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Just the most awesomest scene on TV ever! (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by klu9@lemmy.ca to c/90s_tv

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYfnWRp1Q0

Show: Red Dwarf
Episode: "Stoke Me a Clipper" (Series 7, Episode 2)
Original air date: 24th January 1997
Scene: Ace Rimmer wrestles an alligator out of an exploding plane without a parachute, captures and then surfs the gator through the sky to bite the head off a Nazi in mid-air and then rescues a beautiful princess from a Wehrmacht firing squad on a rocket-powered motorbike. I mean, do you know anything more awesomer than that?
More info: https://reddwarf.fandom.com/wiki/RD:_Stoke_Me_a_Clipper

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What the hell did I just watch

This is awesome ... and terrible

But still awesome

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

😆

Behind the scenes: In the 90s, actor Chris Barrie was simultaneously playing a git (Rimmer) on sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf and... also a git (Gordon Brittas) on sitcom The Brittas Empire, and he asked the Red Dwarf writers to give him a break from being a git.

So they created "Ace Rimmer", a counterpart from a parallel universe who embodies / takes the piss out of every cheesy cool guy / hero cliché ever (with every woman and man swooning over him: "What a guy!").

When Barrie eventually decided to leave the series, the writers created the ultimate Ace Rimmer episode for him to go out on a high. This scene is from that episode.