Red Dwarf (1988)

125 visible crew/equipment mistakes - 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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Pete (2) - S8-E7

Visible crew/equipment: Just before Lister and Rimmer get beaten up in the captain's office, as Hollister is telling them off, a boom mic shadow can be seen moving on his right shoulder. (00:21:10)

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Only The Good... - S8-E8

Visible crew/equipment: When the vending machine says it will destroy Rimmer, a boom mic can be seen at the top of the screen. (00:06:05)

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Only The Good... - S8-E8

Visible crew/equipment: After Rimmer faints after getting drunk, a boom mic shadow can be seen on the bedsheets. (00:15:45)

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Only The Good... - S8-E8

Visible crew/equipment: When we first see Rimmer and Lister in the medi-bay, the camera crew can be seen in the reflection of the tv. A boom mic arm can also be seen moving. (00:16:55)

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Give and Take - S11-E3

Visible crew/equipment: When Rimmer and Kryten invites Snacky to come with them to Red Dwarf, the reflection of a crewmember is visible in Snacky's head dome. (Note this is not Rimmer's reflection since there is no H).

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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

White Hole - S4-E4

Rimmer: The thing about Captain Oates... The thing you have to remember about Captain Oates... Captain Oates... Captain Oates was a prat.

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Trivia

Trivia: It was rumored that Alfred Molina and Alan Rickman wanted the part of Rimmer. Lee Cornes also auditioned for this role (he later guest starred on the show), as did Hugh Laurie. Robert Bathurst, Norman Lovett and David Baddiel auditioned for the role of Lister.

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Questions

Kryten - S2-E1

Question: When Holly is saying about how he has changed music he says that because of the 2 new notes he's made instruments would be bigger. "Triangles will have four sides. Piano keyboards the length of zebra crossings. Course, women will have to be banned from playing the cello." I don't understand the joke about the cello part. Could someone please tell me what he means?

Answer: The cello is a large four-stringed instrument, which, when it is played, stands vertically on the floor between the player's legs (assuming they are seated). If it is to grow as large as the other instuments mentioned will, it would require a rather unseemly lack of femininity to be able to encompass it with the legs.

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