means that pretty much all the previous links involving Series 1-III episodes apply to 3 or 4 episodes and are no longer valid.

[Dave]

No, they’re just variations on a single episode, otherwise pre-watershed cuts and edits for commercial channels like Dave (that apply to every single episode) would invalidate the entire game.

The mention of episode variations is just to give people a clue and make it clear that any changes relating to that version are included. 

[Flap Jack]

Fair enough!

[Flap Jack]

Timeslides (any version) and Trojan

[Warbodog]

Timeslides (any version) and Trojan

An adult Rimmer sibling? When they have to be so narrowed down, I feel it’s probably not it.

Lister meeting a Rimmer sibling? Somehow feels better.

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Confidence & Paranoia and Better than Life (loadoftottnumb) It’s about two people
Two people who were together somewhere. They also share a reference from this page, but the thing is different enough to still be ok.

Two people 

Together 

In 1983-84

In Newcastle

[Ian Symes]

Ah, with you now! If it was a few years later, you could have had Smeg and the Heads’ bass player too.

[clem]

Two people 
Together 
In 1983-84
In Newcastle

Is one of them Jimmy Nail?

[Ian Symes]

White Hole and Tikka to Ride (clem) It’s about two people

Specifically, references to both Laurel and Hardy. If it was just one of them, there’d also be Meltdown.

[clem]

Ah, with you now! If it was a few years later, you could have had Smeg and the Heads’ bass player too.

Gazza, with Peter Beardsley and Kevin Keegan who were both playing for Newcastle United in the 84-85 season? 

[clem]

White Hole and Tikka to Ride (clem) It’s about two people

Specifically, references to both Laurel and Hardy. If it was just one of them, there’d also be Meltdown.

Bingo! Although nobody actually mentions Stan Laurel by name in Meltdown anyway.

[Flap Jack]

An adult Rimmer sibling? When they have to be so narrowed down, I feel it’s probably not it.

Lister meeting a Rimmer sibling? Somehow feels better.

Not exactly what I was thinking, but it’s close enough!

It was just “the current crew interacting with real members of Rimmer’s family”. All other appearances by Rimmer’s family members are flashbacks, recordings, simulations, hallucinations, polymorphs and such.

Given the setting, maybe this one is more “I’m surprised there were that many” than “I’m surprised it’s only those 2”. The same metric applied to the other regulars only yields 1 episode apiece for Cat, Kryten and Lister, and 0 for Holly and Kochanski – assuming that you fudge it to not count Lister as Kochanski’s blood relative and both Lister and Kochanski as Lister’s.

… you know, I don’t think until now I’ve internalised “Kochanski is Jim and Bexley’s grandma” as a fact, but of course it is.

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Ah, with you now! If it was a few years later, you could have had Smeg and the Heads’ bass player too.

Gazza, with Peter Beardsley and Kevin Keegan who were both playing for Newcastle United in the 84-85 season? 

83-84 but yes 🙌 

[Dave]

… you know, I don’t think until now I’ve internalised “Kochanski is Jim and Bexley’s grandma” as a fact, but of course it is.

She’s also Lister’s grandma of course. On his father’s side.

[Ben Saunders]

All other appearances by Rimmer’s family members are flashbacks, recordings, simulations, hallucinations, polymorphs and such.

Well if we’re going all-out on the pedantry, then Howard Rimmer is also a simulation in Trojan. As is Arnold Rimmer.

[Ian Symes]

The End (licensed-music-replacement version) and Parallel Universe.

WAIT. I realise this one was done and dusted days ago, but is the answer football style chants? Because if so, I’ve just remembered Rimmer gloating to the tune of Amazing Grace during his draughts game in Queeg.

[Dave]

WAIT. I realise this one was done and dusted days ago, but is the answer football style chants? Because if so, I’ve just remembered Rimmer gloating to the tune of Amazing Grace during his draughts game in Queeg.

Hadn’t considered that – for me that probably doesn’t count because he’s saying his own name, the others are actual terrace chants.

Plus it would ruin my puzzle.

[Ian Symes]

If they ever invent time-travel, I’m going to go back to when this guy was playing and start chanting his name.

[Dave]

If they ever invent time-travel, I’m going to go back to when this guy was playing and start chanting his name.

The lost Rimmer brother

[clem]

I enjoyed seeing the historic Wikipedia edits and discussions around a couple of fans insisting it wasn’t heads added to the funeral scene, but rather “shuffling rocks” or “amorphous blobs,” such was their faith in Remastered’s logic.

[clem]

Waiting for God and The Beginning (cwickham)

The End Remastered and The Promised Land (Ben Saunders) Facetious

Marooned and Can of Worms (clem) Dialogue

Polymorph and Terrorform (Ben Saunders) Dialogue

The End Remastered and Mechocracy (Moonlight)

[clem]

The End Remastered and The Promised Land (Ben Saunders) Facetious

Is it something to do with these lines?

They’re the only times Lister asks Holly to plot a course, but the first one isn’t only in the Remastered version of The End.

[Technopeasant]

I was going to quibble that the priest was not a blood relative, but of course you mean Rodon…

[Flap Jack]

Shocking that you could even temporarily forget Cat and Rodon’s brotherly relationship, the emotional core of The Promised Land.

[clem]

The End Remastered and Mechocracy (Moonlight)

[Moonlight]

It was a bit obvious but I just really love the skutter zooming across the screen there.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Stoke me a Clipper and Twentica

[clem]

Waiting for God and The Beginning (cwickham)

The End Remastered and The Promised Land (Ben Saunders) Facetious

Marooned and Can of Worms (clem) Dialogue

Polymorph and Terrorform (Ben Saunders) Dialogue

Stoke Me a Clipper and Twentica (Quinn)

[clem]

Stoke me a Clipper and Twentica

Characters named Beryl.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Stoke me a Clipper and Twentica

Characters named Beryl.

Yep

[Ian Symes]

Marooned and Can of Worms (clem) Dialogue

Discussion of virginity?

[Warbodog]

Marooned and Can of Worms (clem) Dialogue

Discussion of virginity?

[clem]

Marooned and Can of Worms (clem) Dialogue
Discussion of virginity?

It’s a single word. The virginity conversation is the relevant bit of Marooned though.

[Dave]

Marooned and Can of Worms (clem) Dialogue
Discussion of virginity?

It’s a single word. The virginity conversation is the relevant bit of Marooned though.

Skateboard?

[clem]

Skateboard?

That’s it.

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