REACTING TO RED DWARF (First time!) | Series 1 Ep. 1 THE END
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the first time i watched harry potter i went "oh its peterson!"
Which was nice (hope you get that reference)
suits you, sir@@alundavies1016
@@alundavies1016 welcome to Jessie's fashions tips, this week, I shall be mostly wearing yoghurt!?
Oh suits you sir ...
I still do that with Father Brown!
@@vincentking2552 I'll get my coat.
This was totally missed by the watching public when it was first released, and it was only really saved from total obscurity by the fact the second series was already commissioned. Series 2 caught some more watchers when it came out and they decided to show series 1 again and play it all in order. They had no budget, and the cast were a long way away from being well known then, but they all became stars. It's totally fantastic and you're going to love it.
ah interesting! Sounds like quite the slow burn, then :)
@@MeganRuth Yes, later series, with shows like 'Back To Reality' are incredibly funny.
@@MeganRuth Maybe from series 3 onwards where it starts to get even better, with an added character and a fuller set; even in series 2, there are episodes that have clever, unexpected 'endings'.
Also saved by the fact episode 2 was the second most-watched thing on BBC2 that week.
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It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere,
I'm all alone, more or less.
Let me fly, far away from here,
Fun, fun, fun, In the sun, sun, sun.
I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose,
Drinking fresh, mango juice,
Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes,
Fun, fun, fun, In the sun, sun, sun,
Fun, fun, fun, In the sun, sun, sun,sun. My funeral song❤
Funny...I want mine to be see you later alligator...
I memorised this song.......
Something the show doesn't convey, but the novels do.
Lister was using his job on Red Dwarf as a free ride from the outer solar system back to Earth.
By the start of the episode he is sick of the work, sick of bunking with Rimmer and comes up with a plan to get put in stasis by committing a petty crime just bad enough to qualify for punishment by stasis.
He made sure the cat was healthy and vaccinated. He though he would be arrested quickly once the ships sensors detected a non-human lifeform. When nothing happened for a while, then Lister took the photograph and sent it in to be developed.
I think it´s funny when you see Cat (and the fact who his parents were and the history of cat species on RD as general), considering that Frankenstein had literaly the best pedigree Lister could find.
Red Dwarf is a great series. It starts as a character-based sitcom in the first couple of series, then it gets a bigger budget and more complex sci-fi tropes are explored whilst still being funny. You’re in for a treat if you carry on with this, which I’m all for. Just subscribed.
"Hello. Megan from the future here..."
Good to see you getting into the spirit of the show right from the off!
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😂 I guess I did! Didn't I? 😆
The Red Dwarf rabbit hole is very very deep. It's one of the best sci-fi comedies out there.
I'll say! They started making it in 1988 and it's still running today. It's even older than The Simpsons.
Red Dwarf is my all-time favourite comedy show. I look forward to seeing your reactions to the other episodes.
Red Dwarf is the name of the ship. A Red Dwarf is a type of star, like the sun. The ship is an old mining ship that mines for ore on the outer planets then ships the materials to Earth. The trip takes years. The main cast are two low level employees on the ship.
Yeah Red Dwarf not only transports mined minerals though... You see in the long shot in the intro that there seems to be a rocky protuberance on the bottom of the ship ?... well that is an actual asteroid that the ship is cannibalizing on it's journey between the outer planets (as alluded to in Lister's seemingly throwaway song at the beginning of the episode "Ganymede to Titan, you know I've been around." So.. the Red Dwarf is a mining ship that mines as it goes and it's so big that it also has manufacturing facilities on board to so that not only are mineral resources delivered to the moons of the outer solar system, but finished products as well to aid in the colonization of these minor worlds. I mean the guys, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor really put a lot of thought into the world building for this show's premise !
And that also answers one of the questions Megan had about where Cat got the material for his suit... Red Dwarf, being a truly colossal ship has vast stores of goods manufactured from each moon to deliver to the next AND it has facilities to manufacture goods from the materials it is constantly mining during it's journey for the years long trip it cycles through the solar system.
@@paulwalsh2344 I'd never thought of taking a whole asteroid and mining directly from it in transit. It makes much more sense owing to the flight time.
@@sephjnr it's almost the same as the mining ship in Alien.
"A Red Dwarf is a type of star, like the sun." Well, a type of star, yes, but our Sun is not a red dwarf.
@@fllthdcrb yet
Red Dwarf is one of the most iconic British comedies ever.. and it's still going! 😋
5:25 Captain Hollister is played by Mac Mcdonald. He had a small role in the extended cut of James Cameron's Aliens (1986).
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Ah nice! I haven't seen Aliens yet. I should give it a watch!
He was also the cop in The Fifth Element who ordered a McDonalds, then while chasing Bruce Willis, crashed into a McDonalds truck. I think it must have been an intentional pun on his name.
Also a Goon for Jack Nicholson's Joker.
Flea, lad !
@@emucat1emu.... 👋👋👋👋😁
So Glad you watching this please watch them all the just get better
This is a fantastic series ,but it really picks up during season 2,and from there it goes interstellar with the humour and the Sci-Fi ideas.
Is it a spoof of sci-fi dramas such as Star Trek, or merely a sitcom set in space?
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@@RobertTaylor-gz2fu It's a sci-fi sitcom.
@@jvgreendarmok Is it a parody/spoof or not?
I loved it from the beginning ! I love this first series ! I mean, later series are amazing too, but this series to me has a real charm that I will always hold dear.
Of note; from the opening, repainting the hull is an old seafaring punishment duty. Showing that Lister has been in trouble before 😯🤣
This is such a great TV series, please watch it all if possible. 😄
I remember seeing the trailer for this and being - as a sci-fi nerd - kind of intrigued. So I was glad to get into it from the start. It's a real slow build, like a lot of British sitcoms now considered classics. And of course there are a lot of British sitcoms that are basically about the interaction between two people (usually, but not always guys). These early episodes also have a flavour of 'Porridge', what with their enforced imprisonment together on the ship. And a Red Dwarf is a real thing, sort of. A small red sun, low on energy.
Cannot wait for he changing the light bulb gag, I will leave it at that, it does often get brought up in some top British comedy moments. You picked a good one, I lived off programmes like this in my childhood/teens.
Worth watching: this caught on slowly, and became one of the best things British TV ever made. Yes, really.
Just like Only Fools and Horses
Red Dwarf has some very quotable lines that you’ll be dropping into everyday conversation.
Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas 😉
Smoke me a kipper I'll be back for breakfast. What a guy!
@@ziggythedrummer Quoteable, yes. Everyday conversation? Perhaps not.
Wow ! This is a show that starts off mildly good, gets better, and better, becomes truly superb, then compulsive viewing, before ending up legendary. This is one rabbit hole you won't escape from. Venomous humour where the main characters, utter side splitting one liners and plot twists. Always delivers, never disappoints. Ground breaking for its time, nothing before or after has attempted these story lines. Mind gets blown. Has a huge fan base. Almost cult status.
Might be my second, all time favourite comedy.
What is first ? The Goodies starting Tim Brooke -Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie. Ran for 12 years. Best slap stick comedy. The only British comedy which was asked to tone down the constant laughs, after a man died from watching it !!
I think it passed 'almost' cult status
It's great ! Top three for me ! It starts of quite good in my opinion and just gets better from there for a few seasons ! It just suffered from low budgets due to the BBC taking a gamble on the show at the beginning. But the writing, character building and sci-fi concepts are great in that first series !
Red Dwarf is great.
Like a lot of long-running comedies It takes the writer's and actor's a few seasons to refine and flesh out the characters.
I think season 3 is when everything starts really coming together, and season 4 is when it hits its stride.
There's plenty to like in the early seasons, lot's of world building and character development between the laughs.
3:40 His name is Mark Williams. Also one of the members of the 90s comedy sketch show, The Fast Show. Which you should also watch.
'Lovely old tree'. 😂
Today, I have mostly been eating …
@@butnooneshome...which was nice.
@@bujin1977 You ‘ain’t seen me, right …
Series 1 and 2 are a warm up, series 3 is where the show starts to really hit it's stride.
Red Dwarf is kinda a horror story. Imagine hust waking up from a coma and everyone is dead and you are far frim your home planet, and everyone there is most likely dead anyway or completely different species wise.
It starts out as "The Odd Couple, but in space" and gradually morphs, over the seasons, into "Star Trek, but ridiculous." [In fact there's even some tropes and conceits people think of as "star trek" ideas or whatever that actually come from Red Dwarf first, that's how old, and how good, this is.]
It's clever and unique high-concept science fiction can measure up to any serious sci-fi drama, especially for its time. It's character comedy is funnier than most sitcoms. At it's high points, Red Dwarf is clicking on both fronts and there's just nothing else like it. Keep up with this one.
Reacting to Red Dwarf? Instant sub and like!! Stick with this, from series 2 to series 6 it's proper epic!
First of all... the intro... what a great scene to establish the premise that the story is taking place on a big ship... a REALLY BIG SHIP ! I've loved Red Dwarf from the very first episode I ever saw... which I'm pretty sure was actually one from later on in this first series... But "The End" was a superb beginning !
This was one of the best shows for years. Super funny from start to finish.
Missed my favourite joke about the library book.
"ive been asleep for 3 million years?!?, ive still got that library books!!"
Good that Red Dwarf was chosen as The IT Crowd has been reacted to so many times by other reactors I subscribed too
Thank you! 😊
@@MeganRuthBut you should still definitely watch the IT Crowd. It's really good. Same kind of humour as Father Ted (obviously - same creator!)
Red Dwarf, IT Crowd, Blackadder. My 3 favs 😀
The IT Crowd is pretty fantastic too though... but Red Dwarf is the much better choice...
@@bujin1977 should still react to The IT Crowd cafter red dwarf
There's a german version same storylines as uk called Das I Team
Believe me, predicting anything that happens on RED DWARF is a herculean task.
Yes, Red Dwarf is apparently also the name of a type of star which was the inspiration for the show's title!
I love the theme music from the first series. The portentous trumpet, organ and bass drum. Just beautiful.
This show used to air the first two seasons on PBS in the Detroit area when I was a younger. They used to import a lot of British low budget sci-fi and play it on the weekends.
It gets better with each episode with some seriously clever plot lines, this was an intro really , go with it 😂😂
Time to binge watch Red dwarf again 😊
Gotta love red dwarf watched them many times I still love them
Back in the 90s this would be on the PBS marathon fundraising drive days. Me and my HS friends would get together and have marathon parties. If I recall, Season 1 was quite different than the future seasons.
The ship is named after a type of star. There are various types: white dwarf, red dwarf, red giant, etc.
Probably the best first episode of any tv series in, well, ever.
It was a fantastic series premiere ! From the first shot of the intro it perfectly set the premise of the show !
Contender for best first scene of any TV series from about the same time ua-cam.com/video/MtA0KAHelEc/v-deo.html
A show fondly remembered by the UK black community as half of the stars were black but weren’t written to be black unlike a lot of shows of the era.
Weren't written to be black? When one of the characters rips off James Brown?
Man. The song alone gives me nostalgia of growing up in the 90s. In the UK, the 90s was full of brilliant sitcoms. Red dwarf, bottom, brittas empire, brass eye, Alan Partridge, Father Ted, Only Fools and Horses. The list goes on.
Watching the Galifrey Gals it took them a while to get into the show. I think the show does take a while to "get going". I say that as someone who watched it the first time around as a kid.
Danny John-Jules the actor cat was one the Doo Wop singers in the little shop horrors
The ship is massive and has supplies for hundreds of people to last for years, plus it was transporting raw materials. As the radiation levels drop in sections they will open up to the crew.
I think it's 5 miles long.
@@misterprecocious2491 I read SIX miles long ! And Red Dwarf not only transports raw materials though... You see in the long shot in the intro that there seems to be a rocky protuberance on the bottom of the ship ?... well that is an actual asteroid that the ship is cannibalizing on it's journey between the outer planets (as alluded to in Lister's seemingly throwaway song at the beginning of the episode "Ganymede to Titan, you know I've been around." So.. the Red Dwarf is a mining ship that mines as it goes and it's so big that it also has manufacturing facilities on board to so that not only are mineral resources delivered to the moons of the outer solar system, but finished products as well to aid in the colonization of these minor worlds. I mean the guys, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor really put a lot of thought into the world building for this show's premise !
@@paulwalsh2344 the setting for Red Dwarf is inspired by films like Blade Runner and Alien... it's just a comedy take on those settings. In fact the creator envisioned it as happening during Blade Runner. That film constantly talks about what is going on off planet, but we never see it.
@@RetroRobotRadio I can't remember which series (I think now that I mention it, it was the three-parter "Back To Earth a.k.a. series IX which heavily borrowed from the plot of Blade Runner), there was a shot of they boys from the dwarf in a giant room with a shaft and mining equipment down into the floor ... presumably into that asteroid I described and there's also mention in scenes from those later series about manufacturing decks (not just diesel decks like mentioned in the earlier series). Also I'm pretty sure what I described about the Red Dwarf's mission was detail in one of the first two Red Dwarf novels which I read. though I can't go and prove it right now because I lost the books decades ago.
Also, in the commentary from some of the early series, Chris Barrie indicates to Norm Lovett the asteroid integrated under the ship as does Robert LLewellyn later in a Kryten series.
A red dwarf is also a kind of star, we learnt that in school, didn't we?
They are very common. Fifty of our sixty nearest stars are red dwarfs. You can't see any of them in the sky though, as they are not bright enough.
The show is named after the ship and the ship is named after a type of star.
I gathered it was named after the ship! I didn't know about the start, though. Thanks! :)
It's also because it is red... And huge.
@@MeganRuthThe writers didn't intend the ship to literally be red. There was a miscommunication with the model builders and they ran with it.
@@djco5782understandable as the model makers had worked for Anderson where most craft were primary coloured.
",,, its a chicken!" 😅😂
I do so love this show...
Lister's idyllic, rural dream life involves breeding horses. He aspires also to keep a sheep and a cow. He just put these details in a rather confusing order. 🤣 🐏 🐮 🐎 🐎
WoohOO!! Red Dwarf! It's so cool seeing people watch this episode totally blind, as hardly anyone caught it in the UK, so everyone saw it spoiled. Even with the internet, hardly anyone does reaction videos about it, so this is only the second good reaction video I've seen of it... and it was a joy! Thanks. I'm looking forward to more. It's not a series which sits still and I can't wait to see what you think of the revelations and plot twists to come!
I was fortunate to catch this in NZ when it screened as part of a fringe entertainment show. Right place, right time I guess.
Yes the ship is called Red Dwarf. But that's also a type of star.
I have been following your channel for long time but I have never left a comment until now. I hope you keep watching Red Dwarf. Each series gets better and better. The 4th series and 6th series is my all time favs. Script writing is amazing. Love your reactions.
Moreover, Whilst it's called Red Dwarf based on the name of the ship, Red Dwarf is called Red Dwarf because of the type of star, the smallest type of star and the most common type of star in the Milky Way
this was my favourite comedy growing up, closely by blackadder, it is so good to see people still find it entertaining! keep up the great work please, big love to all people :)
The first 2 series are a little (and occasionally a lot) rough around the edges, but when you hit 3 (and I thoroughly recommend it) it really picks up. As a life long fan (yes, I remember the original transmission, I AM that old) I enjoy watching people experiencing anything I've loved for their first time, as I can never get that back. (Be it TV, film, books, etc) 😁
The cat is played by Danny John-Jules who went on to appear in "Death in Paradise" which is also worth a watch.
He’s also in Blade II
You know what they say about working with children and animals; the spill was just a thing that happened on the best take of that scene.
Let me be the 221st to inform you; a red dwarf (in context of astronomy) is a class of star characterized by its hue and its dimness relative to other stars. I believe the showrunners' joke is that these particular lovable, sad-act shipmates make life for one another less than stellar.
Red Dwarf's are also small coolest stars.
My favourite series of all time, never mind sitcom, or British.
Honestly your fans picked well. It crowd is great, but even bad red dwarf is good, it gets better every season n for most people peaks at series 5 or 6 (5 for me)
Love watching these reactions as I've watched them all so many times it's good to get a fresh take. Series 1 and 2 aren't as entertaining as later episodes on a rewatch.
This was the first, and perhaps only, sci-fi production set in space where the premise was that space travel would be boring - more like being on an oil rig than people meeting aliens every week and having laser blaster fights.
Literally one of the very best sitcoms ever, that only gets better and better and better with each series.
It’s your “future echo” Megan, and you’re going to Love this show as it goes on.
So happy you’re doing this, lots of love from across the pond. ❤
This is the very first episode. Ironically Titled The End. Mark Williams from The Fast Show (plays Father Brown in the Series of the Title Character). I want to return after I've died. To watch my funeral
Oh YES!…PLEASE Do some more🤗. how I miss this show!! It is VERY British though and a bit old so…😏 You’re forgiven if this one episode is all you can take 🥰.
The first season is a bit claustrophobic, but the basic premise is funny. Its sort of "Odd Couple" but instead of sharing an apartment, theyre stuck in a spaceship 😂😂
Once it started to become successful, they increased the cast and got more adventurous with the storylines and it became a classic comedy show
I love the randomness of this.
Big fan here. Welcome to the Drawf club. This show just gets better and better the longer it runs. Each episode is different. Don't try to work things out just enjoy the show.
Oh Dear! what have you done!? Started watching Red Dwarf that's what. Have fun fun fun.
You are going to love this❤
Great show. I hope you keep reacting to it.
I watched this now and realized I had seen it before. I don't know if I mentioned it but I found it to be snicker-worthy that she corrected herself from not knowing that this was set in space, and realized afterwards "Red Dwarf" was the name of the spaceship. Correcting herself from not knowing... to technically be correct yet still not getting it..
But I think my mirth is overtaken by what of an indictment the entire thing is when it comes to the school system that she isn't aware that a "Red dwarf" is the name of a specific type of sun... (or was it a "stage" of a specific type of sun's "life"? My memory isn't what it used to be).. Don't they have physics classes where she lives?
Very funny stuff!
Indeed!
The milk scene you talked about... Look for something called _The Smeg Outs_ and _The Smeg Ups_ (outtakes) or listen to the cast commentary audio track.
You'll learn that Craig Charles was getting tired of reshooting that scene over and over again because the cat just wouldn't cooperate. It got to the point where they were in a hurry because it was the end of the day and having to reset the set each time was getting tedious.
A red dwarf is a type of star.
This is one of the best british comedies and one of my favourites, as stated it does get better so i hope you stick with it and enjoy the journey. As stated series 2 is where it really starts to pick up 😊
Yes I plan to stick with it! I'm looking forward to watching more :)
Actually, while I agree series 2 is when it picks up, I'd say the very next episode in this series 'Future Echoes', is up there with the best there is. The others aren't bad, either. Just saying in case Megan is worried there will be a slog before she reaches the good stuff. It's just a case of things improving... FE being the exception as that episode has it all pretty much!
@mardroidmk1393 for sure it is no slog at all, and as you say future echoes is up there too
Loved the interactions once Kryten arrived to round out the crew !
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Love Red Dwarf, been a fan from the books and then the show came out. watch all the seasons. the last 5 season have a gap of 10-15yrs in production. the good thing with the gap is they had a much larger budget and CGI tec is way cooler.
really good show Red Dwarf l remember watching first time during final few episodes
Yeh welcome to the crew the only answers you can expect are to questions nobody asked and they'll be wrong anyway have fun.
Love Red Dwarf, I remember a Red Dwarf celebration type show with a selection of interviews with various notaries including Sir Patrick Stewart who said how Red Dwarf was showing as he was making Star Trek TNG, but before it was released, and he was about to call his agent thinking it was a rip off series, until he started laughing and realised it was a parody of Sci-Fi space shows which take themselves too seriously.😋
If you get the chance read the books, it becomes clear just how well Red Dwarf is written and avoids the barrier of dated production values. Hilarious.
us brits wre so lucky to have grown up with this show.
I am a huge fan of Red Dwarf, as with Rising Damp though, the first episode isn't the best in my opinion but they get way way better! Actually the guy who plays Philip in Rising Damp makes an appearance in one of the later series of Red Dwarf!
Red dwarf quality drops off as seasons progress, then they pick up again later.
IT is really really good/funny, don't sleep on it.
Alone in space, makes for a unique experience. Thank you for reaction 😊
Red dwarfs are stars with very low mass and very low luminosity, as compared to the Sun. They make up 70% of all stars and their lifespans range from one to ten trillion years.
and a red dwarf is a type of star
Others you will probably enjoy are 'The young ones' and 'Bottom' (especially the 4 live stage shows but the TV series as well)
🥳🥳🥳🥳 Love this for you 🥳🥳🥳🥳
While I really enjoy Red Dwarf, it’s one of those shows I feel went on for far too long. To date it has been running for 12 series, but it really should have ended after series 6. I’ve looked at a lot of lists of fans ranking all of the series of the show and every single one has the first 6 series in the top 6 which say it all.
Agreed, Only Fools should have ended in 1996 and The Royle Family should have ended in 2006, I like to pretend they did. My favourite 20 Red Dwarf episodes includes every single one from 2 and 3 plus most of 4. I thought the 2020 film was brilliant though
It's hard to think of the best ending to Red Dwarf except that they get back to Earth
Red Dwarf has a lot in common with the film Dark Star which is an awrsome film
Huh, the actor who played Peterson also played Arthur Weasley? Did not know that. Then again its been years since i watched the hp films
Whoa, I never noticed Arthur Weasly was Petersen! 😮 I did spot Peter Pettigrew as the quippy disorientation attendant at the VR-type experience in S5, though. How much more overlap with the HP casts is there?
"One living, breathing human being" technically yes lol
My favourite programme EVER! The first series is a slow burn though.
This is the funniest television show ever! 😂
Great series there are 13 seasons
Red dwarf 1
Red dwarf 2
Red dwarf 3
Red dwarf 4
Red dwarf 5
Red dwarf 6
Red dwarf 7
Red dwarf 7
Red dwarf 9- back to earth
Red dwarf 10
Red dwarf 11
Red dwarf 12
Red dwarf 13 - the promised land
Even though it may not seem like it from the first episode, Red Dwarf is a great series. Twelve series (seasons) and a movie, starting in 1988 to 2020, I got hooked on it when it aired on my local PBS station in the early 90's. It pays around with many sci-fi tropes. One of the many that they tried to make an American version of but it never got past the pilot stage.