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  • Where's the laughter

  • OMG, I watched every episode of seasons 1 -8 when they were first aired, but never knew this existed.

  • Anyone else think The Inqusitor should erase 'Back to Earth' from history?

  • i hate all these fuckin kids who want a fuckin medal for being 14 and watching red dwarf ! who gives a shit what age you are

  • What's missing is the laugh track. Gave it that sitcomy feel. Without it it's too quiet

  • I'm 13 and have watched every single episode

  • love red dwarf but can someone explain to me how rimmer is a hologram again ... is it ace come back?

  • @satan666himself He died in the end of Only The Good mate, when he came back to the normal universe and was met by Death. This mini-series, however, seems to play on the idea of the alternate ending where the rest of the Dwarfers also came back form the mirror universe instead with the right formula and saved Red Dwarf before it was too late. Even so, it's still highly likely they didn't return in time to save Rimmer from Death.... Or something along them lines.....

  • I'm 14 and love Red Dwarf is there anyone else near my age who watches it? its just pretty amazing to be fair :P

  • @Mozza810 15. I've practically grown up with it, and overtime I got more and more jokes. Fuck yeah man!

  • @Mozza810 I am, i'm 13 and my parents are all pro Star Treck, Star Wars, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and of course, Red Dwarf.

  • I thought this came after the season where Rimmer was no longer dead and Kochansky was part of the regular cast. Why is Rimmer dead again? And where is Kochansky?

  • @ztslovebird Kochanski has run off (written out cos her character was poor) cos she couldnt take Lister being such a slob, and Rimmer ebing a hologram again is anyones guess, Doug is shithouse on details and dwarf fans are usualy left scratching thier heads but my belief is that Rimmer died in the last ep of series 8 cos he was trapped in the normal world while the others escaped to the mirror world and then knocked unconscious by the can of drink, him kicking death in the balls was concusion

  • lol at the cat "i combed my hair and fainted"

  • Smeg Yeah, It's back with a testicle!

  • i really want my own scutter.

  • An ok script, but this comedy always relied on the interaction between characters; this feels like a rehearsal.

    Plus the cat seems too aggressive.

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  • Awful script, awful story idea and just an all-round terrible example of how bad Red Dwarf became. A crying shame as this was a show I grew up loving. At least we still have series 1-6.

  • @ComradeRichey agreed. I have never even finished the second half of this shit storm. It is the only Red Dwarf related thing I have turned off part way. Even series viii didn't get this bad. A truly horrible experience. I just had to see some of it again to see if I imagined it before and if there is any hope of series x being good. Nope.

  • @gaozhi2007 I think its a bit harsh to call it a shitstorm, yes it wasnt an overwhelmingly good come back episode but the only real falldown was in the choice to make massive in jokes about the reality of red dwarf as a sitcom and breaking the 4th wall, the squid shouldve triggered something less self referential, apart from that the jokes are standard dwarf and all that was missing was the laugh track...

  • @bluejeckett Agreed. The ideas behind it are solid, but they're lazily written. It also needed the audience to add some energy to it, in my opinion.

  • @BradleySherwoodFan glad u agree, my view is that about all of Red Dwarf, youve hit a nail on the head there for me, lazily written, Doug and Rob had some great ideas but then they got sloppy with them, and the rules were all over the place, the scripts needed some major overhauls really, some of the episodes are weak as shit Backwards is one I find very poor in terms of execution, and the hologram conceot shouldve been thought out alot more than it was

  • Can't wait for series X, gonna be filmed in front of a live audience apparently

  • @Boogers7337 as it should be, its a sitcom not a movie

  • why is rimmer a hologram again? where is konchanski (even though i am glad shes gone) where is holly? why has red dwarf changed shape again?

  • I agree that the writing and acting are just as good as before but due to fashion, the kitsch factor has been dropped which is a shame. The laughter track was missed and I dont normally like laughter tracks, but it sat well in things like Red Dwarf and Blackadder.

  • Series VII suffered from the same lack of laughter track - you can see where the pauses are after jokes.

    I'm excited but nervous about Series X. Are the guys just too old now?

  • It's good to see that they got control of the ship back

  • Its so painfully....quiet without the canned laughter! D:

  • to be honest lister hasn't been himself since series 6. He got far too seriously in series 7 and that's also when they lost the audience I think.

  • @mcjmetroid Series 7 was cute, but not the same. And lets face it, Kristine Kochanski was no great asset, except in the looks department. Pretty gal...

  • @mommapuddin I don't know.. I wouldn't blame her entirely. It was still a great series, but I feel she brought about the "mature" Lister. I mean look at series 1. He was a stupid slob and still was in 6. But in 7, he changed a little. Love every series of red dwarf though, I do like that it's a series constantly taking chances. Every series is very different.

  • why did they have to mess with the set?

  • I only saw this a few days ago and really got into Red Dwarf. Before I saw this on Dave I had never heard of red Dwarf

  • Thanks for upload but there are other vids in 360p out there.

  • I wonder how long till a fan recycles the canned laughter from other episode and dubs it over this? Actually, that might well work!

  • @julesmaester Im with you on that one!!! I was just about to write the same thing, then I saw your comment!! Somebody....please!!

  • Everybody apart from Lister reclaimed their parts brilliantly, hopefully he can ditch fucking "Corrie" and get into character quick. I thought the jokes in these three episodes were great though, if Rimmer had a few more cynical jokes then it would be perfect.

    Can't wait for the new series!

  • some of the main reasons why the earlier episodes were so funny was not only about the funny script alone - it was from the interaction of the crew and the watching crowd. I hope it is true and they bring that back on - because this script is VERY good - only the immediate reaction is missing. while watching red dwarf, one always was watching 2 things - the crew AND the audience's reaction to the crew. a double-event of watching, so to speak.  that worked. makes you feel part of it all.

  • @Hauntedscotland Its back and its in front of a live audience, filming starts next week! Smmmeeeeeeggggg Heeeeeeeeeeeed

  • @Hauntedscotland Except that for series 8 the cast were OVERACTING to the audience who were whooping and clapping in a sycophantic way. If it came to a choice between pantomime Red Dwarf and filmic Red Dwarf, I'd rather have the latter without audience. It all depends on how series X ends up.

  • shouldnt it be (astro navigation) for smegheads?!

  • THE LAUGHTER TRACK IS COMING BACK FOR SERIES X - COMING OUT IN SEPTEMBER NEXT YEAR!!!!! :D

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  • When they do the next 2 serieses they need the laughter back, there are points that I laugh and it doesnt feel right because there is no audience laughter with it. Other than that its realy good :)

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  • The story is good for this series IX, but they don't have the energy or the magic they did in the previous series. Hopefully the next 2 series will be good though, though I'm dubious, - maybe it's something which is worth a go, but perhaps really should be left in it's current legacy. Who knows. I'll be keeping tabs on Charles especially from the moment he leaves corrie.

  • A lot of you are right, this does need a laugh track.

  • Hang on so now Red Dwarf has changed shape from tall to huge? Whats that about?

  • sooooo needs the laugh track

  • I agree needs the laughter and i always loved the crappy cheap looking sets aswell. Looks a bit fake nowww. Its okay though im glad its coming back

  • It's crap without the background laughter, u don't really know when something's funny

  • I didnt like the specials that much, as well as not being great it kind of ruined all the development they'd put into the original, at Series 8 Lister was reunited with Kochanski, Rimmer had his body back, Rimmer and Lister had settled into a sort of friendship and now they put it nine years later and take it back to the beginning

  • What's the word!!!! BIG!!! YH!!!

  • WHY THE FUCK IS LISTER IN CORONATION STREET, WHY IS LISTER FROM CORONATION STREET PLAYING IMAGINATION WITH THAT GUY WHO MAKES TRAIN DOCUMENTRYS??? THIS EPISODE IS COMPLETE BOLLOCKS. -> Avid Red Dwarf fan... before the sell out.

  • the ending of the last series didnt make sence with how they followed it up with back to earth. back to earth made alot more sence if they had used the alternate ending (you can find it on youtube)

  • Ah Cat. Lister made me almost not watch this, but you and that testicle ruining your hair made me stay :D

  • Where's the laugh track D: 'Booked a double room for him and your electric toothbrush-' *waiting, waiting for it-* 'SILENCE.' Dang. Now I'll have to find a laugh track online and play it after all the jokes to comfort myself...

  • As much as I wanted to love this new comeback, Craig Charles ruined it for me. It's like his role in Coronation St has corrupted his Lister. I keep expecting Steve McDonald to wander in asking where his taxi is.

  • it was dry until kryten walked in then boom, back to the old red dwarf i love. chris and robert are definitely the actors and comedians cat and lister simply feed of their set ups which is how the series has always worked good stuff good good stuff.

  • I really dislike the camera shots in Back to Earth. It was much better when it was simple.

  • for the poeple who are asking about why the crew should be there or why rimmer is a hologram again i would like to say i think the creators realised that they killed it after series 6 and thats why they just put it back to when it was classic

  • the first red dwarf i saw was series 3 episode 1 or something anyway it was called backwards were everything was backwards and since then i have been in love with the show and i got series one and 2 on dvd for christmas in 2010 and if i get enough money im going to get the rest of them on dvd as well

  • isnt rimmer and the crew ment to be alive sice the nano-bots revived them?

  • it doesn't make a difference if there is no laugh track - its still well written with good punchlines and one liners. Conceptually its one of the best alternative reality storyines red dwarf has done. later series are hit and miss but this three parter is pretty good

  • where the fuck is the laugh track its fucking wierd with out it. EPIC FAIL

  • fuckin love red dwarf all four characters are just legend

  • LOVE IT!!! Thank you!

  • Rimmer was alive, died then hologram until series 8 when the nanites remade him along with the ship. At the end of series 8 though he was trapped in the original ship and the rest of the crew as you can see is in the mirror universe. With Rimmer unable to get back he is in this universe he was obviously brought back as a hologram.

    What's going to be hard to explain is in this universe everything is mirrored so their cures will be poisions etc :S.

  • That opening shot looks like the Klingon homeworld with that big, pyramid thing.

  • great i loved this show

  • I hope the new series has a laughing track.

  • Yes!It wasn't mentioned anywhere why Rimmer is a hologram again.Why i don't love "Back to Earth", is only because they did not explain that.

  • @majaarnie1 what do you ean

    did he stop being a hologram or something?

  • @drummerguy4321 i realy don't know! they could somehow

    explain in convesation or something...

  • @majaarnie1 what do you mean

    did he stop being a hologram or something?

  • @drummerguy4321 maybe thet is Rimmer from 6th series.but just maybe....i don't know.

  • Thank you for this is still funny even though this is years later. 

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  • Catchancesky is gone ? I allready like it :)

  • Sounds like Stephen Hawking played the part of The Level.

  • Lol rimmer u smegger.

  • @homestar4ever thats what I just said - unless you were being sarcastic, which on the internet is kind of hard to detect...

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  • The laughter in the background made Red Dwarf funnier in my opinion.

  • @prokentsful even a laugh track would be acceptable

  • @prokentsful same. red dwarf needs a laughing track

  • @ShaunsBlogs Yeah, It's not that the material's bad, it's just that.... well I don't actually know. It just makes it more fun to watch. Hard to explain why though.

  • @prokentsful it gives it that classic red dwarf feeling. having the audience makes it seem less of a serious show and more funny.

  • @prokentsful Agreed

  • @mommapuddin Oh god, I didn't think that so many people would agree.

    It's the same with any comedy show, it's still funny, but the laughter makes it much funnier. =]

  • This just no longer feels like Red Dwarf, since series six I felt it lost it's magic or is that just me.

  • I don't remember The Cat having trouble with English or was than attempt at being funny? =/

  • the cat is a brilliant character "i combed my hair and fainted"

  • It's just not funny. The absence of Rob Grant is definately felt.

  • when they originally did the show back in the early days they were so young. it feels weird watching them now...

  • I will always love red dwarf always

  • RED DWARF It's great to see the team still on adventures!

  • It's too polished, and noooooo laughter, he's flogging a dead horse now, let 'em go now

  • The old ones are better. Nothing can beat Mr Flibble.

  • And dont forget the king of the potatoes hahahaha

    XDD in a magic carpet of 3 seats :P

  • wow, all those times i got annoyed by the canned laughter, but without it it just doesnt seem quite right, but im not minding it... and just to clear the non existance of the continuality, personally, while the eighth series had its moments, you could pretty much tell that it was on its last legs and so i think having it back to the way it was for most of the airing of the show, lister, rimmer (hologram), cat and kryten was probably a good idea i think

  • Maybe making this as a 3 parter it should have been a tv movie. that way you wont be left with rather crapciff hanger endings that might make u give watching the rest a miss. like what should have been done with series 8 ep 1,2 &3 back in the red which was originally meant to be a 1 hour or whatever special.

  • It's not the same without the audience laughter at every pun

  • Whoa, they've aged...kind of sad to see one of my favorite shows' quality go down...

  • Note to JebusGeist:

    It's a well-known fact that Rob & Doug *did* utilize *lots* of "parralel universe" scenarios in their Dwarf novelizations..such as the one where in the Gunmen/Apocalypse scenario Kryten & Rimmer perish, and Lister & The Cat escape to another dimension just before their ship is destroyed; In said dimension they meet up with a still-surviving Kryten & Lister...whilst *that universe's Cat & Lister were killed..

    Just a theory about how *this* story might transpire, m8's...

  • not as good as the old series

  • i'm only 3 mins in and im worried! what happened to the crew and kochanski?

  • I really hope they do a little explaining about what happened in those 9 years. I mean, the crew that was resurrected is now gone. Where in helll did they all go, heck they aren't even acting like the crew was ever brought back.

    Oh well, it's still funny and it's still red dwarf!

  • i thought red dwarf always used canned laughter...didnt seem like it was ever filmed infront of a live audiance!!!

  • Note to KingFirenze & SumWidge:

    So true.the lack of audience participation kinda lowers the eneergy level of the performances of the gang.

    Note to BentonRox & FantsySci5:Rimmer must have died in the fire after all.Yet how *did* the ship get rescued?(And the others come back to their 'home' dimesion?)According to Wikipedia,Holly is offline due to Lister 'leaving water running' (As explained by Rimmer in Part 2) Finally,and more importantly,how did Kochanski die?So many unanswered questions.

  • I dont think Rimmer did die in the fire, I reckon with him referencing old memories and adventures they had, this is the old Rimmer (who left to be Ace Rimmer in series 7). He must have came back coz he recalls old adventures they had pre-series 6 and is a hologram again.

  • This was painful to watch:(

    No canned laughter is so different.

    Only Rimmer and Kryton seem to be up to scratch with their parts, craig charles is a shadow of Listers character and Cat is disappointing too.

    It's basically bland.

    (whine whine whine) but it's true.

  • So true. I couldn't watch it. I ended up turning it off. So sad. The mighty have fallen.

  • It's upsetting how different they all are, can tell they've lost the connections with their characters....it's good, just doesn't feel the same at all!

  • Seeing LIster so out of character is painful.

  • @HileTroy yeah theyve made him to conscious of his own ignorance. rather than being obnoxious its like he is always making an effort not to be

  • The intro was flat and felt like it struggled to go along, but it definitely got better in parts 2 and 3. I miss the laughter track though.

  • @CBTrekker I think it "struggled" because they're older so it's not the same

  • I love it like some how this reminds me of the new series of Doctor Who. Brilliant! Something I can relate to :)

  • awesome , the cat ...haha messing his hair and dry clean only hahahha!!

  • brilliant keep making them !!!!!!!!!!!!! alex 28 m southampton

  • thx for this cos i've really wanted to see this

    it's nice to see the gang back in business

  • wow, craig charles gets really emotional when he is at the memorial garden

  • Does anyone know why (either) Holly isn't in it? Could the actors not do it? I was sad not to see them.

  • LMFAO!!! testicle... haaa

  • no laughing in the backround?

    makes a big change

  • someone on youtube should edit the laughs in

  • thats the best idea ever!

  • Yeah, the canned laughter isnt there and it's a bit flat :/

  • This annoys me. The never used "canned" laughter in RD, they showed it or filmed before an audience.

  • Well, your right yes, but in some later ones they did infact use some laugh tracks, but yeah for the most part I reckon it was infront of a live audience, you always hear one guy gasping to breathe and it makes it even more funny xD

    Basically it sucks without laughter IMO :)

    Peace, and sorry for annoying you :(

  • Oh no worries. I kind of exagerated there, you didn't annoy me really. :-)

    I think in later ones they did show it to an audience (pre filmed) but obviously edited there laughter so it cuts out when the next character starts speaking etc.

  • With Rimmer being a hologram again and with him mentioning references to old adventures they had, I believe this is the original Rimmer who went off to be Ace Rimmer in series 7.

  • Stoke me a clipper....i'll be home for christmas!!!

  • Excited!

  • So pleased when I saw this had been uploaded thanks so much for that?

    Quick question, is there ever going to be an explanation for why Rimmer is a hologram again? Or is it simply that his attempt to cheat Death by kicking him in the nuts and running for it was not as successful as Arnold had hoped?

  • I will upload the episode that has all that info in! The first episode! Stay Tuned and sub to get that video once I upload it after these.

  • @croftyere2k7 It's cause he was no longer a hologram at the end of 'Only the good', is why he's asking..

  • @BentonRox he died when lister was in staces

  • @BentonRox what do you mean a hologram again

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  • Red dwaf kicks Bum!!! !!!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  • yeh yeh whatever !

  • "Level...level........not level." :P

  • =] =] =] =] =]

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