All the furniture that was smashed up in the bar brawl I built, I was given a brief by the BBC that it had to be made of balsa and dowelled, it was quite tempting to glue it but as you can see I didn't.
Classic. Literally classic. I remember feeding the audio into my tape deck to which was as large as a table but also had a record and reversed function too. Yep that guys message was played directly at me
So you were the original "that one prat in the country" lol But seriously, well done. If I was there at the time I would probably have been just as curious
Works with Audacity - there’s an episode of The Time Tunnel that features aliens - when they are speaking their own language, it’s backwards English - I recorded the audio on Audacity of their dialogue and set it to play it in reverse - sure enough, it played forwards!
@@MisterGraa true, but if you look at Craig he slops it down him. I'd say it's a character trait, but the woman in the cafe doesn't know how to drink tea either.
Likelier to be a floor manager I guess rather than the director, who'd probably be up in the gallery rather than on the studio floor on this sort of production? Although actually I believe that even on single-camera stuff it's the first AD rather than the director who actually calls action.
The one prat in the country who's going to get a hold of this recording, turn it around and actually work out the rubbish he's saying! What a poor sad life you've got!
Did Craig Charles do his own stunts in the fight scene? Only now when I watch the fight played forwards do I realise how dangerous and painful that must have been to shoot.
Ed Bye (to everyone): "Be as sloppy as possible when drinking. Good job, Craig." Craig Charles: "No problem...sorry, what was I meant to do?" Danny John-Jules (disdainfully): "Not this Cat."
When I was a kid, our VHS had a "reverse" button as well as rewind, which would reverse the video at the same speed (but it would still be silent), so I used to reverse the brawl back in the day, to get an idea of what it would look like forwards. And yes, I also reversed some of the dialogue via computer sound recording (though, I strangely don't remember hearing the dig from the manager, only reading about it - I dunno if I couldn't get the recording to work, or something else...) It's amazing how since the DVD release, we don't have to do any of that now.
I knew what the "I'm point at you but not addressing you" rant was for a long time. But I never knew "You scoundrels" was actually "robbin' bastards!" haha!
I just realized it makes total cultural sense to not care if you're spilling your drink all over yourself in backwards land, because it will all end up back in the cup anyway with no mess. Though Lister doing the same thing with his beer later is totally in character for him either way.
Used to work shifts with the writers . R.G. was a charismatic extrovert a funny guy. D.N. a quiet shy guy. This was in Manchester around 1975/6. I remember that they used to go home during their 1 hour break on the night shift. They were writing a comedy. Thing was we knew that they would probably make it.
@@KnightoftheSorryFace yes dude... we worked at gusco ardwick manchester. Such a long time ago... also on the same team was wayne Ellis but we called him phil... he is leader of the thin lizzie tribute band. Talk about name dropping. H ha. Fancy writing a sit com dude?
@@KnightoftheSorryFace sorry mate, no idea...I just hope that they didn't base rimmer on me! I did hear rob call somebody a smeg-head once...funny how you remember daft things.
Amazing what results you get when you play audio backwards! Play the first few bars of Hippy Hippy Shake by Swinging Blue Jeans or Human Touch by Bruce Springsteen backwards - you hear cussing!
Read the Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony, especially the second book "Bearing an Hourglass." There's a section where time is flowing backwards but everyone's mind is going forwards. One poor fellow is VERY unhappy about using the toilet.
getting nostalgia for the 90's aesthetic The architecture was all gloomy, rain-soaked breeze blocks and shit, but that's just a grim way of saying 'industrially cosy'
I might have a weird theory about this. What if this clip was actually from the perspectives of the people from that backwards Earth? Since the crew of The Red Dwarf was operating on opposite time plane, maybe they were actually the ones backwards and everything else was working in fine order xD
What about hitchhiking? You get off the car, then the guy says that you can jump on board, then he says that he knows the bar, then he comes out to help them? I feel like this world isn't truly backwards. It's in a pseudo-backwards state. Where larger segments of time are in the correct order, but smaller ones are reversed. Althought it's not cleanly when and where what happens.
@@eessppeenn001 this always bugged me as a kid lol.. it's just randomly backwards and then not backwards. I think the writers didn't think any of it through tbh and just used it for gags
There are several inconsistencies in this episode with the order of how everything happens but somehow for me that's part of what makes the episode hilarious! 😃😃
So they find a bike in the woods, ride it to where they find a picnicking couple, tell the guy they're going to steal it, he then demands they give it back and they kindly do so as he lies down to sleep. x
Am I the only one who thinks the person in the green shirt at 4:53 looks like Karla (Rhea Pearlman) from Cheers? Every time I see this episode, I keep thinking that it is her. Think of it, Karla in a pub.
I've known what the pub manager said backwards back in the day, as I was able to take his recording, sample it with a Commodore Amiga and a sound sampler cartridge, and reverse the original recording! It would've been a lot more difficult otherwise!
Some of the scenes where people interacted with them were doing 'pretend backwards speech' even pretending to walk backwards - particularly noticeable in the cafe and pub x
Best series of all was Series 6, almost every joke landed perfectly and not a single bad episode. While I would say that while "Gunmen of the Apocalypse" is a very good episode, it's not the best, I'd personally rate "Psirens" or "Legion" as the best episodes of the series. After that, I have to say that Red Dwarf was never as good after Series 6 in my view. With the exceptions of series 9 and the most recent episodes, most of the series after that were quite good, but nowhere near as good as Series 6 and not as good as the Series before Series 6. Also, "Back To Reality" is heavily over-rated in my view, it's not THAT good.
All the furniture that was smashed up in the bar brawl I built, I was given a brief by the BBC that it had to be made of balsa and dowelled, it was quite tempting to glue it but as you can see I didn't.
@Spi-z Yes way, I was working for a company called Archway Joinery who had a contract with the bbc, both Grant and Naylor came in with the brief.
@@markwilson7050 Great :)
Cool story bud ;)
What lying for?
Nice work.
Apparently we're all sad gits according to Red Dwarf for trying to find out what they were saying backwards
Admittedly, when this was released, it would have been rather difficult to reverse the tape and hear the sound, would have taken a fair bit of work!
damn be less offended at a gr8 joke lol
That man deserves an award for coming up with that joke for his time.
Brilliant!
I remember someone I used to know telling me about this years ago, he was that sad prat with the recording equipment!
What makes this video better is that the laugh track is laughing at normal things
So basically just a standard episode of The Big Bang Theory then, eh?
They’re Bulgarians. They’ve got simple tastes.
Agreed xD
Weirdly when I first started reading your message I was reading it backwards. I had to reread it again lol
It's like Red Dwarf seasons 7 and on, then...
Classic. Literally classic. I remember feeding the audio into my tape deck to which was as large as a table but also had a record and reversed function too. Yep that guys message was played directly at me
That would have really freaked me out
So you were the original "that one prat in the country" lol
But seriously, well done. If I was there at the time I would probably have been just as curious
I converted a cassette recorder to play backwards. There're more of us than I thought.
Works with Audacity - there’s an episode of The Time Tunnel that features aliens - when they are speaking their own language, it’s backwards English - I recorded the audio on Audacity of their dialogue and set it to play it in reverse - sure enough, it played forwards!
4:20 Danny can down a pint really cleanly.
I know that's a random thing to observe but compared to the others it really stood out to me.
It’s probably just water with food coloring and foam added.
@@MisterGraa true, but if you look at Craig he slops it down him. I'd say it's a character trait, but the woman in the cafe doesn't know how to drink tea either.
Oh snap, you're absolutly right!
I remember thinking that before when I watched Backwards. I was curious to see it like this to prove it
@@DevilboyScooby oh, the woman sloppily srinking the tea is just hamming it up for the camera.
I love the effort that went into the episode that line from the manager is hilarious.
I'm not sure how difficult it was to reverse footage back then but by comparison slow motion was rubbish as they had to hand crank it?
6:18 you can hear the director call action, but you would normally miss it because the scene is reversed.
Oh yeah lol
Likelier to be a floor manager I guess rather than the director, who'd probably be up in the gallery rather than on the studio floor on this sort of production? Although actually I believe that even on single-camera stuff it's the first AD rather than the director who actually calls action.
I read this comment as he said it....spooky 😀
@@freemorox5896 ykoops
The one prat in the country who's going to get a hold of this recording, turn it around and actually work out the rubbish he's saying! What a poor sad life you've got!
Fuck off
It’s a quote, not sure if you knew
I wonder who he is in relation to show staff. Will have to look it up.
What an amazing Easter egg to discover.
I envy the sad prat that was motivated enough to do something I've thought about doing for more than 20 years.
@@bendaniel2271 the Guy is Arthur Smith who is a long time stand up Comedian but was also great in “grumpy old men” years back.
So this is where Nolan got his idea for Tenet
Did Craig Charles do his own stunts in the fight scene? Only now when I watch the fight played forwards do I realise how dangerous and painful that must have been to shoot.
He was very keen to do his own stunts, so I suspect so.
6:19 we can hear the director Ed Bye say "Action!"
I love how Lister when seeing "Nodnol" thought he was in Bulgaria, and now turns out the guy they get a ride from thought /they/ were the Bulgarians
It always said that in the captions for the reversed guy though, so it didn’t need reversing to see that joke.
Ed Bye (to everyone): "Be as sloppy as possible when drinking. Good job, Craig."
Craig Charles: "No problem...sorry, what was I meant to do?"
Danny John-Jules (disdainfully): "Not this Cat."
Not shown here, there is a bit in the cafe when the waitress, who is acting backwards, tips a box of rubbish on their table. It's melting my head.
When I was a kid, our VHS had a "reverse" button as well as rewind, which would reverse the video at the same speed (but it would still be silent), so I used to reverse the brawl back in the day, to get an idea of what it would look like forwards. And yes, I also reversed some of the dialogue via computer sound recording (though, I strangely don't remember hearing the dig from the manager, only reading about it - I dunno if I couldn't get the recording to work, or something else...)
It's amazing how since the DVD release, we don't have to do any of that now.
0:12 she's a keeper
I knew what the "I'm point at you but not addressing you" rant was for a long time. But I never knew "You scoundrels" was actually "robbin' bastards!" haha!
Thought I'd see more Tenet comments but i guess they haven't happened yet.
5:43 is pure gold :D
Trying to tell me something? 😂
This is amazing
Indeed :D
6:18 and ACTION!
It's backwards so no one noticed I guess
1:47 "Stop that jdhfhfnjdufhfueirufhdh"
2:30 "Box! Box!"
It's amazing that they sound alike.
5.55 is a lovely little Easter egg after over 25yrs of wishing I knew what they were saying, cheers ;)
0:33 Apparently, this chick never drank a cup of tea in her life. 😐
Drinking tea like that? She must be Bulgarian 🤨
Smeggy87 Yeah, English people don’t drink tea while spilling.
I just realized it makes total cultural sense to not care if you're spilling your drink all over yourself in backwards land, because it will all end up back in the cup anyway with no mess. Though Lister doing the same thing with his beer later is totally in character for him either way.
3:00 he actually said" Oi you robbing b***tard that's our tandem
Used to work shifts with the writers . R.G. was a charismatic extrovert a funny guy. D.N. a quiet shy guy. This was in Manchester around 1975/6. I remember that they used to go home during their 1 hour break on the night shift. They were writing a comedy. Thing was we knew that they would probably make it.
The first episode was written in '83
@@KnightoftheSorryFace yes dude... we worked at gusco ardwick manchester. Such a long time ago... also on the same team was wayne Ellis but we called him phil... he is leader of the thin lizzie tribute band. Talk about name dropping. H ha. Fancy writing a sit com dude?
@@jimsmethurst6113 any idea what the comedy they were writing in 75/76 was?
@@KnightoftheSorryFace sorry mate, no idea...I just hope that they didn't base rimmer on me! I did hear rob call somebody a smeg-head once...funny how you remember daft things.
It's weird how "bitter" becomes "errskip"
I know, I never thought it actually was bitter he was saying
Yeah this completely suprised me too :D
@@airbendingeagle2358 Shows where I've been going wrong, ask the barperson for a rettib; live and learn ;-)
Amazing what results you get when you play audio backwards!
Play the first few bars of Hippy Hippy Shake by Swinging Blue Jeans or Human Touch by Bruce Springsteen backwards - you hear cussing!
Arthur Smith had me in tatters laughing when I heard him talk forwards :D :D
This video is an example of what's good about the internet!!!
7:44 "You've unscoffed my sodding pie!"
7:49 "you bloody barstards!" 😄
The last gag is always the best. You know what happened, and why, yet you never see it, so they leave it to your imagination.
Best not to ask
Read the Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony, especially the second book "Bearing an Hourglass."
There's a section where time is flowing backwards but everyone's mind is going forwards. One poor fellow is VERY unhappy about using the toilet.
That manager is hilarious!
"What a sad pathetic life HE'S got!"
Crazy shit my brain is melting. I've never seen it this way.
The final scene with cat in the bushes is just brilliant
We've gotta stop him!
The seeds of Tenet were planted into the mind of a young Chris Nolan this day. 😅
I am fully aware of the incorrect apostrophe, thank you. It wasn't worth the effort of rendering the video again to correct it.
cat finally had a good dump
"Oy, you robbing bastards! That's our tandem!!"
so in real time, 3 guys just decided to get up aggresively and Lister punched a random guy in the teeth for no reason?
Welcome to London
emoR ni nehW
Red Dwarf has yet to be surpassed.
This just makes this episode even better!😂😂
It's awesome to see this backwards episode forwards
Yay. A HQ version. Thank you :-)
It's like watching a half hour short film about four foreigners in London.
I watched this episode today it was funny 😂😂😂
"The service here is terrible"
Proceeds to eat and drink in the most destructive way possible
getting nostalgia for the 90's aesthetic
The architecture was all gloomy, rain-soaked breeze blocks and shit, but that's just a grim way of saying 'industrially cosy'
I always thought it was only me who thought of the decade that way. Great childhood, though
I might have a weird theory about this. What if this clip was actually from the perspectives of the people from that backwards Earth? Since the crew of The Red Dwarf was operating on opposite time plane, maybe they were actually the ones backwards and everything else was working in fine order xD
That pub fight makes no sense. Four people rush at Lister just before he punches an innocent man in the face?
What about hitchhiking? You get off the car, then the guy says that you can jump on board, then he says that he knows the bar, then he comes out to help them?
I feel like this world isn't truly backwards. It's in a pseudo-backwards state. Where larger segments of time are in the correct order, but smaller ones are reversed. Althought it's not cleanly when and where what happens.
@Spi-z I suppose when your science officer is a hyperneurotic domestic appliance, you'll get a few things wrong!
@@eessppeenn001 That would also explain why the writing's backwards despite this universe supposedly being just time in reverse
@@eessppeenn001 this always bugged me as a kid lol.. it's just randomly backwards and then not backwards. I think the writers didn't think any of it through tbh and just used it for gags
There are several inconsistencies in this episode with the order of how everything happens but somehow for me that's part of what makes the episode hilarious! 😃😃
I KNEW thered be something hidden
Crying at the fact that Rimmer's "Flobbadob, bloob blib blub" gets reversed at the beginning. 😂😂😂
Flobbadob like Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men
So they find a bike in the woods, ride it to where they find a picnicking couple, tell the guy they're going to steal it, he then demands they give it back and they kindly do so as he lies down to sleep. x
You hear the director say action, and we feel sorry for whoever had to edit all this together forwards AND backwards LOL
Messy girl complaining about service while spilling half her coffee on the floor
Am I the only one who thinks the person in the green shirt at 4:53 looks like Karla (Rhea Pearlman) from Cheers? Every time I see this episode, I keep thinking that it is her. Think of it, Karla in a pub.
0:47 How come they're speaking backwards there?
Thats got to be the best quote in TV history lol
never been happier to be a sad git.
I remember using windows audio recorder to reverse this back in the day...
Had to know what was said.. :)
I like to imagine Christopher Nolan watched this as a teenager.
I've known what the pub manager said backwards back in the day, as I was able to take his recording, sample it with a Commodore Amiga and a sound sampler cartridge, and reverse the original recording! It would've been a lot more difficult otherwise!
no smeggin way
It’s so strange how bits of the audio are completely inaudible when played backwards or forwards, I wonder how that happened.
Some of the scenes where people interacted with them were doing 'pretend backwards speech' even pretending to walk backwards - particularly noticeable in the cafe and pub x
1:01 --- Rob Grant??
Great vid. Thanks.
My brain is melting.
8:41 another major disadvantage to living in a backwards universe
Isn't that Rob Grant at 1:02?
yes
Does look like him 🤔
Edit: According to the Tongue Tied Fandom it is him. Pretty nice cameo.
Sorry to necro your comment BTW 🤣
So this is Backwards....Backwards?
On the special edition Series 3 bonus disc it's titled "Backwards... Forwards"
The backward bits sound Scandinavian....
Bulgarian
Class
Interesting concept.
Well done you sad prat
The very best Red Dwarf they did, better than the crap 10 series onwards. 1 to 9 where fantastic.
Best series of all was Series 6, almost every joke landed perfectly and not a single bad episode. While I would say that while "Gunmen of the Apocalypse" is a very good episode, it's not the best, I'd personally rate "Psirens" or "Legion" as the best episodes of the series.
After that, I have to say that Red Dwarf was never as good after Series 6 in my view. With the exceptions of series 9 and the most recent episodes, most of the series after that were quite good, but nowhere near as good as Series 6 and not as good as the Series before Series 6.
Also, "Back To Reality" is heavily over-rated in my view, it's not THAT good.
I thought the show sucked after series 6
It took me awhile to get it
5:55 they foresaw this and you're called out mate
What's up with that woman's laugh after the director yells 'action'?
What a mind fudge😂 this isn’t a bar room tidy it’s a bar room brawl rumble the unrumbleeeee.
You'll need to do this to Tenet
0:46 David Lynch directs _Red Dwarf_
I can see now why filming this messed with the producers heads.
0:47 If this is in reverse, why are they still speaking backwards?
Точно
Because some of it was the actors just saying gibberish that sounded as if it was backwards but wasn’t.
6:18 action
5:48 - Brilliant.
That is a glorious easter egg! :p
They could swear if it was backwards
God, to be an extra on this show...
In the words of Lister…..
Unrumbel!
I was gonna say 'You are not a Prat' then I noticed you spelled it with 2 T's cuz you're a MARVEL OBSESSED OZZY LOVING PRAT xD
Rimmer in uniform talking backwards looks and sounds like a soldier from the third Reich. Herr Rïmmer
It all comes of his subscription to _Fascist Dictator Monthly._
5:50 Bravo. It may have taken a while, but I'll bet they are laughing at this
Klaus Schwab's 6ackwzrds 6ack 6etter.
Christopher Nolans first attempt at Tenet
awesome
is it backwards per chance?? lol
John Ellis - You are a total gimboid
0Dark30 - Yes I'm afraid I am but atleast I'm not a Doibmig like you!!!
Everyone in the world is a daeh gems except me!!!
Took me a minute to realize what was going on here..
UN-RUMBLE!
Buddy, we're ALL sad prats.
It just sounds like a German sitcom
Can’t believe well the cast speak Bulgarian. Who’d have thought?
6:18 ACTION!
Guess they didn't feel the need to edit that out lol