"Emergency!" (or, a really short and pointless entry)

[raven]

Have spent the afternoon lying in bed, reading, writing and watching Red Dwarf. As has already been established, I don't laugh generally at Red Dwarf, but every so often, there is a line in it that makes me laugh constantly for the next few days. The poor resident lunatics had to cope with this a few months ago when I wouldn't stop laughing at Kryten and his funky stuff. Well, I'm at it again. Holly - in fact, if I may interrupt myself, why Holly? I know s/he became female later on, but as the computer did start out male, why name him Holly, of all things? Not that I don't like the name - wasn't there a male character called Holly in Watership Down? - I just thought it was odd.

Anyway, yes. I love the way that computers in sci-fi generally tend to go to red alert and flash "Emergency" in times of trauma. Holly's method is to shout, "Emergency! Emergency! There's an emergency going on! Emergency! Still going on!"

Yes, I'm laughing. Just thinking about it. I must be nuts. While I'm on the subject, the Cat makes me laugh too. Just everything he does; the constant swishing and mirror-gazing make me giggle, and then in one of the episodes I was watching today, he decided to go "courting." On rollerskates. With a megaphone. "Attention all lady cats! I am feeling very sexy!"

And I'm laughing again. Because laughter is contagious, has anyone else seen this? I laughed at that, too.

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[tygermoonfoxx.livejournal.com]

It must be a British thing....some friends tried to get me into Red Dwarf but I just couldn't do it. The show either struck me as stupid or incomprehensible, depending on my mood. But then, I don't get British comedy in general. Friends who showed me "Are You Being Served" and Monty Python were equally disgusted. Ironically enough, I do get Black Adder....perhaps because it's historically based and so I have a connection point.

[language-idling.livejournal.com]

Barbie and Ken broke up because Ken is gay. Obviously. Just ask BruceLance; Ken is a queer idol. Breaking up is just the first step towards being out of the closet to the entire world, not just the fashion doll circuit.

As for Red Dwarf, it makes me giggle like a fiend. I love the cat. He is just so... a cat.

[just-the-ash.livejournal.com]

The only other male I've heard of with "Holly" as a first name was Holly Johnson from Frankie Goes to Hollywood, whose personnel are now firmly in the "what ever happened to" category. I thought they called the computer that because it was short for "Hologram." The female personality was originally introduced, I think, in an episode in which the crew hits a parallel universe and meets everyone's female counterpart -- not only does the balding male Holly meet and holographically get it on with the parallel ship's "Hilly" (the blonde woman we see later), but Lister sleeps with the female Lister after getting drunk together -- and he gets pregnant, which is the normal way of things in the parallel universe.

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[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*giggles* *smacks forehead* Of course! Why, oh why, did I not see it before? Poor Ken. All these years. Shortly he'll go through his midlife crisis and start hooking up with prettyboi!dolls with the long hair and leather boots, but right now it's all doom, despair, and packing his things into cardboard boxes.

Red Dwarf. The Cat. I'm giggling and I can't stop. "Attention all lady cats!"

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[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I've got that episode on my DVDs! Haven't watched it yet, though. Thanks for the tip. I have to admit that I like Holly, in both incarnations. S/he is just too funny. "Emergency!"

[arianwen.livejournal.com]

Purple alert, purple alert!

This is not a drill. This is a drill! [drill noise]

Repeat, this is not a daffodil!

~
And yes, I do know what you mean. Sometimes certain lines just crack me up for days... weeks even. Last time was when you posted "I suddenly feel the need to strut my funky stuff!" and I was giggling over that for days. Occasionally I just get an image of (male) Holly arriving and saying, "All right dudes? What's happening?"
[considers] I really shouldn't share some things.

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[loneraven.livejournal.com]

It's hard to explain the appeal of Red Dwarf. Maybe it is a British thing; some of the jokes just have that classic Hitch-Hiker-esque feel to them. The show has added resonance up here, of course, as Lister is a very typical Scouser, and Rimmer could have been a bona fide product of Merchants'. One thing I feel bound to point out, though - which episodes did you watch? After about season five, the show jumped the shark. It's the early ones I've been watching today.