Trivia / Red Dwarf Season VIII "Krytie TV"

• Actor-Inspired Element: According to the script book for Series VIII, Doug Naylor consulted Craig Charles (who had been arrested a few years earlier, although the charges were dropped) about aspects of prison. It was Charles who said Lister probably wouldn't be allowed his guitar in case he used the strings in a suicide attempt, which became a subplot.
• Creator's Favorite Episode: Robert Llewellyn named this as his favourite episode.
• Deleted Scene: Scenes cut from the episode:
  • More conversation between Rimmer and Lister in their cell in The Tank. Speaking of Lister's guitar playing, Rimmer says that Lister's guitar is "responsible for some of the most revolting noises ever heard." Rimmer says that he would rather listen to Baxter first thing in the morning, "coughing up lumps of sputum the size of small planetoids." Rimmer also says that even Lister's goldfish wince when Lister plays guitar, hiding under plants when he starts to tune up.
  • A guard enters the cell, telling Lister and Rimmer that they've been commissioned to clean out the sewers of Red Dwarf. Either that, or they go on another suicide mission with the Canaries. They both opt for the latter.
  • Inside the Canary shuttle, Rimmer (initially) says that he is against Kill Crazies' idea of getting Kryten to film the girls when the mechanoid showers with them. The Holly Watch interjects, asking who Rimmer really is, since he clearly isn't "our" Rimmer. The Cat asks Rimmer why he is voting "no" to the soapy bosom party, and tries four or five times to convince Rimmer otherwise, asking if him he understands the meaning of "naked" and "soapy".
  • In the broadcast episode, the scene where Warden Ackerman addresses the assembled prisoners (and demands of the assembled prisoners to know who stole his glass eye before Ackerman's date with Patricia Carling) was significantly trimmed for time. The full scene is significantly longer. Is revealed that it was Kill Crazy who put the false teeth in the collection bucket instead of the false eye, since Kill Crazy had taken the false teeth from another prisoner, Simmons. Ackerman spends some more time throwing a tantrum when his eye is not returned, before he threatens to end all Canary privileges for a month - which Lister notes will make the Tank like going on holiday to the Isle of Man. When Rimmer rats out the real culprit - Saddo - Ackerman thanks Rimmer smugly. Kochanski reminds Rimmer of the "unwritten rule" of not ratting on other prisoners - Kryten says that it is unwritten since nobody in The Tank can read. Rimmer isn't worried, since Saddo is a loner, but it revealed that Rimmer actually ratted out Saddo's twin brother, Chummy, who was well-liked, and Rimmer gets beat up by the other prisoners anyway.
  • After a particularly energetic away mission with the Canaries, the Cat says that he is so tired, that he is going back to his cell to stare in the mirror for only three hours before going to sleep.
  • In the prison cinema, Lister and Rimmer discuss stopping Women's Shower Night, and decide to leave. Neither of them can force themselves to leave, despite goading each other to leave for some time.
  • When Kochanski finds out about Women's Shower Night, she says to Kryten "you are dead, nickel-hydrate breath. I'm gonna have you melted down, turned into 1,000 Tamagotchis, and then I'm going to starve them to death, one by one."
  • As Lister crawls through the ventilation ducts to wreck "Tim's" quarters, Lister begins to get claustrophobia. His dialogue mirrors his discussion of the same subject (his claustrophobia) in "Duct Soup".
• Working Title: The episode was originally titled No Strings Attached and revolved around Lister's guitar strings.

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