​So. Red Dwarf is coming back soon. As a long time fan, I’m sure I speak for many when I say I am both excited and a little dismayed. Excited because the show has been absent for far too long, and left on an awkward cliffhanger; dismayed because, well, I saw Back to Earth. But it’s not time to focus on the negative: instead let’s revisit some of the greatest bits as a sort of incantation against what could be to come. For the uninitiated, a quick rundown: Red Dwarf is the story of a small group of misfits three million years in the future, stuck aboard a mining ship and trying to head towards Earth. The show changed its status quo several times during its run, but the core group of characters were as follows: Lister, the slobby last human alive, a hologram of his officious former roommate Rimmer, the Cat, a humanoid creature that evolved Lister’s housecat, the proper android Kryten, and the droll ship’s computer Holly.

I acknowledge that this is sort of an impossible list, seeing as there is so much Dwarf to choose from, and I await the inevitable drubbing I am sure to get in the comments for the scenes I leave out. However, I feel like its pretty safe to say these scenes sum up both the show and each character well. Consider this an ultra-concentrated dose of Dwarf, all the choice cuts, completely free of smeg. Well, maybe not. There’s quite a lot of smeg here, actually.

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