Boys from the Dwarf

From Tongue Tied

Boys from the Dwarf was a term used by Dave Lister to name the inhabitants of the mining ship Red Dwarf after he was revived three million years after the accident that killed most of the crew. The Boys of the Dwarf were Lister, Kryten, the Cat, Holly (although for some time, Holly was in fact, a female) and, begrudgingly Arnold Rimmer. The Boys from the Dwarf even had a special salute, which consisted in having both hands extended with fingers pointing downward while exclaiming "Boys from the Dwarf!" Latter the hologram version of Rimmer left to become the next incarnation of his alter-ego from other dimensions Ace Rimmer and soon after an alternate version of Kristine Kochanski, a member of the dead Red Dwarf crew, joined the crew after a series of accidents. Even when the rest of the crew where resurrected by nanobots, the Boys from the Dwarf remained in alliance, rejoined by the resurrected form of Arnold Rimmer. In Back to Earth the Boys are trimmed back down to how they last were in Series VI, Cat, Kryten, Rimmer (now a hard-light hologram again who appears to share the original Rimmer hologram's memories), and Lister as Kochanski had left the ship and Holly was offline due to water damage caused by Lister's carelessness (the rest of the Red Dwarf crew still being away on a fleet of Starbug and Blue Midget craft). The term is first actually used by Arnold Rimmer in "Kryten" by saying that "the boys from the Dwarf are on their way!" to Kryten while he was stranded on the Nova 5

Although originally used by Dave Lister in many episodes, such as RD: Quarantine, the term Boys from the Dwarf is often used by Dwarfers to refer to the main characters of the series. The very term Dwarfer is also sometimes used in this sense.