Welcome to yet another document which I had nothing to do with the production of, all credit for this should go to Lee.
OK Ive kept you waiting long enough. People have asked to see this work of [cough] art and I cannot deny them. :)
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Background:
I've always found it difficult to judge one episode of Red Dwarf from another. Sure I have found every single episode of Red Dwarf funny (EVEN Emohawk), But some are definitely funnier that others. To produce my definitive list of fav episodes I would have to find a fair way of marking each episode. (Its based on age, rank seniority in fact to cut a long story short its....)
Method:
So just how have I marked all these episodes? Well, and this is the bit that (for some reason) had Friday and Ang in stitches at the Livermeet, simply I watched each episode and every time there was a laugh I judged the joke out of 5, 0 for why is there a laugh here, and 5 for rolling on the floor laughing in extreme agony.
Why:
I guess I'm just this really sad bloke y'know. Plus it was an opportunity to watch every single episode in (BBC tapes) sequence.
Here goes:
| Episode | Mark | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Polymorph | 203 | No surprises here |
| Kryten | 195 | Funny episode I guess |
| White Hole | 154 | Would you like some toast? |
| Holoship | 154 | Well I found it funny |
| Parallel Universe | 152 | What's this doing here? |
| Queeg | 151 | I thought this would be higher |
| Timeslides | 148 | another shocker |
| Rimmerworld | 146 | Series 6 at last |
| The Last Day | 140 | |
| Confidence and Paranoia | 139 | Series 1 at last |
| Balance of Power | 139 | and another |
| Out of Time | 138 | Ang: about right yes? |
| Marooned | 135 | |
| Camile | 135 | |
| Waiting for God | 134 | another could be higher episode |
| Quarantine | 132 | |
| D.N.A | 128 | |
| Me^2 | 124 | |
| Legion | 123 | |
| Bodyswap | 123 | |
| Meltdown | 123 | |
| Demons and Angels | 120 | Ow, This score sucks :) |
| Better than Life | 119 | |
| Dimension Jump | 116 | too much reliance on Ace |
| Future Echoes | 116 | |
| Back to Reality | 112 | Too much reliance on Duane |
| Stasis Leak | 112 | |
| Terrorform | 110 | Justified score |
| Backwards | 109 | |
| The Inquisitor | 106 | |
| Thanks for the Memory | 103 | |
| The End | 98 | suffered from the first to be scored |
| Gunmen of the Apocalypse | 85 | |
| Emohawk (Polymorph II) | 81 | Too much reliance ...enuf said. :) |
| Psirens | 70 | and this featured in the least worst scripts!!!! |
Series:
By my calculations (and obviously these are subject to change pending information update)
3 - 858 2 - 832 4 - 778 1 - 750 5 - 734 6 - 643
Conclusion:
Make of it what you will. As each score is based on what *I* thought each laugh is worth. sometimes I listened to how loud the laughter was, sometimes I just memorised myself falling on the floor the first time I watched the ep.Episodes that scored surprisingly badly like Back to reality, Gunmen and The End seemed to me to rely on a funny plot line rather on the ammount of jokes. The 3 Series 6ers at the end may have suffered from me being rather fed up with the whole idea after 30 odd episodes, but that doesn't explain Legion, OOT or Rimmerworld.
Kryten is for me the most shocking of them all, I hadn't calculatd it as a particually good episode, BUT it does have a large number of funny jokes.
The End :)
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