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The reason I’d still side with vomiting is it’s a much better comedy choice. Sandwich sounds weird so someone throws up is much better comedy territory than some yolk got on the floor.

If I were writing this joke and the implication was meant to be vomiting there would one extra step somewhere in it to make that less ambiguous.

But I’m no Rob Naylor.

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Tried to introduce a theater of people to Red Dwarf with Parallel Universe for some reason. Oh no. My copy on Plex is inexplicably somebody’s shitty fan edit and they’ve done all sorts of over the top changes to Tongue Tied. Homer abusing the star wipe level stuff. This is terrible. I feel embarrassed for wanting to do this.

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Doug is always one step away from making an episode where Robert just bellows random noises for 25 minutes 

Is that not Ouroboros?

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Apparently when the commercial break started on Lemons they just cut without warning to this clip and I remember everyone said exactly what you just said at the time.

Speaking of Lemons…

This line always felt like Robert was just fucking around in rehearsal and it got into the episode because Doug hadn’t slept in two weeks.

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Why are we ignoring the possibility that this egg has been triple fried into charcoal?

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So, is somebody going to call an ambulance or do I have to do it?

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 11/12/2025 

The parking lot from Back to Reality? No? Sure.

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I know that. But do Doug Naylor and Paul Alexander know that? And more importantly, would being correct be worth more than the immense comic potential of Hollister being slapped around with a giant cock?

If you sink low enough it wraps around to peak quality.

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I tried it briefly but I haven’t sat down to properly play it. It’s very impressive.

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It’s only a shame they didn’t give the half-time juice to Pete. Think of the extended, painful routine we could’ve gotten from Hollister recounting that.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 09/12/2025 

Mostly dark blue? Widescreen? Definitely Samsara.

Oh, god dammit.

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I am not convinced it’s much sillier or more cartoony than Cat running away from the bazookoid homing shots, or the shrinking boxer shorts.

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I swear I already posted that second one in this thread. Or at least somewhere at some point in time. I’m not checking.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 08/12/2025 

I thought it was the Esperanto from Back to Reality at first.

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Does it account for the kind of instances where, for the sake of a joke, Moe’s is only a block from the Simpsons’ house, or the Nuclear Power Plant is on the other side of their backyard fence?

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I made a fan edit of Back in the Red years ago where I ended up cutting the entire thing down to around 47 minutes just to see if it would be any better. It is, but it’s still not good.

I cut like 4 minutes from that opening Starbug scene and it’s actually snappy and has some tension when they’re not bantering for seven ice ages between each thing actually happening.

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There’s probably a whole ‘nother thread in Simpsons Gags And Homages That You Didn’t Get, especially when it comes to a lot of US-culture-specific stuff like ads and jingles and non-UK-broadcast TV shows (Kool Aid Man, Armour Hot Dogs, Urkel etc.) 

This is the reverse of the Red Dwarf “Jokes you didn’t get” thread because I would be the one able to explain the weird cultural references to you guys instead of the other way around.

I was aware of the movie coming out, but it didn’t seem to be a thing among people I knew in their 20s in 2007, amid the Lost, Doctor Who, Hot Fuzz and things. We’d probably all stopped watching.

It is worth noting that the movie’s creative staff was entirely writers from the 90s episodes everyone actually likes, which explains why it’s so much better than seasons 18 and 19 which border its release. I wonder if they’re going to do that with the new movie that’s coming out two decades after the first one that was already nearly two decades into the show’s run. Jesus Christ.

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This is bordering on nerdy even for this site, but I’ve always noticed there is is a very distinctly different sound to the acoustics of the audience in Series V vs. before. And VI doesn’t sound like it either.

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Eventually we’re gonna have to start making these sandwiches to test this.

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I’m a noted season 1 defender and I will expound upon this at a future date because I just ate and I’m very sleepy. I know that a lot of people exclude the first two but definitely the first season from their personal “golden age” and they deserve to be put in stasis for 18 months.

Although the David Mirken era is my favorite, easily. “Homer Goes to College” belongs in a museum. The Jean / Reiss madness of seasons 3 and especially 4 is amazing stuff but they inexplicably seemed incapable of writing enough material to fill a 23 minute episode which is not a problem I, as an amateur writer, can relate to or even understand.

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when they were doing things like anthologies of Bible stories and Huckleberry Finn stories because they’d run out of ideas.

I mean, the non-Halloween anthologies start with the Spin-Off Showcase in season 8. They’re pretty regularly in every other season or so up through about 19, and are usually some of the more memorable installments in their respective seasons. Those aren’t what I’d point to to argue they’re out of ideas, especially in the Scully era where even in the normal episodes the show is totally off the wall and swarming with magic robots.

I was a kid in the 2000s so I watched all these post-classic episodes to death pretty interchangeably with the earlier stuff for many years. I don’t have the older millennial experience of watching the show go downhill in the late 90s and getting burned out on it, I just slowly stopped watching many episodes past season 8 over time.

We need a dedicated Simpsons thread so I can never shut up about it.

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I mean I only recently noticed that his jacket is different between VI and VII. I was always picturing the VII jacket when I thought of VI.

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I always assumed he meant the sandwich itself would drop bits on the floor. It sounds like a very messy sandwich.

By the way, I’ve just corrected that subtitle. You’ll see all my corrections on the Smegadrive at some point in the next decade.

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Frank Reynolds.

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Me, an American, reading this conversation:

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Sounds like Rushy’s next Red Dwarf marathon.

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Over here they’re on town halls and supermarkets with clocktowers, although thinking about it a lot of them have Roman numerals instead of Arabic. 

Our living room clock had VI and XII and then everything else is just a line segment pointing towards the center. Growing up I had to learn to infer the time based only on the position of the hands rather than seeing the actual numbers they pointed at. That’s the thing my siblings could never do.

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I want them to reissue the XI/XII shirts. I want that goddamn skutter shirt and I was broke when that was actually on sale.

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He probably couldn’t read an analog clock either.

My siblings can’t even read one and we had one hanging in the living room for decades. Although maybe that’s because it doesn’t label the numbers.

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I like to think his antics in Series VIII where he does a colour-by-numbers and annoys Rimmer with it is just him having fun rather than having the mind of a worryingly slow 6-year-old, he’s just incredibly bored and finding something, anything to do, and relishing how much it annoys Rimmer to bring it up.

The Series VIII script book explicitly says in the scene direction “He is taking the piss” but I also don’t think that necessarily comes across clearly in the episode.

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They’d probably cast Craig’s sister, who’s taller than him.

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Why isn’t Dave doing anything about that abomination of a case they made for season 6 of The Simpsons? Photoshop that into a box made for humans and maybe I’ll be impressed.

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