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Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant dies (www.comedy.co.uk)
submitted 2 days ago by Olap@lemmy.world to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
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Just watched Marooned as a tribute to him. For the brits: it is all on the iplayer and Rob was involved til season 6

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Bruh.

That’s perfect.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 18 points 2 days ago

I think this calls for the Full salute

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Smoke me a kipper, I’ll be back for breakfast!"

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

What a guy...

[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Damn. The book announcement was just days ago.

RIP Mr Grant. Thanks for keeping me thoroughly entertained throughout the 90s. When I first moved out of home back in the early nineties I had the first four series on vhs. We watched them over and over and over. Now I’m going to watch them again.

[–] valkyre09@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"This has been a good day. I've eaten 5 times, slept 6 times and made lots of things mine. Tomorrow, I'm gonna see if I can't have sex with something! Aow! Yeah!"

[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 7 points 2 days ago

“Twelve minutes. And that includes the time it took to eat the pizza.”

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Smegging hell. 70 is a good run, but still too soon for me.

[–] MattBlackAlien@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

70 is a good run

70 must seem impossibly far off to you !

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Or, he is looking at his family and not many make it past that age? Only a few men in my family made it to 70, the women mostly made it to between 80 and 92

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Aww, damn. :(

Boo this timeline. :(

[–] PixellatedDave@feddit.uk 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We were talking about Red Dwarf at work just yesterday. It's still one of my favourite all time shows.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I haven't seen a lot of the more recent years stuff - for a long time I hadn't realized they were still making stuff occasionally. I need to go find a collection so I can catch up…

[–] shutz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

"Back to Earth" feels kinda off, but still had some funny bits.

Series X to XII feel like a return to form, with X feeling more like the first few series in tone (more sitcom-y), and the next two feeling more adventurous like series 3 to 6. A few episodes get pretty Black Mirror-ish (in a good way) while keeping up the humor.

Promised Land kept the level of quality, but told a longer story, while remaining very funny and imaginative.