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--> "Androids, everybody needs good Androids...."

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** An earlier Season II episode had Holly engaged in a game of postal chess with Gordon, the A.I on another JMC vessel. They only managed one move, though.



** "There is a grievous fault with thine weapon. It keepeth shooting people." *blam* "You see? There it goes again!"

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** "There "Brother; there is a grievous fault with thine weapon. It keepeth shooting people." *blam* "You see? There it goes again!"
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* YouLookFamiliar: The actor who plays the in-game guide to ''Better than Life'' later appears in ''Backwards'', introducing the Sensational Reverse Brothers. He had also previously been the voice of a vending machine in the first series and later played Caligula in the fourth. The cast referred to him as "The Fifth Dwarfer" during the first two seasons. The show also contains a deliberate example; between Series II and III, the change in actor for Holly is explained away as him having fallen in love with his mirror universe counterpart Hilly, to the extent that he decided he wanted to ''become'' her.

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* YouLookFamiliar: The actor Tony Hawks, who plays the in-game guide to ''Better than Life'' later appears in ''Backwards'', introducing the Sensational Reverse Brothers. He had also previously been the voice of a the vending machine machines in the first series and later played Caligula in the fourth. He reprised the vending machine role in ''Only The Good....'' The cast referred to him as "The Fifth Dwarfer" during the first two seasons. The show also contains a deliberate example; between Series II and III, the change in actor for Holly is explained away as him having fallen in love with his mirror universe counterpart Hilly, to the extent that he decided he wanted to ''become'' her.
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Starbug was normal sized. It was the ship that was huge.


** ''Back In The Red'' sees a miniaturized ''Starbug'' fly up the rectum of a rat in an air vent.

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** ''Back In The Red'' sees a miniaturized ''Starbug'' fly up the rectum of a giant rat in an enormous air vent.
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**''Back In The Red'' sees a miniaturized ''Starbug'' fly up the rectum of a rat in an air vent.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Lister as Voter-Colonel Sebastian Doyle in ''Back To Reality''. "Vote Fascist for another decade of total law enforcement!"
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-->'''Lister:''' You ''perm'' your leg hairs?!
-->'''Cat:''' Only as an aid to the natural curl!
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*** And what is Cat more dismayed about? The creases in the collar of his suit, of course.
-->'''Cat:''' Look what you did to my neckline! This stuff ''never'' springs back!
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-->'''Lister''' (in ''Bodyswap'', while in Rimmer's body)''':''' Oh, smeg! What the smeggin' smeg's he smeggin' done?! He's smeggin' ''killed'' me!!
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* {{Snapback}}: Episodes frequently end with the crew in weird situations (trapped in a parallel universe, trapped in virtual reality, menaced by a shapeshifting monster, etc.) that have been tacitly resolved by the beginning of the next episode. One exception is the final episode of the first season, which picks up where the previous episode ended, pretty much just because the writers had been able to think of an episode's worth of more jokes to get out of the closing gag.
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** ''Back To Earth'' has shades of this at points, such as the Garden of Remembrance scene which is played pretty much straight down the line until Cat shows up. In fact, [[spoiler:really any scene involving Lister and Kochanski]].

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Series X hasn\'t really ever counted


* DevelopmentHell: While series X was all but certain thanks to the high ratings of ''Back to Earth'', with cast confirming it being made a few times, it's still yet to start filming. An early 2011 interview with Craig Charles states that filming will begin in November of that year.
** A Red Dwarf motion picture has been in the planning stages since the mid-1990s, with filming dates having been announced on several occasions, but nothing of this sort has ever been produced.

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* DevelopmentHell: While series X was all but certain thanks to the high ratings of ''Back to Earth'', with cast confirming it The movie is infamous for being made a few times, it's still yet stuck here. Originally planned to start filming. An early 2011 interview with Craig Charles states that filming will begin in November of that year.
** A Red Dwarf motion picture has been in
go into production after Series VII, it got as far as having a script reading by the planning stages since the mid-1990s, with cast, filming dates having been announced on several occasions, but nothing of this sort has ever been produced.and a prosthetic test for Robert Llwellyn. Unfortunately, thanks to continuing issues with funding, it never got any further than that.
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** Turns out a smeghead is actually [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smegma a pretty nasty thing to call someone.]]

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** Turns out a smeghead is actually [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smegma a pretty nasty thing to call someone.]]]] (NSFW)
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** Turns out a smeghead is actually [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smegma a pretty nasty thing to call someone.]]
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* ThatExplainsEverything: The crew's reaction when Queeg reveals that Holly's astronavigational charts are really a children's astronomy book.

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* ThatExplainsEverything: ThisExplainsSoMuch: The crew's reaction when Queeg reveals that Holly's astronavigational charts are really a children's astronomy book.
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* ThatExplainsEverything: The crew's reaction when Queeg reveals that Holly's astronavigational charts are really a children's astronomy book.
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** Plus the ''Bodysnatcher'' episode, for which the script was unfinished, as it didn't gel well with the continuity of the first series. Originally intended to be the finale, it was dropped and some of its dialogue was placed into other episodes.
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* WineIsClassy: Discussed when Lister complains about "total smegheads" who always drink wine. "What'll you have on your cornflakes, darling? Oh, I'll have some WINE!"

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* WineIsClassy: Discussed when Lister complains about "total smegheads" who always drink wine. "What'll "It's never beer, is it? It's always wine. 'What do you have want on your cornflakes, darling? darling?' Oh, I'll have some WINE!" WINE, please!"
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One man remains alive: a chicken-soup-machine repairman from Liverpool named David Lister (born 2155 A.D, although this is debatable as at least 3 other birth dates appear in the TV series, plus several other references that make it impossible for Lister to be born in 2155). Lister was sentenced to be put in suspended animation for six months as punishment for bringing a female cat on board illegally ([[TelevisionTieInNovels and, in the novels at least]], did so deliberately, having only signed onto the Jupiter Mining Corporation vessel initially to get back to Earth after being stranded on one of Saturn's moons after a drunken bender).

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One man remains alive: a chicken-soup-machine repairman from Liverpool named David Lister (born 2155 A.D, although this is debatable as at least 3 other birth dates appear in the TV series, plus several other references that make it impossible for Lister to be born in 2155). Lister was sentenced to be put in suspended animation for six eighteen months as punishment for bringing a female cat on board illegally ([[TelevisionTieInNovels and, in the novels at least]], did so deliberately, having only signed onto the Jupiter Mining Corporation vessel initially to get back to Earth after being stranded on one of Saturn's moons after a drunken bender).
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* NestedMouths: The Polymorph.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Kryten delivers one to the Inquisitor when making his case for existence.
---> '''The Inquisitor''': "In a human, this behaviour might be considered stubborn."
---> '''Kryten''': "But I am not human. And neither are you. And it is not our place to judge them...I wonder why you do."
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* [[RealIsBrown Real Is Grey:]] The first two series. The interior of the Red Dwarf is almost entirely grey, to the point where Craig Charles noted that his memories of filming the first two series are of grey. An early plot point involved the paint on the walls being changed from ocean grey to military grey. Even the outside of the ship itself had far more of a reddish-grey look in the first series than it did in the others. After the Re-tool of the third series the grey palette was toned down.
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** Arnold Judas Rimmer
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* EldritchAbomination: The Polymorph's real form is ''ugly''.
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* CoolCat: Cat obviously, although he's humanoid.

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* RapeAsComedy: Rimmer lost his virginity to a woman with a concussion who apparently believed he was somebody called Norman.
** Possibly a better example is the shenanigans with the Sexual Magnetism Virus in "Back in the Red". After Rimmer takes a dose of the virus all the women at the Captain's supper find him irresistible, and one by one they all go to [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "get coffee"]] with him in the galley. Played with in that by the end of the night [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Rimmer has clearly had enough and is visibly in pain]].

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Rimmer lost his virginity to a woman with a concussion who apparently believed he was somebody called Norman.
** Possibly a better example is the shenanigans with the Sexual Magnetism Virus in "Back in the Red". After Rimmer takes a dose of the virus all the women at the Captain's supper find him irresistible, and one by one they all go to [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "get coffee"]] coffee" with him in the galley. Played with in that by the end of the night [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Rimmer has clearly had enough and is visibly in pain]].

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* JeannieCut: For the purpose of grabbing hologrammatic items from the air.


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* StopTrick: For the purpose of grabbing hologrammatic items from the air.
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* YourBrainWontBeMuchOfAMeal: When the crew is confronted by brain-eating monsters, Rimmer deadpans that there's "barely a snack onboard."
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* {{Retcon}}: Originally, Lister merely had an unrequited and unacted-upon crush on Kochanski; however, the writers gradually decided that his constant yearning for someone he'd never had anything meaningful with made him a little bit pathetic, and so quietly adjusted this to make Kochanski an ex-girlfriend he'd never gotten over being dumped by following a short-lived romance.
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* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Ace Rimmer's Nazi enemy has a crocodile for a pet, keeping it on his lap and stroking it affectionately, parodying [[JamesBond Blofeld]]'s RightHandCat. He throws it at Ace and jumps out of the plane they're on, but Ace overpowers it and [[{{Badass}} proceeds to "surf" on it in free fall]].

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