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* You might think that Lister "quiting" In [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXFathersAndSuns "Fathers and Suns"]] and therefore endangering the crew and himself would be extremely stupid desicion made by a drunk idiot. However Pree is shown to posses astonishing capacity of prediction as seen by "fixing" the ship as Rimmer would do or knowing exactly when "son Lister" is going to tell "father Lister" off. And given the Dwarfers history of coming on top in spite of all odds or logic it is not unlikely to believe that Pree would come to conclusion that they prevail even now. When "father Lister" quitted, he knew it would be safe and in the end even a good lesson for himself.
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** A "musak-y" instrumental version is also heard at the Holiday Inn in "Stasis Leak". Apparently, Cat's dream just added lyrics to an existing tune. (It's also in the restaurant in "Better Than Life", but that ''could'' be justified as coming from the Cat's dreams.)
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* In "Samsara", Lister is incredulous that ''felis sapiens'' evolved away from having low-light vision, which the Cat retorts is no weirder than evolving away a useful ability like swinging through the trees. It makes even more sense when you remember that Catkind evolved ''on a spaceship with artificial light'', so low-light vision probably wouldn't have been that useful. (You can maybe stretch this further, and suggest the reason they're humanoid is because they evolved to take advantage of an environment designed for humans, but that might be overstating it.)
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** Rimmer has a lot of faults but it really goes against everything we've seen for him to walk up to a woman and say ''I hope you get pregnant, you cheap little tart'' the way Arlene does. She also pursues Arnold far more aggressively than we have ever seen the other way around. Clearly despite claims to the contrary they cannot be exactly the same. And in fact there is a certain level of FridgeBrilliance to this as whilst pregnancy may have switched from female to male, it is clear to tell that everything else has remained the same including the physical strength difference and females keeping their breasts and thus remaining as the sex that nurses the children. This would have led to some pretty profound changes in how their society operates than your conventional ''lets swap who oppresses whom now'' type matriarchy we see in other stories.
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* In "Ouroboros", it wasn't just Lister that was different (justified by him being a hologram and becoming more sensitive as a result). The alternate Cat apparently had a different personality, and the alternate Kryten even looked different. The former can be probably be explained by the fact that, in this universe, the cats took their culture from Kochanski's plans (whatever they were) rather than Lister's plans for a life in Fiji. As for the latter, Lister rebuilt Kryten in his universe. In the other reality, where Lister was a hologram, presumably Kochanski did it. She may have made different decisions including upgrading his casing. Since Lister "failed to recapture [Kryten's] former personality" Kochanski may have done a better job as well, resulting in a very different Kryten in her reality.
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* The Arnold Rimmer song from "Blue" mostly consists of BlatantLies about Rimmer's heroism and bravery. However, a lot of the claims the lyrics make are either vague enough to be unprovable or technically true if you go by ExactWords. For example, Rimmer will indeed never need a Zimmer (because he's a hologram), he does have an "uncanny" command of Space Corps directives (because he's always way off the mark), and he does not look anything like Yul Brynner (although the line about him not being bald would be HilariousInHindsight after the events of "Pete" in the following series). Also, the reference to him being a "fantastic swimmer" might actually be true, referring to his swimming certificates mentioned all the way back in Season One. You can interpret all of this as Rimmer desperately looking for things about himself to brag about, thereby making Lister sick of him...which was Kryten's plan all along!
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* In ''Siliconia'', the ship of the Mechanoid Intergalactic Liberation Front (or [[FunWithAcronyms MILF]]) is called the "SS Vespasian". The fact that it bears the name of a [[{{UsefulNotes/Vespasian}} Roman emperor]] is expressed in the use of general Roman imaginery like the laurel wreath logo of the MILF and the gladiatorial battle arena on the ship. However, the Roman emperor Vespasian specifically is also well-known for levying taxes on urine, which is infamous to the point that public space urinals are also known as ''vespasiennes'' in French. Together with the fact that people like Rimmer take pleasure in mocking mechanoids like Kryten as mere "toilet clean droids", the name of the ship seems all the more fitting.
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* In ''Siliconia'', the ship of the Mechanoid Intergalactic Liberation Front (or [[FunWithAcronyms MILF]]) is called the "SS Vespasian". The fact that it bears the name of a [[UsefulNotes/Vespasian Roman emperor]] is expressed in the use of general Roman imaginery like the laurel wreath logo of the MILF and the gladiatorial battle arena on the ship. However, the Roman emperor Vespasian specifically is also well-known for levying taxes on urine, which is infamous to the point that public space urinals are also known as ''vespasiennes'' in French. Together with the fact that people like Rimmer take pleasure in mocking mechanoids like Kryten as mere "toilet clean droids", the name of the ship seems all the more fitting.
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* In ''Siliconia'', the ship of the Mechanoid Intergalactic Liberation Front (or [[FunWithAcronyms MILF]]) is called the "SS Vespasian". The fact that it bears the name of a [[UsefulNotes/Vespasian Roman emperor]] is expressed in the use of general Roman imaginery like the laurel wreath logo of the MILF and the gladiatorial battle arena on the ship. However, the Roman emperor Vespasian specifically is also well-known for levying taxes on urine, which is infamous to the point that public space urinals are also known as ''vespasiennes'' in French. Together with the fact that people like Rimmer take pleasure in mocking mechanoids like Kryten as mere "toilet clean droids", the name of the ship takes seems all the more fitting.
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* In ''Siliconia'', the ship of the Mechanoid Intergalactic Liberation Front (or [[FunWithAcronyms MILF]]) is called the "SS Vespasian". The fact that it bears the name of a [[UsefulNotes/Vespasian Roman emperor]] is expressed in the use of general Roman imaginery like the laurel wreath logo of the MILF and the gladiatorial battle arena on the ship. However, the Roman emperor Vespasian specifically is also well-known for levying taxes on urine, which is infamous to the point that public space urinals are also known as ''vespasiennes'' in French. Together with the fact that people like Rimmer take pleasure in mocking mechanoids like Kryten as mere "toilet clean droids", the name of the ship takes seems all the more fitting.
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* Despite being depicted as part of the Cat's dream in the opening of "Parallel Universe", an instrumental version of "Tongue Tied" plays in a disco later in the episode... But at this point they're in a parallel universe where everything is supposedly the "opposite" of their own; in their universe the song is just a dream, so in this universe it's real. It could even be an instrumental because that's the opposite of a song with vocals.
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** Except that when Holly brought Rimmer back there were no others. As far as he was concerned Rimmer was brought back specifically to keep Lister in a permanent state of annoyance so as to stop him from going insane given his last man status.
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* In series VIII, Holly mentions that in the past he engineered "diversions" to keep Lister occupied. This raises the question: just ''how much'' of what happened in earlier seasons was Holly potentially involved with? The auto-destruct scare in "Bodyswap" is almost certainly an example of this, as Holly knew from the beginning that there was no danger but let everyone go through with the mind-swap plan anyway just because [[YouDidntAsk they never asked if there was a bomb]]. Hell, she might've even triggered the Skutter that went crazy and mixed up the wiring in the first place!
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* It's briefly mentioned in "Epideme" that JMC employees have [[TrackingChip identification chips]] placed into them, which likely explains how M-Corp was so throughly able to control Lister's perception of reality, since they would've controlled the JMC chip in his body.
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* "Waiting for God" mentions that the Red Dwarf crew used to say that if a job isn't worth doing, then they'd give it to Rimmer. This implicitly confirms that not only did the RD upper management task the most incompetent technician with fixing a crucial drive plate linked to the radioactive cooling system, but they ''didn't even think that fix was important in the first place!''
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* We hear Captain Hollister's personal remarks on Lister and Rimmer in two episodes ("Waiting for God" and "Skipper"), and they're different in both. This makes sense because the Series I remarks were those of the original Hollister who died in the radiation leak, while the Series XII remarks were likely those of the nanobot-resurrected Hollister who had a lot more crap to deal with from the two of them.
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* Holly's message at the beginning of "Me[[superscript:2]]" states that "we've only got one [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Eight After Eight mint]] left, and everyone's too polite to take it." This might seem strange when you consider that there are only two people on board physically capable of eating, and one of those two is [[ItsAllAboutMe Cat]] -- and this was ''before'' his CharacterDevelopment. However, there's actually a simple reason why Cat wouldn't eat it -- he's a cat. Chocolate is poisonous to cats, and it tastes horrible to them anyway since their taste buds can't detect sweetness. In short, Lister is the only one actually being polite, and his politeness is misplaced since he's also the only person who ''could'' eat it.
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* Lister complains in "Balance Of Power" about Rimmer having been brought back, but the two of the continue to share their quarters, except in "Me 2", where Rimmer moves in with his double. While Rimmer's problems with his double are the point of the episode, some of Lister's actions in that episode, such as telling Rimmer at five past five in the morning that he hadn't been to bed yet and having a solo bubblegum blowing contest at three am (something Holly calls him out on), show that Lister needs structure to keep him sane, exactly what annoying Rimmer provides him.
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* The existence of the light bee has prompted some debate among fans. It was only explicitly introduced in "Meltdown", where it was shown that Rimmer can operate away from Red Dwarf so long as the bee is available, but in "Thanks for the Memory", Rimmer required a holocage to leave Red Dwarf. Following "Memory," the next time Rimmer leaves the ship is in "Backwards", when he and Kryten visit the backwards Earth, with Rimmer able to operate comfortably away from the ship barring his inability to touch anything. Given the other events that occurred between Seasons Two and Three- Lister giving birth, Kryten returning to the ship and Holly reprogramming his appearance- it is likely that another event that occurred was the crew salvaging the light bee.
** The idea of the light bee being a new addition to the ship is further supported by "M-Corp", when Lister becomes unable to see anything not produced by M-Corp. He can see Red Dwarf as M-Corp bought out the Jupiter Mining Corporation, and he cannot see Kryten as the mechanoid was manufactured by another company, but he is also unable to see Rimmer. Since the light bee would likely be considered part of the ship if it had been an original component of Red Dwarf, this would suggest that the bee was salvaged at some point and given to Rimmer to increase his mobility.
** The idea of the light bee being a new addition to the ship is further supported by "M-Corp", when Lister becomes unable to see anything not produced by M-Corp. He can see Red Dwarf as M-Corp bought out the Jupiter Mining Corporation, and he cannot see Kryten as the mechanoid was manufactured by another company, but he is also unable to see Rimmer. Since the light bee would likely be considered part of the ship if it had been an original component of Red Dwarf, this would suggest that the bee was salvaged at some point and given to Rimmer to increase his mobility.
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* In ''Back to Reality'', whilst the Dwarfers believe they are in the middle of a police chase, Cat appears to get hit on the shoulder by a gun. But the thing is, he only does so ''after'' Rimmer pointed it out. It's only natural the Cat wouldn't react until then, because it's not actually happening.
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** There's another possibility that exists outside of the above explanation: considering we know that holograms can have relationships with human beings, and holograms are capable of touching each other physically, there's a good chance that the holowhip was developed for those who are more.... [[SafeSaneAndConsensual kinky in their relationships.]]
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* The Inquisitor erasing Kryten and Lister makes a lot more sense when you realise ''they didn't justify anything''. Rimmer actually attempted to argue his existence, albeit badly. The Cat did the same, providing a single example of his value, and leaving it at that. Kryten merely questioned the Inquisitor's actions, and Lister told him to spin on it. Lister and Kryten didn't argue anything, and were naturally erased. Had they come up with even one good excuse like Rimmer or Cat, they might have been spared.
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** Hollister's problem with Frankenstein in "The End" is that she's unquarantined. So it probably isn't that pets are banned, just that their owners have to follow safety regulations, and Lister broke one of them.
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* WebSite/SFDebris raises an interesting point in his review of "Parallel Universe", that if the female version of Lister is supposed to be ''exactly'' the same as Male Lister, this implies that ''his'' reaction to the news if he accidentally got someone pregnant would be to claim it was ''their'' fault for not taking precautions.
** It's a pretty "laddish" thing to do though, at an age of 25 (in the show) and not wanting to get tied down, It may be Lister's assumption that "the pill" is taken before bouts of sexual congress (on both "Lister's"" counts. Also bareback feels better.......)
** Plus you also have to bear in mind that this episode was written and aired in 1988, a time before Sex Education drilled into the minds of men that responsibly for contraception both both ways.
** Still, Fem/Rimmer stands over Man/Lister and barks, "I HOPE YOU GET PREGNANT!" directly in his face. That arguably more disgustingly callous than anything Man/Rimmer has done, and we have to acknowledge the implication that both of our "heroes" would react in the same way. I just puked out a bit of my soul.
** Also Lister had drunken sex with his parallel gender-flipped doppelgänger. Multiplayer masturbation or quantum incest? You decide!
** Since the topic never came up ''before'' they had sex, one can only assume that Dave was indeed making exactly the same assumptions as Deb. And I'm not sure Arlene is any more callous than Arnold's delighted "Agony! This gets better and better!"
*** Difference is male Rimmer only showed delight in male Lister's suffering, while female Rimmer was completely callous to someone she by all rights had never actually met.
** The two crews are very similar, but not exactly the same, which is why Arlene's lust for her male counterpart is so completely unrequited. Not to mention the huge difference between Cat and his counterpart.
* Another piece of FridgeHorror from this episode concerns the conception itself. Lister's experience must be ''somewhat'' similar to how men get pregnant in this reality otherwise it wouldn't work. At some point during intercourse, something (a reverse sperm?) must have traveled up his penis and nested within his chest to incubate. This leads to two possibilities: the women are the dominant sex in this universe because the men all die in childbirth ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' style, or the child comes out of the back passage either whole or as some kind of egg. If its the former than maybe that is why the men are only now gaining equal rights: the ready availability of C-sections.
** It's a pretty "laddish" thing to do though, at an age of 25 (in the show) and not wanting to get tied down, It may be Lister's assumption that "the pill" is taken before bouts of sexual congress (on both "Lister's"" counts. Also bareback feels better.......)
** Plus you also have to bear in mind that this episode was written and aired in 1988, a time before Sex Education drilled into the minds of men that responsibly for contraception both both ways.
** Still, Fem/Rimmer stands over Man/Lister and barks, "I HOPE YOU GET PREGNANT!" directly in his face. That arguably more disgustingly callous than anything Man/Rimmer has done, and we have to acknowledge the implication that both of our "heroes" would react in the same way. I just puked out a bit of my soul.
** Also Lister had drunken sex with his parallel gender-flipped doppelgänger. Multiplayer masturbation or quantum incest? You decide!
** Since the topic never came up ''before'' they had sex, one can only assume that Dave was indeed making exactly the same assumptions as Deb. And I'm not sure Arlene is any more callous than Arnold's delighted "Agony! This gets better and better!"
*** Difference is male Rimmer only showed delight in male Lister's suffering, while female Rimmer was completely callous to someone she by all rights had never actually met.
** The two crews are very similar, but not exactly the same, which is why Arlene's lust for her male counterpart is so completely unrequited. Not to mention the huge difference between Cat and his counterpart.
* Another piece of FridgeHorror from this episode concerns the conception itself. Lister's experience must be ''somewhat'' similar to how men get pregnant in this reality otherwise it wouldn't work. At some point during intercourse, something (a reverse sperm?) must have traveled up his penis and nested within his chest to incubate. This leads to two possibilities: the women are the dominant sex in this universe because the men all die in childbirth ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' style, or the child comes out of the back passage either whole or as some kind of egg. If its the former than maybe that is why the men are only now gaining equal rights: the ready availability of C-sections.
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** It's a pretty "laddish" thing to do though, at an age of 25 (in the show) and not wanting to get tied down, It may be Lister's assumption that "the pill" is taken before bouts of sexual congress (on both "Lister's"" counts. * Also bareback feels better.......)
** Plus you also have to bearin mind that this episode was written and aired in 1988, a time before Sex Education drilled into the minds of men that responsibly for contraception both both ways.
** Still, Fem/Rimmer stands over Man/Lister and barks, "I HOPE YOU GET PREGNANT!" directly in his face. That arguably more disgustingly callous than anything Man/Rimmer has done, and we have to acknowledge the implication that both of our "heroes" would react in the same way. I just puked out a bit of my soul.
** Also Lister had drunken sex with his parallel gender-flipped doppelgänger. Multiplayer masturbation or quantum incest? You decide!
** Since the topic never came up ''before'' they had sex, one can only assume that Dave was indeed making exactly the same assumptions as Deb. And I'm not sure Arlene is any more callous than Arnold's delighted "Agony! This gets better and better!"
*** Difference is male Rimmer only showed delight in male Lister's suffering, while female Rimmer was completely callous to someone she by all rights had never actually met.
** The two crews are very similar, but not exactly the same, which is why Arlene's lust for her male counterpart is so completely unrequited. Not to mention the huge difference between Cat and his counterpart.
* Another piece of FridgeHorror from this episode concerns the conception itself."Parallel Universe," Lister's experience must be ''somewhat'' similar to how men get pregnant in this reality otherwise it wouldn't work. At some point during intercourse, something (a reverse sperm?) must have traveled up his penis and nested within his chest to incubate. This leads to two possibilities: the women are the dominant sex in this universe because the men all die in childbirth ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' style, or the child comes out of the back passage either whole or as some kind of egg. If its the former than maybe that is why the men are only now gaining equal rights: the ready availability of C-sections.
** Plus you also have to bear
** Still, Fem/Rimmer stands over Man/Lister and barks, "I HOPE YOU GET PREGNANT!" directly in his face. That arguably more disgustingly callous than anything Man/Rimmer has done, and we have to acknowledge the implication that both of our "heroes" would react in the same way. I just puked out a bit of my soul.
** Also Lister had drunken sex with his parallel gender-flipped doppelgänger. Multiplayer masturbation or quantum incest? You decide!
** Since the topic never came up ''before'' they had sex, one can only assume that Dave was indeed making exactly the same assumptions as Deb. And I'm not sure Arlene is any more callous than Arnold's delighted "Agony! This gets better and better!"
*** Difference is male Rimmer only showed delight in male Lister's suffering, while female Rimmer was completely callous to someone she by all rights had never actually met.
** The two crews are very similar, but not exactly the same, which is why Arlene's lust for her male counterpart is so completely unrequited. Not to mention the huge difference between Cat and his counterpart.
* Another piece of FridgeHorror from this episode concerns the conception itself.
