| This requires some explanation. If you’ve ever seen the British sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf, you can skip down to where it says Enter Al. The storyline starts four months after Lister and the guys hop dimensions and meet Deb, Arlene, Dog and Hilly. (If you want to read my Red Dwarf fanfic, go here. It's called Listy's Psych Test.) Red Dwarf is about a man who, through dint of bringing along a forbidden feline when he signed on to work on the space-mining ship Red Dwarf, got put into stasis (kinda like cryogenic freezing, but not really.) His name is Dave Lister. He’s in stasis when his roommate Arnold Judas Rimmer makes a mistake cleaning the drive plate and subjects the crew to a lethal dose of Cadmium II radiation. Three million years later, the ship’s computer (Holly, who is represented as the head of an aging British man on a TV screen) brings Dave out of stasis and informs him he’s the last man alive. To keep him company, he revived a member of the crew as a hologrammatic simulation of their personality. Who did he pick? The most annoying, fault-ridden, nuerotic man in the history of the Universe itself, Arnold Judas Rimmer. He also has discovered a descendant of that illegally brought-on-board cat, whose name is Cat. The storyline begins after Lister, Rimmer, the Cat and Holly hop dimensions and visit their female doubles. In this dimension, the men have the women’s roles and vice versa. (Think Nellie Armstrong, Wilma Shakespeare, and Masculinist rallies (as opposed to Feminist.)) It isn’t until after Dave and his double, Deb, get drunk and have a little too much fun that we find out that it isn’t just political, creative, and that kind of role the men got switched, it’s also one of the most basic distinction between male and female. The men get to have the babies. Dave’s in deep trouble. After they hop back to their own dimension, Dave discovers that Deb has, indeed, gotten him “in the family way”. Four months goes by. Enter Al. Since the way the Dwarf crew deals with trouble is to make fun of it (we’re talking non-deadly trouble here) the crew is having a field day with poor Dave. Who, in my dream, has assumed the body, mind, and assumedly heart of none other than Mr. Yankovic himself. The whole dream was basically Al/Dave wandering around the halls of the Dwarf getting made fun of by the crew. The Cat would just snicker whenever he saw him, and Holly always had some form of misquote about his situation (from where I don’t know). But Rimmer was having a ball with this. Every time he saw Al/Dave, he’d laugh and mime a large belly while making a wise-crack about it. The odd thing was, Rimmer’s insults were about half Al and half Dave. For example, “Preggie polkaboy” was one of them. But Rimmer only called him Lister. But every time Rimmer made a remark, Al topped it with a better one, and Rimmer would slink away to think of another. And then I woke up. (Odd how the explanation took longer than the dream, eh?) My Take On It Next Dream |
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