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I’m sure Mike & Angelo got better. Tomorrow’s episode is from 1996.

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First ‘Oh fuck I’m gonna be 30 this year’ of 2013. Happy new year you absolute slags.

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Got BtE on Blu-ray for Christmas and promised myself I’d finally get around to seeing Blade Runner again before I watch it. Handily, the Final Cut is on BBC2 tomorrow night at 11.30, followed by a making-of documentary.

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He was at ours with BBC Look North to promote a charity swim event. Seemed like a nice bloke.

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I’m a lifeguard. The most famous person I’ve ever had in my pool, as far as I know anyway, is Duncan Goodhew.

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He’s excellent in the Launching Red Dwarf documentary on the series I DVD, but no, not at all like Brannigan.

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Challenge are showing Crystal Maze Christmas Specials this week. I like how the kids get the big prize no matter how well they do just because, fuck it, it’s Christmas!

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Got the Sunday off work!

> Mike & Angelo (especially if it’s the original cast)

IIRC there was a scene in which original Angelo basically regenerated into new Angelo.
I hope it’s an Eric episode of Woof. I’d rather see a later T-Bag though, as I got the first three series DVDs, and I don’t think there are currently any plans to release more, unfortunately.

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And Puddle Lane, surely?

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We’re not all hard bastards here in Geordieland. I live in Gateshead and I’ve worn two pairs of socks to bed the last few nights.

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The Mugs Murphy Show

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You could watch the Best Ever Episode introduction by Lister in Santa hat and tinsel, followed by Back to Reality.

> Meltdown has Father Christmas in it too, of course.

And of course he’s mentioned in Backwards.

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> What do you want to melt him with ?

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Kryten, Nanarchy, and I’ll second Psirens.

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> What was it, Clem?

There once was a roguey named Hogey.
He was a demented old fogey,
But with his wiblifier
The Dwarfers escaped from a dire
Situation as sticky as bogies.

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Thanks for the praise guys. Seb you palestine! TOS is shit bring back Ellard etc. ;)
Did you enter the competition in the end then Si?

> I thought the line was a reference to “It was me plan! I planned it.”

It was.

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There once was a slob and a cat,
A robot and an utter twat,
A computer named Holly,
Rimmer’s blow-up dolly,
Some skutters and a CGI rat.

I think my competition entry was better than those, but not much.

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There once was a man with a plan.
He’d planned it – it was his plan.
On a farm he’d breed horses
With horses and horses
But for Krissie, he’d need a dustpan.

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I love this version of the Raggy Dolls song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsBRMhaKPps

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Mine too, at the moment.

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Just yesterday I finally got to see the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode with NPH as the voice of the Music Meister, and it’s great. He’s brilliant in the Harold and Kumar films as well.

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Rimmers in corrie now!!!!!1

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Egbert arms were little wooden forks…

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I like that T-shirt seller’s username. A herd of flesh-eating dinosaurs feeding off the bones of rob_mcclure, anyone?

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That reminds me of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode where Red Tornado builds a robot son. It is sad.

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> bramble-picker, Don’t know where that one came from…

The Big Issue! It’s like Bunty, only written by tramps.

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I’d like to put in an order as well PTS. Your mad project intrigues me.

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Yeah that would make sense. Thanks guys, I’ll have a look for it when I get in.

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This thread’s reminded me of a bit of one of the DVD documentaries where Bobby Llew talks about the cast mucking about in rehearsals, pretending Starbug’s been hit by a ‘gay ray’ and made the crew behave in a very camp fashion. Anyone remember which DVD that’s on, or how he gets onto the subject?

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No, we just hosed him down and gave him a pat!

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“How can there be a cassette of Spaceballs: The Movie? We’re still in the middle of making it!”

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Really well done Ian.

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It’s great that your little brothers are getting into Dwarf, but don’t let them watch the butchered Dave repeats. Show them the DVDs complete with all the bastards, retards and rude gestures – I don’t care if they’re only 8. :-)

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Erm can I get a bump please? And don’t forget to have a rest so you don’t look too shagged out when you cross the finish line.

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Well I would go with Craig (but I’d be thinking of Wilmot????!!)

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Thanks si. Never mind what the nose is like – what a fucking awesome prize!

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Excellent. I very much like the name of the documentary.

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I think that’s what peas_and_corn meant by “shown written proof that it was all a setup”

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> I did think that, but it could have caused serious repurcussions for Kryten if they did that and Lister is no grass. Rimmer, on the other hand…. I’m surprised he didn’t at least suggest it.

I suppose you could argue they just panicked and didn’t think of that. Characters’ intelligence fluctuating to suit a situation or joke is a bit of a theme in VIII, like how Lister finds a join-the-dots puzzle difficult, and yet knows Morse code or however he’s meant to be communicating with the Skutters by banging on the pipe.

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From the Stoke Me a Clipper deleted scenes, I’m fond of “Hard to accept? No, Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller is hard to accept. George Lazenby as James Bond. Oven chips.”

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> I don’t think we’ve ever had a series three shirt

There was a ‘Let’s get out there and twat it’ one iirc.

I like the little moment between Kryten and Lister at the end of The Last Day. Not mad about Rimmer getting blown up in Timeslides, bit too daft.

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We don’t need no stinkin’ commentaries!

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> I love it too. I didn’t know it was unpopular?

I think it’s been pretty much forgotten about hasn’t it? Vastly underrated in my opinion. “We’re looking at a shoulder!”
No commentaries on X would be a big shame. Would people prefer a Doug commentary to a cast one? I’d plump for cast as long as there’s plenty of Doug being interesting about his approach to writing and directing the series on other extras like a Making of documentary.

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Aww. As a Monkees fan I can’t not like Iain Lee. This is genuinely very nice to see.

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> VIII’s single biggest problem is that it THINKS it’s being Red Dwarf, it’s TRYING to be Red Dwarf, but it ISN’T…you know…Red Dwarf!

I quite like to think of VIII as the Red Dwarf equivalent to Gene Deitch era Tom and Jerry.

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> just WATCH Blade Runner please!!

Which version should we watch? I did see it many years ago and keep meaning to watch it again. You should all watch Dark Star as well if you’ve never seen it.

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> it looks slightly suspect when it pops up at work.

Strap it to your thigh?

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I hope that doesn’t qualify as a spoiler.

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> Episode six, in particular, features possibly the most universally superb guest cast I can recall across the entirety of RD.

What he said.

> What? More superb than Jenny Agutter? I seriously doubt it….***sigh***

More superb than Jenny Agutter in Red Dwarf, yes, although none of them got their minge out like she does in Walkabout.

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