Your Red Dwarf Memes for Safe and Courteous Disposal Out the Nearest Airlock

[Moonlight]

Now that embedding images isn’t a herculean task requiring a master’s degree in computer science, I figured we ought to finally have one of these on a site where such esoteric bullshit would be welcome.

I’ll start, because that’s how this sort of thread always works. Keep up.

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[Captain Bollocks]

That memes comes off as if Lister thinks that’s song is shit. When it is actually a banger. 

One of my bands once did a “Stars in their Eyes” all-dayer where we did a set of Terrorvision songs, Oblivion being a choice cut. 

[Captain Bollocks]

[Dave]

[Nick R]

Excellent guitar riff.

[Moonlight]

USING THE TIMELINE ON SMEGADRIVE:

[Dave]

[Moonlight]

Can I just say that it’s ALWAYS bothered me that “Sometimes you live, you die, and then you live again. I know, I’ve done it myself,” gets a laugh for literally no fucking reason?

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

I think it’s the delivery 

[Frank Smeghammer]

Lots of Series X moments get big laughs where they shouldn’t be, I’ve always put it down to the audience generally just being extremely excited about new Dwarf.

I remember laughing at the moose gag from Trojan for weeks, giggling like a little girl. On reflection, it’s a pretty good joke but not what I made it out to be when I first saw it. It was a pretty nice time to be a Dwarfer looking back. Series X doesn’t touch the bubble but it definitely lives in a  sweet spot for me

[Jenuall]

I do think the delivery and escalation of the ongoing moose stuff is pretty bloody good to be fair. 

But for sure it gains some bonus goodwill by riding that wave of “oh fuck yes it’s new Dwarf and it’s not shit!!!”

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

The moose gag is genuinely fucking brilliant. But it’s one of those ones that hits it’s hardest the first time you hear it. After that, knowing what it builds to, it’s never going to be the same

[Dave]

I always found the moose gag to be a bit of a  weird one – because it’s definitely very funny (as much due to the performances as the material), but at the same time it also feels like a fairly generic joke that you could plug into pretty much any sitcom rather than it feeling particularly Dwarfy.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Plenty of jokes in Red Dwarf (particularly early series Holly) or non-Dwarfy jokes and just repurposed gags and sketches from elsewhere. Then later on there’s Craig stand up type gags. 

Whilst it annoys me when Red Dwarf is broad, straight up jokes aren’t an issue I don’t think. 

[Ian Symes]

I feel like I’ve said this many times before, but the moose scene is greater than the sum of its parts because of what it represents – first time back in front of an audience for 12 years, we had no idea whether it was going to be any good, and along comes a series of jokes that are not only funny but also tell us something about each individual character and how they interact. Culminating in Cat getting a laugh just from entering the room, in anticipation of what the joke was going to be. Proper character comedy, back again. The first confirmation that not only was Red Dwarf making a comeback, it was actually better than it was immediately before it went away. 

[Dave]

I wonder if it was intentional to front-load Trojan with that, for exactly that reason. Like it needed a reintroduction of the characters and a big guaranteed laugh early on to make you feel comfortable with the show again.

[International Debris]

The moose bit definitely feels like a reintroduction joke, and it’s all the better for it. As Ian says, the moment Cat simply walking into the room gets a big laugh, you know Doug has actually written this as Red Dwarf rather than a random wacky comedy with the same actors. 

[Moonlight]

I remember crushing Trojan down to fit on my little sansa mp3 player so I could watch it again on the bus (I had a LONG bus ride) to/from high school. I’m pretty sure I watched it like 5 times in the first week of it being out.

[Frank Smeghammer]

I’m certain Trojan and the moose joke was frontloaded like that for good reason and it worked.

But conversely, the very first gag of the show being the “you lazy fat pig” line made my blood run cold with fear that Series X was going to be shit. About as unfunny as the show has ever been.

[International Debris]

Ah, well, Doug had to set up the ‘shit opening scene’ trend in X to make the good one in The Beginning stand out more.

[Dave]

[Dave]

[Nick R]

[Formica]

Yes, H did, didn’t he.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Darrell doesn’t look like a young man. Why is he surprised to see an actor from the show he is a member of the fan club Facebook page for appear in a 23year old film he was widely publicised to be in?

[Dave]

[Moonlight]

[Dave]

[Flap Jack]

TFW you return to G&T and you’ve been logged out.

[Dave]

TFW you return to G&T and you’ve been logged out.

[Flap Jack]

TFW you return to G&T and you’ve been logged out, but you mistype your password.

[Dave]

TFW you return to G&T and think you’ve been logged out, but actually it’s just that nobody’s posted anything since you last checked in.

[clem]

TFW you return to G&T and you’re the only user online.

[Dave]

TFW you return to G&T and the only new post is in the Idea For An Episode thread. 

[Moonlight]

TFW when you return to G&T and there’s 15 new posts in the “Doug had updated his Twitter” thread:

[Flap Jack]

TFW you return to G&T looking for an in-depth article to help you decide whether or not you should buy The Promised Land on DVD.

[Dave]

TFW you return to G&T and there’s a new Smegazine Rack Dwarfcast.

[Jenuall]

TFW when you return to G&T and someone makes you think there is a new Smegazine Rack Dwarfcast

[Dave]

TFW when you return to G&T and you realise you made someone think there was a new Smegazine Rack Dwarfcast when there wasn’t.

[Formica]

TFW you return

[Warbodog]

TFW the Idea for an episode thread gets deleted.

[Warbodog]

TFW a spambot breaks through G&T’s defences and you see an admin’s online.

[Nick R]

TFW you return to G&T and the only new posts are in the Smugle or Strugle? – Dispatches From Smegle thread:

TFW today’s Smegle does not make a very good puzzle to screenshot for the purposes of that joke, so you decide to post a gif as well:

[RunawayTrain]

TFW the Idea for an episode thread gets deleted.

See also: when one member of the school music department bites the bullet and does the termly Clearing of the Coffee Cups.

(This has been a Niche Post™.)

[Moonlight]

TFW when my mom finally decides to read G&T

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

TFW when my mom finally decides to read G&T

I don’t think she knows about the sexy details so that would be a revelation

[Jenuall]

TFW you find out the new Sonic game is just Generations with some Shadow the Hedgehog bits glued onto it

[Nick R]

TFW you return to G&T and find that several threads have been bumped and you’re not sure which to check first:

[Frank Smeghammer]

Tfw when seemingly all of us log into G&T and see the Space Rover thread (sorry Future Producer!)

[clem]

TFW you don’t get a good Smegle score and hope no one else does either.

[Warbodog]

TFW you realise your cat’s 7 years old and should now be on Senior cat food.

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