Favorite character: Kryten (used to have “Spin my nipplenuts and send me to Alaska” as my sig).
Favorite episode: Backwards, followed by Camille.
Favorite quote: the entire exchange between Lister and Kryten while the former is teaching the latter how to lie. I’m especially partial to “It’s the Bolivian Navy on maneuvers in the South Pacific!”
Yeah…that film has been “on the way” for, oh, at least eight years. It’s not going to happen.
I recently watched some of the DVD’s. A great bonus item in the Series II set is the episode Backwards done in reverse, the way the people from the backwards world would have seen it.
When the club manager comes in and yells at the Fabulous Backwards Brothers for the bar tidy they’re about to be involved in, he actually said something like this:
By the way, I think Backwards is my favorite episode.
And, of course, I meant Series III.
Bit o’ trivia:
She was the unintended love interest in the cute and funny Gregory’s Girl.
I can’t think of anything that has not already been quoted save for these:
Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
Better Than Life
The Last Human
Kryten. Unless it’s Lister. Or maybe Rimmer or Cat. Or Holly.
“Queeg”
I’m with Smeghead: Wilma and Betty for sure.“I could go with Betty, but I’d be thinking of Wilma!”
Am I really the first to mention The Cat as my favorite character. He’s Smooth with a capital Smooooo…
Finagle took my favorite joke (The Cat walking down the hall spraying things going “This is mine, this is mine”)
Favorite ep might be Confidence and Paranoia. I love the scene where Rimmer is trying to get the Cat to help Lister and Cat is too busy with lunch.
Another great scene from Balance of Power is when Rimmer has Peterson’s arm and they get into a wrestling match.
::We interrupt this fine thread for an important announcement:::
If you’re in trouble, he will save the day
He’s brave and he’s fearless, come what may
Without him, the mission would go astray
He’s Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer
Without him, life would be much grimmer
He’s handsome, trim, and no one’s slimmer
He will never need a Zimmer
He’s Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer
More reliable than a garden Strimmer
He’s never been mistaken for Yul Brynner
He’s not bald and his head doesn’t glimmer
Master of the wit and the repartee
His command of space directives is uncanny
How come he’s such a genius? Don’t ask me
Ask Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer
He’s also a fantastic swimmer
And if you play your cards right, then he just might come round for dinner
He’s Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer
No rhymes left now apart from quimmer
We hope they fade us out before we get to schwimmer
Fade out you stupid plimmer
::Thank you::
Favorite characters are Norman’s Holly and the Season I Cat. After he gets more human-y, he just isn’t the same–though still pretty funny. But I just love him at first, spinning through the ship yowling.
I think the individual characters are better the first couple of seasons, though the plots and interaction improve in 3-5. Don’t really have a single favorite episode, but “Quarantine” is up there. And I adore “Rimmerworld,” because I’m a glutton for punishment. And “Queeg.”
Favorite lines, some have already shown up, but I also like
“And we’re going to…live!”
“Me pea!” and the ensuing moment.
“We are talking jape of the decade…”
" Causality? Well, OK, you know, one event causes another, OK, but sometimes, you just gotta say, the laws of time and space? Who gives a smeg!’ "
Whoa whoa whoa! When the smeg did a third book come out?!?
A while back when I was in england, late 90s. I haven’t seen it in bookstores here. It is well written, but I found it depressing, and while the events of the other books integrate scenes from the show, this has much more original material.
Actually, it appears that there are two other books – both presumably picking up after Better Than Life. But one was written by Rob Grant, and one by Doug Naylor – each author doing their own version, and neither one relating to the other. I haven’t read them, and it would seem that there are mixed feelings about those books. I’ve been told by at least one person to avoid the Doug Naylor one (“The Last Human”). The other is called “Backwards”, by Rob Grant.
Mutated SuperLister: “Of course! Lager! The only thing that can kill a vindaloo!”
You’ve just reminded me of that exchange! I love when Cat keeps pretending to get up as Rimmer runs back into the hall only to realize that Cat is still sitting at the table. That was hilarious. I haven’t watched the first two series in ages, maybe if my household isn’t entirely sick of Red Dwarf yet, I can watch a few. They’re always better watching with other people.
The individual books reveal a lot about why the series went downhill after teh crator split in seasons 7 & 8. Doug Naylor’s book is incredible sappy and involves happy endings for all. Rob Grant’s book is funnier, but much more cruel to the characters and lot harder in general.
It would appear that together they sort of balance the extremes out, but when only one of them is writing Red Dwarf you wind up with stuff like an introduced love interest for Lister followed by the revival of the entire crew of the ship.
My favourite line is from the episode where they find that they can enter the photographs that have been developed in Kryten’s specially mutated developing fluid.
Kryten:“Just think, we can go back in time to November 1963, stand on the Grassy Knoll and shout, DUCK!”
Lister and Rimmer just stare at him, shocked.
Kryten:“Oh I’m sorry, I must have bypassed my Good Taste chip!”
So are either of them worth reading?
I just read “Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers” and “Better Than Life”. Enjoyed them both, although a few questions at the end… like…
What was in the cannister with the number 1121? Was it Kristine Kochanski’s remains or something? (So that she would live backwards from death along with Lister in the alternate universe, too?) That was my best guess, but I could be totally off target.
So are either of the individual books worth digging into?
Lister appears on the podium at Nuremberg, where Hitler is addressing a rally: “Don’t listen to him! He’s a fascist nutter! And he’s only got one testicle!” {Gives everyone the fingers, then disappears}. Of course, you really need a thick Scouse accent to deliver Lister’s lines properly.