Red Dwarf

Beyond a Joke - S7-E6

Continuity mistake: When the simulant walks past Lister, the Cat and Kochanski who are hiding under the blanket, he walks to the far right of the shot and a piece of material is hanging from him as he stops. The shot changes to show the simulant walking through the doorway, yet when the camera cuts back to Lister, the Cat and Kochanski, the piece of material is still in the corner of the screen meaning the simulant is still stood there. (00:11:20)

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Beyond a Joke - S7-E6

Continuity mistake: When the simulant drinks his drink, he lifts the cup up to drink, yet in the next shot he lifts the cup up again, repeating the same action twice between shots. (00:13:50)

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Beyond a Joke - S7-E6

Continuity mistake: When Able takes his head off and throws it at the simulant, he throws it forwards towards where Lister is standing. The head manages instead, somehow, to hit the simulant standing next to the gelf on Able's left. (00:20:00)

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Beyond a Joke - S7-E6

Continuity mistake: After the Cat says about mooning out of the windows when Starbug gets hit, Kochanski falls back on her chair with her arms outstretched. In the next shot she is holding onto the monitor again. (00:25:00)

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Epideme - S7-E7

Continuity mistake: When Kryten is looking through Lister's room, Lister's locks move from in front of his left shoulder to behind his back in one cut, and switch back and forth throughout the scene. (00:08:35)

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Epideme - S7-E7

Continuity mistake: When Lister punches up the Leviathan's destination, it reads 'Theta 4'. However, in the next scene in Starbug's medibay, Lister says that the Leviathan was headed to Delta 7. (00:23:10 - 00:24:25)

Epideme - S7-E7

Continuity mistake: When Kochanski shows Kryten she didn't really cut her own arm off, Kryten holds his arms out in shock. In the next shot, his left arm is by his side again. (00:27:05)

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Nanarchy - S7-E8

Continuity mistake: When Kryten and Kochanski are trying to think of famous one-armed people, Lister's guitar is sitting flat against his chest in all close up shots but it is lying flat on his lap in wide shots. (00:03:05)

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Nanarchy - S7-E8

Continuity mistake: At the start of the scene where Kochanski tells Kryten to let Lister be independent, Kryten's hands are below his circular stomach screen. In the next shot his hand is touching his chest plate. (00:06:35)

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Nanarchy - S7-E8

Continuity mistake: When the nanobots rebuild Lister's arm, throughout the scene his shoulders are covered by his t-shirt. When he looks down for the first time, you can see his shoulders are bare. (00:27:25)

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Back in the Red (1) - S8-E1

Continuity mistake: When Lister is lying on the top bunk talking to Rimmer about the 83 year old dad, he says "he'd probably pretend to be dead" as he puts is left hand on the side of his face. The camera cuts to Rimmer then back to Lister again, as he puts his left hand on the side of his face again. (00:01:55)

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Skipper - S12-E6

Plot hole: Kryten explains that the quantum skipper must be recharged after every use, and the time this takes must be must be taken into account. This is an important plot device the first time Rimmer uses it, but it is conveniently forgotten for the rest of the episode.

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Nanarchy - S7-E8

Lister: What, they fixed your core program and then decided they'd be better off without you?
Holly: Yeah, it was shortly after they met me.

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Meltdown - S4-E6

Trivia: "Meltdown" was originally planned to be the first episode of Series IV of Red Dwarf. However, the militaristic tone of this episode - and in particular Dave Lister's strident anti-war speech near The End of the episode - meant it fell foul of the BBC censors. The original planned transmission date (Feb 14 1991) coincided with the outbreak of "Operation Desert Storm" - the Gulf War...and the BBC felt that an "anti-war" episode of Red Dwarf would be inappropriate for a country at war with Iraq.

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Meltdown - S4-E6

Question: When Kryten and Rimmer were doing the roster of their ranks, Why did Kryten skip the old woman in the black dress with the white shoulder sash between Dali Lama and Mr. Noel Coward?

Answer: It's Queen Victoria, someone any Englishman would recognize, and needed no introduction.

Kryten was introducing the "people" to Rimmer. Rimmer isn't an Englishman; he's not even from Earth; he's from Io.

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