2. Meltdown Series Four Episode Six
This episode is far from the best episode in most peoples eyes but its one of my personal favourites just for its sheer lunacy. The crew discover a planet with a breathable atmosphere and discover it is populated by wax androids of historical and fictional people. The evil wax-droids (including Hitler, Caligula, and the Boston Strangler) are at war with the good wax-droids (comprised almost entirely of holy men and intellectuals). Rimmer decides to take command of the good wax-droids and lead them to victory. He technically succeeds but only by wiping out every droid on the planet. As I said, this is one of my personal favourites for being wonderfully surreal and silly. In no other
Red Dwarf episode would we have Marilyn Monroe, Gandhi, and Mother Teresa charging across a minefield, or Lister witnessing the execution of Winnie the Pooh.
Best Scene: Rimmer inspecting his troops and discovering that Stan Laurel, Noel Coward, and Father Christmas are part of his army.
Useless Trivia: The Matter Paddle used by the crew in this episode reappeared in Series Fives
Demons And Angels where it was modified by Kryten to make two copies of whatever object it was used on.