Talk:Only the Good...

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The goof is nonsense - Lister was talking about escape pod of Starbug, not Red Dwarf.

The other goof is similarly nonsense. He brings the virus in, it turns into an antidote. he has the professor write down what he has there (antidote) so he gets antidote written down. he comes back out, it reverses again and becomes the listing for the virus. BECAUSE of this continued reversal, it would in fact be impossible for him to ever bring the antidote or any representation of it out of the mirror since it would reverse and represent the virus. Still, what with all the rewrites, we can forgive them for that.. painting into a corner..

You buy kebab, most good.

Can somebody explain me what the kebab scene is supposed to mean? That bit where Ackrmann asks: "Anyone fancies a kebab?", Lister and Rimmer call: "Oh yeah!" and then Lister says: "Smeg! He tricked us!" What'a a kebab to do with being drunk? Could somebodys tell me? Jonathan Gr 16:53, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

(Moved this to a new section, hope you don't mind...) Supposedly, there is a class of food that only seems good when one is drunk. Meat pie floaters are in this class, according to Terry Pratchett... Apparently, kebabs are as well. --StarChaser Tyger 01:23, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

From Kebab#Döner kebab:

In the UK kebabs are most popularly eaten after a night out and many kebab shops will do their main business in the hours around closing time for local pubs and clubs.

Timrollpickering 00:23, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Where does it say that about the Meat pie floaters? Jonathan Gr 15:19, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Long after the fact, sorry. :p Terry Pratchett mentions meat pie floaters (A meat pie of some sort, (I'm American, so I'm not exactly familiar with the specific style) in a bowl of pea soup, with ketchup/catsup. He mentions it as an example of the type of food one would have to be profoundly drunk to think of, or consider eating, in the book The Last Continent. --StarChaser Tyger (talk) 11:46, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Apologists for goofy last scene

Can anyone cite or explain this:

In what may be either a hallucination or reality, the Grim Reaper, played by series director Ed Bye, comes to claim Rimmer.

...?

I don't think there's anything in the episode (other than the change in tone from sci-fi to fantasy and the fact that Rimmer is at death's door) to explicitly suggest that it might be a hallucination. If there are any other sources (e.g. DVD commentaries? - a Doug Naylor interview somewhere?) then we need to cite them.

I think someone's thrown this in to try to soften the impact of the (possibly ill-judged) use of the Grim Reaper in a science-based sitcom... but if there's nothing to substantiate it, then it's speculation or original research (you might as well start adding stuff like, "the Grim Reaper, or possibly an android or GELF who resembles the Grim Reaper and serves a similar executionary purpose..."). If we can't cite it we should take it out, since it's just speculation.Señor Service (talk) 12:01, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Quite right, that line is pure OR (WP:OR), so I have reworded it slightly. magnius (talk) 12:13, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Back To Earth

I haven't watched the episode but after reading the synopsis, I can't figure out how in the world Rimmer kicking death in the balls results in the crew being on a perfectly functioning Red Dwarf nine years after. Could someone explain this to me? Smeg Up (talk) 09:48, 26 April 2009 (UTC)