History Recap / RedDwarfSeasonVIPsirens

-->'''Lister:''' A couple of sirens whacked each other out fighting over me brains.

* OvercomeWithDesire: Lister immediately recognizes that "Pete Tranter's sister" is really a psiren in disguise, but he ultimately can't resist his lust for Pete Tranter's sister and gives in to the psiren's charms. If another psiren (disguised as Kryten) hadn't intervened to kill the first one, Lister would be dead.

--->'''Astronaut:''' You've squeezed all the ketchup out of my burger!

* HormoneAddledTeenager: The psiren lures Lister by appearing as the GirlNextDoor that he lusted after all through puberty.

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* {{Irony}}: Claire Grogan makes her last appearance as Kochanski, only this one's an illusion.

* CouldntFindAPen: The first warning about the Psirens is written in blood and intestines. The Cat is mystified as to why the scribe went to the effort of using his kidney as a full stop. Rimmer suggests he probably ''didn't'', but it just "fell out".

-->'''Kryten:''' If I may, sirs, that was the level of sophistication required to ensnare the Cat. And it ''worked''. Had we not been here he would now be on one of those asteroids, crawling around without a brain trying to write "oh, boy was I suckered!" with his own intestinal tract.

* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: Lister after the Psiren guitar-test: "I resent this. I resent you saving my life in this fashion".

* ThreeLawsCompliant: Kryten has to obey and can't harm his creator, Professor Mamet so a Psiren imitates her appearance to take advantage of this. He tries to call the others to kill her but she orders him to stuff himself in the waste disposal.

* TheAllegedCar: The Cat points out a flaw in the logic of someone stealing ''Red Dwarf'' is just who in their right mind would steal a giant three million year old trash can with no brakes.

* CaptainObvious: Cat can't recall the term for those giant meteorites that are covered with flames. "A giant flaming meteorite?" "That's it."

* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: Lister after the Psiren guitar-test: "I resent this. I resent you saving my life in this fashion."

* DreadfulMusician: "Little survival tip, bud: never play your guitar in front of a man with a loaded gun."

* InopportuneImpersonationFailure: The Psiren impersonating Kryten gets within inches of sucking Lister's brain out with a straw, but at the last second, makes the mistake of calling Lister "Dave."

* SchmuckBait: The Psiren's way of finding food. They pretend to be someone the target finds attractive, and while they're distracted, stick a straw in their ear. The Cat and Lister nearly fall for it. The Cat's even more so since it's painfully obvious it's a trap; a colony of lusty women in need of men to breed with. Kryten even notes this.

* OffTheShelfFX: The [[{{Phlegmings}} slime]] on the Psiren when Lister is snogging it was agricultural jelly used in inseminating cows.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: The crew is trying to figure out which of two Listers is a mind-reading impostor. The two act alike, until the crew has one of them play Lister's guitar. Because Lister sincerely (but utterly incorrectly) considers himself a brilliant player, the fake reads this, belts out a few power-chords, and goes down in a hail of laser-fire.
** Played straight earlier when Dave realizes that the "Kryten" that saved him was not really Kryten, since Kryten never calls Lister "Dave".

* {{Fainting}}: Rimmer, on seeing the ApocalypticLog.

With no options left, Kryten lets the second Lister in. Soon, both Listers are asked to prove who they are. Trimming their toenails doesn't work since the Psiren can match Lister in disgusting detail. They have to go nuclear: Someone has to play the guitar. The first Lister does so, effortlessly playing an amazing guitar riff... at which point Kryten and the Cat blow him away. The Psiren picked up on Lister's ''belief'' of how he could play, rather than the "talentless ten-toed, tone-deaf noise polluter" he actually is.

* CryoSickness: The episode starts with starts with Lister waking up from 200 years of Deep Sleep (which is implied to be at least partly cryogenic in nature). Not only have his hair and nails grown during that time, but he's also amnesiac, and it takes some time before his memories come back to him.

* EnthrallingSiren: Involving telepathy rather than music.

A badly disheveled Lister awakens on ''Starbug'', and finds he's got a touch of total amnesia. After a few minutes stumbling about, he's met by Kryten, who explains the amnesia is a side-effect of two hundred years in stasis (Kryten had ''tried'' to wake him up in the spring, but he absolutely insisted on another three months). Kryten quickly tries filling Lister in on himself; his fondness for vindaloo, his snobbiness, his desire to find and then have sex with Kochanski, and his "ability" to play the guitar. Lister isn't remotely impressed at his being a "barely human grossed-out slimeball". The reactivation of Rimmer at least kick-starts some of his memories.

--->[[spoiler:'''Astronaut:''' You've squeezed all the ketchup out of my burger!]]