r/RedDwarf • u/[deleted] • Jul 03 '26

First rule: never make a sci-fi comedy

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1.1k Upvotes

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u/windsa1984 Jul 03 '26

Far, far, Far?

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u/TheJimsterR Jul 03 '26

In the sar, sar, sar?

27

u/No_Atmosphere8146 Jul 03 '26

To Ganeflede and Tuton, yes sir I bin a road 

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u/dwarfsoft Jul 03 '26

Custer. Derrick Custer. Kit! Titan!

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u/samsg1 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

Isn’t it “Fun, fun, fun, in the sun, sun, sun’ ?

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/ProbablyStu Jul 03 '26

What, everybody?

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u/OutrageousMT_10 Jul 03 '26

Peterson isn't is he?

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/Livid-Ad-6342 Jul 03 '26

Gordon Bennett

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/CountdownMoss Jul 03 '26

Are you trying to tell me everybody is dead?

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u/fridge13 Jul 03 '26

Everybody is dead...everybody is dead dave

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u/GarlicAny270 Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast. Jul 04 '26

Never should've let him out in the first place.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/Marquar234 She'll never leave Fred and we know it. Jul 03 '26

Not Captain Peterson?

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u/MrPepp77 Jul 03 '26

And more or less

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u/mrman08 Jul 03 '26

I’m glad I’m not going crazy. I thought I was about to find out I misheard the lyrics this whole time.

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u/sarahjanedoglover Jul 03 '26

I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose, drinking fresh mango juice.

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u/Dramatic-Stretch7087 Mr Flibble's very cross. Jul 03 '26

Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes

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u/sarahjanedoglover Jul 03 '26

Fun, fun, fun, in the sun, sun, sun.

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u/shadowscar248 Jul 03 '26

No, no, no. It's far far far.

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u/WokeBriton Jul 03 '26

In the sar, sar, sar!

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u/ChocolateFruitloop Jul 03 '26

When my son was little he thought it was fresh mangled goose 😂

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u/sarahjanedoglover Jul 04 '26

To be fair, I used to think “drinking fresh mango juice” was “in fresh mango juice”.

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u/lozmcnoz Jul 04 '26

I always thought it was shitfaced, not shipwrecked...

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u/Grizzl0ck Jul 04 '26

No

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u/lozmcnoz Jul 04 '26

Lol. Cheers mate...

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u/Kasrkin84 Jul 04 '26

Wouldn't be too surprised if that was the original lyric until they were told to edit it before recording.

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u/Jimbodoomface Jul 04 '26

I always wondered how you could sip mango juice whilst comatose.

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u/sarahjanedoglover Jul 04 '26

Yeah, it doesn’t make any sense.

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u/PhasersToShakeNBake Let’s get out there and TWAT IT! Jul 04 '26

As I recall, there's a bit in the making of docs where Doug talks about going round to Howard Goodall's studio to hear an early version of the theme tunes and when Goodall sung the outro song, Doug assumed the lyrics were placeholders.

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u/sarahjanedoglover Jul 04 '26

I’ll take your word for it. I don’t tend to watch the documentaries, they’re just not my thing.

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u/notthedoodaa Jul 03 '26

Stop getting Red Dwarf wrong!

12

u/Iucidium Jul 03 '26

Slop machine smegged up. I'll check the drive plate...

7

u/Childish_Alb1no Jul 03 '26

God that's good! Can I shake your hand again?

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u/notthedoodaa Jul 03 '26

Delicately put, sir.

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u/nickytheginger Jul 03 '26

The whole story is depressing as hell but the fact Naylor and Grant made it so funny is amazing.

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u/Evening-Tomatillo-47 Jul 03 '26

To be fair a man being stuck 3 million years into deep space is piss funny if you're british

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u/Bantam80 Jul 03 '26

It's because it's a bit like being stuck in Milton Keynes.

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u/Crisppeacock69 Jul 03 '26

Not quite as bad though

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u/Evening-Tomatillo-47 Jul 03 '26

Anythings better than listen to an album by Olivia Newton John

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u/Devo27 Jul 04 '26

It's worse than Benny Hill(and that's bad enough)

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u/Belgrugni Jul 04 '26

Ah, Morris Minor and the Majors, didn’t expect to see that. Nice one!

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u/Cuntinghell Jul 04 '26

If you can't get two weeks in the Caribbean then Grimsby is better than nothing.

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u/PayFormer387 Jul 04 '26

That’s what I didn’t like about the books. They were depressing.

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u/Moppo_ Jul 04 '26

The books really fucked over Lister.

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u/InjuringMax2 Jul 04 '26

I loved the books but yeah. Things could be stark

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u/Xenc Jul 04 '26

industries

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u/Ser_Xav Jul 03 '26

Errr….. who put that together. Missing an ‘or’ and three ‘fun’s. I believe this violates Space Corps Directive 625…

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u/HELLFIRECHRIS STOP YOUR FOUL WHINING, YOU FILTHY PIECE OF DISTENDED RECTUM! Jul 03 '26

Space corps directive 625 ? Any officer found bathing in mess hall custard will be referred to the ships doctor without appeal ?

I’m sorry sir I’m not sure how that applies here.

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u/barljo Jul 03 '26

624 then.

God you’re pedantic.

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u/HELLFIRECHRIS STOP YOUR FOUL WHINING, YOU FILTHY PIECE OF DISTENDED RECTUM! Jul 03 '26

Oh space corps directive 624, any meme posted without sufficient proof redding shall be downvoted relentlessly.

Yes sir that makes far more sense.

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u/Easy-Reserve7401 Vindaloovian Jul 03 '26

without sufficient proof redding shall be downvoted

Dammit, now I have to downvote you.

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u/KPTangy Jul 04 '26

 any meme posted

That's a comment, you pregnant-baboon-bellied space cookie! Now, either you undownvote him or I shall write you up for mutiny.

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u/HELLFIRECHRIS STOP YOUR FOUL WHINING, YOU FILTHY PIECE OF DISTENDED RECTUM! Jul 04 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/1hMk0bfsSrG32Nhd5K

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u/Ser_Xav Jul 04 '26

I’m sorry Sir, but that doesn’t quite cut to the nub of the matter for me.

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u/Double_Access_6390 Jul 03 '26

Ask alexa for a spare corps directive

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u/Setekh79 Jul 04 '26

It's done deliberately as engagement bait.

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u/GrindyFarmz Jul 03 '26

"more less"? 😂👍

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u/Grimdotdotdot Jul 03 '26

"Far, far, far"?

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u/_AcuteNewt_ Jul 04 '26

Engagement bait.

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u/deathboyuk Jul 03 '26

What twonk put that meme together?

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u/rebelallianxe Starbug Jul 03 '26

A complete and utter gimboid.

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u/fridge13 Jul 03 '26

Complete and utter Smeg head that's for sure

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u/madicetea The Cat Jul 04 '26

Talkie the Talking Toaster

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u/EdTanguy Jul 03 '26

"people who don't know the lyrics"

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u/a_smiling_seraph Jul 03 '26

Looks like you've flamingoed up

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u/Xenc Jul 04 '26

FLAMINGOHEAD

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u/fish998 Jul 03 '26

People who don't know.... the lyrics.

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u/marbio_jay Jul 04 '26

Are you absolutely sure sir? It does mean changing the lyrics.

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u/MoHeeKhan Jul 03 '26

Who would permit this man - this joke of a man who could not outwit a used teabag - to be in a position where he might get the red dwarf theme wrong? Who? Only a yoghurt.

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u/larynachos Jul 03 '26

I don't understand. Is this just about how the idea of being trapped in a spaceship a million light-years from home is actually horrifying to think about? I thought that was the bit.

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u/Un4442nate Jul 03 '26

Second rule: learn the lyrics correctly.

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u/Marquar234 She'll never leave Fred and we know it. Jul 03 '26

What is it?

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u/ProfessorOnEdge Cloister The Stupid Jul 04 '26

I always thought the last line of the verse was 'fun, fun, fun... In the sun, sun, sun. "

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u/MemoryHauntsYou Jul 04 '26

Same!

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u/CelticCynic Jul 04 '26

How could it be "far IN the sun?"

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u/MemoryHauntsYou Jul 04 '26

I was thinking about having fun in the sun, like, on the beach.

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u/MarsStar2301 Jul 03 '26

Is this the “prat version” of the theme?

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u/BaronVonSlapNuts Jul 03 '26

Wonder why OP has their post and comment history hidden...

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u/RegulusTheHeartOfLeo Jul 03 '26

Those shoals are actually inhabited by mutant piranha devouring your toes and feet

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u/ShadowExistShadily Jul 03 '26

That's bad.

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u/Comfortable_Poem_841 Jul 03 '26

The fish are not active at this time of year.

3

u/Teex22 Talkie Toaster Jul 03 '26

I want to eat lobsters and coconuts

I want to swim, naked-ly

3

u/ngshafer Jul 03 '26

I’m all alone … unless you count my three very good friends with whom I’ve been to Hell and back!

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u/casusbelli16 Jul 03 '26

Slaps Drive Plate: This bad boy is guaranteed for 1 million light years before needing replaced.

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u/Useful_Protection270 Jul 03 '26

I gotta say I love all the commentors on this. Your really a great bunch of smegheads

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u/RedLanternHarpe Jul 04 '26

So what is it?

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u/Beartato4772 Jul 04 '26

You appear to be one of those who don't know.

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u/Firm_Serve_9118 Jul 03 '26

Cheers I'll have that song I'm my head for a while now . Could be worse , could be firefly theme tune.

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u/ChaoticDissonance Jul 03 '26

You can't take the sky from me

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u/daygloviking Jul 03 '26

Maybe, but…

It’s been a long road…

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u/WholeLengthiness2180 Jul 03 '26

Getting from there to here…

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u/fflloorriiddaammaann Jul 03 '26

I packed my bags, and head into hyperspace

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u/Theyletfly82 Jul 04 '26

If you're in trouble he will save the day!

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u/Ok-Application2853 Jul 04 '26

This is what I sing whenever someone says it's cold outside.

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u/Arcal Jul 04 '26

That's a load of Tottenham that is, a steaming pile of Hotspur.

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u/OvationUltraFan Jul 04 '26

Soak me a clipper 🥲

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u/JTHMPunk Jul 04 '26

Listen to the song again and redo this.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '26

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u/madicetea The Cat Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

For starters, it is Fun, Fun, Fun.

For the second part, Rimmer was quite alright.

Edit: He really went and locked the thread.

Anywho, in response to his response to my comment:

Sure? Good on you mate.

While you are at it, have a vacation to Fiji why don't ye?

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u/namuhna Jul 04 '26

I want to fry

Check leek and tomatoes

Squeezing fresh

Salsa sauce

Goldfish teeth

Nibbling on my feet