History Trivia / RedDwarfSeasonIIIPolymorph

** YTV, a family-oriented channel in Canada, often aired edited episodes of ''Red Dwarf''. With this episode, they ultimately decided that editing the episode was not worth the effort, and decided not to air it.
** Contrary to what one might think, however, this episode has nothing to do with why its original VHS release (together with "Backwards" and "Marooned") received a 15 certificate instead of the usual PG. That was actually because of the scene in "Marooned" where Lister claims to have lost his virginity when he was 12.
* {{Blooper}}: When Kryten searches for the shrunken-underpants form of the Polymorph after throwing them on Lister's bunk, they're visible in the upper left corner as he says that there's nothing there in the broadcast version. The Remastered version tries to cover this by digitally recolouring them to match the sheets.
* CreatorBacklash: Doug Naylor initially didn't like the episode's ending, feeling it was too ambiguous, and added in an ending caption to the Remastered version stating that the second Polymorph hid in Lister's clean underwear drawer and ended up starving to death. When revisiting the Remastered episodes for their DVD release and the commentaries, however, Naylor admitted that the altered ending wasn't an improvement, and that the original one still worked better.
--> '''Naylor:''' My memory was that the altered ending was funnier... but that clearly wasn't.
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: On the Series III DVD the producers mention this as one of their favorite episodes from the series. It's a Fan Favourite too; when the fandom is polled on their favourite Episode, it ususlly places in the Top 5.

** Extended dialogue in the "lunchtime with medical equipment" scene, and also a story about Lister's friend Olaf Petersen who spent a week in sick bay after trying Lister's Shami Kebab Diablo.

** A lost Holly moment is followed by a fuller version of the Cat's conversation with the Genny the mutant.
** A lost bit of dialogue expanding on Kryten's new guilt-free nature and Cat with no vanity, as Kryten insults him and Cat agrees.
* EditedForSyndication: When this episode was first released on VHS, the warning at the beginning had the word "week's" removed from the opening announcement ("This week's ''Red Dwarf''...") under the dubious logic that it made no sense when released on home video. It was reinstated for the DVD release.

* {{Irony}}: Fear free Lister's ideas to fight the Polymorph often revolve around ultimately getting himself killed. In the novel version of events in the last part of ''Better Than Life'' it does get him killed.

* Blooper: When Kryten searches for the shrunken-underpants form of the Polymorph after throwing them on Lister's bunk, they're visible in the upper left corner as he says that there's nothing there in the broadcast version. The Remastered version tries to cover this by digitally recolouring them to match the sheets.

* EditedForSyndication: When this episode was first released on VHS, the warning at the beginning had the work "week's" removed from the opening announcement ("This week's ''Red Dwarf''...") under the dubious logic that it made no sense when released on home video. It was reinstated for the DVD release.

** Contrary to what one might think, however, this episode has nothing to do with why its original VHS release (together with Backwards and Marooned) received a 15 certificate instead of the usual PG. That was actually because of the scene in Marooned where Lister claims to have lost his virginity when he was 12.

* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: On the Series III DVD the producers mention this as one of their favorite episodes from the series.
** It's a Fan Favourite too; when the fandom is polled on their favourite Episode, it ususlly places in the Top 5

** The full, uncut growth of the Polymorph to it's real size. The initial transition was much slower, and more "toothy" and slimy, in the original edit.

* CreatorBacklash: Doug Naylor initially didn't like the episode's ending, feeling it was too ambiguous, and added in an ending caption to the Remastered version stating that the second Polymorph hid in Lister's clean underwear drawer and ended up starving to death. When revisiting the Remastered episodes for their DVD release, however, Naylor admitted that the altered ending wasn't an improvement, and that the original one still worked better.

** A lost bit of dialogue expanding on Kryten's new guilt-free nature and Cat with no vanity, as Kryten insults him and Cat agrees.

* BannedEpisode: YTV, a family-oriented channel in Canada, often aired edited episodes of ''Red Dwarf''. With this episode, they ultimately decided that editing the episode was not worth the effort, and decided not to air it.

* BannedEpisode: YTV, a family-oriented channel in Canada, often aired edited episodes of ''Red Dwarf''. With this episode, they ultimately decided that editing the episode was not worth the effort, and decided not to air it.