Bodyswap
| "Bodyswap" | |
|---|---|
| Red Dwarf episode | |
Using Lister's body Rimmer has a feast for the first time in 3 million years
|
|
| Episode no. |
Series 3 Episode 4 |
| Directed by | Ed Bye |
| Written by | Rob Grant & Doug Naylor |
| Original air date | 5 December 1989 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
|
Lia Williams as Carol Brown (Voice) |
|
Lia Williams as Carol Brown (Voice)
"Bodyswap" is the fourth episode of science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf Series III, and the sixteenth overall. It premiered on the British television channel BBC2 on 5 December 1989. Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, and directed by Ed Bye. This was the first episode to be recorded without a live studio audience. The plot has Rimmer suggesting that the perfect way to help Lister get "healthy" is swapping bodies. The episode was re-mastered, along with the rest of the first three series, in 1998.
A malfunctioning skutter runs amok and rewires Red Dwarf's circuitry, producing two thousand wiring faults and making the whole ship a booby trap. When Dave Lister orders a milk shake and a Toffee Crisp from one of the snack machines, he inadvertently triggers the ship's self-destruct countdown. As the auto-destruct can only be over-ridden by a senior officer, all of whom are dead, Kryten performs a mind-swap: the mind of Executive Officer Carol Brown is temporarily placed into Lister's body so she can voice-activate the shut-down procedure; but the plan fails and the auto-destruct sequence continues. Everyone braces for death as the countdown reaches zero – whereupon the food machine dispenses Lister's milk shake and candy bar. It turns out the countdown was wired only to the vending machine, not to the ship's bomb — besides which Holly got rid of the bomb ages ago and never bothered to tell anyone.
Although the excitement is over, Kryten's solution gives Arnold Rimmer an idea. He convinces Lister to swap bodies with him. He will be able to enjoy the benefits of a tangible body again for two weeks, while he exercises and gets Lister back into shape. However, unable to resist the pleasures he has been denied for so long, he eats, drinks and smokes far more than Lister ever would have, putting on quite a bit of weight in the process. Lister is naturally appalled and demands his heavily abused body back after just one week.
...
Wikipedia