From: euclid@NOSPAMTHANKSshaw.ca   
      
   On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:43:25 +0100, Gavin    
   wrote:   
      
   >You just don't get that with Red Dwarf... partly because it's last   
   >series was in 1999, before reality TV even existed in Big Brother   
   >form. Makes you wonder what kind of jokes and themes Red Dwarf would   
   >contain if it was a modern series. (The closest it came was the Jeremy   
   >Beadle reference in Krytie TV, which was already a decade out of   
   >date).   
      
   I'm glad that's the case.  I'm glad the humor in RD transcends current   
   pop culture.   
      
   Sure, there were jokes about ZX-81 crashes and the Albanian State   
   washing machine company, but I think that most of the jokes stand on   
   their own without needing a crutch like, "The cockpit is a charred   
   mess.  It's like Linday Lohan's third trip to rehab in there!".   
      
   I remember reading something around the time of the first Shrek movie.   
   The story goes that production had taken so long, that the big   
   Macarena dance scene was cut way down because the Macerana had come in   
   gone in the time it had taken to make the movie.   
      
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