Red Dwarf REACTION | Polymorph Series 3 Ep 3 | Gallifrey Gals Get Dwarfed | Americans React
Vložit
- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Y'all thought Kat and Paula were giving up on Red Dwarf? NO WAY JOSE. Especially not after this one!
Thank you all for being here with us on these watch throughs and thank you for always being a supportive and wonderful community!
Want to watch the full length episode and get access to bonus content?! Consider becoming a Patron! / gallifreygals
PAULA DEMING
CZcams: / paulademing
Instagram: / paolobandita
Tiktok: / paulademing
Twitter: / paulademing
IMDb: www.imdb.com/n...
KAT ALYSHA
TikTok: / kat_alysha
CZcams: / katrinaalysha
Instagram: / kat_alysha
Twitter: / kat_alysha
IMDb: www.imdb.com/n...
Gallifrey Gals Theme Song by: NoAnie Music
www.fiverr.com...
Copyright owned by Gallifrey Gals
All the videos, songs, images, and graphics used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel does not claim any right over them.
Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
There's actually an alternate ending to this episode, which holds on the shot of the canister floating in space with the 'CONTENTS: 2' label, and some text explains that the second polymorph (which was far less intelligent than the first) attempted to sneak-attack Lister by hiding inside his underwear drawer... where it eventually died of starvation.
Not gonna lie, I've always preferred that ending.
the remastered ending, I had seen it once and then never seen it since and people thought i was mental when i said that was how it ended
Never saw that! But so Red Dwarf!🤣 Thanks HAL😜
Or, poisoned to death 😅
Robert Llewellen (Kryten) is from England, he said he tried to make the voice of Kryten vaguely Canadian because he's so polite 😂
I think he may have also mentioned that it was to avoid the cliché (C-3PO and so on).
Something he thought was a Vancouver accent then got told by Canadians he was way off.
He may be from England but he's Welsh. There's a hint of a Welsh accent in there when he does other programs like Scrap heap Challenge but it's fairly mild and he basically sounds English most of the time.
@@raphaelperry8159 hes from Northampton!🤣
@@raphaelperry8159 he does have Welsh heritage though
Chris Barrie (Rimmer) deserves so much love and appreciation, hes just phenomenal!
His facial expressions are simply the best.
100% agreed. One of Britain's great comic talents & totally under-appreciated. Gotta love that he just wanted to dive in to his passion for machines & didn't really care too much about his career though. Living his best life.
Couldn't agree more, but tbh, I think every permanent crew member including both incarnations of Holly get equal recognition from all loyal Dwarfers. The programme has such a loyal fanbase because of its phenomenally stellar writers and actors... and all production crew of course.
No part of it is unnecessary and nothing is missing, certainly RD III-VI are perfect, no question. No _bad_ or even _average_ ep within those 24 eps. And that is quite some feet!
On a separate note, I have heard 'some people' say that the Golden Yrs are IV-VI. I say hogwash! Maybe it's because I only started watching from maybe around IV or V, I can't remember. But when I saw reruns it was clear to me that III was 'several steps up'.🤷
Sure is! My appreciation of him has grown leaps since I was a young 20 something first watching this show.
@@pieceofgosa I mean not to be overly pedantic, but you might have said _'acting_ career'! I'm sure he cares about his career!🤣👍
If it hasn't been mentioned yet - Genny Mutant (Cat's Polymorph woman) is played by Frances Barber, who was Madame Kovarian in Doctor Who.
You saved me typing that. 😄
Ohhhh - didn't recognise her.
Great actress, her role in IT Crowd was awesome too
Blackadder, since you mentioned it, is absolutely brilliant. I think you'd love it.
But seriously, start with Blackadder Series 2. Each series stands alone so you won’t miss anything, and you can go back and hit Series 1 later.
ahhh sounds like a cunning plan
@@FishmorphI know some people love the first series as a separate thing, but I just can't bring myself to finish it because it's so different to the others
@@Skett I have finished it, but I do sympathise, it took me a couple of attempts!
But there are some very good performances and some very funny moments throughout The Black Adder. I certainly don't ally myself with those who rate it as the best season... I don't get that. But it is worth a watch.
For me the 3rd and 4th eps are very funny at points, 'The Archbishop' and 'The Queen of Spain's Beard' respectively. The latter with blistering performances from both Jim Broadbent and Miriam Margolyes. At least four scenes in ep4 with those two (one with only their voices) send me into fits of laughter EVERY time!
And the ending to ep4 is a superb satire on the reality of 'the era'.🤣 You must watch it.
@@Fishmorph I think starting with the first one is fine, and then skipping ahead to series 2 if you don't like it. If you start with 2, then you're just setting yourself up to dislike 1 when you eventually get around to it. But if you start with 1 and like it, then the show is just going to get better and better for you from there.
The Captain of Red Dwarf....was the base commander of LV-426 "Hadleys Hope"..in the movie ALIENS...played by Mac McDonald.
And the fat cop in 5th Element. On Aliens, he's only seen in the long Directors Cut.
@@wyrmshadow4374 His role in the 5th Element is literally a pun, he's Mac McDonald playing a cop in a McDonald's Drive-thru!
The difference between quarters is explained by the sign above the doorway explaining they are, in fact, officer's quarters, as opposed to the grungy crew quarters they were using in the first two seasons. Looks like Rimmer finally got around to decontaminating them (as reference in Confidence and Paranoia), allowing them to upgrade their habitat somewhere between seasons 2 and 3. :D
Rimmer has a use after all!🤣👍
@@carlhartwell7978Well, I say it was Rimmer, chances are he just order the skutters to do it. Or more likely Kryten after they rescued him. Let's be honest, there has never been the slightest indication Rimmer learned Portuguese, which was on his list of things do just above decontaminating the officers mess. :P
It never explains why they still share
Got to be the single funniest scene in all the seasons. When Rimmer walks in on Lister on the floor.
I'm a simple guy. Starbug + Rat = Tears.
I was in hysterics whe I first saw it all those years ago.
When shown to the studio audience, they were laughing so loud that none of the crew could hear themselves over their microphones. The laughter lasted for at least 10-15 minutes.
@@EnigmaTimGaming oh Christ it took me a while to remember that.
@@WebMonkey741and then Chris Barrie said his line, and started them off again.
Fun fact. A lot of the wall gratings used in the Red Dwarf set (and classic Who) ARE parts of the original Nostromo set from Alien!
And Captain Hollister was IN Aliens
@@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg and Fifth Element!
And the bits of the Nostromo were also used in the TV version of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy!
Once it was pointed put to me it became hard not to notice how often Cat gets in other peoples beds, just like a cat.
3+ decades watching RD... and ive owned 15+ cats in my life... and you've only just made me twig on that unnoticed fact.
RD, it keeps on giving... even decades, and many many watches latter.
They remastered the first three series in 1998, and they tacked on a different ending to this episode since it originally ended on such an open ended note. The second polymorph hid in Lister's underwear drawer and died from old age many years later.
I thought it died of starvation because Lister so rarely (if ever) changed into fresh shreddies!
@@noneofyourbeeswax01Yeah, I think you’re right. I got that info based on what I read off the internet somewhere.
The shrinking underpants scene is a real contender for the title of "funniest scene in the show"; in fact, Chris Barrie had to wait 10 minutes before delivering his next line because the audience were laughing so hard at that moment. That moment aside, the entire episode is a minefield of comedic gold that gives everyone in the ensemble plenty of moments to shine, from Lister's medical equipment dinner to "ALPHABETTI SPAGHETTI?!?!". And then there's pretty much everything to do with the cast once they get their emotions drained by the Polymorph, especially hippie Rimmer and suicidally fearless Lister. All these comedic moments combined with the whole Alien homage results in this being the third fan-favourite episode in a row - and you can see why everyone says series 3 is where the show hits its stride.
Also, since you mentioned it in passing, we'd definitely all be happy to see how two do a reaction series to Blackadder. The first series is kind of rough, but once Ben Elton joins the writing team the show finds its footing and becomes one of the best British comedy shows every created
They shouldn't bother with the first season of Blackadder, they realised it wasn't working, got Ben Elton on board with the writing team and completely overhauled the characterisation from S2 onwards.
Def one of my favourite eps, can't but crack up throughout, even having seen it SO many times!
Yep - If they were to watch Blackadder, the Gal's would lose nothing much by joining in S2. Each season is isolated from each other, so that would work just fine.
Another reason to skip the first series is that it's an alternative history exercise (like novels based on the nazis winning WW2 or the South winning the US civil war). In this case, it is based on King Richard III winning the battle of Bosworth (the first episode only). So if you don't know that and anything about the war of the roses or Richard III, it won't make much sense.
In addition to Alien, this episode reminds me very much of John Carpenter's Dark Star, which makes sense considering that movie was one of the inspirations for the show. It was also the movie that led to Alien being made (Dan O'Bannon wrote both Dark Star and Alien). I think the beach ball is a direct reference.
The beach ball creature from Dark Star: www.side-line.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/dark-star-beach-ball-alien.jpg
Dark Star is one of my favorite movies.... it gets better everytime I watch it.
Yeah, Directors Commentary for "The End" I think was Rob Grant Doug Naylor and Ed Bye and in it they discussed the inspiration for Red Dwarf being "Dark Star". I think it went something like they were leaving the theater after seeing "Dark Star" and either Rob or Doug just paused when he opened the door to his car and caught the other's eye and remarked how it would be great to do a Sci-Fi comedy inspired by "Dark Star"
Robert Llewellyn, who plays Kryten, is of Welsh ancestry. Who'd've guessed it? Robert was born in Northampton, as was the Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith.
This episode is so much fun. On my third watch through.
The actor for Kryten is English but they tried a number of different accents. They settled on a Mid-Atlantic accent. It's an old 30s and 40s fake accent that blended English and American traits for movies.
There is a blooper reel where he tries a South African accent.
He went for a Vancouver inspired accent
And his mid-Atlantic accent sounds a lot like Dudley Manlove from "Plan 9 From Outer Space." (All you of Earth are idiots! You see! You see!")
The guy playing Kryten based many of the characters mannerisms after Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster. So you see a lot of that slipping back and forth of British and Midwestern American little things.
Kryten’s accent was intended to be Canadian, although he wasn’t to sure how to play it at first which is why, in series three, he occasionally has a Swedish accent. By this episode he’d hit his stride and Kryten just gets better from here.
The actor Robert Llewelyn who played Kryten, is actually British. In 1997 when i bought the VHS making of saw the behind the scenes with his outtakes was shocked when he was trying to retakes the lines with he's real accent.
The bunk room I believe the cannon explanation was that they decided to move to the officers quarters which are a bit nicer compared to their original Z shift quarters
I think it might have more to do with them being on a completely different ship at this point!
@@j_clarkson well the actual reason was them moving to new studio around London
@@Land967I thought you were talking about the canon in-story explanation. Obviously the real-world explanation was a new set!
@@j_clarkson Still doesn't explain why you think it's a new ship
@@Land967 Because I mistakenly thought that something that hasn't happened had happened between the end of Season 2 and the start of Season 3, don't want to say any more to avoid any spoilers. In short:: I was wrong, please ignore me.
The scene where Kryten is trying to remove Lister's shrinking boxer shorts (aka the Polymorph) got the series all-time longest sustained laughter from the studio audience. It had to be edited down quite a bit for the broadcast version.
Robert Llewellyn is a huge advocate for Electric Vehicles nowadays, though he still acts sometimes (and writes books too). His CZcams series on EVs is called The Fully Charged Show.
Fun Fact Red dwarf season 3 onwards was filmed in the same studio as Alien movie .
When I saw the 'sausage' scurrying across the floor, my first thought was a turd, not big black phallus.
I like the American version, where the put up a prologue that the second polymorph was less intelligent, saying it curled up in Lister's clean underwear drawer & eventually died of old age. A lot more funny ending. 😂
The writers and creators were big fans of Alien and Blade Runner and they have a big influence on the look of the show, particularly in the idea of a used future, where everything is old and worn out
Oh yeah we haven't encountered simulants yet or the Gelfs, oh i guess this polymorph was a Gelf.
Explains what happened in that later season, then!
There are several documentries on the making of Red Dwarf on youtube that covers each series, in the one for series 3 Robert Llewellen the actor who plays Kryten said he went through nearly 100 different accents and the creators settled on this vaugely Canadian accent.
I am glad you Gals are sticking with Red Dwarf and you will continue to love it as i know you would. Also you are warming up to Kryten aswell which i knew you would like him.
Kat can now go back to her local geek store, find the two folk who sang "See you later alligator" to her and greet them in return with a cry of, Alphabetti Spaghetti!
"Give quiche a chance" was how we were told to celebrate the coronation of King Charles.
They even invented a coronation quiche.
I guess Cromwell didn't like quiche.
@@zarabada6125 Cromwell didn't like a lot of things. Like theaters, or Irish people.
An absolutely classic episode, and one of my favorites. Chris Barrie hams it up like there's no tomorrow. The exploration of the characters with a specific emotion/personality trait removed makes for fantastic comedy.
Love that you loved this!
What always strikes me about this episode is that while it’s a parody in parts it’s also genuinely intense and unsettling. I was 8 when I first saw this and it FREAKED me out. The Polymorph itself is a brilliantly original creation - it’s not just an armour plated killing machine, it gets personal and psychological with its prey.
"Why would they have an embro refrigeration unit on a mining ship"...
Dont forget Red Dwarf is HUGE, its more like a Mining Vessel/Workers City, its got lots of places on it for all kinds of things the workers and crew would need while in space for long periods of time.
In the remaster it had an extra text crawl added onto the end explaining the second polymorph crawled into Listers sock draw (if i remember rightly) where it died.
It's gratifying that you're always so taken aback by the British talents for accents! We have so many accents we're natural mimics.
The hard R that you see as American still exists in England in the South West, think of merry and pippin going to moRdoRR 😄
As soon as I saw Lister with the medical equipment, I closed my eyes and just pictured ya'll Gals in an earlier reaction, chanting "Blokes blokes blokes" due to the "bloke-y" humour. Cos this one has some real humdingers! The boxers scene is just... well look - it's brilliant, and the episode was only getting started.
At the time i viewed the original broadcast in Australia, i did not realise they replaced the original Kryten with a british actor as well...and i thought Robert Llewellyn (2nd Kryten) was American. But you guys judge how good he's accent was.
"Alphabetii Spagettii" cracks me up every time.🤣
PBS would get the new seasons, and then marathon them for a telethon, then play them weekly after that. So, we got binges before they were called that. So, we got past the shock of the first episode to this one lickety split.
There was a jeweler called cape cod jewelers that had a fish earring like cat, but it seems to be no longer available, so time to hit the junk shops, they were made at one time.
This episode never aired in Canada. The cable channel that aired it, YTV, was a kids' channel that edited all the episodes in order to add commercials, and make the show more family friendly. I guess there was no way to edit this episode to make it safe for kids.
Robert Llewellyn is British, but plays Kryten with a Canadian-ish accent, to reflect a slightly more working class vibe than his original characterization. To answer your question about where he's from.
He's Welsh.
@@raphaelperry8159 English actually, he's from Northampton. But since both are British the distinction is moot anyway.
@@raphaelperry8159, so, British either way then.
This is probably my favorite episode in the entirety of Red Dwarf. It's just so perfect in concept and execution. ("Meltdown" is close behind, though.)
Fun fact: I had Rimmer's Committee t-shirt back in the day, with the entire name written out. 🤣
Red Dwarf is five miles long and three miles wide. It had over a thousand people on it (they added another 1 to the 169 at this point), of course it needed a full medical suite. But yeah, obvious Alien parody is obvious. Dunno how Ridley Scott felt about it, but there's a video of Patrick Stewart about his reaction to Red Dwarf in general, probably easy to find.
Did you recognise the actress? Doctor Who... an eyepatch...
Young Frances Barber (Madame Kovarian of the Silence.) playing Genny.
"ALPHABETI SPAGHETTI?!"
The warning was very real to avoid complaints, this was a 15 on home video and they had shirts (my mother wouldn't let me buy) that said let's get out there and twat it
The 15 rating was due to the "Marooned" episode rather than this one, due to Lister declaring he had lost his virginity aged 12.
Also, I received one of those T shirts for Xmas 🙂
The fact that the very last human ever, is such a scuzz ball is part of the joke.
This is undoubtedly one of the episodes that people were thinking of when they said that series three was when it hit its stride.
The best parts of series 1 and 2 are vaguely from the Red Dwarf book "infinity welcomes careful drivers"
Until you consider that Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers was written after the series... Then the book is more like a refinement and expansion of concepts from series 1 and 2.
I always liked the way it's Alphabeti Spaghetti that breaks Rimmer in this episode.
Robert Lewellyn (who plays Kryten) is a British actor doing a Canadian accent for the role.
I saw this on first broadcast in 1989; I was ten years old, and it was the moment I fell in love with Red Dwarf. It remains my favourite-ever episode, the perfect example of how, at its best, the show was able to marry superb comedy to genius SF concepts. I don’t recall the Polymorph scaring me back then, I was laughing too much!
I have a 10yo who I started showing RD, but stopped because I had really forgotten just how much "adult" content there is. That said - he will often randomly pop up with "Everybody's dead, Dave!", and ask to watch more. I know most of the adult stuff would go over his head, but - well, I was the way-too-young kid who got to see Nightmare on Elm St, etc etc etc... and I'm trying to be a good dad and guide his viewing a bit better than my parents ever did.
(That said - I was only 12 when I would have first seen this episode, and it's one of my faves!) :)
@@johnlarro6872 My parents were quite liberal, and they used to let me stay up until 9.30 to watch Red Dwarf. The more adult stuff generally went right over my head - it was scenes like the sausage seizing Lister's throat or the crew showing off their changed personalities that I picked up on and loved at that age.
I still maintain that Kat could walk on set for a Red Dwarf filming and fit right in. That 80s/futuristic aesthetic looks amazing and I can think of a couple of episodes where she could put on a uniform and fit right in.
Holoship anyone?
I can't believe how different the Gallifrey Gals look now compared to the earlier footage at the end of each post!
@@pasteye1671 Evolution... (said as a Ghostlight reference, but can't think of a witty way to put it) :)
The boxers gag made them wait so long as the studio audience were laughing so hard
This is definitely one of my favourite episodes of this show. The underpants scene had me in fits of laughter the first time i saw it. Red Dwarf takes common sci fi ideas and totally twist them into comedic pieces of work.
If i remember correctly, Robert (Kryten) decided to go with a sort of Canadian accent, to appeal more to an American/Canadian audience. It's the most noticeable in series three, but does slowly fade out over the subsequent series.
Timeslides next, that is a banger of an episode. You should enjoy that one. I still have my ‘let’s get out there and twat it’ T-shirt after 30 years. It seems to have shrunk though. 😜
They have taken over the fancy officer's quarters now, that's why the set is different :)
Loved this when it first aired. The monster was gruesome for a 1989 bbc thing. Harder than anything off Doctor Who at that point.
Oh I don't know.....Have you seen The Happiness Patrol?
@@franohmsford7548 yes. Kandyman sounded scary but looked tasty
@@JamesAHirons_ I can't stand licorice allsorts so he didn't look all that tasty to me :)
Still, I wasn't talking about Kandyman.....I was talking about Fifi :)
Oh and let's not talk about what was going on in Paradise Towers!
@@franohmsford7548 Fifi looks like any chihuahua to me. Only Davros ever scared me, the rest I just enjoyed. Assignment 4 of Sapphire & Steel on the other hand, made me pee my 6 year old self lol
@@JamesAHirons_ Doctor Who was at its best with pure horror rather than creature horror.
The horror of Genesis of the Daleks or Vengeance On Varos or Curse of Fenric even wasn't in the creature make-up, it was in the story!
Paradise Towers and The Happiness Patrol are certainly right up there in the Horror stakes.
Unfortunately I've never felt the "hiding behind the sofa" that the media likes to bang on about in regards to Doctor Who myself despite watching it from a very young age.
But maybe that's because I was never scared for myself but instead for the characters in the show.
-
EDIT: I couldn't get scared for Lister, Rimmer, Kryten and Cat in Polymorph BECAUSE It's Red Dwarf, it's a Comedy! It's always clear it's a COMEDY!
Yes the Polymorph effect is gruesome but it's not fear inducing.
Why have an embryo refrigeration unit?
It's a coed ship on a very long mission. They probably don't have facilities to raise children. If someone gets pregnant and wants to keep it, they just have to remove and freeze the embryo.
The new quarters they're in are the officers quarters they decided to move into between series, upgrading from their old crew quarters.
We cat owners didn't even question the start of the video.
Robert Llewellyn subsequently went on to present Scrapheap Challenge, which became Junkyard Wars in the US, where teams build machines or vehicles from scrap/junk in a scrapheap/junkyard [depending on your country of residence]. He now hosts a CZcams channel about electric cars. It always made me think Kryten had a much longer lasting impression on him than just the show. Like how Leornard Nimoy embodied Spock beyond Star Trek.
I love how you two still end the RD vids with the “see ya later, alligator” song. It’s both a fun sign-off and a nice callback to the first episode. And kudos for keeping it up this far!
If there's one thing Paula and I are committed to... It's the bit. Always commit to the bit.
This kinda episode is why we love Red Dwarf! There are plenty more to come 😊👍❤️ Blackadder season 2 onwards is 👌
I love your reactions, but honestly I just keep coming back for Kat's hair and makeup! She looks so cool!
They are incredibly thankful and love this comment so much!!
One of a handful of episodes I was looking forward to seeing their reaction too 🤣
The greatest space comedy on tv could never fall off a cliff, come on Gallifrey Gals. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
It's worth pointing out when you said this might be too scary for kids that this went out at 9pm, post 'watershed' when all kids were supposed to be in bed.
You two both make my day , its like watching a watch along with friends
I could be wrong but i think this episode was first broadcast on Halloween, its a good one.
Knew you'd enjoy this one! properly sci-fi fun :) and remember, Give Quiche a Chance.
Blackadder is also fantastic (the first season is very much a trial and nothing like the rest of the series though!) would very much recommend giving it a watch after this :3
Season 1 is an incredibly hard sell. I'd start with Blackadder the second then go back to The Black Adder after goes forth.
Pretty much. only 2 reasons to watch it are curiosity and brian blessed tbh its that weirdly different >
Widely regarded as one of the best episodes, Polymorph is a classic! :D
I love Rimmer the Facilitator.
I suspect you've been told this a million times already, but Kryten is played by Robert Llewellyn from series 3 onwards, he's British. He's actually the only member of the UK cast to have been in the US remake pilots they did as well (it never got picked up - the second US pilot had Terry Farrell as Cat.)
It was the word austere because he really emphasis the r at the end. Love Kryten so much.
I always wondered if Kryten was making some kind of obnoxious pun in the way he pronounced it "arse-tere".
You've done it now Paula.., you've uncontrollably 'cackled' on a You tube review ☺ If anything could do it..., its " Polymorph" !! 🤣
Have to love that the video started on a cat being a diva in the real world!
told ya Grant & Naylor were big Aliens fans.
Anyway, yeah, fan consensus all time Top 5 Favorite episodes, one all us vets had circled waiting for you two to get to, and you can probably guess all the reasons why. Tremendous Aliens parody (even down to Fearless Lister somewhat resembling Laurie Goldstein's Pvt. Vasquez), the debut of the Bazookoids, the boxer shorts gag, Kryten's groinal attachments socket, Lister's precise chili sauce measurement, Jenny Who? being sorta our first glimpse of a female cat, the first meeting of the C.L.I.T.O.R.I.S. organization in general and Barrie's all-star peacenik spoof in particular, and the face he makes when Rimmer is drained by the Polymorph. Lister & Rimmer finally calling each other David and Arnold. So many entrees into the Red Dwarf Hall Of Fame. Everybody loves this one, obviously, and we're glad you did too.
One of the best episodes,a mix of Alien and The Thing 😂
"Polymorph" was another GREAT episode. A pretty interesting idea, but how it provided the laughs was just spectacular ! All the Boyz from the Dwarf got to showcase their acting chops here, but WOW did Danny John-Jules's Cat's transformation was HILARIOUS ! And there are some iconic Red Dwarf memes that come out of this one... Just brilliant !
One of the best episodes. I've been looking forward to your reactions to this.
In the books, the Polymorph is rather terrifying! The novels are less sitcom, and more sci-fi akin to Hitch Hiker's - worth a read!
Kryten's R sound stood out to me too at the time, well spotted! I love his voice tho, been doing an impression of him since I was a teen - ironically in the more recent series, he sounds more like himself than the character, so now I sound more like Kryten than Kryten 😛
This is one of the funniest episodes of the entire show
If you remember from the screen crawl of episode one in series three Kryten was put back together and his personality was changed slightly as a result. which was the writer's excuse to give Robert Llewellyn leeway in his performance. It's possibly hard to believe that there wasn't really anything like this on TV at the time. A sitcom leaning so hard into sci-fi and doing it so well. The kick ass guitar version of the theme in the opening titles was so amazing.
Sitcom and Sci-Fi is still very much a rarity. Hitchikers... Hyperdrive.... Barely any.
If you liked Chris Barrie with no anger, you should watch "The Brittas Empire" a brilliant comedy
Kat: "I'm Kat"
Me: "Hi. I'm the genetic mutant."
The fake snake fight is great.
Robert Llewellen steals every scene he's in!! The man is a Comedy Genius!
🍎 😢
@@wyrmshadow4374 ????
@@Alexandrashepiro apple, cry.
Robert Llewellyn who plays New Kryten is, as you said, British. I read in a fanzine back in the day that he decided to play him as a sort of pretend Canadian...not sure why but it totally works and I'm glad that he's growing on you😆👍
I think y'all would also have fun wth Black Adder if and when you ever get around to it. So many good things to watch!
As for how the Polymorph touched Rimmer, I have a head-canon for that, but it involves a series 4 spoiler, so you're just gonna have to wait.
I know what your theory is, and my buddy & I came up with the same one. 😆
It touched him the same way he was able to smell last ep even though he shouldn't be able to
probably my most favorite episode
Always good to see a fresh set of eyes reacting to Red Dwarf, it's a classic. Stick with it, it keeps getting better there are some classic episodes ahead 😊 Just on a side note if you want to see more classic UK humor, Father Ted is a must see. Not a sci fi but it's funny as feck 😂
This is one of my fave episodes. This and DNA I think are the funniest two.
Ah, one of the best episodes ever.
Robert Llewellen hosts a series called "Scrapheap Challenge" where two teams have a challenge to build something using what they can find in a scrap yard. It is very good and inventive. Craig Charles hosted a few series of "Robot Wars" where ordinary people build robots and the do battle in an arena. Also a good show.
Broadcast in the USA as Junkyard Wars. Absolutely loved that show!
Just in time for Halloween Weekend. And while I can't say which episode or series, there's a sequel to this episode.
Sher and Shire. it actually varies depending on which particular shire you're talking about as their endings are often pronounced differently. Hampsher, Gloucestersher, Oxfordshire etc.
Gloster.
Yes, because it's a Cester (which means it's a Roman place name) and those all got shortened to Ster or became Chesters.
It can even be Sheer.
In English place names ending in shire it's pronounced sheer. And if it has a direction (Southampton etc) don't pause after the direction bit just roll then together.