Unanswered Questions

[Warbodog]

I watched the incomplete draft version of ‘Dad’ again, which I couldn’t really remember, and was struck by a couple of things:

1) Lister has a single son, not twins, so this isn’t actually resolving the future echo. Already digging themselves out of one hole, maybe they couldnt be arsed with the other (ultimately couldn’t be arsed with either).

2) This is obviously hindsight, but introducing the story of Lister being found in the pub feels like the seed for an Ouroboros ending. Is that too high-concept for this era of the show?

Maybe it’s just setting up that he would ultimately abandon it some other way, though sending them to the parallel universe (which is also referenced in the script) seems like a dull, cop-out ending.

I’d say they must have had some idea of how they were going to resolve it, but we know from situations like Queeg that they just wait for inspiration or a deadline sometimes.

[Flap Jack]

Using OpenAI in other threads, Part 2:

There you go, Rimmer, that can’t be that hard to remember.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Annoyingly, if you Google “Current Under Tension Is …” you get Red Dwarf quotes and links to Reddit with people making memes of it.  It seems, Rob and Doug were making it up.  The bloody under tension current doesn’t exist.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

The bloody under tension current doesn’t exist.

Oh gee, where have I heard that before?

[GlenTokyo]

Annoyingly, if you Google “Current Under Tension Is …” you get Red Dwarf quotes and links to Reddit with people making memes of it.  It seems, Rob and Doug were making it up.  The bloody under tension current doesn’t exist.

Tension has been used as a synonym for voltage, such as high tension power cables, it’s not actually the pulling taught. So current under tension, would be V/I which is R

So Rimmer doesn’t know Ohm’s Law.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

[Flap Jack]

A convincing theory, GlenTokyo, except for one major flaw – if the answer is Resistance, then that means Rimmer wrote it down wrong and the true acronym is C.U.T.I.R. But if the acronym isn’t actually a real word, then there’s no reason to use the unusual “under” wording for divisions instead of the more common “over” (or the synonym for voltage), so in that case it would just be “voltage over current is resistance”.

So I’m going to stick with the robot’s answer for now.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

Yeah, I think the robot’s right.  I just got roughly the same answer as this three times.

[Dave]

So Rimmer doesn’t know Ohm’s Law.

[Ben Saunders]

[Jonathan Capps]

[Flap Jack]

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

  

[Unrumble]

[Flap Jack]

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

[Rudolph]

[GlenTokyo]

[Dave]

[clem]

[Unrumble]

It’s something that’s mildly nagged at the back of my mind every time I’ve watched Timeslides, and I thought it’d fit in this thread as well as anywhere:

When Rimmer inadvertently puts things back ‘exactly as they were’, Holly informs him that the tension sheet was now (re)invented by a man named “Thickie Holden”. 

Holly is presumably relaying information from the historical records in her data banks (or whatever). Why would official records refer to him as ‘Thickie’, a cruel nickname bestowed upon him by Arnie & pals at boarding school?

Upon growing up and making billions from his red packing paper, why would anyone be aware of this name? A name that he’d be very unlikely to go around informing people about?

Did he adopt it as an ironic moniker, owning it in a way that said ‘fuck you’ to his old bullies? 

Or is Holly perhaps editorialising just to rub it in Rimmer’s face? 

It is an important thing to ponder on a Sunday evening… 

[Flap Jack]

In the new timeline, he reclaimed the name Thickie to rub his success in his former bullies’ faces and to use the name as an inspirational talking point.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

Or that’s what he wrote on the patent form and it just never occurred to him to amend it.

[clem]

Maybe Thickie coincidentally got the same nickname again by being an obnoxious Loadsamoney type of character, showing off “a wad so thick, you could use it to beat whales to death”. Thickie, short for Thick Wad. 

[International Debris]

I think it’s just Holly rubbing it in.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Why does Lister associate “You are the Sunshine of my Life” with a random singing group called The Canaries?

[loadoftottnumb]

At the captains dinner in BITR Part 2 did Hollister inform everyone about a change of dress code after he realised Rimmer didn’t understand what ‘black tie’ meant? 

Would second techs likely have Tuxedos or board anyway? Maybe they could rent them. 

[Dave]

Maybe they could rent them

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

The fact Rimmer thinks you order Chinese medium rare is another feather in a cap for “not understanding at all how food works”

I wonder if that VIII gag was meant to be a slight reference to the fact that last time he was invited to dinner with the captain he made a tit of himself with the soup, now he’s confusing dress code for how the food will be cooked.

[International Debris]

It’s also another one of those ‘characters acting stupider than they are’ VIII gags. Given his upbringing and obsession with being an officer, there’s absolutely no way Rimmer wouldn’t know what black tie means. 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

You’d think he would know what gazpacho soup was based on that theory, but he doesn’t

[Moonlight]

I think “black tie” for an upper-class family would come into play more than gazpacho soup.

[International Debris]

Yeah, as someone who’s never actually been invited to anything labelled black tie, I’m still very familiar with it. Without Red Dwarf, I wouldn’t know what gazpacho soup was. 

To me it just feels like one of VIII’s very many ‘sod the characters let’s do a (shit) gag’ moments.

[Rudolph]

And even if Hollister is annoyed at Rimmer knowing more personal details about him than he should, it takes two seconds to correct him rather than spend time changing the entire dress code for the other guests.

[Veeva]

What is the liquid that Rimmer throws over Hollister’s chicken suit costume in Stasis Leak? 

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

You mean, the green liquid in the paint can that Rimmer dips with a paint brush after being told he’s got 8 months painting duty? Who can say!!!!!!!

[Veeva]

Yeah I guess they were so used to doing painting duty that they just kept a tin of paint in their living quarters at all times. 

[loadoftottnumb]

Gazpacho Soup 

[Stabbim]

it was obviously General Patton’s sinus fluid, you goits

[GlenTokyo]

Starbug was green just to tidy up the “why have they got green paint when nothing in the show is green?” thread.

True made up Red Dwarf fact.

[Dave]

Clearly a bucket of Lister’s urine.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

It’s the paint Lister users to paint parts of Selby and Chen when drunk

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

It’s the paint Lister users to paint parts of Selby and Chen when drunk

[Rudolph]

We never see the port side of Red Dwarf, it’s always shot going left to right, so we can’t say for certain that the other side of the ship isn’t green.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

We never see the port side of Red Dwarf, it’s always shot going left to right, so we can’t say for certain that the other side of the ship isn’t green.

[loadoftottnumb]

In Better Than Life the Cat starts licking Tony Hawks after he brings the fish and says ‘I always do this when someone gives me food’ 

Who has been giving him food? He didn’t mean Lister as he was surprised to see it, also he didn’t do it when he gave him the Krispies, not Rimmer as he was a soft-light Hologram, maybe Kryten during his visit but who else? The Cat Priest? Other cats before they left? 

[Dave]

Maybe he licks the vending machines.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

If the food’s just on the table when he comes in, does he lick the tabletop? Like former US President George Dubyah Bush?

[Jenuall]

Maybe it all the cat saliva that’s turned Taiwan Tony a bit dodgy?

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

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