Red Dwarf (1988)

4 revealing mistakes in Me2 - chronological order

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Starring: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Chloë Annett, Hattie Hayridge, Norman Lovett, Robert Llewellyn

Genres: Comedy, Sci-fi

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Me2 - S1-E6

Revealing mistake: When Lister goes into Rimmer's new room, there is a slight glitch with the split screen. When Lister is laughing at Rimmer's newspaper headlines on the door, the camera changes and the first frame only has Lister and Rimmer with the scutters. In the next frame the second Rimmer appears and the scutter on the right has moved. (00:06:10)

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Me2 - S1-E6

Revealing mistake: In the sleeping quarters when the cat is courting, he says 'If I believed that for one minute, I'd go crazy'. You can see Lister is mouthing the line. (00:10:50)

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Me2 - S1-E6

Revealing mistake: When the two Rimmers are exercising, there are no stars visible out of their window. (00:11:20)

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Me2 - S1-E6

Revealing mistake: When Lister goes to Rimmer's room the second time, the door opens before Lister hits the switch.

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Mistakes

Timeslides - S3-E5

Factual error: The writer's understanding of the history of Nazism and its leaders is a bit shonky. Claus von Stauffenberg did not plant a bomb in Hitler's briefcase - he put it in his own briefcase which he planted in a meeting room next to Hitler (some berk moved it). This was in July 1944, while the last Nuremberg rally - which Lister visits, bringing back the briefcase - was in 1938. Stauffenberg didn't even join the anti-Hitler conspiracy until 1943. Red Dwarf is not an 'alternate history' - they correctly identify elements of the Stauffenberg plot and the Nazi regime, they just get them wrong.

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Suggested correction: It's not a documentary. This is the history of the universe in which Red Dwarf is set. It's almost as if it's a Parallel Universe.

Read the posting again - Red Dwarf is not an "alternative universe."

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Quotes

Stoke Me A Clipper - S7-E2

Lister: Get real, man. Most eunuchs have got more balls than you.

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Trivia

Trivia: The actor who plays the original Kryten, in 'Kryten', also turns up later as the voice of Talkie Toaster.

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Questions

Show generally

Question: Does the Cat actually have a name?

Answer: Presumably he does, but it's never been used in any material related to the show. He is the only Cat left (as shown in Series 1), so even if he had once had a name, nobody would know it.

Moose ★

Answer: In the book, the Cat finds the concept of a name confusing, as he's convinced he's the center of the universe and the idea that someone wouldn't know who he was is baffling.

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