In Better Than Life, does anyone know or recognize the music when Rimmer enters the Observation Dome? I feel like it is also used in Twin Peaks. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Watching Matilda with the little one and Pam Ferris' performance is rather reminisccent of the one and only Chris Barrie as the fantastic swimmer Arnold Rimmer. Anyone else think so?

Starting the Christmas movie challenge in Bedford Falls

I watched the comic con convention thing in Scotland just now and I loved how they explained that Red Dwarf would never end because the end is the beginning. Badass. Was saddened to hear it would be an extended episode instead of a new series though, that got anything to do with RL as he seems to be doing a lot of other things now ? I wonder what a true goodbye would be though… I always imagined a Kirk/spock type ending between lister and Rimmer…not that exactly…but something to finally cement that lister and Rimmer were always best friends…loved how they touched on this throughout the show from time to time and especially their exchange in The Promised Land ( that really touched me) On a side-note why did the original kochanski actress never return to the roll as she had a few cameos I always remember her in reappear in Better than life.

Wifes obsessed with Xmas and spent the entire day today decorating the house. Bah Humbug! But this arrived in the post & only now does it feel festive! Merry Christmas Smegheads!

THREE triple fried egg, chilli sauce, chutney & chocolate sandwiches - toasted!

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I found myself watching through Series VIII again over the past couple of days, probably for the first time since it was first released.

Honestly, apart from an odd fixation on some misogynistic storylines (and even those are clearly coded as 'bad', even if they're played for laughs) it was nowhere near as bad as I remembered it being.

A lot of the jokes between Rimmer and Lister landed great, and also those with Captain Hollister and, to a lesser extent, Ackerman.

The weakest episode of the series for me, now, is probably "Only The Good..." -- and that's only really because of Kochanski's idea about going to a mirror universe to get the antidote.

Which, by itself, isn't a problem, but it then just leads straight into a scene where they have acquired a machine out of literally nowhere that can create a pathway to a mirror universe, with no explanation as to how. Even for Red Dwarf, that doesn't seem quite right.

But yeah, much much better than I remembered it being.

To the tune of ‘Welcome To The Jungle’

As I think most of us know Lister’s dream is to save up all his pay and move to Fiji. Why Fiji though? I get that it has a laid back atmosphere which would suit him but so do a lot of other places on Earth and no doubt on other planets/moons etc.

I'm in the midst of working on a few smolbean games that I'm making in my spare evenings and weekends just now. One of these games, which is in the early stages, is Yellow Goblin - which I intend to be set on a sister ship to Red Dwarf, having suffered a similar disaster shortly before RD which required far less time to recover from (600 thousand years).

The game will follow the few remaining crew members as they chart a course back to Earth, passing the original RD ship as they do, coming across a lot of the phenomenon that the Boys from the Dwarf did and (optionally) rescuing their own Kryten.

The mechanics will involve having to visit planets for resources to continue the journey, which will occasionally result in fights against mechs, gelfs and polymorphs as well as a chance to encounter time-holes, white-holes and other dodgy phenomena that can be resolved either by playing inter-Planetary pool.

What I'm hoping to hear from this sub, is what you think about the proposal (and would you give it a spin) as well as how you'd like to see this end. Do the Guys from the Goblin get home or is their end game more of a "set up a society" thing?

Does anyone remember which episode Rimmer says “have you quite finished being strange?” In? I’m trying to find the clip but I don’t remember which episode it’s from.