If Knot died in "Cassandra", why is he still alive in "Pete"?

WARNING! PLOT SUMMARY!
Seeing all 8 episodes at once has caused some events to blur together, but if I remember the events of this episode correctly Lister and Rimmer are in trouble for giving the warden truth serum so he shows up late for a meeting wearing a Batman uniform after getting jiggy with the Science officer's wife. (Mentioned, not shown.) As punishment they have to play a game of basketball against the guards. They are losing until halftime when the guards drink their water spiked with a Viagra type substance which gives them erections for 7 hours. Captain Hollister also drinks this and he sentences Lister and Rimmer to potato peeling duty. They have Bob the scutter create a virus that eats potato skins.
Meanwhile Kryten and Kochanski discover a time wand on a derelict freighter.
The potato skin eating virus goes out of control, eating clothes and hair as well, and Lister and Rimmer wind up bald and naked. As punishment they are sentenced to the Hole where they meet the Birdman and (finally) Pete, his canary. Bob helps them escape and they meet up with K, K & C who are planning to use the time wand to make their 2 year sentences fly by.
Pete dies and they try to use the time wand to restore him and accidently set evolution back 68 million years and turn Pete into a Tyrannosaurus rex.
To be continued…
Also I believe this episode has Kryten back in women's quarters and there is a running gag about his… well, I'm not certain if I can mention it.
NITS
Wouldn't Red Dwarf have some automatic machinery to peel potatoes? Aren't most of the vitamins and flavor in the skin anyway?
A T-rex is not the direct ancestor of birds.
As for Knot, maybe he had a twin brother?

Anti-nit: Mabye the chef or the Red Dwarf is American (the southeast US). Here we like to eat a few types of potatoes without their skins: mashed potatoes, fried potatoes (sliced potatoes that are fried in oil), and French fries (McDonald's variety) are good examples.

(BTW, Ameicans are really arragant. For example, we call the part of our country described above as The South, despite the fact that it only refers to 25 degrees to 37 degrees North. This may explain why the chef forces "real" on the English Red Dwarf :)

It's called The South because it's south of the Mason-Dixon line. It all has to do with the American Civil War, not geography. People in the UK refer to people as being from the North and the South as well (I just saw "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" this weekend, so I know).

I think Knot's alive because these episodes are being shown in the wrong sequence.

I don't think this episode can preceed Cassandra. Yes Knot died there and is alive here, but in Cassandra the Red Dwarf posse joined the Canaries while in this episode Kryten, Kochanski and Cat are working as Canaries.
The simplest explanation is still the twin brother theory. (Unless Knot was brought back to life by the time wand.)

RE: Mr Knot. Are you referring to him being present while beating up the Cat at the beginning? If so, Knot's presence is easily explained: this was a flashback scene, when Lister, Kryten, Kochanski and Cat first meet the warden prior to Knot's death in "Cassandra".

Pete's a sparrow, not a canary.

Even though I spotted this nit in the "Last time on Red Dwarf" bit in Pete part 2, it still counts as a nit from this ep. Near the end, where Lister and Rimmer see all the frozen people there, one of them moves!

Was Pete the sparrow supposed to be on board or did Birdman smuggle it on board? (And if he did smuggle it on board then Security was notdoing it's job.)

Here are a few NANJAOs about "Pete"

First of all, does anyone else agree how hilarious the music is for this episode? Especially the fast accordion during the potato virus scene!

Next, Doesn`t "Pete Part One" seem much quicker than "Pete Part Two", as if the whole episode ("Pete") needed to be tampered with to create a cliffhanger?

These are just opinions. The main concern is...

Was "Pete" made after "Krytie TV" or before? Here are the clues I have to support this theory.
- In "Krytie TV" Kryten says "Oh, look, we`ve been frozen in time again!" presumably referring to this episode. And, I know, THEY weren`t frozen in time in this episode, but I can`t think of any other in which they were.
- At the end of "Pete Part Two" Captain Hollister goes to "The Hole" for several months. Before "Only The Good", supposedly the next episode, he`s been ill for a while. "Krytie TV" has no Hollister, it would fit in there perfectly.
- The idea of an appeal, presumably to get out (seen in Krytie TV) sounds like a good idea for a second-last episode.
- The warden is repeatedly reffered to as Ackerman in this episode, and in Krytie TV his name appears and we`re expected to know who it is.

Any agreements or disagreements?

Oh! One I forgot. The rumours refer to the episode after "Cassandra" as being called "The Captain`s Office", an appropriate title for this epsiode.

The youger Kochanski and Cat bit it just great!!!

Summary Nit: The running gag about Kryten's... you know is not in this episode and we do not see Kryten in women's quarters.

The Viagra-type substance is called Boing!

I believe running up the other players in Basketball is a foul.

In addition to Johnny's examples, Kryten is reassigned as a man at the end of Krytie TV, but in Pete Part Two Kryten is back in women's quarters.

Guess he misplaced that Hoover attachment.

I was going to mention that, but I somehow forgot.

I thought Kryten's reasignment as a man was not true and was all part of setting up Lister for his apearence on Krytie TV.

How come the programable virus ate the hair off the top of their heads, yet didn't eat their eyebrows? Do eyebrows taste bad or something?

So why didn't any of the convicts see the blue energy flash when Kryten turned that guy's dinner into a chicken?

Oh, yes, that`s why I forgot. I knew there was some reason.

How come this episode didn't say "To be continued..." at the end?

If the virus is programmed to eat potato skins, how come it it eats various types of clothing and hair as well?

If Red Dwarf allows Birdman to keep the sparrow, then why was the captain so concerned about Frankenstein in The End?

Maybe that`s why he was in prison?

True, but remember the captain was going to dissect Frankenstein so why not the sparrow if that was the case?

I also assumed Kryten's 'reassignment' was a Krytie TV gag.

Incidentally, I think I read somewhere that despite every indication to the contrary, this wasn't supposed to run before Krytie TV. Curious, that.

Oh, that's right, I had a nit.

When Kryten, Kochanski and the Cat are going for their meal, you see a bald chick at the front getting hers. Either she has a twin or she really wants seconds, because a shot or two later she's further back down the queue behind our heroes.

Yes, I read that in the new edition of the RD Programme Guide.

Didn't Captain Hollister refer to Frankenstein as being "an unquarantied animal" in "The End"? Maybe Pete went through quarantine so they knew it would be safe?

Great Lines

Birdman (holding Pete): They call me Birdman.
Lister: Why?
Rimmer (sighs in exasperation): Because he really likes instant custard. Why do you think?!

Why would Red Dwarf have a prison section? Wouldn't they have just shipped the prisoners back to Earth?