Not sure if anyone's made a post like this before but Red dwarf really is the show of all time

It's got a genderswap episode, its got a bodyswap episode, it's got multiple clone episodes, plenty of alternate universes and a simply iconic musical number despite the fact that its not a musical show by any means

theres a trans computer, two counts of mpreg, insane levels of homosexual behavior and a robot who goes through a midlife crisis

it's got the most repressed man in existence who also happens to be dead, literally the most optimistic last human alive (seriously, how is he so positive all the time) and a dude with frankly the best wardrobe ever who also happens to be literally a cat

Theres dodgy BBC budget practical effects (which I love), copious moments which are insane in and out of context, sets that are held together with blu tac and a cult following that could probably once destroy anything

It's got that season which not many people like to talk about (cough 8, cough), one of the creators left halfway through and they've all been doing It for over 35 years and are still going somehow

God I love it so much, it really is the show of all time

red dwarf 1988 - current

Booty rockin cowgirl come into ma barn ✨

slap me a dollar, cowboy

read my webcomic (new pages on the way 😱)

like to give him a hug, reblog to kick him down a looong flight of stairs

i’ll never recover from this look and this scene why does he look so soft

New Red Dwarf out of context video fresh off the grill :D

Sorry it's taken a while, but here's season 4!!

I FINALLY FINISHED THE PAINTING

SHES COMPLETE

now I never wanna paint a red dwarf ship again

they were always the same little boy

so, does anyone else feel sick about the fact that, in the books, Rimmer spends as much of his free time as possible in stasis (he literally spends a year's worth of time in stasis, over the course of five years), and that, officially, stasis booths are only ever used for penal reasons? does anyone else feel sick about the implications that Rimmer has been voluntarily punishing himself for five years straight?

the sheer amount of grief the red dwarf characters must be feeling off screen all the time astounds me, like even setting aside the incomprehensible reality of being 3 million years away from all of humanity they've all felt such extreme losses over the course of the show im surprised any of them can keep up the whole space adventures shindig

like in the series 2 to 3 timeskip lister had to give up his sons just after 3 days or risk their lives- had to watch them age at such an expedited rate if he blinked he would miss every major milestone, their first steps their first words all of it. and then to have to leave them to save them??? id be bloody inconsolable and then they just kinda move on from it

and rimmer? hes died multiple times, experienced the void and end of existence and been pulled back - and those years as a soft light hologram not being able to touch anything and needing to ask holly to simulate everything for him? never getting much of an actual choice over clothes, his body, what he can actually interact with (this concept was more prevalent in series 1 and 2 but nonetheless) sure he could ask for it but its not the same as getting the free will or real control over anything. AND THE 557 YEARS ON RIMMERWORLD ALSO like ??? they left you in that room, there alone, for five hundred and fifty seven years, thats 28,964 weeks, or 203,305 days thats INSANE. he doesnt even remember the names of his shipmates properly after all that. THATS ONLY AFTER THE BEGINNING OF THE SHOW, MIND. before that he'd spent years being belittled and abused by his parents (so much so that a court emancipated him at only 14) his classmates, everyone in his life only tolerated and made snide remarks at him at Best.

cat too, his entire civilisation wiped themselves out, hes the only survivor of a 3 million year long race of people (granted it took them a while to get to humanoid but i rest my case)

even kryten and holly arent excluded from this overwhelming loss that pervades every aspect of the show, kryten spent possibly hundreds of years ignorant to the fact that the crew of his ship had died, i wonder if he ever wondered why they stopped speaking to him? stopped giving him laundry to fold, refusing to eat any food he made for him? and as for Holly, 3,000,000 years alone on a ship in the cold black vastness of space surrounded only by the ashes of the crew you once tended for, guiding them to safety, who were reliant on you, needing you for every part of their lives it would seem. really could make a computer go mad, that sort of thing

THE BEST SEASON ‼️‼️ +mr flibble guest appearance

Guys, I know we've all watched Dimension Jump and gone "God, Lister is so starstruck with Ace" but theres a moment which I'm not sure I've seen anyone comment on from Rimmer and Lister's conversation at the end of the episode:

And I'm probably reading too much into everything but the moment where Lister pauses, to me at least, looks so much like he genuinely considered Rimmer's statement for a moment before realising that it's just another version of Rimmer he just imagined that with. And it's Rimmer, the person he's told himself that he really shouldn't like and who he knows probably really doesn't like him either. But yet he's just momentarily imagined getting married to some version of him anyway.

It's also the breath he takes which my over analysing brain has gone and taken as a steadying himself breath from that thought of marrying Ace.

And also, you can only just tell, but just before he begins to speak it almost looks like he was intending to say something else?? Before then realising that he needed to actually respond to Rimmer.

ALSO! He never denies any of the stuff Rimmer says about him and Ace, it's always just a subtle change in topic like "I don't understand your attitude Rimmer, he's you". It's more like he's responding to Rimmer's general and more intense snideyness towards and about Ace instead of the claim that Lister and Ace could be together, very subtly avoiding the topic

ANYWAY, tee hee I love over analysing things which were almost certainly not intentional by actors. The pause and breath could very well just be Lister being shocked that Rimmer's being quite so jealous about Ace

Idk lol

Alt. Day 22 Set for Favourite Red Dwarf ship/pairing?❤️‍🔥

"I've missed you, man." "And i've missed you too, Listy." "Oh, Arnold, man..." "Dave!"

they’re all so stupid and i love them dearly