Notoriously, and entirely appropriately, the original outline
for Doug Naylor and Rob Grant's comedy sci-fi series Red Dwarf was
sketched on the back of a beer mat. When it finally appeared on
British television in 1988, the show had clearly stayed true to
its roots, mixing jokes about excessive curry consumption with
affectionate parodies of classic sci-fi. Indeed, one of the show's
most endearing and enduring features is its obvious respect for
genre conventions, even as it gleefully subverts them. The
scenario owes something to Douglas Adams's satirical Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy, something to The Odd Couple, and a lot more
to the slacker sci-fi of John Carpenter's Dark Star. Behind the
crew's constant bickering there lurks an impending sense that
life, the universe, and everything are all someone's
idea of a terrible joke.
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