Me²
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| Red Dwarf episode | |
| "Me²" | |
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| Episode № | 6 |
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| Airdate | March 21, 1988 |
| Writer(s) | Rob Grant & Doug Naylor |
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| Series I February 15 – March 21, 1988 |
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| List of all Red Dwarf episodes... | |
Me² was the sixth Red Dwarf episode to air.
[edit] Synopsis
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Rimmer moves out of Lister's sleeping quarters to live with his counterpart "Rimmer²," whom he tricked Lister into activating in the previous episode, and who after some time even he cannot stand. Eventually one of them has to go. This gives Lister the opportunity to find out why his last words were "gazpacho soup".
[edit] Quotes
Rimmer: Everything tickety-boo?
[edit] Trivia
- Rimmer's embarrasing and reputation-damaging incident with gazpacho soup is based on a real incident that was only narrowly avoided by writers Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. At a meeting at Thames Television, the pair were bewildered when they received cold soup, but fortunately they refrained from saying anything about it because they didn't think complaining would look good on their part, even if their soup was indeed cold. They breathed a sigh of relief afterwards upon discovering that it was gazpacho soup which is meant to be served cold, and by not complaining they had averted much embarrassment.
- This episode is one of several (Stasis Leak, Psirens, Stoke Me a Clipper, among others) to utilise split screens extensively. During the memorable scene in the cinema when Lister selects which Rimmer to erase, he can be seen rather explicitly trying to avoid the split by leaning to one side. He even proceeded to walk off with the lean intact.
