Your favourite episode-ending punchlines

[Rushy]

In no particular order, here’s some of mine: 

*”We’re talking jape of the decade…”

*”Now you have it in stereo, baby”

*”We’re going to do to Lister what Alexander the Great once did to me”

*”I knew I was lying. No Silicon Heaven? Preposterous! Where would all the calculators go?”

*The cowboy whooping at the end of Gunmen of the Apocalypse.

*”Rimmerworld was weeks ago. We’re far more concerned at the moment about the quite hideous thing that’s happened to Lister.”

*”Sigmund Freud, eat your heart out!”

*”The world loves a bastard!”

*”Smeg.” (after destroying Cassandra)

*”What an absolute slag” 

*”You have the Universe on speed dial???”

*”How’s that for a pokey face?”

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[Dave]

[Android 72264Y]

“It’s a garbage pod.”

“IT’S A SMEGGING GARBAGE POD!”

[Warbodog]

I think of Quarantine and Me² as my favourite episodes, which have some of the worst and best punchlines respectively.

[Unrumble]

“I’m going to be an uncle.” 

[Flap Jack]

Dear Dave is quite the choice… I can only flash back to the debates that were had about whether Lister saying that made him a capital M Misogynist.

[Jonathan Capps]

Despite the many issues of the episode itself “have you got a pen” is a banger

[Android 72264Y]

“Queeg” because I remember the first time it caught me completely off guard.

“We are talking Jape of the Decade. We are talking April, May, June, July, and August Fool.”

[Ben Saunders]

Best: the slime’s coming home (both of them)

Worst: no toast

[Dave]

Worst: no toast

May I suggest:

[Ben Saunders]

Nowhere near as bad as no toast. It just could have been edited a bit better, or had some special effect, shown the Rimmer monster blowing up or a bazookoid…oid flying towards the camera. Nothing wrong with the line or anything. No toast is just played badly and a lazy throwback to begin with.

[sleepey]

So I said to the guy, I said… (flicks cigarette) don’t forget what you’re gonna be putting at the bottom of the list as the last thing you’ll have written you’ll be going to have doing

[Ben Saunders]

don’t forget what you’re gonna be putting at the bottom of the list as the last thing you’ll have written you’ll be going to have doing

[sleepey]

[Dave]

[Unrumble]

[Hamish]

[Technopeasant]

[Warbodog]

[Unrumble]

[Nick R]

[Meteo]

It’s this one.

[Technopeasant]

[Cardinal_Hordriss]

I think I prefer the more philosophical endings… there’s usually a gag attached but I like it when they get a bit thought provoking. Like the end of Back to Reality or, more blatantly, Justice.

[Technopeasant]

or more blatantly, Justice

Which has a rather controversial ending gag. I do like “thank god for that”, but Lister falling and presumably seriously hurting himself is probably a bit too much.

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