Episode 4: Waiting for God

[10:40] xtrebe
good day to you sir

[10:43] tclintoncunningham
And to you

[10:46] tclintoncunningham
Season 1, Episode 4

[10:46] xtrebe
Yes

[10:47] xtrebe
One of my least favorite episodes.

[10:47] tclintoncunningham
I like how they present other life forms as being far fetched but then spend the rest of the series using other life forms to keep the show together

[10:47] tclintoncunningham
it has a lot of dud jokes

[10:47] xtrebe
Yeah

[10:48] xtrebe
I think they were too concerned with making it some clever take on religion and not concerned enough with it being funny.

[10:48] tclintoncunningham
though it had one of my favorite sequences of the seaons. The Yo-yo scene where Rimmer laughs like Cat is an absolute idiot

[10:48] tclintoncunningham
yeah

[10:48] tclintoncunningham
too deep for Red Dwarf

[10:48] tclintoncunningham
Lister - Imagine making love to a woman with six breasts

[10:48] tclintoncunningham
Rimmer - Imagine making love to a woman

[10:49] tclintoncunningham
classic exchange

[10:49] tclintoncunningham
Rimmers hopeful look as he says it

[10:49] tclintoncunningham
then his quick over-the-top head spin at Lister

[10:50] xtrebe
Ha ha, yeah, that was a good one, and the yo-yo scene was good, too.

[10:50] xtrebe
Chris Barrie went all in on his jokes on this one.

[10:51] xtrebe
Even the shouting match over the garbage pod was surprisingly heated.

[10:51] tclintoncunningham
Yeah, he perhaps confused the show with theatre

[10:51] xtrebe
I think that's the only shouting match in the series.

[10:51] xtrebe
Yeah, the garbage pod part was pretty funny in general.

[10:52] xtrebe
The Quaagars

[10:52] tclintoncunningham
See, there were some hightlights

[10:52] xtrebe
There were.

[10:52] tclintoncunningham
*highlights

[10:52] tclintoncunningham
you just have to focus on them

[10:53] tclintoncunningham
I was a bit surprised that Rimmer said "Life's a bitch" considering when this was made

[10:53] tclintoncunningham
I know the UK has more relaxed TV standards but still

[10:54] xtrebe
yeah, it was a bit

[10:54] xtrebe
It's interesting how much looser TV content restrictions have become over the years.

[10:54] xtrebe
I'm still shocked by some of the stuff they show on CSI

[10:54] xtrebe
It'

[10:54] tclintoncunningham
Yeah, that show pushes the boundary

[10:54] tclintoncunningham
Yet Disney used to have all the characters smoking

[10:54] xtrebe
It's a freaking gore-fest, but they pretend that it's okay because it's an autopsy or whatever.

[10:55] xtrebe
ha ha

[10:55] xtrebe
yeah, a guy smoking is obscene

[10:55] xtrebe
someones brain splattering on the wall is not

[10:55] tclintoncunningham
So there are spiderwebs all over, does that mean there are spiders?

[10:55] tclintoncunningham
that didnt evolve in 3 million years

[10:56] xtrebe
Yeah, I thought about that as well

[10:56] xtrebe
The spiders are what the cat people lived on for 3 million years

[10:56] xtrebe
j/k

[10:56] xtrebe
They were spider farmers.

[10:56] xtrebe
And they used the webs to create clothing.

[10:56] tclintoncunningham
and died in the great spider plague of 2315

[10:57] xtrebe
3002315

[10:57] tclintoncunningham
true

[10:58] tclintoncunningham
and he lies to the old man so he can die and find out it was all a lie

[10:59] xtrebe
Well, if there's no lie he doesn't find out.

[10:59] xtrebe
I mean, if there's not afterlife he doesn't find out.

[10:59] xtrebe
Because you can't experience the absense of life.

[10:59] tclintoncunningham
How would you know?

[10:59] xtrebe
I guess I don't, but presuming there's no afterlife,

[11:00] xtrebe
which I think is one of the assumptions they're making in the show

[11:00] xtrebe
when you die

[11:00] xtrebe
you are no longer conscious of anything

[11:00] xtrebe
therefore you can't know there is no afterlife.

[11:01] tclintoncunningham
I know, I was merely kidding. We both know that nothing happens when you die but nothingness

[11:14] xtrebe
Yes, that's totally what I said.

[11:15] tclintoncunningham
I know, i was shocked you said it

[11:15] tclintoncunningham
I feel we have veered off course a bit

[11:25] xtrebe
A bit, yes.

[11:25] xtrebe
Oh, that roast chicken was remarkably well preserved, as well.

[11:30] tclintoncunningham
Those pods were at the cutting edge of sealing technology

[11:34] xtrebe
I suppose so

[11:34] xtrebe
Well, I don't really have anything else to say about the episode.

[11:34] xtrebe
Anything we missed?

[11:35] tclintoncunningham
That about covers it, though I wonder if the old man was a serious actor that was shocked by what the show actually was when he agreed to do it

[11:35] tclintoncunningham
he seems like he could have been a stage actor that expected more

[11:35] xtrebe
Ha ha, maybe.

[11:35] xtrebe
But then again, all old British men seem respectable.

[11:35] xtrebe
It's their blessing and curse.

[11:35] tclintoncunningham
that is true