Is it me, or is Rimmer the only guy in the world who can make the word "git" into the funniest word of all time? Only Chris Barrie can say "git" and get such laughs from a stupid three letter word.
The Line at the end of queeb has gotta be the funniest ever, not only the joke but the delivery also, its just a near perfect joke. or the norWEB joke lol.
"Busy, Dave?"
"Well, yeah. I am, actually."
"Oh, then you won't want to know about the two super-light-speed fighters that are tracking us."
"What?!"
"I'll leave you to your bubble blowing, mate."
"No, Hol, come on, come on."
"They're from Earth."
"Three million years away?"
"They're from the NorWEB federation."
"What's that?"
"The North Western Electricity Board. They want you, Dave."
"Me? Why? What for?"
"For your crimes against humanity."
"You what!"
"It seems when you left Earth three million years ago, you left two half-eaten German sausages on a plate in your kitchen."
"Did I?"
"You know what happens to sausages left unattended for three million years?"
"Yeah. They go all mouldy."
"Your sausages, Dave, now cover seven-eighths of the Earth's surface. Also you left seventeen pounds, fifty pence in a bank account. Thanks to compound interest you now own ninety-eight percent of all the world's wealth, but since you've hoarded it for three million years nobody's got any money except for you and NorWEB."
"Why NorWEB? "
"You left a light on in the bathroom. I've got a final demand here for one hundred and eighty billion pounds."
"A hundred and eighty billion pounds! You're kidding!"
"April fool."
"But it's not April."
"Yeah, I know, but I could hardly wait six months with a red-hot jape like that under my belt."
Best episodes are Back to reality (a nice smeg up on that episode too :P) or Meltdown (1 word, Ghandi)
I wish they would hurry up with the Red Dwarf film. Been in the development hell for a good 10 years as the movie studio wanted Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson in it when Grant/Naylor originally pitched it. They told him where to go.