A complete madcap time travel episode, and one of the best in the series. Past Rimmer has some very Blackadder remarks all through the series, my favorites being his scene with the Captain in a chicken suit, which he thinks he's hallucinating. Of course Rimmer doesn't think to fix the drive plate. He just wants to survive the leak, crew be damned. That said, his rudeness and callousness comes from his belief that people don't like him. See how offended he is when Lister points out that Rimmer doesn't even like him. He's a total sociopath, an overgrown private school bully like the one from Jacqueline Wilson's Cliffhanger, but also a lonely man with no real friends.
This episode is hilarious, and goes the extra mile at the end.
This episode is hilarious, and goes the extra mile at the end.