Red Dwarf

For some odd reason, I feel like doing todays post about Red Dwarf.

Yes, that show. A rather wacky british sci-fi comedy show, it’s one of these things you either love or hate, really.

For a quick, rather inadequate summary: Dave Lister is the lowest ranking crew member on the mining ship Red Dwarf, with an unlikeable git immediately above him, Arnold Rimmer.

He smuggles a pregnant cat on board, and given a choice between going into suspended animation for the rest of the trip, and having his cat dissected, he chooses suspended animation.

While in suspended animation, a radiation leak wipes out the rest of the crew. He is revived 3 million years later in deep space, kept company by a lifeform that evolved from his cat, Holly, the ships computer, and a hologram of Rimmer.

Much wackiness ensues. And there have actually been several song and dance numbers, so this isn’t too far off from my normal posts:

Tongue-Tied – Danny John-Jules

A cut version of this was the opening of one of the episodes. As you can see, Danny John-Jules, who plays Cat, is quite talented. This song was actually on the top twenty charts after this was released.

I thought about playing the aired version, but there was too much laughter in the background…

The Rimmer Song

In one episode, Lister is missing Rimmer, who had temporarily left the cast. Kryten (who joined the crew in Season III) created a hologrammatic ride out of his journal, including this song; which produced about the expected result.

Very catchy. And horrible.

Cat Dancing with Blue Midget

Yes, Danny John-Jules got to show off his dancing abilities again.

As far as Red Dwarf goes, btw, I loved the first couple seasons. The last two or so weren’t nearly as good, in my opinion, though. YMMV, of course.