RD Vlogs: Back in the Red

[@Cyborcat]

Stop correcting me on "rat-assed". I googled "rat-assed" and it gave me a definition of "ratted". They mean the same damn thing and they sound different enough that I obviously didn't mishear Holly.

[@richardchristie3203]

Sounds like the last 6 years have ambivalent

[@josephpenny5804]

Just for clarity, and I'm English so trust me 😋 Holly says the police don't like it when your "rat arsed" which is slang for being drunk, not "ratted" or "rat assed" 😁

[@santanamauricio]

I like all of Red Dwarf. There is NOTHING like it. its like pizza, even the bad ones are pretty good. It's a comedy after all. if it makes you laugh it succeeds. the rest is a bonus.

[@TYNEPUNK]

rat-arsed adjectiveVULGAR SLANG•BRITISH very drunk. "there is a danger of getting rat-arsed on the local brew"

[@mrdoctorgilmore]

Bit of trivia for Doctor Who fans, the doctor operating on kryten is Geoffrey Beevers aka the Master

[@TimeLordParadox]

I never knew that

[@mrdoctorgilmore]

Colin forever that makes this season a little better.

[@alpine_newt]

Nigel lived in my home town. My school used to make us serve lunches at a local church and he was always there!

[@MichaelBrookham]

Was he nice?

[@noir-214]

11:23 I can imagine after Rimmer licked the letter he instantly fell to the floor due to it being how he was put in the simulator

[@weltato]

I'm a little sad that the guy that interviews Kryten isn't Brannigan, because I always remember in Queeg that Rimmer briefly had the personality of him. Rimmer: "Weeeell, you see, the shuttle was late, you see. The shuttle was late. And they're normally so good too, aren't they? They're so good, they're brilliant." Cat: "What's happened to him?" Lister: "He's turned into Brannigan, the ship psychiatrist." One of my favourite RD moments.

[@Cyborcat]

Y'know, I wondered if he was supposed to be the same guy or not--never remembered the names. That's too bad they didn't make that callback.

[@MaximumMadnessStixon]

Thanks for these videos. They finally inspired me to watch "Red Dwarf." Ended up watching all 12 seasons over the past month. Amazing show. Even the "bad" seasons are still good.

[@LordTalax]

Yeah nothing like someone talking through the episodes.

[@joeberryman3563]

I like the outtake. "You know these people, sir?" "Of course I know them. They're in Eastenders!"

[@AndrewChapman]

Cue the doof doof🤣

[@rodster6campingprepper]

I thought Kryten being classed as a woman was really funny, I never took it as a knock on trans people.

[@rodster6campingprepper]

Yes but IT'S A JOKE. Partly because of how silly it is that he's been assigned as a female even though he seems so obviously male.

[@optimisticwhovian1726]

I think shes talking about the guy in the toilet stalls wearing women's stockings under his pants since that's the footage she shows when mentioning that.....

[@fatman3785]

@@optimisticwhovian1726 I dont get why. He isnt transgender hes jsut a bloke that likes to wear womens underwear sometimes. I bet he doesnt post on Twitter about being pangender attack helicopter.

[@AxelWedstar411]

Presumably not, but some jokes just don't age well. For what it's worth I suppose fans can take solace in the fact that the closest thing to a homophobic joke in the series is Evil Rimmer.

[@flecktarn4110]

I'm trans and I find it hilarious. We shouldn't abolish comedy just because some small number of people have issues with sexual definitions. Better to learn to handle the issues ourselves and continue to laugh. As Cat would say "that's the stupid way round!" to try to bend the world to such a view.

[@TheVargr]

The rat apparently was originally intended to be Frankenstein Lister's cat, but they couldn't animate a cat accurately with CGI

[@TimeLordParadox]

TheVargr it would've been interesting for cat to meet his long lost ancestor, though it would've been awkward to fly up the holy mothers arse. :p Speaking of which. How come all the dead cars over the years weren't resurrected also?

[@TheVargr]

No idea on that. RD isn't the best for continuity. Alternate universe Lister's (S12E06) smuggled onboard pet rat must have met many other Rats to breed with in those vents. No wonder they are on every deck.

[@dwibs93]

TheVargr Not that the rat was much better either.

[@BenCol]

I like how the muffin Rimmer gives Hollister has clearly been bought from Tesco. Is there a branch of Tesco on Red Dwarf? I suppose it's possible, but I love how they made no effort to try and disguise the branding - especially as it's a BBC show and you're not allowed to have product placement in BBC shows.

[@tolchok89]

10:57 - "Like Martha used to make." "WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?!?!?"

[@santanamauricio]

that was the name of his wife, couldn't you work that out.

[@tolchok89]

I was referencing Batman v Superman, couldn't YOU work that out?

[@TimeLordParadox]

MAAAARTHAAAA!!!!!

[@InhumanFan98]

tolchok89 batman vs superman dawn of red dwarf

[@TimeLordParadox]

I've just realised something. In season 01 there was supposed to be a scene where Rimmer and Lister gives the crew a funeral and eject their ashes into space. Had this scene been put into the series likely the crew being re-born would've made less sense.

[@Cyborcat]

Yeah, I thought about that XD

[@WeirdWonderful]

I don't really like the season. It mostly sems like they almost wanted to do a comedic Star Trek but then decided against it so they had to think up a reason why Lister and co. don't really get to do much and stay in one spot to not get involved with anything. Which is such a weird concept to me, after years of seeing them fighting off psychotic robots, parallel universes and weird existential constructs, it just feels wrong to brig the entire lot, while far more interesting ideas can be happening with RD as a whole. Honestly if they _were_ going to have to have to have new characters, why did they basically relegate all the known characters we've seen in flashbacks and whatnot to minor cameos just so we can spend the whole season with uppity guards and meatheaded psychos we have never seen before ?

[@fromthecheapseats7126]

Rimmer’s extra-long salute is exactly the sort of thing this season needed more of. The sexual magnetism virus scenes are exactly the sort of thing it needed less of.

[@FarelForever]

Since that joke about the American President was not pointing to any particular party, and wasn't trying to paint anyone in a good light, and was more a jab at how corrupt all politicians are, and given how old this episode is, it's perhaps even a statement on how that's not really something to change anytime soon....... I WHOLEHEARTEDLY APPROVE~!!!!!

[@thesmithersy]

Given the President at the time was Bill Clinton, it sort of makes sense.

[@BrettJones27]

Hey, Cyborcat. Don't know if you'll read this, but a big thank you for the Red Dwarf vlog series. I've binged them over the last few days while off work and had a blast. Great format, nice and breezy, and a trip down nostalgia lane. And you've given me a reason to revisit S7 and S8 again... you were much kinder on them than my memory was.

[@Cyborcat]

Thanks so much! Glad you liked 'em ^.^

[@aawallace98]

i actually would have minded them temporarily bringing back the crew if they had used it as sort of a development check point seeing how far the crew had progressed but instead it felt more like backwards progression

[@Cyborcat]

Yeah, that would have been a better way of handling it.

[@PS3PS2fan]

I agree. I'm not fond of Season 8. The Dwarfers were being treated like cannon fodder.

[@libco]

Agreed. Season 8 is a step back and misogyny and prison rape jokes are just not on.

[@mrcritical6751]

They don’t even analyse the most basic thing which is how would Hollister and the rest of the crew really react to being 3 million and 200 years into deep space, JMC is gone. What exactly is the purpose of The Red Dwarf now?

[@BrettJones27]

@@mrcritical6751 Yes, this. For a series that used to take a fairly grounded (grounded for Red Dwarf, anyway) approach to general sci-fi elements, this should have made for an interesting premise.

[@MichaelBrookham]

I also need to make a note on something else. In this episode, the chief psychiatric counselor is called McLaren. In Queeg, the psychiatrist was named Brannigan. That could have been a mistake in continuity, or perhaps because McLaren was the chief psychiatric counselor, Brannigan could have worked under him. It should also be noted that Dr. McLaren also had a high-pitched voice like Brannigan did. In fact, when Rimmer did his impression of Brannigan, he did sound a bit like McLaren.

[@optimisticwhovian1726]

I think series 8 is the worst because it becomes essentially about frat boy humour I feel like I'm watching one of those garbage films like American Pie or Porkys, the depth is absent from the show for this first three episodes anyway. And bringing back the crew really does take away Red Dwarf's basic premise of them being isolated in the universe.

[@EditedAF987]

Personally, I think the shakeup of the crew being resurrected could been really interesting, just seeing how our main cast adapts after years of isolation and free reign over the ship (or in Lister’s case, after years of development and maturation). But then they wasted it by throwing them all in prison. The frat boy humour certainly didn’t help either.

[@Chiggins_]

Good Christ, I absolutely despise this season. I mean, you say you could do without the misogyny and rape but let it slide because "it's a product of its time". Okay but for the past 10 years of the show, Lister is a decent dude, and he wouldn't've used the sexual magnetism virus like Rohypnol to abuse Kochanski, and likewise later on in Krytie TV, he woudn't've continued watching the shower vids when he knew it was wrong. The first Season aired a whole decade earlier and woudn't've done something like this, so the whole "product of its time" thing doesn't fly unless the characters had always been consistently like that. This season has every. single. character. written completely wrong and doing things they wouldn't otherwise do, or just erases any development they'd gained in the past 7 seasons. And as you said, populating the ship and putting them in the cells just isn't Red Dwarf. That's not what the show's about, it's the complete antithesis. And then they didn't have enough content to fill the whole season, so they extend this and Pete to go on waaaaay too long. I don't get this season's weird obsession with sex and everyone being horny. I mean there's been sexual jokes in the past, but this has the sexual magnetism virus (which in Quarantine was just a one line joke, wasn't even used), the shower movies in Krytie TV, and the "Rimmer and Kochanski MUST HAVE SEX!" in Cassandra, it all feels so forced.

[@Cyborcat]

I say "product of its time" because the 90's was the time when a lot of "gay jokes" were being used on TV, which wasn't as much of a thing in the 80's--progression doesn't always happen in a straight line, sometimes it takes a step back. If Season 8 were airing now, I'd be a lot harder on it. That doesn't mean that I don't acknowledge it being problematic, I just didn't feel the need to go on a long-winded rant about something from the past.

[@ELSTERLING]

This and every point raised in this video. I hated this season with a passion and still do.

[@DrZombieMoogle]

Krytie TV episode... eeeh... not sure Lister wouldn't watch (not finna write a dissertation on the ethics; just gonna say it's not nearly as scummy as the sexual magnetism virus stuff) Pretty much with you on the rest

[@Jayfive276]

Cyborcat indeed, you’ve only got to look as far as Friends to see gags about being (or not being) gay and iffy attitudes to trans people like Chandlers father to see mainstream stuff from the 90s that wouldn’t fly now.

[@codyw1]

That's a sign we've regressed, not progressed. Utter lunacy. Heaven forfend we have people behave on television like 99% of people would in real life... No wonder there's no decent comedy on TV these days. EVERYTHING is offensive to the PC brainwashed generation...

[@mariashrieves3641]

The Blue Midgets could always walk, they just didn't have time to film it in the early seasons of Red Dwarf. It's also featured in the novel and Walkers in general being the number choice of vehicle on Earth. 😃

[@JamesPlaysGames95]

What if instead of Cat finding a mop and enthusiasticly wearing it, they had the mop accidently fall on his head? Then he'd be convinced by lister and kochanski to keep it on. Would have made more sense

[@TheVargr]

I think Peterson was supposed to show up also, but the actor was unavailable.

[@InhumanFan98]

Why isnt their two kerchanskies One from the bug and one from the dwarf

[@deanmottershead9208]

Same reason their isn’t two listers.

[@more-reasons6655]

@@deanmottershead9208 there isn't another lister to bring back, it's the same red dwarf from season 5 just the crew has been rebuilt from their ashes

[@garrettcarter2959]

I don't know, I really like this season for how different it is while also being a return to form. However, I am glad it only lasted the one season and didn't overstay it's welcome.

[@Blurns]

I still don't really get why there were 2 Hollys and why there weren't 2 Kochanskis, or why none of the Cats were ressurected.

[@LittleMAC78]

There were 2 Hollys because the original was on the watch that Lister found in the laundry basket and the other version of Holly was part of the rebuilt Red Dwarf which was an upgrade of the original as the Nanobots built the ship to the original design specification before budget cuts interfered with the building of the original ship. They explain that in the dialogue which is a nice way of the makers of the show getting around the fact that they no longer had the original models. The new version of Holly is part of the rebuilt ship whereas the original was left alone by the nanos. As Holly is a piece of technology, he/it was recreated with the rebuilt ship. The original cat people had all left the ship before Lister came out of stasis to search for "Fuschal", with the exception of 'Cat' and one elder, blind cat person who eventually dies after meeting 'Cloister the Stupid'. Kryten had not yet been found on the Nova 5 so his nanobots (responsible for the rebuilding of RD) would not have known about the cat civilisation who would not have been part of the ship's manifest anyway. The Nanobots only brought back people they could find records of who were not already alive. The Nanos didn't remake Kochanski as she was already alive (albeit from a different dimension) and on Starbug, the same way they didn't recreate a 23 year old Dave Lister who would also have been listed amongst the ship's original crew. I had to think about that a little bit but I think that explains it.

[@Blurns]

@@LittleMAC78 I guess that works. It's still a bit weird that there were two Holly's, since the idea of transferring him to a watch is just weird in general.

[@LittleMAC78]

@@Blurns ​it might be weird from the viewpoint of when the episodes were made at the end of the 90's but it's not much further ahead than talking to Google or Siri on a smartwatch today and RD, the ship, was built about 200 years from now so an independent AI in a watch with a face isn't a huge leap. Even from the POV the late 90's, when the episodes of S8 were originally broadcast, Knight Rider back in the 80's (which ended only 2 years before RD started) had the hero interacting with an AI via a watch so they've only added video and built the AI into the watch. It's not a massive leap of imagination. There were 2 Hollys because he is an AI, he was part of the original design of the ship so was recreated to the original specs by the nanos who had no use for the original Holly in his senile, watch-based form. It might even be a plot point that Holly is able to be transferred to the watch because the AI has degraded over 3 million years into his senile form whereas the original would not fit.

[@jackmehoffe9372]

I'm addicted to your series

[@RadioactiveChannel06]

I can't tell you how much I've been looking forward to this video, it was definitely worth the wait! Also as a fan of claymations it's long been my intention to remake the AR claymation sequence with less ugly character models, maybe someday when I have the willpower and the patience xD

[@Cyborcat]

Thanks, glad ya liked it. That'd be cool, I like the concept of the claymation sequence, but those character models looked really bad XD

[@AndrewChapman]

6:49 Well considering how the ship's interior has also changed from how the crew would've last seen it before the radiation leak in Series I, don't see how Hollister can keep the exterior changing shape classified from anyone. Particularly if they just simply look out the window or even go up to the Observation Dome🤣

[@jamesfield1674]

The rat joke was GOLD!

[@MichaelBrookham]

I liked this episode a great deal. There is something to take note of: If you have ever heard Robert Llwellyn's real-life voice, it sounds just like Kryten does after his corrupted files are repaired. I love how Robert appears on the screen, and it is like he is the father of Kryten, just like Brent Spiner played Data's father, Dr. Soong, on Star Trek TNG. I wish they had actually done a full episode where they deleted Kryten's corrupted files and the others spend the episode trying to restore them. One of the best parts, in my opinion, is when Kryten takes them into the bathroom and looks at them. It is like he cannot vision it in his mind, so he has to do it in real life. Incidentally, where I have the full 8-season DVD set, it comes with Back in the Red and Pete both in full version form. I watched it like that. When I see a video of three half-hour episodes, that is approximately 90 minutes, so I consider it a movie, rather than a three-part episode. Either way, Back in the Red was acceptable.

[@JamesPlaysGames95]

can someone explain why why was there not another version of kochanski when microrobots re-created the ship and crew? cause the one hanging around with our main chrachters is a kochanski from another universe. and since the main universe's one is already dead, you'd think "the original" would be revived. idk, maybe the microbots detected there was already an instance of her nearby and decided not to duplicate her?

[@Cyborcat]

I mean, the writers didn't even know what to do with ONE Kochanski, let alone two, so I'm not complaining. Serious answer: I always assumed it was the latter. Lister and Kochanski were both alive, so the nanobots didn't recreate either.

[@fromthecheapseats7126]

Didn’t this universe’s Kochanski leave with future-Lister in “Stasis Leak?”

[@truediva18]

The guy that plays Peterson is Rory's dad on Doctor Who. He played a cop in the second Agent Cody Banks movie.

[@libco]

Nice tidbit!

[@WilliamReginaldLucas]

Love that they get back to Red Dwarf in series 8, hate that it's mostly set in The Tank. I could never get the hang of how many people were on the ship to begin with (early seasons say 169, but Justice says over 1,000, Red Dwarf USA it's 5,000 but either way there's 200 in the tank I guess). There's so much they could've done with it as well, they didn't have to make Hollister such a villain. It could have been an interesting look at how the crew deal with suddenly being 3 million years into deep space, and how the main cast reflect off this as Lister presumably would find himself slip back into his old life with his drinking buddies etc. The virus at the end could still have worked, wiping out the rest of the crew to restore the status quo for season 9, but yeah I don't really like much of season 8 other than Back in the Red

[@AndrewChapman]

"Cassandra" wasn't a bad episode. When they go on their first canary mission, they're mostly separated from the resurrected crew and canaries apart from Warden Knot. When they encounter Cassandra, it actually feels like the tone of Series 4-6 and forget for a while they're prisoners on Red Dwarf.

[@TimeLordParadox]

Holly actually said "Rat Arsed" rather than ratted

[@Cyborcat]

The point is that I didn't know that "ratted" meant drunk, so "rat-assed", which is a extension of that, didn't make sense when I first heard it. I figure people watching the video could work that out without me having to say all of that.

[@TimeLordParadox]

Is ratted actually a phrase used to describe drunk people? You learn something new every day :p

[@Cyborcat]

I heard it somewhere--maybe a different episode?--in a context where I could tell it meant drunk. Yeah, one can pick up a lot of Brit slang while watching this show =P

[@TimeLordParadox]

I actually am a Brit. I thought ratted was an American thing. Lol

[@Cyborcat]

Well, shit =P Maybe it's just really old slang, then.

[@rodster6campingprepper]

I loved that they brought back the Red Dwarf crew. We'd had a lot of seasons of just the four of them so it could have been really interesting to see them now thrown back into being just low ranking crew members after getting used to having the run of the ship.

[@truediva18]

Who watches British television and is looking for people that were on Doctor Who?

[@benburke3015]

Well... I thought the power sauce joke was funny, though to be fair that probably says more about me than it does the gag.

[@moriahgamesdev]

Little known fact. Yvonne McGruder eventually fell through a time hole and started the MeToo campaign. #justiceforyvonne

[@sam808tt2]

Unlike most of the fanbase, i really love season 8! I understand why people don't like it and some moments do make me cringe. The season isn't as strong as some others but I personally prefer it to season 7. I love how different it is, and even though there are some missed opportunities, i still think it is a solid comedy series.

[@Cyberleader672]

Ive been thinking about how the sexual magnetism was handled and I'm realising there was such an easy way to make it work. The luck virus worked by affecting the drinker's decision making. You do something and the virus just nudges your thoughts into doing the right things. They should have had the Sexual Magnetism work the same way. Rimmer drinks it and he just on instinct is able to say and do things that make him be more attractive to people. It keeps most of the same comedy as the original episode but drops the parts that raise too many questions since Rimmer is the only one the virus is changing in any way

[@reloadpsi]

The presidency joke aged way too freaking well. I'm saying _nothing_ else.

[@AxelWedstar411]

The show's best multi-part episode.

[@grugonk]

This was actually my introduction to Red Dwarf. I was 15 at the time and unaware of the 7 seasons that came before it.

[@nigelmurphy6761]

true that craig and chris didn't actually get on until series 7. the reason why the character of kryten was created according to Doug Naylor was actually simply because of the fact that he and Rob Grant were finding it extremely difficult for the four main characters at the time. Just to clarify Kryten actually originally first appeared in the first episode of season 2 but didn't become a regular main character until series 3.

[@mrdoctorgilmore]

My biggest problem with season 8 is that it's more focused on jokes than actual story.

[@BH-98]

Galactic yo yo yeah, it's the opposite of series 7 & back to earth

[@TimeLordParadox]

In that respect it kind of went back to basics. But in this case it's more of a step back than forwards. Personally I agree, I loved the story arc season 6 and 7 had. All season 8 seemed to be was "Wait for 2 years until the sentence is up and until then just survive." You could also make the argument seasons 9-12 are following on from that. There is no real story arc to speak of except bum around and have laugh. Except for the find Kochanski arc but it's hardly an arc since they're not really doing anything with it at all.

[@libco]

@@TimeLordParadox that’s a great metaphor for season 8.

[@Vagran]

@27:15 My first time watching this scene with a couple of friends, I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe.

[@benmiller3252]

It was great to see Rimmer back in series

[@accountwithoutrules]

I had no idea Petersen was Mr Weasley until I saw this

[@dwibs93]

Between this season, the WWF and other things, I swear 1999 was the year where sexual humour was at its peak.

[@Cyborcat]

True, it was definitely a product of its time.

[@dwibs93]

@@Cyborcat Seems to explain why future seasons don't have nearly as much of that

[@thesmithersy]

The 90s were the best. They really were. Nowadays its either all sanitised or political.

[@Nightman221k]

I love the part with Kryton and Kochanski with her advice backfiring. I dunno why but their banter cracks e up.

[@mollymcdade4031]

I really don't enjoy their overreliance on sexual humour in season 8. Like with the final scene with Lister pouring the virus on Rimmer... I really hope he got rescued by the guards.

[@Cyborcat]

Yeah, that made me really uncomfortable when I first saw that one, I was like "Wait, did Lister really cause Rimmer to get gang-raped? Then I realized that they made it a point to show the guard being there first, so chances are the guard put a stop to it before it got that far. Still pretty disturbing, tho.

[@kate_cooper]

Yes. Even if we assume that Rimmer got rescued in time, it still seems as though Lister *intended* for him to get gang raped and that's just plain wrong (and weird, as Lister is supposed to be moral).

[@SDK2K9]

This actually was the first series of Red Dwarf I watched.

[@tolchok89]

I'll admit, it's fun to look back on movies where Mac McDonald had a bit part (the director's cut of Aliens, Tim Burton's Batman, Fifth Element). He's a yank who lives and works in the UK, so he's usually a go-to guy if a production being filmed there needs an American extra. In fact, I joked that his character in Aliens is really Dennis the Donut Boy, or that his characters in Superman 4 and Tim Burton's Batman are the same guy, the Joker having coerced a prison guard into working for him.

[@lazy1119]

I've been looking forward to this

[@scorchx3000]

Fun fact: I read that the rat who Starbug hit was originally going to be a clone of Frankenstein the cat. They couldn't make it look good so they used a rat.

[@LittleMAC78]

Norman Lovett's joke about being 'rat arsed' wouldn't have worked, then.

[@fromthecheapseats7126]

I’m surprised the Blue Midget dance didn’t feature an instrumental version of “Tongue Tied.”

[@PartigradeCannon]

Given how easy fixing the drive plate is made out to be, I imagine it's a like a can of spray foam insulation.

[@reloadpsi]

Did they film this episode in the middle of a really hot summer or something? Everyone looks sunburned in it.

[@videos4mydad]

26:50 wow.... never ever ever heard anyone use the term 'corpsing'... you are very very good!

[@orlarosebs]

YES! Cant wait for the next one!

[@willadeefriesland5107]

Gotta luv the 4(5) mop tops / Beatles reference...

[@Dethneko]

For me this is the worst series of the ones I've seen so far. Starting off with a three-parter that really should have only been a two-parter; they could have used that extra time saved to explore the concept they'll be introducing in the 4th episode. The ending is also equal parts the best and worst way for this show to end (back when it was originally canceled, IIRC). Edit: The inclusion of the prison also doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Like, why put Lister into stasis when they could have put him in prison for the remainder of the original tour. Concept they introduce in the next episode still could have worked, and more beneficially since they already had a ton of experience with what they'd be doing it, so being able to do it with more freedom could have yielded better results. Could have also let them explore the rest of the crew's reaction to Lister seeming to drastically change overnight, since it's still a difference between an afternoon for the crew and several years for Lister.

[@WeirdWonderful]

Yeah, the fact that everyone he knew is alive again and he's just carted off to the big so he never gets to interact with anyone is just weird and self defeating.

[@sam808tt2]

Have you seen the extended version that doesn't have any breaks? I personally think it is the better version

[@rebecca7p24]

Is the next Cat episode coming after series eight is covered? there hasn’t been one since series five

[@Cyborcat]

I was going to do it after 10 (so they'd be every five seasons) but I think I'm gonna do it after 9 at this point. Since apparently season 13 is already being talked about, I'll change it to every 4 seasons. So the next one will cover seasons 6-9 and the one after that will cover 10-13.

[@rebecca7p24]

Ah thanks, I was wondering when they were coming as, obviously, we all need more Cat shenanigans!

[@garphan9535]

I’m a little confused about one thing in this episode: if all the crew was resurrected then where’s the Kochanski from their universe cause the Kochanski that’s with the main characters was from a parallel universe

[@Cyborcat]

The writers couldn't even handle writing one Kochanski decently. I don't know why so many fans want a second one.

[@thegreatstapley]

To be honest, I'd have prefered this story to have ended with their second escape in Blue Midget, bringing back Rimmer, giving them a new ship set, and sending the crew out into the universe. It would also be pretty easy to recycle an episode like Cassandra to fit this idea too!

[@TimeLordParadox]

Part of me feels they should never have found Red Dwarf. The claustrophobic atmosphere of Star Bug just added to the tension and the comedy. Where as Red Dwarf felt safer being a 5 mile long mother ship. The extra tension added to the comedy I felt.

[@owlhatch3812]

Anyone noticed that rimmer whispered that he was attached to the suction end of a vacuum cleaner?

[@mirage2361]

The ending to this season which was a whole rap up to red dwarf back then before the new seasons really was a big let down, and I can't wait to hear your take on it.

[@TimeLordParadox]

It was more a bridge into the Red Dwarf movie, but the movie just wasn't going to happen. It was kind of a downer if it was the end. After all those adventures it looked like it was going to end on a dark note.

[@Lasherluke]

So if the red dwarf crew was restored wouldn't that mean there is another lister and kochanseki somewhere around.

[@tolchok89]

19:38 - I think I've seen the Nostalgia Critic do that in a few episodes. Wouldn't surprise me, the Walkers are fans of the show.

[@lazy1119]

Cassandra is the best of series 8 but series 8 is the worst series

[@lazy1119]

series 7 has character development going for it and it has a few episodes i enjoy (tikka to ride, stoke me a clipper and i dont mind blue)series 8 is a few funny jokes without too much of a plot. its almost as if doug kinda gave up and went, pfff we could turn it inro porridge in space.

[@G36645]

Can we just appreciate how lightly the gang got for crashing a star bug into 2 corridors and blowing up a section In a hanger They got 2 years

[@Cyborcat]

Y'know what, fair XD

[@MagnusSkiptonLLC]

Say what you will about how bad season 8 is, but the very first scene I ever saw of Red Dwarf was Kryten being interviewed by the psychiatrist in the first episode of this season, and it convinced me to give the series itself a try.

[@Cyborcat]

I feel similarly about Back to Earth.

[@TimeLordParadox]

I think the first episode I properly saw was Pete. Though I thought it entertaining it didn't really hook me. That came later with Queeg.

[@dragonskunkstudio7582]

Thar was a ton of story, I thought you decided to go through the entire season in 1 video but no it was that jam packed.

[@santanamauricio]

it was a 3 parter (that's 3 episodes)

[@SmazUgonih]

I quite like the idea of bringing back the crew of Red Dwarf, but only for this one story. It would have been better for Back in the Red to play out with the crew then being killed off again at the end, returning everything to the status quo. Back in the Red is an odd one, and one in which I share very similar opinions of to this video. I do genuinely feel the cast are very much bringing their A game to the story, but I feel it's marred by being stretched over three parts. Mind you, whenever I go back and watch it, I end up watching the full amalgamated option present on the DVDs. It works much better like that, instead of three episodes, but I still think it should have been a whole part shorter. That second escape sequence always felt very, uh, extra, to me.

[@zionkraze9965]

I don't think Mark Williams was doing the Harry Potter films yet, they wouldn't be made until 5 years.

[@devilish0doodoo]

I wish you were my friend. It’s so hard to find Dwarfers in the U.S.

[@stardappledgreen]

holy shit, never noticed Peterson is also Arthur Weasley!

[@EddJones25]

Of course I know them! they're in Eastenders!

[@Channel-ij5px]

No REAL rats were hurt during the making of this episode

[@AtheAetheling]

Divisive as it may be, I really like season 8. I like the Rimmer and Lister dynamic and I think Kochanski really fits in well here. The consent issues raised by the virus made me uncomfortable even when it first aired, but after realising that all of it happens after they've all licked an envelope, I ascribe it to the simulation messing things up in their heads.

[@celinak5062]

21:25 no one reads the report

[@rebajoe]

16:41 Dr Mammet wanted to marry that guy? 😕

[@orlarosebs]

just want to know when is the next one

[@Cyborcat]

In about three weeks. I know that's probably sounds like a long time, but since I covered three episodes with this video, I wanna switch over to MLP for the next couple weeks so I don't get burned out.

[@orlarosebs]

don't worry that's fine

[@TheGhostOfAGamer]

I'm guessing you'll be doing 9 to 12 series, and hopefully when 13 comes.

[@darthkahn45]

In terms of writing this really feels like "the mid life crisis" series. Where everything feels like it was written by a horny teenage boy

[@mrcritical6751]

The fact they did an episode on trashy reality TV that was popular at the time, says it all

[@jaredohlstein7355]

Awesome vlogs as usual Dena. And will you look at Back to Earth and series X-XII eventually?

[@Cyborcat]

Yep.

[@SaturnusDK]

Probably one of my favourite seasons of "old" Red Dwarf.

[@sofiamatos8297]

I might be the minority here but I actually really like this season. I found season 7 a bore, I don't like Kochanski and Kryten was insufferable. It's wonderful to have Rimmer back! The series isn't the same without him. My favourite episodes are Cassandra and Pete.

[@InaudibleSlinky]

When itcomes to continuity, I typically ignore most details as its about the seasons setting for the sake of the humour. That being said, shouldnt there be two Kochanskis?

[@Cyborcat]

I keep seeing people say that, and my response is always going to be: "They couldn't even handle writing for ONE Kochanski". Serious answer: No need for the nanos to rebuild someone who already exists.

[@InaudibleSlinky]

@@Cyborcat Good point, there wouldnt even be much contrast between the two given the general rewrite the character got.

[@minecraftWithDanielD]

The blue midget legs were featured in Thanks for the memory weren't they?

[@Cyborcat]

I'm pretty sure they weren't.

[@minecraftWithDanielD]

Cyborcat Maybe I was watching a different version, cause it aired recently on one of my local networks and it was seen in that episode

[@alex.thedeadite]

Personally I wouldn't call that guy wearing women's stockings joke transphobic, at least in the way most people mean it nowadays. It's not about transgendered people, just transvestites, which is actually a term for straight men who like to wear women's clothing/underwear in private (such as under there regular clothes, like portrayed, or at home) or during sex. I looked up that term a long time ago when i heard in Rocky Horror Picture Show, and realized they used it wrong as Dr. Frankenfurther has Gay sex.

[@Cyborcat]

Yeah, that's why I said "borderline". Tho it's still making fun of the idea of a man wearing "women's clothes", and it could be argued that that line of thinking makes it harder for trans people to be accepted. I dunno, maybe that's a stretch, but that's what I was thinking when I commented on that. Either way, that gag kind of rubs me the wrong way *shrug*

[@alex.thedeadite]

Firstly, that's true, I could see that argument. And secondly, that feeling's understandable.

[@JackChristmas]

Wait... surely the transphobia is in the part where Kryten is designated a woman because he doesn't have a penis? That's not even borderline. That's the show literally telling us that hundreds of years in the future, people (or at the very least, prisoners) are still refused the right to identify as non-binary gender, their gender identity is 100% decided by the presence or absence of one particular type of genitalia (because the absence of a penis makes Kryten a woman, but the absence of a vagina doesn't make him a man???), and institutions are so single-minded about this that they even apply it to ROBOTS. The human race in Red Dwarf is a society that fully recognizes the personhood of a robot, but doesn't even acknowledge that trans people exist. That is bleak as hell.

[@Cyborcat]

When I mentioned "borderline transphobia", I was referring to the counseler wearing stockings and garters. The bit with Kryten could be taken one of two ways, but one of those definitely comes across as transphobic, like you said. It also implies that man is the default and if you don't have "man parts" than you're a woman, as if woman is some kind of off-shoot of man. So, it could be either misogynistic or transphobic ... or both, I guess. That's why I didn't want to go into it too much in the video, there's a lot to unpack. But, yeah, I agree with you.

[@Myndir]

I was under the impression that the importance of Kryten not having a penis was to avoid him using it in prison. That's why the absence of a vagina isn't important, IN THEIR VIEW. They don't literally think that he's female. But, mainly, it's so that Kochanski had someone to interact with in prison, because otherwise she'd have even less to do this season.

[@scorchx3000]

Holly didn't say ratted for drunk, he said rat arsed. It's a double pun, they're stuck in the rats arse.

[@Cyborcat]

Dude, I can *hear* what Holly said. I was pointing out that "rat assed" is derivative of "ratted", which means "drunk".

[@MrMortull]

Well, I've missed these! I have to agree: series 8 isn't the best as an overall package but a lot of the component parts are very good... I think it was around now that I suspected Red Dwarf had outlived its time. It was slowly becoming something like the comedy equivalent of a coelacanth. Small note, I don't 100% agree with you about the 'implied misogyny and borderline transphobia'. The guys get just as much fun poked their way about matters sexual and that 'therapist' dude could just as easily be into women's clothes. *shrug* In isolation I can kind of see where you're coming from with that but taking the show as a whole RD is pretty good at pointing out and commenting on creepy or shameful behaviour of that sort, even within... remember when it was actually even a little unfair on the boys by implying they were creeps and lechers when they visited the mirror-gender universe? And of course there's "Krytie TV" coming up, which plays that kind of thing for laughs... but of course Red Dwarf plays EVERYTHING for laughs to some degree or other because comedy. It's possible to laugh at a horrible thing, in fact one of the best ways to learn to handle and grow past it. (Christ, not such a small note after all)

[@willadeefriesland5107]

... and Rory Williams da too! (Doctor Who)

[@madelinebryson]

Who is doing the voiceover?

[@Cyborcat]

Me?

[@DarthArachnious]

The Dwarf is the size of a city. Sections and decks numbering in the hundreds. But there's no deck 13?

[@Cyborcat]

It's possible that people think that they skipped over 13 when naming the floors--sometimes they do that with tall buildings, they'll skip over 13 when naming them due to people being superstitious about that number. (in America, at least--I don't know if that applies to the UK or not).