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Ace has a rather eclectic taste in music, depending on who’s writing. The TV series has her buying a Courtney Pine jazz cassette and turning her nose up at U2, but the novels either have her listening to classical music or a gamut of eighties pop music: The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and The Cure all get mentions at one time or another.

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As a boy of 11, I thought Lister’s story about his geography teacher not thinking men were better than machines was suggesting that Lister caught her being bummed by a robot.

Now, as a boy of 30, I’ve realised its just hinting at her using a vibrator.

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“I can’t wait to show her Bottom”

Social services have been notified.

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Just stumbled across this video of a bloke playing both Richie and Eddie, recreating the birthday card scene. He doesn’t do a bad job, most of the impressions I’ve seen of Rik Mayall tend to focus a bit too much on an overexagerated lisp.

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I think the greatest shame was that he never recorded an audiobook of ‘Bigger Than Hitler, Better Than Christ’.

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Tommy Cooper was in The Cool Mikado with Stubby Kaye.
Stubby Kaye was in Guys and Dolls with Frank Sinatra.

John Wayne > David Baddiel

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So glad that this has got to 95 posts now.

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This thread has run its course, we should stop drawing attention to it.

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Holly may just be a head, but they’re the best head you’ll ever have.

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Supposedly, they had scripts for a fourth series in the mid-nineties. And even then I believe it was the Hooligan’s Island concept. No doubt they recycled the basic idea for the live show.

Does anyone else not like the last two live shows much? Watching them you really get the feeling that Ade Edmondson’s heart isn’t in it anymore. And its a bit odd that the second act’s for both are them doing plotless routines against a blank backdrop.

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Grace Kelly was in The Bridges at Toko-Ri with Mickey Rooney.
Mickey Rooney was in Night Club with Daniel Roebuck.
Daniel Roebuck was in Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London with Frankie Muniz.

Jimmy Savile > Klaus Kinski

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I’m looking forward to RuPaul’s Biggest Mosque.

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Bugger, forgot to add:

Charles Augins > Toshiro Mifune

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Such a thing exists.

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Eagle eyed viewers may spot that Rimmer isn’t actually dead. He is, in fact, the very much alive actor known as Chris Barrie off of the television.

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The line is sexist, and I suppose the joke is that it’s not something you’d hear Doctor Who ever say, but I’m not going to get up in arms over it as its from 40 odd years and said by a man who died 20 odd years ago.

I’m just filing it away with that outtake of Tom Baker shouting “yeah, you never know the fucking answer when it’s important!” at K-9.

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Norman Lovett was in The Criminal with Bernard Hill
Bernard Hill was in Titanic with Gloria Stuart
Gloria Stuart was in Beloved with Richard Carle
Richard Carle was in Hollywood Party with Walt Disney (uncredited)

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He should do pedalos, they’re a lot easier to swallow.

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It would explain what happned to Holly. He went off to take over from the Jigsaw Killer.

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I’ve listened to the first box set and have really enjoyed them, and its read by the ever great Trevor Cooper, so that’s another big tick. I really think the two Star Cops: Mother Earth boxsets were great fun and really captured the magic of the original show.

I know its a real marmite issue, but I found it odd that despite all the usual efforts Big Finish go to for authenticity, they’ve replaced the soft rock ballad that opened the show on TV with a fairly generic action adventure theme. I suppose its probably a case of Justin Hayward probably wanting too much in royalties to make it viable. And its not like Big Finish have ever pandered to ‘popular consensus’ on things. Otherwise they’d have never hired Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy, given how vocal their detractors are.

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Its certainly my favourite of the strips focussing on the Boys from the Dwarf, and its a genuinely good idea that could be mined for an episode – what if they came across more cats and they held Lister accountable for the centuries of holy wars fought in his name?

Obviously they’d all have to die unceremoniously by the end, but still.

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I agree with some of his points, but I really can’t stand the whole ‘cynical means I’m clever’ schtick.

The whole ‘grumpy about politics’ thing is best left to edgy nineteen year olds on Twitter who think they’re Charlie Brooker.

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You letch on someone to the point you’re banned from a chat room, then try to get their attention by @ing them on here and sucking up to them.

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Am I the only one who’s noticed Museli sounds a bit like Bruce Lee?

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Taiwan Tony can surely attest,
For bad writing there was no contest.
Offensively voiced,
And a really bad choice,
It was razy lacism at best.

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I know the sort of things Rob and Doug like to feel. No way, Jawscvmcdia, forget it.

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Its possible that the light bee was an upgrade from the Space Corps that arrived by post pod.

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I’m going to fly the flag for The Beginning. Not just because of the parallels with The End, but I like the Dwarfers working effectively as a team and Rimmer taking charge successfully and throwing off his daddy issues.

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I figured the Space Corps was the equivalent of the Merchant Navy. You can enlist at 16, either as an officer cadet or a marine apprentice and learn on the job. So presumably, Rimmer enlisted at 16 (maybe after completing the maintenance course he did at Saturn Tech, or perhaps that was part of the basic training he mentions in Me2) as a Third Technician.

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It could’ve been a lot more meta. I remember reading that the original plan for the scene where DCI Keats destroys the CID office would involve knocking down the walls and revealing studio lights and equipment.

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Whoever that whistler was, the internet will have him fired and publicly shamed in an hour.

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I’m not the biggest fan of Jadzia Dax. I appreciate that she’s got seven lifetimes worth of experience on top of her own and is therefore an expert in many subjects, but she just felt a bit too smug and arrogant.

The only thing I found odd with Worf is how his relationship with Alexander was effectively reset. At the end of The Next Generation they were building bridges and learning to accept each other – I particularly love their moment at the end of A Fistful of Datas where he reassures his son that the Sheriff and Deputy would be needed again and then he puts his stetson on and practices his quick drawer in the mirror, clearly having fun playing at being a cowboy.

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Alphabetski Spaghettski?!?

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Also, I get that he’s using a urine flask to serve the wine in Polymorph, but the laugh from the audience would feel more deserved if it was white wine.

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Why didn’t he use the metal fork he used to eat his curry, or the spoon he used on the dog food, in Marooned?

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Danger… Do Not Attempt to Open This Happy Meal…

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Captain pEdO. Allegedly.

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They could have saved money on a Waxdroid Michael Jackson by hiring the real Waxdroid Michael Jackson.

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I read a Red Dwarf photo comic where the ship carried a Mr. T as an anti-terrorist device.

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I think the biggest improvement for the second season is Doctor Bashir. They mostly drop his lechery, incompetence and lack of social grace and he grows up a bit.

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‘Stasis Leak’ suggests they’re from the 21st Century, Lister’s comment in ‘D.N.A.’ implies he’s from the 23rd Century, but the onscreen caption in ‘Ouroboros’ has them as being from the 22nd Century. This ties up with the novels which has Lister being found in 2155.

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I think Blue works better before Duct Soup. Kochanski is still new enough to have never attended Games Night, is still looking for her Dave, and has to have Kryten explain the pants and salad cream rules. In Duct Soup, she’s been on Starbug long enough for Lister to have found her a dress and some makeup on a derelict, as well as for her to have made a log of the toilet pipe noises in her quarters.

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I’m genuinely very excited for this, and I’m still enjoying Discovery.

I never expected Seven of Nine to be the crossover character, but now I think about it – and given Picard’s history with the Borg – it does make sense that they would have met.

Also of note, both Marina Sirtis and Jonathan Frakes have confirmed on Twitter that they’ve filmed scenes as Riker and Troi.

I don’t know if anyone has seen the excellent Star Trek Continues fan film series, but one thing they did in at least one episode – that makes sense to me, thematically – was have Marina Sirtis take over the voice of the Enterprise computer, and that’s an idea I wouldn’t mind seeing them run with, given she’s the ‘daughter’ of the original computer.

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The real question is, what time is Love?

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“That one’s the starter, the other’s the main course!”

“What we don’t want to know is where the sweets are kept”

Alternatively, Craig picking his nose, pretending to flick it and Bobby pretending to catch it.

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It was the seat tilt in Starbug.

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No doubt William Hartnell probably had racist and homophobic views, but I think it does say something that he maintained a close relationship with Carole Ann Ford, who is Jewish, for many years after their time together.

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I hold Kramer responsible for the hipster revival. Except Kramer was cool.

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Wasn’t it so that Rob and Doug never actually intendend for the ship to be painted red.

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In White Hole, why did they send Rimmer – who can’t touch anything – to gather supplies with Kryten? Cat or Lister should have gone, as then they’d be able to bring back twice as many supplies as they do.

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