On board the mining ship Red Dwarf, the slovenly and lazy Third Technician Dave Lister is sentenced to eighteen months in stasis for smuggling an unquarantined cat on board. Three million years later, he is revived to discover he is the sole surviving crew member on board the ship following a nuclear disaster, and very probably the last human being alive in the universe. But he is not alone. Also on board is HOLLY, the senile computer powering the ship; an intangible hologrammatic version of Second Technician Arnold Rimmer, his pompous and cowardly immediate superior; The Cat, a humanoid evolved from Lister's pet cat; and Kryten, a neurotic android. And so this motley crew goes where no one has gone before, in search of adventure, women, and a really good vindaloo...
*cringes at the sights, and description of Red Dwarf*
Sounds utterly stupid and looks terribly low budget. Then again, I guess the same things could be said about Monty Python.
Hitchhikers guide is fucking amazing, both the book and movie. My single favorite passage from the entire series is this:
Vogon poetry is the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kris. During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been "disappointed" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save life and civilization, leaped straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
KagomJack said:
My girth isn't anything to bitch and moan about in long, elaborate paragraphs.
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