Red Dwarf is a cult classic and my favourite series! **Spolier Alert** The characters are as follows: Rimmer, Arnold J. - 2nd Technician, killed in a radiation accident, now resurected as a hologram (hence, the 'H') Lister, David - the last human alive, originally put into suspended animation for an illegal pet cat 'Cat' - a creature which evolved from the cat Lister brought aboard Red Dwarf Kryten - a sanitation Mechanoid @KingBoomer Please begin this show from the beginning 😁👍🏻
One of the best British comedy series ever. The genius is only really appreciated with knowing the characters and the whole story, and it's a long story.
"Sir, are you _absolutely_ sure? It _does_ mean changing the bulb" may actually be my single favourite joke in all of Red Dwarf, and Red Dwarf was a very long-running series.
The space corps directive jokes were one of the best pieces of comedy writing from Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, as when you heard space corps directive, you knew there was a big gag coming.
The "H" on the forehead means he's a hologram. In the red dwarf universe it is possible and kind of common for a deceased person to be brought back as a hologram with the personality and all the memories they had before death. Later Rimmer gets upgradded to "Hard Light" which means he can phisicly interact with objects and people, which he couldnt before, basicly like a movie projection, things coild pass right through.
It's sort of the premise of the entire show too. Lister is meant to be the only known human left, 3 million years in the future. Rimmer is a Hologram, Cat is evolved from Listers pet cat and Kryton is a mechanoid. Great show and it's well worth watching the first series to get an understanding of it.
Whilst the earlier seasons look a bit dated in terms of sets and special effects, the comedy is spot on and well worth a watch. They are still making this show, although there are quite long periods between seasons these days as it relies on the main 4 cast members' availability. Just shows you how much fun they have making the series!
Love this show - had 2 friends who were in Series 1 and it is a cult classic .... they are all dead Dave, Smeg Head and Dwayne Dibley. The set is small because they have lost their space ship and are on the little Star Bug ship. Worth watching once you've finished Father Ted also watch a watch is The Brittas Empire.
Red Dwarf is a great series and there is quite a lot of content there for you with reactions. There are 6 episodes per series and in the first 2 they are just finding their feet but from when Kryton (the mechanoid) joins the crew permanently it gets funnier and funnier.
Fave story is DJJ turned up for his audition to be the Cat an hour late (he did not know this) wearing a relatives old Zoot Suit and was totally unapologetic (of course did not know they had been waiting) the people casting thought he was already being in character as the DNGAF Cat and pretty much hired him on the spot. Still not sure where he got that accent from? Craig Charles was initially brought in to look at the cat character and check it was PC as they did not want any allegations of racism (very progressive for 1988) but saw the Dave Lister character and instantly knew it fitted him like a glove. So two Manc writers hired a scouser to be the last human in the galaxy!
This is my favourite sit com from my childhood. Likely influenced by nostalgia, but if you give it a good go and get into it from the start you'll like it. It's very witty and unique, looking forward to you getting into it from episode 1.
Red Dwarf is really imaginative as well as funny. Each standalone episode features a really interesting Star Trek style phenomenon or spacetime dilemma. Season 1, Episode 1 is "The End", Episode 6 "The Beginning" that should clue you in a bit. There's time loops, an adaptive moon that terraform based on your mood, a virus that gives you luck... Always an interesting premise with lots of room for fun in it. The crew are always railing on each other as they contrast so much as you've seen here. Great character chemistry, great set ups and settings. Just look at the comments here. People gushing over this and rightly so!
Love the fact I corrected this response with education showing how I was correct using the word brit in that context only to have a mod delete it but leave the other guys response making me look silly. Thanks mod. I will try again. The United Kingdom is made up from Scotland n Ireland England and Wales. In the UK we say Irish Scottish Welsh and british so saying brit is not wrong. No doubt this will also dissappear. If you are going to delete my defense soaked response at least have the curtsy to also delete the Berated comment also.
@@rossshepherd9836 Americans tend to refer to an English accent as a British accent, I think this is where it comes from. The term British could also be separated away from the United Kingdom as Britain is the island not the political entity, anyone on the island is British though the end of the political union has probably at best hastened this dissolution of the Act of Union and at worst caused it. Personally this Sassenach says "please get on with it Sweaties, chop chop, I'm too old to be waiting 20 years to get my EU passport back, my father was Scottish".
I have been a fan of this show for decades - so happy to see you reacting to it. It does a brilliant job of coming up with legitimately solid science fiction concepts and making them funny. Give the 'What A Guy!' clip from Red Dwarf a watch - such a brilliant sequence!
@@rwlynch3468is that the one about "To preserve morale during long-haul missions, all male officers above the rank of First Technician must, during panto season, be ready to put on a dress and a pair of false breasts"?
The opening conversation to Series 3 Episode 1 "Backwards" has one of the best punchlines I've ever heard. It cracks me up every time and never more so than when watching it with someone who has never seen it before. Just a conversation between Cat and Lister about The Flintstones.
The H is for Holgram as he is the representation of a long dead crewmate. One is an android and the other is a descendant of the ships cat. Note the teeth. Lister is the only surviving human from a disaster 100's/1000's of years ago.
H is for Hologram. Rimmer is a hologram brought back by the ships computer, Holly, to keep Lister sane. Rimmer was the person Lister spent the most time with before "gazpacho soup" was shouted whilst Lister was in Stasis
Marooned, gunmen of the apocalypse and better than life are some of the best individual episodes. Watching from the beginning is always a good way to start as well as alot of the comedy is based on knowing the characters
Red Dwarf is definitely worth checking out. Seasons 1 and 2 are slow by today's standards but worth checking out for the lore (and some great jokes). Season 3 is where the show really kicks off. There really isn't an unfunny episode.
Season 1 Episode 1 still cracks me up to this day. One of the only shows I can watch over and over and crease laughing. Lister smoking a cigarette on Duty with Rimmer, Rimmer: "Is that a cigarette youre smoking Lister?!" Lister: (pauses and looks confused) "No.... Its a chicken...." Its like the 5th line in the pilot, 30 years later it still cracks me up every time.
Love Red Dwarf and the theme tune is an amazing earworm. One that most of my generation instantly know just from hearing the first line. “Its cold outside....”
The Space Corps Directives running gag is one of my favourites. Mainly because the ones Rimmer mistakenly cites are really bizarre "what the hell happened that they needed to make a rule about that?", and the ones he means are often just one number or sub-section away and completely unrelated.
As per standard with the majority of Brit and Irish comedies, Red Dwarf starts off slow and with a low budget (until Season 2). The positive is that there's only 6 episodes of Season 1 to get through before the good stuff, and to be fair Season 1 still has some very funny moments. The American TH-camr, Josh from 'After Work Reactions' recently reacted to the entire thing, and he's now a bonafide fan. Getting through early episodes of Brit sitcoms can be a bit of a chore, but they do pay off alot of the time.
So did anyone have to explain to Josh, what an American youngster asked the cast at their convention? "What does smeg mean?"..Dave just slid off his chair.....
Personally, I think season 1 is great, although the show probably peaks around seasons 3-5, goes right downhill for season 8 and the miniseries and then picked up again for the later episodes on Dave (not sure that I've seen all of those ones).
Fun fact, I am currently working my way through Red Dwarf from the start. I am currently on season 12 (theres 13) Anyways, I just watched an episode where I noticed James Buckley plays a mechanoid (similar to Kryton in this clip) called Rusty in the show. It was just the voice and I am like whos that. Looked it up and it was him.
Red Dwarf has the best bloopers video for every season too. Craig Charles also did, (or maybe even still does), a bit of DJ-ing. I've been on several nights out where he was the DJ. He has a crowd-pleaser personality so it makes sense really.
I still cant help but chuckle along at the boys from the Dwarf, despite knowing what lines they are going to say before they say them from multiple viewings. This particular scene I remember well as my friends and I would constantly recite the "it does mean changing the bulb" line at school for weeks after broadcast. Along with "so what is it? Its a white hole!" and "who would employ this man? Only a yoghurt" Classic comedy, never smegging fails. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
This ran for TWELVE series (or was it thirteen) plus a couple of 'specials'. It was and still is one of the most loved comedy shows ever in the UK. But if you're going to watch it, start at the beginning because like Dr Who before it, it matured over time. I know every episode of every series almost word-for-word and I still chuckle to myself simply at a random memory popping into my head. Oh, and BTW, I have a 'Blue Alert' sign I made (complete with changeable bulb) in my workshop to let me know when equipment is 'live'.
didnt they do a movie,no i think it was like a 2 hour special or somthin,the most recent. i nearly bought listers guitar from a props company it was the acoustic blue grey one he actually used. wish i had bought it now.
@@allanallen1835 Yes they recently did a movie. Fairly low budget of course. Lister had a few different guitars through the series. He originally had an acoustic I think that somehow was an 'authentic Les Paul copy'. 🤣
Really it ran for 11 series, there is no series 9, back to earth is the special between 8 and 10 (people call it series 9 but it’s really not) and then after series 12 is the feature length special - the promised land
Red Dwarf is a British rabbit hole, and you will happily lose hours, days and so on if you start to watch it. I love it. I heard that the Star Trek lawyers initially started to sue them for it, which would have killed the start of it. The producers then showed them some of the shows, and they completely backed down.
Get the audio books. They are read by Chris Barrie - Rimmer in the show. (The one with the "H"). "Better Than Life" and "Backwards" are excellent books.
Being Welsh and a fan of this show I love it when they take the piss out of us. I would like to see your reaction to "Barry Welsh Is Coming". True Welsh Comedy. As for Red Dwarf clips to watch there are far two many. Watch them all. Get the DVD set
This is a cult classic in the Scy-fy world and in general. The first season is a little slow , getting to know the characters and Lister's scouse accent, but after that it gets sillier and more hilarious as the seasons go on......There will be a audience for it as a reaction I think and if you can get into it , you will luv it.
Truly one of the best tv shows ever made it’s an almost perfect sitcom as the situation limits the cast (at least for the first few seasons) to just the four main protagonists (three for the first series).
The one downside to Red Dwarf is when I hear the credits, I think it's my bed-time because I have "school tomorrow" (I'm now 37). Incidentally the end of Poirot makes me feel the same thing 😅
Darren Charge i thought the channel Dave was named from the Qi episode where Alan Davis talks about his mate Dave who says everything twice says everything twice. Alan Davis: "we call him Dave ja vu". Dave used to be repeats (including Qi) and other channels back cataloge. It also reason why Dave +1 called Dave ja vu
Arnold Rimmer ( the one with the ‘H’ on his forehead) is a hologram of a dead crewman. The one in the pink Jacket is cat. He evolved from the ships cat over 3 million years. Kryton is a domestic android designed to generally for cleaning duties and Lister is the only surviving human on the mining ship Red dwarf after a catastrophic accident 3 million years before which wiped out the entire crew. Lister was in the prison in suspended animation for violation of some law (which I can’t remember now ). So they’re the only crew of Red dwarf now.
Lister's offence was to bring on board a female cat and conceal it in, I believe, one of the cargo holds. The cat appears to have been pregnant ergo 'Cat'.
You should watch full episodes of Red Dwarf from the beginning so you get to know the characters personalities, absolutely legendary show here. Elite tier. As for the Welsh as with everyone in the UK and Ireland if you can’t take a joke you won’t last long in life, we take the piss out of new people we meet as a measure of character. If they laugh it off and give it back they’re sound and there’s good friend potential there.
This was and is the most quotable British TV show along side black adder , I have been a fan of this show since it first aired In the 80s , I remember staying up to watch the show and getting caught by my mum when I was 8 years old ,I will turn 43 in a few days, so I guess I'm a life long fan.
My favourite 4 episodes. 'Quarantine' is worth a watch for Mr. Flibble alone. 'White Hole' for the opening convo between Kryten, Lister and 'Talkie Toaster'. 'Blue', for one of the most disturbing musical numbers of the show's history. 'Polymorph'. Great throughout. But most of all, 'Quarantine'. Mr Flibble will be happy if you do, angry if you don't. 😉 Do not upset Mr Flibble. 😉
H - hologram. Rimmer is dead, the computer decided that Lister needed someone to talk too, keeping him sane as he is the only crew member to survive. Kat is a weird mutation the computer doesn't think is intelligent and they found kryton on a derelict ship And that was some mad foreshadowing for Ace Rimmer at the end there. Also Netflix is dropping this show and nine seasons is a lot to binge.
It's 1 of my all time favourite shows, started watching it as a kid in the 80's. It's low budget but so well written that the effects just add to the charm.
02:45 The “H” on his forehead identifies Rimmer (that character) as a hologram. He is the holographic recreation of a long dead officer of the red dwarf ship. Cat, the first character to speak and inform them of the “whirly thing”, is a descendant of Lister’s pet cat having now evolved into a humanoid form.
Yeah I understand mumpet term of endearment!! And now I love it!! When I first watched I was unsure if you was taking piss of us...but I understand now!! Love it! Love you and the queen and channel! You really make me smile!! Thankyou!! Loving the mupetism!!
Red Dwarf is one of the best sit com in T.V. history .Look up on you tube Patrick Stewarts reaction when he first saw it on television . It was shot in front of a live audience and there are some great programmes about its history and bloopers. in space no one can hear you smeg .That was a poster my daughter had on her wall.
They are all different creatures. Only Lister (front right) is human. Rimmer has an H on his head because he’s a hologram of a dead person. The Cat (from left) has fangs because he’s descended from cats in the same way that we’re descended from apes. Red Dwarf is great as full episodes, but if I were to recommend clips on TH-cam, I would recommend “Rimmer and Cat Inquisition”, “Rimmer’s Gone Wrong” and “The Trial” (of Rimmer). No surprise which character is the fan favourite, but the four main characters together make this show sing. Additional: if you hear them use the word “smeg” or “smegging”, take it as a futuristic swearword
the ship was rebuilt 1000 times normal size a tiny star bug is in a conduit runs into a rat (think police academy horse scene) holly comes up "hope we dont get pulled over by the cops, they hate it when your flying rat ar**ed. my cuppa went flying cup stayed liquid went everywhere
Red Dwarf is a classic. You really need to see the 1st episode it explains a lot and introduces all but the android, he joined the cast in later seasons. Also Lister is the last human in the universe. The actor Rimmer played the butler in Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft movies. He also was the title character in a series The Brittas Empire was made while they were still making Red Dwarf.
Red Dwarf is one of my favourite series. You need to watch from the start so you know the characters to get the full experience. I remember watching the first episode way back in the 1980s and it making me laugh out loud! My three, now grown up children still quote lines from it!!
Back in the 2000s the Seattle PBS station would use Red Dwarf as their fund raising drive. So long as people kept giving they would keep playing Red Dwarf episodes.
Red Dwarf is a cult classic and my favourite series!
**Spolier Alert** The characters are as follows:
Rimmer, Arnold J. - 2nd Technician, killed in a radiation accident, now resurected as a hologram (hence, the 'H')
Lister, David - the last human alive, originally put into suspended animation for an illegal pet cat
'Cat' - a creature which evolved from the cat Lister brought aboard Red Dwarf
Kryten - a sanitation Mechanoid
@KingBoomer Please begin this show from the beginning 😁👍🏻
nice spoilers bro
Yeah m.d... you shoulda put a spoiler warning on for episode one of a show that came out so long ago I was still in my dad's ballbag.... 😂😂
@@H66699 spoiler’s 😅 it’s been around for over 30 years 😂😂😂😂😂
@@eli3086 yeah but I'm talking for us... He said he wants to watch it, just let him watch it. Let the show speak for itself.
Spoiler alert : Everybody's dead Dave...
One of the best British comedy series ever. The genius is only really appreciated with knowing the characters and the whole story, and it's a long story.
Definitly, you havre ti start from the start and knwo the characters
@@FlightProgramAborted Smeeeeeg Heeeead
@@zepo82 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah it's worth a watch the last few seasons are not great but the first 7 or so are really good
Bested only by 'Yes Minister'
"Sir, are you _absolutely_ sure? It _does_ mean changing the bulb" may actually be my single favourite joke in all of Red Dwarf, and Red Dwarf was a very long-running series.
C.L.I.T.O.R.I.S.
IS a very long running series - 3 episodes coming out in 2025...
A movie came out in 2020.
The space corps directive jokes were one of the best pieces of comedy writing from Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, as when you heard space corps directive, you knew there was a big gag coming.
The "H" on the forehead means he's a hologram. In the red dwarf universe it is possible and kind of common for a deceased person to be brought back as a hologram with the personality and all the memories they had before death. Later Rimmer gets upgradded to "Hard Light" which means he can phisicly interact with objects and people, which he couldnt before, basicly like a movie projection, things coild pass right through.
It's sort of the premise of the entire show too. Lister is meant to be the only known human left, 3 million years in the future. Rimmer is a Hologram, Cat is evolved from Listers pet cat and Kryton is a mechanoid. Great show and it's well worth watching the first series to get an understanding of it.
I was hoping he work it out ok
It could also stand for Hidiot
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Rimmer was specifically brought back out of all the crew to keep Lister sane, I think computer senility is a real problem.
its a common practice,but there's a reason that only rimmer is brought back.
Red Dwarf is my favourite comedy ever ❤️
Mine too
Same
Same for me too.
sacralige to not watchfrom the start tho.
I demand he does season one
Whilst the earlier seasons look a bit dated in terms of sets and special effects, the comedy is spot on and well worth a watch. They are still making this show, although there are quite long periods between seasons these days as it relies on the main 4 cast members' availability. Just shows you how much fun they have making the series!
A lot less dated than the CGI in series 7
The bad sets are part of the fun of it
@@andywrong3247 me too
The dated look is part ov the appeal...back in the day and still now...I want a remote control scutter...ha ha
I watch it all the time, got all the series, minus back to earth, saved on the sky box. 😁
It's not hard to be a muppet, It just takes a good heart and Kermitment! Best wishes to all from Wales!!
Maybe it’s not hard to be a Muppet, but it’s certainly not easy being green…
Love this show - had 2 friends who were in Series 1 and it is a cult classic .... they are all dead Dave, Smeg Head and Dwayne Dibley. The set is small because they have lost their space ship and are on the little Star Bug ship. Worth watching once you've finished Father Ted also watch a watch is The Brittas Empire.
Plenty more to get to before The Brittas Empire, my vote is One Foot in the Grave. I certainly did watch Brittas...but no comparison!
Also The Vicar of Dibley and the I.T Crowd.
Red Dwarf is a great series and there is quite a lot of content there for you with reactions. There are 6 episodes per series and in the first 2 they are just finding their feet but from when Kryton (the mechanoid) joins the crew permanently it gets funnier and funnier.
@@blazednlovinit and the fact they use random industrial locations as a set lol such as power stations and water works
@@girlsdrinkfeck They did that with 70's sci-fi show 'Blake's 7', they love them water works lol.
@@garymcatear822 and the Dr Who quarry.
Fave story is DJJ turned up for his audition to be the Cat an hour late (he did not know this) wearing a relatives old Zoot Suit and was totally unapologetic (of course did not know they had been waiting) the people casting thought he was already being in character as the DNGAF Cat and pretty much hired him on the spot. Still not sure where he got that accent from? Craig Charles was initially brought in to look at the cat character and check it was PC as they did not want any allegations of racism (very progressive for 1988) but saw the Dave Lister character and instantly knew it fitted him like a glove. So two Manc writers hired a scouser to be the last human in the galaxy!
This is my favourite sit com from my childhood. Likely influenced by nostalgia, but if you give it a good go and get into it from the start you'll like it. It's very witty and unique, looking forward to you getting into it from episode 1.
Gotta love these smeggers ,and the sneg outs lol 🤣🤣
Red Dwarf is really imaginative as well as funny. Each standalone episode features a really interesting Star Trek style phenomenon or spacetime dilemma. Season 1, Episode 1 is "The End", Episode 6 "The Beginning" that should clue you in a bit. There's time loops, an adaptive moon that terraform based on your mood, a virus that gives you luck... Always an interesting premise with lots of room for fun in it.
The crew are always railing on each other as they contrast so much as you've seen here. Great character chemistry, great set ups and settings.
Just look at the comments here. People gushing over this and rightly so!
I'm welsh I just laughed my head off at that !! It still can't top the Black Adder put downs
Jeez, first commenter just completely forgot "us Brits" INCLUDES the Welsh 🤦🏼♂️
@@matt01506 just finished watching the Tuckers lol, fantastic show. Was surprised to see Moz Gf from ideal in it.
Nearly as good as Brassic.
Love the fact I corrected this response with education showing how I was correct using the word brit in that context only to have a mod delete it but leave the other guys response making me look silly. Thanks mod.
I will try again.
The United Kingdom is made up from Scotland n Ireland England and Wales. In the UK we say Irish Scottish Welsh and british so saying brit is not wrong.
No doubt this will also dissappear.
If you are going to delete my defense soaked response at least have the curtsy to also delete the Berated comment also.
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Americans tend to refer to an English accent as a British accent, I think this is where it comes from. The term British could also be separated away from the United Kingdom as Britain is the island not the political entity, anyone on the island is British though the end of the political union has probably at best hastened this dissolution of the Act of Union and at worst caused it. Personally this Sassenach says "please get on with it Sweaties, chop chop, I'm too old to be waiting 20 years to get my EU passport back, my father was Scottish".
I have been a fan of this show for decades - so happy to see you reacting to it. It does a brilliant job of coming up with legitimately solid science fiction concepts and making them funny.
Give the 'What A Guy!' clip from Red Dwarf a watch - such a brilliant sequence!
My favourite UK comedy of all time
The beauty of this show is that the science fiction element is taken seriously, but with very funny characters.
The sci fi element should be taken seriously, unless you have forgotten Space Core Directive 36578/64b.
@@rwlynch3468 Any officer caught sniffing the saddle of the exercise bicycle in the women's gym will be discharged without trial?
@@KernowWarrior No. As much as comedy is the main theme, there should always be an element of truth in the science fiction where reasonably possible.
@@rwlynch3468 Ah, that one! It involves ginger toupees, Swindon, and metal bastards. One of the lesser known directives. 😞
@@rwlynch3468is that the one about "To preserve morale during long-haul missions, all male officers above the rank of First Technician must, during panto season, be ready to put on a dress and a pair of false breasts"?
Red dwarf is one of those shows I put on when I'm not feeling too good and just need to chill with something easy. One of my faves growing up.
The Welsh (in general) are legends. They can laugh at themselves which gives them the right to laugh at others :)
Absolutely. I'm Welsh and nearly lost my mouthful of tea when he made the Welsh gag.
And they tend to regularly beat us English at rugby to get their own back!!!
@@mattpotter8725 Indeed! I tried to learn Welsh when I lived in Wales but, sadly, I am crap at learning languages. Cymru am byth!
The opening conversation to Series 3 Episode 1 "Backwards" has one of the best punchlines I've ever heard. It cracks me up every time and never more so than when watching it with someone who has never seen it before. Just a conversation between Cat and Lister about The Flintstones.
There's some easter eggs in that one if you play it backwards!
Don't think tank tops have reached Wales yet, think they much prefer being inside a woolly jumper.
The H is for Holgram as he is the representation of a long dead crewmate.
One is an android and the other is a descendant of the ships cat.
Note the teeth.
Lister is the only surviving human from a disaster 100's/1000's of years ago.
H is for Hologram.
Rimmer is a hologram brought back by the ships computer, Holly, to keep Lister sane.
Rimmer was the person Lister spent the most time with before "gazpacho soup" was shouted whilst Lister was in Stasis
Marooned, gunmen of the apocalypse and better than life are some of the best individual episodes. Watching from the beginning is always a good way to start as well as alot of the comedy is based on knowing the characters
Red Dwarf is definitely worth checking out. Seasons 1 and 2 are slow by today's standards but worth checking out for the lore (and some great jokes). Season 3 is where the show really kicks off. There really isn't an unfunny episode.
Season 1 Episode 1 still cracks me up to this day. One of the only shows I can watch over and over and crease laughing. Lister smoking a cigarette on Duty with Rimmer,
Rimmer: "Is that a cigarette youre smoking Lister?!"
Lister: (pauses and looks confused) "No.... Its a chicken...."
Its like the 5th line in the pilot, 30 years later it still cracks me up every time.
Love Red Dwarf and the theme tune is an amazing earworm. One that most of my generation instantly know just from hearing the first line. “Its cold outside....”
The Space Corps Directives running gag is one of my favourites. Mainly because the ones Rimmer mistakenly cites are really bizarre "what the hell happened that they needed to make a rule about that?", and the ones he means are often just one number or sub-section away and completely unrelated.
As per standard with the majority of Brit and Irish comedies, Red Dwarf starts off slow and with a low budget (until Season 2). The positive is that there's only 6 episodes of Season 1 to get through before the good stuff, and to be fair Season 1 still has some very funny moments. The American TH-camr, Josh from 'After Work Reactions' recently reacted to the entire thing, and he's now a bonafide fan. Getting through early episodes of Brit sitcoms can be a bit of a chore, but they do pay off alot of the time.
So did anyone have to explain to Josh, what an American youngster asked the cast at their convention? "What does smeg mean?"..Dave just slid off his chair.....
Personally, I think season 1 is great, although the show probably peaks around seasons 3-5, goes right downhill for season 8 and the miniseries and then picked up again for the later episodes on Dave (not sure that I've seen all of those ones).
Fun fact, I am currently working my way through Red Dwarf from the start. I am currently on season 12 (theres 13) Anyways, I just watched an episode where I noticed James Buckley plays a mechanoid (similar to Kryton in this clip) called Rusty in the show. It was just the voice and I am like whos that. Looked it up and it was him.
Half way through season 10 myself, I've only got 12 seasons! Something to look forward to! :)
@@SimonHume81 Season 13 is just a two part special called The Promised land, can be found on UK TV Play online.
@@IIChristisKingII Thanks, I'll go watch it now! 👍👍🤓🤓
May I recommend reading the novels
i can watch red dwarf anytime no matter how many times i see it. love the one where they mess up the kennedy shooting lol
Series 2 to 6 are golden.
Red Dwarf actually has one hell of an American fan club.
It is a true cult classic, in every sense of the word.
Bill Clinton was a big fan while he was in Office (and not doing other things!)
Red Dwarf has the best bloopers video for every season too.
Craig Charles also did, (or maybe even still does), a bit of DJ-ing. I've been on several nights out where he was the DJ. He has a crowd-pleaser personality so it makes sense really.
I still cant help but chuckle along at the boys from the Dwarf, despite knowing what lines they are going to say before they say them from multiple viewings. This particular scene I remember well as my friends and I would constantly recite the "it does mean changing the bulb" line at school for weeks after broadcast. Along with "so what is it? Its a white hole!" and "who would employ this man? Only a yoghurt" Classic comedy, never smegging fails. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Red dwarf is well worth doing the whole series in order, very funny. 🤣
This ran for TWELVE series (or was it thirteen) plus a couple of 'specials'. It was and still is one of the most loved comedy shows ever in the UK.
But if you're going to watch it, start at the beginning because like Dr Who before it, it matured over time. I know every episode of every series almost word-for-word and I still chuckle to myself simply at a random memory popping into my head.
Oh, and BTW, I have a 'Blue Alert' sign I made (complete with changeable bulb) in my workshop to let me know when equipment is 'live'.
didnt they do a movie,no i think it was like a 2 hour special or somthin,the most recent. i nearly bought listers guitar from a props company it was the acoustic blue grey one he actually used. wish i had bought it now.
I like it so much I bought the full box set.
@@allanallen1835 Yes they recently did a movie. Fairly low budget of course. Lister had a few different guitars through the series. He originally had an acoustic I think that somehow was an 'authentic Les Paul copy'. 🤣
Really it ran for 11 series, there is no series 9, back to earth is the special between 8 and 10 (people call it series 9 but it’s really not) and then after series 12 is the feature length special - the promised land
@@qwadratix the electric guitar he had from series 3 was the authentic les Paul copy
Red Dwarf is a British rabbit hole, and you will happily lose hours, days and so on if you start to watch it. I love it. I heard that the Star Trek lawyers initially started to sue them for it, which would have killed the start of it. The producers then showed them some of the shows, and they completely backed down.
Get the audio books. They are read by Chris Barrie - Rimmer in the show. (The one with the "H"). "Better Than Life" and "Backwards" are excellent books.
Being Welsh and a fan of this show I love it when they take the piss out of us. I would like to see your reaction to "Barry Welsh Is Coming". True Welsh Comedy. As for Red Dwarf clips to watch there are far two many. Watch them all. Get the DVD set
This is a cult classic in the Scy-fy world and in general. The first season is a little slow , getting to know the characters
and Lister's scouse accent, but after that it gets sillier and more hilarious as the seasons go on......There will be a audience
for it as a reaction I think and if you can get into it , you will luv it.
Truly one of the best tv shows ever made it’s an almost perfect sitcom as the situation limits the cast (at least for the first few seasons) to just the four main protagonists (three for the first series).
The one downside to Red Dwarf is when I hear the credits, I think it's my bed-time because I have "school tomorrow" (I'm now 37).
Incidentally the end of Poirot makes me feel the same thing 😅
"Thats Life" was on Sunday evening, I watched it but it meant school tomorrow so there was always a grim feeling about it.
@@mtpaley1 Yeah and that strange wave of anxiety because I've left my homework to the last minute 😄
Red dwarf is the uk's contribution to the space race. 😂
Blue alert scene in red dwarf is hillarious
Tank tops when this was made is not what tank tops are today. Back then, knitted waistcoats were tank tops.
Love Red Dwarf do much! This is how the Channel in UK was formed called Dave after Lister! The home of witty banter!
Darren Charge i thought the channel Dave was named from the Qi episode where Alan Davis talks about his mate Dave who says everything twice says everything twice. Alan Davis: "we call him Dave ja vu". Dave used to be repeats (including Qi) and other channels back cataloge. It also reason why Dave +1 called Dave ja vu
@@mkb2010mb tbh I won't cancel the thought out. I'm only going on what I no from Internet lol.
@@mkb2010mb funny thing I always thought it was because Dave is the every man for an every man channel.
Arnold Rimmer ( the one with the ‘H’ on his forehead) is a hologram of a dead crewman. The one in the pink Jacket is cat. He evolved from the ships cat over 3 million years. Kryton is a domestic android designed to generally for cleaning duties and Lister is the only surviving human on the mining ship Red dwarf after a catastrophic accident 3 million years before which wiped out the entire crew. Lister was in the prison in suspended animation for violation of some law (which I can’t remember now ).
So they’re the only crew of Red dwarf now.
He refused to give up his cat, the ships captain knew he was hiding a cat as he sent his camera to be developed with pictures of him and the cat...
Lister's offence was to bring on board a female cat and conceal it in, I believe, one of the cargo holds. The cat appears to have been pregnant ergo 'Cat'.
"He's dead, Dave. Everybody's dead. Everybody's dead, Dave."
"Hold on a moment. Are you trying to tell me, everybody's dead?"
Lister trying to make Kryten lie and swear is hilarious !
It's a Banana!
Smeeeeee..
Smeeeee..
Smeeeee..
It's no good sir, I just can't do it !
You should watch full episodes of Red Dwarf from the beginning so you get to know the characters personalities, absolutely legendary show here. Elite tier.
As for the Welsh as with everyone in the UK and Ireland if you can’t take a joke you won’t last long in life, we take the piss out of new people we meet as a measure of character. If they laugh it off and give it back they’re sound and there’s good friend potential there.
This gets 100x better from season 2. In fact, Crighton is probably the instigator of greatness
s mee...smeeehh hhh....smeeeg.. smeeeeeeehg
@@allanallen1835 Ahhh really frustrated me that this clip cut off just before an introduction to insults 🤣
"Crighton" 😂 - A keyring with a 'C' on it! Well _thank you_ with a capital 'R'!
(It's Kryten, man)
The random space directives that rimmer would come out with and kryten would then explain were always the best part of red dwarf 😆
You should react to Nathan Barley, only 6 episodes, pure comedy genius, and totally prophetic, hilarious, and kind of terrifying (and accurate)
Yeah Barley is well bum! With both Morris and Brooker together you can’t go wrong.
Yes totally f*cking Mexico.
This was and is the most quotable British TV show along side black adder , I have been a fan of this show since it first aired In the 80s , I remember staying up to watch the show and getting caught by my mum when I was 8 years old ,I will turn 43 in a few days, so I guess I'm a life long fan.
My favourite 4 episodes.
'Quarantine' is worth a watch for Mr. Flibble alone.
'White Hole' for the opening convo between Kryten, Lister and 'Talkie Toaster'.
'Blue', for one of the most disturbing musical numbers of the show's history.
'Polymorph'. Great throughout.
But most of all, 'Quarantine'. Mr Flibble will be happy if you do, angry if you don't. 😉
Do not upset Mr Flibble. 😉
I once heard a Welshman say "You English aren't Brits, you're all Scandinavian tourists that overstayed your welcome"
You have to start watching red dwarf with the episode "they're dead Dave"
Step up to red alert, Sir are you absolutely sure, it does mean changing the bulb.....This cracked me up, such a low budget outfit. 😆👍🇬🇧.
As a Welshman I love this show and it’s just comedy👍🏴
Also Kriton the mechanoid is played by a Welshman.
H - hologram. Rimmer is dead, the computer decided that Lister needed someone to talk too, keeping him sane as he is the only crew member to survive. Kat is a weird mutation the computer doesn't think is intelligent and they found kryton on a derelict ship
And that was some mad foreshadowing for Ace Rimmer at the end there.
Also Netflix is dropping this show and nine seasons is a lot to binge.
Yes, Red Dwarf, absolutely classic show. Made on a shoe string budget but just so good, especially the early stuff. Good work sir
This is one of my favourite show especially as I have grown up with it and I love sci-fi and comedy and this show combines both.
Tank top usually means something different in the UK - its a sleeveless jumper.
The spacecore directive running gag was simply sublime. Did he ever get one right?
It's 1 of my all time favourite shows, started watching it as a kid in the 80's. It's low budget but so well written that the effects just add to the charm.
red dwaft was and still is one of the best british shows ever made
if you haven't already watch the Wilma Flinstone bit from the Backwards episode
he died and the H marks him as a Hologram
I think you'll have to go back and watch the entire series.
My ABSOLUTE favourite comedy! 😁
Would be awesome to see more 🤞
I miss all the old comedy, red dwarf of course but really miss ‘the fast show’ so bad
When he says “tank tops” he’s referring to the sleeveless jumper that was so popular with history teachers in the 1970s, not the undershirt (or vest).
The H is for “hologram”
Omg your the first American I have seen watch red dwarf - so hope you get to see more and love it as much as me
Love Red Dwarf! My original channel name was El Smeghead.
Red Dwarf is awesome, easily one of the best and most beloved British comedies, so well written and entertaining, and absolute must watch.
I absolutely love red dwarf please do more
02:45 The “H” on his forehead identifies Rimmer (that character) as a hologram. He is the holographic recreation of a long dead officer of the red dwarf ship. Cat, the first character to speak and inform them of the “whirly thing”, is a descendant of Lister’s pet cat having now evolved into a humanoid form.
Long dead technician.
@@paulmidsussex3409 Second lowest ranking person on the ship - Lister was below him.
Yeah I understand mumpet term of endearment!! And now I love it!! When I first watched I was unsure if you was taking piss of us...but I understand now!! Love it! Love you and the queen and channel! You really make me smile!! Thankyou!! Loving the mupetism!!
The Budget for the show was so low they borrowed props from other shows, They did make a US version but it bombed ,
Aww this is my childhood, I was saying smeg head to everyone by 9 yrs old. My mams like "What's a smeg head" 🤣
Red Dwarf is one of the best sit com in T.V. history .Look up on you tube Patrick Stewarts reaction when he first saw it on television .
It was shot in front of a live audience and there are some great programmes about its history and bloopers.
in space no one can hear you smeg .That was a poster my daughter had on her wall.
They are all different creatures. Only Lister (front right) is human. Rimmer has an H on his head because he’s a hologram of a dead person. The Cat (from left) has fangs because he’s descended from cats in the same way that we’re descended from apes. Red Dwarf is great as full episodes, but if I were to recommend clips on TH-cam, I would recommend “Rimmer and Cat Inquisition”, “Rimmer’s Gone Wrong” and “The Trial” (of Rimmer). No surprise which character is the fan favourite, but the four main characters together make this show sing. Additional: if you hear them use the word “smeg” or “smegging”, take it as a futuristic swearword
Boys from the Dwarf 🫱🫲
Tank tops are great.
the ship was rebuilt 1000 times normal size
a tiny star bug is in a conduit runs into a rat (think police academy horse scene)
holly comes up "hope we dont get pulled over by the cops, they hate it when your flying rat ar**ed.
my cuppa went flying cup stayed liquid went everywhere
Watched this about 10 times now sooo funny❤😂😂😂😂😂
Red Dwarf was my favourite show growing up in the eighties/nineties. Absolutely loved it. Very funny!! 👍👍
The cat taking a dump in reverse is a stomach splitter 🤣😂🤪
6:07 We _also_ have a high opinion of ourselves ! 😉🏴
If you like this, check out Allo' Allo', Dad's Army, Keeping Up Appearances, Are You Being Served, Black Adder and other Brit coms.
The best comedy ever, the characters are spot on!
Red Dwarf is a classic. You really need to see the 1st episode it explains a lot and introduces all but the android, he joined the cast in later seasons. Also Lister is the last human in the universe.
The actor Rimmer played the butler in Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft movies. He also was the title character in a series The Brittas Empire was made while they were still making Red Dwarf.
OMG you found Red Dwarf! Everyone vote this video up, so he watches it from the very beginning!
Red Dwarf is one of my favourite series. You need to watch from the start so you know the characters to get the full experience. I remember watching the first episode way back in the 1980s and it making me laugh out loud! My three, now grown up children still quote lines from it!!
This is one of my favourite comedy shows of all time, plenty of memorable characters/phrases through the show.
Back in the 2000s the Seattle PBS station would use Red Dwarf as their fund raising drive. So long as people kept giving they would keep playing Red Dwarf episodes.
My local pub is where Rob Grant and Doug Naylor wrote the series "The Aigburth Arms" :)
Red Dwarf is the best.
Red Dwarf is one of the best comedies there is, you should definitely watch it.