Red Dwarf, Series X

Red Dwarf (1988 - 1999, 2009 - ) is a BBC Sci-Fi/Comedy television show set on a fictional mining spaceship, the Red Dwarf of the show's title, three million years after radiation killed most of the crew. The main characters are: more »

Rimmer:
[explaining a lateral thinking question.] 'It's 1971, a Swedish man crashes into a tree, what causes the accident?' There's nothing medical, nothing wrong with the car.

Lister:
[deadpan.] Riiiight, so, um, this Swedish guy drives into a tree, what caused the accident.... Answer's in the back, right?

Rimmer:
Right.

Lister:
[milking it.] Well... That's a really hard one, that. I mean, probably gotta be pretty damn smart to get a question like that right. You know what, I'm gonna go for a moose.

Rimmer:
A moose?! [scoffs.]

Lister:
Yeah, it was in the road, he swerved to avoid the moose.

Rimmer:
[checking.] Are you insane? That's never gonna be - it's a moose.

Lister:
[wandering out.] Sometimes life is good.

Kryten:
Ah, sir, you asked me to remind you, it's ten minutes til your exam-

Rimmer:
Kryten, lateral thinking question, just got it myself. It's 1971, a Swedish man drives into a tree, what causes the accident?

Kryten:
Well, it's a moose, sir, he swerves and hits a tree.

Rimmer:
Is it me? How did you get that?

Cat:
Get what?

Rimmmer:
I've got something for you. A lateral thinking question.

Cat:
A lottery what?

Rimmer:
Ahhh, I knew I could rely on you. What caused this accident?

Cat:
[alert.] What accident?

Rimmer:
No, no. It's a question, alright? Are you ready? It's 1971, a man-

Cat:
Was he Swedish?

Rimmer:
... Yes?

Cat:
A moose! [Rimmer sags in resignation.] It was a moose! He swerved to avoid it, and hit a tree! Oh, and the moose is on the road, by the way - not in the car driving. Oww! Yea-ah! [dances out of the room.] Oww! Yea-ah!

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