The Ultimate Red Dwarf Retrospective | SUPERCUT

[@tedmarcak287]

Red Dwarf is my literal favorite sit-com of all time, i hate how nobody knows about this absolute masterpiece, im glad im not the only person that loves this series as much as me

[@CllrP]

You are not alone in that opinion smeg head

[@dallesamllhals9161]

I do

[@Andy_Ace]

I literally have the logo tattooed on my right peck :D

[@plkrtn]

The show peaked at over 8 million viewers on BBC Two at it's peak. Unheard of numbers at the time. At least in the UK it was hugely popular and well known.

[@jc441-i3q]

Although its quality was questionable, I was fond of Lexx and wish more people knew of this bizarre sci fi show...

[@nunyabidness674]

It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere, I'm all alone, more or less. Yup. That'll be stuck in my head for a week...

[@TheBeird]

One of the best. I went through the entire series for the first time in years recently, and it still holds up for the most part. No doubt that series 3 through 6 was the peak but I enjoy what came after too.

[@IffyJottere]

I love this show. I was channel surfing at home late at night, and I happen to fumble the remote and accidentally flip to the local PBS affiliate in the 90s, and landed on Series 3's Marooned a few seconds after the title card, so I did not know what show I was watching until later. "How could you miss a black hole, Holly?!" "Well the thing about space... the color that space *is* , your basic space color... is it's black. And the thing about a black hole, it's main distinguishing feature... is it's black! How're you supposed to see 'em?!" "Yes, but FIVE of them?!" "That's how it goes, innit? 3,000,000 years, not a single one, and now five of 'em!"

[@jamesabernethy7896]

Just a comment and like for the algorithm. I watched these at the time and love all of your retrospectives. Star Trek has a lot of shows and movies for material but it was great that you have it the time and love it deserved. I really like Red Dwarf, IK was a little too young to catch the first 2 series so it is 3-6 that I am most fondest of. It was constantly on so I caught them all anyway and still appreciate the first two series. 7 had some good stuff too but it was starting to not feel like Red Dwarf anymore. I love Sci-fi and comedy was in it's heyday during the 80's and 90's. Perfect blend. So many gold standard episodes and platinum moments.

[@gohawks3571]

3-6 were my favorite too☺️

[@Canadish]

One of the all time greats. Red Dwarf has such a unique charm that is sadly impossible to replicate. Curios about the flat lighting in season 1, odd that they could not imagine doing a sitcom otherwise back them.

[@Schming]

Excited to watch this. Long before I was a whovian or a trekkie, I was a dwarfer! Criminally underrepresented on KZbin! Seems we had a very similar childhood!

[@davidhopkins4352]

Thank You for this! One of the best science fiction programmes of all time. Cheers!

[@LFC4LIFEJEDI]

I was there for it's debut episode and I've never missed one. I've been here for highs and lows and with the up and coming last ever episode due, Red Dwarf is easily one of the best British Shows ever made

[@natehallowell9260]

Best tv show probably ever

[@alex630710]

It was deeper than star trek. Loved it

[@gohawks3571]

Now that I'm catching up on all the Star Trek, I wonder if they didn't borrow from Red Dwarf? I know there was a little here and there in Red Dwarf of Star Trek, but with the timing of the shows, some things reminded me of Red Dwarf in later Star Treks.

[@DaisuSaikoro]

Thank you. Just thank you for all that you do. You are so awesome and I'm glad you're channel was recommended to me. Amazingly great work.

[@bombthebass6803]

Loved RD ontv back in the day as a kid. Gotta rewatch 😅

[@andrewbleackley1832]

I grew up watching RD in Canada on PBS. The cliff hangers, will it come back or is it done was all too real. Especially after 6 and 8. Personally I thought 8 was amazing and it gave me a lot of hope for where the show could be going. Season 8 Rimmer was my favorite.. "Oh it's you the way you used to be" none of the growth, the compassion, the hard trials of afterlife. Who still manages to grow but yet not grow all at the same time. Amazing premise for him. The finish with this Rimmer actually accomplishing the one thing no other Rimmer ever did, he cheat death, HE survived. But how would he get back??? He's broken the mold. Infinite Rimmers lived, died, became ACE, and died in a true arc of redemption, all of them became the best of their kind. Not him. Only we never find out what happened to this Rimmer. How he survived. Season 9 and onward we have our hologram again, and it's great in terms of character, he's not our survivor. The replacement is the 4th individual Rimmer that Dave shares his adventure with. Unless, and correct me if I'm wrong here, Season 9-11 Rimmer is our 1st hologram having given up as Ace and come home. Either way thanks for the supercut. Great trip down memory lane.

[@tehrealBANE]

Honey, wake up...new Dwarf docy just dropped.

[@samuelgarrod8327]

Talking to your blowup doll again?

[@megalopath]

I grew up with this show, was smegging fantastic to see it show up here too! :)

[@hurleymacfar]

Great work! Really well put together. I remember when it first aired and it was like nothing I'd seen before. Despite the rough edges I'm still very fond of the first two series due to fond memories and how much I've seen them. Nice to see you give deserved recognition to what an amazing character Rimmer is. Superbly played by CB. Wasn't as taken with series 7 onwards but 1-6 are classics.

[@MsMorbidleaf]

don't forget to like the video!

[@JDredwind]

Done! ✅ 👍

[@mightycaine8254]

Please please complete the set and bring this up to date. The newer seasons are still worth your time . Well except back to earth, even though there is still some good stuff in there.

[@Thoran666]

I use the Rimmer salute in Helldivers 2. You can do a spinning salute when you ready up for the drop. Takes some practice to do just 3 rotations flawlessly. Wonderful video, I had no idea what the actords did before Red Dwarf up to now. I started with episode 1 in 2003 when a friend introduced me to it. So long smegheads!

[@tboneisgaming]

I'm definitely a Dwarfer. Series 9 was a bit weak but the rest is great. Probably my favourite series is 8.

[@geofftottenperthcoys9944]

Agree about 9. 10 & 11 went back to "classic" Dwarf!

[@houseworx]

I thought you’d finish the rest of the series/specials before releasing the “the ultimate red dwarf retrospective.”

[@idontwannaidontwanna7307]

Oh...oh I'm going to savour this retrospective!!!!!

[@bookofdaveandsteve]

Great vids - at the time and together. Well done 👍

[@dennislogan6781]

The best moment on Red Dwarf was Elvis singing the theme song. "Thank you, thank you very much".

[@dallesamllhals9161]

SMEG! I haven't the time right now...😞 SMEG² ...just for III.IV.V and VI, then 😲

[@geofftottenperthcoys9944]

Love this show, even got a t-shirt with "Smeghead" on it!

[@davidreeder43]

I'm trying to picture Dave Lister, the slobbish Liverpool Space-Bum, portrayed by Alan Rickman. And it keeps making my brain short circut.

[@willythepeachfacelovebird]

Nice. Was watching season one last night.

[@jc441-i3q]

If Red Dwarf was a drama instead of a comedy it could have had potential to be quite disturbing for Lister, being trapped on a truly enormous empty ship with only a hologram, a computer and a strange cat-man for company and not much to do.

[@waynebanks2948]

2 seconds in, and im so excited for his video!

[@toma.4808]

I love this show. I really wanted to see lister make it back to earth, marry kochanski and have their farm on Fiji

[@holy_crusaderoftheholyland4713]

I have never heard of red dwarf at all before.

[@brianoshea1178]

As a sci fi nerd and comedy fan kid in the 80's.... was literally the greatest thing ever made... still holds up today as re-watched it all over Covid... but you have to be nerd, be into sci fi of all kinds, season 1 is rough, was even when I was a kid, but stick with it

[@SuperCrumpets]

you need to watch it now

[@beepboop204]

years of my life had a regular weekend ritual of the cannabis and the watching of Red Dwarf and Whose Line Is It Anyway?

[@waltwright84]

I never watched this... seems like I need to correct that oversight.

[@mark24376]

Sigh,, I'm now going to have to rewatch this show.... Ohh....the horror! :P I guess i'd best get started..

[@arronwhitcombe161]

chris barrie is o.g in this

[@marinaro69]

Space mumps was uproarious. I nearly suffocated first time I saw it. Also, it was my dad’s introduction to the show.

[@IffyJottere]

"Talk about a weight off me mind!!"

[@NimhLabs]

I dunno... I think the low budget _adds_ to the charm

[@NagasakiBladers]

I love Chris Nolan's remake of Backwards, released in 2020

[@DawnDavidson]

Is it on YT?

[@IffyJottere]

@@DawnDavidson He's being a sarcastic wiseass, he's referring to the movie Tenet. Well played, by the way LOL :)

[@IffyJottere]

Clap clap, someone get some ointment for Nolan for that burn

[@Rashomon69]

Red Dwarf??? First!!! :)

[@JaesonFinn]

"Mutant"? Dropped.

[@adipauleng]

I have to ask if you've read the books? If not you might gain an appreciation for those early seasons. I'm an avid reader but I didn't think comedy would work reading it these books changed my mind. I also have the advantage of watching them as they aired waiting for Thursday 9pm and the taping and rewatching it's simply the greatest of all time.

[@IsmailAvsever]

Great show! Shame they never have the chance to make it as cinema movie.

[@dallesamllhals9161]

Why?

[@dosmastrify]

Is this a real upload I could swear I've seen this before

[@AngryDuck79]

I got more enjoyment and entertainment out of this retrospective than I ever did from Red Dwarf itself. I tried half a dozen times over the years to give it a go and it just never caught my interest. It seemed more like a mockery of science fiction than a genuine one, designed to insult people who liked starships and space travel rather than entertain them. Even framing it as a "sitcom set in space" doesn't really change my perspective on this, because I never really found anything I saw as funny. It felt like something a comedian who hated nerds would come up with, designed to mock and insult actual science fiction fans, like a high school quarterback dressing up in pocket protectors and thick rimmed glasses to entertain his linebacker buddies and impress the cheerleaders. It baffles me how this was so beloved by so many people, especially considering that many of those people aren't high school linebackers cheering on an asshole jock. Farscape did this whole "comedy in space" thing so much better and I never felt disrespected by the show like I did with Red Dwarf. I'm glad people like it, but it's certainly not for me.

[@samuelgarrod8327]

Well said, they had three jokes that were recycled ad nauseum.

[@rogerk6180]

2 hours and 11 minutes.. Part 1..........

[@tristanmccann6838]

48:34

[@RyanScopeyGross]

“Series 8 is the most constantly funny series of the show”. Proceeds to show all the unfunniest clips

[@citizenVader]

Hang on. Did he say Manchester? What a disappointment, I thought it was in space..

[@falcon_three_fifty]

I've never seen the Red Dwarf before. Why do some characters have an "H" on their foreheads? and why is one man refereed to as a cat?

[@IffyJottere]

Rimmer has the H on his forehead because he's a holographic projection of his former self, made by the computer so Lister would have a human face to talk to that wasn't on a monitor. Cat is, on the other hand, an evolved descendant of the pregnant stray Lister took in off-camera before the pilot episode. It was against ship regulation, so they put him in suspended animation to dock his pay, for punishment, but then the ship's nuclear reactor breached and the radiation killed everyone except him, and the cat, who scampered into the cargo bay. The computer couldn't safely restore Lister until 3,000,000 years later where his pregnant cat had birthed kittens who inbred for 3,000,000 years, creating a dysfunctional society of humanoid cats. The last one left behind after holy war saw the rest leave the ship, is the one we see here. Also, the cats' holy war was about Lister's dream of opening a hot dog stand -- red caps or blue caps? They both got it wrong - they were going to be green.

[@SunnyIntervalsORG]

The H stands for Hologram, so the character is a computer simulation, not a real human. And the cat is a 'felis sapien' a creature who has evolved over millions of years from the domestic house cat, and now looks very similar to a human.

[@samuelgarrod8327]

Hasn't aged well.

[@dessertstorm7476]

Hate to say it, but even those peak episodes aren't as funny when you're 40 as they were when you were 14.

[@nazishhussain2712]

this just doctor who and battlestar galtica and mixed with married with children

[@Frellyouall]

It's a shame Chris Barrie has fallen down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole and has bigoted views and uses the word woke unironically.