Very grungy nit: Lister refers to the Polymorph incident as happening six months ago, at Easter. Easter is in April, putting DNA in the following October. However, in Timeslides, which comes in beteween, Rimmer says that it`s November.
Am I being a prude, or did anyone else think the conversation in the sickbay was rather tasteless?
No, it was extremely humorous and makes Red Dwarf stand out from the rest of science-fiction AND comedy. I think Kryten's questions about his new-found anatomy were perfectly natural, as were Lister's reactions.
Summary nit - Lister is turned into a chicken first, and then a hamster (although I thought it looked like a white mouse.)
It looked like Red Dwarf docked with the ship by landing on it like a 1950's sci-fi ship.
Spare Head 3 says that it is 30,000 years old. So Kryten was built 2,970,000 years after Lister went into stasis? (Of course, Spare Head 3 is suffering from dry rot so maybe it's counters are off.)
Amazing that Man Plus somehow evolved metal parts that make him look like RoboCop. ;-)
So how did the transmogrifier shrink his gun?
When Lister Plus threw the lager into the vindaloo's mouth, why didn't it either spit out the can or bite down on it?
If this ship is so advanced, then wouldn't it have supralight engines that would allow them to get back to Earth much faster than they could on Red Dwarf?
Especially if it`s several thousand light-years from Earth.
Some Other things to chew over:
UK Type sockets are still in use on Red Dwarf, & The Cat doesn't replace the console plug when it comes back on power.
Rimmer's list could be applied to himself as well as the Cat.
How many times does the Titan Hilton blanket appear? I first spotted it in Confidance & Paranoia.
Films parodies in this episode include Alien, (When doesn't Red Dwarf III-IV do this?) Die Hard, Robocop, Jaws & Tremors.
This is the episode that contains the infamous '23rd century' line, by the way.
Infamous in what way? In Season One or Two Rimmer calls Captain Hollister "fat b a s t a r d, 2044" implying Red Dwarf is from the 21st century.
Infamous in that it really starts to muddy the waters, as to quite when Red Dwarf is from.
The 2044 line is there, sure. As is a calendar from 2077. They can just about be reconciled if you take it that Rimmer is implying things about Hollister's age. (There's problems with the month and day, too, come to that, between Me2 and Stasis Leak.)
By Red Dwarf VII they've settled on the 22nd century.
Kryten says the 3-headed corpse had a Video Club Card. Since the ship was so advanced that Kryten didn't recognize it then it must be from a time well past when he was built. I find it amazing that at some point between the 23rd century & 3 million years plus, they still have Video Clubs. (Although maybe by then collecting Videos is like collecting vinyl 78's, or something?)
Perhaps there was a video revival in the centuries between now and RD's time.
The Rimmer cowardice bit was good. "So should I cancel the order to find your mother?"
Mind you, if a three headed body fell on me, I might freak out the same way Rimmer did.
The gruesome failures strewn about the DNA ship are testament to the human scientists who created the machine using themselves as the test subjects for what we would term as the alpha and beta versions of the device.
Well, we really don't know what happened.
It's Annette McIntosh's RD Plot Inconsistencies Project document that speculates that the people on the DNA ship used themselves as the test subjects when they were developing it. We know that Hitler and the Nazi regime happened in the Dwarf universe so something must have happened in that universe to rehabilitate the option of medical testing on human subjects.
Scientists self-testing on themselves is not unheard of.
Perhaps the experiment were illegally performed.
That is why they were done on a ship in space, and not on Earth.