History Recap / RedDwarfSeasonIConfidenceAndParanoia

!!"You had Tropes, right?\\
Yeah?\\
And they were listed":

!!Tropes:

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Rimmer asks "What's going on?" and Holly replies that Poirot just stepped off the train, and in Holly's opinion they all did it.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Both Confidence and Paranoia are the embodiments of Lister's... well Confidence and Paranoia. The reason why they don't physically resemble Lister is that they only appear as what Lister ''thinks'' are confidence and paranoia. For example, Lister's idea of confidence is a fusion of a game show host and a car dealer wearing a tacky yellow outfit. Confidence shows traits of toxic positivity as while he is very charming and upbeat, he ultimately kills Paranoia for being a downer and tries to kill Lister by trying to take his helmet off before killing himself under the belief that he could breathe in space.

-->'''Rimmer''': What about Yvonne [=MacGruder=]? That was a date.\\
'''Lister''': She'd been hit on the head by a winch, she had a concussion.\\
'''Rimmer''': That's got nothing to do with it. She was crazy about me.\\
'''Lister''': Oh, yeah? She kept calling you "Norman."\\
'''Rimmer''': She still went to bed with me.\\
'''Lister''': Yeah, because she had wonky vision and she thought you were somebody else.\\
'''Rimmer''': Serves her right for being concussed, doesn't it?

-->'''Rimmer''': What about Yvonne [=MacGruder=]? That was a date.
-->'''Lister''': She'd been hit on the head by a winch, she had a concussion.
-->'''Rimmer''': That's got nothing to do with it. She was crazy about me.
-->'''Lister''': Oh, yeah? She kept calling you "Norman."
-->'''Rimmer''': She still went to bed with me.
-->'''Lister''': Yeah, because she had wonky vision and she thought you were somebody else.
-->'''Rimmer''': Serves her right for being concussed, doesn't it?

-->'''Confidence:''' I killed him! ''{resumes dancing}'' Cha-cha-chaaa...
-->'''Lister:''' What do you mean, 'you killed him, cha-cha-cha'?

-->'''Paranoia''': Do you know he used to practice kissing on his own?
-->'''Rimmer''': How?
-->'''Paranoia''': (Demonstrating) He made lips out of one hand and waggled his thumb through the gap, like a tongue.
-->'''Rimmer''': That is priceless! It really is.
-->'''Paranoia''': Seventeen years old and he used to snog his own hand.

-->'''Rimmer''': Think you had it bad before? Now you've got it in stereo, baby.
* TooDumbToLive: Confidence removes his helmet in the vacuum of space. Big mistake.

* PetTheDog: Rimmer seems genuinely concerned about Lister's health.

* SuicidalOverconfidence: Confidence, in his efforts to build Lister up, says that he doesn't even need ''oxygen''. Confidence takes off his own helmet to prove it.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Confidence in the climax, when he claims that people only tell Lister he needs oxygen "to make you feel small." He's dead wrong, of course.

The episode opens with Lister on the bridge of the ''Red Dwarf'' enjoying a beer milkshake and a sappy film, when he's interrupted by Holly, who is bored and needs Lister to erase some memory so that Holly can enjoy Creator/AgathaChristie novels again -- having read everything, ever. Lister moves to his quarters to finish the film, but is interrupted again by Rimmer, being obnoxious as usual. Rimmer is aghast that Lister has gone down to explore the officers' block, as it hasn't been sterilised yet: just because it was on Rimmer's "To-Do" list doesn't mean it was actually ''done.'' Lister was looking for his old crush Kristine Kochanski's dream recorder and talks about his best mate Petersen's theory of a person's Confidence and Paranoia, and how his own Paranoia always came out on top when he wanted to chat her up. He tries to talk Rimmer into saying where he hid the other holo-disks, to give him just a few hours with a holo-Kochanski to finally tell her how he felt; but Rimmer won't tell, not wanting to get switched off and replaced.

* FlatWhat: Lister's dance-punctuated spacewalk with Confidence is soured by the latter's revelation to have killed Paranoia.

* RainOfSomethingUnusual: Lister hallucinates a real indoor rain of fish -- all of which are quickly eaten by the Cat.

* GoingToBeOneOfThoseDays: Rimmer says this in a very deadpan way after seeing the raining fish and the Mayor of Warsaw spontaneously combust.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Rimmer correctly states that Confidence and Paranoia are symptoms of Lister's disease and therefore need to be gotten rid of.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Rimmer asks "What's going on?" and Holly replies that [[Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress Poirot just stepped off the train, and in Holly's opinion they all did it]].

* ObliviouslyEvil: Confidence is utterly convinced that everythign he does is for Lister's own good. This includes destroying the medical unit, preventing him from getting further treatment, and even ''murdering his counterpart'' to make sure he is the only remaining influence on Lister, and can continue pushing him toward increasingly insane risks... such as [[TooDumbToLive taking his helmet off in space]].

* CrazyPrepared: Rimmer not only hid the holo-disks so close by that Lister would never think to look there, he swapped Kochanski's disk with a duplicate of his own just in case Lister ever ''did'' figure it out.

The episode opens with Lister on the bridge, enjoying a beer milkshake and a sappy film when he's interrupted by Holly, who is bored and needs Lister to erase some memory so that Holly can enjoy Creator/AgathaChristie novels again--having read everything, ever. Lister moves to his quarters to finish the film, but is interrupted again by Rimmer, being obnoxious as usual. Rimmer is aghast that Lister has gone down to the officers' block, as they haven't been sterilised yet - just because it was on Rimmer's "To-Do" list doesn't mean it was actually ''done.'' Lister was looking for Kochanski's dream recorder and talks about Petersen's theory of a person's Confidence and Paranoia, and how Paranoia always won when he wanted to chat her up. He tries to talk Rimmer into saying where he hid the other holo-disks, but Rimmer won't tell, not wanting to get switched off.

That night, Lister feels sick, tries to get to the medical quarters, and faints. Rimmer runs to the Cat for help. Cat immediately jumps to his feet--and then sits back down to keep eating once Rimmer has run out again, forcing Rimmer to employ the skutters. He's running a high fever from a virus that has spent three million years mutating in the unsterilised officers' quarters..

Later on, Lister's fever dreams become real, first as a rain of fish, and then as the titular Confidence and Paranoia. Paranoia is a sickly little man in a black suit who is mortified beyond compare at everything Lister does or has done. Confidence--played by Creator/CraigFerguson--loves absolutely everything Lister does. Lister naturally loves Confidence, ignoring Rimmer's protests that they're symptoms. Rimmer tries to have Paranoia lethally injected while Confidence helps Lister figure out where Kochanski's holo-disk is: right outside the window of their sleeping quarters. Despite Rimmer's failure, Paranoia goes missing.

As Lister and Confidence go on a spacewalk to find the disk, Confidence casually reveals that he killed Paranoia (cha-cha-cha) for always tearing Lister down, and that Lister can do a lot better than a loser like him. In fact, Lister is ''so'' great he should just take his helmet off and relax--only losers need oxygen! An argument and a scuffle ensues as Lister naturally refuses. Confidence decides to show Lister how great it would be, removes his own helmet, and immediately blows up.

* BlackComedyRape: Rimmer's liaison with Yvonne [=McGruder=] is brought up for the first time and it's...disturbing. It was given a ''slightly'' less [[{{Squick}} squicky]] {{Retcon}} in the books.

* EyePoke: One of the skutters does this to Lister while attempting to take his temperature.

* GoodAngelBadAngel: Confidence and Paranoia. Although it's up for debate which is which

* LiteralSplitPersonality: The titular personality traits manifest real people from Listers' mind. They then spend the rest of the episode trying to influence Lister until Confidence murders Paranoia and accidentally commits suicide

* RainOfSomethingUnusual: Lister hallucinates a real indoor rain of fish, all of which are quickly eaten by the Cat.
* RealityWarper: A virus that's mutated over three millions years turns its host into one, with things that Lister talks about showing up in person.

* SuicidalOverconfidence: Confidence, in his efforts to build Lister up, says that he doesn't even need ''oxygen.'' Confidence takes off his own helmet to prove it.

The episode opens with Lister on the bridge, enjoying a beer milkshake and a sappy film when he's interrupted by Holly, who is bored and needs Lister to erase some memory so that Holly can enjoy Creator/AgathaChristie novels again--having read everything, ever. Lister moves to his quarters to finish the film, but is interrupted again by Rimmer, being obnoxious as usual. Rimmer is aghast that Lister has gone down to the officers' block--just because it was on Rimmer's "To-Do" list doesn't mean it was actually ''done.'' Lister was looking for Kochanski's dream recorder and talks about Petersen's theory of a person's Confidence and Paranoia, and how Paranoia always won when he wanted to chat her up. He tries to talk Rimmer into saying where he hid the other holo-disks, but Rimmer won't tell, not wanting to get switched off.

That night, Lister feels sick, tries to get to the medical quarters, and faints. Rimmer runs to the Cat for help. Cat immediately jumps to his feet--and then sits back down to keep eating once Rimmer has run out again, forcing Rimmer to employ the skutters. He's running a high fever from a three-million-year-old virus.

* BlackComedyRape: Rimmer's liaison with Yvonne [=McGruder=] is brought up for the first time and it...disturbing. It was given a ''slightly'' less [[{{Squick}} squicky]] {{Retcon}} in the books.
-->'''Rimmer''': What about Yvonne [=MacGruder=]? That was a date.

-->'''Rimmer''': That's got nothing to do with it. She was crazy about me.
-->'''Lister''': Oh, yeah? She kept calling you "Norman."

* SuicidalOverconfidence: Confidence, in his efforts to build Lister up, says that he doesn't even need ''oxygen.'' Confidence takes off his own helmet to prove it.