The "we've killed Wallace and Gromit" line is my favourite. Americans might not get it because there are no official 'Christmas special' W&G eps, it's just tradition to always show one on BBC1 on Xmas day for some reason.
The first time I saw the "Jesus! ...Yes?" bit, I was in hysterics. A bit of a shame I first saw it in the 'next time' ad that followed 'Fathers & Sons' - thus ruining the surprise when I watched the episode proper - but, still, a perfect comedic delivery.
This is, arguably, the best episode of season 10 and also, again arguably, the best episode of the modern Red Dwarf. Though there are some amazing episodes in series 11 and 12 The copper wire bit had me crying laughing the first time I saw it
Okay that makes absolutely no sense at all, none the episode ever made has anything to do with Wallace and Gromit and none of them have there cool machines.
...I think the authors were thinking of "Thomas" rather than "James"... Also, the 6th commandment in Hebrew says "murder" not simply "kill" -- and then the Torah goes on to elaborate what constitutes murder & what doesn't. Which is why we have the concept of "manslaughter vs. murder" in the West. :P Gotta put that PhD to use somehow!
It's theorized that Rimmer's mother was a former member of the Church of Judas but after marrying Rimmer's dad, she left her church and became a Seventh-Day Advent Hoppist.
That joke about Cat eating Listers organs is interesting - it shouldn't work because it's been 6 months while they walked to find Lemons - but somehow it does - just the way Cat sells it I think.
One of the best episodes in all of the ten series. So much to love. If you wanted to get someone to like Red Dwarf show them this episode, it has it all.
12:07 Not only that but Jesus from what I understand seemed like an understanding, open minded person who at least acknowledged that nobody's perfect and didn't hold it against them, makes me wonder how he'd feel about current issues now where certain people would use him to justify picking on people who are different. 6:03 Lister talking to the real Jesus at the end of the table.
I think it is interesting that Lister was the one to talk to Jesus about the good things of christianity. For he himself is a god in named only with the cat species, who all died except Cat. That scene works on levels.
Leave it to Red Dwarf to take a plot as simple as "The boys are sent back in time and travel to India to get Lemons for Lemon Batteries" and turn it into a hilarious, yet deep look into both the positives and negatives of Christianity. This is easily one of their finest outings. And hey, it also proved the undeniable truth that Lemons are Awesome! So there is that.
Oh wow lol When i heard they needed nails Knew that Rimmers Middle name was Judas, and that Jesus was in this My mind went very, very dark there for a minute before laughing my butt off realizing what could be happening but than hearing that i was like AW damn i was wrong
We don't have the loud evangelical type element of Christianity that the US has so there's less fuss when we take the piss. Our Christian fringe types just stand quietly outside abortion clinics or complain about same-sex kisses on TV shows. Less Westboro Baptists and more Ned Flanders. As far as I know there was no controversy what so ever about this episode. We've come along way since all the nonsense about Monty Phyton's Life of Brian :)
@@LadyLunarSatine The USA was founded by religious fanatics and peasants who were sick of Europe’s rigged economic system. That’s why today’s “Merkans” are self-righteous bible-thumpers who are obsessed with making more money than their neighbors.
I would prefer to believe that Arnold was given the middle name Judas because his parents didn't like him. His duplicate in Me2 said as much and you can kind of see it in other episodes and the novels. I also think that maybe Rimmer was winding Lister up about his parents being Seventh Day Advent Hoppists, ( either that or Grant Naylor just strung some words together to give Rimmer some funny lines) because 7th Day Adventists don't worship on Sunday. Saturday is the 7th day in historical Judaism and Christianity and 7th Day Adventists believe that worship on Sunday is a go directly to hell kind of sin Also, just dropping the "e" from hope would not have been the only typo in the Bible to lead to SDAH, as the greatest virtue would have to have been changed from Love to Hop, and then the next entire chapter would have had to have all the Loves to Hop...thus, this was most probably a wind up.
Yep, Christians are pretty fair game in the UK, and at certain parts of the year, our Facebook profiles are flooded with criticisms of their theft of most of the Pagan calendar. On the other hand, I understand "atheist" is basically a swearword in the States. On which note, I'm told certain JRPGs get higher age ratings up your way than over here because of their anti-theocratic themes; in Star Ocean 2, the final bosses all had their names changed from those of archangels to other random European-sounding names for that same reason. I usually name my pen-and-paper roleplaying characters after various archangels as a nod to that.
@@Cyborcat Well in many cases our perception of religious yanks is that they treat all atheists like horrible freaks, not necessarily just the UA-cam ones.
@@Cyborcat Maybe, but I've seen one of those posters warning children to look out for atheists and on it they were depicted as ordinary guys, not like UA-camrs. Still though, shit how those guys poisoned the well.
Jesus is fair game in the United States as well. I have nothing against Atheists but in my mind, they feel threatened by allot less then what Christians are mocked by.
I've actually met a few people who believe that Jesus and Judas switched places like that. I don't know if there's an organized religion around it. It seems like more of a semi-popular conspiracy theory.
Mandaeans and some Gnostics believe that Judas (or Jesus’ brother, Thomas) was crucified in Jesus’ place, while a choir of angels carried Jesus alive into heaven. Meanwhile, Muslims believe that God made a criminal look just like Jesus and allowed him to be crucified in Jesus’ place. God then let Jesus live a normal lifespan and die. He then brought Jesus to heaven where he waits for judgement day at God’s right hand.
I've heard similar conspiracies about Jesus and Judas, such as Judas switched places with Jesus (and thus was actually his most devoted disciple) and he and Mary went on to create the lineage of French royalty. Them being brothers is new to me tho, Jesus had multiple siblings and were mentioned very, very few times in the Bible. I can see people believing that, there are much worse biblical conspicuous out there
Actually the Roman soldiers weren’t following Jesus they were following the Dwarfers apparently there was a deleted scene where they got in trouble in Rome and the soldiers followed them
Kryten not knowing how to make a battery without lemons really doesn't fit his character, especially after his explanation at the end of how batteries work; considering how believably lax with logic the show usually is that's a big blunder for the suspension of disbelief for me somehow.
The Church of Judas thing could be seen as a bit of a combination of the Gospel of Judas (A piece of literature from a Gnostic Cult that believed only some people have souls, and that Judas was the only member of Jesus's disciples who had a soul, and because of this Jesus asked him to turn him to be the one to give him up to the Romans, so that he could fulfill his destiny of dying for everyone's sins), and the Islamic Belief that Jesus actually survived his execution and went on to live a full life. So yeah it's not tht far off of what some people actually believe/believed at a given point in time. Personally I am more in the school that either Jesus as the son of God who died for our sins, or a crazy person who was murdered for giving good life advice. Take your pick.
Not so keen on this one. The whole premise ignores the fact that both Rimmer and Kryten have power supplies that lasted for months. Also their Jesus wasn’t very convincing Having said that it’s nice to see Lister is apparently giving education a go after all. As for Rimmer, I don’t think he cares so much about Shakespeare as he does about being the last custodian of human culture.
This episode suffers from Doug's sloppy plotlining again, so we're spose to just accept that the 4 of them managed to traverse all of Britain, crossed the channel to France presumably? Crossed Europe and Arabia without any incident to arrive in India? I know this is a comedy and there are a lot of ridiculous scenarios but that little jump in time scale was too much to wear and I voted this one right down cos of it.
The real Jesus is not a wimp ! Mark 11:15-16-17-18 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; And would not suffer that any man should carry any merchandise through the temple. And as he taught them, he said, "Is it not written: 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have made it 'a den of robbers.'" And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.
it would have been easier to "discover" potatoes then walk to india? Seems like that a joke in and of itself. also bags had been invented maybe not called that but definitely invented. They had to carry liquids somehow. though this is my least favorite episode.
The "we've killed Wallace and Gromit" line is my favourite. Americans might not get it because there are no official 'Christmas special' W&G eps, it's just tradition to always show one on BBC1 on Xmas day for some reason.
Wallace and grommit not super mainstream over here but anyone who grew up in the 90s and 2000s has dedinately seen a few of the movies
"Aww, bugger!"- Jesus, 23AD
When life gives you lemons, you watch a Red Dwarf vlog by Dena.
TO-BE-FAAAAAAIIIIRRRRRRRRR, if Jesus is still alive in this time, then Judas would not have a negative association, IN THE ASPECT OF FAIRNESS!
Now seriously, as someone from an ultra religious Christian country, I really like this episode ^_^
The first time I saw the "Jesus! ...Yes?" bit, I was in hysterics.
A bit of a shame I first saw it in the 'next time' ad that followed 'Fathers & Sons' - thus ruining the surprise when I watched the episode proper - but, still, a perfect comedic delivery.
This is, arguably, the best episode of season 10 and also, again arguably, the best episode of the modern Red Dwarf. Though there are some amazing episodes in series 11 and 12
The copper wire bit had me crying laughing the first time I saw it
"We've Killed Wallace and Gromit" XD
Okay that makes absolutely no sense at all, none the episode ever made has anything to do with Wallace and Gromit and none of them have there cool machines.
I don't understand? This a quote from the episode.
I drop everything I’m doing every time I see a new RD Vlog is up.
Same!
"Should be the name of a porn star!"?! ROTFL, you rock!
oh my god! look how young they were in that flashback. this show has been around forever!
...I think the authors were thinking of "Thomas" rather than "James"...
Also, the 6th commandment in Hebrew says "murder" not simply "kill" -- and then the Torah goes on to elaborate what constitutes murder & what doesn't. Which is why we have the concept of "manslaughter vs. murder" in the West. :P
Gotta put that PhD to use somehow!
It's theorized that Rimmer's mother was a former member of the Church of Judas but after marrying Rimmer's dad, she left her church and became a Seventh-Day Advent Hoppist.
That joke about Cat eating Listers organs is interesting - it shouldn't work because it's been 6 months while they walked to find Lemons - but somehow it does - just the way Cat sells it I think.
I like Jesus' "mind my hair!" when Lister has him in a headlock. This is my sister's favourite episode!
Funny that Doug Naylor was so unsure about the Lemon battery thing that he had to ask the fans to make sure it didn’t derail the plot.
One of the best episodes in all of the ten series. So much to love.
If you wanted to get someone to like Red Dwarf show them this episode, it has it all.
12:07 Not only that but Jesus from what I understand seemed like an understanding, open minded person who at least acknowledged that nobody's perfect and didn't hold it against them, makes me wonder how he'd feel about current issues now where certain people would use him to justify picking on people who are different.
6:03 Lister talking to the real Jesus at the end of the table.
I think it is interesting that Lister was the one to talk to Jesus about the good things of christianity. For he himself is a god in named only with the cat species, who all died except Cat. That scene works on levels.
You murdered me with "JC Penny's"
True story: I host a bar trivia night every week and one of the semi-regular teams is named Urethra Franklin.
Awesome XD
got to hand it to jesus, that was a smart bag he'd designed.
Yup; One set, multilayered. Just move the camera a bit and you're in a different place.
This is one of my absolute favourites!
I wish Doctor Who did an episode like this. Maybe about Exodus? Splitting the Red sea would be a very Doctor-y thing to do.
In the Frezzer , on B deck , Next to my Quarters ... LOL
Leave it to Red Dwarf to take a plot as simple as "The boys are sent back in time and travel to India to get Lemons for Lemon Batteries" and turn it into a hilarious, yet deep look into both the positives and negatives of Christianity. This is easily one of their finest outings.
And hey, it also proved the undeniable truth that Lemons are Awesome! So there is that.
jesus is from Sunderland!.. who knew, im a geordie myself lol.
If an American sitcom did an episode about Jesus, the fundies wouldn’t shut up about it for ten years.
Tbh, I've always called Aretha Franklin "Urethra Franklin" as a joke
Oh wow lol When i heard they needed nails Knew that Rimmers Middle name was Judas, and that Jesus was in this My mind went very, very dark there for a minute before laughing my butt off realizing what could be happening but than hearing that i was like AW damn i was wrong
We don't have the loud evangelical type element of Christianity that the US has so there's less fuss when we take the piss. Our Christian fringe types just stand quietly outside abortion clinics or complain about same-sex kisses on TV shows. Less Westboro Baptists and more Ned Flanders.
As far as I know there was no controversy what so ever about this episode. We've come along way since all the nonsense about Monty Phyton's Life of Brian :)
The joke is that the first colonists were too uptight for even England to stomach.
@@LadyLunarSatine The USA was founded by religious fanatics and peasants who were sick of Europe’s rigged economic system. That’s why today’s “Merkans” are self-righteous bible-thumpers who are obsessed with making more money than their neighbors.
4:08. It's sad to think some people still believe that.
Actually, the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was a sphere long before 23 A.D.
Probably my favourite episode.
8:00 irony for me: I actually had this done for a kidney stone.
I would prefer to believe that Arnold was given the middle name Judas because his parents didn't like him. His duplicate in Me2 said as much and you can kind of see it in other episodes and the novels.
I also think that maybe Rimmer was winding Lister up about his parents being Seventh Day Advent Hoppists, ( either that or Grant Naylor just strung some words together to give Rimmer some funny lines) because 7th Day Adventists don't worship on Sunday. Saturday is the 7th day in historical Judaism and Christianity and 7th Day Adventists believe that worship on Sunday is a go directly to hell kind of sin
Also, just dropping the "e" from hope would not have been the only typo in the Bible to lead to SDAH, as the greatest virtue would have to have been changed from Love to Hop, and then the next entire chapter would have had to have all the Loves to Hop...thus, this was most probably a wind up.
This is probably my favourite episode of season 10. Maybe episode 6 close call.
This one was my favorite of all the season X eps.
Yep, Christians are pretty fair game in the UK, and at certain parts of the year, our Facebook profiles are flooded with criticisms of their theft of most of the Pagan calendar. On the other hand, I understand "atheist" is basically a swearword in the States.
On which note, I'm told certain JRPGs get higher age ratings up your way than over here because of their anti-theocratic themes; in Star Ocean 2, the final bosses all had their names changed from those of archangels to other random European-sounding names for that same reason. I usually name my pen-and-paper roleplaying characters after various archangels as a nod to that.
Yeah, unfortunately I think a lot of people think that the atheist UA-camrs represent all atheists.
@@Cyborcat Well in many cases our perception of religious yanks is that they treat all atheists like horrible freaks, not necessarily just the UA-cam ones.
I think you misunderstood me. I meant that they think that ALL atheists are like the arrogant ones on UA-cam.
@@Cyborcat Maybe, but I've seen one of those posters warning children to look out for atheists and on it they were depicted as ordinary guys, not like UA-camrs. Still though, shit how those guys poisoned the well.
Jesus is fair game in the United States as well. I have nothing against Atheists but in my mind, they feel threatened by allot less then what Christians are mocked by.
Doesn't it come off strange to anyone that they come across people who speak a language that doesn't exist yet?
Yep! And although the 23 A.D. joke was funny, most scholars believe that Jesus was born somewhere between 8 and 4 B.C.
There really is a Church of Judas, and he is a hero
Holy shit, I guess I should have looked it up.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Judas
I do love this episode, but personally I always thought Rimmers middle name worked better as a rule of funny joke, instead of being explained.
That's fair. Sometimes adding a backstory to explain something that started out as a joke can ruin it.
I thought it was fairly respectful towards ‘Jesus.’ When Lister says you’re a bit of a knob like me’ it’s a compliment.
There are so many blasphemy laws!
The clue was there from the start - why would Jesus have a Geordie accent? It's like Hitler in Cured - as it's pointed out, it's not him.
Well, Jesus was a Semite with no European blood, so I would expect him to have olive to brown skin, brown eyes, and curly black hair.
I've actually met a few people who believe that Jesus and Judas switched places like that. I don't know if there's an organized religion around it. It seems like more of a semi-popular conspiracy theory.
Interesting.
Mandaeans and some Gnostics believe that Judas (or Jesus’ brother, Thomas) was crucified in Jesus’ place, while a choir of angels carried Jesus alive into heaven. Meanwhile, Muslims believe that God made a criminal look just like Jesus and allowed him to be crucified in Jesus’ place. God then let Jesus live a normal lifespan and die. He then brought Jesus to heaven where he waits for judgement day at God’s right hand.
I've heard similar conspiracies about Jesus and Judas, such as Judas switched places with Jesus (and thus was actually his most devoted disciple) and he and Mary went on to create the lineage of French royalty. Them being brothers is new to me tho, Jesus had multiple siblings and were mentioned very, very few times in the Bible. I can see people believing that, there are much worse biblical conspicuous out there
Didn’t think this was coming so soon
You sound like my ex husband. x
Did u see danny john jules on strictly come dancing? (British show) do a vid on it plz?
I don't think I'll do a video on it, but I may mention it in the next Cat video (if I remember, it'll be awhile).
Thanks xx
JC Penny's haha
Actually the Roman soldiers weren’t following Jesus they were following the Dwarfers apparently there was a deleted scene where they got in trouble in Rome and the soldiers followed them
Interesting trivia, but deleted scenes aren't canon--there's nothing in the final product indicating that the Dwarfers did anything.
Why a wheel barrow though?
Probably because it’s a commonplace item, i.e., not very exciting.
@@SuperTonyony the sort of thing a retired messiah would invent to get back to his roots.
Liking the shorter intro. Gets right to the meat of the video.
Yeah, *I* was getting tired of the longer one, so I figured other people were too =P
Kryten not knowing how to make a battery without lemons really doesn't fit his character, especially after his explanation at the end of how batteries work; considering how believably lax with logic the show usually is that's a big blunder for the suspension of disbelief for me somehow.
My thought was just that Rimmer happened to think of it first, but yeah--even that is technically out of character for Kryten.
The Church of Judas thing could be seen as a bit of a combination of the Gospel of Judas (A piece of literature from a Gnostic Cult that believed only some people have souls, and that Judas was the only member of Jesus's disciples who had a soul, and because of this Jesus asked him to turn him to be the one to give him up to the Romans, so that he could fulfill his destiny of dying for everyone's sins), and the Islamic Belief that Jesus actually survived his execution and went on to live a full life. So yeah it's not tht far off of what some people actually believe/believed at a given point in time.
Personally I am more in the school that either Jesus as the son of God who died for our sins, or a crazy person who was murdered for giving good life advice. Take your pick.
Interesting!
Not so keen on this one. The whole premise ignores the fact that both Rimmer and Kryten have power supplies that lasted for months. Also their Jesus wasn’t very convincing
Having said that it’s nice to see Lister is apparently giving education a go after all. As for Rimmer, I don’t think he cares so much about Shakespeare as he does about being the last custodian of human culture.
Poke at Christianity here and you're only likely to upset Northern Ireland if that.
Mr L to be fair most of the actually sensible ones here in n.ireland don’t really give a @#£& anymore about that lol.
Jesus is Welsh lol also is it weird i'm more heartbroken about Wallice and Gromit not existing rather than Christmas
Welsh, Geordie, close enough lol
Definitely Geordie and not Welsh
This episode suffers from Doug's sloppy plotlining again, so we're spose to just accept that the 4 of them managed to traverse all of Britain, crossed the channel to France presumably? Crossed Europe and Arabia without any incident to arrive in India? I know this is a comedy and there are a lot of ridiculous scenarios but that little jump in time scale was too much to wear and I voted this one right down cos of it.
Boy, I sure hope somebody got fired for THAT blunder!
The real Jesus is not a wimp !
Mark 11:15-16-17-18
And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
And would not suffer that any man should carry any merchandise through the temple.
And as he taught them, he said, "Is it not written: 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have made it 'a den of robbers.'"
And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.
It's just a joke, dude. And he's not the real Jesus anyway.
@@Cyborcat Your comments in your vid prompted my comment.
I did it for educational purpose.
Not to critique.
it would have been easier to "discover" potatoes then walk to india? Seems like that a joke in and of itself. also bags had been invented maybe not called that but definitely invented. They had to carry liquids somehow. though this is my least favorite episode.
Potatoes weren’t discovered until after Columbus. They are native to Peru. They’d need a bigger boat.