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Me when a colleague I’ve spoken to a total of 2 times posts in Teams that it was their birthday at the weekend and they’ve left some jam doughnuts in the kitchen if anyone wants any

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I was going to make the “no, they un-necked the drinks” point as well, but I thought about it some more and realised it doesn’t actually make a difference to the question.

Either way, there were hours in between their arrival on Backworld and them un-drinking a huge amount of liquid, so it’s still notable that they didn’t un-piss at any point in that period.

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Tony Hawks’ covers album, if it was good:

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“Vol 1”? The confidence on this man! Arrogance, some might even say.

But good to know that there’s now a song which is both featured in Red Dwarf and commercially covered by Tony Hawks, the Fifth/Sixth/Seventh Dwarfer.

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Who’s Dan?

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Pray tell me nothing has happened to El Gato! After Jacinda Ardern lost Paddles I don’t think I could bare it.

I’m sorry…

https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/farewell-to-el-gato-corbyns-cat-with-a-cult-following

Honestly I didn’t actually know about this when I posted my last reply, I was just hedging my bets because El Gato became known 15 years ago and cats don’t live that long. So it was like “I don’t know if he still has him, but he did at least have him for a while”.

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… so apparently I only got this on the 5th guess because I forgot that Balance of Power had a cinema scene.

Although I like to think I still would have remembered that Me² was the cartoon one.

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No, I don’t think it suggests they don’t see Cat as a name or proper noun at all. It’s just about how he got the name to begin with. He wasn’t deliberately named The Cat as a specifically English moniker (similar to how Jeremy Corbyn – who woz robbed by the way – had a cat called El Gato), it was purely descriptive. They call him Cat because he’s a cat, and he’s too self-absorbed to think he needs any other name. It would be pretty bizarre to have The End wholly in the Czech language, but for Lister to randomly use the English word “cat” unprompted.

Like imagine if this is how it went in the original version:

And then for the rest of the show he was known as “Die Katze”.

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Very cool, hope you all have a great time!

Interesting to learn that, if the internet is being honest with me, the Czech name for The Cat is the specific word for a male cat rather than just the word for the species.

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It does make it seem incredibly petty to be annoyed with yourself for having a rare aspect ratio mix up. Like a millionaire kicking themselves for misplacing a fiver.

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My peak is 28. It might take a decade or two for me to match my pre-Queeg longest streak of 107.

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So assuming figures of speech don’t exist in the Red Dwarf universe, does he believe that humans go to Silicon Hell, or is he just addressing Kryten?

Again in the realm of literal figuratives, the implication is that the simulant rebellion against humanity didn’t rid them of their programmed religion, and they still believe they’ll be punished for their actions, but that humans/obedient mechanoids are sinful too.

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Yeah, the real weirdness is that all of Lister’s sons are clones of him regardless of who the mother is.

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Well the episode is about a sun and a son, hence the plural and hence the pun.

So it should be called Father & Son & Sun.

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I’ll grant you the plural, but a sun is very much involved.

Yeah, I was just going off the fact that it was only one involved. Although, if it’s not the Sun, is it a sun or is it just a star?

Technically it’s only about one father too, unless Taiwan Tony is a dad.

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What if Me² wasn’t called that because there’s 2 Rimmers, but because it’s about the power one has over themselves?

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I was fortunate enough to be allowed VHS tapes, but if I recall correctly I mainly used them to record episodes of Kenan & Kel.

lol, remember when Kel dropped the screw in the tuna.

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And The End is actually at the beginning, Meltdown isn’t about a nuclear disaster, Demons & Angels isn’t about beings from Hell and Heaven, Gunmen of the Apocalypse isn’t about the end of the world, Stoke Me a Clipper isn’t about clippers being stoked, Fathers & Suns isn’t about suns, The Beginning isn’t the beginning, The Promised Land isn’t about Fuchal.

But I do get what you mean. They’ve been “back to Earth” in the sense of going to an alternate dimension or temporarily back in time so many times, if you’re going to title your miniseries “Back to Earth” it ought to actually be the real deal of them completing their show long quest to find Earth as it is currently, or to go back to their original lives 3 million years ago. I do remember being disappointed that it had nothing to do with that.

So it should have been called “Meta Than Life”, or “Out of the Red”, or “Seeing The Red Dwarf Boys Out of Their Element in a Contemporary Department Store is Fun, Right?”.

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Funnily enough I’ve been reading the Discworld books for the first time recently, and I’m only up to Sourcery so I’m sure I’m missing a lot of context when it comes to Rincewind, but I feel like in practice he’s almost the opposite of Rimmer. While Rimmer and Rincewind are both cowards and they’re both perpetually stuck at entry level skill in their respective fields, Rimmer is defined by his desire to be something he isn’t suited to be – an officer in the Space Corps – and to live up to others’ expectations of him. Rincewind on the other hand isn’t ambitious or overly concerned with what people think of him, he’s more like Lister in that way. But despite his lack of ambition or skill, his wizardry is a core part of who he is, it means everything to him, despite the fact that he rarely casts spells and he gets nothing but danger out of it. It’s maybe more analogous to Lister being a musician.

It’s an interesting contrast though. Rimmer defines himself by what he isn’t and Rincewind defines himself by what he is. Perhaps Rimmer should wear a pointy hat that says “HOLLOGRAM” on it.

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How did Smegle get a photograph of me losing my streak yesterday?

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How deep does it go?!

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Sure, we all know and love Red Dwarf’s many Franks, but what about

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I can’t remember which is the current thread for Sonic memes,

This one:

https://www.ganymede.tv/forums/topic/sonic-mania/

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If the Final Fantasy guys were in charge of Red Dwarf, Beat the Geek would have been explicitly labelled as Series IX, and Back to Earth would have been Series X.

Series XI, Series XII, and The Promised Land would have been Series XII, Series XII-2, and The Promised Land: Series XII respectively.

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Oh, don’t worry, I refuse to admit that I’m part of the problem.

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15/02/2025 

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The Promised Land, Twentica

And incidentally, a happy Red Dwarf Day to all of you at home! 🥂

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Cool stuff!

My thing is that I’ve made a bunch of mods for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. Not to brag, but I’ve only been going for 7 years and I’ve already amassed 9 followers.

https://steamcommunity.com/id/thepwnultimate/myworkshopfiles/

On that subject,

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Sorry, Dave! I started my first reply before yours had been posted, and then for the second I didn’t think to scroll up and check…

It’s also debatable as to whether Red Dwarf is a BBC sci-fi comedy that’s been running since 1988, or a BBC sci-fi comedy that ran from 1988 to 2020, or whether it was only a BBC sci-fi comedy between 1988 and 1999. 

There’s also the 4th ‘1988 – 1993’ option, because if the show is on hiatus it’s not really running as such. Like a year without new episodes, fine, but 3 years? So by that measure both My Hero and Goodnight Sweetheart actually beat Red Dwarf.

Anyway, Hitchhikers should be disqualified, because the sixth series doesn’t count. It is stricken from the record, in the same way that Only Fools and Horses ended in 1996. Therefore the gap between the first and last episodes of Hitchhikers is only 27 years.

lol, brutal. I understand not counting it for Douglas Adams purity reasons, but if OF&H is the comparison then it must be purely for quality reasons. And you didn’t even advocate for a ‘1988 to 1997’ option for Dwarf.

“The Hexagonal Phase of Hitchhiker’s is good” isn’t a hill I’d be willing to die on, but for the “The Hexagonal Phase of Hitchhiker’s is better than Red Dwarf Series VIII” hill I could see myself sustaining some serious injuries on it.

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Oh! And if you include radio Red Dwarf isn’t even the longest running… yet. Hitchhiker’s, of course, had a more than 40 year gap between its first and last episode.

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It was fate. St. Valentine’s Day and Frame From ‘Camille’ were simply destined to be together.

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According to Wikipedia it’s Goodnight Sweetheart, both by total number of episodes and the gap between its first episode and most recent. It almost got beaten by My Hero for the latter, but it saved itself with the one-off 2016 special.

Although that’s not guaranteed to be correct, because nobody even bothered to add Hyperdrive to the Wikipedia category I found. Understandable, but still.

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14/02/2025 

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Holoship, Legion, Backwards.

Yep, I didn’t even consider the date for this, although I did by pure coincidence choose the other romance episode first. Guesses were pretty much stabs in the dark until it became clear. That segment of Lister’s jacket really didn’t look like Lister’s jacket in that lighting.

But hey, first time getting a 20 streak in the 5-guesses era! 🥳

Now watch me choke tomorrow.

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OK, I think the beginning/end of that GIF just might be the one cut that’s a jump cut instead of a fade. I’m willing to go out on a limb.

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Excellent.

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Between series Kryten joined up with Just Stop Oil.

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For your consideration, may I submit this moment:

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Be fair. He actually un-eviscerated a teenager’s vagina with his barbed penis.

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fuck you Queeg.

It’s actually The Cat.

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This one isn’t a perfect loop… ? I mean we can be lenient about the joins not being 100% seamless, but in this case it completely changes angles.

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This feels like a thread from fifteen years ago. Harkening back to a simpler time.

Yeah, things weren’t as smooth because we didn’t have the Smega-Drive, but we made do, and the passion was always there.

I remember putting the film into my camera so I could take the pictures of my CRT TV playing a Red Dwarf VHS, going to get the photos developed, assembling the printed photographs into the form of a flip book, and then taking the flip book on the train to my nearest Ganymede & Titan noticeboard in Norwich City Hall.

I managed to post mine up just a week before Danny, Ian and Cappsy were due to do their tour of all the G&T noticeboards in England for that quarter, and I was very impressed with everyone else’s looping GIFs.

Of course back then we called them “jiffies” due to how quick they were to create and share, and they didn’t loop automatically, you had to start the flip book over.

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04/02/2025 

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Lot of Series VIII recently! Thought it might come down to chance, but by the end bandaged Hollister was revealed, so that would have confirmed it even if I hadn’t already guessed Pete Part I.

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Well, parodies are meant to be funny.

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Has anyone ever made an edit of the Blue Midget dance scene that removes the music? Because the music never felt like it was meant to be diegetic, so a music free edit would be a more accurate representation of what the first, hornier ground controller was convinced by.

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Brilliant.

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It’s amazing what being inside the production bubble can do to your brain. He made a 2 minute dance sequence that had nothing to do with the plot and was virtually joke free (aside from the absurdity of the core concept), yet he is aghast that someone could be so ignorant as to call it padding – in a 3-parter that was famously meant to be 2 parts until very late in the day, no less.

Best case scenario is he was hoping that Blue Midget Dance would become the new Tongue Tied, but even in that case, no matter how much production effort has been clearly poured into it, in terms of plot someone describing Tongue Tied as padding is pretty understandable. And Tongue Tied actually had funny lyrics, a Howard Goodall arrangement, 3 main characters all singing and dancing etc.

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