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[[caption-width-right:1000:"I run a fairly tight ship here, Rimmer. Fancy a cold one?"]]
[[caption-width-right:1000:"I run a fairly tight ship here, Rimmer. Fancy a cold one?"]]
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* EverybodysDeadDave: Inverted in a humourous callback to the first episode when Rimmer ends up in an AlternateUniverse where the deadly radiation leak has not happened (yet):
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* EverybodysDeadDave: Inverted in a humourous callback [[CallBack call-back]] to the first episode when Rimmer ends up in an AlternateUniverse where the deadly radiation leak has not happened (yet):
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Rimmer skips into another universe after having escaped the one where he met Holly and Hollister, and finds the sleeping quarters ''shock full with Listers''.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Rimmer skips into another universe after having escaped the one where he met Holly and Hollister, and finds the sleeping quarters ''shock full ''chock-full with Listers''.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Captain Hollister's crew evaluations are brought up again, having previously been mentioned all the way back in "Waiting For God". Back in that episode Hollister deemed Lister to be an utterly useless incompetent (albeit marginally less so than Rimmer); here, his description of Lister is much more in keeping with the BrilliantButLazy characterization that Lister's had in the intervening years.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The alternate version of Captain Hollister claims that he accidentally tripped, fell into an escape pod and hit the ejection switch -- a jab at Francesco Schettino, captain of the ''Costa Concordia'', who abandoned the ship after it ran aground with the loss of nearly three dozen lives, and tried claiming afterwards that he had accidentally fallen off the ship and landed in one of the lifeboats while trying to co-ordinate the evacuation.
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* IncomingHam: "YO, KRYTIE! WHERE MAH DINNER AT?!"
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* TheBusCameBack: Creator/NormanLovett and Creator/MacMcDonald have cameos as Holly and Captain Hollister, respectively.
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** Creator/NormanLovett and Creator/MacMcDonald have cameos as Holly and CaptainHollister, respectively.Hollister respectively after having not been seen since the end of Series VIII.
** Creator/NormanLovett and Creator/MacMcDonald have cameos as Holly and Captain
* MesACrowd: One timeline that Rimmer goes to is one that has many Listers dwelling in the sleeping quarters. He legs it very quickly.
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** The existence of the Rats is a nod to "Parallel Universe", where a dismayed Cat discovers his alternate universe counterpart is not the sexy female Cat he was hoping for, but a lowbrow, slobby and ''male'' Dog.
*** It also might be a nod to the Red Dwarf roleplaying game, which posited in other universes there were humanoid cats, dogs, rats, mice, rabbits, iguanas and even real vindaloovians.
*** It also might be a nod to the Red Dwarf roleplaying game, which posited in other universes there were humanoid cats, dogs, rats, mice, rabbits, iguanas and even real vindaloovians.
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** The existence of the Rats is a nod to "Parallel Universe", where a dismayed Cat discovers his alternate universe counterpart is not the sexy female Cat he was hoping for, but a lowbrow, slobby and ''male'' Dog.
***Dog. It also might be a nod to the Red Dwarf roleplaying game, which posited in other universes there were humanoid cats, dogs, rats, mice, rabbits, iguanas and even real vindaloovians.
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* TheBusCameBack: Creator/NormanLovett and Mac [=McDonald=] Creator/MacMcDonald have cameos as Holly and Captain Hollister, respectively.
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* FakeBetterAlternateTimeline:
** Rimmer comes across a universe where Lister is more cultured and Rimmer-esque. Rimmer is about to accept this universe until he finds that this Lister was put into stasis for bringing a pet rat on board, leading to the ship being swarmed by RatMen.
** The final one he comes across seems to be perfect for Rimmer -- he's married with children, back on Earth, alive rather than a VirtualGhost, and he's an astronavigation officer. Then, he finds out that Lister outranks him in this universe and is captain of ''Red Dwarf'', which is enough of a dealbreaker for Rimmer to return to his original universe.
** Rimmer comes across a universe where Lister is more cultured and Rimmer-esque. Rimmer is about to accept this universe until he finds that this Lister was put into stasis for bringing a pet rat on board, leading to the ship being swarmed by RatMen.
** The final one he comes across seems to be perfect for Rimmer -- he's married with children, back on Earth, alive rather than a VirtualGhost, and he's an astronavigation officer. Then, he finds out that Lister outranks him in this universe and is captain of ''Red Dwarf'', which is enough of a dealbreaker for Rimmer to return to his original universe.
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* TheBusCameBack: Norman Lovett and Mac [=McDonald=] have cameos as Holly and Captain Hollister, respectively.
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* TheBusCameBack: Norman Lovett Creator/NormanLovett and Mac [=McDonald=] have cameos as Holly and Captain Hollister, respectively.
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* BlatantLies: The alternate Captain Hollister claims not only to have "tripped" and fallen into the escape pod, but that he "accidentally" hit the launch button instead of the button that opens the pod.
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* DirtyCoward: The alternate Captain Hollister not only tries to abandon his crew and flee the ship before the disaster, but refuses to let Rimmer in, despite there being plenty of room.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Early on, Rimmer claims that a person should surround themselves with people who are brighter and more successful than they are. But when he finds out the seemingly perfect universe he's traveled to includes a Lister who is more successful than he is, he decides that he can't live in such a universe.
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* CallBack: Helium-7 is the same incredibly valuable substance the Dwarfers discovered in "[[RedDwarfSeasonXIITimewave Timewave]]".
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* CallBack: Helium-7 is the same incredibly valuable substance the Dwarfers discovered in "[[RedDwarfSeasonXIITimewave "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXIITimewave Timewave]]".
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* CallBack: Helium-7 is the same incredibly valuable substance the Dwarfers discovered in [[RedDwarfSeasonXIITimewave "Timewave"]].
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* CallBack: Helium-7 is the same incredibly valuable substance the Dwarfers discovered in [[RedDwarfSeasonXIITimewave "Timewave"]]."[[RedDwarfSeasonXIITimewave Timewave]]".
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* WhamShot: Rimmer arrives in the first parallel universe and notes it's just Red Dwarf, looking the same as the one he just left. He walks down the corridor and the camera follows him... to reveal Holly on one of the monitors.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Rimmer skips into another universe after having escaped the one where he met Holly and Hollister, and finds the sleeping quarters ''shock full with Listers*.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Rimmer skips into another universe after having escaped the one where he met Holly and Hollister, and finds the sleeping quarters ''shock full with Listers*.Listers''.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Rimmer skips into another universe after having escaped the one where he met Holly and Hollister, and finds the sleeping quarters ''shock full with Listers*.
-->'''Rimmer:''' Uh, no. ''(skips to another universe)''
-->'''Rimmer:''' Uh, no. ''(skips to another universe)''
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* WithAFootOnTheBus: Rimmer was prepared to leave the crew in search of a universe where he was more successful, but he returns when he fails to find it.
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* CanonImmigrant: Evolved rats previously appeared in the tabletop RPG, though with some differences to The Rat in this episode.
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* CanonImmigrant: Evolved rats previously appeared in the [[TabletopGame/RedDwarf tabletop RPG, RPG]], though with some differences to The Rat in this episode.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Captain Hollister tried to use a four-seater escape pod for himself during the Cadmium II radiation leak incident that wiped out the crew and refused to let anyone else on board. Only to find that the escape pod has jammed. Just as the radiation caught up with him.
-->'''Hollister:''' Oh, nuts.
-->'''Hollister:''' Oh, nuts.
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* AlternateUniverse: A major part of the episode is Rimmer skipping between alternate universes in the hope of finding the perfect one for him.
