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“Higher Definition”

You’ve uploaded a standard def video scaled to 150% you dumb fucking bitch.

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This is the same mother who joins multiple cults. She seems easy to persuade.

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Quick, get a green screen and let’s remaster Series VIII.

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14/02/2026 

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 12/02/2026 

I didn’t think that strongly it was the prison from Rimmerworld but I needed another square.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 11/02/2026 

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 10/02/2026 

I had a brief moment of “oh god, that is so non-descript” before I realized it was actually incredibly specific.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 08/02/2026 

Well, at least I knew which set it was.

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…does that CD say “Frank Assisi and the Apostles”?

Is this another Red Dwarf Frank? 

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Possibly a joke in the idea that Rimmer’s music collection is exactly the same on the Low ship.

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I feel like Craig going “yeah, all the guys wanna do it” is a little less concrete than getting online store listings with a synopsis and a specific publishing date. But it’s Red Dwarf, so who knows what could go wrong?

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It’s mostly that Rob and Doug could think of far more fun and interesting ways of doing the low versions of the characters. It’s hard to make high versions that are both character related and funny. 

Plus, we already have Ace.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 07/02/2026 

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surprised at everybody else tbh

I would’ve gotten it sooner but my deranged brain thought for some reason it might be The Hole from Pete.

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Sheffield is tempting. 

That’s what Chernenko said in Threads.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 06/02/2026 

Marooned, Pete Part 1

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I’ve become increasingly convinced over the years that the edits of XI and XII are essentially unfinished. The extremely limited pool of model shots they pull from despite having shot many more, weird moments like the studio ceiling being very blatantly shown during an exterior scene in Twentica as if they meant to comp in a sky but never had time to do it, and the bizarre and annoying recycling of music cues even where Howard wrote original music, which gets much worse in XII. It just feels like they had to abandon certain elements of post-production in the middle of the process because they ran out of time and the shows were due.

All that weirdness with the soundtrack and reusing the same transitional music cue ad nauseum makes a lot more sense if we’re essentially hearing temp edits, and that so much less of Howard’s music is in XII makes more sense if both series had to be locked and finalized at the same time but they never actually got that far into replacing the temp music tracks in XII before they had to be delivered.

This is basically the exact opposite of what happened to X where the production was a mess but they pulled their shit together in post.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 05/02/2026 

 

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KRYTIE 2X4B 52TV

The gang gather and watch a Ken Burns documentary on Kryten’s chest monitor.

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I’m just going to assume we don’t have the technology to make a curly wig. I think the hair piece he’s worn since XI is perfectly fine but it absolutely doesn’t have the same texture as his real hair.

No idea what the fuck was going on with his hair in Series X.

Also, did Skipper really need to give him an H the size of Lake Michigan? I can see they’re recycling that one here.

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BITEY, TEEHEE

The Cat, succumbing to his catty instincts, goes around the ship biting everyone and destroying upholstery.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 03/02/2026 

This one confounded me at first.

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I feel like it’s a good way to make risque jokes while also keeping it family friendly. 

I know what you mean, but I’m chuckling at the idea that you can make anything family friendly by adding Spiderman.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 02/02/2026 

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SPITEY TV

Rimmer illegally rebroadcasts a football game to pull viewers away from Kryten.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 01/02/2026 


Rimmerworld, Blue

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Fuck off, Quinn.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 31/01/2026 

I completely fucking blanked on which episode the scene was in despite recognizing it after 2 guesses. Cataclysmic failure.

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https://youtu.be/Mp0oo2_rnSM?t=814 – There’s this one – which I’ve only ever seen in this Howard Goodall documentary, weirdly – as well as in one of the US pilot versions that’s floating around. 

This shot is the smallest that model has ever looked on screen.

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That’s what Danny was pitching in response to my DwarfCast question a little while back. But what I actually wanted to hear was whether they’d put up with him looking like a sad old man.

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On the second reveal I knew exactly which shot it was and I still got it wrong.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 30/01/2026 

Beyond a Joke, BITR 2

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Jokes about characters dressing up as Spiderman and Batman to have sex continue into Series VII and VIII after Rob is gone. Make of that what you will.

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I find it funny that the de facto promotional shots you see for Red Dwarf in basically anything have been Series X’s for about the last 14 years. Begging people to stop using that Kryten mask whenever they talk about Robert.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 29/01/2026 

Recognized the set, and I should’ve gone with my initial thought because I decided to guess Dear Dave instead before returning to it.

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I mean yeah, but I also feel like the audience members in those early episodes must be at least pushing 50 by now, and that’s on the youngest end. A lot of the old guard fans on G&T sound like they were kids when the first six series were airing but then they were young and tech-savvy enough to hop into the online fandom in the late 90s / early 2000s when that was the hot new place to build communities.

Meanwhile, I was a baby when Series VII aired.

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Where did Rimmer get his own DNA on that shuttle?

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Somebody shine the John Hoare Signal.

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I remember liking the Dreamgate episode

I remember like two episodes of Hyperdrive and that’s one of them. I kind of want to rewatch it because I remember liking the show, but I was 14 or 15 when I watched it and I liked a lot of shit that doesn’t hold up to me at those ages.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 28/01/2026 

Is that the room from Cassandra? The Starbug medical bay from Blue?

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I was thinking as in menthol cooling but I prefer your sex pervert interpretation. It’s very fitting for Series VIII.

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I keep forgetting to fix the date on my posts because I’m always doing this at like 8:30 PM local time so it gives my current date. Instead of quietly fixing it I am going to blame Cappsy and stride off indignantly.

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