I am a geek and as such this blog is chock full of references to things that I like. It's like a disease.
These posts were all informed by my fondness for
Red Dwarf:
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Narcofiction is a big list of fictional drugs: Bliss and Ultrazone turned up in
Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers and
Beyond A Joke respectively.
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sdrawkcab is
backwards backwards, I probably wouldn't have done a post backwards if it weren't for
Backwards, the episode and subsequently the novel.
• Rimmer tried and failed to learn
Esperanto in the first two series.
• Kryten has a problem with
Ketchup in
Beyond A Joke.
• Holograms are marked with an
H.
• Rimmer got a scar as a result of
Duel as mentioned in Series VIII. Although I'd be amazed if Andy or Mike knew that when they mentioned it in
Duel.
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Gimping may be common enough word, I bet it's something you do everyday, but it's a word I first encountered in
Red Dwarf.
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Robert Llewellyn played Kryten in 43 episodes (here he is wearing a carrot).
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Norman Lovett played Holly in 21 episodes.
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Tony Hawks appeared in 5 episodes.
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Ainsley Harriot appeared in
Emohawk - Polymorph II &
Can't Smeg, Won't Smeg•
Adolf Hitler made a special guest star appearance in
Timesides as himself.
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Red Alert is similar to a Holly joke.
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Janet Street-Porter was Head of Art & Culture at BBC2 when during the filming of Series VI and when she received the script for
Gunmen Of The Apocalypse she sent out a memo that production for the episode must stop immediately because she believed it too difficult and too expensive to film. By the time her memo reached the
Red Dwarf film crew, filming had already wrapped.
• One of my
secrets concerns the gunmen on the grassy knoll, whose identity is revealed in
Tikka To Ride.
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Win A Holiday contains a gag I shamelessly stole from a leaflet in the
Beat The Geek DVD.
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Iain Lee Is A Cunt was inspired by the fact that Iain Lee is a cunt and his misquoting comments on
Ganymede & Titan in his podcast.
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Bed Dwarf was a sitcom porn.

Here are some
Red Dwarf related posts on a different
blog.