YMMV / Red Dwarf Season VIII "Pete - Part 2"

• Padding: This episode's sole reason to exist is as a 30-minute piece of padding - "Pete" started life as a one-part story (which would have ended with the "See ya in ten minutes?" scene from early in this episode). However, the ongoing production crisis which had caused several other episodes to be abandoned because of lack of budget meant it had to become a Two-Part Episode, because the nature of the script (Serial Escalation of Rimmer and Lister annoying the Captain, with a Running Gag about them being repeatedly summoned to his office) meant it was easy to add another 30 minutes to it, and the CGI dinosaur featured in the story was the main reason for why the budget had run out ahead of time, and they could claw back some money by making another episode that used it (a further money-saving opportunity was afforded by splicing in the Archie subplot that had been filmed for, but later cut, from "Cassandra").

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