Sam Johnson

[Sam Johnson]

Clearly we’re not going to get another line out of Norm…

[Sam Johnson]

The synopsis for Krytie TV is also quite… er… questionable:

“After being cornered and reprogrammed by restless, sex-starved prisoners, Kryten launches his own television station called Krytie TV.”

Is “reprogramming” a euphemism for something else?

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“For the record, I didn’t have cauliflower because it’s not traditional.”

What about shredded ham?

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I must confess that I don’t really understand the Westboro Baptist Chruch. Do they genuinely believe the things that they espouse, or are they just trolling attention seekers?

Or is it a bit of both?

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“In Bruges (it’s a Christmas movie, dammit)”

Dear god! I’d never even considered this as being a Christmas film! I might have to add this to my list as well.

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Bad Santa
Die Hard
It’s a Wonderful Life

I think it’s a wonderful life genuinely qualifies for a high spot in my favourite films of all time list. Although to be honest, it isn’t really a Christmas film until the last ten minutes.

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Yeah, texts off centre for me as well, and I’m on Chrome.

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Agreed. That song is pretty much offensive on every single level. “Christmas Time in Hell” is also very catchy.

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I’m afraid I really don’t understand the implications of “going Tarzan” on a monkey’s arse.

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Nice! I’ve got a copy of Holy Grail which is similarly loaded with extras, including an interesting piece on how to use coconuts correctly.

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Could you name a couple of those reasons please.

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Yeah, the Protestant’s are very funny. My favourite moment would probably have to be John Cleese’s (very graphic) sex education lesson. I also really love the cut from the Rugby match to the war scene. It’s a genuinely brilliant bit of film making in a film that otherwise prides itself on being silly and making very little sense.

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I only watched The Meaning of Life for the first time the other day and it was much better than I expected. It’s still not quite up there with Grail and Brian, but it has some absolutely fantastic bits and some brilliant songs. Apparently the Mr. Creosote sketch is the only film moment in history that makes Quentin Tarentino nauseous…

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I like the dracula and the bit when they eat the curries.

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Oh Pecospete666, you so crazy!

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Dear, oh dear. I was quite interested in what Lawrence had to say, until he said this:

“Gunmen of the Apocalypse”, after the first few minutes of grotesque VR-sex (a new source of humour in the early ’90s), is a very bland episode of an SF series that isn’t dramatic enough to be drama and isn’t funny enough to be comedy. ’90s Red Dwarf fans, by that stage as insular as ’90s Doctor Who fans or ’90s Iron Maiden fans, voted it one of their favourites. Nobody else gave a toss.”

Gunmen is my dad’s favourite episode. Amd he has some major issues with Dwarf on the whole. If anything, I think Gunmen has to be one of Dwarf’s biggest successes. Y’know, what with the Emmy and all…

[Sam Johnson]

I’ve always been intrigued by the repercussions of the Dwarf’s vanishing back on earth. I wonder how the Space Corps or JMC would respond to something like that.

Then again, this kind of catastrophe sounds fairly commonplace in the Dwarf universe. I mean the amount of fucking derelicts alone that the gang stumble across. The Space Corps must do a fairly shoddy job on it’s shipbuilding…

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Yeah, I assumed by his comment that the ship just went missing and that neither the Space Corps or the JMC actually knew where it had gone.

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