Trivia / Red Dwarf Season VII "Tikka to Ride"

• Deleted Scene:
  • The original introduction with Lister beginning his video journal, explaining how they were resurrected after the battle with their future selves, and Starbug is bigger, due to temporal paradoxes. This was originally filmed with Lister sitting in the log-recorder suite and speaking into a computer monitor. Smoke begins to bellow out of it as he continues to explain since the confused machine doesn't understand temporal paradoxes. Kryten warns Lister to stop, but he continues before numerous fires start in the suite.^note  This was later re-shot for the broadcast episode to inject more energy into the start of the new series and introduce the new set better. The opening to the aired episode is basically the same scene, but with Lister explaining it all into a portable video camera whilst he wanders Starbug, although the camera still explodes.
  • An extension to the scene where Kryten tells Lister that all the curry supplies have gone missing. Kryten offers to make Lister pasta, to which Lister says he is "sick". Lister then further says that pasta is for people who have table mats.
  • In the galley, Rimmer is painting his models and toy soldiers. Lister and Kryten walk in with Lister bemoaning the fact there are no more curries, saying that they were his life, whilst he makes pasta. Lister compares it to the end of the Renaissance although much worse. Lister tells them a story, to constant mocking from Rimmer, about the time he was on planet-leave on Orion. Lister says that he drank a yard glass of vindaloo sauce and then went "on the pull" in a club called "The Crazy Astro", all for a bet (presumably with Olaf Petersen). He began dancing with a Space Corps nurse with buck teeth, but their tryst was cut short when Lister had to run to the bathroom. They couldn't close the club as they were waiting for Lister to finish, and he didn't get out until 7:00 in the morning. As Rimmer leaves the galley, Lister dunks Rimmer's soldiers in green paint, before starting to eat the green paint.^note  This scene was later re-shot inside the cockpit for the "Xtended" edition of the episode, with the intention of incorporating the Cat into the scene. The cockpit version of this scene, different to the original take but retaining mostly the same dialogue, albeit without the toy soldiers, is included in the "Xtended" episode on the Series VII DVD.
  • An extension to the scene where the Dwarfers go back aboard the Gemini 12 once more to pick up the Time Drive, and Lister tells Kryten to take them to the Taj Mahal Tandoori Restaurant in London. As Spare Head 2 struggles to acquaint himself with the controls, Lister wonders if their space suits will be accepted attire.
  • Three removals from the crew's scenes in Dallas, 1963. The scenes were removed for reasons of quality and were not restored for the "Xtended" edition. These include Cat asking the FBI not to shoot his suit, then changing his mind because he doesn't think it's fashionable anyway. Later, as they walk through the deserted streets of Dallas, Rimmer tells the others what a hero JFK was in his own reality. Lister says that Kryten's Spare Head 2 has '"he morality of a piranha. No, worse, a tabloid photographer".
• Edited for Syndication: Cut from a 2012 repeat:
  • The shot of Kryten chugging from a bottle of alcohol.
  • Lister's "Fat Bastardoria" line, followed by Cat mentioning the Dwarfers pulled the gunman out the window.
  • The reference to J. Edgar Hoover being at a transvestite orgy.
• One-Take Wonder: Craig Charles read the intro once, lost it, trod on it, then went out and did the whole scene in one take, getting a round of applause from the set crew.
• What Could Have Been: Earlier scripts regarding Kryten with the Spare Head 2 would have had him wandering Starbug "naked" in Bermuda shorts, with his black plastic over-coating removed showing the flesh-colored underneath. This would go unrealised, since the pink rubber suit was a different shade to his face and hands, and they didn't have time to change it. Ironically, such a scene had been filmed for "Marooned" but cut in the editing.

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