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It’s been discussed as a lost treasure before, exciting that it’s been discovered!

Red Dwarf related stuff from the past that’s possible to find in 2025

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Saving that one as a reaction GIF.

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I have just learned never to load up a Corrie related article on Wikipedia…

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I mean, would be one of the more justifiable uses of AI there…

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Oh, it will. And William Roache will still be there.

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Also, was Cholë just acting amused at the card or actually corpsing?

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The truly terrible thing is none of this brings us any closer to knowing what Lister was saying.

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In fairness, that WAS an emergency situation.

Is Cat the only main Kryten hasn’t humped?

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Wherever that “fact” about General Hospital came from must be very US centric as Coronation Street started in 1960 and is still going.

• General Hospital:
  • Has been on the air since 1963.
  • Holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running American soap opera in production. 

So yes, the source was American and probally out of date. If anything that just further illustrates the point though.

Soaps are forever.

Based on a cursory glance there are more episodes of GH than CS, but that isn’t relevant to longevity.
My top of the head math isn’t actually inaccurate if Lister watched about six episodes of GH a day. You could argue Lister had nothing else to do, but being in Series II it isn’t that long since he was presumably employed full time.

Also, the actor who said “that stupid soap opera” ended up on a soap opera, stupid or otherwise.

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See also lauding Shakspeare in Marooned and slagging him off in Lemons.

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I think you can make Timewave work if its purely from the POV of Planet Rimmer.

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The longest-running soap opera of all time is Guiding Light, which began on radio in 1937 and moved to television in 1952, ending in 2009 after a combined 72 years on air. However, if the question refers to the longest-running soap opera currently on the air, that title belongs to General Hospital, which has been broadcasting on television since 1963.

So maybe its just been on awhile?

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I did Evangelion as Hamlet for English 30-2.

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 malfunctioning nanobots have brought back the Pete dinosaur but super-sized, resulting in him being a godzilla that’s stomping over the city.

Which Doug can totally do on a sitcom budget, honest. He knows a guy.

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I like how Kryten was portrayed in Series I.

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Honestly the worst I’ve seen for distortion so far is The Happiness Patrol.

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He just smelt it.

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https://youtu.be/sBvldB2-UjA?si=0gltiktDkdHA9IB_

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Timewave II:

Having lifted the ban on criticism, the Enconium becomes a refuge for literal Nazis.

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He just cacked his pants.

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Squids should be damp really.

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I quite like both Epideme and Beyond a Joke, and prefer Back in the Red in totality better than Cassandra (just so I am not just aping International Debris’ post I hadn’t read yet). Oh wait, tombow said BITR as well…

I do not dislike most of Duct Soup, but I can’t defend it too much as the worst offender for whiny Kryten and Starbug being ridiculously huge. Dear Dave and Samsara are fine. Can of Worms is tolerable if you get over the bait and switch.

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This wasn’t a very mundane observation. New thread for tier lists, anyone?

Are you flattering yourself that it was a profound observation?

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There is enough humping for everyone.

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Through modern editing techniques you actually made that scene look suggestive.

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Not that I can’t tell what’s what, but it’s 7:30 in the morning and I’m too lazy.

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They also used it in the TARDISbug in Nanarchy.

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and doesn’t show many signs of PTSD immediately following that episode.

can’t they just travel back in time six million years, set course back to Earth and go into stasis until they arrive home?

Given enough time slipped in to grow Lister’s hair and nails over 300 years, 6 million might age him out. Might be longer given Starbug couldn’t keep up with Red Dwarf.

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And then you can take over from there.

You could make the argument that Lister from M-Corp onwards isn’t really the same person we knew, because his memories and experienced were formed from CCTV footage and Kryten “filling him in”. Basically, homework on his own identity. 

I am amazed how little it comes up that Star Trek basically did this to Uhura in The Changeling, implying she could re-learn being a functioning comms officer in a couple weeks. On the plus side, maybe that’s why she’s fluent in Klingon during Strange New Worlds but needs a dictionary in The Undiscovered Country.

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In fairness, Back to Earth was also the last series to co-occur with Last of the Summer Wine.

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Time be like that.

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I mean, yeah. Why would the Ferengi have warships?

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Red Dwarf: the Last of the Summer Wine

As I recall people were making that exact joke… in 2009.

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But I kinda think there’s something really special about Paul being in Night of the Doctor and nothing else other than the movie.

Don’t watch The Power of the Doctor then…

Personally I would suggest they use a similar framing here.

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Does raise the question of why Kryten has teeth at all.

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I Have A Mouth But Still Can’t Scream

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But now you’ll see it all the time.

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Actually came up with it on Friday, I swear.

…I have no taste and decency.

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 It’s a cool idea, but it can’t span a whole episode

Quite possibly, the problem is the episode probally should be more intwerwined rather than feeling like two stitched together.

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On the back of a pub coaster.

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Yeah, a multi-Doctor special could be a way to try and get attention again.

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Lister didn’t catch the mutated pneumonia from Kochanski’s quarters but from the Cat Priest. It had been evolving within the cats for millions of years and is what killed him.

Alternatively, since pneumonia can be caused by fungus, it was from the Titan mushrooms. We already know it causes hallucinations.

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