Firefly-Red Dwarf
POSTED BY: HowardRoarkLaughed
UPDATED: Monday, August 9, 2004 04:18
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Originally posted by Mallika:
Thank goodness for PBS.
agreed! and as this is a completely useless post, i'd like to talk this opportunity to point you all towards my recent poo hat meltdown on the tag log.
~lissa, spwhore
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Wearing my Red Dwarf T-shirt as I write this...Smeg Off in big red letters written across the back.
'Better make myself look BIG' ~Cat, when encountering danger
"No power in the 'verse can stop me"
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Anyone ever seen the smeg ups/smeg outs tapes? Oh man. I thought I'd never find anything funnier than Red Dwarf itself... and then I found Red Dwarf's blooper reels. Definitely worth checking out. :-)
“I loath bus stations. Terrible places. Full of lost luggage and lost souls.”
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My top 5 favorite TV shows:
1. Firefly (cancelled by FOX)
2. Yes, Prime Minister (British)
3. Red Dwarf (British)
4. Star Trek: Deep Space 9
5. Dark Angel (cancelled by FOX)
Honorable mention to "Profit," cancelled after 6 episodes by yes, you guessed it, FOX. (Damn you, FOX.)
Can't Take My Gorram Sky 
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Originally posted by MdnightRadio7L:
Anyone ever seen the smeg ups/smeg outs tapes? Oh man. I thought I'd never find anything funnier than Red Dwarf itself... and then I found Red Dwarf's blooper reels. Definitely worth checking out. :-)
I could not agree more! Anyone else think that more shows should do this? A few scattered incidents on DVDs surely only scratch the surface of what's really available for shows like Buffy, Angel, Farscape, Babylon 5, the various Treks... even Firefly probably has a larger blooper reel than was on the DVD.
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RIMMER: I wasn't very highly sexed, to be honest with you. I think it was all that school cabbage I was forced to eat as a boy. Still, the first time, the first ever time, was with this girl I met at Cadet College - Sandra. We did it in the back of my brother's car.
LISTER: What was it like?
RIMMER: Oh, brilliant. Incredible. (Goes glassy-eyed) Bentley V8 convertible. Walnut burr panelling. Marvellous machine, marvellous. So what about you?
LISTER: Michelle Fisher. The ninth hole of the Bootle Municipal golf course. Par four, dogleg to the right, in the bunker behind the green.
RIMMER: You lost your virginity on a golf course? How did you have the nerve?
LISTER: It wasn't in the middle of the Ryder Cup or anything. It was midnight.
RIMMER: Oh, I seeee.
LISTER: Michelle. Michelle Fisher. God, she was gorgeous.
RIMMER: How old were you?
LISTER: Just gorgeous. If she'd have wanted, she could probably have got a job behind the perfume counter at Lewis', that's how good-looking she was.
RIMMER: How old were you?
LISTER: She took off all her clothes and just stood there in front of me, completely naked. I was so excited, I nearly dropped my skateboard.
RIMMER: Skateboard?! How old were you?
LISTER: Twelve.
RIMMER: Twelve!!! Twelve years old!!? You lost your virginity when you were twelve???
LISTER: Yeah.
RIMMER: Twelve?? (Pause) Well, you can't have been a full member of the Golf Club, then.
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It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere.
I'm all alone, more or less.
Let me fly, far away from here.
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun.
I want to lie shipwrecked and comotose,
Drinking fresh mango juice,
Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes.
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun.
There's another verse that they don't play on the show, but it's on the soundtrack.
I'll pack my bags and head into hyperspace
Velocity at time-warp speed
Spend my days in ultra violet rays
Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun
We're locked on a course straight through the universe
You and me and the galaxy
Reached this stage, this hyperactive age
Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun
Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun
Anyway, yeah, the Smeg ups/outs are hi-larious, but has anyone seen that cooking show thing that's on one of the DVDs? That had me laughing to tears! It's called "Can't Cook Won't Cook" and it has the actors on it, but they're playing their characters, except Cat isn't Cat. He's Dwayne Dibbly.
http://www.simple-assault.com/Firefly.htm
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Originally posted by BlueSunWorshipper:
Kryten - (Regarding the Inquisitor, a time-travelling robot set on eliminating those who have not lived a worthy life.) "He prunes away the wastrels, and deletes the worthless."
Rimmer - "We're in big trouble."
Used to have that very t-shirt....
As regard the movie, Chris Barrie was interviewed for this month's SFX - the movie is not dead, but is not moving forwards very quickly. Given Chris Barrie's agent is also a producer, his finger is pretty much on the pulse. My guess is they need to get moving on it in the next year or so at the latest.
"I threw up on your bed"
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After dragging on for so long, I'm really doubtful now that the movie will EVER get made. And I don't mind admitting that there's a part of me that thinks maybe that's for the best.
Maybe it would be better just to a ninth season and end it there. Which begs the question: how do you all see Red Dwarf ending? What would be the perfect final episode/scene?
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"Today we were kidnapped by hill folk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever."
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Originally posted by Outsider:
Seeing as I'm in a Red Dwarf-quoting mood, here's a couple of my favourite gems from the series
RIMMER: Those kind of films really irritate me. Just not realistic. There isn't a man in the universe who wouldn't have taken the job and to hell with the woman. Total baloney.
LISTER: Rimmer, you said that about "King of Kings: The Story of Jesus"!
RIMMER: Well, it's true! A simple carpenter's son who learns how to do magic tricks like that and doesn't go into show-business? Do any of us believe that, even for a second?
LISTER: He was supposed to be the Son of God.
RIMMER: And when he was carrying that cross up the hill, any normal realistic bloke would have mule-kicked the guy on the left, clobbered the one on the right, and been over that green hill and far away before you could say "Pontius Pilate."
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KRYTEN: They've taken Mr. Rimmer. Sir! They've taken Mr. Rimmer!
CAT: Quick, let's get out of here before they bring him back!
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RIMMER: Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with. And I know that, given the choice, I probably wouldn't have chosen you as friends. But I just want to say that over the years I have come to regard you as... people... I met.
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LISTER: I dunno though. This wooden horse of Troy malarkey, I'm not buyin' that.
RIMMER: It's one of the most famous military maneuvers in history!
LISTER: I mean, the Greeks have been camped outside Troy, kerpowing, zapping, and kersplatting the Trojans for the best part of a decade, yeah?
RIMMER: So?
LISTER: So all of a sudden they wake up one mornin' and the Greeks have gone. And there outside the city walls they've left this gift; this tribute to their valiant foes: a huge wooden horse, just large enough to happily contain 500 Greeks in full battle dress and still leave adequate room for toilet facilities? Are you telling me not one Trojan goes, "Hang on a minute, that's a bit of a funny prezzy. What's wrong with a couple hundred pairs of socks and some aftershave?" No, they don't - they just wheel it in and all decide to go for an early night! People that stupid deserve to be kerpowed, zapped and kersplatted in their beds! You know what the big joke is? From this particular phase in history we derived the phrase "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts", when it would be much more logical to derive the phrase, "Beware of Trojans, they're complete smegheads!"
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LISTER: Cat?
CAT: Mmm?
LISTER: Y'ever see the Flintstones?
CAT: Sure!
LISTER: D'ya think Wilma's sexy?
CAT: Wilma Flintstone?
LISTER: Maybe we've been alone in deep space too long, but every time I see that show, her body drives me crazy. Is it me?
CAT: I think in all probability, Wilma Flintstone is the most desirable woman who ever lived.
LISTER: That's good. I thought I was goin' strange.
CAT: She's incredible!
LISTER: What d'ya think of Betty?
CAT: Betty Rubble? (Pause) Well, I would go with Betty... but I'd be thinking of Wilma.
LISTER: This is crazy. Why are we talking about going to bed with Wilma Flintstone?
CAT: You're right. We're nuts. This is an insane conversation.
[one of the best timed pauses in comedy history]
LISTER: She'll never leave Fred and we know it.
Let's see...the first one is from, I think, "Holoship." The second is from, I believe, "Holoship" again. The third, oh wait, ALSO from "Holoship." The fourth is from "Inquisitor," which is one of my favorites. The last one, I remember the sequence well...it's probably the single best bit of dialogue from ANY season, but I can't remember the particular episode. I think it's from "Bodyswap", but I know it's from the third or fourth season. I used to have that very bit of dialogue on my computer as my startup tone. "Red Dwarf" has the best comedic dialogue of any series
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By the way, did any of you fellow Dwarfers know that there were TWO abortive attempts to bring the series to US screens as an American offering? Both were tentatively called Red Dwarf USA. The first featured Craig Bierko as Lister, Hinton Battle (a famed dancer/singer, he was the demon character in the famous singing "Buffy" episode) as Cat, Jane Leeves (Daphne on "Frasier") as Holly, and Chris Eigeman (Lionel on "Malcolm in the Middle") as Rimmer. Robert Llewellyn flew in from England to reprise his role as the android "Kryten." The show was produced and developed for US audiences by "Malcolm" creator Linwood Boomer.
It was a flop with the studios.
They recast the role of Cat to bring the show more "sex appeal" and signed up a then little-known actress as a hot FEMALE cat to sex up the show. The actress in question was none other than the oh-so-hot Terry Farrell, before she was cast in Deep Space Nine (Dax).
Just FYI.
- T
The second attempt
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