Of course, Confidence's head explodes. It shouldn't, can't remember why. Lack of head is a little too severe for this situation.

Also, Confidence kills Paranoia. The way C tried to get Lister to commit suicide seems to suggest that he wants him to die. However, Rimmer claims that he'll get better once C and P are gone. This makes sense, because in this case thhey are symptoms of the flu. But if C wants Lister dead, then why does he kill P and get Lister half way to better?

He really believed that Lister could survive without oxygen.

Confidence, though he is a symptom of Lister's disease, doesn't really want Lister to die. He's a manifestation of Lister's 'Confidence' character;
complete and total confidence, unfettered by any sort of doubts, paranoia, or reason. Thus his attempts to convince Lister that one CAN breathe in outer space after all, and everything anyone has said to the contrary is just other people's attempts to make him feel small. He ends up removing his helmet in an attempt to prove his point to Lister--and of course, he explodes almost instantly. It's debatable whether or not the vacuum of space would actually cause someone to explode in this fashion.

This show seems to indicate that you'd have to go out of the ship to get to where the disk was. So how did Rimmer get out there to hide it in the first place? Or can Holly create holograms outside the ship as well?

Rimmer could have told the scutters to put the disk outside.

I'm new to this series. What are the scutters?

The scutters are the little robots that scoot around the ship, mostly doing the cleaning. They are about a meter tall and have an articulating arm with a claw on the end. I think they only appeared in the first couple of seasons. Before Rimmer became a "hard light" hologram, he used them to pick up things for him.

Mike, this is all fine, if it weren't for a bit of dialogue in this episode. Keep in mind I'm doing this from memory, so I might get it 100% right. When Lister was trying to figure out where Rimmer hid the disk, Rimmer is going on like "Wrong, and getting wronger all the time". Then after Lister says where he thinks it is, Rimmer replies "You followed me, didn't you?"

Later in the series we find out Lister's hologram is projected from a small object called a light bee. The light bee is inside of the hologram, which is why we never saw it. This wasn't known at the time of C&P, so we need a ruling from the judges if this is a nit.

I thought the light bee didn't offocially caome into use until Season 3, restricting Rimmer's activities to the ship in Season 1 and 2.

I realized last night that I said Lister instead of Rimmer in my last post. Sorry.

As to the light bee, Rimmer didn't know about it until Kryten told him he had one, in season 4's episode "Meltdown". I think you can assume it was there all along but Holly forgot to mention it.

Watching this the last time, when Holly said he wouldn't know how to make a nose, I thought of Odo from Deep Space Nine.

I found it interesting that an Englishman would consider an American accent as a sign of success.
(Muhahahaha! It's just a matter of time now before you're all speaking like us. Muhahahahaha!)

Everytime I see Lister and Confidence dance I think of the title sequence of a short lived britcom called Come Back, Mrs. Noah, which featured a similar dance in space suits on a space ship.

This episode ended with a duplicate Rimmer being created.

Of course, the storyline continued into the next episode.

Would later series's Rimmer - who has changed enough to be modestly tolerable - have been this cruel to Lister - "did you really think i'd put Kochanski's disk in Kochanski's box? Where any bugger could find it?"

No, probably not.

Rimmer did grow, character wise, as the series went on.