Handcuffs? I was expecting an orange traffic cone if anything! (This is from one of the Red Dwarf books) Also, Why not just get a big picture of earth and use that? Im sure the library has one.

I think if they just got a big photo of Earth, they'd probably just step into near-Earth orbit, which probably wouldn't be very good for them, even if they had spacesuits on. Alas, I doubt they could make an enlargement big enough to fly Starbug through...

Well, if you projected the slide onto the side of a large planet...?

How can a nonliving chemical "mutate"?

Lister going into the wedding slide looked a bit sloppy trying to merge the 'real' and the 'projected' Lister.

If they can take an object out of the picture (snow, briefcase) why not rescue the women from the Nova 5?

If Lister is so famous why is Lifestyles of the Disgustingly Rich & Famous the only thing Holly can find? If he's a rock star, why not some of his music videos?

Why would Rimmer have a night shot of himself and other boys sleeping and why didn't the person who snapped this shot ask who he was when he appeared?

What's the deal with the boxing gloves, or am I better off not knowing?

In this episode Rimmer refers to his inflatible woman as Rachel, but I thought in a previous episode she was referred to as Inflatible Inga, or does Rimmer have a harem of inflatible women? (One for each day of the week perhaps? Or one for everyday use the other for Sunday best, perhaps?)

You're better off not knowing about the boxing gloves... little boys discover things about their body in the dark, let's say.

Oooooooooookay.
Moving on.

Why didn't the pictures of Kryten on the Nova 5 look more like the Kryten we see in Kryten?

Maybe when the crew jumped back at the end of Paralell universe they arrived back in another universe where Kryten was designed differently. This could explain the differences between the fist 2 seasons & RD III onwards.

As I mentioned in Future Echoes conventional film will still be around in the future, as will standard music tapes.

In the photos Kryten doesn't look like he did in Kryten, it's possible that Red Dwarf jumped back into the wrong universe in Parallel Universe, or the knock-on effects of Stasis Leak changed the timelines to cause Prof. Mamet to design Red Dwarf differently. (Updates)

Why do the skiers just stand there, don't they try to interact?

Lister can read German fluently, as he reads the writing on the parcel.

Kryten doesn't know what a pub is but was in one in Backwards.

How does Holly know about Lister's fate in the new timeline, or did Red Dwarf still get post pods?

When Lister rewrites history, shouldn't Rimmer & Holy not know who he is, & if he was in stasis when the accident happened (like Lister) shouldn't there be another Hologram (Yvonne McGruder?, Carol McCauley?) to keep him same?

Doesn't Rimmer leave his torch behind in the dormitory. or did Holly erase it?

About the skiiers... they were supposed to have lines recalling getting photos of some guy being sick (Lister's pictures). During recording Craig Charles pointed out that, the photo having been taken before the mix-up, the skiiers should have no knowledge of it, and the scene was haistily rewritten. This is why, despite having no lines, the skiiers are still listed in the closing credits.

--Source: Red Dwarf Programme Guide

I believe Profesor Mamet designed Kryten, not Red Dwarf.

I would guess Red Dwarf was designed by Miss. Take. ;-)

I meant Kryten, sorry about that.

Re: "Why didn't the person who snapped this shot ask who he was when he appeared?"

Because the Red Dwarf crew can only go in and out of, and interact with, what's seen in the photograph. As such, none of the photographers would be able to be seen.

If the Rimmer hologram was brought online to keep Lister sane, why is he around in the new timeline? It appears if Lister hadn't brought Frankenstein aboard and been put into stasis, no one would have survived the radiation leak.

I just noticed. Not only is Rimmer still around, but all of Lister's things are still in his bunk. How can that be if Lister never joined Red Dwarf?

This is still one of my favorites:
"Who's really happier?.......It's you isn't it?"

The guy who played Lister's 'Butler', Gilbert I believe his name was, played Sir Guy Of Gisburne in the 80's TV show Robin of Sherwood.

I loved the part with the bomb in Hitler's case...

I think it was a little mean to bring Rimmer back to life then blow him up again... why would they have boxes of explosives on the ship in th- wait... mining ship... explosives... never mind...

But they wouldn't be in a big open place like that! They should be locked away somewhere! You don't leave exploding things out where small children or people with equal intelligence to small children could get to them!!!

Oh, one more thing - I LOVE THE OM SONG!!!

Does anyone know where I can get a tape of Om or something? My DVD of this season was from the library >.< I miss my Ommy...

what was the song kryten was listening to called? (the one in the photo lab)please?

How did Rimmer putting everything back the way it was make him alive again?

Interesting line: "If you're in jail at least you can look forward to getting out."

That's basically what happens years later.

Tim McCree: How did Rimmer putting everything back the way it was make him alive again?

the butterfly effect?

Except von Staffenberg didn't try to kill Hitler until 1944. And that happened at Wolf's Lair (in what is now part of Poland), not at Nuremburg.

Of course, Rule Of Funny applies, because, in reality, Lister would have been dead a dozen times over before he could get close enough to Hitler to grab his briefcase.

Had Monty Python's Graham Chapman never got cancer and been able to film his part, could he have uplifted “Timeslides”?

(i hate his replacement Ruby Wax; Rimmer, please ask Stabem the Scutter to deal with her!)

I didn't mind her. It's not like she had a big part, after all.

Has anyone wondered what Gilbert, Lister’s male maid in “Timeslides”, got up to in the repaired timeline?

I doubt it.

I presume Gilbert was Fred "Thickie" Holden's butler in the repaired timeline.

Hopefully Thickie treated Gilbert better than Lister.

When Lister changes the past, he, the, Cat, and Kryten disappear (because without Lister on RD, there would be no Cat Race and Kryten was never rescued).

Well, Rimmer should have disappeared too, because, without Lister, Holly would have had no reason to activate him.

And Holly should have had no memories of the Dwarfers, since they never existed in this timeline.

Of course, had that happened, that would have meant the end of the series.

Kryten says at the end of the Inquisitor that the timeline is sorting itself out. It’s not intentional at all, but it can be headcanon’d that there is a period of time where events are in flux and memories don’t alter. We don’t see how long it is until the timeline is restored at the end of the Inquisitor, so it could be the same amount of time it takes Rimmer to •••• everything up at the end of Timeslides.

Oh wait, this doesn’t work at all. ••••.

Guess we'll just have to chalk it up to Rule Of Funny.

Holly says the developing fluid must have mutated.

Because what? Is developing fluid alive like pneumonia?

I can technobabble it away: When the radiation leak flooded the ship, it caused a reaction with the stasis booths that weren't in use. When the ship broke the lightspeed barrier this triggered a number of weird time effects, such as the 'future echoes' and the 'stasis leak' (from the episodes of the same name) and the developing fluid.

That, or some weird mold or bacteria got into the fluid during the previous 3 million years.

One again, Rule Of Funny.

If this were another show, like Star Trek, then a logical explanation would be needed. But not here.