The cast are on magnificent form here. Series 3 was the first of the four classic series. Chris Barrie's comic timing is masterful when he relates that tale.
Its no wonder Arnold wound up the way he is now when you consider his upbringing. Im sure anyone would have wound up so dysfunctional with a family like his. Still it was good to see him getting along so well with the others for a little while.
That's why I love this scene. I really love these kind of moments, not when they're off fighting GELFs and simulants or jetting around in Starbug; when they're talking and reminiscing. Wilma Flinstone, Shoes have soles, All of Marooned... Good times...
What a hypocrite lmao. Because uncle frank wanted to get with his mum. ‘Uncle’ would imply that it was rimmer’s mum’s brother. I love subtle jabs like these
god, TWO things kill me in this scene: Arnie's perfectly pissh't delivery of the line "How many toes have ya got..?" and Krytie's gigantic pratfall onto the floor at the end there, just the perfect amount of chair-crash
I just worked something out. His uncle Frank and his daughters. Even if it hadn't been him, it would have been one of his cousins... Either way its weird. One of the best Red Dwarf moments, ever.
I remember the first time I got drunk. There was a large party, just completely surrounded with friends and family. I drank about half a bottle of Starka Darkside, went up to the stage and sang a Lithuanian drinking song. When I got home, my mother just said to me, "Here's dinner, go to bed straight after". I woke up in the morning with a pounding hangover but somehow managed not to vomit. Fun times
Cat is surprisingly nice to Kryten in this scene. I’m pretty sure that despite his psychopathic tendencies, he does like Kryten and Lister, even though he’d probably leave them to save his own skin at some point! Also, why do I really feel for Holly here when she says she never had a Mum? She sounds so pitiful.
I borrowed the Uncle Frank joke when i had to do improv lines for a theatre production. Interesting reaction. The laughing from the audience was about three times longer than this, it was also considered to be one of the best jokes of the night. A couple of the younger people in the crew didn’t get the joke (as innuendo is something that the younger generation doesn’t understand), whilst a few blokes there recognized where i got the joke from. Still funny tho.
no this is from Last Day,in series three, when kryten's shut down day approaches,and the boys from the dwarf decide to through him a party to give him a good send off. And get very drunk.
So to recap: Rimmer had a thing for his cousins and wanted to get kissed by them. Turned out to be his Uncle Frank kissing him. Uncle Frank actually wanted to kiss his own sister. Then Rimmer takes the moral high ground about Lister possibly being a child of incest 🧐
Actually, we never learn that Rimmer’s mum was his Uncle’s sister, it was more likely he was Rimmer’s father’s brother, or even cousin. 🤦♀️ And Lister’s the one who wants to do an Oedipus and sleep with his own mother, Kochanski!
So Rimmer wanted to get off with his cousins but accidentally got off with his uncle who meant to get off with his sister/ Rimmer’s mum. Yup nothing wrong with that.
thedavecorp it's when you get so drunk,you start to feel down/sad/depressed and get moody..It's one of the many ways a person reacts when they get so inebriated/hammered..
I hope Rimmer knows he was thinking that his cousins had a crush on him. It is possible that Uncle Frank was his father's brother, but fancied his sister-in-law.
