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Red Dwarf (1988) - 17 plot holes in entire show

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Backwards (season 3, episode 1)

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In the episode 'Backwards' most of the things that happen on 'Backwards Earth' are correct, except, of course, in reverse. But there is an exception: in the scene in the Cafe, when the waitress comes to 'dirty' the table, she tips a box of trash on the table. If you play this scene backwards, the trash leaps from the table into the box. Even on a 'backwards earth' I can't believe that trash spontaneously leaps about...

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If everything goes backwards, shouldn't Kryten and Rimmer have got fired, done their job and then got hired? Rimmer & Kryten discovered that everything was backwards in the cafe earlier in the episode. At the club they did their act and then got fired. Put this 'forwards' and it becomes wrong.

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Polymorph (season 3, episode 3)

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Right after the shrinking boxers scene, Kryten says the small boxers are missing from the bunk, but you can see them right in front of him.

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Timeslides (season 3, episode 5)

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In season 2 episode 2 Better Than Life, Rimmer says his brother Frank was 6 foot 5 by the time he was 11. However, in season 3 episode 5 Timeslides, the picture of Frank Rimmer's wedding shows he is around Rimmer's height which would be about just under 6 foot.

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When they are viewing Rimmer's brother Frank's wedding, Frank is about 6 foot tall. However in "Better Than Life", Rimmer said his brother Frank was 6 foot 5 by the time he was 11. So Rimmer's brother Frank should be a lot taller than he is in the wedding picture.

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How did the crew get hold of a picture of a young Rimmer in bed at boarding school? Who would take such a picture?

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Camille (season 4, episode 1)

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At the start of the episode, on a shelf in the sleeping quarters is one of Rimmer's Army De Nord figures, which were all burned in Marooned in series 3.

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The Inquisitor (season 5, episode 2)

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Allman does not remember his trial when the Inquisitor erases him, yet Lister and Kryten do remember their trial when they are sentenced.

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Demons & Angels (season 5, episode 5)

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The low Lister does not disappear when the time limit on the copies ends.

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Psirens (season 6, episode 1)

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When Rimmer is sitting on the swivel chair, he manages to turn the seat, impossible as he is a hologram.

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Tikka To Ride (season 7, episode 1)

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The man the crew find stampeded to death had been lying in the road for a year, yet he had not began to decompose.

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Stoke Me A Clipper (season 7, episode 2)

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The alligator that falls out of the plane with Ace hits the ground several minutes after Ace does.

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Back in the Red (1) (season 8, episode 1)

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At the end of Nanarchy, Red Dwarf had been rebuilt to be the same as it has always been, yet in this episode it has transformed into its original design.

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Back in the Red (2) (season 8, episode 2)

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As the luck virus gets you what you want, it should not have cured Lister of the sexual magnetism virus when Kochanski was all over him.

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Cassandra (season 8, episode 4)

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Lister and Kryten seem to know about Cassandra's prediction that Rimmer would sleep with Kochanski despite the fact that they were not there when Cassandra said it.

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Krytie TV (season 8, episode 5)

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Lister is not allowed any dangerous objects that he might try to commit suicide with, yet when he is with the canaries on their missions, he carries an assault rifle. The canaries aren't always supervised and it would be impossible for a guard to stop any of them putting a gun to their head and pulling the trigger.

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Pete (2) (season 8, episode 7)

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Pete the sparrow was dead before the time wand was used on him to become a dinosaur. When the undo button was pressed, Pete should have turned back into a dead sparrow.

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