RD Vlogs: Emohawk, Polymorph II

[@sillygrl23]

1:01 - Kryten's little nod when Rimmer tells the rest of the crew what they must think of him is perfect, so subtle, subdued, and out of the way..... and yet so comedic.

[@georgeowain]

Your comment about this episode being Fan Service is correct. The writers got so many requests to bring back Dwayne, Ace and the Polymorph, that in the end they just wrote one episode featuring all three.

[@georgeowain]

in the Red Dwarf novel The Last Human; which adapted this episode in to its plot. Lister and his Gelf bride did in fact consummate their marriage after Lister had been handed an alcoholic beverage that completely intoxicated him. When he suddenly sobered up, he slowly realised that what he thought was Kochanski (who was part of the crew in the novel) riding him, was actually the Gelf he had married. The chapter then ended with him fleeing naked while screaming "Change of plan leg it!".

[@Cyborcat]

Ick. EDIT - Come to think of it, I think I remember someone telling me that before. Must have purged it from my memory =P

[@NebLleb]

This was my first Series VI episode, and my god was it good. It is fan service, it's a follow up to a classic episode that brings back to favourite characters from two other classic episodes, but it's fan service in a good way. Just hearing Arnold-as-Ace saying "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast" got me clapping when I saw it. And apparently, despite being one of two seasons not to feature the Red Dwarf, the rest of Series VI is meant to be fantastic too. EDIT: Also, that scene where the Polymorph ditches its stick form got me screaming, and I don't know why.

[@PassiveSmoking]

Rimmer isn't really Ace here, he's more Rimmer's idea of Ace. At least in my head he is. That adds a nice bit of texture to Rimmer's hatred of Ace. In his mind Ace would casually sacrifice them all for the greater good.

[@optimisticwhovian1726]

Rimmer should've turned back into the Quiche guy surely, turning into Ace was a positive not a negative so this makes no sense really and is just blatant fan service as was Cat becoming Dwayne Dibley and not just the homeless guy, how would the polymorph know about the suicide squid event?

[@kameronbryant9796]

i realize I'm kind of off topic but do anyone know of a good place to watch new movies online?

[@Ray_D_Tutto]

I love that all it did as remove his bitterness yet he is still just as incompetent because it didn't give him any of Ace's skill or intelligence.

[@TimeLordParadox]

You asked in a previous video why people like Dwayne Dibbly. I think it's because the Cat represents the kind of person we all wish we were. Cool, confident, without a care in the world. Dwayne Dibbly represents who we really are on some level. Nerdy about something, unfashionable in a lot of ways, socially awkward with parts of our body we don't like, and that personality contrasts with the Cat so much. Take anybody, peel away the layers and eventually you will get to a form of a Dwayne Dibbly which makes him relate-able in a lot of ways. That's my theory at least.

[@Cyborcat]

That's a good point.

[@joshbailey5512]

5:59 “Change of plan. Leg it!!!”

[@Mikemoto1]

Your commentary is spot on and I love reminiscing about Red Dwarf.

[@noahlogue]

Season six Red Dwarf was just about the best.

[@Jayfive276]

"Oh Mr Guitar! You're a sad old thiiiiing!"

[@jankreft6753]

3:43 "totally kaputski" is probably one of my favorite lines in this episode and I can't even really tell why (it might be because of my brain being kinda confused by the fact that "kaputski" is quite similar to the German word for broken, which is kaputt, and kaputski sounds like something German parents would say to their toddler or a baby pet after it broke something that wasn't really valuable in the first place.) XD

[@franohmsford7548]

ski is a common ending when describing the Russian language - Like Chelski instead of Chelsea football club.

[@onlineamiga]

Thats interesting because in England we do sometimes use the word Kaputt as well. to say something is broken. Its kinda seen as a slang word but i didn't know it was borrowed from German.

[@jankreft6753]

onlineamiga the English language borrows much from German, but I always thought it's just American English due to the big amount of German immigrants in the US (many Arnish people still speak a really weird version of low German) 🤔 (some examples for German expressions in English are Zeitgeist, über, Angst, Poltergeist or schadenfreude … BTW there's a whole page on Wikipedia about it)

[@mopanov]

There’s a deleted scene where ace is about to snap Dwayne’s neck but he can’t bring himself to do it.

[@charlesjunior5087]

I just watched Diamanda's video on season one, and she had a different take on why Holly acted the way he did. Because he was senile, not stupid.

[@jameshumphreys9715]

I would a love two episodes of a crossover Doctor who, an episode from perceptive of Doctor Who and another from red drawf.

[@thelionbenc]

I know this was a while ago but I just found this review series. I am loving it but just heard you say that you didn't know why the military had short hair. Most of the time it is for uniformity. Everyone is supposed to look like everyone else so the enemy doesn't know who is important and who isn't at a glance. Thank you.

[@Cyborcat]

Makes sense.

[@randypanthegoatboy7114]

6:00: Fun fact: In the book Last Human, Lister was naked at this point.

[@Cyborcat]

Yikes.

[@adamsanter9385]

Mr. Guitar! Such a classic blooper :)

[@Cyborcat]

"Ohh, Mister Gee-tarr! You're a sad little thiiing ..." (too bad I cut that part out)

[@denverprator5806]

back in the 90's i was newly married and going to college so the only entertainment we had was non-cable t.v. we became big PBS watchers an britt-com fans. our first daughters name is KRITENIA in homage, she goes by KRITY (cry-tee).

[@AngelesRamirez015]

Totally loving this channel! Found this while looking for Silent Hill vids because I'm a huge Silent Hill fan (as if my feet tattoos didn't make that obvious), and then I find you also have Red Dwarf vids?!? Awesome work, Dena. Really glad I subscribed. :)

[@Cyborcat]

Awesome, thanks ^.^

[@beelzebubcrumpethorn]

IT'S THE WALL!

[@Sabercat-ub9dc]

Hygiene and the fact it can be grabbed in battle are two of the big reasons for soldiers not having long hair.

[@DODGETHISLUCAS8BIT]

When Lister is in bed with his Gelf bride and tries to put the covers of his head. The Gelf Beide pulls it off and he says Maybe in the morning goodnight”! Great scene!

[@Biotic_Warlock]

Rimmer turning into Ace probably accidentally works into the fact that Ace was revealed to be a passed on title between Rimmers - meaning that Ace isn't a specific version, more Rimmer if he embodied the same traits.

[@GideonGleeful95]

Question: Do you plan to do spotlights for the other characters like you did with Cat?

[@Cyborcat]

Probably not. I'm already talking about them plenty in the main series, since all of the episodes revolve around them.

[@BH-98]

Did you know TV chef and internet meme Ainsley Harriot played one of the Gelf.

[@Cyborcat]

Yep, I'm saving that bit of info for when I get to "Can't Smeg, Won't Smeg".

[@willadeefriesland5107]

Shorter hair worked better with helmets and minimized lice problems, plus it is easier to bandage head wounds... Yeesh! I sound like Rimmer...

[@rebellionsspark128]

I think emohawks instead feast on personality traits or aspects of people’s selves, they are different versions of the polymorph after all.

[@HersheyHemi1]

There has or needs to be a RD Space Corp Directives Book!

[@Cyborcat]

That and the Ferengi Rules of Aquisition.

[@Librariansaysook]

I wonder if the bit about the live chicken and the rabbi is a reference to kapparot

[@nvkulk]

I like this channel !’

[@willadeefriesland5107]

Shorter hair works better with helmets and less lice...

[@carucath97]

One thing I never really got was why they turned Rimmer back (I mean out of universe I get it but in universe they all seem to like him better as Ace).

[@Cyborcat]

Well, he was about to needlessly sacrifice himself and Cat, so that was not a good situation.

[@carucath97]

Ah good point :) I suppose he still has Rimmer's intelligence (not a lot) whereas regular Ace was intelligent as well as brave and charismatic.

[@mattjackson9859]

Saw a guy in Tesco the other day with a Duane Dibbley haircut... why, just why?

[@Cyborcat]

Yikes XD

[@optimisticwhovian1726]

Audiences going hysterical every time one actor or another enters a scene in a sitcom is definitely an American thing, and indeed audiences going hysterical in general is an American thing, happens in chat shows as well and is quite annoying when you have to sit there waiting for everyone to shut up so they can get on with the show.

[@BintyMcFrazzles]

Unfortunately, it's starting to happen on some chat shows in the UK, such as The Graham Norton Show. Every time an actor is on who is relatively famous, the screaming and whooping hysterically at every other word is actually annoying

[@JPWHUTV]

No-one is correct English not American English :)

[@Cyborcat]

I never said it was incorrect, just that it looks "off" to me.

[@optimisticwhovian1726]

Ive never seen that hyphen used to be honest if I said no one I'd just have a space if I wanted one word I'd say nobody that's the way you get around having a double o.

[@jasonandangiewilliams1043]

They flew into the skull, cause they was going to be shot anyhow and used the skull to take the edge off the blast!!,....

[@mantrapi1133]

"And it didn't start with 'Seinfeld' either." .... ever see The Fonz enter the set from season 3 onward? It was so cringey, even for a 7 yo kid.

[@Cyborcat]

Yeah, that's another good example.

[@MichaelBrookham]

I did like this one, but it was too fan-based. We didn't know of such characters as Duane Dibbley and Ace Rimmer in the original Polymorph episode, but you could almost guess, even if you are seeing it for the first time, that these two would come back with their respective alter egos. It was a lot of fun to watch, but a little too fan-based. Marginal recommendation.

[@JayDee284]

Chris Barrie is 1 of the few that looks Good with the Mullet ;)

[@franohmsford7548]

That wasn't a Mullet! A Mullet is short at the front, long at the back, Ace Rimmer's hair is something else entirely.