Brilliant episode doing what red dwarf does best, takes history and turns it on its head. Possibly one of the best episodes of the later series's. A must see if your a fan of this highly underrated British TV great.
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Red dwarf at its best.👍👍👍👍👍
littleted9 February 2019
Amusing religious satire
snoozejonc31 December 2020
The crew assemble an IKEA 'rejuvenation shower' and end up back on Earth in AD23.
Like the first two episodes of series 10, I enjoyed Lemons as a story and think some of it is very clever, but I rate the comedy as amusing at best.
It has a plot that has a decent and quite funny sci-fi concept, particularly the IKEA reference. When they go back in time and meet a historical character the focus shifts on to some good religious satire which is pretty thought provoking.
The humour is one of continual amusement but never anything that produced big laughter from me. Comedy though is in the eye of the beholder so someone else may find it funnier than me.
All performances are as good as ever and the visuals work well.
For me it's an 7.5/10, but I always round upwards.
Like the first two episodes of series 10, I enjoyed Lemons as a story and think some of it is very clever, but I rate the comedy as amusing at best.
It has a plot that has a decent and quite funny sci-fi concept, particularly the IKEA reference. When they go back in time and meet a historical character the focus shifts on to some good religious satire which is pretty thought provoking.
The humour is one of continual amusement but never anything that produced big laughter from me. Comedy though is in the eye of the beholder so someone else may find it funnier than me.
All performances are as good as ever and the visuals work well.
For me it's an 7.5/10, but I always round upwards.
The Red Dwarf crew meet somebody rather famous!
Tweekums19 October 2012
Warning: Spoilers
When the crew acquire a new rejuvenating show it is bound to go wrong; especially as it comes from an unnamed Swedish company famous for its flat pack products. Once they have put it together there are inevitably several parts left over. Being unusually cautious they test the device on an old pair of socks; this still doesn't save them from being rejuvenated back to Britain in 23AD! Not to worry though; they have the remote control that will take them back... shame they didn't put a battery in! Remembering some basic science they decide to make a new battery from lemons... the nearest of which are in India. After a six month walk they finally get there and acquire the required lemons. They then sit down for a meal and are rather surprised to find that there is a peace loving man named Jesus at the next table! One thing leads to another and the five of them end up back on Red Dwarf where Jesus undergoes treatment for a kidney stone and reads about some of the negative consequences of Christianity over the centuries; they are shocking enough for him to decide to return to 23AD and start trashing his reputation!
I really liked this episode; it was Red Dwarf at its best. The way they are sent back to 23AD was delightfully silly as was the fact that the people they bump into can speak English because they happen to have visited... despite the fact that the language has changed a lot in 2000 years. I suppose some people might be offended by the Jesus scenes but anybody who wasn't offended by 'Life of Brian' won't be offended by this. There were plenty of great gags to be enjoyed; my personal favourite involved Cat taking Lister's 'mystery meat' in the opening scene only to get the real punch line much later on! We also finally learn why Rimmer was given the middle name Judas. With the new series featuring three fine episodes out of three my previous reservations about bringing back 'Red Dwarf' have been dispelled.
I really liked this episode; it was Red Dwarf at its best. The way they are sent back to 23AD was delightfully silly as was the fact that the people they bump into can speak English because they happen to have visited... despite the fact that the language has changed a lot in 2000 years. I suppose some people might be offended by the Jesus scenes but anybody who wasn't offended by 'Life of Brian' won't be offended by this. There were plenty of great gags to be enjoyed; my personal favourite involved Cat taking Lister's 'mystery meat' in the opening scene only to get the real punch line much later on! We also finally learn why Rimmer was given the middle name Judas. With the new series featuring three fine episodes out of three my previous reservations about bringing back 'Red Dwarf' have been dispelled.
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