Red Dwarf/Krytie TV

Krytie TV
Season 8, Episode 5
Airdate	March 18, 1999
Written by	Doug Naylor, Paul Alexander
Directed by	Ed Bye
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Red Dwarf — Season Eight

Krytie TV is the fifth episode of the eighth season of Red Dwarf, and the forty-ninth episode overall.

Guest Stars: Jake Wood (Kill Crazy), Graham McTavish (Ackerman)

Plot Overview

Lister gets a letter offering to review his case, the outcome of which would influence the cases of those in situations similar to his, including Rimmer. Rimmer is thrilled!

On the way back from a Canary mission, Kryten grouses about having to shower with the women ... naked, foamy women. Of course, this halts all male conversation in the transport. The other prisoners ask him to take video of the women for them to see, but he flatly refuses on moral grounds and stomps off to sit with the women.

Some time later, back in the Tank Kryten is mugged (hit in the head with a spanner) and re-programmed. In the theatre that night the regular movie is interrupted for Woman's Shower Night -- a video feed live from the women's showers -- hosted by none other than Kryten himself. Lister turns to leave, worried that participating in this could hurt his chances for appeal. However, he halts in his tracks when he hears, Kristine Kochanski's name. He cannot tear himself away, and continues to watch for another three hours!

The next day, in Kryten's "office" Lister confronts him, but Kryten is now behaving like a sleazy talent agent and doesn't seem to care. When Kochanski enters his office, Lister tells her as well. Later that day Kryten comes to Lister's and Rimmer's cell, telling them that he was kicked out of the women's wing for what he did. He also has news that Kochanski has a new boyfriend (her ex-boyfriend Tim). He's taking her to the officer's club tonight, but Kryten has a plan to foil their date.

Following Kryten's directions, Lister sneaks out of the Tank and into Tim's quarters. He wrecks the place: bacon on the light bulb, strategically placed christian rock music albums, etc. He hangs a monkey-on-the-toilet poster, and place bits of lingerie, half-eaten food, and crumbs between the bed sheets. To top it off, Lister embeds pubic hair clippings (his own) into the soap.

Relieved to have finished, he exits through the front door only to find Kryten waiting for him in disguise. Kryten closes the door to point out that Lister hasn't trashed Tim's quarters, he's just trashed Warden Ackerman's quarters. While Lister frantically tries to get back into the quarters through the now-locked door, Kryten announces, "Woops! You've been Krytered!"

Unable to reenter though the door, Rimmer races to the rescue by helping Lister climb back through the vents and race against time to clean Ackerman's quarters, while the inmates in the theatre roar with laughter. With Rimmer's help Lister is able to finish tidying up before Ackerman returns. Exhausted, they make their way back to the tank.

Some time later back in the Tank, Lister receives a letter: his appeal has succeeded: he is to be allowed to have strings for his guitar. Rimmer didn't know that he was fighting for guitar strings when he helped Lister clean Ackerman's quarters. He thought the appeal was for their freedom. Lister, however, is thankful that Rimmer helped him, and promises to write him a song. Rimmer is less than thrilled.

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Petersen finds Lister's guitar in the wreckage of Starbug and sends it to Lister in the Tank.
• We discover that Warden Ackerman has a glass eye.
• Rimmer is suprisingly helpful in the episode, seen when he rushes to help Lister near the end of the episode.

Referbacks

• Lister mentions the "Om" Song as an example of a good song that he's written.

Trivia

The Show

• Warden Ackerman is beaten up, mugged, and his glass eyeball is taken. He needs the glass eyeball for his date that night, so he offers amnesty for whoever took it. He turns out the lights expecting the perpetrator to drop his eye into the provided bucket, but all he gets instead are dentures.
• During Women's Shower Night, Kryten stares at a tile until his cohorts in the theatre get enough contributions for the show to continue.

Allusions and References

• As the show opens we see Kryten in the woman's wing of the Tank with Stand by Your Man playing in the background.
• While going through his post, Rimmer discovers that he has won the Reader's Digest "Lucky Dip!"

Quotes

• Kryten: You've been Krytered!

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