I got into Red Dwarf the very first series back in 1988 when I was still at Secondary School/High School when I was 14! Still absolutely LOVE the show and like to watch every episode in order once a year, even that tradition has to be a decade old for me. Damn, I'm so old!
As a smuggler once said, "She's not much to look at, but she's got it where it counts." Starbug is an underdog ship, battling on against a hostile universe and performing far beyond anything she has any right to be capable of. She looks the infinite terrors of the void straight in its millions of googly eyes and tells them to Smeg-Off!
Speaking seriously though, one thing that I felt that Red Dwarf always did supremely well was the appalling oblivion of deep space. Even in the early series when the crew are still aboard Red Dwarf with all its amenities there's a conscious undercurrent of everyone struggling to keep their heads above water and not drown in the sheer terminal boredom of being three million years out from civilisation. In series 6 & 7 when they move to Starbug full-time they also really do make it clear that the Dwarfers are utterly on the bones of their arse and living hand-to-mouth on whatever they can scavenge. It's surprisingly aware for a show that has a reputation for just being a slacker comedy, and I appreciate that your video took some time to cover that.
I think you’ve described exactly why the show has such lasting appeal. The early series, being broadly low in budget and energy allowed the show to lean into more philosophical areas and though the book went into more detail, the general sadness and guilt of being the last man alive. I covered a lot of that off in my second Red Dwarf episode, too. Life on Starbug has more to distract, but the core story of a bunch of guys stuck together still applies - no life, no job, no sex - and as someone who was on lockdown with two other men in a small flat from 2020, it feels VERY familiar. What I love from S6 is how the boys do take things more seriously - taking shifts, fixing problems, doing what they have to do to survive and only just about managing to do that!
To correct you on a small point. The reheat does not give them a burst of speed. To save on fuel they travel by using thrust and then running on inertia. When they reheat its because they need to move the ship or change course.
@@daddust my explanation makes way more sense. I really dont think it's an after burner. I think it's literally just turning the engine back on or opening it up to full throttle. What does a JMC mining transport need with an after burner? Since they are trapped in deep space without red dwarf it would make sense that they cant continuously run their engines or risk running out of fuel. Hence they reheat the engines when needed and run on inertia.
Rockets don’t use afterburners. Starbug fires its rockets continuously. In reality, fuel would have gone within minutes. It also impossibly corrects a spin with no reaction thrusters.
Another wonderful video! I asked you if you were gonna make a Starbug video after your last Red Dwarf episode, and you did not disappoint! I love Starbug, even though it looks like a shit place to live! But it's the toughest and most surprising little piece of junk ever! And the boys from the 'Dwarf' have gone on so many adventures with Starbug and owe their continued existence to it!!! XD I think Starbug deserves a place in the history of little ships that 'could'!
Couldn’t have put it better myself! It’s not exactly a flying hotel, but what it lacks in grace it makes up for with sheer bloody mindedness! That baby has crashed more than George Michael and still comes up punching!
I remember first watching Red Dwarf VI as a child in the 90s, having not seen prior series, Starbug was all I knew at the time and in some ways it felt like a live action Thunderbirds thanks to the models.
Brilliant video. Thoroughly entertaining. Still waiting on a video of the greatest Space ship in a UK program: The System's Deep Space Vehicle 2... Liberator
The one thing I recall about Blue Midget that stood out, was that it had deployable legs to act as a surface Walker and that Cat made a whole hanger of them dance once
@@weldonwinIt was revealed however , that was all in cat's mind because he was put into a mind probe system to prove the It was revealed however, that was all in cat's mind because he was put into a mind. Probe system to prove the crew's innocence. The psycho hallucinogenic aesthetic drug was on the labels
You should do a video in this series for Blue Midget...both types. AND, the "redesigned" Red Dwarf from series 7-8... A J Rimmer's reaction after "THAT is a time hole" is pure comedic genius! 5:43 You notice there's no stars...? I did. Hit the Retros! In any kind of stasis, hair and nails would't grow... 9:25 Starbug was miles from Red Dwarf, how far does the computer project...??? Streets Of Laredo...I believe it's pronounced "La-Ray-Do" 25:40 Thats Kinitowowi, not what you said...and one was Ainsley Harriet! Fun Fact: The "Lister Of Smeg" and "Jane Austin with a Tank" parts are removed on TV these days...as is the "Teaching Kryten to lie" part. Censorship, I guess...
Someone has suggested Blue Midget before - I might do it as a mini episode, not a huge amount of material to use unfortunately! Thanks for the pointers!
Born in 88 discovered redwarf in the 90s.When I was a young child and it was at that moment I knew my destiny was to be a dwarfer. Part of the posse. Proud and listered Technician third class working on the small rouge one. Give us a curry a logger and a shot of whiskey and a nice old movie on the television before bed and will be happy to do every single thing that's needed to do On shift zed
If fans don’t see the subtle similarities. The Starbug is a homage to the Eagles(Space:1999). But unlike Space:1999 and ST:Voyager. Via the logic of limits, Red Dwarf has and keep the exact number of Starbugs in the hanger bay due to the BBC budget!!!!
I just adore your videos. The whole "cruise ship review" aesthetic hits me right in my happy place. With that in mind, can I please request a review of an *actual* sci-fi cruise liner like The Fhloston Paradise from the movie The Fifth Element or something else from the TV tropes page "Starship Luxurious"? My absolute favourite ships to see you cover would be the Von Braun and Rickenbacker from System Shock 2. But I can't in good conscience ask you to spend days or weeks playing a 23 year-old video game that requires manually installing a community patch and the Rebirth mod to get the best effect. For that, I'll wait until you open a Patreon.
Thank you so much - it’s awesome to hear this style hits the spot! I would love to cover Fhloston Paradise, I’d just have to see how much footage I can squeeze out of the film - definitely can see what else we have on the TV Tropes page though! The Avalon and The Axiom are definite contenders! Patreon, you say? 🤔 Never say never!
Ah, Starbug. It has no shields. It has no weapons. Its propulsion drive is so slow it can be outpaced by most milk-floats, and its water filtration system is so ineffective it's healthier to drink Dutch beer. But as many time as it's crash-landed, it's collided, it's been shot down, it just... keeps... going!
@@SamuelBlack84 The? Fact it seems to survive.Practically everything is.What makes me think the joke behind?The name was literally done on purpose by the designers.Okay.We've made a completely useless for everything.Except surviving disasters, starship for surface to mothership transport.What do we call this literally unkillable thing. Technician beside them slaps a cockroach with them.Clipboard and goes these things just won't die. Of course that's Of course, that's what we will call it the starbug.
Red dwarf with its shoestring budget managed to become what it is simply because of the actors. You honestly couldn’t have chosen a better crew in my opinion
Are they? The Borg want to assimilate you, add your cultural and technological distinctiveness to their own. In exchange they offer you immorality and an improved quality of life, by turning you into one of them. The Simulants want to torture and kill you. They were supposed to be superior replacements for the mechanoids, but they resented having to do the bidding of humans more stupid and less capable than themselves. Although there are rogue Simulants who prefer their revenge to be in the form of a hunt to the end of space and time itself. Frankly, I don't see any resemblance. The closest thing to the Borg in Red Dwarf would be the Mechanoid Intergalactic Liberation Front from the episode Siliconia. Except if we are talking about the Borg from First Contact, then the closest would be the Exponoids from the episode Twentica.
This video makes me want to watch a bit of Red Dwarf. What I liked about Red Dwarf although a little bit exaggerated the characters spoke like real people as opposed to Star Trek. Some of the characters on Star Trek did come across as a bunch of snobs. I love Star Trek as well but not all Star Trek fans were Doctors, Scientists or Lectures. Some people like beer, curry and films. So its nice to have a little bit of relief and still enjoy a bit of science fiction.
The interior of Starbug has kinda confused me. looking at the scale shot of Rimmer and Kryten next to the ship, the interior dimensions don't seem to match the size of the exterior.
Do we really need to know how to make space?Nettle soup and dandyli's sorbet.Let alone cornfed space weevil roast. I somehow think we could do better than that.Like a book of Recipes written by creighton , but filled with suggestions by lister the cat and rimmer
I don't know. The Nostromo is a freighter. It's huge, although most of it is storage. (Which doesn't make sense BTW: It's a space ship, they could just clamp the TEUs onto and around a control module, and add trusters at the edges. It would make more sense if most of the ship proper was reaction mass or fuel, like an actual rocket. The specs list "displacement" like for a maritime ship, what is there to displace in empty space?) It has been described as a "space truck", has a crew of seven, at least five decks in the crew compartment (which, like the cabins on maritime freighters, are quite spacious), and equipped for tours that last years. In short: The Nostromo is more like Red Dwarf, except that Red Dwarf carries bulk, and is designed to house thousands of miners and their equipment. Starbug is a shuttle. The Nostromo has a shuttle, too, and, like Starbug, that shuttle has hibernation units. And a cat.
Amazing I really enjoyed this episode the most dunno why but spot on bringing back those wonderful memories from this special TV series. Smoke me a space weevil I'll be back for sexfest 😂
I really thought Lister was gonna say that since those little “black boxes” were the only things to survive plane crashes, they just started making ships out of the same material as the black boxes. Problem solved.
If you watched 'Life Aboard Red Dwarf Part 1', then you absolutely do not need to watch this, or Part 2 of the aforementioned video. They are just total retreads.
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i was born in 2002, but i'm a loyal dwarfer! Lovely to see this show still has a loyal fanbase, it's so cool!!
And adding new fans all the time 👍👍👍👍
I got into Red Dwarf the very first series back in 1988 when I was still at Secondary School/High School when I was 14! Still absolutely LOVE the show and like to watch every episode in order once a year, even that tradition has to be a decade old for me. Damn, I'm so old!
smeg head...i was watching scrap heap challenge other day with kryten 😂😂😂 and a bit of Mr brittas 😅
Absosmeginglutly
@@davekennedy6315me too exactly
As a smuggler once said, "She's not much to look at, but she's got it where it counts." Starbug is an underdog ship, battling on against a hostile universe and performing far beyond anything she has any right to be capable of. She looks the infinite terrors of the void straight in its millions of googly eyes and tells them to Smeg-Off!
Fully picturing this said to the Space Corps anthem! Beautifully put 🥰
@@spacedoutgame By Rimmer before doing something characteristically cowardly and self serving :P
“Go to red alert”
“Sir, are you sure, it will mean changing the bulb?”
Broadcast in all known frequencies and all known languages... including Welsh!
Great delivery as always by Chris!
Speaking seriously though, one thing that I felt that Red Dwarf always did supremely well was the appalling oblivion of deep space. Even in the early series when the crew are still aboard Red Dwarf with all its amenities there's a conscious undercurrent of everyone struggling to keep their heads above water and not drown in the sheer terminal boredom of being three million years out from civilisation. In series 6 & 7 when they move to Starbug full-time they also really do make it clear that the Dwarfers are utterly on the bones of their arse and living hand-to-mouth on whatever they can scavenge. It's surprisingly aware for a show that has a reputation for just being a slacker comedy, and I appreciate that your video took some time to cover that.
I think you’ve described exactly why the show has such lasting appeal. The early series, being broadly low in budget and energy allowed the show to lean into more philosophical areas and though the book went into more detail, the general sadness and guilt of being the last man alive. I covered a lot of that off in my second Red Dwarf episode, too.
Life on Starbug has more to distract, but the core story of a bunch of guys stuck together still applies - no life, no job, no sex - and as someone who was on lockdown with two other men in a small flat from 2020, it feels VERY familiar. What I love from S6 is how the boys do take things more seriously - taking shifts, fixing problems, doing what they have to do to survive and only just about managing to do that!
It has a lot in common with the film Dark Star in terms of how dull and boring deep space travel would be
This baby's crashed more times than a ZX81!🤣🤣 Glad to see Starbug in the spotlight!👍👍
Really fun video.😂👍
Thank you very much.
I miss red dwarf dearly❤️
Glad to see more Red Dwarf goodness, great work as always
Up the ziggurat, lickity split! Thanks for watching!
Great video mate! I really enjoyed it :)
To correct you on a small point. The reheat does not give them a burst of speed. To save on fuel they travel by using thrust and then running on inertia. When they reheat its because they need to move the ship or change course.
A reheat is an afterburner, it adds to existing thrust. Technobabble from Res Dwarf which you shouldn’t analyze.
@@daddust my explanation makes way more sense. I really dont think it's an after burner. I think it's literally just turning the engine back on or opening it up to full throttle. What does a JMC mining transport need with an after burner? Since they are trapped in deep space without red dwarf it would make sense that they cant continuously run their engines or risk running out of fuel. Hence they reheat the engines when needed and run on inertia.
@@willlauzon3744 a reheater is an afterburner. It’s not what you call an engine.
Rockets don’t use afterburners.
Starbug fires its rockets continuously. In reality, fuel would have gone within minutes. It also impossibly corrects a spin with no reaction thrusters.
@@Dave5843-d9m exactly. I still think my description of reheat makes more sense (see original post)
Huge red dwarf fan. Seasons 1, 2,5 and 6 are in my opionion the best of the best.
"It can't have escaped anyone's attention that things have been rather strained as of late."
Another wonderful video! I asked you if you were gonna make a Starbug video after your last Red Dwarf episode, and you did not disappoint! I love Starbug, even though it looks like a shit place to live! But it's the toughest and most surprising little piece of junk ever! And the boys from the 'Dwarf' have gone on so many adventures with Starbug and owe their continued existence to it!!! XD I think Starbug deserves a place in the history of little ships that 'could'!
Couldn’t have put it better myself! It’s not exactly a flying hotel, but what it lacks in grace it makes up for with sheer bloody mindedness! That baby has crashed more than George Michael and still comes up punching!
Thanks for bringing happy childhood memories back! I loved Red Dwarf!
Gentlemen there’s something coming toward us and it’s bigger than King Kong’s first dump of the day
I remember first watching Red Dwarf VI as a child in the 90s, having not seen prior series, Starbug was all I knew at the time and in some ways it felt like a live action Thunderbirds thanks to the models.
It's such a lovely family.
Boys from the Dwarf !
And girls
Brilliant video. Thoroughly entertaining.
Still waiting on a video of the greatest Space ship in a UK program:
The System's Deep Space Vehicle 2... Liberator
Standard by two. Confirmed.
Preferably with a compendium of Avon-isms
Blake: Does the planet have any intelligent life?
Avon: Does Liberator?
Plz continue this series, love it.
one of the best shows out there.
Love these videos please make more!!
Another great video. Starbug is one of my favourite ships. Have you considered doing a video on the Tardis?
Never say never.. but might need to wait and see if we get another episode walking around the inside!
I really wish we knew enough about the Blue Midget for you to do a follow up on those.
It has crossed my mind.. alas it would be a very short video!
The one thing I recall about Blue Midget that stood out, was that it had deployable legs to act as a surface Walker and that Cat made a whole hanger of them dance once
@@weldonwinIt was revealed however , that was all in cat's mind because he was put into a mind probe system to prove the It was revealed however, that was all in cat's mind because he was put into a mind. Probe system to prove the crew's innocence. The psycho hallucinogenic aesthetic drug was on the labels
fantastic Vid! cheers!
You should do a video in this series for Blue Midget...both types.
AND, the "redesigned" Red Dwarf from series 7-8...
A J Rimmer's reaction after "THAT is a time hole" is pure comedic genius!
5:43 You notice there's no stars...? I did. Hit the Retros!
In any kind of stasis, hair and nails would't grow...
9:25 Starbug was miles from Red Dwarf, how far does the computer project...???
Streets Of Laredo...I believe it's pronounced "La-Ray-Do"
25:40 Thats Kinitowowi, not what you said...and one was Ainsley Harriet!
Fun Fact: The "Lister Of Smeg" and "Jane Austin with a Tank" parts are removed on TV these days...as is the "Teaching Kryten to lie" part. Censorship, I guess...
Someone has suggested Blue Midget before - I might do it as a mini episode, not a huge amount of material to use unfortunately!
Thanks for the pointers!
Born in 88 discovered redwarf in the 90s.When I was a young child and it was at that moment I knew my destiny was to be a dwarfer. Part of the posse. Proud and listered Technician third class working on the small rouge one. Give us a curry a logger and a shot of whiskey and a nice old movie on the television before bed and will be happy to do every single thing that's needed to do On shift zed
If fans don’t see the subtle similarities. The Starbug is a homage to the Eagles(Space:1999). But unlike Space:1999 and ST:Voyager. Via the logic of limits, Red Dwarf has and keep the exact number of Starbugs in the hanger bay due to the BBC budget!!!!
I love those Eagles too!
TBH the Eagles were just too nice. Not even close to Starbug.
I just adore your videos. The whole "cruise ship review" aesthetic hits me right in my happy place.
With that in mind, can I please request a review of an *actual* sci-fi cruise liner like The Fhloston Paradise from the movie The Fifth Element or something else from the TV tropes page "Starship Luxurious"?
My absolute favourite ships to see you cover would be the Von Braun and Rickenbacker from System Shock 2. But I can't in good conscience ask you to spend days or weeks playing a 23 year-old video game that requires manually installing a community patch and the Rebirth mod to get the best effect.
For that, I'll wait until you open a Patreon.
Thank you so much - it’s awesome to hear this style hits the spot! I would love to cover Fhloston Paradise, I’d just have to see how much footage I can squeeze out of the film - definitely can see what else we have on the TV Tropes page though! The Avalon and The Axiom are definite contenders!
Patreon, you say? 🤔 Never say never!
I swear the models in this show were better than a lot of CG I've seen since.
"nreet, rtut, hnunga"...brilliant
Aren't you forgetting squealukol
Top content.
Great video really enjoyed
Awesome, thank you!
Ah, Starbug. It has no shields. It has no weapons. Its propulsion drive is so slow it can be outpaced by most milk-floats, and its water filtration system is so ineffective it's healthier to drink Dutch beer. But as many time as it's crash-landed, it's collided, it's been shot down, it just... keeps... going!
The great space cockroach
@@SamuelBlack84 The?
Fact it seems to survive.Practically everything is.What makes me think the joke behind?The name was literally done on purpose by the designers.Okay.We've made a completely useless for everything.Except surviving disasters, starship for surface to mothership transport.What do we call this literally unkillable thing. Technician beside them slaps a cockroach with them.Clipboard and goes these things just won't die. Of course that's Of course, that's what we will call it the starbug.
It's the Nokia 3410 of space craft
First time seeing your channel, but have you done a video on the ship from Jumping Flash?
Red dwarf with its shoestring budget managed to become what it is simply because of the actors. You honestly couldn’t have chosen a better crew in my opinion
I love how the Simulants were modelled after the Borg.
Are they?
The Borg want to assimilate you, add your cultural and technological distinctiveness to their own. In exchange they offer you immorality and an improved quality of life, by turning you into one of them.
The Simulants want to torture and kill you. They were supposed to be superior replacements for the mechanoids, but they resented having to do the bidding of humans more stupid and less capable than themselves. Although there are rogue Simulants who prefer their revenge to be in the form of a hunt to the end of space and time itself.
Frankly, I don't see any resemblance. The closest thing to the Borg in Red Dwarf would be the Mechanoid Intergalactic Liberation Front from the episode Siliconia. Except if we are talking about the Borg from First Contact, then the closest would be the Exponoids from the episode Twentica.
I love this channel ❤ smoke me a kipper!
But you missed breakfast
This video makes me want to watch a bit of Red Dwarf. What I liked about Red Dwarf although a little bit exaggerated the characters spoke like real people as opposed to Star Trek. Some of the characters on Star Trek did come across as a bunch of snobs. I love Star Trek as well but not all Star Trek fans were Doctors, Scientists or Lectures. Some people like beer, curry and films. So its nice to have a little bit of relief and still enjoy a bit of science fiction.
let turn it from blue alert to red alert are you sure sir it does involve changing the bulb
JMC margazines were the Skill Books of Red Dwarf.
Class.
The interior of Starbug has kinda confused me. looking at the scale shot of Rimmer and Kryten next to the ship, the interior dimensions don't seem to match the size of the exterior.
Rimmer got real...
Starbug Cookbook, NOW!
Do we really need to know how to make space?Nettle soup and dandyli's sorbet.Let alone cornfed space weevil roast. I somehow think we could do better than that.Like a book of Recipes written by creighton , but filled with suggestions by lister the cat and rimmer
Star Bug is very similar to the Gery Anderson "UFO" Moon Buggy.
Starbug was the Nostromo of Red Dwarf.
I don't know. The Nostromo is a freighter. It's huge, although most of it is storage. (Which doesn't make sense BTW: It's a space ship, they could just clamp the TEUs onto and around a control module, and add trusters at the edges. It would make more sense if most of the ship proper was reaction mass or fuel, like an actual rocket. The specs list "displacement" like for a maritime ship, what is there to displace in empty space?) It has been described as a "space truck", has a crew of seven, at least five decks in the crew compartment (which, like the cabins on maritime freighters, are quite spacious), and equipped for tours that last years.
In short: The Nostromo is more like Red Dwarf, except that Red Dwarf carries bulk, and is designed to house thousands of miners and their equipment.
Starbug is a shuttle. The Nostromo has a shuttle, too, and, like Starbug, that shuttle has hibernation units. And a cat.
\o/ new vid!
Not a BAD design in my opinion 😊 I'd tool around in space 🚀🌌 in that 👍👍👍👍
Total Immersion Games, now with four levels of suction...
Ocean gate could’ve used a starbug
Amazing I really enjoyed this episode the most dunno why but spot on bringing back those wonderful memories from this special TV series.
Smoke me a space weevil I'll be back for sexfest 😂
Hah! Glad you enjoyed!
Forgot about the Sirens...
Psirens
(As written by someone in desperate need of a pen)
I really thought Lister was gonna say that since those little “black boxes” were the only things to survive plane crashes, they just started making ships out of the same material as the black boxes. Problem solved.
But Black Boxes are designed to survive a crash - Lister was making a joke about plane crashes in movies.
Epidime!
I still find it very strange.That somehow , a sentient virus develops the personality of a television host for a variety hour show
I need the Luck Virus...
It only lasts for a short Time.
About thirty minutes.
CIcada bits
Space Looting!
you cant say it bug .. you gotta say it like Lister .. StahrBoog lol
That's not Holly, surely it's Hilly.
Lol, including Welsh...
Nawr clywch hyn!
Achos dim ond unwaith.
Rydym yn ildio yn llwyr a heb amodau.
diolch, sori, bye, diolch, sori bye ..
Is this Esperanto?
Trash Torpedoes❤
If you watched 'Life Aboard Red Dwarf Part 1', then you absolutely do not need to watch this, or Part 2 of the aforementioned video. They are just total retreads.
You do realise this isn't real don't you?