With sincere-ish apologies to our Lemmings across the pond. Credit to SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world for the comment about M. Bison
No more calls please, we have a winner
If this post got your attention, give the short-lived Hyperdrive a shot. It’s much more Trek than Red Dwarf and leans more comedy than sci-fi in similar ways. As a “normal people just working a job in space” show, it now watches like a BBC template for The Orville. Hey, it even has Nick Frost1 and Miranda Hart in it.
1 - Simon Pegg feels suspiciously absent, although he did land a part in an actual Trek movie not long after this.
If it leans more comedy than sci-fi, wouldn’t it be more Red Dwarf than Trek?
It’s more red dwarf than trek, but it’s more trek than red dwarf.
Aaah, got it.
Good point.
thaunk you four honouring muy culture
You’re only meant to blow the bloody space doors off.
I wonder if the Cockney rhyme “Derry and toms” is partially influenced by the Northern Irish town that had fighting during the Troubles. (And was later the setting for a cracker coming-of-age comedy series.)
Referring not just to the famous London store, but to “derry” as to “have a derry on” meaning to dislike, referring to “down on”, meaning prejudiced against, from Derry Down in Ireland.
Om kaptein Joimes Tee Kerk oi om. Eeah werezit Spack
Cor guv thems yer peepahs??
