This episode may well be Chris Barrie's finest hour. He really gets to show off his comedic range throughout and i think he nails every scene. Great script, phenomenal delivery and the most expressive nostrils i have ever seen... what a guy!
yes, although having seen Alan Rickman shouting "Cleeawse Thaa Gaayte" in Robin Hood, it's funny to imagine him playing Rimmer in scenes like these where he has to yell these lines while standing 1 metre from the camera.
The gazpacho soup scene was much better in the novelisation of the first series, in it Rimmer was invited to the table after only 14 weeks indicating he was a high flyer at first, the meal was black tie and him and his partner were invited. Rimmer flew to Titan on a shopping trip, bought a suit and hired a call girl to pose as his girlfriend. On the night of the meal, he realizes his suit is a size too small, his "girlfriend" has took her pay and ran, he tells the captain his girlfriend is dead and during the dinner gets nervous and butchered a joke before asking for his soup to be heated up because it's cold. I imagine that day broke his brain.
That helps a little knowing it was a bunch of stuff that happened that day to make him blow it and give everyone at the table a better reason to sour on him rather than just Rimmer not knowing the soup was supposed to be cold and had it heated up.(which was an honest mistake anyway) note: last week i was given a gazpacho soup in a small cup as a free sample, it was okay, had a chunky salsa quality to it.
I'm so glad you're reviewing Red Dwarf. Rimmer is my favorite character for the reasons you mentioned. He's an utter pain in the ass but at the same time, you do feel sorry for him. Chris Barrie did such a great job of making him both annoying and likeable at the same time.
Lister kept to his word about Gazpacho soup. Even in The Beginning, he said Rimmer's last words were "Mummy, mummy!" He knew they were "Gazpacho soup!"
Btw those little gestures Rimmer does (that thing he does with his arms when he says "I gave her one" and the two finger salute) are actually real life obscene gestures. The first you don't see very often these days and depending on the context it either means "up yours" or "I had sex". The second is a sign originating from England called "the Bowfinger" as it was claimed (probably incorrectly) to have dated back to the Hundred Years War where the French would supposedly cut off the middle and index fingers of British archers, rendering them unable to fire a bow. The story goes that archers who saw French soldiers approaching would defiantly stick their fingers up to show the French that they could still fire their bows. In reality it was first known to be used by an ironworker in 1901 when he noticed that some people were filming him without permission. This has been Swordhunter12; you're guide to foreign obscenities.
+swordhunter12 Interesting. For the first one, yah I know it's meant as an obscenity, but I had never seen it used to mean "I had sex" before, which is partly why it cracks me up when Rimmer does it in a "WTF was that all about?" kind of way. For the second ... I picked up that it's the UK version of the middle finger, but hadn't heard any history about it. I just figured it symbolized two legs in the air (the way the middle finger symbolizes a penis).
+Cyborcat The "two finger salute" is a very common British term and gesture, I'm surprised so few Americans seem to know it... but while the American "Victory" sign is similar, the "two finger salute" is always made with the back of the hand towards the person opposite, while the Victory sign has the palm towards the other person.
I'm surprised your the first to bring this up. I guess those of us in the know didn't feel the need. and those who weren't didn't care i guess. Glad you pointed out that the infamous British Longbow man taunt was more than likely just a myth... so many take it as fact despite a lack of evidence.
Has it ever been explained why Lister and Rimmer, two people who clearly can't stand each other, still shared a room together despite having the run of the whole ship? I guess that one is just Rule of Funny as the bunk scenes are such a staple of the show.
Kissing Roses best guess it's because of their positions as third and second technician. Easier to find them when they're together in a bunk, just how the ship works, places coworkers together. Bu also rule of funny
The fandom has basically agreed that they live together because they’re all they have left. Imagine living alone on a ship that big and empty (especially when one can’t actually touch anything)
Well I think everyone is forgetting Rimmer was brought back as a hologram in the first place to maintain Lister's sanity the computer logic was that Rimmer was chosen because he and Lister conversed the most so would be a bit pointless the ship using energy to maintain a hologram for the last remaining live crew member's benefit if said hologram was located elsewhere on the ship so there's your logical explanation, surprised nobody else has realised this.
thank you so much for going over the series!! I had always been aware of this show over the years thanks to pbs, but never got to really watch it. Only this past two months had I caught it on pluto.tv, and so I decided to watch the whole show with my mom on Amazon, and we both enjoyed the hell out of it!!
Ah this episode and I will get this out of the way. This is my favourite episode of the series and glad as I always love the final being the best and helps you to remember the series. The death video idea is so Red Dwarf indeed. Rimmer is a real giot in this episode but like the fact it showed some real character. When the what a guy came out I thought of nothing of it at the time as well I was 10 years old when I first watched but I bet it did give Doug and Rob ideas for future scripts. Lister is brilliant with getting his own room after Rimmer leaving. I love the fact it made bridge between the first and this episode with lister doing the singing and humming. I did watch a uk interview back from 1980s that Craig Charles did have a band so lister doing music does make some sense. Chris Barrie did amazing in this episode with the Green/blue screen and I knew it would be tough so he gets major credit. I love the idea that it explores the ups and downs of having another version of yourself. I felt sorry for Craig Charles with the bubblegum. Glad you featured the aprils fool joke at the very end of the video as I will say I loved the joke so much. While Rimmer situation had a lot of immaturity but I love it. I love the mind games from Lister to Rimmer to get him to explain Gazucho Soup (probably spelt it wrong lol). I have respect for those who do their jobs for a long time even if I think the person is a dickhead or not. I love that lister did get the last words in this one as you know in the next series Rimmer would get his own back on Lister even if it is really mean lol. Again my favourite episode of Series 1 I felt they found the balance with the comedy, the sci-fi and what it is trying to say which is a great mix and it didn’t forced. It probably took me til the third or fourth watch to get some of the stuff. Series 1 I can understand why the creators didn’t want to repeat it straight away as they felt it wasn’t quite there and needed some more work which I can understand. Not my favourite series more down to the middle mainly by I feel the final 2 episodes knocked the doors down. Now onto series 2 and I feel that’s when the show really goes into third gear and beyond.
I´ve always loved the fact that Rimmer can be so insufferable that even he can´t stand himself (as proven by this episode), and yet one cannot help to feel sorry and sympathetic towards him (especially given his fu#ked up childhood).
I’ve just started rewatching the series and only just noticed the use of ‘what a guy’ in this episode last week! Also just discovered this channel and loving the content.
A few years ago, my dad and I went to an Italian restaurant that served gazpacho soup, since we remember Rimmer’s incident with it. We ate it cold, and it was not very good to us - no wonder Rimmer sent it back to the kitchen to get it warmed up!
+Cyborcat If you haven't listened to the audiobooks "Infinity welcomes Careful drivers" and "Better than Life" the lyrics to the song Lister is humming is "To Ganymede and Titan, yes sir I've been around"
@@Cyborcat the gazpacho soup incident was based on a dinner attended by the writers, the difference is that while they did wonder why the soup was stone cold they didn't request it be warmed up.
Originally the season final was to be called "Body Snatcher" where Rimmer would start stealing body parts from Lister to build himself a new body. However an electrician strike forced the writers to write a new season final. Also originally it was going to be Lister who couldnt get along with his hologram, but they decided instead to base the idea around Rimmer.
@@Wabajck hair. He tries to make a new body out of Lister's hair. He tries to train the Scutters to do it. The whole thing drives Lister to conclude Rimmer has gone insane and has him switched off.
Binging these videos again. I like that after this episode, Lister made good on his promise not to bring up the gazpacho story ever again (well, just about) but in the meantime he'd given Rimmer a chance to get something quite big off his chest. I doubt the writers meant for it to be as kind as I'm reading it to be, but I like it.
I know unpublished fanfiction is nowhere near canon but you've mentioned in the past that you ran into the same issue I did: why would Lister want to be with the love of his life and unable to touch her? And why does that thread totally disappear after this episode? My story idea was that Holly is actually making Rimmer do all of this to make sure Lister doesn't actually succeed in reviving the hologram of Kochanski because that would drive him insane, and went into a rather dark place where Lister realized that if he and Kochanski were both holograms they would be immortal and together forever, so he tries to sabotage Red Dwarf to accidentally kill him and keeps almost succeeding except he has to keep rescuing Cat from the death traps, and in the end Rimmer switches himself off so that Holly can bring the real Kochanski online and she can tell Lister that he needs to move on.
okay I've just run into these and going to watch your entire playlist. I watched the entire first run on tv and am very interested on a US take on the series considering the clusterf*ck that was the attempt to make an american version
The highlight of Series 1 by a landslide. I genuinely think this episode (and moreso Series 2 which was non-stop hit after hit) was where Red Dwarf finally found its voice. MR. *GA-ZPAAAAACHOOOOO!!!!!*
Fun fact, the writers based the gazpacho soup thing on their own experience. While attending a dinner meeting, they were served gazpacho soup, but had no idea it was meant to be served cold. Unlike Rimmer, they avoided embarrassing themselves, either by keeping quiet and finding out later, or somebody I read elsewhere told how it was served before they said anything.
I remember having this one guy from work who would take over my shift when I was done, always complain about everything, and make the other people he worked with miserable. Eventually I had enough of his complaining and shared a clip of Rimmer's "STOP YOUR FOUL WHINNING..." clip in our group chats. After I sent that, he didn't want to work with our group again and requested a transfer. After he left, my work group celebrated and got me a cake for getting rid of him, since he was never a team player.
The song he hums is called "Lunar City Seven", I makes quite a few appearances. To Ganymede and Titan Yes, sir, I've been around But there ain't no place In the whole of Space Like that good ol' toddlin' town Oh! Lunar City Seven......... (("You can't sing you know")) {[{[{ You're my idea of heaven Out of ten, you score eleven You good ol' Titan' town Oh! Lunar City Seven Lunar Cities One through Six They always get me down But Lunar City Seven You're my home town }]}]}
Another thing of note you kind of bypassed is that cartoon that is showing in the theatre was Mugs Murphy a cartoon they invented for the show which Lister wears various print t shirts of (The "D-don't shoot" one).
No worries, I just liked those t shirts so I was taking more notice of that aspect, you can buy them and I ended up having about 3 of them, I tried to find the exact copies of the ones Lister wears (one blue, one purple and one white with no colour for the ape) but the exact reproductions aren't available except the black and white one @@Cyborcat
I think the words "what a guy" were so associated with rimmers good side, or at least people thinking he's good. that they just kinda made it the thing people say about ace.
Not really the reason holly can only sustain on e hologram is that it takes a huge amount of power, in the previous episode lister worked out that by simply turning off all unnecessary power systems red dwarf would have enough for two.
The cartoon they watch in the mini-cinema scene? It's "Mugs Murphy," a character Lister loves and appears on Lister's t-shirts fairly often throughout the series. He was invented solely for the show, and the cartoon was made specifically for that episode! It's actually a full-length short, even though only a few seconds appeared on-screen. Now THAT is dedication! Also, since I grew up knowing Chris Barrie as Rimmer, i was astonished watching his other show ("The Brittas Empire") in the 90s; there he is the lovable, well-intentioned-if-hapless protagonist. Imagine mixing Michael Scott from the US version of "The Office" with Spongebob Squarepants, and then making him more...Canadian (low-key, gentle, etc.) and you'll have the Brittas character.
Just come from the Quarantine episode, the whole 2 holograms on board is possible so they wouldn't have needed to switch off Rimmer. Another plot hole!
This episode may well be Chris Barrie's finest hour. He really gets to show off his comedic range throughout and i think he nails every scene. Great script, phenomenal delivery and the most expressive nostrils i have ever seen... what a guy!
yes, although having seen Alan Rickman shouting "Cleeawse Thaa Gaayte" in Robin Hood, it's funny to imagine him playing Rimmer in scenes like these where he has to yell these lines while standing 1 metre from the camera.
The gazpacho soup scene was much better in the novelisation of the first series, in it Rimmer was invited to the table after only 14 weeks indicating he was a high flyer at first, the meal was black tie and him and his partner were invited. Rimmer flew to Titan on a shopping trip, bought a suit and hired a call girl to pose as his girlfriend. On the night of the meal, he realizes his suit is a size too small, his "girlfriend" has took her pay and ran, he tells the captain his girlfriend is dead and during the dinner gets nervous and butchered a joke before asking for his soup to be heated up because it's cold. I imagine that day broke his brain.
Rimmer’s belief that Gazpacho Soup Day was the end of his career makes a lot more sense in that version, albeit it’s not as funny.
That helps a little knowing it was a bunch of stuff that happened that day to make him blow it and give everyone at the table a better reason to sour on him rather than just Rimmer not knowing the soup was supposed to be cold and had it heated up.(which was an honest mistake anyway)
note: last week i was given a gazpacho soup in a small cup as a free sample, it was okay, had a chunky salsa quality to it.
I'm so glad you're reviewing Red Dwarf. Rimmer is my favorite character for the reasons you mentioned. He's an utter pain in the ass but at the same time, you do feel sorry for him. Chris Barrie did such a great job of making him both annoying and likeable at the same time.
He’s also hilarious too.
That song Lister his is Ganymede and Titan. He sings part of it while he's shaving in Future Echoes.
"Hello!! What do you think of Arnold Rimmer?"
*blows raspberries and gives the two-fingered salute*
tolchok89 backwerds peace means fuck you
“Mummy did like me she was just busy”! Lol love this episode!
Lister kept to his word about Gazpacho soup. Even in The Beginning, he said Rimmer's last words were "Mummy, mummy!" He knew they were "Gazpacho soup!"
Good point, I hadn't thought of it that way.
Great video, glad I found your channel.
Btw those little gestures Rimmer does (that thing he does with his arms when he says "I gave her one" and the two finger salute) are actually real life obscene gestures.
The first you don't see very often these days and depending on the context it either means "up yours" or "I had sex".
The second is a sign originating from England called "the Bowfinger" as it was claimed (probably incorrectly) to have dated back to the Hundred Years War where the French would supposedly cut off the middle and index fingers of British archers, rendering them unable to fire a bow. The story goes that archers who saw French soldiers approaching would defiantly stick their fingers up to show the French that they could still fire their bows. In reality it was first known to be used by an ironworker in 1901 when he noticed that some people were filming him without permission.
This has been Swordhunter12; you're guide to foreign obscenities.
+swordhunter12 Interesting.
For the first one, yah I know it's meant as an obscenity, but I had never seen it used to mean "I had sex" before, which is partly why it cracks me up when Rimmer does it in a "WTF was that all about?" kind of way.
For the second ... I picked up that it's the UK version of the middle finger, but hadn't heard any history about it. I just figured it symbolized two legs in the air (the way the middle finger symbolizes a penis).
+Cyborcat The "two finger salute" is a very common British term and gesture, I'm surprised so few Americans seem to know it... but while the American "Victory" sign is similar, the "two finger salute" is always made with the back of the hand towards the person opposite, while the Victory sign has the palm towards the other person.
I'm surprised your the first to bring this up. I guess those of us in the know didn't feel the need. and those who weren't didn't care i guess. Glad you pointed out that the infamous British Longbow man taunt was more than likely just a myth... so many take it as fact despite a lack of evidence.
It was thanks to the legend Arnold Judas Rimmer that I learned Gazpacho Soup is served cold.
Just found this series of RD videos and it's exactly what I've been looking for! Thank you so much for making these!!
Awesome, glad you like 'em ^.^
Has it ever been explained why Lister and Rimmer, two people who clearly can't stand each other, still shared a room together despite having the run of the whole ship? I guess that one is just Rule of Funny as the bunk scenes are such a staple of the show.
Kissing Roses best guess it's because of their positions as third and second technician. Easier to find them when they're together in a bunk, just how the ship works, places coworkers together. Bu also rule of funny
The fandom has basically agreed that they live together because they’re all they have left. Imagine living alone on a ship that big and empty (especially when one can’t actually touch anything)
Holly says statistically Rimmer is the best person to keep Lister sane ( forget which episode).
Well I think everyone is forgetting Rimmer was brought back as a hologram in the first place to maintain Lister's sanity the computer logic was that Rimmer was chosen because he and Lister conversed the most so would be a bit pointless the ship using energy to maintain a hologram for the last remaining live crew member's benefit if said hologram was located elsewhere on the ship so there's your logical explanation, surprised nobody else has realised this.
@@colinharbinson8284In a different episode (I think it was “Kryten”) Lister admitted that driving Rimmer crazy is what keeps him going.
thank you so much for going over the series!! I had always been aware of this show over the years thanks to pbs, but never got to really watch it. Only this past two months had I caught it on pluto.tv, and so I decided to watch the whole show with my mom on Amazon, and we both enjoyed the hell out of it!!
Awesome ^.^
Back in 1999, it was this episode that introduced me to Red Dwarf and I've loved every show since.
It's kinda cute how so many of the little things you think are from Red Dwarf are actually mainstream in British culture. :P
He's singing it in Future Echoes
Ah this episode and I will get this out of the way. This is my favourite episode of the series and glad as I always love the final being the best and helps you to remember the series. The death video idea is so Red Dwarf indeed. Rimmer is a real giot in this episode but like the fact it showed some real character. When the what a guy came out I thought of nothing of it at the time as well I was 10 years old when I first watched but I bet it did give Doug and Rob ideas for future scripts. Lister is brilliant with getting his own room after Rimmer leaving. I love the fact it made bridge between the first and this episode with lister doing the singing and humming. I did watch a uk interview back from 1980s that Craig Charles did have a band so lister doing music does make some sense. Chris Barrie did amazing in this episode with the Green/blue screen and I knew it would be tough so he gets major credit. I love the idea that it explores the ups and downs of having another version of yourself. I felt sorry for Craig Charles with the bubblegum. Glad you featured the aprils fool joke at the very end of the video as I will say I loved the joke so much.
While Rimmer situation had a lot of immaturity but I love it. I love the mind games from Lister to Rimmer to get him to explain Gazucho Soup (probably spelt it wrong lol). I have respect for those who do their jobs for a long time even if I think the person is a dickhead or not. I love that lister did get the last words in this one as you know in the next series Rimmer would get his own back on Lister even if it is really mean lol.
Again my favourite episode of Series 1 I felt they found the balance with the comedy, the sci-fi and what it is trying to say which is a great mix and it didn’t forced. It probably took me til the third or fourth watch to get some of the stuff.
Series 1 I can understand why the creators didn’t want to repeat it straight away as they felt it wasn’t quite there and needed some more work which I can understand. Not my favourite series more down to the middle mainly by I feel the final 2 episodes knocked the doors down.
Now onto series 2 and I feel that’s when the show really goes into third gear and beyond.
I´ve always loved the fact that Rimmer can be so insufferable that even he can´t stand himself (as proven by this episode), and yet one cannot help to feel sorry and sympathetic towards him (especially given his fu#ked up childhood).
4:23 love this
I’ve just started rewatching the series and only just noticed the use of ‘what a guy’ in this episode last week!
Also just discovered this channel and loving the content.
A rare example of continuity between consecutive episodes. And I personally prefer it that way.
A few years ago, my dad and I went to an Italian restaurant that served gazpacho soup, since we remember Rimmer’s incident with it. We ate it cold, and it was not very good to us - no wonder Rimmer sent it back to the kitchen to get it warmed up!
From what I gather, it's basically salad with ... tomato juice poured on it? Doesn't sound good to me either.
The "Gazpacho Soup" death scene is a reference to the famous "Rosebud" line in the movie Citizen Kane.
+TF2CrunchyFrog Yep.
+Cyborcat If you haven't listened to the audiobooks "Infinity welcomes Careful drivers" and "Better than Life" the lyrics to the song Lister is humming is "To Ganymede and Titan, yes sir I've been around"
@@Cyborcat the gazpacho soup incident was based on a dinner attended by the writers, the difference is that while they did wonder why the soup was stone cold they didn't request it be warmed up.
There's even a snowglobe falling over, just as in Citizen Kane
@@Cryten1974 Lunar City Seven, you're my idea of heaven, out of 10 you score 11, you good ol' artificially terraformed settlement.
1:30, I doubt they planed ahead, most likely they were intentionally referencing this episode when they wrote ace rimmer.
One of my favorite episodes. But I am a Rimmer fan so two of them are even better than one.
Originally the season final was to be called "Body Snatcher" where Rimmer would start stealing body parts from Lister to build himself a new body. However an electrician strike forced the writers to write a new season final. Also originally it was going to be Lister who couldnt get along with his hologram, but they decided instead to base the idea around Rimmer.
+georgeowain As in he would just take he legs and arms?
@@Wabajck hair. He tries to make a new body out of Lister's hair. He tries to train the Scutters to do it. The whole thing drives Lister to conclude Rimmer has gone insane and has him switched off.
Cheers boss!
Binging these videos again. I like that after this episode, Lister made good on his promise not to bring up the gazpacho story ever again (well, just about) but in the meantime he'd given Rimmer a chance to get something quite big off his chest.
I doubt the writers meant for it to be as kind as I'm reading it to be, but I like it.
Yay! It's always a good day when I see a RD vlog.
I know unpublished fanfiction is nowhere near canon but you've mentioned in the past that you ran into the same issue I did: why would Lister want to be with the love of his life and unable to touch her? And why does that thread totally disappear after this episode? My story idea was that Holly is actually making Rimmer do all of this to make sure Lister doesn't actually succeed in reviving the hologram of Kochanski because that would drive him insane, and went into a rather dark place where Lister realized that if he and Kochanski were both holograms they would be immortal and together forever, so he tries to sabotage Red Dwarf to accidentally kill him and keeps almost succeeding except he has to keep rescuing Cat from the death traps, and in the end Rimmer switches himself off so that Holly can bring the real Kochanski online and she can tell Lister that he needs to move on.
Interesting theory.
What is Rimmer wearing in his quarters? like some kind of onsie lounger. perfect for pandemic.
I think it's just pajamas with the top tucked in, but I like the idea of it being a onesie XD
You know i do laugh at the scene where rimmer blames other rimmer i usually say hey rimmer can blame himself after all lol 😆
okay I've just run into these and going to watch your entire playlist. I watched the entire first run on tv and am very interested on a US take on the series considering the clusterf*ck that was the attempt to make an american version
The highlight of Series 1 by a landslide. I genuinely think this episode (and moreso Series 2 which was non-stop hit after hit) was where Red Dwarf finally found its voice. MR. *GA-ZPAAAAACHOOOOO!!!!!*
LOL! 1:43 😆
Fun fact, the writers based the gazpacho soup thing on their own experience. While attending a dinner meeting, they were served gazpacho soup, but had no idea it was meant to be served cold. Unlike Rimmer, they avoided embarrassing themselves, either by keeping quiet and finding out later, or somebody I read elsewhere told how it was served before they said anything.
+georgeowain Nice XD
@@Cyborcat true they didn't commit the faux pas of sending it back to be warmed but they did wonder why the soup was stone cold.
Loved it !^^
Notice how Rimmer gets more emotional while telling Lister about Gazpacho Soup Night than about any of the genuinely awful stuff that happened to him.
Cat's giggle is just adorable
Isn't it? It's so different from Danny's real laugh, too.
I remember having this one guy from work who would take over my shift when I was done, always complain about everything, and make the other people he worked with miserable. Eventually I had enough of his complaining and shared a clip of Rimmer's "STOP YOUR FOUL WHINNING..." clip in our group chats. After I sent that, he didn't want to work with our group again and requested a transfer. After he left, my work group celebrated and got me a cake for getting rid of him, since he was never a team player.
Sticking with you? It's not a torture test melasso.
*Gives a 20 wrist twist salute.
+forfluf
Recently watched Dimension Jump and I am at a loss as to what you were referring to it about this episode.
+Mason Whitlark Rimmer referred to the other Rimmer as "What a guy!" which is what everyone says about Ace later on.
Ok, I kind of thought it was that but the line didn't really stick out to me.
The song he hums is called "Lunar City Seven", I makes quite a few appearances.
To Ganymede and Titan
Yes, sir, I've been around
But there ain't no place
In the whole of Space
Like that good ol' toddlin' town
Oh! Lunar City Seven......... (("You can't sing you know"))
{[{[{ You're my idea of heaven
Out of ten, you score eleven
You good ol' Titan' town
Oh! Lunar City Seven
Lunar Cities One through Six
They always get me down
But Lunar City Seven
You're my home town }]}]}
Another thing of note you kind of bypassed is that cartoon that is showing in the theatre was Mugs Murphy a cartoon they invented for the show which Lister wears various print t shirts of (The "D-don't shoot" one).
Regarding the shirts, yeah, I think I had forgotten or didn't catch it yet, tho I mention it when he wears it in later episodes.
No worries, I just liked those t shirts so I was taking more notice of that aspect, you can buy them and I ended up having about 3 of them, I tried to find the exact copies of the ones Lister wears (one blue, one purple and one white with no colour for the ape) but the exact reproductions aren't available except the black and white one @@Cyborcat
Soupa! :D
I think the words "what a guy" were so associated with rimmers good side, or at least people thinking he's good. that they just kinda made it the thing people say about ace.
Makes sense.
4:23 my favourite insult and why he's my favourite
Is the fact that both are Rimmer aka the same mind and stuff, the reason why Holly can sustain two of them?
Not really the reason holly can only sustain on e hologram is that it takes a huge amount of power, in the previous episode lister worked out that by simply turning off all unnecessary power systems red dwarf would have enough for two.
The cartoon they watch in the mini-cinema scene? It's "Mugs Murphy," a character Lister loves and appears on Lister's t-shirts fairly often throughout the series. He was invented solely for the show, and the cartoon was made specifically for that episode! It's actually a full-length short, even though only a few seconds appeared on-screen. Now THAT is dedication!
Also, since I grew up knowing Chris Barrie as Rimmer, i was astonished watching his other show ("The Brittas Empire") in the 90s; there he is the lovable, well-intentioned-if-hapless protagonist. Imagine mixing Michael Scott from the US version of "The Office" with Spongebob Squarepants, and then making him more...Canadian (low-key, gentle, etc.) and you'll have the Brittas character.
If you watch the features on the dvd, the director said they only made a few seconds because of their small budget.
If Arnold Rimmer were to fight himself, he’d lose.
654Now I'm even more thrilled to try Gazpacho :D
Just come from the Quarantine episode, the whole 2 holograms on board is possible so they wouldn't have needed to switch off Rimmer. Another plot hole!
I always thought this episode was called "Me Two" (me too)
I also like how Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers explained why they started fighting.
+OxBigly2010 That's how I used to say it too, but I noticed in the making-of documentary, they pronounced it "Me Squared".
And this is the first appearance of the Mugs Murphy t shirt.
Do Rimmer and Lister remind anyone else of Bert and Ernie?
Oh yeah, I can see it XD
HIS NICK NAME WAS ACE ....."ACE-HOLE"
Norweb en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORWEB#Cultural_references