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Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: an0n on February 25, 2004, 08:17:43 pm
I'm watching the one where they find the time-drive on UK-Gold.

"Herman Goering was a 'bit dodgy'?!"
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: Su-tehp on February 25, 2004, 11:47:50 pm
Yeah, Red Dwarf! My buddy has a bunch of the episodes on videotape.

But one of my favorite Red Dwarf episodes technically wasn't an episode at all: Smeg-Ups was fricking hilarious. :lol:

Man, I gotta borrow that tape from my friend again. :D

And then there was the episode with the DNA transmogrifier...

Rimmer: They're probably going to try to return Glen Miller. Let me handle this. (through loudspeaker) Go away! We don't want him! You can keep the smegger!

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 26, 2004, 01:56:03 am
"Step it up to Red Alert"
"Sir, that would mean changing the bulb"
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: beatspete on February 26, 2004, 05:29:18 am
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
"Step it up to Red Alert"
"Sir, that would mean changing the bulb"



see the sig :D
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: karajorma on February 26, 2004, 07:20:14 am
RIMMER: Hmm. Marvelous. (Crosses over to a small, angular box near the
door.) Now this three-dimensional sculpture in particular is quite
exquisite. Its simplicity, it's bold, stark lines... pray, what do you
call it?
LEGION: The light switch.
RIMMER: The light switch. (In "Gazpacho Soup" tones)
LEGION: Yes.
RIMMER: I couldn't buy it, then?
LEGION: Not really. I need it to turn the lights on and off.
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: Martinus on February 26, 2004, 08:27:04 am
[color=66FF00]The books are ace too, I loved the bit in the first one where they're going through customs, Rimmer's mate sees that he can't take his special brew on the ship, so he downs a suitcase full of the stuff. When he's getting a memory recording done for the holograpic system he registers as 'non human lifeform'. :lol:

That kills me every time I read it.
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Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: Fineus on February 26, 2004, 09:41:43 am
Well said, Red Dwarf pwns everything else out there :D

KRYTEN: Listen!  Can anyone hear anything?
CAT: No.
KRYTEN: Precisely.  No one can hear anything!  And you know why we can't  hear anything?
RIMMER: Why?
KRYTEN: Because there are NO sounds to hear.

:lol:
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: diamondgeezer on February 26, 2004, 10:12:50 am
They call me the keeed. The Riveria Keeed  *dances*
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: Killfrenzy on February 26, 2004, 10:58:17 am
Queeg: I've only one thing to say to you
The gang: What?
Queeg: (With Holly's voice) What's happening dudes?
Holly: We are talking jape of the decade. We are talking April, May, June, July and August fool. Yes, that's right, I am Queeg.
The gang: WHAT?!?!?!

:D

My fave RD moment of all time! :D
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: karajorma on February 26, 2004, 11:42:27 am
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
Well said, Red Dwarf pwns everything else out there :D

KRYTEN: Listen!  Can anyone hear anything?
CAT: No.
KRYTEN: Precisely.  No one can hear anything!  And you know why we can't  hear anything?
RIMMER: Why?
KRYTEN: Because there are NO sounds to hear.

:lol:


Rimmer : Isn't it around this time of year your head goes back for retuning :D

I'll bet most of the americans are scratching their heads looking at this thread :D
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 26, 2004, 11:48:15 am
Didn't they try to make an Americanised version, and it failed miserably?
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Post by: Fineus on February 26, 2004, 12:25:58 pm
Yep, if you don't get British humor, you're lost with this.
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: an0n on February 26, 2004, 12:26:44 pm
Yeah, it had Terry Farrell (Jadzia Dax from DS9 and Reggie from Becker) as Cat.

I think the pilot episode was so bad they only showed it once.
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 26, 2004, 12:29:22 pm
Oh dear oh dear.
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: karajorma on February 26, 2004, 12:37:53 pm
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Originally posted by an0n
Yeah, it had Terry Farrell (Jadzia Dax from DS9 and Reggie from Becker) as Cat.

I think the pilot episode was so bad they only showed it once.


I've seen it. It wasn't that dreadful but it wasn't close to the UK version.  If you'd never seen the British version you'd probably think it was pretty good.
 As it was you recognised that almost all of the good jokes came from the british version.
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: kasperl on February 26, 2004, 12:41:24 pm
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Originally posted by Killfrenzy
Queeg: I've only one thing to say to you
The gang: What?
Queeg: (With Holly's voice) What's happening dudes?
Holly: We are talking jape of the decade. We are talking April, May, June, July and August fool. Yes, that's right, I am Queeg.
The gang: WHAT?!?!?!

:D

My fave RD moment of all time! :D

that one was beuty indeed.


they showed about 10 minutes each day for a few weeks on Dutch TV, to fill up the space between some extremely awfull shows. i never saw a lot of it, but most of it was funny.
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 26, 2004, 12:46:24 pm
Do you ever get Porridge on Dutch TV, kas?
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Post by: kasperl on February 26, 2004, 12:47:09 pm
not that i now of.
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 26, 2004, 12:48:15 pm
Damn. I wonder who does then, I've not seen it on the BBC for some time.
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: an0n on February 26, 2004, 12:49:42 pm
It's on UK-Gold almost every night.
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: kasperl on February 26, 2004, 12:52:29 pm
i recieve BBC 1 and 2, but i don;t watch them all to often.
one rather poor TV station runs quite some British comedy's though, Are you being served?, which is very nice, the thing with the French resistant and the German occupieng force, something i find rather boring, and the one with the British military theatre going to India/Indonesia, with the warmonging sargeant.
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: an0n on February 26, 2004, 12:57:37 pm
Allo Allo and It Ain't Half Hot (methinks)
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: kasperl on February 26, 2004, 12:59:42 pm
Allo Allo could be correct, the other i have no clue, because some idiot TV Station dude translated all the titles.
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 26, 2004, 01:00:20 pm
Allo Allo was good in parts, never really like It Ain't Half Hot Mum, though.

You're missing a treat with Porridge, though.
And as for UK Gold, I'd have to actually go downstairs to watch it.
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: Su-tehp on February 26, 2004, 01:01:55 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Kalfireth
KRYTEN: Listen!  Can anyone hear anything?
CAT: No.
KRYTEN: Precisely.  No one can hear anything!  And you know why we can't  hear anything?
RIMMER: Why?
KRYTEN: Because there are NO sounds to hear.


Yah, this was another classic Red Dwarf moment.

Another one of my fave episodes was the one with the alternate Universe Rimmer, a handsome, dashing test pilot who is the complete antithesis of the original Rimmer.

Alternate Rimmer: Smoke me a kipper, skipper, I'll be back for breakfast!

:lol:
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: an0n on February 26, 2004, 01:06:29 pm
Rimmer's 'death' was pretty cool too. With all those trillions of Ace Rimmer holo-emitters floating around that planet.
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: Fineus on February 26, 2004, 01:20:31 pm
Yeah, I liked that. Indeed some of it could be quite emotional - and Gunmen Of The Apocalypse was incredibly well written.

Speaking of comedy, ever seen The Britas Empire? It starred Chris Barrie (Arnold Rimmer) - it was pretty good, not Red Dwarf - but nice all the same.
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: Flipside on February 26, 2004, 01:29:08 pm
Or of course, the emotion-sucking monster that stole Rimmers violent side, and he turned into a bearded pipe-smoking hippy.....

Rimmer : I've created the Campaign for the Liberation and Intergration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society..... The down side is that the Acronym spells 'Clitoris' but I'll work on it.

Lister : Let's get out there and twat it!
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 26, 2004, 01:44:33 pm
Brittas Empire owned.

That is all.
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: karajorma on February 26, 2004, 01:46:30 pm
LISTER: I'm just sayin', there's 79 more days to go.
KRYTEN: And if you still want to be alive when there is only 78 more days  to go, I suggest you do not blow your nose.
LISTER: Do you mind if I ask why?
KRYTEN: Well, let's forego the noise and the revolting burbling sound, and go straight to the really gross part, when you always, and I mean always, having blown your nose have to open up your handkerchief and  take a look at the contents.  I mean, why?  What do you expect to see in there?  A Turner seascape, perhaps?  The face of the Madonna?  An undiscovered Shakespearian sonnet?

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 are completely sane?!
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: magatsu1 on February 26, 2004, 03:15:08 pm
"Do you think Wilma Flinstone's sexy ?"

I'm sure we know the rest.

and Talkie Toaster (White Hole)
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: 01010 on February 26, 2004, 03:17:14 pm
I actually think Wilma Flintstone is sexy :nervous:
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: Skaarj on February 26, 2004, 03:30:24 pm
Red dwarf is class! got the DVDs, wish they would release the re-mastered eps on dvd.

Death; Arnold judith Rimmer your time has come

Rimmer(knees death in the nuts) Only the good die young.
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Post by: aldo_14 on February 26, 2004, 03:40:53 pm
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Brittas Empire owned.

That is all.


t'Was the one in the leisure centre, wasn't it?
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: diamondgeezer on February 26, 2004, 03:43:38 pm
Yup:

(http://pages.infinit.net/amneria/cbetb/brittas1.jpg)

I loved Rimmer's habit of calling people 'matey' when talking down to them

Ace's light-bee graveyard was also deeply cool, certainly the best thing in that series. Is it me, or did it go distinctly downhill after series six? Inflating the budget and swapping the superb models built from the contents of Shepperton Studio's skips for CGI was not a good idea, I reckons
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: magatsu1 on February 26, 2004, 03:50:58 pm
after series6 one half of the Grant/Naylor combo left and was replaced by some guy who's name I forget.
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: aldo_14 on February 26, 2004, 03:51:54 pm
What's up with the Red Dawrf film, BTW?
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: diamondgeezer on February 26, 2004, 04:02:35 pm
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Originally posted by magatsu1
after series6 one half of the Grant/Naylor combo left and was replaced by some guy who's name I forget.

That a) I didn't know and b) explains a huge number of things. But Grant Naylor claimed to be a gestalt entity composed of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor... how could one half leave, unless they were telling porkies?
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Originally posted by aldo_14
What's up with the Red Dawrf film, BTW?

The one they've been 'working' on for about ten years? Don't know, don't care, as the eightball predicts a lack of funny
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: an0n on February 26, 2004, 05:58:15 pm
Last I heard, they were waiting for Barry to finish with Tomb Raider 2 before they began shooting.

And the thing about the later episodes was that they had a plot. And the whole prison-transport thing just plain sucked.

The whole point of Red Dwarf was that you'd start out with them sitting around the table on StarBug, whining about how the Urine-Recyc Wine tasted worse than Dutch Lager and by the end of the episode they'd have travelled through time, destroyed the universe and wound up dying when an evil puppet came to life and destroyed the ship.

There's a ****load of episodes where they never had an end, they just kinda stopped abruptly. Like RimmerWorld. That whole episode was just down-right wierd. Same with that Psi-Moon episode.
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Post by: Martinus on February 26, 2004, 06:04:40 pm
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Originally posted by 01010
I actually think Wilma Flintstone is sexy :nervous:

[color=66ff00]Betty was more my bag though, she was teh hot. ;)
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Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: karajorma on February 26, 2004, 06:05:32 pm
A big part of what ruined series 7 & 8 was the way they turned Kryten into a whiny cry-baby. I never thought that worked very well.

Bring back the rest of the crew in series 8 was also a big mistake.

Craig Charles once described Red Dwarf as like Porridge in space in that it was basically about a bunch of people who hated each other but had to work together.  The larger crew spoiled that a lot.
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Post by: karajorma on February 26, 2004, 06:09:11 pm
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Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]Betty was more my bag though, she was teh hot. ;)
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I'd go with Betty. But I'd be thinking of Wilma :D
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: an0n on February 26, 2004, 06:58:23 pm
At least you've moved on from Fred.
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: Skaarj on February 27, 2004, 09:43:23 am
the reason they went to CGI according to the books, is that the original models got destroyed when they where moving it. so i guess with the remastering of the 1st 3 series they just decieded to use the cgi model.

I do agree that it went downhill after series 6, and whole cry-baby thing with kryten went just beyond a joke
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Post by: karajorma on February 27, 2004, 10:08:16 am
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Originally posted by an0n
At least you've moved on from Fred.


While you still fantasise about Barney.
Title: I Love Red Dwarf
Post by: Fineus on February 27, 2004, 11:23:52 am
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Originally posted by Skaarj
the reason they went to CGI according to the books, is that the original models got destroyed when they where moving it. so i guess with the remastering of the 1st 3 series they just decieded to use the cgi model.

Are you sure?

My reasoning being there is - or at least was -  a 6 foot long model of Red Dwarf (true to the TV show) hanging opposite the record section of Londons main branch of Virgin Megastores. I kid you not :)
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Post by: karajorma on February 27, 2004, 11:46:12 am
They Stole It! :p
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Post by: Skaarj on February 27, 2004, 01:34:09 pm
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
Are you sure?

My reasoning being there is - or at least was - a 6 foot long model of Red Dwarf (true to the TV show) hanging opposite the record section of Londons main branch of Virgin Megastores. I kid you not


well acording to the scripts of series seven book that i own in the introduction it says that the model was broken beyond repair to use in the show.
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Post by: aldo_14 on February 27, 2004, 02:27:55 pm
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Originally posted by karajorma


While you still fantasise about Barney.


Once you get onto Dino, I'm leaving.