Pete: Part I story
Rimmer and Lister are not having a good time, frequently in and out of the captain's office for offences, each of which annoy Hollister more and more until he snaps and has them thrown in "the hole", a sparse prison cell inhabited only by an insane Welshman called Birdman and his pet sparrow, Pete. Meanwhile, the others return from a Canaries mission with a "time wand", a device that can manipulate time. Directed by: Ed Bye. Story by: Doug Naylor.
17 total · 5 major · 12 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| felinoid being | major | The cat-man Cat is a main character. |
| human vs. captivity | major | Lister and friends were stuck in the Red Dwarf prison and were trying to use a time manipulating device to escape. |
| humanoid robot | major | The humanoid robot Kryten is a main character. |
| military related work | major | The crew were embedded in a military hierarchy and behaved accordingly. |
| what it is like in prison | major | The story presents a caricature of what it might be like to be incarcerated in a contemporary prison: Cat was beaten by the guards, Lister and his friends were forced to play basketball against the guards as a punishment, Rimmer coped with bad prison food, Lister and Rimmer were sent to "the hole" for two months, etc. |
| coping with bad cooking | minor | Rimmer explained that his "grandmother's buttocks deep fried in chip fat" would taste better than his prison issue dinner. |
| devolution | minor | Kryten had used the time wand to regressed a sparrow to be its dinosaur ancestor. |
| giant monster | minor | The bird Pete was turned into a man-eating dinosaur by means of a phallic blue device. |
| human cloning | minor | Lister hypothesized that they were being fed the products of cloning experiments gone awry. |
| human vs. beast | minor | The story ended with Lister and his friends being chased by a voracious Tyrannosaurus rex. |