Americans React to Red Dwarf, a British Comedy?
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Hey guys, we don't know what we just watched...please explain Red Dwarf to us!
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Alright-folks are up in arms about the Red Dwarf episode we picked to react to today. To do the show justice, then, please provide a RUclips link to a more appropriate episode for us to react to. The link should not be from the RUclips channel that owns the rights to the TV show. The comment with a RUclips link to a non-copyright sensitive Red Dwarf episode that gets the most likes will be the one we react to next.
Ready, steady, GO!
Ace isnt meant to be a parady of an American hero - the character is a throwback to British raf pilots of the 2nd world war ... hence aces catchphrase " smoked me a kipper , I'll be back for breakfast" something a pilot of the time might have said just before flying out of england for a night time bombing raid over Germany circa 1940. No American allusion at all.
Clip with the Vindaloovians
ruclips.net/video/jSZbzIHGj8U/видео.html
Yeah, not the best episode to start your Red Dwarf adventure. You should start from the beginning to get the full story (& context). Thankfully, I did see the very first pilot episode when it was first aired on UK terrestrial television, & i was interested in it immediately, even though the story started off slowly, I could tell it had promise, but never imagined it would be as popular as it is now. It has a cult following, & I'd say it's one of our quirkiest national treasures 😏
I would always suggest starting with season 1 episode 1 called "The End" as it sets the stage for what is to come, it is definitely not a star trek parody even Patrick Stewart (Captain Jean-Luc Picard ) thought it was but sat and watched it and realised it is far from it. Sadly the episode you had has returning character that people who watched the show know of and how he interacts with the crew. Hope this helps
you want a classic red dwarf episode so that you understand the context. watch one of these episodes...either psirens or better than life or kryten. You also need to know that rimmer is a hologram who is a pompous annoying coward, Cat has evolved over millions of years from the ships cat and like a cat is lazy, selfish and cares mostly for his own appearance. Dave lister is the last human being alive who is a bit of a slob who loves curry and annoying rimmer and is in love with Christine kochanski who died millions of years ago,when he was frozen in stasis. kryton is a droid they picked up on their travels who loves to serve so much that he sacrifices his whole life to do so. If you watch the first episode it will give you the background information you need. Red Dwarf is a huge hit with over 10 series for a reason...it is genius
You just cannot start with this episode. It would be like watching Luke and Darth Vader "I am your father" without knowing all the back story.
You did miss a lot of context and story as the series are all connected (It's now on series 12/13 and this was series 7). Chris Barry plays Ace Rimmer and Arnold Rimmer. Arnold Rimmer is supposed to be the polar opposite of Ace Rimmer (As seen throughout the earlier series. Ace is supposed to be this heroic selfless man), but in this episode... Arnold faces his cowardice and Becomes Ace Rimmer and has a very touching and dramatic ending where Arnold Rimmer is no more (He had been in over 60 episodes and from the start of Red Dwarf).
We "Dwarfer's" love this episode.
It's a long series and was one of the most successful Series on BBC. It went from mini models and cardboard props to full CGI. Red Dwarf was never given a high budget asthe creators and fans really wanted a film of it, BBC knew if they gave it tons of funding they would lose it's hold on the series. It was so successful that America tried to make a American version, but the pilot episode did not feature British quick wit and it never succeeded. You can find the American pilot on the internet (It was on RUclips).
It was the first Comedy Sci-Fi Series to ever be successful.
PS: Happy Halloween :)
You should have had some context before watching this episode. Red Dwarf explained: The Titular "Red Dwarf" is the name of a mining ship, 5x3 miles in measurement, travelling between Jupiter and Earth, mining raw minerals from Jupiters moons, during the 22nd Century. On board ship are Dave Lister and Arnold Rimmer, they are vending machine technicians and the lowest rank on the ship. Lister is a complete bum and slob who drifts through life, while Rimmer has dreams of becoming an officer, but constantly fails his exams and thus has become a neurotic mess.
Lister has smuggled a cat on board ship, when he is caught he's given the choice of turning the Cat over to science research or going into stasis for the rest of the trip and forfeiting his wages. He chooses the latter. During this time Rimmer does a bad job of repairing Drive Plates, causing the ship to be flooded with lethal radiation and wiping out the crew. The ships computer Holly takes the ship into deep space for the next 3 million years until the radiation clears and Lister can be safely released. Rimmer is resurrected as a Hologram "H" to keep Lister company.
They also learn that during the previous three Million years Listers cat has bred and multiplied, and evolved into a humanoid race making Lister their God and basing their concept of the promised land on Lister's ambition to open a Donut diner on Fiji. They perform a mass exodus from Red Dwarf to search for the promised land of "Fushal" using Listers Laundry List as a star chart. Leaving behind the Sick and Lame Cats, two of whom give birth to "Cat" who encounters Lister and Rimmer just after he comes out of stasis.
Later on they encounter a Derelict spaceship where the android Kryten is the only surviving crew member and he joins them.
In a series four Episode "Dimension Jump" they encounter "Ace" Rimmer, an alternative version of Rimmer from another Dimension, who is the complete opposite of the main Rimmer. Just because he was held back a year in school. The episode you watched here is a sequel to that episode.
I'd recommend trying Red Dwarf again, but going from the start. There are twelve series of roughly six episodes each so far and series thirteen is in pre production
Kryten is a robot. British actor and Canadian voiced character. Ace Rimmer was Rimmer from another dimension if he had turned out differently. Same actor Chris Barrie as both versions of Rimmer
You really should watch an episode between season 3-6. That was when the show was at its strongest.
I haven't seen this one! what episode/series is this please someone?
There has now been an American spin off version made.
The first episode of series one starts with Lister waking up from being cryogenically frozen by the ships computer to save the ship and the other crew...just watch it!! I'm about to start watching it now lol!!
Why didn't you choose the episode before this? You'd never have viewed the events of 22 November 1963 in quite the same way again.
"I guess you guys can tell us why you like it so much".
Well we started on s1 episode 1, not a random episode, 7 years into the show. A baffling choice.
Even starting in Series Four, Five and Six works. That’s where I started as a kid.
Watching an episode like that with no understanding of the characters is always going to make it so hard to like it. It's a shame because Red Dwarf is such a brilliant series.
Is it an American tradition to take a tiny slice out of the middle of a story with no context and then wonder why it makes no sense to you. What is the point.
Attention deficit, that's why American channels show commercials every 10 mins. Its mandatory apparently
+Panthy85 They've stated their thinking behind using clips before and it's something like this, if I've got it right.
Their logic is that you don't read a book before you buy it, you read small parts of it and make a decision based on that. So why not do that with TV.
The problem with applying that to a long running TV series is that they are doing the equivalent of taking (for example) the Harry Potter books and reading a few lines from each book. Or in this case, one random page from one book. It has no context and can never have the same impact, like with this clip where they have no idea who any of the characters are, especially Ace Rimmer.
IMO, they'd be much better off watching the pilot to a show and then maybe some later clips but it's their choice.
I would of thought red dwarf was quite popular in America. Americans tried copying it called reddwarf us
I have to agree, if you can't start at the beginning, you're pretty much wasting your time.
@@dupersuper1938 nope,i don't know why they started there-oh-yankee passport=thick
*The Cat:* _Why don't we drop the defensive shields?_
*Kryten:* _A superlative suggestion, sir. With just two minor flaws. One, we don't have any defensive shields. And two, we don't have any defensive shields. Now I realise that technically speaking that's only one flaw but I thought that it was such a big one that it was worth mentioning twice._
Trying to understand Red Dwarf from a 15 minute segment several series in is like trying to line a jam jar with cling film.
This is the most BIZARRE choice of episode I think I've ever seen. Who recommended starting here? It's a character focused episode that relies entirely on knowing the context. Something like 'Holoship', 'The Inquisitor', 'Justice', or, thinking about it, 'Dimension Jump' (the only other episode to star Ace Rimmer) would have made FAR more sense.
Backwards might be a good episode to watch out of context to the whole series too.
Polymorph II technically has Ace Rimmer in it as well, or at least that persona.
@@mercifulzeus01 Well, yeah, but not really. That was a very Rimmer-y version of Ace.
Some Random Guy I don’t even think I’ve seen that one! You need to know Rimmers back story to get it!!.....Worst ever episode to start on anyway as it won’t make sense to people who have never seen it! 😕
dude-a dyed in the wool "dwarfer" RESPECT!!!!!
This is a great episode but a terrible one to start on.
Probably start with S1E01 and you’d get the idea of what it’s about
The Cat is in Ep 1, just
The first 2 episode was good and the rest wasn't that great. Series III and over is the absolute smeg
There's *a lot* of backstory to this, without which, you get the slapstick, without the plot. You need both for it to be funny. That's what made Red Dwarf unique.
Its like visiting 8 European countries in 10 days and think you have picked up the culture
More like visiting UK and then saying to your friends that you know everything about Europe
You picked the worse series. No live audience... Rimmer leaves half way through. The series. Try series 1-4 they are truly great
toby black what about series six!? Six was Great.
@@ListerDavid psirons.. legion..were great the gun men of the apocalypse was awesome the thee were disappointing...series 5 was great 6 was ok 7 was awful 8 was worse back to earth trilogy was awesome. Series 10 brilliant... series 11 was ok 12 was awful. Still really love the show thought and I have all the audiobook a my favourite one of those is probably iwcd or better than life
"Rimmerworld" or something a little familiar to you "Tikka to Ride" which has the assassination of President Kennedy element in the episode
The books are also fantastic, although obviously a book reaction video wont work quite as well...
@@celticbattlepants
The last human was an awesome book
I was worried about you doing Red Dwarf as it’s REALLY character driven and not something you can chop up into soundbites and still understand why things are funny. Give the first episode a watch and I think you’ll finish the series 🙂👍🏻
Can you please stop doing this. If you want to know if you like a british comedy series watch the first episode of the series otherwise you have no context. If you watch random clips from Harry Potter and the deathly hallows you would not have a clue what's happening without watching from the first moviei from the start same thing here. This series doesn't have stand alone episodes they character and plot build right from this first scene and evolve through the series.
Agreed, although Blackadder is probably the exception to that rule.
Why jump into an all ready running series. Wouldn't Episode 1of series 1 been a good place to start, it all builds from there ???
Commitee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society.
Give Quiche a Chance
Chamelionic Life-forms-NO WAY!
@@ajivins1 We hit it hard with a major, and I mean major, .... leaflet campaign!
Well the car stickers won’t be ready till Thursday.
Are they related to the committee to liberate itinerant tree-dwellers, an off shoot of LABIA(liberate apes before imprisoning apes)
Series 1 Episode 1 is the place to start, it's ridiculous slapstick Brit style.
Slapstick?
@@arconeagain yeah definitely not slapstick
To explain what you just watched....Red Dwarf is the story of a man, David Lister. A hologram, Arnold Rimmer. A cat who has evolved into a human/cat called...Cat. A mechanoid known as Kryten. A ships computer called Holly (not in the episode you watched).
Red Dwarf is a beat up old mining ship that is owned by the Jupiter Mining Corporation. At the start of the series, we meet David Lister (3rd Technician) and his barely superior Arnold J Rimmer (second technician). They work as Chicken soap machine technicians. Basically, they are the lowest of the low, dislike each other and also have to share a bunkroom. Think of the odd couple.
Lister is a slob. Rimmer is an analy retentive, obnoxious, uptight man with delusions of grandeur and a fixation with becoming an officer. Something he will never achieve because he keeps failing the exams.
During his time on the ship Lister smuggles aboard a cat, something that is illegal as it could spread disease amongst the crew. When the cat is discovered, largely due to Lister taking a photo of himself and the cat and having it processed in the ships photo lab, Lister is sentenced to three months of stasis. During which he will be frozen in time.
Lister emerges from Stasis thinking that he has only just got in and wonders around the ship noticing that there seems to be nobody around. Holly then tells Lister that all the crew are dead, they were wiped out by a lethal radiation leak and that Lister has been in stasis for a very, very long time.
Holly, in his current state, has gone quite senile and decides that the best person to keep Lister sane is his old bunkmate Arnold Rimmer. He brings Rimmer back as a hologram, a process so taxing that the ship can only sustain one at a time.
While Lister was in Stasis and radiation swept through the ship his cat, who was pregnant, was safely sealed in the cargo decks. Over the years the numbers of cats there increased rapidly and they started to evolve into Felix Sapiens. A human type cat.
After Lister and Rimmer met the Cat Lister decides that Red Dwarf should turn around and head back to Earth.
Along their trip back home an awful lot of things happen to them. They met Hitler, Jesus, winnie the pooh and Elvis. They meet more than their fair share of people who want to kill them. Get turned in robots. They even encounter a monster made of curry...
At its peak, Red Dwarf won many awards including an emmy for best international comedy. It was also the highest rated comedy on BBC pulling in over 8 million viewers. It is still made to this day and is shown on Dave. A thirteenth series is due to start filming sometime next year.
They already read the wikipedia article but thanks
Oh...and a White Hole
@@commandingjudgedredd1841 Obviously Felipe isn't into white holes
Couldn't have explained it better. Although few typos. He was in stasis for 3 million years... and still had a library book XD. There was a large gap between the series, but due to popular demand it returned.
Also, Red Dwarf created one of the best words; smeg.
@@e1337prodigy I kept some things slightly vague just in case they wanted to watch it properly.
If reacting to full episodes and/or starting a show from its first episode is too hard for you then maybe reaction video's aren't really your thing....
Red dwarf is a story spanning 2 decades (3 decades if you include the recent revival). By season 4 most of the jokes were callbacks to previous episodes so if you didn't start watching from the beginning, a lot of the humour would be lost on you. This is common to a lot of british comedies, some of which you've done reaction videos for already. It's one of the major differences between US and UK comedies. For doing reaction videos, if you want to get the jokes it's best to do them on earlier seasons. You should def do a reaction to Bottom as it's hilarious no matter what episode you are watching. (probably best not to do that one with the kids nearby though)
Oh nooooooooo! Why on EARTH would you pick season 7?! By then, nearly everything is tired and weak, pick something from season two or three.
Based off the comment section, I'm guessing It'd be best to start with Episode 1
The main Rimmer (with the H on his head) was a hologram of a dead crew member to keep the only human in the universe (Lister, who was playing the Knight jousting VR thing) company. The cat is a descendant of Lister's pet cat 3 million years later (Lister was put in suspended animation as a punishment for smuggling the pet cat aboard). Something went wrong with the ship, and it took 3 million years for the radiation levels to drop before Lister could come out of suspended animation. The robot was found along the way.
Rimmer is an anally retentive jerk. Ace Rimmer is a mirror universe version of him that is everything our Rimmer isn't (brave, heroic, popular, beloved), so our Rimmer hates Ace.
oh I see Kryten is reduced to the robot was found along the way. Mechanoids have rights as well especially for a new mop and bucket to clean up D deck
@@HA1LILPALAZZO - I should have known that Hudzen missed one!
Hand Solo
The disaster that killed everyone bar Lister was as a result of a badly done repair to the ship by Rimmer. So not only is he a dork but also responsible for the whole catastrophe.
@@keegan773 - I was trying to give a short explanation.
Hand Solo
I wasn't criticising you, just adding a little more info. 👍
Woo! I've been hoping you would watch Red Dwarf. Just a shame you chose one with a lot of inside jokes that won't make sense without seeing previous episodes. I really hope you try another one sometime. Love your channel guys.
Red Dwarf is a British national treasure. You did not do it any justice by watching that particular episode.
The earlier episodes are much better for getting the whole idea of the show (and jokes).
I mean why watch an episode from that series and not the first.
Series 1 episode 1... THATS WHERE TO START!
And if you cant get our humour then, SMEG OFF.
But seriously, thank you for watching.
Shows like Father Ted or Are you being served, you can jump in at any time and enjoy it. You may never end up liking Red Dwarf but some much of it is progressively revealed and linked that it would be hard just to jump in at some point and find it enjoyable
Patrick Stewart has acknowledged that Red Dwarf came out before Star Trek Next Generation..Dwarf also had a hologram years before the doctor in Star Trek Voyager. Watch Lemons. There's a clip on you tube...
S7 E1 is a good reference point for Americans if you don't want to start at S1 E1, but S7 E2 is like coming in in the middle of a movie. You have no context.
Jesus....the strongest series are 3-6. Especially for the uninitiated. But it's best to start with the beginning and go from there. Anything after series 6 isn't really worth watching (unless you are a fan).
I don't know why the hell you are watching this episode.
Series 4 and 5 are the best...
Half the jokes in this episode won't make sense, since you haven't seen anything about Rimmer up to this point, so "Ace Rimmer" doesn't seem weird. The pilot episode (Season 1, episode 1) sets up the whole series, and would give you a better idea of what's going on.
RED DWARF!!!! my favourite TV show, its a show that you have to watch from the beginning to fully understand it
I feel so heartbroken you chose easily the worst example of this wonderful show to do a reaction. Season 7 is widely accepted as taking his amazing show to a shell of its former glory. For the love of god please do another reaction to Any season Pre 7 :(
Red dwarf great British comedy , good choice 👌🏻
Good choice but wrong series.
Hugh Tube agreed
Don't start with series 7 - nothing will make sense! Try series 1 for starters, then 2-6 are all excellent. 7 went a bit off, though still funny.
So sad that you started so late in the series...early Dwarf is so witty and ground breaking....hope you get to see the whole thing...series 2 to 5 are out of this world....sorry about the pun :)
Lol why would you watch such a random episode. You should watch the first episode at least
Ace Rimmer and Arnold Rimmer are the alto egos of each other. Ace, brave and hansome, Arnold Cowerdly and a nerd.
Patrick Stewart is a large fan... He also thought it was a Star Trek rip off but saw the genius behind this and loves the show now...
Space Corp Directive 34124. 'No officer with false teeth should attempt oral sex in zero gravity.' :D
Watch the pilot. Sorry but this is nothing like Power Rangers. Oh, and Red Dwarf is still on. It's that popular.
If there was a world championship for utterly hopeless reviewers- no one else would stand a chance up against you two!
It would probably have been better to start with the very first episode, despite not much continuity in the series, as it gives context and introduces the main characters. Series 7 is probably my least favourite.
The later series tend to play with the characters a bit more and as you say, not knowing the characters very well means many jokes are lost on you.
Definitely check the first episode The End or a personal favorite of mine is Backwards (S3 E1).
You should've watched the pilot episode. So much better than 'Stoke Me a Clipper'!
The VR wild west one is probably my favourite ever or the one where lister has to marry that female monster woman in return for engine parts.
Yeah i agee any one from the first few series would show you the heart of the series and why it's loved.
+baylessnow Thankfully the quality has returned in the newer series (model shots and a live audience have been brought back, too), but it'll never be as good as it was in the early 90s...
Heccie Thump gotta say I love em all, it's my favourite show since 88. I like the fact not all seasons are the same.
I love it that Lillian didn’t know when Star Trek began 👌 Maybe it will make a few trekkies go into a huff. I find them so nauseating.
While not the best example.....i think series 6 Psirens might be fun for you.
What does the title of this video even mean?
"A British Comedy?" - Who ever heard of such a thing?
Gunmen of the apocalypse from series 6 was a high water mark it won an international Emmy.
The writing is fantastic , great characters silly at times and very poignant at times . Start on episode one and go on the journey 😀
This is a great episode, but a horrible place for a new viewer to start as you don't know any of the characters. S1Ep1: "The End" would have been best. And then, if you so desired, one of the best season three episodes to get a chance to see Kryten (The robot) after he joined the crew. "Polymorph" would be a fun choice for a second episode to see with the standard crew of four that continues through the rest of the series.
Please do better research before you watch things, you do not have a clue.. ( Star Trek) what? .
Lister is the only human, he had been in STATIS (suspended animation) for three million years, in that time the ships cat's descendants had evolved into a human like animal 'The Cat'.(orange suit). Arnold Rimmer is a hologram of himself, hence the H on his forehead and was Listers room mate and colleague among the original crew. Kryten is a robot they found and there is also a ships computer Holly (who we didn't see in the clip) originally a man later changed into a woman, both had a seemingly couldn't give a monkey's attitude to their welfare and spoke in a very droll and sarcastic manner.
Lister is the only Human left in the universe as far as they can tell, Earth no longer exists and they are travelling aimlessly in space. 'Red Dwarf' is the name of the space ship. You really should go watch the pilot episode.
The actor playing the robot Kryten is actually British actor Robert Llewellyn and the two Rimmers are played by the same actor Chris Barrie and no 'Ace Rimmer' is not speaking in an Australian accent but an English one.
Start from the first episode and I bet you get hooked
Also please react to peep show
Red Dwarf... cult classic.. national treasure. :)
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE, PLEASE watch an episode from an earlier series! Red Dwarf started to go downhill rapidly from series 7. I my opinion series 5 is the best and a hundred times better than this one!
React to the British sitcom "mind your language" its really funny.react to the first episode .
I don't believe it, Americans not knowing when "Star Trek" started.
Original pilot - 1965
Original series - 1969 to 1969
Not a vampire, he is CAT a member of the crew.
Was excited until you said Series 7.
My favourite comedy. But must watch from beginning to understand. Its daft yes. But fun daft with adult humour. As your learn to understand what there talking about. It gets funnier.
you picked the wrong episode/series to learn how good the series was.
You went with series 7? Worst of the bunch, I'd recommend series three to six.
You picked the worst episode in the worst season to start with. It’s all references that won’t make sense as well as it being a bad season. Start with 3 at least.
Should have started on season one
This is like showing someone the Jump The Shark episode of Happy Days & getting them to judge the show.
I've got to be honest, you guys kind of ruin pretty much every American reacts video by picking random context-less clips deep into long running series. It's no wonder you're baffled! You'll have zero context doing this and it shows with your responses. Why not just watch the first episode of the first season for the next thing you watch as I'm sure this will set the scene better. Also Red dwarf has no connection to american TV, you kept on trying to connect the two? It's no relation to star trek other than it's set in space, and no one is mimicking American culture in it are they? Red Dwarf really is it's own thing.
I've got some ideas for "reacts" videos
1. 'Allo 'Allo
2. Fawlty Towers
3. One foot in the grave
4. Keeping Up Appearances
5. The League of Gentleman (Very Dark Humor)
6. Little Britian
7. The Brittas Empire
8. On the busses
9. The Goodies
10. The "Carry on" film series
A lot of uk comody's are only really good if you see it from the beginning. Understanding the history and development is key.
Ace is supposed to be an RAF guy! It's Rimmer's alter ego he's a hologram and a coward! Series 7 is way to late to start watching it. Maybe series 4 onwards. Only 6 episodes to a series. Cat is the guy with the fangs and is very fashion conscious!! The other two are an android and a Scouse slob! Enjoy! Rog
It's a great great comedy and clever also as they use space and time theory but you have to watch from the start and get in to the characters. It's impossible in a short viewing. For years I thought it looked rubbish but then at university my friend gave me the box set. It's awesome but give it time
I'm definitely a Dwarfer. The show is still going. There was a feature length episode in 2020 with possibly another one on the drawing board.
For newbies I'd at least watch The End, Waiting for God and Future Echoes from Series 1, Kryten and Parallel Universe from Series 2, Marooned and Polymorph from series 3 and Dimension Jump from Series 4 and Back to Reality from Series 5.
That would give you a good grounding in the characters and side characters in the show.
Unfortunately you chose one of the weaker episodes to watch. As others have said this particular episode is extremely in-joke and reference heavy.
If I had to make a recommendation for an introductory episode it would be Backwards. Nowhere near as many in-jokes but the classic quartet of Lister, Rimmer, Cat and Kryten are all there. Take the characters, send them into a parallel universe where time runs backwards and see what happens. It has classic scenes like the un-rumble where they have a tidying up bar fight and one of the best expression-based jokes of all time when Cat has to go and finds out what happens when you do that with time running backwards. Most of the episode takes place in the large city of Nodnol.
Nowt like star trek , that show took itself seriously
If you were to watch the series casually, start with these: the end, confidence and paronia, me2, better than life, queeg, kryten, polymorph, camille, quarantine, legion, blue and another really good one I can't remember (it's the one where the 4 think their whole life was a vr game but it's a hallucination)
Series 7 is the worst of all the Red Dwarf series. It's like watching Star Trek The Next Generation for the first time and starting with The Naked Now or The Outcast. Every episode of Red Dwarf from Series 2-5 is a standalone masterpiece.
Captain (Patrick Stewart ) Stewart is a fan of this show. In fact, he wished Star Trek TNG had incorporated some of the elements from this show for TNG.
Watching part of an episode and reviewing that is like reading the first chapter of a book and giving your opinion. It's not the choice of episode it's the fact it's not watched to the end that's the issue
Eh, I wouldn't worry about the criticism. Red Dwarf was never really all that funny and was quite cringey at times. However, it's actually surprising how much dramatic merit it has for the type of show it is. You get quite attached to the characters, and some of the episode setups are quite enthralling, which is why watching one episode probably won't work.
That said, nerds of a certain age will defend this show to the death, for whatever reason.
You need the context of previous series. the one you watched relied upon far too much series and character history to be understandable. watch the first episode for context and my favorite 'queeg' for type of humor.
The king was played by Bryan Cox, who's probably most famous for Succession nowadays.
This was about the most pointless thing ever, its an alternate dimension and has basically no meaning at all unless you know the characters and was I believe a way to just have some creqative license and go nuts with memes before there was memes
You've got to know the beginning to give context to later episodes, it'll help to understand the characters.
very British humour
I think it's difficult to jump into a series like Red Dwarf. It's a classic programme though. The Cat as Duane Dibbley was the work of genius. Like a lot of series it improved with each series until about series 6 which was when it was starting to go downhill. Series 3 - 5 were probably the best but you've got to start at the start to understand it. It's very British though so maybe wouldn't appeal even if you started at the beginning.
You guys should watch “2 Ronnie’s Mastermind Sketch”. It’s very clever and had me in stitches 😂😂😂
Cat, the man in the orange suit, evolved over 3 million years from Lister's pet cat and has all the mannerisms of a cat, self centered, vain, only thinks of himself. You have to watch the first episode to know how they ended up in deep space 3 million years from Earth.
You cannot just dip into Red Dwarf because you end up with NO context to the jokes. There are lots of Americans who reviewed this and think it is hilarious. But they all started at the beginning from episode one series one... like this guy ruclips.net/video/azX8kcrFcQA/видео.html. He started at the beginning and is HOOKED. Also, the Star Trek writers adore this show...
It's very weird that you start at season 7. No wonder you didn't find it at all funny and, of course, misunderstood the plot. Not a good reaction video
Ken Morley AKA Reg Holdsworth from Coronation Street playing the German officer !
Comedy, like all art forms, is subjective. This might not be your cup of tea, regardless.
That said, it's one of the best UK sitcoms of all time. It's like the cynical alternative to Star Trek written as a farce.
I doubt you'd really 'get' Star Trek watching a random episode wondering "who's that" and "what's happening". While each episode is mostly standalone it does have relationships and lore. Since it's largely character-driven, falling in love with the characters and setting over time is what make this work. It's higher investment, higher reward. Like chess, it's a little difficult to get into but you get a lot of depth out of it.
I'd recommend watching it from series 3. The episode you watched requires an understanding of the characters and whats happened previously. It looks like it all goes over the top of your heads..