I wish my memory could be erased like it was for Holly so I could enjoy watching these again with new eyes. I just remember how great it was discovering it all!
Love all those “catcentric” behaviours….the constant preening and personal cleaning. Cat owners recognise all those ego centric narcissistic cat moves enacted brilliantly by Danny John Jules. Using a mini steam iron to remove the minor imperfection…yep…my cat does this all the time!
From the cat's perspective he's travelling with his God and God's roommate (and later on a robot) But from Lister's view he's travelling through space with his roommate, his cat and a robot. Not bad.
Scariest thing that no one addresses is how Lister had only one pregnant cat. Which means unless Red Dwarf docked with a lot of other ships with cats, Cat is the product of 3 Million Years of inbreeding.
@@TheDarkVampire666 cat's real name is the equivalent of looking like dwayne dibbley, so he never corrected lister for calling him cat, which would be the cat equivalent of 'Man'..
@@TheDarkVampire666The books explain that the reason Cats don’t have names is because they don’t think they need them, they can’t get their heads around anyone possibly NOT knowing who they are.
In the remastered version they replaced Cat's intro music with a more funkier theme, added an actual cat hiss when intimidating Lister and Rimmer. And included concept art featuring Cat's evolution stages in to his current form.
Had a cat called Fred back in the day or 'Fred the Bastard' we called him. He thought he owned the house!. 🤣 'That's mine, that's mine, that's my shiny thing!'. Especially at Christmas!. The Christmas tree baubel decoration losses were horrific!. 🤣
In the novelization, Holly made Rimmer as a companion for Lister after Lister woke up based on the fact that, as his roommate, Rimmer was Lister's closest on-ship relationship.
@@michaelmclaughlin261 Yeah, as I remember it the novel is actually much darker than the show for this part of the story (and others). After Holly brings him up to speed on what happened, Lister spends the next few days being horrendously depressed and almost drinking himself to death, until one day he wakes up to see Rimmer sneering down at him. Also, Holly is secretly unsure whether Rimmer really is the right choice of hologram companion or whether it was just computer senility that made him think so.
Because vampires can't see their own reflection, but cats can. If you get bitten by a cat, you may die, but even if you drink the blood of a cat, you won't rise from your grave as a cat. Only cats can do that.
How is it that Craig's acting (which he hadn't had much experience doing in the early RD days - correct me if I'm wrong) is actually better here (and up to series 6) than his portrayal of Dave Lister post series 6, when he had more acting experience?
Maybe because it's in the nature of Lister to feel lost and bewildered and unsure of his career, and yet also gregarious and socialiable -- all like Craig as a young actor?
Reminds me of the old Garfield comic when Jon asked his roommate Lyman if he ever had cats Lyman says, "Well, there was Cat, Cat, Cat, and Cat." Jon is confused. "What do you mean?" Lyman says, " There's no reason to name an animal who doesn't come when you call it"
The first time I saw Red Dwarf I thought he was a vampire. I was very surprised when, years later, I saw the first episode. As someone who was raised by cats I never would have guessed, but man if it isn't funny. Interestingly, I found this is table that lists the different traits of fictional monsters. Cats and vampires differ only in that vampires are contagious and cats are not. So the confusion is less unexpected than I expected. For completeness, here's the table: Fangs, undead, infectious: Vampire Fangs, undead, not infectious: Cat Fangs, not undead, infectious: Werewolf Fangs, not undead, not infectious: Dog No fangs, undead, infectious: Zombie No fangs, undead, not infectious: Ghost No fangs, not undead, infectious: Leper No fangs, not undead, not infectious: Horse
Too bad that a black guy as a cat would never go ahead with the current state of the BBC. In fact on an interview on the DVD set, while casting the characters for season 1 in the 80s, the writers asked Craig Charles about Danny John Jules, (because according to them it was the "politically correct 80's" in the UK) to get his perspective on whether the cat being played by a black guy was racist, to which Craig said no it wasnt racist it was funny.
Why would it be racist? You couldn't get away with Cat calling the humans "monkeys" now though. Especially when Rimmer does it to describe Lister to The Cast.
@@squirrelofdoom3830 I get what you mean, although 2 episodes or even 1 episode after this there is an old cat priest who happens to be white. I don't think race was relevant here, the cat just happened to be black, they chose Danny John Jules cause he was funny and fitted the character of the cat, lister just happened to be mixed race, they chose Craig cause he was funny and a good actor and rimmer just happened to be white, they chose Chris cause he was funny and played rimmer well, I don't think they wrote the script based around race. In red dwarf, they never made one racial joke or stereotype. If people these days can't accept the script for being what it was, their loss, they're missing out on a fantastic comedy.
@@abeetlesreference8977 To probably miquote Craig Charles the best thing about race in Red Dwarf was that it wasn't an issue. Its only in the bullshit 2020s that people are looking at a great comedy with a talented cast and bringing race politics into it.
i remember that in later seasons some parts of his personality began to change (ie. the way he moves and the wierd noises he randomly yells) i actualy disliked that and preferred how cat was originally portrayed
I'll trade you these ones for it: Dogs have owners, cats have servants. - unknown source Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals. - Winston Churchill
My lovely partner rarely eats fish, but we had fish and chips last week. Naturally, she taunted it, and when she took the first bite.....TOO SLOW FISHY! TOO SLOW FOR THIS CAT!!
I can imagine Jim Carrey as the Cat. I can't imagine Danny John-Jules as The Mask, but then I think that is the point of The Mask. Whoever wears it gets the blame for everything The Mask does, but no say in it. (The Lobo/Mask cross-over is funny in a genocidal way.)
@@SuperTonyony The captain actor actually was an American and the creators always wanted an American actor to play the role for some reason. They actually had a hard time finding one at first.
the sad part is twits like you bringing their personal beliefs into entertainment. take your passive aggressive proselyting and shove it up your self righteous arse. by the way, your youtube name means 'holy head of the devil' not the best choice for a biblethumper..
It might happen, if we do not kill all cats first with global warming or nuclear war or whatever other "God will sort it out" irresponsible omnicidal behaviour religion will "justify" next. But only if the environmental conditions encourage it, of course. A population of cats on an abandoned spaceship build for humans will benefit from becoming more human-like. Much like different populations of fish in identical conditions look and behave the same despite being different species, genetically incompatible. (The technical term is "convergent evolution". It's not to be confused with Lamarckism, an idealistic view of evolution that has been disproven many times over.) Evolution is not teleological, after all. Times change and we change with them, and as the environment changes constantly, so different traits become advantageous or disadvantageous, naturally selecting mutations that are a better fit at the time for that population. Much like horse breeding and dog breeding has selected traits that the breeders liked, life naturally selects that which gives a better rate of survival, causing speciation. Some believe that this is how God created all the different species and continues to create new species even as humanity is causing a mass extinction. Others believe that, seeing how molecular biology has already all the mechanisms of mutation mapped out, and behavioural biology already has all the selective pressures catalogued, trying to force God into the equations would only complicate matters needlessly. No doubt some people are willing to argue the case for divine intervention using violence as their chosen means of communication as they have been for thousands of years. Ironic, not letting the omnipotent creator argue His own case; even more ironic using selective pressure to argue that selective pressure doesn't shape evolution in an attempt to change mainstream thinking towards the mindset that things don't really change.
Lol. It's not just atheists that believe in evolution. Also evolution doesn't mean everything turns into humans one day. You are litterally the only person i have ever seen make such a statement. But since you believe in creation, your simplicity doesn't surprise me at all. You don't think you are a simpleton? Let me proove it. What if god, all-knowing as he is, created certain lifeforms with the ability to change, at a certain point of time, into a more suitable/useful form. You haven't even considered that.
@@Red_Fox_87 Wow,, somehow missed your. remark.. Kent Hovind, Creation seminars, free here on youtube.. start with lies in the textbooks. Fact check. God Bless,
@Quiet Dove So many people of that generation (born 1981-1996) are obsessed with the topic, and frequently make similar comments about people or characters being gay.
