Trivia / Red Dwarf Season VIII "Back in the Red - Part 1"

• Deleted Scene: Scenes cut from the episode:
  • The opening scene in the prison bunk is extended, where Lister reads from "Starstruck" magazine and talks about the 83-year-old old movie star Argyle Somerfield, who has just had a baby with his 34-year-old nurse.
  • Lister's arrest after crashing the Starbug in the hangar bay is significantly extended. After MP Thornton asks Lister if he would requires any form of legal aid, and Lister says "a lemonade and a really large scotch", Lister is seen being manhandled away. His old drinking buddies, Selby and Chen, who are present to help put the fire out, shout out to Lister not to worry, and that they'll stick by him. "Fighting by your side, me Petersen and Selbs, though thick and thin" (confirming that the still-hooded third figure is Petersen). Selby repeatedly looks at his watch, and Chen then says that they'll stick by Lister as long as it doesn't interfere with their drinking commitments. They discuss getting Lister "the best damn lawyer money can buy", before Selby reminds the others that the bar has just opened. Chen finishes by saying "terrible piece of luck for poor Davey boy. Whose round is it?" It is apparently Petersen's round. As they walk off they discuss how much they hate firefighting.
  • As Lister is put under house-arrest in his old sleeping quarters, he notices his old robot goldfish, McCartney, has also made a nanobot-reconstructed return - but is still defective. He picks McCartney up, smashes it against the fish tank and throws it back in, and McCartney has started working again.
  • Chief Medical Officer Karen Newton asks Captain Hollister how Red Dwarf is now three million years into Deep Space. Hollister replies: "nobody knows. It's going to go down in history as once of the great mysteries. To rank alongside the Marie Celeste and the popularity of broccoli."