# Red Dwarf **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 28, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138 "2003-05-28T23:11:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/21 "2003-05-29T18:01:18Z")
> [@](#): > > I think I’m gonna order me some Chicken Vindaloo right now! Oh, man! I _love_ chicken vindaloo! Unfortunately, my cow-orkers generally don’t like “weird” food. I mean, we’re very close to Little Saigon and we never go out for Vietnamese. Indian is right out. (Well, not totally out, as I can occasionally come up with a small contingent to go to a buffet.) I’ve really got to find a good Indian take-out near my apartment. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/22 "2003-05-29T21:19:12Z")
Can I just say that my husband does an excellent Cat voice? “That’s _my_ shiny thing!” I will probably have to buy the DVDs. Oh boy! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/23 "2003-05-29T22:47:50Z")
Trivia bit: The actress who played the first Kochanski was the cutie in _Gregory’s Girl_ that Gregory dated at the end of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/24 "2003-05-29T22:59:10Z")
Spoil the end for me, please? [in a spoiler box!!!] I never saw the last show. I’m ordering the DVDs, though, so if the series end is funny like the wiped memories episode, then I’ll just catch it when it comes. Oh… me 'ead! What did I drink? I also really liked the body switching episode. I’m such a smegg head ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/25 "2003-05-29T23:10:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*Spoil the end for me, please? [in a spoiler box!!!] > > I never saw the last show. > I’m ordering the DVDs, though, so if the series end is funny like the wiped memories episode, then I’ll just catch it when it comes. > > Oh… me 'ead! What did I drink? > > I also really liked the body switching episode. > > I’m such a smegg head \*\* There is no end, yet. The end of the last episode so far is a set up for either a movie or a 9nth series. Nanobots destroy most of the ship and kill everyone. When death comes for Rimmer (who was resurrected at the beginning of the season) he knees him in he crotch with a “not today, bucko” and goes off to save the crew. Cue credits. Incidentally, my first and only pleasant foray into usenet was in a Red Dwarf newsgroup. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/26 "2003-05-29T23:32:07Z")
Huh! Well, I’ll be! _Red Dwarf, The Motion Picture, The Search For Lister, A New Hologram, The Wrath of Cat, Fellowship of the Dwarf, …_ Thnks **Slntgldfsh** oh gawd, he’s not back again is he? no, I wasn’t the Hamburglar. Had you think’n tho, right? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/27 "2003-05-30T20:19:47Z")
The “backwards episode” must be on one of the DVDs scheduled for release in November. I finished watching the episodes on the DVDs I just got (12 episodes total) and that one wasn’t on it. Yup, that’s one that I have on a VHS tape up in storage 1,300 miles away… “Stasis Leak” is a great one. Good to see Kochanski. And also last night I watched the episode where they find their opposites in another dimension. (“I assumed _you_ took care of it! The man’s the one who gets pregnant, so it’s the man’s responsibility!” “You could be ‘up the spout’!” “You remember that photograph of you holding twin boys, and I asked how you could have kids when there are no women aboard the ship and you said ‘I don’t know, but it will be fun finding out!’? I remember those fine lads. Bonny strapping boys. Broad shoulders. Big heads!”) ---
**Author:** ![Mjenn2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8edcca/32.png) [@Mjenn2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mjenn2)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/28 "2003-05-30T21:24:40Z")
CAT: How am i looking? I’m looking good. No, wait a minute. I’m looking better than good. I’m looking dangerous…(sings) DANGERROOUUSSSS ---
**Author:** ![Nou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Nou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nou)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/29 "2003-05-30T21:38:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \* > \*\*Trivia bit: The actress who played the first Kochanski was the cutie in _Gregory’s Girl_ that Gregory dated at the end of the movie. \*\* That would be Claire P Grogan. I prefer the later Kochanski though.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/30 "2003-06-01T19:25:24Z")
Red Dwarf? Hmm…yeah, I think I’ve heard of it… Incidentally, Kryten didn’t show up as a main character until season 3, so if you’re thinking of any of those episodes, they’re not out on DVD yet. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/31 "2003-06-01T20:23:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > **The “backwards episode” must be on one of the DVDs scheduled for release in November. I finished watching the episodes on the DVDs I just got (12 episodes total) and that one wasn’t on it. Yup, that’s one that I have on a VHS tape up in storage 1,300 miles away…** Backwards was the first episode of the third series… and it sounds like you’ve got the first two series. Yes, it’s sad that I know that but I have tapes from when they were first aired in the mid-80s. ---
**Author:** ![ajlilhammer225](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@ajlilhammer225](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ajlilhammer225)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/32 "2003-06-02T01:11:17Z")
I LOVE RED DWARF!!! MY FAVE IS LISTER!!! I love it in the episode when he gets pregnant Ajay out ---
**Author:** ![Necromancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@Necromancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necromancer)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/33 "2003-06-02T02:58:49Z")
**NoClueBoy** , I think the Backwards episode is one of my faves. I love the Cat’s last line after he had to go to the toilet: “Don’t ask.” Back To Reality which features the Dispair Squid is another fave episode of mine. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/34 "2004-07-11T05:09:28Z")
Having watched each episode of “Band of Brothers” at least twice, I must say that if anyone ever attempts another Americanized “Red Dwarf” they have to get David Schwimmer for the Rimmer-based character. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/35 "2004-07-11T05:52:45Z")
I’ve volunteered on the pledge phones for my PBS station’s Red Dwarf marathons. On certain occasions, they would fly in the stars to participate. I’ve met Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, and Chloë Annett. I have two stories. One of the times Craig was there, one volunteer was a Red Dwarf super-fan. She knew that his favorite beer in the world was brewed in Jamaica (home country of his father) and that it isn’t imported into Britain for some reason. However, they do ship it to Seattle. So she came to the pledge night with a case of the stuff in her car, and Craig was her best friend the whole evening. She went back to his hotel afterward to share some beers with Craig and Danny. Chloë looked gorgeous in real life, though she’s mighty thin. I greatly regret not having seen her arrive at the TV station, though, because the producer wouldn’t let her on the set dressed as she was. She had to change into something a tad less scandalous. And I missed it! “Mr. Rimmer, you are a smeeeeee heeeeee!” ---
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/36 "2004-07-11T06:17:28Z")
I used to love Red Dwarf and was very dissapointed to catch some of series 7 a couple of nights ago - what an absolute pile of shite! It really lacked any of the energy of the previous series’ and also appeared to lack Rimmer which was annoying because he was really funny I thought. Anyways, all of the early episodes were spot on but my personnal favourite was the one where Cat turns into ‘Duane Dibley’. Classic. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/37 "2004-07-11T07:11:36Z")
> [@WILLASS](#): > > my personnal favourite was the one where Cat turns into ‘Duane Dibley’. Classic. The first time or all of them? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/38 "2004-07-11T08:15:45Z")
Smoke me a kipper, I’ll be back for breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/39 "2004-07-11T14:56:36Z")
Since I started this thread, over a year ago, _Red Dwarf III_ and _IV_ have been added to my DVD shelves. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138/40 "2004-07-11T18:08:30Z")
> [@Jeff Olsen](#): > > Having watched each episode of “Band of Brothers” at least twice, I must say that if anyone ever attempts another Americanized “Red Dwarf” they have to get David Schwimmer for the Rimmer-based character. Actually, they made 2 US pilots, but both were rather lackluster. Both had kyrten from the beginning and as an interestingly little detail, one cast Terry Ferral(of the DS9 fame) as Cat. However, she’s on scene for a grand total of a minute and the one I saw had really poor sound quality. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dwarf/178138.md?page=3)