Red Dwarf ( 1988 )

Continuity mistake: When Lister knocks over the can of beer, the ring pull is flat. When the can hits the floor, the ring pull is sticking out. (00:26:05)

Dimension Jump - S4-E5

Continuity mistake: When the crew are wheeling the Cat in the corridors of Red Dwarf, Kryten is holding onto the Cat's hand. In the next shot he is pushing the stretcher. (00:23:00)

Camille - S4-E1

Continuity mistake: When Holly interrupts Kryten's date, Camille moves about a foot away from Kryten when the camera changes angles. (00:23:20)

Dimension Jump - S4-E5

Continuity mistake: When Lister drops the magazine in front of Rimmer it lands closed. When Rimmer begins to read it, it is open on the floor. (00:13:25)

Continuity mistake: When Kryten decides to be a mechanoid again, Lister gets up and grabs his jacket and swings it around his shoulders. The camera cuts to Kryten for a second then back to Lister, who now has his jacket on fully. The amount of time the camera was away from Lister would make this impossible for him to put the jacket on that quickly. (00:22:15)

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Lister is talking to human Kryten, just before Lister sees the photos, keep an eye on Lister's hat. It is perched on top of his head with about an inch of hair showing, yet the next shot shows the hat covering all of the hair, then it goes back to an inch of hair showing again. There is no time for Lister to have adjusted his hat between cuts. It is clear the line had to be re-shot. (00:12:35)

Continuity mistake: When Lister throws the can of lager at the curry monster, the can rotates in its mouth between cuts. (00:26:30)

Continuity mistake: Lister's clothes disappear during the transmogrification process, then reappear when he changes back. (00:06:40 - 00:09:05)

Justice - S4-E3

Continuity mistake: When Kryten and the Cat enter Rimmer's cell, Lister's hair moves from in front of his shoulder to behind his back in one cut. 16.10. (00:16:10)

Continuity mistake: Just after Kryten says what point in time he would like to return to, he is looking down and working with the screwdriver. The camera angle changes and he is looking straight forwards with the screwdriver on its side. (00:05:35)

Justice - S4-E3

Continuity mistake: In Rimmer's cell, the book at The End of the bed moves from one side to the other when Lister sets himself on fire. It then moves back to its original position on the bed. (00:15:40)

Continuity mistake: Kryten has three spare heads but in 'The Last Day' in series 3, he only packed away one head. (00:18:40)

Continuity mistake: When Kryten is feeling his face, Lister walks in with a tray and looking straight forward. When the camera changes angles, Lister is looking up at Holly. (00:10:10)

Dimension Jump - S4-E5

Continuity mistake: After Lister and Ace do the 'awooga' dance, Lister locks change from being clumped together to being mostly behind his back. (00:21:40)

Continuity mistake: When the Cat and Lister are trying to cook an egg with a bicycle powered hair drier, you can see the Cat holding a frying pan. When Lister gives up and gets off the bike, Cat picks up a spatula with his other hand and starts poking the egg with it. However, in the next shot, he is shown with both hands on his hips. It's an instant cut with the same conversation continuing, so he didn't have time to put them down. (00:15:25)

Gary O'Reilly

Continuity mistake: When Rimmer taunts Lister as a chicken, the Cat is stood next to him facing the camera with no one else near him. In the next shot Kryten has appeared standing right in front of the Cat. (00:08:00)

Camille - S4-E1

Continuity mistake: When Kryten and Camille make a toast, Kryten puts the straw to his mouth. In the next shot it is gone. (00:22:45)

Camille - S4-E1

Continuity mistake: After Kryten tells Camille she must think he is as stupid as a photocopier, a shadow is covering her whole face. In the next shot light is shining on her eye. (00:09:25)

Continuity mistake: When Rimmer asks Kryten if it is the time of year his head goes for retuning, the shadow on his face changes between shots. (00:09:15)

Meltdown - S4-E6

Continuity mistake: When Rimmer says that he will lead the wax droids, Kryten is stood next to him shoulder to shoulder. The next shot shows Kryten yet Rimmer is not visible to his right, however in the next shot, Rimmer is stood in from of Kryten's right shoulder. (00:14:10)

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M-Corp - S12-E5

Plot hole: Cat wasn't manufactured by the Jupiter Mining Corporation and had no connection with them, being born three million years or so after they lost control of Red Dwarf. The takeover by M-Corp would mean nothing to him. Why, then, does he become invisible to Lister?

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Suggested correction: Lister can only see M-Corp products and M-Corp employees. Cat is not an employee of JMC or M-Corp, so he disappears. Lister is the only member of the crew who is employed by M-Corp at this point.

Suggested correction: Cat was a descendant of the cat Lister brought aboard Red Dwarf. Would it be possible that the new owners might have stricter security controls, and Lister was sent to Stasis for a different reason?

Andy Benham ★

Inventing Deux ex machina explanations for a plot hole doesn't make it any less of a plot hole. M-Corp erases all of the Jupiter Mining Corporation's equipment, personnel and infrastructure from Lister's life. In no way is Cat a part of that. He has no connection at all to the Jupiter Mining Corporation, and until he meets him in Episode 1 no connection to Lister, either.

If M-Corp only erased JMC equipment from Lister's life, then Kryten, who belongs to DivaDroid and not the JMC, wouldn't have disappeared either. He disappears as he doesn't belong to M-Corp, not because he belongs to the JMC. Cat has no connection to M-Corp, as he wasn't a part of the JMC (as you pointed out), and is therefore erased for Lister.

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