Could you do a quick video advertising the Red Dwarf set on Lego Ideas it's reached a pretty high level of supporters but has slowed down I think a lot of Red Dwarf fans would love the set me included and I think all dwarfers would be very sad if it were to not get through
It's a bit of a tradition in the UK. One of the statues in Glasgow, Scotland has a traffic cone on it's head, that a bunch of Neds/Chavs thought would be funny and the city council is cool with it, so they left it on statue and became a icon of the city.
I remember my older Brother who was quite wild when he was young coming home with a cone on his head proclaiming himself to be "Merlin the Wizard". My parents were furious needless to say.
I worked security for a construction site near a pub when I was younger. Number one issue was drunk people making off with traffic cones and portable road signs.
The traffic cone thing is... Well over here in the UK it always seems that, after a /very/ heavy night out.... For some reason you always end up stealing a traffic cone and bringing it back. And yes, I am talking 100% from personal experience here; having done it several times in the past. I've got quite a collection.
My sister's dormmate stole a cone one night and brought it back to the dorm. A few days later the University people (idk I don't go to University) came and knocked on their dorm, demanding they return it. Apparently it was much funnier than it sounds.
Ah yes, the Traffic Cone. I woke up with a few of them when I was at Uni after one too many the night before! Still don't know where they came from though.
I totally forgot about the Marilyn Monroe droid. Now I wish it had made a reappearance during the fight with Hudzen (Kryten’s replacement) and distracted him.
This is one of my favorite episodes, for all the reasons you listed and the running joke with "Where do all the calculators go?" That line just makes me giggle for some reason. XD
I really love your RedDwarf vlogs, and yes I as to the traffic cones, I remember my brother sneaking home at 3 in the morning with 2 traffic cones and half a male mannequin... no clue...
I remember a college party at The Torrens pub, one drunk guy nicked the wet floor cone (like a traffic cone, except is yellow and says wet floor) from the toilets, went outside and decided to blow a raspberry through it, turning the thing into a DIY megaphone. Result was a dog getting scared senseless, a cat running up a tree and my friend getting an earful from an irate landlord.
The one and only time I have ever been drunk, I woke up with a hang over the size of Austria and in bed with a life sized model of a penguin, two traffic cones and the seat from a diesel locomotive
When I used to catch the bus to school we drove passed a statue that had a traffic cone on it's head, every single day. Only day it didn't have one was when someone had taken it down, but the next day a new traffic cone would be on its head
This is one of my favorite eps. It’s kind of similar thematically to terminator 2 where the older model robot ultimately wins. There’s something emotionally satisfying about the redemption of obsolete technology. I don’t feel the same way about older people so I fail to understand why this theme appeals to me. I used to watch UA-cam videos about abandoned trucks running again.
@@oj3774 you're kidding right? It's not usually just a straightforward word swap like that. Although I think the jam/jelly thing might be (never actually been sure on that one).
@@Torthrodhel Actually, the jelly and jam one is funny, because from what I hear, jelly what the Americans put on bread doesn't contain bits of fruit, it's a very smooth spread. Jam has bits of fruit in it. They do get jam in the states, but they prefer jelly. As someone who spent an hour getting strawberry seeds out of my teeth, I can understand why.
Someone on tv tropes pointed out that machines that die probably get recycled, so even if there isn't a silicon heaven there's silicon reincarnation, which is unfortunate cos then 'lather-rinse-repeat'
I haven't brought home a traffic cone but I have woke up with a roadworks sign in my garden...I must have had help dragging that back but I can't remember. Also my brother once got arrested for drunkenly trying to saw off a street sign. XD
Traffic cones are good for shouting in to and if you get your lips right and blow like a trumpet you can play it but it only has one note. That also works with poster tubes, clingfilm tubes and hose pipe. A bit like a Didgeridoo.
I distinctly remember being driven through town by my mum and seeing a traffic cone on top of a traffic light; we had a good chuckle about it and I mentioned it to my brother when we got home and he was like "yeah... my bad" 😂
Although you missed mentioning it in this video, the driink that Holly prepared for Kryten was a mixture of Vimto and WD40. Vimto is kind of carbonated fruit drink in the UK. I would assume Wd-40 is better known as Duck Oil (a lubricant)
was probably just a uncle in name only as in a friend of the family, alot of the time a close friend to a mother could be called auntie despite not actually being related and the same for uncles
wee bit of trivia- Frankie goes to Hollywood- two tribes remixes featured Chris Barrie intimating Ronald Regan. Loving these vlog, thanks heaps from Australia.
Random thought while watching this.... shame Telltale Games died. Imagine a Red Dwarf licenced adventure game. They did well with Walking Dead and BttF. This would have been something I'd buy.
Looking at the "Up Next" list, a weird crossover entered my brain. Pinhead meets the crew of Red Dwarf. Cryten: Sir, you look like an android in diagnostic mode.
had the awkward moment of what to do with all the traffic signs i had in my room (including the traffic cones) when I left university. Uk drunks are cleptomaniacs?
I loved it a lot, too. But I thought Rimmer's French Kissing story was hilarious, especially when he talks about how his cousins seemed to be falling for him. Could that be why Rimmer's family is like it is? Could his family have married their cousins? This is a great comradery episode. It looks like from here on in, the comradery is more poignant and friendlier. This one really makes a person feel good.
The Marilyn Monrobot is Grant and Naylor predicting Wish.com. I actually think this episode asks a pretty interesting sci-fi question. So much of our consumer lifestyle is based on the idea of planned obsolescence, what happens when we have actual sentient AI? Will it still be practical in a world where people develop actual emotional attachment to their electronics? What are the human rights implications? One of the things I love about RD is the way it's funny and silly but sometimes it hits on something much deeper without you even noticing. REQUISITE TRAFFIC CONE STORY: One time my flatmate brought a whole load of traffic cones home, purely because he'd seen this episode and felt he had to pay tribute.
Got a bit of a sad one a few years ago in Dunedin NZ I was working for ministry of works around university area. One particular student loved to make off with traffic cones, control signs you name it. The guy I was working under realising how many he had, knocked politly on the flat and asked him to please put the signs and cones at the gate and nothing would come of it. The guy was really nasty. Really nasty. Next day tapped at the door again and got very rude response so my boss called the police. Guy changed tune very rapidly but my boss refused to drop the charges and the guy was doing a law degree. He got thrown out of law school because of criminal charges. Felt badly for the student but if the roading guys ask nicely for Thier traffic cones you might want to give it back
Fun fact. The misprint in the Bible has a basis in reality, though not "hope"/"hop" mistake. It's called the Wicked Bible or the Sinner's Bible published in the 1600s. It contains several misprints, with the most famous being the exclusion of the word NOT in one of the 10 commandments making "Thou shalt not commit adultery," into "Thou shalt commit adultery." Also in Deuteronomy the word "greatness" is printed as "great-asse" so it reads "Behold, the Lord our God hath shewed us his glory and his great-asse".
The traffic cone thing is just the sort of thing young lads might do on the way home from the pub. Graffiti and minor vandalism seem to be part of drinking culture for young men. (normally miner and mostly comical) like adding the letter I to a "To Let" sign Stealing a small tree in a plant pot and trying to take it on a buss with your two mates just so when the buss driver askes you can say "Just the Tree of us". Finding a small car and turning it around (by picking it up) or hiding your mates motorbike. Turning road signs around or connecting the gaps in the 30 sign to make it say 80. I've still got a "danger of death" sign with a man getting electrocuted, i have no idea where from or how much danger i was in trying to get it. (it must be 25 years old ish now)
wait in less I'm mistaken the premise of the series is that through an accident leister and the rest are egons in the future and the human race is petty much gone. so who sent the robot replacement for krton?
The droid had been traveling for over a million years, just as the Red Dwarf has been, and has just caught up with them. It's the same way they get mail in other episodes.
Apparently you never did a lot of heavy drinking at a major US college. Traffic signs and traffic cones are popular drunken things to steal and bring back to the dorm. Or so I’ve heard 😂.
I dont get how Kryten was able to lie in this episode, and then the very next episode, lister is teaching him how to lie. Bit of a continuity drop there !
I've read that this episode was written as a replacement for another that was then dropped for being considered too sexist and homophobic as it dealt with Lister and his two newborn sons.
the episode was acted out with Chris Barrie doing the voices and storyboards. this was on the dvds and blu-rays but you can find it on youtube sometimes. the episode Dad was meant as the series three opening episode. it would be the first appearance of the rebuilt kryten and why holly is now female and the events of the episode are told in the scrawling text that appears before the episode Backwards. There is a joke in the episode that predicted the plot of a famous movie and its star five years before the film came out.
From another classic British sitcom ua-cam.com/video/PBsEw5LTFak/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/FYPrqubRGXY/v-deo.html Love these vlogs by the way, bringing back so many memories
On reflection I've come to realise The Last Day acts as a companion piece to Timewave. While LD is about religion acting as a balm for the ego against societal demands, Timewave is about abandoning all codes of self-discipline for the sake of protecting the ego. LD's satire of religiosity is something most people are comfortable with, whereas the idea that rejecting personal responsibility can be forced on you in a way that is destructive makes some viewers very uncomfortable.
I'm loving all the traffic cone stories you guys are posting. Feel free to keep it up XD
Could you do a quick video advertising the Red Dwarf set on Lego Ideas it's reached a pretty high level of supporters but has slowed down I think a lot of Red Dwarf fans would love the set me included and I think all dwarfers would be very sad if it were to not get through
My home town has a state of the first king of Scotland and every Halloween someone puts a traffic cone on his head
Cyborcat It is quite charming how they've dominated this comment section.
You should search Lord Wellington statue Glasgow If you want a laugh.
It's a bit of a tradition in the UK. One of the statues in Glasgow, Scotland has a traffic cone on it's head, that a bunch of Neds/Chavs thought would be funny and the city council is cool with it, so they left it on statue and became a icon of the city.
That's hilarious XD
happens in madestone too I've never seen the statue with out it
I remember my older Brother who was quite wild when he was young coming home with a cone on his head proclaiming himself to be "Merlin the Wizard". My parents were furious needless to say.
I worked security for a construction site near a pub when I was younger. Number one issue was drunk people making off with traffic cones and portable road signs.
The traffic cone thing is... Well over here in the UK it always seems that, after a /very/ heavy night out.... For some reason you always end up stealing a traffic cone and bringing it back.
And yes, I am talking 100% from personal experience here; having done it several times in the past. I've got quite a collection.
That's too funny.
In my first year of uni I had a dozen traffic cones in my flat and several road signs all after nights out
we all wore them said 'look I'm a wizard'
And now you have context!
So where the smeg DID he get it? XD
My sister's dormmate stole a cone one night and brought it back to the dorm. A few days later the University people (idk I don't go to University) came and knocked on their dorm, demanding they return it. Apparently it was much funnier than it sounds.
Ah yes, the Traffic Cone. I woke up with a few of them when I was at Uni after one too many the night before!
Still don't know where they came from though.
I totally forgot about the Marilyn Monroe droid. Now I wish it had made a reappearance during the fight with Hudzen (Kryten’s replacement) and distracted him.
This is one of my favorite episodes, for all the reasons you listed and the running joke with "Where do all the calculators go?" That line just makes me giggle for some reason. XD
I really love your RedDwarf vlogs, and yes I as to the traffic cones, I remember my brother sneaking home at 3 in the morning with 2 traffic cones and half a male mannequin... no clue...
Wow XD
I had quite a collection of wired crap. Ladies underwear, traffic signs, pornography, a small tree & drugs that I found.
I remember a college party at The Torrens pub, one drunk guy nicked the wet floor cone (like a traffic cone, except is yellow and says wet floor) from the toilets, went outside and decided to blow a raspberry through it, turning the thing into a DIY megaphone. Result was a dog getting scared senseless, a cat running up a tree and my friend getting an earful from an irate landlord.
The opportunity to reference the "robot heaven" exchange between Kryten and Lister has come up a surprising number of times in my life.
The one and only time I have ever been drunk, I woke up with a hang over the size of Austria and in bed with a life sized model of a penguin, two traffic cones and the seat from a diesel locomotive
When I used to catch the bus to school we drove passed a statue that had a traffic cone on it's head, every single day. Only day it didn't have one was when someone had taken it down, but the next day a new traffic cone would be on its head
How is this not a fan favorite? It's one my favorite episodes of the series
But....
......where do the calculators go? I'm being serious, where do they go?
They go on to be better calculator's
I shore like the used pens they escape and find their home world if we can find that place we could make bank selling used calculators
If Rimmer were an impressionist instead of joining the Space Corps he would have had a much better life
This is one of my favorite eps. It’s kind of similar thematically to terminator 2 where the older model robot ultimately wins. There’s something emotionally satisfying about the redemption of obsolete technology. I don’t feel the same way about older people so I fail to understand why this theme appeals to me. I used to watch UA-cam videos about abandoned trucks running again.
Do you guys call traffic cones pylons? What do you call pylons?
traffic cones.
@@oj3774 you're kidding right? It's not usually just a straightforward word swap like that. Although I think the jam/jelly thing might be (never actually been sure on that one).
@@Torthrodhel yeah its a joke
@@oj3774 ah, you got me! good one
@@Torthrodhel Actually, the jelly and jam one is funny, because from what I hear, jelly what the Americans put on bread doesn't contain bits of fruit, it's a very smooth spread. Jam has bits of fruit in it. They do get jam in the states, but they prefer jelly.
As someone who spent an hour getting strawberry seeds out of my teeth, I can understand why.
Someone on tv tropes pointed out that machines that die probably get recycled, so even if there isn't a silicon heaven there's silicon reincarnation, which is unfortunate cos then 'lather-rinse-repeat'
Oof.
I haven't brought home a traffic cone but I have woke up with a roadworks sign in my garden...I must have had help dragging that back but I can't remember. Also my brother once got arrested for drunkenly trying to saw off a street sign. XD
"...there's a very real possibility that your parents were brother and sister."
You know, he wasn't a _million_ miles away.
Good point XD
Traffic cones are good for shouting in to and if you get your lips right and blow like a trumpet you can play it but it only has one note.
That also works with poster tubes, clingfilm tubes and hose pipe.
A bit like a Didgeridoo.
The traffic cone is honestly one of the funniest jokes in the whole show
6:54 theirs a few answers to that question but i reckon they're not ones you wanna hear...
Sometimes you need to break some bricks
I distinctly remember being driven through town by my mum and seeing a traffic cone on top of a traffic light; we had a good chuckle about it and I mentioned it to my brother when we got home and he was like "yeah... my bad" 😂
I have to say on the scale of the best moments in the series: this episode is up there, now it's no Rimmer munchkin song or Mr.Flibels, but still
Although you missed mentioning it in this video, the driink that Holly prepared for Kryten was a mixture of Vimto and WD40. Vimto is kind of carbonated fruit drink in the UK. I would assume Wd-40 is better known as Duck Oil (a lubricant)
When I was teen I managed to record two episodes of Red Dwarf off of PBS onto VHS. One was this and the other was Timeslides. I wore those tapes out.
"That's funny coming from a guy who got French kissed by his uncle"
And also has a crush on his 2 cousins!
was probably just a uncle in name only as in a friend of the family, alot of the time a close friend to a mother could be called auntie despite not actually being related and the same for uncles
wee bit of trivia- Frankie goes to Hollywood- two tribes remixes featured Chris Barrie intimating Ronald Regan. Loving these vlog, thanks heaps from Australia.
Random thought while watching this.... shame Telltale Games died. Imagine a Red Dwarf licenced adventure game. They did well with Walking Dead and BttF. This would have been something I'd buy.
Love that the man telling them that cryten will be terminated is called Jim Reaper.
Holy shit, how did I never catch that? Too distracted by Robert Lewellen without make-up, I guess =P
Darn, I was hoping he was Professor Mamet’s fiancé.
Looking at the "Up Next" list, a weird crossover entered my brain. Pinhead meets the crew of Red Dwarf. Cryten: Sir, you look like an android in diagnostic mode.
XD
Pinhead to Rimmer: Your suffering is legendary, even in Hell!
And then they defeat Pinhead by throwing Lister’s dirty socks at him.
6:57 I think that's just another example of how smegged up this version of the future is.
As for Hudzen 10's... brick breaking (?)... Didn't Cat once say something about a Black and Decker drill somewhere and walls...
I recently saw a traffic cone perched on top of a zebra crossing beacon.
Krytes is my favourite character, this episode was a sad one for me when I was young
Something I have always wondered is if Cat and Rimmer asked for their gifts back afterwards
Good question XD I could definitely see Rimmer doing that.
Yes, although Rimmer might be sneaky and get the Skutters to steal it back.@@Cyborcat
Pretty sure this whole traffic cone scene was inspired by the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy :)
had the awkward moment of what to do with all the traffic signs i had in my room (including the traffic cones) when I left university. Uk drunks are cleptomaniacs?
Jim Reaper is a great name....
Silicon heaven does make a comeback in season 12
A Belgium waffle with whipped cream and fresh strawberries is my breakfast of choice but if it was in the garbage it would stay there lol.
I loved it a lot, too. But I thought Rimmer's French Kissing story was hilarious, especially when he talks about how his cousins seemed to be falling for him. Could that be why Rimmer's family is like it is? Could his family have married their cousins?
This is a great comradery episode. It looks like from here on in, the comradery is more poignant and friendlier. This one really makes a person feel good.
The Marilyn Monrobot is Grant and Naylor predicting Wish.com.
I actually think this episode asks a pretty interesting sci-fi question. So much of our consumer lifestyle is based on the idea of planned obsolescence, what happens when we have actual sentient AI? Will it still be practical in a world where people develop actual emotional attachment to their electronics? What are the human rights implications? One of the things I love about RD is the way it's funny and silly but sometimes it hits on something much deeper without you even noticing.
REQUISITE TRAFFIC CONE STORY: One time my flatmate brought a whole load of traffic cones home, purely because he'd seen this episode and felt he had to pay tribute.
I swear having an uncle named Frank always ends in disaster. Kirsy Cotton can agree with that.
Got a bit of a sad one a few years ago in Dunedin NZ I was working for ministry of works around university area. One particular student loved to make off with traffic cones, control signs you name it. The guy I was working under realising how many he had, knocked politly on the flat and asked him to please put the signs and cones at the gate and nothing would come of it. The guy was really nasty. Really nasty. Next day tapped at the door again and got very rude response so my boss called the police. Guy changed tune very rapidly but my boss refused to drop the charges and the guy was doing a law degree. He got thrown out of law school because of criminal charges. Felt badly for the student but if the roading guys ask nicely for Thier traffic cones you might want to give it back
You are fast coming up on the very first Red Dwarf episode I watched.
I grew up in an old mining town with a statue. Would often see him wearing a traffic cone. :)
I remember hearing a story from my dorm advisor about a kid who got himself drunk and tried to make off with a Advisor’s pet hamster
Traffic cone no, but a shopping trolley (cart)
On my way to university and back I would pass by a statue that would have a traffic cone, either on its head or arm.
Fun fact. The misprint in the Bible has a basis in reality, though not "hope"/"hop" mistake. It's called the Wicked Bible or the Sinner's Bible published in the 1600s. It contains several misprints, with the most famous being the exclusion of the word NOT in one of the 10 commandments making "Thou shalt not commit adultery," into "Thou shalt commit adultery." Also in Deuteronomy the word "greatness" is printed as "great-asse" so it reads "Behold, the Lord our God hath shewed us his glory and his great-asse".
"The Lord hath America's asse!"
The traffic cone thing is just the sort of thing young lads might do on the way home from the pub.
Graffiti and minor vandalism seem to be part of drinking culture for young men. (normally miner and mostly comical)
like adding the letter I to a "To Let" sign
Stealing a small tree in a plant pot and trying to take it on a buss with your two mates just so when the buss driver askes you can say "Just the Tree of us".
Finding a small car and turning it around (by picking it up) or hiding your mates motorbike.
Turning road signs around or connecting the gaps in the 30 sign to make it say 80.
I've still got a "danger of death" sign with a man getting electrocuted, i have no idea where from or how much danger i was in trying to get it. (it must be 25 years old ish now)
This one and back to Reality is some of my fav.
wait in less I'm mistaken the premise of the series is that through an accident leister and the rest are egons in the future and the human race is petty much gone. so who sent the robot replacement for krton?
The droid had been traveling for over a million years, just as the Red Dwarf has been, and has just caught up with them. It's the same way they get mail in other episodes.
this series is wired
Wired to what?? Better disarm it. Or did you mean "weird"? 'Cause it is, but in a good way.
As Cyborcat explained, that's also the reason the replacement has gone insane by the time it reaches Red Dwarf
Apparently you never did a lot of heavy drinking at a major US college. Traffic signs and traffic cones are popular drunken things to steal and bring back to the dorm. Or so I’ve heard 😂.
I dont get how Kryten was able to lie in this episode, and then the very next episode, lister is teaching him how to lie. Bit of a continuity drop there !
I've read that this episode was written as a replacement for another that was then dropped for being considered too sexist and homophobic as it dealt with Lister and his two newborn sons.
the episode was acted out with Chris Barrie doing the voices and storyboards. this was on the dvds and blu-rays but you can find it on youtube sometimes.
the episode Dad was meant as the series three opening episode. it would be the first appearance of the rebuilt kryten and why holly is now female and the events of the episode are told in the scrawling text that appears before the episode Backwards. There is a joke in the episode that predicted the plot of a famous movie and its star five years before the film came out.
With the web and ai silicon heaven might be real, it is just a massive server bank full of ais ala the matrix
in this episode, kryten can lie, yet later lister had to teach him to lie by breaking his programming
To be fair, he is lying to another machine. As he's made to serve, I guess it's just that he can't lie to humans? /shrugs.
+Dethneko or it's because he was drunk
Ah yes, Lister´s parents, it´s um... intresting to say the least XD
From another classic British sitcom
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Love these vlogs by the way, bringing back so many memories
Quite a jump of literalism to think that the Bible praising hop means you should hop every Sunday.
On reflection I've come to realise The Last Day acts as a companion piece to Timewave. While LD is about religion acting as a balm for the ego against societal demands, Timewave is about abandoning all codes of self-discipline for the sake of protecting the ego.
LD's satire of religiosity is something most people are comfortable with, whereas the idea that rejecting personal responsibility can be forced on you in a way that is destructive makes some viewers very uncomfortable.