Dave

[Dave]

Not long after the omnibus edition came out, after I’d seen V but (I think) either just before or just after VI had been televised. So I guess late 1993.

[Dave]

“You are over one man”. It’s pretty clear.

[Dave]

Slippery slope, though.

[Dave]

I would hope that they would ‘fix’ as little as possible. The effects techniques, whether good or bad, are part of what the show is.

[Dave]

Presumably it’s a ranking thing if you can become a Technician 2.5.

[Dave]

(in response to the First Technician question.)

[Dave]

One of the four service robots. Maybe the one that’s gone absolutely mad.

[Dave]

Was he senile before the accident? He is in that alternative universe which barely counts

I was only talking about the alternate universe. It seems to be one in which pre-accident Holly is as deranged as the three-million-years-later version from the main universe.

In that reality, the accident was probably Holly’s fault.

[Dave]

Great to hear. Looking forward to seeing how it looks.

[Dave]

Not so impressive when you’ve already met Hitler. And a droid Hitler.

[Dave]

Pray, what do you call it?

[Dave]

As much as it was weird seeing such an aged-looking Holly in Skipper, the look is actually quite fitting for an old senile computer.

Although I do think it was weird that he was senile and broken before the accident even happened, rather than 3 million years later.

[Dave]

It does make you wonder how much money Steptoe & Son wasted on all those black and white costumes and makeup and all those grey sets just to achieve such a specific effect.

[Dave]

The joke, there.

[Dave]

The low-res filming of 28 Days Later was a deliberate stylistic choice that I thought worked quite well.

[Dave]

Goldfish shites nibbling at my tights?

[Dave]

There was a decent Doctor Who episode with dinosaurs on a spaceship.

Can’t remember what it was called.

I remember it was an Eleventh Doctor episode with a lead role for Matt Smith.

If it had been a Twelfth Doctor episode it would have featured a Pete part, too.

[Dave]

why are they releasing it all on Blu-Ray anyway? what’s the market for that?

Presumably it has been a very strong seller on DVD in all its various forms over the years, and this is the logical next variation.

[Dave]

What’s that poem?

[Dave]

RIMMERWORD

When Rimmer travels back in time and accidentally destroys Doctor Johnson’s dictionary manuscript, the race is on for him to remember every single word in the English language in alphabetical order and recreate the document by the next morning.

[Dave]

WAITING FOR GOLD

Rimmer becomes obsessed with alchemy and grows increasingly convinced that he can transmute base metals into gold. However, the closest he gets is synthesising a nugget of purest ‘green’, made from one of his old series III-IV outfits. Well, less of a nugget and more of a splat. A splat today, but tomorrow, who knows, or dares to dream…?

[Dave]

I THE SMEG AM LISTER

The smeg he was.

[Dave]

THE SMEG IT ISN’T

No.

[Dave]

Interesting how Skipper implies that mind backups for hologrammatic projection are performed manually,

I always took this to be the case, probably because the first book describes it this way – there’s the whole bit with Petersen being drunk when he gets his done, meaning that if he ever came back as an hologram he’d have a horrendous hangover.

[Dave]

Do you know what it is about Lister that really makes me want to puke?

[Dave]

And you know *why* we can’t hear anything?

[Dave]

BACK TO BIRTH

The crew spend too much time on backwards-Earth.

[Dave]

The hundred years’ war?!

[Dave]

Is that the alternate name for series XVII?

[Dave]

Where’s the Captain’s office?

[Dave]

me

The London Jets Juniors!

The Service Droids!

My Mother!

[Dave]

If you had two people coming for a job, and one of them was dead, which one would you pick?

[Dave]

I imagine a full, glazed ham.

[Dave]

Gangrene? You think I might get gangrene?

[Dave]

Hattie Hayridge.

[Dave]

It’s one of those things I just never questioned. That someone might want a bit of ham with their homework. Which, now that I type it, seems obviously stupid.

[Dave]

Until I just looked it up, I genuinely thought Holly was asking Rimmer if he wanted “a ham with your homework”.

[Dave]

What do you want this time? A hand with your homework? Or do you want me to sew little nametags in your PE kit?

[Dave]

Can Rimmer take off his tunic, or would it require its own separate light bee?

Did Ace Rimmer’s wig require its own separate light bee?

[Dave]

Why aren’t hardlight holograms just generated naked so that they can wear real clothes instead of holographic ones? Logically, hardlight Rimmer could wear anything he liked, even if it (gasp) wasn’t blue.

[Dave]

Actual date: SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE

[Dave]

Whoever heard of a wormskin rug?

[Dave]

Have you been at the Marijuana Gin again?

[Dave]

I agree – I’m sure if you looked into most shows you would find stories of difficulties behind-the-scenes. We’re just (naturally) a lot more familiar with this show, and the extensive documentaries about it are always going to focus on the most dramatic angle on the production.

[Dave]

‘Saison’ means season, not series.

[Dave]

She was great, and I thought she was… What?

[Dave]

I might have known that.

Not about your uncle, the other part.

[Dave]

So why is it called Series 9?

[Dave]

SHARKMENTION JUMP

Red Dwarf ‘jumps the shark’ in an episode in which shark-Rimmer (from a universe in which everyone is a sea creature) uses the Holly-Hop-Quantum-Skipper-Wildfire to travel to another dimension and meet our Rimmer.

Our Rimmer immediately becomes insanely jealous at meeting another version of himself who got to be a fish.

[Dave]

Revealing that the entire Red Dwarf premise was a TV show in Back to Earth was jumping the shark, then revealing that it actually wasn’t was jumping the shark twice in one episode.

(two episodes)

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