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#RedDwarf #Smegle 07/05/2026 

Cured 

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My biggest issue with Cured is just that the twist ending is extremely convoluted.

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The ordering works up until Rimmerworld and then falls apart in VII and VIII.

Opening Series V with Red Dwarf blowing up is pretty good.

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That episode in particular has them investigating a derelict with dark lighting and a horror vibe. It feels like the kind of thing you strongly associate with V in particular in a way that most of the episodes in IV don’t really.

It’s occurring to me that DNA was the last shot of IV.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 06/05/2026 

The cyan tone gave it away.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 05/05/2026 

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I am genuinely fucking begging people on the internet to learn how to encode things in 4:3.

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That’s clearly the correct opinion.

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I don’t think this is the thread you meant to post in.

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That episode in particular has them investigating a derelict with dark lighting and a horror vibe. It feels like the kind of thing you strongly associate with V in particular in a way that most of the episodes in IV don’t really.

It’s like how Parallel Universe is silly in a Series III kind of way.

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DNA really feels like a proto-V episode in the first and final thirds.

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It is bizarre that they don’t seem to pair Epideme and Nanarchy.

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I think Mechocracy used them well given the specific plot actually necessitated using the machines of the ship.

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I am so sleep deprived and hungover I only just realized I wasn’t adhering to the gimmick of these memes.

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We should probably cordon these title memes off into their own thread or the main meme thread because I could keep making more.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 04/05/2026 

Waiting for God

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Westworld is sort of a meta western where everyone is going through the motions of a traditional American western film as a theme park attraction. It’s not that meta, but it is a little bit.

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Wondering how much Gunmen is riffing Westworld (1973) in particular after this line.

For a fun extra connection, the guy in the middle is Richard Benjamin, who starred as Quark in the short-lived late 70s sci-fi comedy series Quark which bears a passing resemblance to Red Dwarf but is more a parody of Star Trek (and was created by one of the creators of Get Smart, a popular 60s spy parody that Mel Brooks worked on). It features a character called The Head who is a disembodied head on a screen.

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I’m not quite sure why this line gets a laugh. This is an extremely common alternate history premise. Would you get a laugh if it was Hitler winning WWII? I don’t get it.

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I kind of love the way that mask looks. It’s almost like a cartoon caricature of Kryten in live action.

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Robots drinking oil like a beverage is such a stock sci-fi comedy trope that I’m kind of shocked we made it to Series 12 before it came up with Kryten.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 03/05/2026 

Marooned, The Inquisitor

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 02/05/2026 

DNA (what the fuck is this beige mosaic????), BitR2

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Krisis

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 01/05/2026 

Cured, Officer Rimmer

It almost feels like cheating to use one from this.

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Naylor Naylor Naylor Productions

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I recently slogged through VIII in a complete series watchthrough and basically any time Norman pops up after Back in the Red I’m like “Oh, right, Holly’s in this.”

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I have bad news for you Warbo. This game is older than Sonic 1 was when it came out. It is the old games.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 29/04/2026 

Blue, Ouroboros

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I suspect that they were forced to lock both series for broadcast at the same time. Why let XII sit around unfinished for a year and then call everybody back to finish it instead of just doing it alongside XI?

Doubly so because a lot of the weird music choices in XI / XII (spamming the same music cue or recycling old ones where new ones were composed) make absolutely no goddamn sense to me unless they’re temp edits that never got finished. If you were going to just recycle old transitional cues why wouldn’t you make any attempt to vary them, and bookend scenes with the same one on both sides?

Also, XI uses markedly more of Howard’s new music than XII does, which is very odd.

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For some reason I was remembering that as being the coat Lister wears in Nanarchy.

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to say nothing of the copious editing errors and occasional staging malfunctions like the Twentica ceiling

XI/XII have a lot of weird issues that suggest they were rushed in post, and I suspect that ceiling was meant to be replaced with a sky in the same way all that obvious temp music (especially in XII) was meant to replaced with Howard’s score.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 28/04/2026 

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 27/04/2026 

Cured, Samsara

I was 100% sure on that second guess.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 26/04/2026 

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That might be the meanest thing ever said about a television program.

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Me wrestling with him largely having valid criticisms of the Dave era that even as a fan of those episodes I agree with, but then preferring Series VIII which is almost always worse.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 25/04/2026 

Demons & Angels (blind guess), Polymorph (maybe it’s the bit where it’s on the floor? It’s clearly not but I have no idea)

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Clearly, he was.

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My personal suspicion is that the pressure began to get to Rob, and he either couldn’t or wouldn’t admit that he was procrastinating. 

Doug seems to handle the pressure of making the show given he didn’t flee the country during the production of Series X.

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CUNTCAST: A DWARFCAST PODCAST

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I was lurking at least as early as age 12, possibly 11, so I’ve been getting brain damage from this site for nearly two thirds of my life.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 24/04/2026 

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Once again mired in the unspeakable abyss of trying to make sense of the show’s continuity, another G&T thread descends into a madness only true Dwarfers know.

BUT HOW DOES HE HAVE TWO APPENDIXES

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