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Red Dwarf really doesn't get enough credit for being genuinely good sci-fi in addition to good comedy.
So true. I think cringe and shock comedy took over and classic stuff like this was sort of forgotten about. This is a truly great sci fi story.
It was my introduction to British comedy and British sci-fi and I’m still a fan of both.
@@menty6633 I think The League of Gentlemen and Little Britain and shows like that started come out around 2000 when Red Dwarf was sewing down, probably didn't help with the amount of time they were putting between series.
I’ve always said this about series 1-6. It gets to the point where the comedy is good, but it doesn’t even matter if it’s not that funny because the stories are genuinely good sci-fi. The upcoming series 6 especially.
It has a very good cyberpunk atmosphere
Duane Dibley?!!!!!
That character is almost BIGGER than Red Dwarf itself...
My Mum's in her seventies and she still busts that impersonation out occasionally (!)
I remember this episode so clearly from watching it on TV as a kid. I saw Dwayne Dibley and immediately thought - teeth the druids could use as a place of worship. Just great comedy writing.
One of the best RD episodes. A classic. Yes, not everyone feels it, but for the most part, it is generally considered as such. A treat every time.
It's actually the highest rated episode of Red Dwarf to date
It's great, as is all of Season 4 and 5 but honestly it wouldn't make my Top 6 episodes from those two seasons.
+1 for this
the Brummie is one of UKs best actors ever...Timothy Spall from Harry Potter to Mr Turner, and Topsy Turvy & Secret and Lies... He has won many Baftas and awards.
And was in the brilliant Auf Wiedersehen pet
Who did he play on Harry Potter?
@@clasicradiolover Peter Pettigrew
Was also in "The Last Samurai", his son Rafe also has a long list of acting credits like Hot Fuzz and Life of Pi.
You forgot Auf Wiedersehen, pet
The fascist cop in this episode was played by American actor Lenny Von Dohlen. His appearance was regarded as something of a casting coup at the time, as he'd recently had a memorable recurring role in 'Twin Peaks', which was an absolutely HUGE show in the early nineties. Apparently Von Dohlen agreed to appear in this episode because he was a fan of 'Red Dwarf'. I believe he flew across the Atlantic, arrived on set, shot his scene, then flew back to the States. Sadly he died in 2022. RIP.
WTF?? Moles died? That is so sad. I will always remember him as Miles or "Moles" from Electric Dreams, one of my all time fave films and songs!
One of the best episodes of RD ever, just a joy. Danny John-Jules's delivery of "I don't wanna be Duane Dibbley" gets me every time.
"What the hell's happened to my teeth?!" Classic moment in Red Dwarf
Before he's turned into a catchphrase, it makes sense as character wise.
“DUANE DIBLEY”!
Red Dwarf’s greatest character!
This episode has my favourite joke in the whole series. “Be a Government Informer. Betray your family and friends. Fabulous prizes to be won?”
This one is a classic to end series 5 .It plays on our heroes individual characters so well and a great idea it's all been a game and they've been terrible at it . This was Red Dwarf at its creative best .
I caught a few of your reactions to Dr Who during covid and it's great you found Red Dwarf , always look forward to seeing what you make of it .
Duane Dibley and Ace Rimmer are the alternate versions of the characters that really took on life of their own within the Red Dwarf fandom. One thing that watching all these again makes me realise is how much all these guys grew as actors, in the course of the show (except for Chris Barrie, I guess, because he was pretty great from the beginning).
Chris was brilliant from the first scene onwards but to be fair to the others, Rimmer was the stand out character in those early series in my opinion
This episode is a classic! The car chase scene is so hilarious (especially when you watch the Smeg Ups for that scene!) The dystopian world mixed with the comedy does make me laugh "Betray your friends and family, fabulous prizes to be won!".
It's such a good thingthat such thing could never happen in this day and age Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti "snitches get rewards" March 2020.
This episode is widely considered to be the greatest episode of the entire series, not least by the late Professor Stephen Hawking! He cited this as his favourite episode.
This was torture for me as a schoolkid not knowing if the show was coming back and being so confused as to which reality was real. Was it really just a game? Did the squid get them? Did they actually get through it ok? Aaaaaaaarrggh.
What a show. What a gem of an episode. One of the best.
Exactly! We didn't know there were going to be more episodes, so it was harder to be sure they wouldn't pull that sort of switch. I remember thinking, "they're not really going to do this though." Then as time went on, "or are they?" One final rug pull? I was so relieved when we finally got to see the "improv class"!
Same here!
Back then we didn't know there were going to be several more series.
Was this the end? 😮
I remember cheering out loud when reality began to break through.
I almost cried! 🎉🎊😁
Don’t forget that when this was first broadcast, we didn’t know that there was going to be another series. It could have been the last ever episode!
Remember watching this one when it was broadcast thinking "my god they're not going to do any more!"
Been waiting five series for you to get here, this is where they became iconic.
What you need to understand is that when this was first broadcast on TV there was no guarantee that there would be any more Red Dwarf, so in the context of the show it was more than plausible to end it with the gag that the whole thing had been a dream all along. This kept fans on tenterhooks throughout the episode, unlike today when you know there is more to come.
Highlights include the spawning of Duane Dibley and all the bad news during the car chase being relayed by Rimmer (Plot hole alert: How can a Hologram hallucinate, unless his program is making him conform to Lister's reality?). Plus the brilliant Timothy Spall as the sarcastic technician - wonder how much it helped him get cast in the Harry Potter franchise?
There are some great episodes to come, but for me this was the zenith. Always worth rewatching simply to hear the Cat exclaim:
"So this is me? A no style gimbo, with teeth the druids could use as a place of worship?!"
And even funnier as he wanders on bewildered muttering: "Duane Dibley...?"
The video game technician was Timothy Spall, great actor. You might know him as the guy who played Peter Pettigrew in Harry Potter. He's also done a lot of Mike Leigh movies. People in the UK know him from an 80s show called Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. But he's been in loads of great movies.
Complete control of the creative process and a disbelief that they've been given yet another series leads to episodes like this one, and there's plenty more to come.
The flashbacks to reality, every time they need an expensive action scene, are pure genius.
"Speed bumps" made me laugh as a kid, still makes me laugh now.
Timothy Spall is now a famous and highly regarded actor in the UK, but as you’ll see in behind the scenes stuff, he was so unfamiliar with filming with a live audience that it completely freaked him out doing this.
This is a chap who won the Palme d’Or for lead actor a few years ago.
He was already famous back then. This was a cameo for him. He'd already starred in Auf Wiedersehen Pet, a hugely successful series on BBC.
When this came out there was a possibility it was going to be the final episode of Red Dwarf and it was over 18 months between this episode airing in March 92 and the first episode of Season 6 airing in October 93.
So the possibility that it was "All A Game" hit harder for us back then.
The ending of Season 6 was even more horrific given that it was three and a half years between Season 6 ending and Season 7 finally arriving in 1997.
no spoilers
@@gregevigan There aren't any spoilers in my previous comment!
I gave no details of any episode!
The jeopardy of whether it was real or not was a lot more real for us viewers 30 years ago; it was the last episode of the series and could conceivably be the last ever episode. Very few shows went on longer than 5 years. We had no way of knowing at the time that this wasn't even half way through the shows run; and the show being VR could easily have been an ending.
the outtakes where they are driving sitting on those boxes and he falls over
They react to that on their Patreon!
The second Red Dwarf novel, published 1990, was called Better Than Life, which obviously borrowed on / expanded on the idea from the second season story of the same name. This episode then gives us a different version again...
Patrick Stewart can say they took inspiration from Star Trek but it certainly wasn't TNG there was only a year between TNG and red dwarf coming out and the pilot script was written years before TNG
What an episode! It rounded off the series beautifully (especially because we didn't know if there'd ever be more episodes)
Apologies if this has already been mentioned, can't read all the comments, but when this first aired we didn't know the show would be coming back for a 6th season. There was a lot of speculation that the show was ending, so it did put that seed of doubt in your mind that maybe the video game thing might genuinely be how they were going to wrap up the show. The episode was so popular that when the series was repeated the following year they aired this episode first rather than last.
And we'd had the *Better Than Life* novel which took the idea of being stuck in AR much further.
One of my favorite episodes of all of sci-fi television. It's such a simple premise (what if the world you're in is just an illusion) but the story is told so well and the sitcom structure is just perfect for this.
Love this episode, glad you got here!
Cat as Dwayne Dibbley must have been the inspiration for Howard Walowitz.
Duane Dibbley is such an iconic character from the entire of RD. Danny does such a great job playing him, especially the dorky walk.🤣Also, I love that whole snippet with the electric guitar and action-driven Americanised version of RD we saw briefly.😎 🎸
It's worth bearing in mind that we had no idea if there was going to be a series 6 when this aired. The BBC hated sci-fi at this point and had suddenly axed Doctor Who just a couple of years ago. Watching it, it seemed like it could really be the grand finale to the whole thing!
Are you seriously telling me you were playing the prat version of Rimmer, for FOUR YEARS!?!? xD
This is a real fan favorite and one of the highest rated ones.
The "Smeg Ups" is hilarious in the "car scene"
The guy in the game was Timothy Spall who has been in literally everything...from Harry Potter to stuff done in Australia...he's huge.
The Gals just recently uploaded their reaction to that Smeg Up on Patreon. It certainly was hilarious!
Duane Dibbly became an immediate fan favourite just like Ace the moment he showed up we knew it was gonna be a great episode.
When I first saw this waaaay back when I thought they took another stab at the 'Better than life' episode, I prefer this episode because the characters are much more rounded.
Being older, I can advise that the brilliant Tim Spall is partially reprising his role as hapless Brummie Barry from ‘Auf Weidersehn Pet’. He’s actually a Londoner. Also it occurs to me that Danny John-Jules (Cat) never really escaped Dwayne, subsequently playing Dwayne Myers in ‘Death In Paradise’.
OMG...Duane Dibbley is Finally Here!!!!! YES!!!!!!!
Wonder if the Gallifrey Gals noticed: "I've a limo in long term storage." "Bay 47"
*Two episodes earlier*
"Bay 47? That's quarantine!"
Oh my God! I'm a long time watcher of RD and I've NEVER noticed that! Nice catch! 😄
Timothy Spall played the brummie git. also known as Peter Pettigrew from the Harry Potter movies. Making him the second actor from the Harry Potter films to have a role on Red Dwarf.
Calling someone Dwayne Dibley became a top insult at my school year for quite a while
Interesting fact when this series was released on VHS back in the day. This was the 1st episode of 3 on the 1st tape.
I love this episode. Duane Dibbley, the virtual car chase! Just wonderful!
The operator of the game is the actor that plays Peter Pettigrew in Harry Potter.
Omg, I wanna say stuff, but I don't want to spoil things! 😂 All I say is you know what Red Dwarf is like now. Expect the strange and unexpected. 😂
Same struggle here.
Me too. It's hard to contain myself.
I sometimes forget just how good series 5 was as it really was just one good episode after another with one of the best to end it.
Finally, I get to shout “Dwayne Dibley”…😂😂 I’ve been waiting for you girls to get to this point
It took 18 month for series six to appear, so at the time we thought this may be the final ever episode.
It’s Duane Dibbley’s debut!!! YES!
Such a great series and such a great episode, the dawn of Duane Dibbley and nervous appearance (he wasn't used to acting in front of a live audience) by the brilliant Timothy Spall! Series 6 is another great series, see you soon!
this episode spun me so much, I remember where I was watching it for the first time in the 90's
This literally was an improv drama class for me! We did a dramatic/ comedy road accident with a bus and car and everyone sitting on chairs miming. It was a physical comedy thing. It was probably somewhat inspired by this episode.
I was a teenger at the time, when Red Dwarf would be broadcast on friday nights. I remember the following Monday at school, all my mates were doing Cat's despondent cry of "Duane Dibley!" Especially as one of us kinda had the same haircut😅
This is my favorite episode. The book based on this (written by both the writers) is just fantastic, all the co-authored red dwarf novels are.
I think you are mixing this up with Better Than Life
@@backtoearth1983 yes, he is
All the audio books are on CZcams
Kat changing is always my favourite. The line and the horror in his face makes the whole episode without him needed to do more.
So much they brought it back and was a catch phrase for us as kids.
Cat?
Now that you've seen this episode, you should watch the American pilot of Red Dwarf. It has been rightly been mocked for years as being essentially the parody that we see in this episode.
I first watched both pilots back in (92 or 93?) with Robert Llewellyn showing them in a "Red Dwarf Fan Club" special invite at the Visions Convention, where he also showed the whole of Season 6 ( if I remember correctly, it could have been 5, but I think it was 6). He did great in the pilot, and, there were a few interesting things in the teaser-second pilot, things which got played out in the new season.
Before that, when I met Craig Charles in Indianapolis in 92, he told the story about the police badge on his RD jacket. It was a badge he claims he had pawned off a cop in the US who had once pulled him over on the road. He could have been making it up, but he told the story well, and it was quite believable, as he was very much like Lister in person, from going out the night before the convention started, getting drunk, and having someone use his head to put out a cigarette, giving him a notable burn on his face, to the all-night pool party he had with Sylvester McCoy right outside my window, to the final day when he invited workers at the convention to the pub and offered to pay for a drink for them all, only later to admit it was being put on his hotel tab paid by the convention....
That's one of the most popular episodes of Red Dwarf. THE most popular is coming soon, but in the meantime, it's amazing how far the series has come in just 30 episodes.
old school dwarfer here not only am i getting dwarfed i also started getting frakked too and i have only ever seen the original battlestar should be fun watching same time as u. thank you ladys
Welcome, Gals to Series 6 next. The boys from the dwarf really ramp the comedy up a notch now. This next series contains an award winning episode that is truly superb. As these series go on, the layers and layers of character building just gets awesome. What has gone before was great but you will be amazed how far this gets. Thanks for letting us travel on this journey of exploration together.
"You Brummie git" - Rimmer. A Brummie is someone from Birmingham in the British Midlands. They speak with a Brummie accent like the one you heard. The word Brummie comes from the city's association with the motor industry, You know, brum, brum, it's a car! EDIT: Daniel, below, correctly states the real origin is Brummagem. "Git" is a common offensive insult in the UK meaning a contemptible person.
Spall isn't even from the Midlands.
Brummie actually derives from Brummagem. An old name for the town before urbanisation made it a city.
@@danielgallagher7949 Okay, I think what I put is a common misconception then.
As a Brummie born and bred I can say the Black Country accent is often confused with the Brummie accent. In Brum we call the Black Country accents Yam Yams due to how they say ‘You’ sometimes.
To those outside the midlands they may sound similar but to the natives they sound totally different.
@@DaviniaHill He was born in London but he was famous at the time for playing a character from Wolverhampton in "Auf Weidersehen, Pet"
The Birmingham and Wolverhampton accents are quite different but it's difficult for those from outside the West Midlands to tell them apart.
Great reaction gals, just to give you a heads up, after series 6 we have three series of unexpected number of episodes, wouldn’t want you to miss anything. Series 7 +8 eight episodes each, then a three episode mini series. Back to 6 episodes for series 10 to 12 and finally a 90 minute special.
Loved that reaction. Nothing blew my tiny mind and made me laugh as often as Red Dwarf while a younger.
Holly Saves The Day!
Consensus all time Top-10 episode. Return of the "Holodeck". Note the posters and voiceover at the gaming booth identify their hallucination as being a Total Immersion video game, i.e. the same engine/manufacturers as Better Than Life, which they had played before. Guess they hallucinated the sequel/hard mode, "Worse Than Life".
So, uh, fun to see you guys immediately recognize right away that it had to be a hallucination. Because you guys know there are more episodes to come. At the time there was a sense this would be the series finale (in the UK at least), with Grant and Naylor turning their eye towards a movie and/or a US version of the show. In that context, the fakeout that this was the end/a killoff was a lot more plausible.
(The US version never made it past two pilot attempts, which are probably up next for you two and, well, while they have some good points, you'll see why it didn't pass pilot either time).
As it was, Red Dwarf would be back for Series 6. Paula should brace herself for another soft-reboot whiplash with 6, though it won't be quite as jarring as S3 was.
When this was first broadcast, for all we knew it was the final episode. It made the hallucination more believable.
Timothy Spall (the video game engineer) played Wormtail in Harry Potter.
Love this episode. One of the best for me.
"So you found the Captain's message right away?"
This one of my favourite episodes.. Timothy spall is amazing in this one ...he's the guy who works at the game place , plus Dwayne dibbley is a recurring character in later series.
WAKE UP NEW GALLIFREY GALS GET DWARFED JUST DROPPED
GO GO GO GO 👏🫡✨️
The game technician was Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter movies.
I've been waiting for Duane Dibley almost as much as I was Mr. Flibble.
14:19 That was Timothy Spall who (among a metric-shit-ton of other stuff) was Peter Pettigrew in Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban.
I am so happy I stumbled upon your guys channel a few days ago bc Red Dwarf is one of my all time fave shows and the energy and just your both own uniqueness you bring love it all wish I wasn't unemployed and disabled or I'd b a top patron member can't wait to continue the journey with y'all and the boys from the dwarf 💖
Lenny Von Dohlen from the classic film Electric Dreams played the fascist cop in the car park in this episode - sadly he passed away a couple years back
Lenny Van Dohlen was the lead in Electric Dreams??? Loved that film back in the day, the theme song is possibly my favourite pop song of the 80s. Never made the connection though only watched the film a couple of times mind, every day’s a school day.
This is what gets me to the next week!
The last appearance of Hattie Hayridge as Holly and she goes out on a high, saving everyone's lives AND blowing the despair squid into Calamari all by herself, no wonder the BFTD's spent 200 years chasing the stolen red dwarf to get her back.
According to the guide book their scripts had a note on the top saying, 'Are you worried yet?' when the engineer is telling them what should have happened in the game 😁
I was in school when this episode aired in the UK. We were talking about it for weeks. The car chase scene was just pure brilliance.
Hi Gals! Been waiting for you to react to this one! And you completely got it!! This was actually voted in a UK poll as the best Red Dwarf episode! You've got Timothy Spall as the game attendant. The whole idea that they've been on a VR game the whole time. I've never thought of the car chase as an drama school improv class, but now you've mentioned it... yeah you're right and it makes it even better! The episode came out way before The Matrix, And course... DWAYNE DIBBLEY!!!???
I was down in Houston, TX from visiting some family and I was showing my granddaughter the first episode of Red Dwarf. My ex-wife says you and your old shows. She Should have just said you and your science fiction shows. She used to do everything she could to keep me from watching Star Trek TNG. Out of seven children and seven grandchildren, my grand-daughter is the only one that will give my old shows and music a chance. I told my wife about my ex's comment, she told me she likes me for my eclectic tastes. We watch Are You Being Served, As Time Goes By, Rosemary and Thyme, Still Game, and Keeping Up Appearances among others together. Obviously, my ex-wife wasn't right for me.
Quite the shock when it came out as you thought it could be true and the end.
Also probably one of the reasons it's the highest rated episode on imdb
The guy asking them if they got to the planet of the nymphomaniacs, was played by Tim Spall, who plays Wormtail in the HP movies... :)
Bearing in mind, at filming there was news of an American pilot & IIRC no contract for VI.
This one is up there with the best of RD.
Who ever said you can't do comedy in space didn't know what they were talking about. We wouldn't have had Dwain Dibley.
The "Patrick Stewart" episode is yet to come, as is my favourite episode, but, yeah, this one's a classic
This one has a lot of Philip K Dick for me -- questioning reality and everything you thought you knew. But played for laughs in the best way! I liked how everyone found out they were supposed to be the exact opposite of themselves -- Cat as a dweeb, Rimmer a hobo mess, and Lister an authoritarian leader. Kryton was the only one who got something of an upgrade, until the reveal that he's just a traffic cop!
I think this episode is PEAK Red Dwarf.
Imagine if the American version of Red Dwarf had taken off then this could have very well had been the last episode of Red Dwarf with this cast.... thankfully the American version was a dismal failure and they kept on going. The studio audience during this recording have very nervous laughter, maybe the thought this was the end also.....the despair squid was made but didn't work on film so you only see it's shadow and ink.
Btw, the technician is Timothy Spall, Harry Potters Peter Pettigrew.
This was the original matrix !
Timothy Spall was the actor who welcomed them back to reality is a brilliant actor both in television and film .
Yep this is one of my fav RD episodes ever. This show is full of surprises so don't dismiss any possibilities, if you think something might happen then be prepared to see it happen in one form or another.
Keep up these great reaction videos, I'll keep watching them and having fun seeing your reactions.😁
Finally, you got to meet Duane Dibbley!!!
Also I love one of the smeg ups for the car chase! Really reminds you that it's entirely their performance that sell that scene.
Hands down one of the best episodes in the series. So many RD memes came from this episode that still persist being used to this day in the fandom.
The "brummy git" that brought them back to reality was Timothy Spall, who played Peter Pettigrew in Harry Potter
"They would never get rid of the dwarf" next week will be fun.
The game operator was played by Notable British actor Timothy Spall, whos probably most known in the US for playing Wormtail in the Harry Potter Films
Awesome one of my favourite episodes of red dwarf dwarf dibble I laughter and laughed my socks off. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
This episode was all the talk at school the next day. Definitely a high point.
Recommended: the book version of this