"I knew he was dead....I mean they're all dead, aren't they?" Rarely does Red Dwarf acknowledge just how bleak Lister and Rimmer's situation actually is, but when they do....damn....

@kamenraider1175

5 жыл бұрын

Danny Rea Read the books, Lister's first week/weeks were hell after the "They're all dead Dave" incident

@paroxysm8588

4 жыл бұрын

@@kamenraider1175 theres books??????

@VambeefcoHorzey

4 жыл бұрын

@@paroxysm8588 Yes, four of them... the first two are essential.

@VambeefcoHorzey

4 жыл бұрын

It's a shame the show has totally turned it's back on this and has new humanoid characters popping up every episode.

@AnestNightroad

4 жыл бұрын

@@VambeefcoHorzey Keyword...Humanoid. Not Human. There are no humans baring time travel or android masqued as human

This is such a sad scene. You learn SO much about Rimmer in this one scene, why he was so desperate to become an officer, why his self-esteem and self-confidence is rock bottom, and why he believes he's a total loser. All because his parents were disfunctional smegheads.

@loserhero1982

7 жыл бұрын

its odd how touching this scene is I still remember this after all the years from watching it. it always stuck with me. It both of them letting down their walls and just talking to each other man to man.

@sadhappy8860

7 жыл бұрын

Character development and brings the funny

@SevenEllen

7 жыл бұрын

They're ALL funny.

@Lasherluke

2 жыл бұрын

and the ironic thing is that he is more sucessful then his father had ever been. I mean, despite the loathing the others have for him, he really does keep the crew together most of the time.

Great scene. This goes to show why Rimmer is such a tragic figure and a deep character. It was great that the writers explored that. He's been miserable all his life and never had success with women or had a relationship that could have built up his confidence and got rid of his self-loathing. 'Holoship' and 'Dimension Jump' show what Rimmer could be.

@WaspCameraInSpringfield

7 жыл бұрын

I also loved the episode "The Beginning" for this reason.

@AH-be6bu

6 жыл бұрын

Don't forget about 'Thanks for the Memory'. Breaks my bloody heart every time I watch it.

@daybreakknight6495

5 жыл бұрын

@@WaspCameraInSpringfield Same here..and tbh, I actually can SIDE with Rimmer most of the time.

@qwertyCandy

4 жыл бұрын

Hank J. Wimbleton The Beginning might actually be my most favorite episode, for this very reason. And The Promised Land was excellent as well :)

@willowism

2 жыл бұрын

Stoke me a clipper gets me every time

I never took this scene too serious till my dad died suddenly. Then out of nowhere this series became something part of a memoir of him, he introduced me to the show at 8. Then for the first time watching this scene after, I felt what Rimmer did, and in spirit, I felt like I was standing right next to him gazing into the stars in mourning. I've always loved the music at the intro too : ) and still one of my most favorite shows

@missthing1496

5 жыл бұрын

I’m so sorry for your loss. I hope you and your family are okay.

@JnEricsonx

4 жыл бұрын

I found this show right after my dad died in 1993. Was just going through the TV Guide channel, saw something on PBS called Red Dwarf and thought, "well, let's give it a look". Rest is history.

Rimmers dad died. "I'd prefer chicken"

@Enzo012

4 жыл бұрын

He would prefer the chicken but if that's all that's on offer.

@Pravdacz-tp8zu

3 жыл бұрын

I think that refers to how cats would eat their dead masters.

@andylane247

2 жыл бұрын

Genius !!!

@polreamonn

Жыл бұрын

@@Enzo012 I think there's fish as well.

@williamcrowe2576

Жыл бұрын

Cat just didn't know (or care) how to read the room.

Good acting by Chris Barrie and Craig Charles. Although Rimmer is a character you love to hate, but you got to feel sorry for Rimmer at times. Rimmer was hated and unloved by his family and he deeply regrets his father never been proud of him and had wanted to make his father proud of him and that he wanted to be loved. 0:08 That shot of Rimmer is so heartbreaking. Like Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Fast Show and other sitcoms, Red Dwarf had it's serious moments. Where we got to learn more about the characters and we saw their loneliness and sadness: Lister at the disco all alone, remembering when the crew were alive and when his chums were making fun of Kochanski. A drunk Rimmer telling Lister that he would had sacrificed everything to be loved and be happy. Kryten making the speech about living for the first time in his life. Lister learning the truth behind his abandonment as a baby and Lister crying, when Kochanski asked him about his dreams about her. Red Dwarf is such a classic series. Good writing, good acting, well-cast, brilliant chemistry. One of the greatest TV shows on British television.

Chris Barrie is marvelous in this scene

I do love that little music intro the observation dome

@eldestduke1553

8 жыл бұрын

what's the name

@neokai5511

5 жыл бұрын

@@eldestduke1553 WHAT IS THE NAME? 3 years

@davidcone1433

5 жыл бұрын

WE NEED AN ANSWER!!!

@KazuyaMain2001

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidcone1433 found one. If you search howard goodall red dwarf suite on youtube and fast forward a couple of minutes, the intro to the observation dome is there.

@davidcone1433

5 жыл бұрын

@@KazuyaMain2001 WE HAVE AN ANSWER!!! Thanks Ryan!

this scene sums up the best of red dwarf for me. it's hilarious but it's so tragic and genuinely moving. really great acting and writing

I wish they kept the observation dome in later seasons.

@attentionaddicts

3 жыл бұрын

Did they use it in any other scenes?

@jonbilgutay2

3 жыл бұрын

@@attentionaddicts No, just season 2 and they only used it twice. Pity really, it would have added some atmosphere to the more emotional scenes.

@attentionaddicts

3 жыл бұрын

Do your remember the other time it was used apart from this?

@jonbilgutay2

3 жыл бұрын

@@attentionaddicts Yeah; Thanks For The Memory. When Rimmer was mad at Lister for messing with him memories.

@spikeep6141

2 жыл бұрын

Such a cool set. And the thing that proves how well it ABSOLUTELY works, is that whenever you see Rimmer up in that bubble standing, staring into the void of infinite night, you look at him standing there and thing - “Damn - it looks like it must be REALLY cold out there in a dressing gown and pajamas…”

You see, what draws me towards Rimmer more then the other principle characters is the fact that he had a hard time growing up and the relationship between and his father was one of the least smoothest known to man. I mean, my old man isn't the greatest guy in the world, most of the time, it feels like my father is a complete stranger. Often, people have steered away from me or found me awkward company, branding me as weird and solitary. But if only they knew half of the story. Sometimes those, who are the least understood are the ones with the most troubled background.

@kamenraider1175

5 жыл бұрын

Felix Cuthbert Or they could become Ace Rimmer

1:26 always hits it home in a way that just gets you for a second just after a really funny bit of dialogue. So well written and acted, what a show.

I always find this scene quite emotional. It's also the moment I realised Rimmer is my favourite character, because I personally can relate to him on a similar level. And the way he talks about his father is exactly the same as how I felt about my dad when I lost him 8 years ago. I like it when the writers explore the characters' backgrounds.

"I don't think he had one screw fully tightened to be perfectly honest." Gotta love how for every few silly things any of the main characters said, then they'd have a perfectly awesome line that made them just much more relateable.

The original music for this show rarely gets acknowledged but I love it.

Aw I just want to give Rimmer a big hug in this scene! x

@zxbzxbzxb1

4 жыл бұрын

Good luck trying to hug a hologram, but I know what you mean!

@EditorOfSL

3 жыл бұрын

Being stuck with a self-confessed bum, a psychopathic cat-human and a robot that always knows how to do Rimmer’s job better than him, I ALWAYS want to give him a hug!

@peterburke3944

2 жыл бұрын

@@EditorOfSL not to mention he was stuck with an erratic computer and then some series later a complete drip of a navigational officer

after this episode suddenly all of Rimmer's smegheadiness makes sense

@JnEricsonx

4 жыл бұрын

And yet he still had his moments of absolute seriousness, logic, and dare I say it, intelligence or common sense.

@Lasherluke

2 жыл бұрын

@@JnEricsonx exactly Rimmer isn't actually dumb, he's just a bad written test taker.

this show really had some special moments of gravity but then being able to lighten the mood with the appearance of just one character

The early seasons were so much more character driven and emotional. Then again the later seasons were funny and easy to enjoy

I love how much the cat was a cat in this scene 😂

Loved Red Dwarf as a teenager, Grant and Naylor knew how to write superb comedy and pathos.

@thebeststooge

3 жыл бұрын

I just watched all the series and still have their last film they just did and Lister is about 1 year older than I am. Loved the show back then and so many I had not seen before but, for me, it all fell apart around Series 8, so Series 7 should have been their last series I think. By 10 I became bored with it but still like it but 12/13 sucked immensely.

@melvert33

3 жыл бұрын

@@thebeststooge yeah I think it started going downhill when Rob Grant left after series 6, the more recent ones just aren't very funny.

@thebeststooge

3 жыл бұрын

@@melvert33 I agree. It is as if I am watching two different shows. 6 was the last best season and I suspect 7 rode along with a few previously written scripts so made it through and by S8 had none to one and fell flat. S8 is when it really started to become non fun to me. TBH the woman never fit in at all and did a lot of harm to the series imo. She didn't come back for 10+ but 10+ isn't the same show anymore. The dividing line really was 9 because there was never a series 9. Went 8, film special, 10. That was when it just lost all spark. Eight probably had scripts they bodged together and seeing them on the nanite made RD with the entire crew was cool and nostalgic enough to carry it through the 6 episodes.

@RAFMnBgaming

3 ай бұрын

@@thebeststooge Looking through the BTS, a lot of the scripts were written not just before but during each series, sometimes during filming. It's definitely two different shows, but less of a switch and more of a gradual changing with the times, circumstances and ambitions.

A lovely, tender scene with beautiful music. However one of the reasons, surely, that Red Dwarf is a continuing force is that the tone is different in some series. So all credit to Rob Grant and Doug Naylor for not frequently using sentiment in explicit ways. For instance, series 5 and 6 are often lean, mean, story, set, effects, cameo/alternative selves and costume driven machines. Red Dwarf has been a complicated hearty stew really, subtle shifts back and forth although series 5 felt like a huge stylistic leap to live up to being a confidently scifi looking show.

i love the rimmer/lister interaction (not to the extreme of slash fandom, but still), it's one of the things that really made this show work. i like that they are really close friends, but can't stand each other at the same time. more like family i guess. i agree, there was more of that in the first 2 series, but there was still some of that closeness in the later series as well. just not as much cause they had to give play to the other characters as well. ~

@Lasherluke

6 жыл бұрын

In many ways Rimmer and Lister are like a pair of brothers, sure they don't get on like 90% of the time, but that other ten percent shows them bringing out the best in each other.

@qwertyCandy

4 жыл бұрын

So I came back to this video after just having watched The Promised Land and I'm so proud of the guys for how far they've come... :) Their love/hate relationship has always been at the heart of Red Dwarf, imho, and while it's had its ups and downs, it's immensely satisfying to see its depth being acknowledged like that.

Certainly one of my favourite scenes in the series.

'cause they found me with me head down the bowl, reading the football results.' rarely does a comedy face the awful inevitability of death with such humour.

We all want to be Lister. But most of us are Rimmer.

@jozkomrkvicka7607

Жыл бұрын

I do not want to be lister, but i do not want to be rimmer either. They are both loosers.

These scene has stuck with me, and will do forever.

The effect work on a show like this - with this kind of budget - is nothing short of amazing

I love it... It makes me feel so sad and fuzzy at the same time.

@NecroMrkef

5 жыл бұрын

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Is it any wonder why Rimmer was such a mess? I guess thats part of the appeal. We all can identify with getting screwed over by fate. Sure he's a difficult pain in the ass, but who HASN'T asked "Why me?" at one time or another? We all get poked in the eye by the fickle finger of fat. Arnie just gets it more often. There's a little Arnold Rimmer in all of us.

@RealityCheck6T9

4 жыл бұрын

"Fickle finger of fat"

@themadplotter

3 жыл бұрын

fuck up smeg head

The music in this scene is heart wrenching.

love the bit rimmers dads died id prefer chicken

it really is. it's one of the things that makes his character actually likeable. you could so easily hate a character like that, but it's rimmer and you can't help but like him (love him in my case). ~

lol love the old cat, proper cat like

" He went where my goldfish went. Thought he'd been flushed down the bog(?). Read the football scores down the toilet. ". 🤣🤣

I wish I knew where to get the soundtracks for this series. The little incidental music tracks are so often really amazing in their own right.

definitely agree with you there, I think the look of the ship was better then too and the music, very lamenting

I thought the other observation deck scene might have been on this clip as well, but no matter. Together I think they're the very best of Red Dwarf.

I love the music in this scene, it's one of my favourite scenes because sometimes you just need to take a moment to yourself

@sparrowlt

4 ай бұрын

the first seasons of RD where my favorite specially becuase it dealth more with the theme of the series of a guy sudenly losing everyone he ever knew and ending up alone in the universe with his only company being a computer , a simulation ran by computer and a being descended from cats trapped in the ship for millions of years

Seasons I-VI in general are excellent, but Season II has to be my favourite. It's a perfect bridge between the bleakness of Season I and the more over the top comedy of the later seasons.

what's the name of the music at the beginning? is it an original piece f/ RD or was it borrowed? I just love it, it's really poignant

The biggest fault and irony is that had Rimmer not been shot down through his life he might have ended up more like Lister and had Lister pushed himself more he might have ended up more like Rimmer. That was their ironic fault, Lister just making his way through life without any ambition and Rimmer trying to gain the approval from people he was never going to get it from. Despite their resentment for each other, Rimmer and Lister did rub off on each other, Lister did become much more comptent whereas Rimmer learned to at less try and have fun, just his idea of fun is the kind of fun only he'd like.

This and thanks for the memories they made you fell sorry for Rimmer

Literally my favourite joke ever

Party time for all the worms.....

I remember watching a review that perfectly explained why Rimmer is such a good character. His type of narcissistic, cowardly selfishness could easily have been annoying. But this reviewer summed it up well. Yes, we hate Rimmer. But Rimmer hates himself too...

@Lasherluke

2 жыл бұрын

Cat summed up everyone's feelings for Rimmer perfectly in the promised land "I didn't like him, but I liked not liking him."

still makes me laugh. you lads were amazing! thanks for the laughs!

Then it turned out Rimmer actually did better than his father

In my opinion series 2 of Red Dwarf was probably it's 'Golden' era.

@KenMabie

4 жыл бұрын

no one gives two tugs of a dead dog's cock about your opinion fuckwad

@Anonymous-yq6wy

4 жыл бұрын

@@KenMabie and no one gives a fuck about you you smeg head.

Would you guys like it if I recorded me playing this on piano?

@KenMabie

4 жыл бұрын

no

@abbyalphonse499

3 жыл бұрын

yes

Good point, well made.

So I thought they flushed him down the bowl LoL

Sad scene didn’t touch as much until I recently lost my dad

Rimmers dad's died! I prefer chicken... 😂

Good point, sir!

nspcc would have a field day with rimmer's dad

@1451george yes that short piece is really beautiful I'd love to know too. Have wondered about it for years!

my stomach has been pumped and now I'm hungry!!

I get that Red Dwarf has a sort of... serialized thing? Everything has to reset to status quo. But scenes like this make me wish it didn't because... honestly? This is kind of a moving moment for the characters. No one has ever been kind to Rimmer - a lot of why he is the way he is is a result of that. Lister can still work up the empathy to BE kind to him, even though they're completely different people and started out hating each other. I would have liked to see things develop to a point where they are unironically best mates by the end of the series - cuz it's conceptually kinda funny that Rimmer could become a better person after his own death. I'm not saying we jump into slash-fic territory, but I would have loved to see more scenes where we get that they do actually like each other.

@magmus2

Жыл бұрын

I agree completely, although I adore the entire series, even the weaker parts, I always thought that the show should've had more heart-to-heart moments where the characters (mainly Lister and Rimmer) develop and understand each other better. It would've been cool that in the later series we would've seen Lister and Rimmer improving each other, with Lister being less a slob who works harder and Rimmer to take it easier and not focus on getting attention from people who will never give it to him.

@kamalalsb7292

Жыл бұрын

@@magmus2 I personally have also read the books, and there are threads there I kinda wish had been more fully put into the show. For one - there's an implication in the first book that Rimmer is actually kind of a phenomenal artist. But he sees no value in it because of how he was raised and keeps trying to pursue something he's just not good at and not particularly INTERESTED in because that's what he was told success was. For another - Lister is really fucking smart. He just hasn't got the confidence or drive to put it to use, and often asks Kryten questions he himself knows the answers to because he doesn't trust himself to get it right. (That's kinda referenced in Inquisitor, but not TOO heavily as far as I remember?) Like stuff like this makes me kinda wish we'd see a comedy/drama reboot of Red Dwarf, which is more structured around a continuous storyline with this sorta development. Although the unfortunate thing about that is the original cast are older now, and I don't really know that Red Dwarf could work with a different cast.

Doesn't get more real than this.

3:12 Those flared nostrils

What's the wind nose supposed to be? They're in space.

@dan271291

2 жыл бұрын

Internal air system to simulate wind, or to create airflow in the bubble.

Thusly was well described.

🤣😂cat 🐈

They could say there is a glitch with the computer making him look aged

anibody know the music that is played as lister walks up the stairs?? ps the cat is the greatest reminds me of micheal jackson :D

Great scene - and one of the links between Red Dwarf and its inspiration, "Dark Star." That ship also had an observation dome that the characters liked to go to when they were feeling contemplative. But Rimmer isn't talking about waxing his surfboard :)

@kittymama9186

2 жыл бұрын

Yay, Someone else out here remembers that strangely dark but quirky movie .To this day I hate beach balls!

@blatherskite3009

2 жыл бұрын

@@kittymama9186 Especially beach balls that scuttle along on their clicky little claws... (shudder)

does anyone know what the song is called that plays in the background at the start of this clip?

Anyone know what the song is called or if there is a video out there of just the music?

Ironically, he wasn't his real father

Cat's suit looks amazing

happy BLOODY fathers day.

As opposed to all the other sci-fi comedies to come out of the uk prior to red dwarf.

who is the stomach pump guy?? awesome

I love cookies.

0:57 - 1:17 - hilarious!

What's the music 😫😫😫😫

@danielwilliamson6180

4 жыл бұрын

It's called "Rimmer's Grief" by Howard Goodall.

i ship them so hard.....

@freylaverse

6 жыл бұрын

Me too, oh my gosh.

@wintershiny4888

5 жыл бұрын

They’re made for each other.

This scene in a way reminds me of the funeral of Granddad in OFAH. It's sombre and you feel sorry for the people involved, you can feel their pain, more so in OFAH as they'd also attended the funeral in real life for Granddads actor a week before. But at the end, Del see's Granddad's trilby hat and throws it into the grave and a minute later, the vicars asking where his hat is and then you laugh when you realize what's happened. This scene has Cat coming in to bring back the comedy, "I'd prefer chicken."

@jrp312

2 жыл бұрын

“I’m sorry, have you seen my hat?”

It wasnt abandoned it came out like 4-8 mounths ago

I'd really appreciate if someone could tell me the name of the piece of music at the start of this scene

I actually really loved the sombre take Season VII took. It feels like they missed the major fact of the plot in the other seasons, everybody's dead. It's sad, I know it's a comedy, but they should have put a few downers in there too.

Hardly a wonder how rimmer became a smeghead. His dad was one to begin with and the gene passed on.

@PhillyGirl1 Oroboross!

Its interesting this scene. Considering The Hologram is nothing more than a computer simulation, this scene is basically rimmer talking to a fake person alone on the observation deck of a ship millions of years away from his home that's probably long gone.

In the end we have to ask why is there humor in the universe.

and while kryton is in wish mode lets ask the bc to bring back the tripods, too!!

If Rimmer is a hologram then why would he be hungry?

didnt notice lister makes a few mistakes in this..

@thebeststooge

3 жыл бұрын

Don't ever watch RD and expect continuity, and it got worse past series 6. By 10 they said fuck it and didn't even try anymore. Sad as I am a big fan of the show and overlook it, but it triggers my "by the canon" continuity side.

Abandoned as a baby, Lister was found under a pool table, in a box ( as a baby ). He never knew his parents & consequently, never knew his grandparents.

@lewstherintelamon244

Жыл бұрын

Doesn't mean he can't have had adopted parents and grandparents.

@cliffgaither

Жыл бұрын

@@lewstherintelamon244 :: that's true. but don't you think, for continuity, he should have said :: my adopted parents, blah, blah, blah ; my adopted grandparents, blah ... ?

@lewstherintelamon244

Жыл бұрын

@@cliffgaither Considering he was adopted as a baby, I doubt that would be the way he would refer to the people who raised him. As far as Lister knows, his biological parents ran out on him. Why should he bother to pay lip service to the idea that they are his "real" parents rather than the people who took him in and gave him a place to call home? It would come across as stilted and awkward if he had done so, and more like the writers were trying to exposite Lister's backstory rather than how an ordinary person would approach the subject.

@cliffgaither

Жыл бұрын

@@lewstherintelamon244 :: ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ! A woman once introduced me to her son. I said :: "He looks just like you". she said :: "Oh, he's adopted !" I felt like an idiot and immediately apologized. She said "no problem, it happens all the time". It goes back to what you commented :: Why would Lister refer to the people who adopted him, as a baby, in those terms ? They are the only parents he had known ! The woman I met wanted a baby so much, she & her husband adopted a baby-boy. They loved him so much, he grow-up looking like _the mother._ I completely forgot about that family ! You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT !

Which episode is this? Asking for a friend (the friend is me)

@HaleyChain-vw8rr

2 ай бұрын

Better than life?

@raphthebard1616

2 ай бұрын

@HaleyChain-vw8rr yeah I rewatched red dwarf recently and found it, but thanks :)))

I thought Rimmer's father is a gardener named Denis.

@Howyaduing

8 ай бұрын

That wasn’t reveled until season X

@PhillyGirl1 Yes, but he could have been abopted.

so if Lister's dad died doesnt that mean ... he's dead?

@CeticWales

3 жыл бұрын

Mind blown

@blueiris574

3 жыл бұрын

sorry to ruin this, but it's his adoptive father

@KenMabie

3 жыл бұрын

@@blueiris574 he didn't have one he was raised by his Gran

@GIBBO4182

2 жыл бұрын

He’s dead Dave

@KenMabie

2 жыл бұрын

@@GIBBO4182 they're all dead Dave

yeah I hear ya, was so much better when they were bums.

@otocan

2 жыл бұрын

Oh look, a 14 year old comment. I have officially been on the internet too long.

Can't sleep? Rimmer's a hologram. Surely they don't sleep.

@Lasherluke

2 жыл бұрын

He does sleep.

It actualy came out 3 episodes. its already out but its not as funny as the old stuf :(

Let's just leave it as we remember it. A new Dwarf couldn't have Chris Barrie in as, unlike Lister & The Cat, a hologram wouldn't have aged.

@callinater6133

3 жыл бұрын

Uh-huh...

Given the dynamic between Rimmer and his father. If he were in the modern day U.S., he could run for POTUS as a republican and become the republican party's cult leader.

FIRST 6 OR 7 SEASONS WAS SOME OF BEST BRITISH TV HAS PRODUCED.. and you could find all those seasons here on youtube before a politically correct feminist took over the charge of youtube... now you can only find the bad seasons after 7 where the woman is part of the crew