History YMMV / RedDwarf

** Additionally, Kochanski in one of the later seasons replaced Rimmer. Apart from the fact that she replaced the best character in the show, Kochanski herself wasn't funny or interesting at all. The fact that Kochanski had been fairly popular as a guest character, but was now a regular played by TheOtherDarrin didn't help.

* EvilIsSexy:
** In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIGunmenOfTheApocalypse Gunmen of the Apocalypse]]", Lister keeps playing the ''Gumshoe'' AR game so he can have sex with Loretta, a homicidal, serial-killing FemmeFatale. He also tries to ask a rogue simulant for a date. He confides to Kryten that he's only ever attracted to "heartbreakers or moral garbage on legs."
** Crawford, the simulant encountered in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXTrojan Trojan]]".

** Season VIII has the crew finally retrieve ''Red Dwarf'' and instead of continuing the journey back home, they get imprisoned and the show becomes a prison series set on a spaceship. As if that weren't enough, besides Captain Hollister, we don't spend any substantial amount of time with the familiar crewmembers.
** Series VIII also seems to forget that the Kochanski introduced in Series VII isn't actually the ''real'' Kochanski but an alternate universe duplicate. We know this due to the fact that the nanobots forget to resurrect the ''original'' Kochanski in the same way that they recognised Lister was still alive. Would have been really quite fun to have the original, fun-loving, working-class Kochanski play off against her public school educated, spoiled and rather stuck-up double. It would also get around the awkwardness of the other perpetually forgotten plot from series VII that [[FridgeHorror alternate Kochanski is Lister's mother.]]Its not even as if there wouldn't have been plenty for each to do to separate them, what with the original Kochanski being an officer who lives outside the cell block and alternate Kochanski sharing a room with Kryten and having her Canary duties.

* FanPreferredCouple: Although the only OfficialCouple is meant to be Lister/Kochanski, fans usually pair Lister/Rimmer together instead. Their [[spoiler: BigDamnKiss]] in Series VII certainly helps matters, even if it is [[spoiler: just a dream sequence.]]

** Starting with "Back to Earth", we've also seen Kryten return to being far more jovial and likable than the vindictive, misogynist {{Jerkass}} he was in Series VII and VIII. It's not clear if this is just because [[spoiler: Kochanski isn't around to make him jealous]] or some other reason.

** The Space Corps justice drone that Starbug encounters in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIEmohawkPolymorphyII Emohawk - Polymorph II]]" teleports in with an effect that is clearly a photograph on a spinning 2D plane.

* AcceptableProfessionalTargets:
** Psychiatrists, the patronising and annoying Dr. [=McClaren=] in "Back in The Red". There's also the campy Brannigan, whose personality takes over Rimmer in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIQueeg Queeg]]".
** Holly's IQ of 6000 is, according to him, the same as the combined IQ of 6000 PE teachers or 12000 all night car park attendants.
** Call centre operators, who are by the 24th century, all clones of [[spoiler: Lister]].
** Vending machine maintenance technicians like Lister and Rimmer are at the bottom of the food chain in the Space Corps. The job is considered too menial for service robots and the pair of them are outranked by the guy who changed the toilet paper.
** When The Cat, Lister and Kochanski had to disguise themselves as the Dibbley family (charisma-less geeks with "teeth the druids could use as a place of worship") and were asked what their job was on the ship, they all shared a glance then simultaneously answered, "Computer Programmer".
** Politicians and corporations large enough to have influence, as seen in "Mechocracy" and "M-Corp".
** Art critics are seen by Lister to be obnoxious snobs obsessed with sounding smart and drinking wine. He also claims one was allegedly dumb enough to buy a paving stone with Lister's high-altitude drunken vomit on it as a piece of modern art.

* ReplacementScrappy: For some viewers, Hattie Hayridge replacing Creator/NormanLovett as Holly. The in-show explanation was that Holly got a face-sex change.

** While co-creator Doug Naylor tends to get all the blame for the changes made in the remastered versions of Series I-III, and actually has held his hands up as to which changes he in retrospect regrets making, a lot of the more contentious alterations -- in particular, the filmizing and colour regrading, all of Norman Lovett's scenes in Series I being re-filmed, the animated starfields in the crew quarter windows, and the effects added to Rimmer's malfunction in "Queeg" -- were actually made by Ed Bye, who produced and directed the majority of the first eight seasons and was just as heavily involved in the remastering as Naylor.

* ReplacementScrappy: For some viewers, Hattie Hayridge replacing Norman Lovett as Holly. The in-show explanation was that Holly got a face-sex change.

* StrangledByTheRedString: Kochanski in ''Last Human''. She's utterly devoted to Lister, even though their initial love affair only lasted for five weeks (and ended when she [[OnTheRebound dumped him in favor of her former boyfiend]]), and doesn't seem to have been all that troubled over essentially being forced to spend decades living with him in Backwards Earth.

* AssPull: The ending to ''Backwards''. It had already been established that the Wildfire can only take you to parts of the multiverse where you have a counterpart[[note]] Presumably to explain why Ace went from the 23rd century solar system to millions of years in the future in deep space [[/note]] so it shouldn't have been able to take Lister and The Cat to a universe where they're dead. And going to a universe where the dead in the main universe [[spoiler:Rimmer and Kryten]] are still alive is a bit too convenient for a ship that can only BlindJump with no way for the traveller to choose what universe they end up in.

** In ''Better Than Life'', the second Polymorph turns into a horrific plague rat that latches on to Lister's face - and proceeds to ''drool down Lister's screaming mouth''.

* StrangledByTheRedString: Kochanski in ''Last Human''. She's utterly devoted to Lister, even though their initial love affair only lasted for five weeks (and ended when she dumped him in favor of her former boyfiend), and doesn't seem to have been all that troubled over essentially being forced to spend decades living with him in Backwards Earth.

* UnfortunateImplications: The continuity of ''Last Human'' states that Kochanski retained her pre-death memories when she was revived on Backwards Earth. While being brought back to life isn't exactly something to complain about, the fact that she was revived as an old woman (when she'd been in her prime when she died) and more-or-less forced to spend decades with a man whom she had only dated for five weeks before breaking up with, all the while having no say in the matter, is a little unsettling.

** ''Last Human'': The Alternate Lister, apart from being an unfeeling sociopath with no regard for life or property, also murders his "friends" aboard Starbug simply because he didn't want them getting hold of the coordinates of the DNA-Altering machine, even lasering Kryten's head off and jamming a Cuban cigar between the lips as a joke. Then, when the protagonist version of Lister rescues him from [[TheAlcatraz Cyberia]], he [[UngratefulBastard repays this act of kindness]] by knocking his rescuer unconscious and forcing him to take his place at the prison. As a final atrocity, he even goes as far as [[GroinAttack shooting Protagonist Lister in the balls with a rad pistol]] to try and motivate Kochanski into having sex with him.

* {{Squick}}: In the novel ''Backwards'' the Cat somehow having sex... In reverse, (don't think about how that would work.) Kyrten notes that as it was with a human woman it could produce "horrific" offspring.

** Either the sixth, seventh, or eighth series; which one qualifies best, or rather worst, as the seasonal rot depends on who you talk to.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Season VIII has the crew finally retrieve ''Red Dwarf'' and instead of continuing the journey back home, they get imprisoned and the show becomes a prison series set on a spaceship. As if that weren't enough, besides Captain Hollister, we don't spend any substantial amount of time with the familiar crewmembers.

* ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs: When Grant Naylor pitched the show to Creator/TheBBC, they said it would be less like ''Series/DoctorWho'' and more like ''Series/SteptoeAndSon'' [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace in space]], on acid.

* UnfortunateImplications: The "Taiwan Tony" scene from "Fathers & Suns" was criticized for being racist and dated, despite the fact that it's part of a larger subplot with Rimmer and other characters trying to determine whether the British expression "Chinese Whispers" is racist.

* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** After Series VIII's mixed to poor reception, the relaunch beginning with "Back To Earth" essentially restores the status quo. Series X in particular returns to a hybrid the Series III-V and Series VI versions of the show, without Holly or Kochanski but still set on a crewless version of Red Dwarf proper. And the possible ContinuitySnarl between Series VIII and Series X-XII has instead become a MythologyGag.
** Rimmer and Kryten in particular have been returned to their characterizations from Series III to V, though all of the characters have had their Jerkass behavior reduced.

-->'''WebVideo/{{Welshy}}''': 'Kryten is beyond annoying [In series VII] to the point you want someone to turn him off and leave him off.'

* AlternativeJokeInterpretation: Lister's boast that he was so good at pool that he was nicknamed "Cinzano Bianco" because they couldn't get him off the table during "White Hole". Did he and his drinking buddies believe that it left hard to remove stains if spilled, or did they believe that it was such an awful drink nobody would touch it, even if it was the only drink left? [[note]] WordOfGod eventually confirmed that it was the latter. [[/note]]

** Rimmer's mother addressing his letter in "Better Than Life" using all of the ludicrous ranks and titles he's claimed to have been promoted to - did she genuinely believe that he got all of those promotions, or was she doing it to rub in his obvious failures?

* Rimmer and Kryten in particular have been returned to their characterizations from Series III to V, though all of the characters have had their Jerkass behavior reduced.

** AuthorsSavingThrow:

* AuthorsSavingThrow:
* After Series VIII's mixed to poor reception, the relaunch beginning with "Back To Earth" essentially restores the status quo. Series X in particular returns to a hybrid the Series III-V and Series VI versions of the show, without Holly or Kochanski but still set on a crewless version of Red Dwarf proper. And the possible ContinuitySnarl between Series VIII and Series X-XII has instead become a MythologyGag.
* Rimmer and Kryten and particular have been returned to their characterizations from Series III to V, though all of the characters have had their Jerkass behavior reduced.