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Having recently watched Limmy’s Show I now say the word random in a very special way when I fancy a trip through the G & T archives.

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Thank you Veni, these are great fun to go through.

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Do I ever find my singing tie pin.

Listen butter pat head.

I agree with Veni and appreciate BTE more and more for Lister’s character stuff.

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Then maybe you shouldn’t be living heeeerrrreeeee

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When I found out it was the tenth anniversary of AIOTM I’ve been listening to them all again.

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As an old misfit from the 90s I think the Manic Street Preachers have had a third glorious decade with three differently themed albums depending on how much you wanna puff out your chest. Great to see Paul Draper coming back strong too. Think I’ll have to check out some of these albums if I get spotify premium back anytime soon.

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I find it difficult to believe that anyone would think the second half of the 2010s was better than the first. 2012 had the queen and James Bond jumping out of a helicopter, Red Dwarf X and The Darkness Hot Cakes.

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I wish Brooker/Cunk/Shitpeas would come back and do a 2010swipe

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I would devour sitcoms when I was in my early teens. Now it takes me ages. I’ve been watching Toast of London over the last five years and still haven’t finished.

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I think the least good episode is Apocalypse. Culture, Digger, Parade (didn’t think it was that good in 1992, love it now) and Hole are top tier in my view.

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I’ve tweeted Richard and Chris Evans to see if they can shed some light on what happened to the recording or if it’s simply been filed away in a drawer no one ever goes in.

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You say president, we say queen,
You say Clinton, we say Kermit,
You say ‘have a nice day’, we say ‘what you looking at’,

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I wish I’d made a copy of the tape now seeing as 11 minutes were all that was put up. I am nothing if not a fucking idiot. The rest of it was mostly used elsewhere though like the ET Diana tribute, Rich’s Diana tribute in the book of condolences and a slightly extended Big Daddy ending. Plus a really good Richard Thomas parody of the ‘you say tomato, I say tomato’.

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Why does Cat call Rimmer Cinninatti at the start of Cured?

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In the XII documentary the Naylors were suggesting extra rehearsal time so my nostradamus prediction is that we’ll see recordings spread between December and February with two weeks between each one.

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Appease the Chris Barrie fans by front leading the series with hot Barrie action.

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Hope we find out once and for all where that Welsh cottage is. Unless someone here already knows.

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Bibbly bobbly boo…

Well, you ‘aven’t gorrit then ‘ave yer.

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I think Doug has been very wise to stick to what works after the format experiments of VII and VIII. More of the same please. Rob coming back and a Kill Crazy episode are on my wish list.

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I will think of this every time I see John Cleese now.

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It looks a bit like the one from the VII model shoot that was shot on video.

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The first series of AIOTM has some hilarious Jackson Seance stuff and Emma Kennedy’s Jackson impression is peerless.

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The Hitch Hikers episode is great too as is Kevin Eldon on the Rutles.

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The Great War Of China.

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I’m not sure what the blu rays for BTE-XII are like quality wise in the US but I know the DVDs are either slowed down or have dropped frames. Britbox versions of these series look great to my eyes. Maybe I’ll pick up the blu rays one day to see if I notice the difference.

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I’ve been watching Doctor Who from 2005 (currently up to Listen) with Ian’s excellent Curiosity In A Junkyard blog. I am ever so slightly fascinated with Colin Baker’s last series although every time I attempt to watch it I lose interest.

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He is given his name in Polymorph and Timeslides.

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I must have watched every Oasis interview out there and Red Dwarf has never been mentioned. Gerard from My Chemical Romance loved it which is why I bought The Black Parade.

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We watched that at school! I was an avid viewer of Red Dwarf from series 2 but I only went bananas when V went out. Would love to see this again.

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I remember some comedy writer or other say that in a sitcom series two episodes will be great, two will be average and two will be below average. I think you could apply that to most sitcoms and I think every Red Dwarf series (VII, VIII and BTE excluded) could be broken down this way. There was more than enough great stuff in XI and XII to justify XIII imo although I’m starting to think that Twentica may have been best of all straight out of the gate.

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I’m as excited as an extremely excited person who has a special reason to be excited. Sadly I live in the US and even though I have a blu ray player it isn’t multi region. I do have all the American DVDs though (having previously purchased British VHS & DVD) and I’m looking forward to the reviews and analysis!

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The only reason I want a XIII is because of Richard and Doug discussing extra rehearsal time in the XII doc. Otherwise I would be very happy if what we have is what we have. I know the G & T team and community would have plenty to discuss whatever happens. I am more hopeful for more Dwarfcasts than a new series.

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My wife laughs at it in a gentle way but it’s never become the go to watch I’d hoped it would be. She enjoyed Fools & Horses and The Day Today more. Also she enjoyed TMWRNJ. I have to say she did properly enjoy Back To Reality and Queeg.

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I just about caught series 2 on first broadcast and I did indeed think the new theme tune for Backwards was a bit brash and lacking in class. I love it now and a new montage is always very exciting.

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My wife laughed at the model shot of Starbug in the swamp but then she really enjoyed Back To Reality so it’s all good.

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Me and my friend made a fanfilm in 1993 called Polymorph 3-Eddycork.

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It was Duct Soup. Sorry if someone else has already replied. I’ve spent an hour listening to this fried gold.

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I watched the first half hour of the new episode and found it surprisingly stagey with very functional dialogue. I will of course catch up with it all in due time (I’m currently on The Impossible Planet).

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I’m rewatching from 2005 using Ian’s excellent blog Curiosity In A Junkyard as a guide. I did watch every episode up until series 5 and after that I drifted in and out. My current opinion having only got halfway through series 2 is that Doctor Who is 33% amazing and 66% silly nonsense (1% awesome theme tune).

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Eeeeexcellent!

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There was a picture of me with Chloe Annett from Daventry 1997 which made a fellow 17 year old classmate mad with jealousy. There is a brief shot of the DJ 97 crowd in the Dildonics section of the A-Z but all my other photos have been lost. Except I am in the photo of the crowd in BTL.

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Have fun everyone! I haven’t been able to go since 2009 but I always lap up the coverage. Congratulations to the team for the event’s continued success. Hope Ian gets to host a game show of some description!

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The 15 certificate made Red Dwarf III Byte One look really cool – and the photo on the front was already really cool.

The first 12 certificate I was aware of was Batman Begins in 1992

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I watched Fawlty Towers in the 90s and the only episode I properly laughed at was The Germans – specifically the silly walk moment.

My favourite IT Crowd episodes are Are We Not Men and The Final Countdown. ‘He has spirit this one!’

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The Vindaloovians in Gunmen and Mr Rat are probably my two biggest laughs.

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Rob Newman’s History of Oil on YouTube is one of the best forty minutes anyone could spend.

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I always loved The Mary Whitehouse Experience book – which mentions Red Dwarf twice when the show was hip.

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That fits in with the chronology I remember. I was devastated reading the ‘Craig’s in jail’ headlines and pretty much mourned the end of Red Dwarf that summer. I never heard about Chris’s ‘wild horses’ comment until the VIII script book.

Doug: I bought you a book.

Craig: Thanks, that’ll really help the centuries fly past.

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I’m torn because I feel both novels are improved by being abridged. However, on balance of course unabridged Barrie recordings would be essential and maybe he could bring the flabbier parts to life a bit.

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I watched New Statesman last year and thought it was insane and nuts. I also just watched Mr Jolly Lives Next Door for the first time. I consider Bottom to be better than Shakespeare so I will listen in.

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