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-->'''Lister''': It was all pointless? You put me through that *nightmare* when we could just walk out that door at any moment??
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-->'''Lister''': It was all pointless? You put me through that *nightmare* ''nightmare'' when we could just walk out that door at any moment??
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* EnmityWithanObject: Kochanski develops a seething hatred of the pipe above her bunk that emits a series of loud, irritating noises when she's trying to sleep. She eventually resorts to hitting it with a wrench to make it stop and to vent her anger.
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* AllForNothing: Kryten revealed he left the doors out of the override in the event that anything happened. Would have been really nice to know earlier, considering they were headed straight into a star at the moment and they had just spent the majority of the night crawling around in the vents for no reason at all.
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** It was decided that Kochanski's figure-hugging, red PVC uniform from the previous episode would be ditched as it was too distracting to the rest of the cast. It was written that Kryten would accidentally shrink-wash this uniform and blame it on Lister. Kochanski would next be seen wearing an improvised outfit comprised of a pair of Lister's combat trousers and her cocktail dress adapted into a top. By the next episode Kochanski would have taken to knocking up her own outfits, which they'd presumably taken from Space Corps derelicts.
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** It was decided that Kochanski's figure-hugging, red PVC uniform from the previous episode would be ditched as it was too distracting to the rest of the cast.cast, and the reflective material caused havoc with bluescreen shots[[note]](That, and Creator/ChloeAnnett thought it made her butt look big)[[/note]]. It was written that Kryten would accidentally shrink-wash this uniform and blame it on Lister. Kochanski would next be seen wearing an improvised outfit comprised of a pair of Lister's combat trousers and her cocktail dress adapted into a top. By the next episode Kochanski would have taken to knocking up her own outfits, which they'd presumably taken from Space Corps derelicts.
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* RageBreakingPoint: Kochanski actually seems willing to leave Kryten be in spite of the ordeal his possessiveness over Lister got them into. It's only when he attempts to mind meaning in his actions making Kochanski one of the screw that she starts striking him repeatedly.
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* RageBreakingPoint: Kochanski actually seems willing to leave Kryten be in spite of the ordeal his possessiveness over Lister got them into. It's only when he attempts to mind find meaning in his actions making Kochanski one of the screw crew that she starts striking him repeatedly.
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* RageBreakingPoint: Kochanski actually seems willing to leave Kryten be in spite of the ordeal his possessiveness over Lister got them into. It's only when he attempts to mind meaning in his actions making Kochanski one of the screw that she starts striking him repeatedly.
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* {{Handwave}}: Cat confronts Lister on why his claustrophobia has never come up before when they have been in tight, cramped spaces before, and Lister says he only gets it sometimes.
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* ImagineSpot: Kryten has a paranoia induced one when he learns Kochanski's going to have a bath, where a married Lister and Kochanski are unceremoniously booting him off ''Starbug'', and give him a going-away gift of a keyring of a "c".
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* ImagineSpot: Kryten has a paranoia induced paranoia-induced one when he learns Kochanski's going to have a bath, where a married Lister and Kochanski are unceremoniously booting him off ''Starbug'', and give him a going-away gift of a keyring of a "c".
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* MisophoniaGag: Kochanski can't stand the squeaky noises of the pipes she's right next to, and resorts to both attacking them with a wrench and having an emotional breakdown in front of the others.
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* AirVentPassageway: The episode takes place primarily within the absurdly spacious vents of ''Starbug''. They're large enough for the Dwarfers to crawl around two abreast.
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* HypocriticalHumor: "I'm too mature for this. I'm just gonna sit 'ere and read me comic."
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot; It was decided that Kochanski's figure-hugging, red PVC uniform from the previous episode would be ditched as it was too distracting to the rest of the cast. It was written that Kryten would accidentally shrink-wash this uniform and blame it on Lister. Kochanski would next be seen wearing an improvised outfit comprised of a pair of Lister's combat trousers and her cocktail dress adapted into a top. By the next episode Kochanski would have taken to knocking up her own outfits, which they'd presumably taken from Space Corps derelicts.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot; RealLifeWritesThePlot:
** It was decided that Kochanski's figure-hugging, red PVC uniform from the previous episode would be ditched as it was too distracting to the rest of the cast. It was written that Kryten would accidentally shrink-wash this uniform and blame it on Lister. Kochanski would next be seen wearing an improvised outfit comprised of a pair of Lister's combat trousers and her cocktail dress adapted into a top. By the next episode Kochanski would have taken to knocking up her own outfits, which they'd presumably taken from Space Corpsderelicts.derelicts.
** This episode was an extremely last-minute replacement for "Identity Within", which was much too ambitious to realise on the show's budget. It was the last to be filmed of the series, and only utilises the existing sets, with no guest cast.
** It was decided that Kochanski's figure-hugging, red PVC uniform from the previous episode would be ditched as it was too distracting to the rest of the cast. It was written that Kryten would accidentally shrink-wash this uniform and blame it on Lister. Kochanski would next be seen wearing an improvised outfit comprised of a pair of Lister's combat trousers and her cocktail dress adapted into a top. By the next episode Kochanski would have taken to knocking up her own outfits, which they'd presumably taken from Space Corps
** This episode was an extremely last-minute replacement for "Identity Within", which was much too ambitious to realise on the show's budget. It was the last to be filmed of the series, and only utilises the existing sets, with no guest cast.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: It turns out that the doors to Lister's quarters weren't locked after all, as Kryten excluded them from the shutdown override in case anything happened. The others are miffed, to say the least.
-->'''Cat''': You mean we spent the night crawling through one end of this ship to God knows where and back for absolutely no reason??
-->'''Lister''': It was all pointless? You put me through that *nightmare* when we could just walk out that door at any moment??
-->'''Cat''': You mean we spent the night crawling through one end of this ship to God knows where and back for absolutely no reason??
-->'''Lister''': It was all pointless? You put me through that *nightmare* when we could just walk out that door at any moment??
* NoodleImplements: At the end, Lister vows to talk things through with Kryten over a cup of coffee and a hot branding iron.
* PercussiveTherapy: The episode ends with Kochanski asking Kryten to repeat the squeak noises that the pipes make while repeatedly hitting his head with a spanner (which she had been doing earlier to the squeaking pipes).
* PercussiveTherapy: The episode ends with Kochanski asking Kryten to repeat the squeak noises that the pipes make while repeatedly hitting his head with a spanner (which she had been doing earlier to the squeaking pipes).
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* WrenchWhack: Whilst Cat and Lister are off steering the ship away from the star, Kochanski takes an opportunity to get a little preemptive punishment in for Kryten causing all this by repeatedly beating him in the head with a wrench.
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* WrenchWhack: Whilst Cat and Lister are off steering the ship away from the star, Kochanski takes an opportunity to get a little preemptive punishment in for Kryten causing all this by repeatedly beating him in the head with a wrench.wrench.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Lister's heretofore never mentioned claustrophobia, which stems from an incident in his youth in Bootle. He was having an affair with a girl who worked at the supermarket he parked trolleys at, until they got caught making out in the stockroom by her jealous and inattentive husband. Lister wound up stuck in a box, at the man's mercy as he threatened to throw Lister in a river. After much begging and pleading, Lister was released, bollock-naked, in the middle of an amateur production of ''The Importance of Being Earnest''.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Lister's heretofore never mentioned claustrophobia, which stems from an incident in his youth in Bootle. He was having an affair with a girl who worked at the supermarket he parked trolleys at, until they got caught making out in the stockroom by her jealous and inattentive husband. Lister wound up stuck in a box, at the man's mercy as he threatened to throw Lister in a river. After much begging and pleading, Lister was released, bollock-naked, in the middle of an amateur production of ''The Importance of Being Earnest''.''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest''.
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HellIsThatNoise: The noises those sewage pipes create when processing. They're not so much "cries of the damned" as they are more in the sense of "loud and constant".
-->'''Kochanski:''' Ever listen to those sewage pipes? Nureeking and rotuting and when you expect them to nureek again, they squeelookle! It's enough to make a perfectly sane person ''crazy''!
-->'''Kochanski:''' Ever listen to those sewage pipes? Nureeking and rotuting and when you expect them to nureek again, they squeelookle! It's enough to make a perfectly sane person ''crazy''!
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* ImagineSpot: Kryten has a paranoia induced one when he learns Kochanski's going to have a bath, where a married Lister and Kochanski are unceremoniously booting him off ''Starbug'', and give him a going-away gift of a keyring of a "c".
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* SanitySlippage: Kochanski, due to a combination of losing everything and everyone she ever loved, being stuck on a ship with a neurotic android obsessed with rearranging her underwear, and having to sleep in a room where the pipes constantly make bizarre noises, among other things. First she becomes violently angry, throwing knives into walls. When Lister comes to talk to her, she's degenerated into caveman-like grunting.
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** Kochanski, due to a combination of losing everything and everyone she ever loved, being stuck on a ship with a neurotic android obsessed with rearranging her underwear, and having to sleep in a room where the pipes constantly make bizarre noises, among other things. First she becomes violently angry, throwing knives into walls. When Lister comes to talk to her, she's degenerated into caveman-likegrunting.grunting.
** Kryten mentions this is the fate of all who sleep in the pipe room. Apparently Lister tried it once, for some reason, and he ended up trying to kill himself with an onion sandwich.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When they see Kryten has inadvertently destroyed Kochanski's only shirt, Lister and the Cat run for it.
* ShoutOut: Due to wearing a white bedsheet and some earmuffs, Kochanski starts looking a little like [[Franchise/StarWars Princess Leia]], prompting Kryten to call her as much.
** Kochanski, due to a combination of losing everything and everyone she ever loved, being stuck on a ship with a neurotic android obsessed with rearranging her underwear, and having to sleep in a room where the pipes constantly make bizarre noises, among other things. First she becomes violently angry, throwing knives into walls. When Lister comes to talk to her, she's degenerated into caveman-like
** Kryten mentions this is the fate of all who sleep in the pipe room. Apparently Lister tried it once, for some reason, and he ended up trying to kill himself with an onion sandwich.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When they see Kryten has inadvertently destroyed Kochanski's only shirt, Lister and the Cat run for it.
* ShoutOut: Due to wearing a white bedsheet and some earmuffs, Kochanski starts looking a little like [[Franchise/StarWars Princess Leia]], prompting Kryten to call her as much.
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* ViolentGlaswegian: Spoofed, as the erudite, distinctly upper-class and decidedly non-stereotypically accented Kochanski is stated to come from the poshest part of Glasgow: The Gorbals (for non-Glaswegians, the Gorbals was historically considered one of the rougher parts of the city's east end). Of course, aforementioned Sanity Slippage makes her start throwing knives at the wall, threatening to insert salad-cream jars into mechanoid rectal cavities, and smashing a wrench against pipes driving her nuts.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Lister's heretofore never mentioned claustrophobia, which stems from an incident in his youth in Bootle. He was having an affair with a girl who worked at the supermarket he parked trolleys at, until they got caught making out in the stockroom by her jealous and inattentive husband. Lister wound up stuck in a box, at the man's mercy as he threatened to throw Lister in a river. After much begging and pleading, Lister was released, bollock-naked, in the middle of an amateur production of ''The Importance of Being Earnest''.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Lister's heretofore never mentioned claustrophobia, which stems from an incident in his youth in Bootle. He was having an affair with a girl who worked at the supermarket he parked trolleys at, until they got caught making out in the stockroom by her jealous and inattentive husband. Lister wound up stuck in a box, at the man's mercy as he threatened to throw Lister in a river. After much begging and pleading, Lister was released, bollock-naked, in the middle of an amateur production of ''The Importance of Being Earnest''.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot; It was decided that Kochanski's figure-hugging, red PVC uniform from the previous episode would be ditched as it was too distracting to the rest of the cast. It was written that Kryten would accidentally shrink-wash this uniform and blame it on Lister. Kochanski would next be seen wearing an improvised outfit comprised of a pair of Lister's combat trousers and her cocktail dress adapted into a top. By the next episode Kochanski would have taken to knocking up her own outfits, which they'd presumably taken from Space Corps derelicts.
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* SanitySlippage: Kochanski, due to a combination of loosing everything and everyone she ever loved, being stuck on a ship with a neurotic android obsessed with rearranging her underwear, and having to sleep in a room where the pipes constantly make bizarre noises, among other things. First she becomes violently angry, throwing knives into walls. When Lister comes to talk to her, she's degenerated into caveman-like grunting.
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* SanitySlippage: Kochanski, due to a combination of loosing losing everything and everyone she ever loved, being stuck on a ship with a neurotic android obsessed with rearranging her underwear, and having to sleep in a room where the pipes constantly make bizarre noises, among other things. First she becomes violently angry, throwing knives into walls. When Lister comes to talk to her, she's degenerated into caveman-like grunting.
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* TranquilFury: Lister, once it's revealed what Kryten did, calmly tells him they'll talk about it later, over a cup of tea and a hot branding iron.
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* BottleEpisode: By the admission of the production staff, the premise of the episode is "stick them in a room together and see what happens".
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* BottleEpisode: By the admission of the production staff, the premise of the episode is "stick them in a room together and see what happens".happens" (it was a replacement for "Identity Within", an episode too ambitious to realise on the remaining budget).
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* ClingyJealousGuy: This is the first episode in which Kryten's terror of losing Lister's affection to Kochanski becomes prominent.
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* ClingyJealousGuy: BaitAndSwitch: Among the things Kochanski complains about is the nature of Starbug's fridge, saying women would never keep it like Lister does. Then she produces a pair of trainers which had been in there.
* BottleEpisode: By the admission of the production staff, the premise of the episode is "stick them in a room together and see what happens".
* BuffySpeak: The Cat, again, describing the sounds of the incoming recyc systems as "water-y" noises or "hurricane-y". Lister quickly reaches the end of his rope with them.
* CrazyJealousGuy: This is the first episode in which Kryten's terror of losing Lister's affection to Kochanski becomesprominent.prominent.
* GilliganCut: Just as Kryten tries defending the characters of the Cat and Lister, saying they'd ''never'' watch Kochanski's underwear in the wash...
-->'''The Cat:''' Boy, this is a great show tonight!
* BottleEpisode: By the admission of the production staff, the premise of the episode is "stick them in a room together and see what happens".
* BuffySpeak: The Cat, again, describing the sounds of the incoming recyc systems as "water-y" noises or "hurricane-y". Lister quickly reaches the end of his rope with them.
* CrazyJealousGuy: This is the first episode in which Kryten's terror of losing Lister's affection to Kochanski becomes
* GilliganCut: Just as Kryten tries defending the characters of the Cat and Lister, saying they'd ''never'' watch Kochanski's underwear in the wash...
-->'''The Cat:''' Boy, this is a great show tonight!
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* SanitySlippage: Kochanski, due to a combination of loosing everything and everyone she ever loved, being stuck on a ship with a neurotic android obsessed with rearranging her underwear, and having to sleep in a room where the pipes constantly make bizarre noises, among other things. First she becomes violently angry, throwing knives into walls. When Lister comes to talk to her, she's degenerated into caveman-like grunting.
* TranquilFury: Lister, once it's revealed what Kryten did, calmly tells him they'll talk about it later, over a cup of tea and a hot branding iron.
* TrueCompanions: The Cat and Lister. Compare to earlier episodes where the Cat would gleefully have done nothing to help Lister, he actually tries helping Lister through his severe panic.
* TranquilFury: Lister, once it's revealed what Kryten did, calmly tells him they'll talk about it later, over a cup of tea and a hot branding iron.
* TrueCompanions: The Cat and Lister. Compare to earlier episodes where the Cat would gleefully have done nothing to help Lister, he actually tries helping Lister through his severe panic.
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A heatwave aboard Starbug leaves everybody uncomfortable enough, but when a short circuit sends the ship tumbling into the gravity well of a sun, the crew must make a desperate race through the ventilation shafts of the ship to try and repair the navigation controls before they all fry for real.
!!This episode contains examples of:
* ClingyJealousGuy: This is the first episode in which Kryten's terror of losing Lister's affection to Kochanski becomes prominent.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Kryten reveals that ''he'' faked the short-circuit to try and prevent Lister from giving Kochanski a cold bath, out of fear that this would lead to them getting closer. He had no idea that this would knock them off course and send them tumbling into a star, or that they'd end up getting lost in their attempts to crawl through the ducts and waste all that time.
* LampshadeHanging: Cat asks Lister why his claustrophobia has never been a big issue in the past.
* TheReveal: Twofold; that Kryten caused the "short-circuit" in the first place, and that he actually excluded the doors from the lock-down just in case they needed to get to the cockpit in a hurry.
* WrenchWhack: Whilst Cat and Lister are off steering the ship away from the star, Kochanski takes an opportunity to get a little preemptive punishment in for Kryten causing all this by repeatedly beating him in the head with a wrench.
!!This episode contains examples of:
* ClingyJealousGuy: This is the first episode in which Kryten's terror of losing Lister's affection to Kochanski becomes prominent.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Kryten reveals that ''he'' faked the short-circuit to try and prevent Lister from giving Kochanski a cold bath, out of fear that this would lead to them getting closer. He had no idea that this would knock them off course and send them tumbling into a star, or that they'd end up getting lost in their attempts to crawl through the ducts and waste all that time.
* LampshadeHanging: Cat asks Lister why his claustrophobia has never been a big issue in the past.
* TheReveal: Twofold; that Kryten caused the "short-circuit" in the first place, and that he actually excluded the doors from the lock-down just in case they needed to get to the cockpit in a hurry.
* WrenchWhack: Whilst Cat and Lister are off steering the ship away from the star, Kochanski takes an opportunity to get a little preemptive punishment in for Kryten causing all this by repeatedly beating him in the head with a wrench.
