You know you’re a Red Dwarf fan when …

[clem]

What are some bits of Red Dwarf trivia/dialogue/whatever that you find yourself dropping into conversation or just thinking of in everyday life, elicited by the most tenuous of connections? Character traits you catch yourself aping? Like this morning when I noticed the date and my first thought was ‘oh it’s Valentine’s Day’ and my second was ‘also the anniversary of the first airing of Camille’.

Also I can’t see anyone wearing a North Face jacket without thinking of Kryten’s “pile of laundry” line in Psirens. 

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[Unrumble]

I genuinely had chicken chasseur from a hospital canteen yesterday, and immediately thought it should’ve been served in a stool bucket rather than a polystyrene container. 

[Dave]

I regularly say “all in all, 100% successful trip” after arriving home from doing the shopping or whatever.

[Warbodog]

It’s generally some random, heavily-accented Lister lines that come to mind on cue, e.g. “It’s only shallow.” In the past, I found that expressing “I hate my life” in a Timeslides Lister voice took some of the edge off.

[Formica]

What are some bits of Red Dwarf trivia/dialogue/whatever that you find yourself dropping into conversation or just thinking of in everyday life, elicited by the most tenuous of connections?

This answer gets a bit different as an American, where plenty of standard old British phrases have seeped into my vocabulary without even realizing, so subtly I couldn’t even tell you what they are – from watching not only too much RD but pieces of other British comedy too.

Oh, and Craig Charles’s pronunciation of “uz” slips out of my mouth once in a while.

[Frank Smeghammer]

Whenever I leave a job, I always tell my colleagues that over the years I’ve come to regard them as “people…I…met”

I shamelessly steal Red Dwarf gags all the time to make people laugh because these days fewer and fewer people you meet have ever heard of the show, let alone seen it. Even rarer still if they’ve seen the show enough to recognise that I’ve stolen a gag from the show.

[Spaceworm Jim]

I often say ‘no it’s not’ in the style of Rimmer’s first impression of Lister. I’ve given up calling out ‘I’ll come to your ROOM and see you!’ when departing from friends’ houses. It was always stupidly dodgy but now they have kids it would be shameful.

Also do ‘all in all, 100% successful trip’ all the bloody time.

Not going to ask for details or anything, but I hope you’re alright, Unrumble.

[Flap Jack]

Whenever someone brings up Marlon Brando, you instinctively say “I did kill him, you know.” and then regardless of what they say next, you just shrug and say “I stabbed him with a knife.”

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

But why would you say that, sir?

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

I have taken to eating prawn vindaloo quite regularly. Which is the opposite of Lister as far as we know. 

[loadoftottnumb]

I sometimes do that thing Cat did when pretending like he was going to rush and help Lister but then just went back to eating. Not so specifically mind, I’m not a cat and I don’t know anyone called Lister (anymore, I used to know two people called David Lister amazingly) 

I also do Rimmers ‘yeeeeeeeeeee….NO’ thing 

[Warbodog]

I also do Rimmers ‘yeeeeeeeeeee….NO’ thing 

Oh yeah, I steal Rimmer line deliveries when entertaining a child. You know you’re a Red Dwarf fan when you run out of original ideas for bedtime stories, so start telling My Little Pony / Red Dwarf mashups. Backwards is doing well so far.

[si]

I use “You’re unhappy, aren’t you?” if someone has a little rant or anything. 

[Frank Smeghammer]

Whenever someone brings up Marlon Brando, you instinctively say “I did kill him, you know.” and then regardless of what they say next, you just shrug and say “I stabbed him with a knife.”

I mean that’s the best one because a very very tiny percentage of the entire world is going to get that so its a little joke to yourself really

[Nick R]

If I’m telling someone about something that I intended to do but ultimately didn’t, I sometimes say:

[Unrumble]

Have occasionally done a “We’re going to dieeeeee”, like Rimmer over the Holly-Hop Drive, when in a situation like e.g. in a car with someone driving a bit wonkily.

[Unrumble]

Not going to ask for details or anything, but I hope you’re alright, Unrumble.

Oh yeah, I was just visiting someone. Treated myself to a hospital dinner rather than having to cook when I got home.

[Ridley]

Oh yeah, I was just visiting someone. Treated myself to a hospital dinner rather than having to cook when I got home.

[clem]

Oh yeah, I was just visiting someone.

[RunawayTrain]

For me it’s random bits of dialogue, or specific line readings, such as

‘wiiiiiine’, ‘have you quite finished being strange?!’, ‘I’m fine thank you Susan’, ‘that’s put a crimp in an otherwise damn fine plan’, ‘balls on standby’, ‘Mr Guitar’, ‘eeeeeeeextraordinary’, etc.

Though really Cabin Pressure takes up the most vocabulary and reference space in my brain by far, more even than Star Trek, Stargate, or Red Dwarf.

[Spaceworm Jim]

I’m a Douglas, yet everyone keeps talking to me as if I’m an Arthur. Bizarre.

I once ripped off Craig’s ‘get this one right, Robert, and there’s a bag of chips in it for you’ while at a poker game and it got a big laugh. There haven’t been any letters from any GN laywers, so I think I got away with it.

Glad there’s nothing seriously wrong with Unrumble.

[Jonsmad]

This probably barely counts, but when i watch stuff and a suitable actor appears on tv, my brain goes “Red Dwarf -guest star”. I got married last year and now i tend to pause a programme when this happens and point the actor out to my wife, who kindly did rewatch red dwarf with me during our courtship, and does like the show but isn’t totally annorack like me, so doesn’t really care for such footnotes and so nods out of politeness. This happened last night when Richard Ridings popped up in a touch of frost. He didnt have a burger though, Frost probably had it first.  

[Lilly Queen]

In order to psych up my friends to achieve something, as we often feel hopeless and depressed due to the many unbearable miseries of life, I give Kryten’s mantra of “Do we believe?!”, until they all say it with enthusiasm. I do this on quite a ridiculous frequency but it always works.

[si]

I’ll sometimes say “See you later…” in the manner of the toilet from Balance of Power.

Isn’t that exciting? 

[Jenuall]

I fairly regularly tell my dogs and cats that I’m going to turn them into a kebab whenever they are being little shits

[clem]

Only knowing the answers to questions on quiz shows because of Red Dwarf.

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