History Recap / RedDwarfSeasonIMe2

* ForgottenPhlebotinum: Red Dwarf being able to make a second hologram never comes up again. Rimmer learns that having a second Rimmer is a bad thing so there's no reason to keep hiding Kochanski's disk or not to resurrect someone he likes.

* FamousLastWords: Rimmer's were ''"Gazpacho soup!"'', though quite why so he refuses to reveal. This mystifies Lister so much that he eventually manipulates Rimmer into revealing it: when invited to dine with the officers, Rimmer sent some gazpacho back to be heated up, unaware that it's supposed to be served cold. He imputes the failure of his career to this rather trivial mistake.

** Rimmer's death is a parody of the opening of ''Film/CitizenKane'', right down to the falling globe and his cryptic FamousLastWords.

The actual title of the episode, as it appears onscreen, is specifically "'''Me[[superscript:2]]'''".

At the end of the last episode, Lister--with the help of his Confidence made manifest--figures out where Rimmer is hiding the holodisks and attempts to swap Rimmer with Kochanski... only to discover that Rimmer has already replaced the disk in her envelope with a duplicate of his own.

* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: Rimmer has a videocassette of his death. Admittedly, Holly recorded the deaths of everyone on the ship, but Rimmer is the one who went and created a long ode glorifying himself as the foreword.
* BatmanGambit: Lister decides to switch off "Prime" Rimmer and treats him to a few final holo-whiskeys before the end. Drunk and about to be erased, Rimmer finally explains the meaning of ''gazpacho soup''... whereupon Lister informs him that he's already deleted the ''second'' Rimmer.
* BetterThanSex: Rimmer describes his new life of discipline as "better than sex". Of course, he's soon proven wrong when it turns out even he doesn't like himself.
* BlatantLies: When Hollister reprimanded Rimmer for doing a rank job of fixing the drive plate, Rimmer told him that he would take full responsibility for the consequences. Considering that one of the first things he does when meeting Lister as a hologram, is to blame him for the catastrophe, it becomes obvious that Rimmer was just trying to save face.
** To "man-up" and accept the blame for a disaster that will kill everybody is a meaningless gesture anyway. Which makes it perfectly in keeping with Rimmer's symbolism-over-substance attitude.

* CompoundInterestTimeTravelGambit: It is revealed that Lister left £17.50 in his bank account on Earth. Three million years have passed, and he now owns 98% of the world's wealth. He also left a sausage out on his table which went mouldy; now the mould covers seven-eights of the surface of the Earth. Furthermore, he left the lightbulb in his bathroom, racking up a gigantic debt to the local utility company, which has now become the ruling faction on Earth and [[OhCrap whose battle fleet is rapidly approaching in an Attempt To Collect]]. It turns out to be a joke by Holly.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Lister recounts one time when Rimmer tied his locks to the bunk post and then turned on the fire alarm in retaliation for Lister's pranks. Lister nearly needed ''brain surgery'' for that. Jokes and pranks are meant to be harmless or something you can both laugh over later, not something that almost ''kills'' someone.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: When Rimmer believes he's going to be turned off, he shows up in full uniform, complete with medals.
* FamousLastWords: Rimmer's were "Gazpacho soup!" This mystifies Lister so much that he manipulates Rimmer into revealing it: when invited to dine with the officers, Rimmer sent some gazpacho back to be heated up, unaware that it's supposed to be served cold. He imputes the failure of his career to this rather trivial mistake.
* FeeFiFauxPas: Rimmer's last words were "Gazpacho soup", which Lister eventually discovers is because, when he'd been with the Space Corps for 14 years, he got invited to have dinner with the Captain and, being arrogant and ignorant, he had no idea that the Gazpacho soup starter was meant to be served cold and so he demanded it be taken away and heated. He considers this perhaps the biggest reason why he never went anywhere in the ranks, going on an anguished rant about how he could have been somebody if it had ever been mentioned to him that Gazpacho soup is drunk cold while he was in training. Lister kindly refrains from pointing out that it is more likely that Rimmer never got anywhere because he is an unlikeable incompetent with more ego than skill.
* ImplausibleDeniability: Played for laugh. Lister breaks into the Rimmers' room to steal Rimmer's diary, whereupon the Cat emerges from a closet, wearing a suitably gaudy and over-the-top outfit, and turning towards the camera and shielding his face from Lister, says:

* IntimidatingRevenueService: Holly plays a prank on Lister claiming that spaceships from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORWEB NORWEB]] are coming after him for his "[[CompoundInterestTimeTravelGambit crimes against humanity]]" (accumulating all the world's wealth and letting a mouldy sausage cover the entire planet).[[note]]A SoundToScreenAdaptation: this is a recycled joke from parent radio series ''Radio/SonOfCliche''[[/note]]
* JerkAss: Rimmer, obvious, but more specifically, the officers at the Captain's table. Upon hearing that Rimmer asked for heated Gazpacho soup, none of them chose to clarify that Gazpacho is meant to be served cold if he didn't know that. Instead, they just laughed as he ate it hot.

* OtherMeAnnoysMe: It goes far beyond annoyance. This episode makes it clear just how powerful Rimmer's sense of self-loathing is--the duplicate quickly begins to say all the cruel and ugly things Rimmer believes of himself.
** The part of the novel based on this episode states that the major part reason for Rimmer's annoyance is because the duplicate is a version of him from when he had initially been switched on. The duplicate has none of the character development that Rimmer went through while online, and the slight differences are tearing them apart.
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Not only does Rimmer believe that a cartoon is ''Film/CitizenKane'', but in a deleted scene, he thinks Creator/OrsonWelles was in ''Film/CarryOnCamping''. What's even weirder is that his death scene contains a ShoutOut to ''Citizen Kane''

** Rimmer's death is a parody of the opening of ''Film/CitizenKane'', right down to the falling globe.
* SleepLearning: Rimmer has attempted to use the self-hypnosis tapes "Learn Esperanto While You Sleep" and "Learn Quantum Theory While You Sleep". The only results we're told of are that neither he nor his bunkmate got any sleep.

* ZeroGSpot: Implied by Lister's "Pop-up Kama Sutra, Zero-Gravity Version", if not seen.

* IntimidatingRevenueService: Holly plays a prank on Lister claiming that spaceships from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORWEB NORWEB]] are coming after him for his "[[CompoundInterestTimeTravelGambit crimes against humanity]]" (leaving a light on for three million years).[[note]]A SoundToScreenAdaptation: this is a recycled joke from parent radio series ''Radio/SonOfCliche''[[/note]]

* IntimidatingRevenueService: Holly plays a prank on Lister claiming that spaceships from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORWEB NORWEB]] are coming after him for his "[[CompoundInterestTimeTravelGambit crimes against humanity]]" (leaving a light on for three million years).[[note]]A SoundToScreenAdaptation: this is a recylcled joke from parent radio series ''Radio/SonofCliche''[[/note]]

* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Not only does Rimmer believe that a cartoon is ''Film/CitizenKane'', but in a deleted scene, he thinks Creator/OrsonWelles was in ''Film/CarryOnCamping''.

*** It was also used in the Grant/Naylor sketch show ''Son of Cliche''.

* FeeFiFauxPas: Rimmer's last words were "Gazpacho soup", which Lister eventually discovers is because, when he'd been with the Space Corps for 13 years, he got invited to have dinner with the Captain and, being arrogant and ignorant, he had no idea that the Gazpacho soup starter was meant to be served cold and so he demanded it be taken away and heated. He considers this perhaps the biggest reason why he never went anywhere in the ranks, going on an anguished rant about how he could have been somebody if it had ever been mentioned to him that Gazpacho soup is drunk cold while he was in training. Lister kindly refrains from pointing out that it is more likely that Rimmer never got anywhere because he is an unlikeable incompetent with more ego than skill.

* NeverMyFault: Rimmer's tribute video for his own death includes a lengthy monologue in which he blames everything and everyone in the universe except himself for falling ''just short'' of greatness. He dedicates a significant portion of the runtime to complaining about having Lister as a bunkmate. It's later revealed that he does actually blame himself, but it's for a minor faux pas and not his zealous brown-nosing, jobsworth behavior, or completely inability to pass an engineer's exam.

** The point that this incident could not possibly account for the prior 13 years of failure bears repeating.

* ZeroGSpot: Implied by Lister's "Pop-up Kama Sutra, Zero-Gravity Version", if not seen.

* DisproportunateRetribution: Lister recounts one time when Rimmer tied his locks to the bunk post and then turned on the fire alarm in retaliation for Lister's pranks. Lister nearly needed ''brain surgery'' for that. Jokes and pranks are meant to be harmless or something you can both laugh over later, not something that almost ''kills'' someone.

* SleepLearning: Rimmer has attempted to use the self-hyponsis tapes "Learn Esperanto While You Sleep" and "Learn Quantum Theory While You Sleep". The only results we're told of are that neither he nor his bunkmate got any sleep.

* ShoutOut: Rimmer's death is a parody of the opening of ''Film/CitizenKane'', right down to the falling globe.

* {{Understatement}}: After he and his duplicate scream at each other through the bulkhead, Rimmer Prime admits to Lister that "me and Rimmer... we've had a bit of a tiff."