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20 smeggin' years of Red Dwarf - It's cold outside, there's no kind of atomsphere!
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The coming week marks the 20th anniversary of the classic British Sci-Fi comedy Red Dwarf. Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, Red Dwarf ran for eight seasons between 1988 and 1999.
The series follows the story of Dave Lister, a lowly technician aboard the mining ship Red Dwarf. Dave gets caught trying to smuggle his pregnant (With twins) pet cat, Frankenstein, on board the ship and is put into suspended animation. During this time, a radiation leak kills the entire crew. The ships computer, Holly, keeps Dave in suspended animation till the radiation is gone, a process which takes 3 million years. After Dave is released from his time in stasis, Holly creates a hologram of the crew member who Dave had the most conversations with, Arnold Rimmer. They also find that Lister's cat managed to survive the leak by being kept in an air duct and, over the course of 3 million years, her descendants evolved into the species Felis Sapiens, of which there is only one remaining survivor, Cat.
Left to right: Cat, Dave, Rimmer, Holly.
I will bulk out the OP in time, but at the moment this will have to do.
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I only wish that there were more episodes
I'll take that as a maybe.
God, I love this show. I remember watching it with my dad growing up.
That sound hilarious, almost spooferific!
That explains it. I just thought it was just another old sci-fi.
Thai curry, but curry none the less.
That entire episode is awesome.
"Holly, this is a Red Dwarf garbage pod, why didn't you tell Remmer?"
"Well, it's more entertaining this way, isn't it?"
You better have poppadoms with that!
And some lager to wash it down.
Tom yum gai.
Oh wait, no.
The Space Corps Directives, far more relevant to the average person than any Prime Directive ever was.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
yeah the show's prettty much summed up by the opening sequence of one episode where Holly says "As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a Godless, uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?"
Thanks for reminding me how much I miss this show.
Probably my fav Holly quote, although the finale of Queeg was also good.
"We are talking jape of the century. We are talking April, May, June, July, and August Fool."
"It must have erased The Cat from existence!"
"If it erased him from existence, then how do we remember him?"
"Remember who?"
"I don't remember!"
I'm still waiting for the movie, or a Series 9, after the ending for Series 8. I've read the two novels, also. I absolutely loved this show. Apparently, they still haven't given up on the movie, and every now and then I keep hearing rumblings they're one step closer.
"We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes. No buns, baps, baguettes, or bagels. No croissants, no crumpets. No pancakes, no potato cakes, and no hot cross buns. And definitely, no smegging flapjacks."
"Ah, so you're a waffle man!"
Seriously, you could spend 10 pages of this thread just quoting line after line. Truly a classic.
"Erm, I think we're losing sight of the real issue here, which is 'What are we gonna call ourselves?' Erm, and I think it comes down to a choice between 'The League Against Salivating Monsters' or my own personal preference, which is 'The Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society'. Erm, one drawback with that - the abbreviation is 'CLITORIS'."
My favorite episode aside from the one in the VR game.
Patrick Stewart's initial thoughts when he saw it were to call his lawyer.
But it made him laugh before he could finish dialing.
"I am Holly, the ship's computer, with an IQ of 6000, the same IQ as 6000 PE teachers. "
Still, any show that gives us 'Confidence and Paranoia'...
Lister: "What do you mean you killed him, cha, cha, cha?"
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I absolutely love this show.
"C'MON YOU RED!"
For some reason Kryton was choking Hardlight Rimmer while Lister danced in a tutu.
Oh the hours spent recording every episode off of PBS during marathons...
Nothing like a good old-fashioned love song.
One of my favourite episodes. The entire following scene with Lister, Cat, and the "taranshula" was comedy gold.
"I'm scared."
"YOU'RE scared?"
"You haven't seen it."
Wait, thats the episode where he sends his hand to alert the crew, right? I love the ensuing "taranshula" typing scene, it cracks me up every time.
Cat: You're playing that dumb adventure game!
Lister (typed): It's in my boxers. I think it's making a nest.
Cat: Try buying a potion from Gandalf, the master wizard! That's what I usually do.
Rimmer: I can't let you out.
Lister: Why not?
Rimmer: Because the King of the Potato People won't let me. I've begged him. I got down on my knees and wept. He wants to keep you here. Keep you here for 10 years.
Cat: Can we see him?
Rimmer: See who?
Cat: The King.
Rimmer: Do you have a magic carpet?
Lister: Yeah, a little three seater.
Rimmer: So let me get this straight. You want to fly on a magic carpet, to see the king of the potato people... and plead with him for your freedom, and you're telling me you're completely sane?
It's a comedy about the last surviving human adrift in space encountering situations that humorously highlight the basis existential crisis of mankind: what is the meaning of [human] life?
In other words, it's a better TV adaptation of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy than any of the actual TV/movie adaptations of Hitchhiker's.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Unfortunately, they're fucking expensive, and the entire series would cost me a whole paycheck, lowly cashier that I am.