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| 3 | Lister finds himself distracted from a fit of maudlin moping over his status as the last of humanity when he inadvertently gets involved in a LoveTriangle with two of the vending machines and also discovers a letter from an ex-girlfriend implying he may have fathered a child with her before they broke up. |
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| 5 | !!This episode contains examples of: |
| 6 | * AlliterativeTitle: The name of the episode is '''D'''ear '''D'''ave. |
| 7 | * BottleEpisode: Set entirely on Red Dwarf and featuring no guest cast apart from a voiceover. |
| 8 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Kryten is taken aback when Vending Machine #23 points out that Lister put his hand on her "[[ThanksForTheMammary logo]]". |
| 9 | * MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Drives the primary plot of the episode, with Lister trying to find a letter that will reveal who fathered his ex-girlfriend Hayley Summers' baby. Whilst he doesn't explicitly say it, his angrily denouncing Haley as a "slag" and then sucking on one finger is an obvious inferral that it turned out to be Roy's baby. |
| 10 | * MoodWhiplash: In the final minutes of the episode, Lister makes a tender, heart-moving speech about how he's sure his ex-girlfriend Hayley Summers would have been a wonderful mother... then reads the letter and angrily denounces her as a "slag". |
| 11 | * NotWhatItLooksLike: In the second last scene of the episode, Lister accidentally lets Vending Machine #34 drop and falls on top of her, and his efforts to put the machine upright are mistaken by both Rimmer and Kryten (and by Vending Machine #34 herself) as some kind of weird robosexual intercourse. |
| 12 | * ParlorGames: The Cat decides to inform the crew of "bad news" by playing a game of charades with them. After many misguesses (including giant death worms), it is eventually revealed that the bad news is that the mail pod has crashed into his clothes. |
| 13 | -->'''Rimmer:''' "Mail pod arrived and crashed into your clothes"? ''How'' is that two words??\ |
| 14 | '''Cat:''' Cuz when it was over, all I could say was "Ohh, maaaan!" |
| 15 | * {{Robosexual}}: Vending Machine #34 is plainly attracted to Lister, whilst Lister actually finds himself making some tentative attempts at flirting both with her and with Vending Machine #23, a result of Kryten pointing out that maybe Lister should just look for a compatible partner of any species, rather than holding out hope of finding a living human woman. |
| 16 | * ShipperOnDeck: Kryten seems quite delighted with the idea that Lister has moved on to Vending Machine #34, having encouraged him to start considering non-human consorts in the first place. |
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