- Holly creates a new star drive called "Holly Hop Drive" that will warp Red Dwarf from one part of space to another within a matter of seconds. It all goes wrong when Red Dwarf enters an alternate dimension; The crew encounter female versions of themselves and Cat encounters another version of himself, a dog with a southern accent.—Daniel Williamson
- The episode begins with a musical number "Tongue-tied" sung by Cat with Rimmer and Lister as back-up, the sequence is played on a device called the Dream Recorder which Cat is looking through for a dream of he had of an orgy. Rimmer is critical of the Cat race's views toward women, being only interested in sex, Lister says that's rich coming from a man who reads a book on hypnosis to get dates, Rimmer swears by that book, it worked in the past, albeit temporarily.
Holly brings news, he's invented the Holly Hop-Drive, a device capable of instantaneous travel. The device is not very impressive looking, it's just a box with "stop" and "start" buttons, it's used, they set it for Earth, it seems not to have worked until another ship is detected, another Red Dwarf. The drive has taken them to a parallel universe with an alternate crew, Holly interacts with the computer, a female called Hilly, they board and meet their alternate counterparts, gender-swapped versions, Deb Lister and Arlene Rimmer. Cat's version isn't there.
This universe is the same as the male counterparts, only with gender attitudes reversed also, Cat is directed to his counterpart, not a female, but a male dog, a scruffy, unhygienic man with a Dixie accent. According to Holly it's going to take several hours to repair the hop-drive so the crews pass the time in the disco, the females act a lot like the males putting off the males, Arlene making uncomfortable moves on Arnold and Deb outdrinking Dave. Cat and Dog show off their dance moves to each other.
The two Listers wake up in the same bunk having had sex with each other, the two Rimmer's see them, Arlene says that if precautions weren't taken Dave could get pregnant, in this universe males give birth, the drive is fixed and the male crew return to their universe, Lister is given a pregnancy test. Holly recalls the time when they saw future echoes and Lister had twin boys, if Lister is pregnant this is where the twins came from. As it happens Lister is pregnant.
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