Pete
Joe Siegler
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Pete
This Story: Season 8, Episodes 6 & 7
Overall: Story 47, Episodes 50 & 51
Airdate: 25 Mar – 1 Apr 1999 (UK), 7 Mar 1999 (US)
Written by Doug Naylor & Paul Alexander (Pt 2 only)
Directed by Ed Bye
Notes
- This is a two part episode, “Pete Parts 1 & 2”.
- Personal Note: The sequence in Part 2 where Hollister does his speech about “do you know what happens to a Dinosaur when it eats….” is my wife’s favorite Red Dwarf joke in the entire series.
- Pete Part 2 is the last episode of Red Dwarf written (either in full or in part) by anyone else other than Doug Naylor. From the next episode onwards (Only The Good…), every single episode is written by Doug Naylor (as of Spring 2024).
Links
[ Wikipedia | Tongue Tied Wiki Pt 1 / Pt 2 | Amazon US DVD | Amazon UK Blu-Ray ]Twitter is being difficult with the second tweet for Part 1, so I had to include it as a screen capture here.
#RedDwarfMarathon Ep 50 - Pete Pt 1 - 25 Mar 1999 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) April 11, 2024
Pt 1 consists mostly of Lister & Rimmer getting in trouble over various pranks (which are funny), ending up in "the hole" and meeting a prisoner who has a bird called Pete. They're broken out by Bob the Skutter, and find the pic.twitter.com/98BsxUglhw
#RedDwarfMarathon Ep 51 - Pete Pt 2 - 1 Apr 1999 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) April 12, 2024
"Follow the Rimmer Shaped Blur". Love that line. To stop the dino, Lister makes the largest curry ever causing the dino to get an upset stomach, setting off well, something that Capt Hollister describes quite amusingly. pic.twitter.com/djhOavgmUR
#RedDwarfMarathon Ep 51 - Pete Pt 2 - 1 Apr 1999 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) April 12, 2024
Pt 2 isn't as good as Pt 1 - Kryten's penis joke isn't too funny. In fact, most of the stuff in Pt 2 is kind of "meh". They reset the dino, but not b4 it lays an egg, and the baby dino is just ignored, no resolution. pic.twitter.com/wR454D9Q5a
