The small rouge one.

Had a dream about Red Dwarf last night.

 

Bizarrely I was in it then I was watching it.

 

Red Dwarf was my group of friends secret language for a couple of years, every episode was watched to the point where the tape would wear thin, dialogue was learnt and quoted precisely mannerisms aped etc etc. There were penalties for mis-quoting by even a syllable.

 

I remember one night Jane and Craig spent the entire night testing each others knowledge and depth of geek-ism.

 

All this gets away from the fact that Red Dwarf was frighteningly funny. The writing had a sharp bitter flavour, full of the pain of wasted lives and bad situations.

 

Even the 'hero' was a gross out slob whose behaviour could very, very rarely be called heroic. Surrounded by a narcissistic human descended from a Cat, A hologram of the most annoying man in the universe(dead), A senile computer and an Android that only gained pleasure from housework it was a most unlikely crew to explore the out rim of space.

 

But we loved them.

 

So go on dig out some old red dwarf and laugh yourself stupid.

 

 

 

 

Smoke me a kipper...