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I used to watch it as a little boy when there were no TNG reruns playing late at night.
Now that we're living in the sci-fi dark ages, which season of red dwarf is best?
>>67890355
No Rimmer, you are the smegheads.
I love this show, and my other daddy also likes it.
>>67890355
Fish!
I like the one about the squid
GAZPACHO SOUP
Whats the best Rimmer-centric episode?
>>67891981
Id Rim her
>it's a "change the best character into a woman" series
NOT a good jape desu
>tfw you will never watch the London Jets win the zero gravity football league
>>67890355
I've been meaning to watch this show from start to finish. Right now I've only seen maybe 15 scattered episodes from all over and I don't think I'll stop being a smeghead until I've seen them all. In one of them Rimmer was gone and there was a woman, what's up with that?
>>67891664
It's always going to be season 5 for me closely followed by 6
>>67892180
It's on Britfag Netflix
>>67892180
Rimmer left to do another show for a few episodes.
>>67892232
>britfag netflix
I'm australian, so my internet is too shit for streaming even if I did have access to the whole show. I'll download it once Telstra decide to stop fucking me. Could be tomorrow, could be years.
>>67891981
The one where he falls in love with that other hologram on that hologram ship is pretty cool
>>67891981
Smoke me a kipper. I'll be back for breakfast
I feel like only white people like this show, and if not only, mostly white people.
And further, I feel like mostly white people are into scifi.
Why?
>>67892393
Where he has to beat one of their crewmembers to get to join thier crew? Not bad.
>>67892425
Noice one Rimsy.
>>67892452
Long-term planning and visions of the future are white people things.
>>67892508
youre so right. maybe jews are the other but maybe not.
asians just think about big brother dystopias, white people are democratic liberals who desire utopia and all the beneficial trimmings that could come with it
it goes without saying arabs and africans arent even thinking about tomorrow let alone today
>>67892452
Probably something to do with living in the first world. The only real non-white/western country that comes to mind when I think science-fiction is Japan, and they're one of the most first-world countries out there, and rather westernized to boot.
America was the country that really made sci-fi big, with their army of pulp-writers creating a sea of ideas to inspire future writers, and it's also probably worth mentioning that many big American names in science-fiction are quite well educated people, such as Isaac Asimov.
The combination of being educated and forward thinking, as well as economically thriving, allowing for a whole lot of frivolous storytelling is what allowed science-fiction to take off in the first world, or as you also might say 'white' countries.
>>67892610
I dont watch anime so I dunno how japs do scifi. From the minimal Ive seen its just people on space ships.
Battle Royale was conceptually scifi dystopia. Other than that I'm all out really.
Big robots fighting isnt really scifi, or maybe im being dismissive and its potentially where humanity could head
>>67892554
Arabs are thinking in terms of tribes and politics. Africans are immensely immediate. It all comes with hot climate and not having to plan for the winter.
>>67892692
Japs don't have loads of famous written sci-fi, but they do more than anime. In particular I think that they're the only ones who really executed true cyberpunk movies.
With literature the only major work that comes to mind is Legend of the Galactic Heroes, which you might have heard about here because it got a relatively popular anime adaption. It's interesting because it was written by a historian and is a commentary on European history and government more than anything else.
As for their anime, the early big names such as Tezuka wrote for kids but incorporated themes that would be considered relatively mature by our standards, and this blend of kid appeal and mature stuff has always been a staple. Later on edgelords like Go Nagai got violent and tried to pull off deep plots to go together with their crazy-ass robots and demons, then genius autists like Tomino combined edgy robot wars with Robert Heinlein and created Gundam.
Anime sci-fi tends to be kind of a combination of American golden age science-fiction influences on top of Japanese kid comic books, which weren't always as immature as you'd expect. You get odd combinations of wacky humour and robot fights together with severe anti-war messages and crazy ass Arthur C. Clarke endings.
>>67891981
When he takes over as Ace. Also dat music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qUmB0sUUSk
>>67891920
kek
ITS COLD OUTSIDE
Just rewatched this series, mostly good shit that holds up, though I did cringe at most of the Cat humor.
>>67893640
yeah hes like normie bait
>EHHH SOMETHN ABOUT MY CLOTHES OR FISH
>audience goes apoplectic
the new seasons were pretty fucked up too. youd think after all that time theyd have some great stories in line but it was pretty much just random irregular forgettable episodes.
>>67893640
What's wrong with Cat? I haven't seen too many episodes but I've never had a problem with him.
>No, you can only bring two suits with you!
>Two suits?
>Would you rather be dead?
>Two suits IS dead!
>>67893397
shit yes. that da-da-da-daaa when you see all the pods is perfect.
>>67893640
I'M GONNA GET YOU LITTLE FISHY
>>67893772
What is it?
>>67893813
A white hole.
>>67893397
All my feels
>>67893922
A white hole?
i wanna get the 2nd kachanski so fucking pregnant it hurts my balls brain
>OUR ROB OR ROS
whoever wrote that was clever. that's fucking clever word play.
>>67894094
Yes a white hole.
Bump for Mr Fibble
>>67893575
THERES NO KIND OF ATMOSPHERE..
>>67894258
what is it?
Any Red Dwarf episode about time travel is clever and really funny
like Future Echoes, Backwards and my personal favorite, Stasis Leak
>>67894101
>>67895805
>no tikka to ride
What was his name again?
>>67895877
he's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer
>>67895877
>Rimmer, they call him rimmer..
>ywn be an immortal hologram travelling through space and relax on the sexual recreation deck with this holohooker
>>67890355
when is Red Dwarf XI coming out?
>>67895774
I'M ALL ALONE
>>67895979
MORE OR LESS
>>67895966
She's not a holohooker if she does it for free, she's a holoslut.Or a holojanitor
>>67895966
god she was sexy. and that voice...
What were people's favorite episode of series X?
Mine was a tie between Lemons and The Beginning
>>67895966
im holding hope if i live for 50 more years ive got a chance
Went to one of Craig Charles' gigs last year, was pretty based. Wish he was doing the new robot wars too. Living the dream brother
I'm imagining how much /pol/ hate it would get if it came out now though
>Main character is a black guy who gets all the girls, is the moralistic person and lusts after a white woman (who wants to be impregnated by him initially)
>white guys are either a pathetic spineless cuck, or a subservient robot who has to obey the black guy
In all seriousness, it's probably my favourite TV show. It never gets the level of praise Blackadder, OFAH, Fawlty Towers, Father Ted do. But it makes me laugh twice as much
>>67896022
Lemons
>>67896198
>In all seriousness, it's probably my favourite TV show. It never gets the level of praise Blackadder, OFAH, Fawlty Towers, Father Ted do. But it makes me laugh twice as much
scifi comedy is so few and far between AND severely underrated. and back in the 80s and 90s there was basically just this and that hitchhikers guide to the galaxy tv short series.
now theres a fair few scifi comedy cartoons, but red dwarf as pioneer as fuck.
>>67892610
I'm reading Citadel of the Autarch now. Book of the New Sun has been one of the best things I've read.
>>67891981
See
>>67895715
>I think that warrants 2 hours of W.O.O.
>>67892610
Book of the new sun is fucking cray good
>>67896198
>Craig Charles
>black
>>67895782
a white hole
>>67896198
craig charles is hardly black, really
>>67896751
a white hole?
>>67897103
I've never seen one before, no one has but I'm guessing its a white hole.
>>67897421
What is it?
NODNOL 871 SELIM
>>67897889
what does it mean?
>>67897918
it's Bulgarian
>>67897889
*regurgitates eclair*
triple fried egg chili chutney sandwich please.
>>67891792
TODAY'S SPECIAL IS TROUT A LA CREME
ENJOY YOUR MEAL
>>67898077
un-rumble!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MArcwtmZ7A
>9:46
ASCENSION SUNDAY
ASCENSION SUNDAY
I've never met a woman who likes Red Dwarf.
Backwards is my favourite episode. I practically pissed myself laughing.
>>67898613
Interestingly, I have noticed the same thing. Weird...
>>67898613
>>67898723
my mum likes Red Dwarf
>>67898485
IT'S NOT A BARROOM BRAWL, IT'S A BARROOM TIDY!
>>67897834
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole sucks time and matter out of the universe, a white hole returns it.
>>67898052
You're so smart, I'm glad I came with you!
>>67896431
>With. Out. Oxygen.
classic rimmer
>>67898835
UN-RUMBLE!
>>67898886
What is it?
>>67891981
>Rimmerworld
>Marooned
>Second Life
best character
closely followed by this character
Honorable mention
>>67899603
>>67899674
>top 2 best characters
>not Legion
Get out.
>>67899784
>Get out.
ok:c
>it'll drive the conspiracy nuts wild
>>67899945
I wonder what Americans thought of this episode
>>67899984
always wondered that myself.
>>67899984
>>67900054
I liked it myself, but I was born in the 80s and JFK started getting less revered as time went on. Not that people don't think of him fondly, but his extra-marital affairs were well known. Actually I think the episode showed him making a big sacrifice to put time back into place, taking the honorable way out and so on.
I do recall when the episodes premiered on my local PBS station, the program manager had to give a disclaimer saying how Brits have a different take on US history and meant no disrespect.
I wonder if the new series will take into account Rimmers character growth from the last episode of 10, or ignore it.
>>67900608
Probably depends who is writing.
>>67901097
Really, they need ot be thinking about a finale. They're all getting on a bit now, and to leave it on a cliffhanger, or just unresolved would be a damn shame.
>its a garbage pod
>ITS A SMEGGING GARBAGE POD
>tfw you will never do the Full Rimmer with your red dwarf bros
>>67901224
An unresolved end would be crap, unless they think of a top notch set-up that works, and even then it would still be a bit crap.
>>67896198
red dwarf is rarity because 2 of the 4 main characters are black and their race is never mentioned in the show, because they believed it wouldn't matter in the future. craig pointed that out in one of the commentaries
>>67895993
GOLDFISH SHARKS NIBBLING AT MY TOES..
Glad to see other dwarfers on this board.
White hole is my fav episode. Every scene has many funnies
>>67898835
There is a qt on the Red Dwarf fan team on the Red Dwarf University Challenge special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFNy58-__BM
>>67903499
>GOLDFISH SHARKS
P-piranhas?
>>67903499
I thought it was 'goldfish aaaare'
looked it up and it's 'goldfish shoals'
>>67892293
rimmer left to storm hollywood by being cast as laura crofts butler and was replaced by kochanski from another universe and then the show fell apart
it's a box with stop and start on it
>>67891981
My favorite is probably Terrorform.
The books were great, shame they never got the budget to pull some of the madder ideas off.
>>67895966
didn't she play the ditzy assistant on abfab?
>>67894101
Personally I always had a soft spot for the Scottish one.
>>67892146
Sup dudes.
There was never enough holly.
>>67903499
Goldfish and Poles, Nibbling at my towels.
>You got me tongue tied
>>67899118
I've never seen one before, no one has -but I'm guessing it's a white hole.
>>67906080
yiss
>>67906417
That episode where Rimmer is in her body...oohhh the things I would do in that situation...
>>67892452
You're wrong, I'm black and I love Red Dwarf.
I especially love HHGTTG. Modern "scifi" is garbage though.
>>67906282
A white hole?
>>67905881
yep, bubble
>>67902364
I always forgot that Craig Charles is black because my brain just refuses to accept that someone with a scouse accent could be black
>>67899984
American?
Think?
>>67893640
FISH!
>Today's fish is Trout a la creme, enjoy your meal
>>67906080
>>67906417
Fun fact: she's the lead singer of Altered Images
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t1vaF50Ks0
>>67896022
>>67896225
The Jesus sideplot ruined lemons for me. Fathers and Suns is easily my favourite.
>>67907412
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole sucks time and matter out of the universe, a white hole returns it.
>>67907139
>>>>Mostly<<< white people
>>67909382
Learn something new everyday
Custer! Derek Custer!
>>67893772
COS I LOVE EATING FISH
>>67910510
What about me Derek, and Titan?
"Queeg" was funny. Holly's finest hour in the early episodes
"We are talking jape of the decade. We are talking April, May, June, July and August fool. That's right. I am Queeg."
This thread's got me craving a vindaloo.
I think this show got me into sci-fi, curry, and lager by the time I was 8.
I liked the show, although my only complaints were
>They made Lister pregnant
Unless he was the one with eggs, ovaries and a uterus, that's fucking impossible. God these Brits are fucking retarded. To top it all off,....
>It seemed at times there was a serious undertone of liberal banter and feminism
Not cool, Eternal Anglos, not cool! This goy wasn't impressed!
best line
best delivery
best episode
best series
>>67898162
The older I get, the less ridiculous of a thing to eat that sounds.
>>67911014
You're not one of those masculinists, are you?
>>67899984
I thought it was brilliant, getting JFK to be the one who killed JFK.
>>67911165
They're great.
GEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSTAPPPPPPPCHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
MOMMY NEVER LOVED YOU
>>67911641
mommy did love me mommy was just busy
or was it daddy
whatever
>>67911112
>best line
You're really mean with money. You're a tremendous physical coward. You once spent an afternoon on the Samaritans switchboard and four people committed suicide. Your middle name is Judas but you tell everyone that it's Jonathan. You sign all your official letters "Arnold Rimmer BSc" and the BSc stands for "Bronze Swimming Certificate". You're a cheating, weasley, low-life scumbucket with all the charm and social grace of a pubic louse.
>best delivery
Character = Rimmer
>best episode
Season 1 - Me2
Season 2 - Queeg
Season 3 - Polymorph
Season 4 - Dimension Jump
Season 5 - The Inquisitor
Season 6 - Gunmen of the Apocalypse
>best series
5
>>67890355
"He said I had an IQ of 6 and you immediately leapt to my defense with oh really that explains everything"
>>67911808
>best series - 5
>best series 5 episode - Inquisitor
>>67890355
I used to watch the fuck out of this when I was younger. Our local PBS station played this, some random low-budget 90's show I never learned the name of, and honest to gods old school Tom Baker-era Doctor Who all in a row on Friday nights.
>>67905881
You, yes you.
Go watch Little Voice. Do it now.
Jane Horrocks is waifu/10.
>>67911808
>Season 6 - Gunmen of the Apocalypse
>not Legion
Bitch, please.
>>67892357
m8 remember when telstra gave us a free internet day on the 3rd of april and we had speeds of 25kb/s because every mother and her son was having a fucking field day? i sure do, fuck telstra.
>>67892425
what a guy
More of your fave quotes, fellow dwarfers!
>"Switch to red alert!"
>"Are you sure, sir? I does mean changing the bulb."
>>67914052
>Excellent point Mr. Cat sir, with two problems...
or whatever he says. everytime he drops that line its fucking funnny
When I was a kid I related to Lister but now im older I totally get Rimmers ethic.
I still want to get kochanski 2 pregnant.
>>67914052
That was a great joke.
But season 1-4 are best. 5 6 are great but formulaic. It still had its charm a d I'd watch any episode right now. Sad about 7 and on.
>>67914765
>An suggestion sir. With only two minor drawbacks.
>1. We don't have any jet powered rocket pants and 2. There's no such thing as jet powered rocket pants outside of the fictional serial Robbie Rocket Pants
>>67911254
Lmao, I LOVE IT!
>>67892452
What's interesting is that the show stars two black people, and race is not mentioned even once in the show
Kinda comfy
>have great memories of being a utter alcholic and drinking cases of beer while watching this.
Good times
Craig is pretty much just a working class, relatable, down to earth guy. His race is never really mentioned or a fundamental part of his character, so whatever
It's quite rare to have a scouser be a main character like that back in the day.
>>67898318
Fish!
>>67891981
not rimmer centric but backwards
>>67896313
You need to read more.
>tfw you will never pass your astro-navigation exam
we're all agreed that Back to Reality is the best episode right?
>>67908196
Hes not that black. Hes like half or a quatre or something.
>>67915295
Craig was an arty hipster I read. Like a middle low class arty hipster. Lister is like a parody of him in real life who's more Warhol than scouser.
>>67914888
7 had its moments, but it wasn't the same show by any means
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-ZiI3iVgpM
>>67909382
i am now in love
>dad used to take us swimming on a Friday when we lived in Watford
>was always a treat, he's get us and mum fish and chips afterwards
>we'd all sit down to watch Red Dwarf smelling of swimming pool
Red Dwarf is still great and comfy as hell.
>>67910510
Kit!
TITAN!
>>67911679
TWADDLE
>>67915001
Well that puts a crimp on an otherwise damn fine plan
>>67895891
More reliable than a gardener's trimmer.
>>67890355
One of my favorite shows of all time.
SEASON SOUND OFF
>1: Underrated and while not laugh out loud, is extremely good in its own right
>2: Great season with some of the best episodes
>3: Great season that somehow manages to successfully change the whole aesthetic without killing the charm
>4: Very good season in general
>5: God tier
>6: One or two weaker episodes, but the rest are some of the best in the entire series
>7: Garbage
>8: Somehow even worse
>BTE/9: Caps a trilogy of shit seasons with even more shit, and a massive middle finger ending
>X: Great return to form, very solid season with one of the best episodes under its belt (The Beginning)
>>67891981
Dimension Jump, Justice, and The Beginning
>>67892180
In the series, Rimmer leaves and an alternate version of Christine Kochanski, Lister's crush, comes on board. The actress is stunning, but she doesn't fit the show.
>>67891981
i like the episode where the mail ship catches up to them and has a letter to rimmer saying that his dad is dead and he's bummed out that he'll never get the opportunity of prove him wrong about him
also
>Good evening. Here is the news on Friday, the 27th of Geldof. Archaeologists near Mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is presently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read "To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental." The page has been universally condemned by church leaders.
>>67911808
>Inquisitor
FUCKING THANK YOU
No one ever mentions that glorious episode. Inquisitor was easily their best enemy, too. His origin was god tier.
>Go to the end of time
>Realize God doesn't exist
>Decides the meaning of life is to live a good life
>Scours realty for those that squandered their lives and judges them by using their own personalities
>Replaces those who squandered their lives with a sperm who didn't win the race
What are some more sitcoms where the main characters don't really like each other and are basically together out of circumstance?
Red Dwarf made me love this dynamic since I know very few sitcoms that utilize it. Too much touchy-feely shit.
>>67917623
>JUSTIFY YOUR EXISTENCE
>I HAVE GIVEN JOY TO THE WORLD BY HAVING AN AMAZING ASS
based cat
>>67917643
the odd couple, which this basically started out as but in space
>>67890355
Tfw I watched it dubbed to my country language...
And they did such a fucking good job, its unwatchable for me in the original.
Love this show, so quotable. When I was little my Dad recorded them on VHS and I watched them all the time.
>tfw me and my Dad love this show so much we went to a convention to meet Chris Barrie (Rimmer)
>tfw my Dad was all giddy, got a photograph with him
>tfw Rimmer called me "Me laddo'
>tfw we now have a framed picture of Arnold Rimmer in my families living room
Can't wait for the new series this year.
>>67918625
>>tfw Rimmer called me "Me laddo'
thatd legit be a life highlight for me... like meeting the real santa
>>67918887
It was amazing, I nearly melted on the spot when he said it.
>>67917904
English dub of Cowboy Bebop was like that for me
Stopped watching after season 2. Lost its comfy lonely feel.
>>67893397
Just watched that episode a few minutes ago.
>>67918625
Chris Barrie would be one of my all time celebrity gushes if I met him. Jelly as smeg
Brittas/Red Dwarf crossover when?
There's something I've always wondered about Red Dwarf; wouldanybody like some toast?
>>67923624
No but I could go for a round of trivial pursuit.
>>67923624
everybodies dead dave
everybodies dead, dave
everybodies dead, dave.
>>67925341
wait, so you are telling me EVERYbody's dead?
>>67925341
i think of this line every few months for no reason
i dont know why its stuck with me so much
i went like 10 years between watching RD but these lines would still run though my head and I forgot where they were from
Red Dwarf is quite possibly my favourite show of all time since I was 5 or some shit and I love you guys too.
>>67899674
Filthy humans.
>>67925521
this might be my favorite episode
>What are we going to call ourselves? I think it comes down to a choice between "The League Against Salivating Monsters" or, my own personal preference, which is "The Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society." One drawback with that the abbreviation is C.L.I.T.O.R.I.S.
>>67925711
The thing with those personality crossover episodes is the fun they had filming it really seeps through to the viewer. Like when they met their good and evil versions and when they did the bodyswap.
2 new seasons coming soon
brace yourselves
>>67925783
and the part where the polymorph turns into rimmers mum and lister has sex with her
> He's so energetic! I honestly thought my false teeth were going to fall out!
Rimmer: How lovely.
Polymorph: The positions he bent me into...!
Rimmer: Terrific. That sounds enchanting. Well done.
Polymorph: And the things this boy can do with Alphabetti Spaghetti...!
>>67925949
This was my steam profile picture for a long time.
Best thread. Best show.
>Rimmer knees Death in the balls.
I wish there were more 'loser in space' TV shows, only ones I can think of are Red Dwarf and MST3K. Are there any others?
The Matrix was copied from 'back to reality'
>Are you telling me this fish committed suicide?
>>67906186
They should release a Red Dwarf CD with all the music from the series. This song deserves a release
>>67926258
Lexx
>>67915171
Well Cat's race is but that's kinda important
>>67926258
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tv series
>>67910909
>I think this show got me into sci-fi, curry, and lager by the time I was 8.
You know what I was exactly the same watching it when I was that age. it also made me like fingerless gloves because Lister wore them for a few seasons.
>>67926258
Hitchhikers Guide is GOAT
>>67926311
it was top of the charts according to wiki
>>67920971
Series 3 had Marooned which was like the first 2 series
>>67925949
ALPHABETTI. SPAGHETTI!
>>67926561
that was a good bottle episode
>>67926258
Fututama?
>>67926258
rick and morty
>>67925783
When the ship is split into a good and bad version, the version of Rimmer as some fucked up BDSM crossdresser was the strangest thing I'd ever seen in the show. Though immediately after seeing it:
>"first i'm going to hurt you.... and then i'm going to have you"
Had me in stitches.
>>67929102
the fact that all lister's evil counterpart could do was giggle and twitch while dressed as al jourgenson made me laugh
and cat going through their movie library
>Die Screaming with Sharp Things in Your Head.
>>67891664
Season 2
>>67892610
>America was the country that really made sci-fi big
>who are HG Wells and Jules Verne
>>67893397
Oh fuck...
I hold this series in such high regard, I have it on physical media
>>67892425
>>67910895
Great episode. One of my favourites.
i started this thread yesterday and it was my crowning achivement of the week
>this thread is still up
>>67925711
>Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society." One drawback with that the abbreviation is C.L.I.T.O.R.I.S.
I think that might be one of my favourite jokes of the whole series. You can tell it's coming, but it's still funny.
>>67929718
We're all proud Me Laddo
>>67930986
Smoke me a kipper
>>67897834
