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Me² = 2Me

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Does Me² make sense as an episode title? I mean, 1² = 1, so does that mean just one Rimmer? Important questions.

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I never noticed before that the ‘slot’ in the forward bulkhead that the camera passes through, as it moves over the top of Red Dwarf, originally had a section bridging it. I guess it escaped.

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Nailed it! Just like I did to your mum!

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Why is he being such an arsehole here? They never address it. Is he just
grumpy Lister didn’t fully appreciate the gag or something?

He’s not being an arsehole, it’s an affectionate insult. British men communicate that way all the time. Holly just says provocative stuff for the lols.

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I just googled the most obscure funkopops and they were all much more well-known than Red Dwarf, with the possible exception of Son of Zorn whatever that is? And maybe Coming to America.

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It bothers me that Lister’s trapper hat looks like a turban

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Since Wax World is a theme park, maybe they had various holo-props available?

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Thanks! I did consider setting it all on Starbug, but I liked the Alien-style intro and I couldn’t see that working with the series VI intro music. If you ignore the visuals there’s nothing that explicitly places it on Red dwarf. I should have added a disclaimer: Viewer imagination advised.

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What?

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Because it needs the next scan (the one immediately after death) to complete the checksum.

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I figured a millisecond before death is probably close enough to count!

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It was all just a dream.

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Late Night with the Devil has a lot of other issues but a primary one for me was that there was basically no point during its runtime that I actually bought
it as real footage.

Late night with the devil is a black comedy, I don’t think they’re expecting you to buy it as real footage. It’s basically a feature length version of Gath Merenghi’s Dark Place or Inside No.9 The Devil of Christmas.

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I think it’s an exaggerated sneering joke about how insane it is for
beer to be consumed warm. Just a general diss towards the British.

I know what the joke is trying to do, it just fails by using the word ‘hot’ which makes it nonsensical. It makes little sense for the Cat to reference anything to do with England in the first place, and even less sense for him to compare a hot room to a naturally-warm thing.* A logical joke is “this place is hotter than a vending machine coffee” or “hotter than Sydney Sweeney in a bikini” or whatever. It stops working when the thing you’re comparing it to is not hot to start with. It’s so bizarre I have to wonder wonder why Doug didn’t edit it.

*Yes I know British beer isn’t actually warm; that’s what makes ‘warm English beer’ a classic joke.

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For Epideme alone, Doug and Paul came up with the following much weaker efforts:
“This place is harder to get into than an airline Chicken Kiev.”

“… this room’s hotter than an English beer.”

I just watched Epideme again because your comment made me curious (I haven’t watched it in years).
 IMO “harder to get into than an airline Chicken Kiev” is classic Lister, no notes. 
But “hotter than an English beer” is absolute cringe, especially coming from Cat. I mean, ‘warmer’ I would have let pass, but hot? Hot?? That doesn’t even make sense. Of all the hot things in the universe you could riff on, beer of any description does not make the list.

Additional: Epideme is clearly a spoof of John Carpenter’s The Thing.

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It was the second season premiere

Oof

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I’ve never heard of Sliders, but that clips looks perfect for a show finale or at least a series finale. Or was it literally ‘part way through’ as in the middle of a series?

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Captain/Sipestro – And this one should be ŝipestro. Hollister’s captain
of the ŝipo (ship), after all, not the sipo (not a word).

It is ŝipestro in the captain’s office, the circumflex is just very small.

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Somebody on another forum compiled the IMDb ratings for all the episodes. I thought it was a useful graph so I’m saving it here for posterity.

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Exactly.

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Just my opinion but

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If we’re being fair, it’s only the one or two cops that give the rest a good name [/classic joke]

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Shame there wasn’t an Evil Rimmer variant in Series III or this might have been a good look.

Now there’s an idea for an episode!

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I’m more or less satisfied

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Someone explain the Rimmerworld wormhole to me.

I didn’t really get this either. A fast moving body experiences slower time than a slow moving body. But in any case, since both parties have to travel through exactly the same wormhole, both should end up experiencing the same amount of time passage, so Starbug should have arrived not much longer after Rimmer got there.
But I guess wibbly wobbly timey wimey.

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I stand corrected! My confidence in RD continuity is restored.

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This whole time I thought he said “thermosanitroglycerine”, like a futuristic version of the chemical. Only just spotted the correct line in the smegadrive!

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* Rimmerworld moved so I am indeed dumb. The fact Rimmerworld is a
direct sequel to Gunmen underscores how this was never the intended
broadcast order though. *

I only noticed today that in Gunmen, Rimmer is wearing his soft-light red tunic even though it was broadcast after Legion, so he should be in his blue hard-light tunic. Colossal continuity blunder; series ruined!

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What other fan favourite characters would they have desperately brought
back in their gestalt Series VII?

A sentient triple fried egg butty with chilli sauce and chutney.

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It’s this docking clamp isn’t it?

Assuming the DNA ship is ‘normal sized’, that thing we see in the clip would be a tiny blip on the outline of Red Dwarf. I figure the huge arm is for clamping and drilling into asteroids, it makes sense to me that that is how Red Dwarf actually does its mining, since it doesn’t look suitably designed to actually land on the surface of any planet.

Here’s one I put together for the newer design, but just focused on propulsion system.

Very cool! I wish I could do 3D like that. I guess that’s why the crew sing “Red Dwarf? Heck! It’s more engine than deck!”

I have a great liking for the word “ramscoop”.

You’re right, I totally forgot that’s what it is called!

Can anyone remember references to large interior spaces/equipment other than ‘the diesel decks”? I remember the observation dome but that’s tiny.

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I’m working on a fantasy map of the ship. Could those of you with encyclopaedic knowledge of the source material suggest things I could include? I still have a lot of empty space to fill. 

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I quite like Cured. Broad, yes. But I love Hitler.

I, for one, have had quite enough of Hitler references and cameos in RD. There must be other historical characters Doug can think of.

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Lemons really grinds my gears because all the Red dwarf fans on Reddit absolutely love it. You’d think there had never been a better episode the way they clap like seals whenever it is mentioned. It must appeal to American sense of humour or something. 
Whereas I loath it. Full of all the wak gags, out-of-character behaviour, and bad Chris acting that is familiar to us. Moreover, I could just about buy it if Lister and Cat were the ones who needed a battery, but having Kryten there (who somehow now has less knowledge of DIY batteries than my mum), just makes the whole premise of *walking to India* eye-wateringly dumb. The whole episode reads like fan fic. Bad fan fic, not even good fan fic.

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I still think Smoke me a Kipper is as good as any Series I-VI episode and I wish it was somehow part of them. If someone would just fix the terrible CGI it would be excellent, but it would have to be a season finale (then Rimmer would return in the next season because reasons).

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Chef’s kiss for the clip choice!

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Still chugging away, trying to get a decent Starbug cockpit interior. I though I’d try using screenshots from series 7 because the film footage is better than 6. But still it’s still hard to find any shot that isn’t crammed with people and movement. It has also made me realise how inconsistent it is that the cockpit is so dark and dirty whereas the rest of Starbug is well lit and the sleeping quarters are practically immaculate!

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Obviously the BBC is allowed to reference real branded products, they goes without saying. But repeatedly calling one a bad product and making it the butt of a long running joke would be a recipe for a lawsuit today. I wonder if in the 1980s they just winged it, or did they do some kind of handshake with Golden Wonder.

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he genuinely reacted like that was the first time anyone had ever said that to him.

He’s clueless enough.

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Sir, surely anything from series IV is by definition proto-V?

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The one in Future Echos are fun enough. But the Dave era ones are too much, and have too much personality. The AI in the vending machines, toaster, the toilet, are funny when used sparingly, but Doug started to use them in lieu of additional characters.

The machines going on strike could have been really funny if they’d kept the machine dialogue minimal and more machine-like, as in Bodyswap.

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Unpopular opinion: The sentient vanding machines aren’t funny and aren’t a good vehicle for gags.

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