Red Dwarf is one of the greatest TV shows ever. Hilarious characters and a wonderful premise and some of the greatest pieces of comedic writing of all time. The opening 5 minutes of Legion has more humour than most comedy shows these days have in entire seasons "Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb" "Broadcast in all known frequencies and all known languages, including Welsh"

@lawrencestalbow-best2317

5 жыл бұрын

"And us with our...with our..." "With our Red Alert bulb."

@markevans1760

5 жыл бұрын

That is possibly..the best line ever. In the entire universe, ever.

@ronschlorff7089

5 жыл бұрын

Ben W one of the best lines was one of the first, Holly (male version) onboard computer saying that he had "an I.Q. of 6,000, which is the same I.Q. as 6,000 P.E. teachers!!" And as for the alleged existence of "comedy shows these days"? R U Sirius, there are comedy shows?

@DanisKool

5 жыл бұрын

It was the first episode i watched that i stumbled upon while channel surfing

@GamerWho

4 жыл бұрын

Legion is my favourite episode. The part where Rimmer mistakes the light switch for one of Legion's art sculptures is one of the funniest exchanges in the history of the show.

"Smoke me a Kipper, I'll be back for breakfast."

@retrogamer33

4 жыл бұрын

Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas.

@chrisdouglas1158

4 жыл бұрын

What a guy

@Ludi_Chris

2 жыл бұрын

That was Ace Rimmer, we’re lucky to be alive.

One of my favorite recurring gags is Rimmer's mis-citation of a long-numbered regulation and Kryton's bemusement as he asks Rimmer how that ludicrously unrelated regulation applies to their current situation.

if thers on quote that sums up this show its ths line said by lister "“I tell you one thing. I've been to a parallel universe, I've seen time running backwards, I've played pool with planets, and I've given birth to twins, but I never thought in my entire life I'd taste an edible Pot Noodle."

@lwaves

5 жыл бұрын

I think mine might be the whole Wilma/Betty conversation between Cat and Lister. It's absolutely spot on about two people in their circumstance, even if I disagree with their conclusion.

@jemDarpole

5 жыл бұрын

@@lwaves omg i love that one "This is crazy why are we talking about going to bed with Wilma Flintstone?" "Your right were nuts this is a insane conversation." "… she'll never leave Fred and we know it!"

@lwaves

5 жыл бұрын

@@jemDarpole Indeed, that is such a fantastic punchline that you're not expecting. One of my other many faves is when Holly loses out to that that strict computer AI (Queeg?) and he takes over and starts running a tight ship. Again, it's played so well that you don't see the punchline, even though you know something is going to put things right. I was completely on Holly's side with that one and it's actually a great message too.

@lyricbot8513

5 жыл бұрын

@@lwaves Queeg is probably one of my favourite episodes; it has so many great lines. Plus "Stoke Me A Clipper" and "Blue". Stephen Hawkins was a fan of " Back To Reality ", too!

@lyricbot8513

5 жыл бұрын

@OffsetAirplane "One pea? He's given me ONE pea?" (*tries to cut with knife, pea goes flying*) "That is *my* pea; I _earned_ that pea. I don't care if it's on the floor; I don't care if it's rolled under the bed with all the dust; I'm going to eat it." Rimmer: "It landed in your sock basket."

My wife and I met Danny John-Jules, who plays Cat, at a Con earlier this year. He was amazing, friendly and so cool. He even offered to have a selfie with us without either my wife and I even asking.

@sutekh233

5 жыл бұрын

Cat just wanted a picture of himself :D

@jerry2357

5 жыл бұрын

He is also great in the UK detective show “Death in Paradise”, set in the Caribbean.

@CJWright-HorrorAuthor

5 жыл бұрын

@@jerry2357 That's where my wife knew him from as she had never seen Red Dwarf, so the night before the Con we watched the whole of Red Dwarf series 1.

@darryljones3009

5 жыл бұрын

Did he go up to the camera and say "This is mine!"?

@CJWright-HorrorAuthor

5 жыл бұрын

@@darryljones3009 No, but he had his arm around my wife and she was wishing he would say "This is mine!" LOL

The image of Cat's face when his poop goes in the wrong direction is something I can never forget and who could ever forget 'Have a fantastic period'

@abigailslade3824

4 жыл бұрын

Muppeteer don’t ask lol

@TheAuron32

4 жыл бұрын

@@abigailslade3824 "he's, you know, in the bushes..." *2 seconds later* "we gotta stop him!!"

@abigailslade3824

4 жыл бұрын

Stickman Gaming with his hair all sticking up was so funny

@mcurran6505

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheAuron32 "Don't ask."

Always makes me happy to see someone else who loves red dwarf.

@MoreRubberyThanTurgid

3 жыл бұрын

Especially Americans!

@1ListerofSmeg

3 жыл бұрын

@@MoreRubberyThanTurgid Thanks👍 I qualify on both counts 😋 I didn't decide my origin but there's plenty of reasons to love Red Dwarf❤

@MoreRubberyThanTurgid

3 жыл бұрын

@@1ListerofSmeg I’m not one to pigeonhole, it’s just that the accents and dialect(s), and quite a bit of the references in RD are so British I myself had trouble with it after living in New Zealand for 10 years. Actually missing some of the references was balanced out by the novelty of the accents, did you find that? :)

@1ListerofSmeg

3 жыл бұрын

@@MoreRubberyThanTurgidNo worries.👍 I am a life long Brit humo(u)r fan (& Doctor Who) Despite that, Initially upon discovering RD (late 90s) I certainly missed some jokes based on accents & some humor based on location references. In the interim I've effectively gotten up to speed via having spent considerable time in the UK (aussie gf). People I show it to do find it funny generally with no need for specifics... but then again they are my friends😋 (& Naturally, it's a well written character study and the conflict and comedy is easily apparent.) ...🤔 Didn't mean to write a book lol 😏👊

It makes me really happy to see people from outside of the UK enjoying Red Dwarf as well. It's always been my favourite Tv Show.

I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose, drinking fresh mango juice! Fun, fun, fun! In the sun, sun, sun!

@rebeccamccreary8530

5 жыл бұрын

It took me waaaaaay to long to realize that the word was "shiPwrecked" and not ----faced.

@immoralq

5 жыл бұрын

Rebecca McCreary LOL! 😃 I think your version fits in better with the tone of the show! 🤣

@rebeccamccreary8530

5 жыл бұрын

@@immoralq Yeah, I think that's part of why it took me so long to figure out what it said. I was also watching it on Netflix and not on an actual channel where something like that would NEVER air. I still sing along with my version though.

@neilforbes416

5 жыл бұрын

@Rebecca McCreary, the ONLY reason Red Dwarf would NOT be shown on NBC, ABC, CBS or PBS is because American TV, and its viewers are much too prudish! Heck, you can't even bring yourselves to say "toilet", you have to use the euphemism "bathroom" instead.

@mbyerly9680

5 жыл бұрын

@@neilforbes416 During the Eighties, RED DWARF was on PBS for a number of series, and the actors were at the Pledge Drives.

Kryten: "We are indeed 'hanhasset' or 'blessed'" Rimmer: "And you are indeed a 'kakumbahbo' or 'smart-alec metal git'"

Lister: *holding up signs* Kryten: He's a SMEEEEEEG HEEEEEAAAAAD

@abigailslade3824

4 жыл бұрын

Blue Night SMEEEEEEEE HEEEEEEEEE

@mcurran6505

2 жыл бұрын

A complete and total one.

I'm a die hard Dwarfer so it's wonderful to see this video. Just a point about the usa Rimmer; did you know that they struggled to cast it because they couldn't find an American, quote "who had a low enough opinion of themself".

@siginotmylastname3969

5 жыл бұрын

Oh wow that is hilarious 😂

@olivergiggins7931

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't know they cut the self hatred out. Remakes rarely work but the fact that they missed the core of most of the best episodes is just ridiculous.

@neilforbes416

5 жыл бұрын

The Americans only ever came up with ONE classic TV comedy, M*A*S*H! And its successor, After-M*A*S*H. Other than these shows, they make feeble attempts to copy British classic comedy shows with moderate success at best, to zero success at worst. The best thing America could've done was to screen the original versions of the British shows.

@markevans1760

5 жыл бұрын

@@neilforbes416 that pilot is still out there...just..cant bring myself to watch it.

@neilforbes416

5 жыл бұрын

Don't waste your time with it. Stick with the smeggin' authentic stuff! By the way, did you know that "Smeg" is actually an Italian-owned maker of kitchen appliances(stoves, cooktops, ovens refrigerators and such).

I've watched every episode of Red Dwarf a ridiculous amount of times, but I'm always here for people gushing about the best things in the show!

For me, the Rob Grant / Doug Naylor first six seasons will always be the greatest and most essential Red Dwarf episodes, achieving a standard the series has never got that close to achieving again. There have been some valiant attempts since, but those first six seasons' endless re-watchability alone is a tell-tale sign of their greatness.

My absolute favorite episode of all time has to be Quarantine. Hands down, the most iconic and just flat-out best episode of the entire series. "Mr. Flibble is very cross!"

@BaloonBoy7

4 жыл бұрын

No, we can't do that. Who would clean up the mess?

I share your love for Rimmer. Chris Barrie is an amazing actor and I don't know how he hets you to emphasise with the awful characters he plays. Case in point is the show he left RD to make "The Brittas Empire" Gordon Brittas is the jargon spewing boss of a leisure centre who learned his management style from a "... for Dummies" book. Everything about him is grating but you find yourself rooting for him, wanting him to succeed.

@lyricbot8513

5 жыл бұрын

I love the interview where he admits playing the Bond-style version of Ace Rimmer was always fun, but it's not as easy to mock the character, so there's more humour in Rimmer himself. "Terrorform" is a great episode with regards to feeling sorry for Rimmer. (Rimmer: "You came back for me?" Kryten: "Of course. You're one of the crew.")

@M-CH_

5 жыл бұрын

Barrie did an audio version of the first episodes of RD, where he mimicked all the other characters' voices and accents. Which was quite impressive.

@Desmaad

4 жыл бұрын

@@M-CH_ He was an impressionist and voice actor before he joined Red Dwarf, so he was the perfect choice for the audiobook.

@RyanKeane9

2 жыл бұрын

Ahhhh love Colin. Amazing character

@jelkel25

Жыл бұрын

@@M-CH_ I had them, the audio version of the books and a live comedy set Craig Charles did. Unfortunately, they were all on cassette so the tape eventually stretched and broke. Chris Barrie did a very good job of imitating the other characters and Craig's comedy set wasn't bad either.

First episode I ever watched was the one with the alien mutant that sucks out personality traits. It takes Lister's fear, Kryton's guilt, the Kat's vanity and Rimmer's anger. I couldn't stop laughing. My favourite character is also Rimmer.

@lwaves

5 жыл бұрын

Dwayne Dibbley Rules!!

@muklowd

5 жыл бұрын

@@lwaves Dwayne Dibbley!?!?! :)

@weswheel4834

5 жыл бұрын

Polymorph, great episode.

@ronschlorff7089

5 жыл бұрын

@@lwaves really! For those not acquainted with the series and episode think of the dorkiest totally dorky looking and acting dork in the known Universe, and you have ol' Dwayne. And that played in stark contrast to The Cat, which has "polymorphed" into Mr. Dibbley!!

@abigailslade3824

4 жыл бұрын

Ben Warburton it takes Kryten’s guilt not his manners

Excellent analysis of red red dwarf and it's characters, but the show really took off with the addition of kryten, the four together are sublime and equally responsible for being the best sci fi comedy ever recorded.

I want to thank you. I stumbled upon this video and it reminded me of a single episode I watched of some british scifi comedy 16 years ago in a hotel. I never figured out what the name of the show was, and when I told my friends about it, they looked at me when I was crazy. "There were these space guys and they landed on a planet inhabited entirely by these wax sculpture androids of famous historical figures from earth, and they had gone to war with each other" It was so funny, but I had no way to figure out what it was or look it up from just what I remembered. when you explained what red dwarf was, I looked it up, and that was the show I saw! Now I can finally watch the rest of it.

First video I have seen in years where the comment section hasn't degenerated into a seething cesspool of internet bile. Well done smeg heads!

Been a Dwarfer since the beginning, sometime in the late 80s. One of the few comedies i can watch over and over. Kryten is my favourite character. The new episodes don't quite have the magic of the old ones but still have their moments.

"Well I cant say i'm surprised, you'll bonk anything!". And so began the longest audience laugh in TV history, so loud the cameramen couldn't hear directions from the gallery.... through their headphones.

I met Chris Barrie (Rimmer) not long ago and he was honestly the kindest, most genuine person ever

"Alright Dudes, what's going on in Groove Town?"

@sutekh233

5 жыл бұрын

Original holly!!

I love Red Dwarf, I wish it would come back to Netflix. My favorite character is Lister, partly because of his dynamic with Rimmer. Funniest moment, the Rimmer song.

@jdprettynails

5 жыл бұрын

He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer without him life would be much grimmer

Red Dwarf is one of my favorite TV shows. As you say, the chemistry of the characters is phenomenal. From a purely sci-fi perspective though, it actually has a leg up on other sci-fi shows: because it is a comedy and doesn't give two hoots about continuity, it can explore much wilder ideas than a serious sci-fi show could ever get away with. Polymorph, DNA, Back To Reality, The Inquisitor, Justice, the list goes on and on. Try to imagine the plot of any of those episodes shoehorned into, say, Star Trek, and it just wouldn't work. So apart from being extremely funny and generally just a good show, it also deals with wilder concepts and ideas than almost any other sci-fi show in existence.

I'm so glad that this show isn't dead and gone! Always extremely nice to see Red Dwarf crop up somewhere

About time! Been watching since 1992-ish. BTW X-XII are totally worth buying. BTW may favourite RD scene > Rimmer: Now this 3D sculpture in particular is quite exquisite; its simplicity, its bold, stark lines. Pray, what do you call it? Legion: The... light switch. Rimmer: The light switch. Legion: Yes. Rimmer: I couldn't buy it then? Legion: Not really.... I need it to turn the lights on and off.

@benw4409

5 жыл бұрын

Legion is a masterpiece.

@ZakJordan98

5 жыл бұрын

My favourite line from that episode, just cause of Legion's delivery: "Did you really think i would be decieved by that Shlock Plan from Revenge Of The Surfboard Killer Bikini Vampire Girls?!"

@abigailslade3824

4 жыл бұрын

GamerWho I love that line

I am British and I discovered RD as a kid by flicking through the channels (All 4 of them) - Put on BBC2, saw Red Dwarf, watched it and I loved it. Ever since then I've watched and rewatched every episode.

Cat is my favourite since he has one of the few serialised features of the cast, growing closer to the rest of the crew over time almost like an actual cat becoming more domesticated and familiar with the humans around them. Compare series 1 Cat to Series 5/6, where he's basically part of the space adventuring team. Even to series 2 Cat where he's more friendly with Lister rather than spending half his screen time talking to himself and acting solo.

I'm British. Of course I LOVE Red Dwarf !!! Thanks for sharing your love

DWAYNE DIBBLEY?!

@sutekh233

5 жыл бұрын

I don't wanna be no Dwayne Dibbly!! I can open beer bottles with my Overbite!!

@ZakJordan98

5 жыл бұрын

@@sutekh233 So this is the real me? A no style dork with teeth that the druids could use as a place of worship?!

@sutekh233

5 жыл бұрын

@@ZakJordan98 All fear the despair squid my brother boyz from the dwarf. (until later seasons I guess)

@rjwalker1726

4 жыл бұрын

Mr Flibble is very cross

Best red dwarf quote Smoke me a kipper I'll be back for breakfast

@sutekh233

5 жыл бұрын

Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas. Rimmer TRYING to be Ace is the best.

@danpearman270

5 жыл бұрын

Or, of course, non-Ace Rimmer's attempt - 'Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back next Tuesday'...

@ZakJordan98

5 жыл бұрын

Well spin my nipple nuts and send me to Alaska

@ZakJordan98

5 жыл бұрын

Actually no, the best Red Dwarf lines are the whole White Hole sequence. "So what is it?"

@sutekh233

5 жыл бұрын

@@ZakJordan98 Only joking!

After Dr Who went off the air when I was a kid Red Dwarf took it's place (until I got access to old Who). Great show - I like the new episodes - different to the old in some ways but in others it feels like it hasn't changed at all. Have been many classic episodes over the years. I would be interested in you doing some review videos - but maybe one for each series rather than for each episode - I'd be interested which era and which episodes are your favourite. Please consider doing more about Red Dwarf in the future. If / when they next announce a new series would be a good time for this kind of content to be introduced to the channel.

@Concreteowl

5 жыл бұрын

There is that one episode where the TARDIS is in the Red Dwarf hanger.

Probably the most underrated line is “Anti-matter chopsticks? We use them all the time.”

I loved Cat with the aerosol can,. Spraying everything. That's mine,. that's mine. But that's not mine, I don't want that!

My dad was the one to get me into red dwarf. At first I thought it was another crappy tv show my dad would make us watch when we had nothing to do, but I ended up loving it and me and my dad could probably have an entire conversation only using red dwarf quotes! Also, the star wars style text crawl you mentioned at 7:35. My dad loves red dwarf so much he paused and played until he'd read the whole thing😂

I love the Wax World episode. Watching Rimmer go off on Ghandi during the troop inspection was hilarious.

@RyanKeane9

2 жыл бұрын

Get him out of that damned nappy and into a uniform!

Red Dwarf is one of the best tv shows ever created absolutely hilarious

Rimmer is my favourite also. I remember when I was a child, I would cut out the letter H and stick it on my forehead before watching an episode.

I found it because our PBS station showed Red Dwarf marathons as part of their pledge drives. My mom is an obsessive PBS viewer so she found it first and made me watch. After that we couldn't wait until the next marathon (and my uncle worked at the station and used to get me T shirts).

I recorded bits of "Backwards" and played it in reverse to find out what they're saying. The club manager's speech was particularly satisfying. I won't spoil it here 'cause it's on the Smeg-Ups disc.

Series 1 to 6, classic and proper dwarf. Best series: series 5

@lyricbot8513

5 жыл бұрын

I agree wholeheartedly. Some of my favourite eps are in s2 though, but s5 is the best overall.

@PunkRJH90

5 жыл бұрын

Season 5 is amazing, so many great moments in that series.

@captainufo4587

5 жыл бұрын

Series 10 wasn't bad too. A pity there was no Holly.

@ronschlorff7089

5 жыл бұрын

think I stopped buying them (VHS some DVD) at about 7 or 8, but all good!

@chatteyj

4 жыл бұрын

I've got to agree series 5 every single episode is stellar and has a movie like quality to it, many of those episodes I think could be expanded to make feature length films.

Here's something you may not know - the book, Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, explains why Lister brought the cat on-board. Originally, he ended up in space after a drunken birthday celebration, and is trying to get back to earth. He signs up with the Jupiter Mining company to try to do this, and smuggles the cat on then takes a picture with it to intentionally get thrown in stasis, so he doesn't have to put up with the long trip back to Earth. Love the show, favorite episode is probably Polymorph.

a large issue with UK TV shows, is that the actors in them are in quite big demand, and it can take a lot of time to arrange for everyone to be in the same place at the same time, Sherlock & Red Dwarf are probably some of the bigger examples of this, and why it takes so long to get new series done, and often with large gaps :( Red Dwarf is probably another of Britains best comedy shows though, so agreed there!

@jamesgray5790

5 жыл бұрын

There's also the fact that UK shows don't sign actors to extremely lucrative contracts for X number of seasons like US shows do, meaning that they're more inclined to take other roles, even if that means leaving the show to do so. It's funny how comparatively few actors leave US shows due to the dreaded "fear of typecasting" like British actors do; obviously making a fortune supersedes concerns about "playing the same role forever".

@BritishAdam

5 жыл бұрын

They're often contractually signed for X series, but there is rarely any sort of proper time frame of when that is going to occur, this was true of Freeman & Cumberbatch for Sherlock, although I do not believe their contract signs them on for a 5th season that everyone assumes will occur, given Cumberbatch has said he's keen to re-appear as the character. Indeed, Doctor Who is suffering from a chance of not airing a normal series next year, due to the busyness of Jodie Whittaker, she does a lot of other stuff here, the shooting for the next Who series won't occur until early 2019, which may not be enough time to post produce everything. (sources are readily available if you google for that) - latest rumours are Chibnall & Whittaker may even pull out before that recording gets started (again, google can provide sources) Back the 80s, we (the British) had a lot of TV shows that run for several seasons without major characters leaving for 10+ years (I'm thinking of 'Allo 'Allo & Are You Being Served?), but definitely since then, we do tend to get actors in the modern era of sitcoms leaving more often and the sitcoms not lasting as long as most people would like. I'd love to see the UK produce a show that goes on to have the longevity of something like The Big Bang Theory, but it seems that, at least in the UK, that sort of stuff isn't possible any more :(

@CulturePhilter

5 жыл бұрын

Adam RDL - “not going out” is a UK sitcom that’s on something like it’s 9th series isn’t it? Although, again, there have been some big gaps in between seasons.

@maurinet2291

5 жыл бұрын

@@BritishAdam From what I've heard, it may come down to money. The BBC is not willing to pay the same extravagant dollars as the networks in the US do to retain top talent. And British actors know they can make more across the pond.

@terminalfrost3645

5 жыл бұрын

correct me if i'm wrong but the Red Dwarf actors didn't really do THAT much other stuff. I believe one of the big reasons for gaps is with UK stuff it tends to be minimal writers, where as with US there is more often than not a team of writers. Red dwarf originally had two writers, now only one.

YEEES, been watching your videos for about a year now had no idea you where a red dwarf fan :D

I would love to see you do a show on The Smeg Outs and The Smeg Ups.

@GamerWho

5 жыл бұрын

The Smeg Ups are almost funnier than the show. And that's saying a lot!

@ronschlorff7089

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, they had a vid just dedicated to just that; be prepared to "die laughing" everyone!!

Discovered RD on late night PBS in 1990 and have been obsessed ever since. Just a terrific sci fi show.

I love it very much. Its such an underdog in a way. It really should not work. It had a tiny budget, was put on TV by the BBC only because they had a slot and nothing else to fill it with. The execs didn't get it. And its cast were none of them actual actors. Craig Charles (lister) was an angry poet, Chris Barrie (Rimmer) was an impressionist, Danny John-Jules (Cat) was a dancer and Norman Lovett (Holly) was a comedian.

I saw the filming of 'Gunmen of the Apocalypse' filmed ( I think it was Pinewood, I was about 13), it was great fun. My friend who got the tickets was distracted by his girlfriend so his his mum took me without him and he is still pissed off with me about that!

Thanks, you did an awesome job of synopsizing a fairly complicated subject, the Red Dwarf series, particularly the early (and always the best for just about anything) years. Your enthusiasm should inspire others to take a look and be treated to one of the best Sci Fi (comedy niche) productions to ever be on TV, which, of course, is now a veritable "waste land" for such viewing quality. Good stuff! Think I'll go watch "Future Echoes" and "Backwards" now, 2 of my many faves in this series (have most on old VHS, and some on DVD). Toodley pipsky!!

Way back when the whole thing started my then husband worked really late and late night tv was frankly pants. So, I would record any programmes that he would otherwise have missed. This also included anything I thought he might be interested in. I recorded the first episode of Red Dwarf for him. We both turned into fans from that moment on. I agree with most of what you said, but Kryten is the mother hen without whom Lister would of succumbed to some fatal disease from over smeggy underwear. Who can forget the massive snit over a late attendance to dinner involving, of all things, a great big tank in a Jane Austin simulation. I love the conversation between Kryten and the ship's psychiatrist when the nanobots rebuild not only Red Dwarf, but the whole crew as well. What about when Holly got restored but her run time got massively reduced? The one with Talkie Toaster, the white hole and the never ending conversation. So many gem moments to remember. Red Dwarf survives on Dave. (Part of the UKTV group.) Fans are just grateful whenever the actors can get together these days on a new series or two. Stoke me a clipper!

@abigailslade3824

4 жыл бұрын

LoriCiani it’s Smoke me a kipper.

I've always had so much love for Dave Lister as a protagonist. He's a slob, he's something of a simpleton- but He has such a good heart. He's very maternal and nurturing. He puts himself on the line to save his cat. He cares for Kryten, and want's him to be fully realized person. He's a fantastic mother.

@callinater6133

3 жыл бұрын

And his favourite pastime is pissing off rimmer xD

Whenever I travel, I take my Mr. Flibbles plushy for fun photos. He has been to Britain, France, Romania, and all over the USA.

seasons 3 to 6 is childhood memory gold, they still hold up today. stone cold classic of a show.

The best description of Red Dwarf is "Star Trek meets Gilligan's Island"

Nathaniel...I ama SO HAPPY you've finally done a Red Dwarf vid. Its Andy from Facebook. If by now you don't how much of a Dwarfer I have always been then you really dont know me, but seriously mate, thank you for this video!

Lister: Look I don't want any toast, he doesn't want any toast, in fact, no one around here wants any toast! Not now! Not ever! No toast! Talkie Toaster: What about a muffin? Lister: Or muffins! We don't like muffins around here! We want no muffins, no toast, no tea cakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels! No croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot cross buns and DEFINITELY no smeggin' flapjacks! Talkie: AHH SO YOU'RE A WAFFLE MAN!

Red Dwarf, great from 1-6, with the occasional good episode after that.

I still remember the first episode of Red Dwarf I watched all the way through. I was watching it on Dave - shoutout to that TV Channel! And it was the second Polymorph episode - where Lister gets married. I just remember so vividly when the Polymorph is a tin of Baked Beans and it catches the cat. Brilliant show!

Also you might argue any continuity gaffs are just multiverse parallel dimensions.

@joelakat

5 жыл бұрын

I think the creators got tired of trying to explain continuity issues to fans and eventually said something like 'each episode of Red Dwarf takes place in a different parallel universe' just to shut people up!

Loved The Cat as Dwaine Dibbly.

Lister's parentage is really weird, and funny

I saw the first episode whilst living in England. 1987, a year to remember. At work we all went nuts and copied the Cat, called everyone Smeghead like Lister and called people we didn't like Rimmer. Just direct people to the books. The Audiobooks are awesome.

Red Dwarf best one off character - Mr Flibble with the line, 'What are we going to do with them Mr Flibble?' Although alternative Arnold Rimmer with 'Smoke me a kipper, i'll be back fro breakfast' is a close second best.

I really enjoyed your description of red dwarf I used to watch it when I was about 14 until my 20s and series 5. I really loved it. Thanks for putting this vid up. 👍

Being British, i watched this as a kid when they were first shown on BBC2, its one of my all time fave TV shows, the ideas and storylines are great, the only thing that held this show back was the budget, if it had a similar budget to Star Trek it would have been exceptional!

I discovered the show around 1996 or 1997, they used to play episodes on public broadcasting at like 2 AM on Saturdays

You tackled Red Dwarf! I've been watching it since the 80s too. I fully agree that the characters make the show. It's so incredibly quotable also. I don't have a favorite series of it but lots of favorite episodes like Rimmer world!

Some very good points, great to see your enthusiasm for the show!

I first heard of this show, watching it on PBS on Saturday nights when I was in high school. Absolutely feel in love with the wackiness of the plots, the low-tech sets, and the hilarious characters. I remember watching and thinking, hey, isn't that the guy on robot wars? I am currently watching the show with my children.

I love Red Dwarf, I was basically brought up on it xD

Starting in 1988 by the BBC, Red Dwarf grew in stature and scale until the bean counters said they couldn't afford it. Finally, the agglomeration known as UKTV grabbed the rights and started making new Red Dwarf... And kept it free to air on widely available TV station, "Dave", where the show still gets pretty darned good viewing figures. There's a new series coming soon

There was a text adventure of Red Dwarf, I remember playing it a long time ago. The book also tells more of how Lister got onto the Red Dwarf. Basically he got drunk at a bar on Earth and woke up on Mars. He had no id and no money, and was living in a box at the spaceport. They caught him, and he was sentenced to serve on the Mining Vessel Red Dwarf as the very lowest ranking. But the Voyage even though taking about 5 years would end at Earth so he got a job and free ride back to Earth.

"Swirly thing alert!" I quote it everyday.

Queeg 500, has the best pay off, the funniest ending to any comedy show ever.

Lister- the freeloader that wants to make enough money to go to Fiji with his cat Cat- a life form that evolved from his cat Rimmer- a pain, that dies, but comes back as a hologram Holly- the computer, Etc. So totally worth it. It would be smeg not to.....yes, huge Red Dwarf fan! I watched it when it first came out in the 80’s on PBS, fell in love with it instantly!

So glad you made this video! I discovered the show late last year, and was instantly hooked! It's definitely worth you catching up on whatever series you've missed. Series X to XII are incredible, and many episodes are as good as those from the classic run, especially Officer Rimmer and Mechocracy from the latest two seasons. I definitely agree about Rimmer though. You don't realise until he's gone, temporarily in series VII how essential his personality is to the make up and feel of the show. And I'm not sure if it's because of how great he is in the newer series, or my love of Robert Llewellyn in general, but I find Kryten to be one of my favourite characters, not my least. Each to their own, though, I suppose.

@M-E_123

3 жыл бұрын

Officer Rimmer is massively underrated. One of the best episodes of the show.

Really nicely outlined, well done sir

I couldn't agree more about the (main) strength of the show being the character dynamics (from a writing and performance perspective). Just to add that one positive of RD is that you can have ANY combination of characters playing off each other (certainly as far as the main longstanding cast anyway) and they all work.

Great assessment dude. I'm lucky enough to have some original read-through scripts with hand-written notes and changes on them, as one of my lecturers at college was the Commissioning Editor at the BBC who brought this show to the screen. He said it was a "very-well thumbed script" meaning it had been everywhere before it had reached him, but was yet to be commissioned by anyone. He said he took a chance on it being very different from anything they had taken on before. We often did script readings then watched how it was translated on the screen in the finished show. I often read for Lister as I had been a fan of the show from the start, about 5 years earlier.

I have the Big Red Box! I love the Riviera Kid and the Despair Squid! Kryten and his spare heads, and Kochanski with the Squeer-nookly, Ra-tut, Hanoonga! I haven't watched in years but I just came up with these bits on the fly off the top of my head as I watched your vid. I give you an extra special Rimmed salute, sir!

I hope this video exposes more new fans to red dwarf! Mst of Red Dwarf (at least up until s11, last time I checked) is on Netflix (UK), and you can also watch it on UKTV (the Dave catchup player), and there are STILL multiple reruns on Dave. If you haven't watched the modern series yet, spoiler alert (?) But they reference this in the TV show. "How does it feel to have a TV channel named after you?" It's very meta humour, quite a good update for a newer audience. There's not much internal consistency from s2/3-onwards, and part of the meta humour of the show seems to evolve into saying "fuck you for thinking any of this established back story was important", and they sometimes explore interdimensional travel and other dimensions (especially regarding Ace Rimmer [what a guy]). It's like Rick and Morty, but back when Dan Harmon was still toddling around in the USA.

@TheLouKiss

5 жыл бұрын

Sadly, it's not in the US. It's pretty difficult to find over here.

@sarafishman7130

5 жыл бұрын

You can also watch Red Dwarf on Amazon Prime, if you subscribe to A.Prime.

@maurinet2291

5 жыл бұрын

It isn't on Amazon Prime for the US (I just checked, hoping I was wrong). It was on Netflix US a couple of years ago; they yanked it to force us into yet another subscription. We can get it on Britbox. Yay us.

@TheLouKiss

5 жыл бұрын

Yep. I have Prime, Netflix, and Hulu, and it's on none of those in the US. :(

"Smoke me a Kipper", you sound more excited and animated than when reviewing this season of Doctor Who. Flapping your hands about in enthusiasm and none of that conflicting body language. The critic reborn.:D

My brother swears that he can fart the theme from 'Gunmen of the Apocalypse' through a harmonica. I have never taken him up on this challenge. I'd actively recommend catching up on the recent seasons, though - it's been pretty bloody good. Up, up, up the ziggurat lickety split.

@abigailslade3824

4 жыл бұрын

Glen McCulla my favourite episode, That pays for the hat now what about the insult, Ok your a fat smelly bearded drunk with all the personality of a statue.

oh..and lets not forget Lister's fathers day routine.

I love red dwarf and I'm not saying because you did this video, which in and of itself is great, but because it's getting more recognised after each season and us as the fans us proof of it.

Back in the 90s PBS used to do red dwarf marathons.

@progKansas

5 жыл бұрын

My PBS station broadcast Red Dwarf 10pm Saturday 1998 to 2000.

Thank you for this - I am now off to watch Red Dwarf again - thought I should got to bed as I have been up all night watching your reviews!

One of my all time favourite shows. They are re issuing the complete series to bluray in Janurary.

It’s crazy how much you’ve changed and yet stated the same. (In the best ways) I love Red Dwarf. It’s hard to explain it people who haven’t seen it, but the characters and their dynamics sell the show in ways that’s hard to describe or replicate.

Best Holly scene ever has to be "We are talking April, May, June, July and August fool!" So funny!

@gillcawthorn7572

2 жыл бұрын

Queeg, I think my all time favourite

Just want to say, don't remember if it was mentioned in the series but the Red Dwarf book says that Lister signed up to the mining vessel after going out and getting really drunk with Peterson. If I remember right, be basically woke up on the ship thinking it was going to one of the moons of Jupiter but then discovering it was a multi-year contract in deep space.

Chris Barry would be an impossible act to follow (Rimmer) . It was so much his invention, I can't imagine who I'd cast for that part that could make Rimmer so funny and in a weird way, lovable.

I started watching from the beginning when I lived in the UK in the 80s and fell in love. After moving back to the states I would buy the DVDs when I could afford them. Went back to the UK in 07 for DJ14, got to meet and hang with most of the cast. Great group of people. It's just such a wonderful show. Thanks for this!

I first saw Red Drawf in 92/93 on PBS. Have loved it ever since!

I was watching Red Dwarf since I was born. My dad made sure I grew up on it! I cannot get enough of it, and it will be with me forever :) "This 3D sculpture, in particular, is quite exquisite. Its simplicity, its bold stark lines - what, pray tell, do you call it?" "The lightswitch." "Oh. I couldn't buy it then?" "Not really. I need it to turn the lights on and off."

Before I discovered Red Dwarf I discovered Monty Python, Doctor Who and Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (the first BBC-TV miniseries, not the radio play) on public television. Years later I discovered "The Young Ones" and wished there was a sci-fi version of that, which led a year or two later to discovering Red Dwarf. Besides the entire series there are excellent documentaries made by the cast and film crew that shed a lot of light on the creation and decisions that made it such a fan favorite. All that plays into British humor which I still prefer to American humor.

The annoying Rimmer character portrayed by Chris Barry is awesome,he also plays a similar character in the Brittas empire,it is worth checking out.

One of the biggest changes is between series 5 & 6 one of the writers Rob Grant left leaving Doug Naylor to run the ship alone. Previously the writer credit was as 'Grant Naylor' Rob GRANT and Doug NAYLOR.