RD: Tikka to Ride

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Contents 1 Overview 2 Summary 3 Notes 4 Noteworthy Dialogue 5 Background Information 6 Guest Stars 7 References

[edit] Overview

While attempting to travel back in time to stock up on Indian food, Lister accidentally prevents the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

[edit] Summary

During the previous episode of Red Dwarf, the future selves of Rimmer, Kryten, Lister and the Cat killed the present versions and destroyed the time drive (erasing the evil, future Dwarfers from existence). This also expanded the cargo deck of Starbug. (Lister broke three video cameras in one week trying to explain the events to the cameras). In the process, all the supplies of B deck (manly curries and lager) were obliterated. In order to gain a curry, Lister removes Kryten's guilt and behaviour chips and goes back in time to Dallas, Texas on the 22nd of November, 1963. Accidentally, they stop the assassination of John F. Kennedy by knocking Lee Harvey Oswald off a 5th floor window. The consequences of this was that in 1964, John F. Kennedy was impeached when he womanising is discovered (resulting in the biggest scaldal in that version of American history), resulting in him being sentenced to an open prison in July 1965, resulting in the mafia controlling the U.S. via their puppet president J Edgar Hoover (blackmailing him with a picture of him in a transvestite orgy), with a nuclear base in Cuba, resulting in all major US cities being fled from, by November 22 1966 (the time they ariive in to escape the cops) Dallas is deserted and they are marooned (as the Russians landed on the moon first, due to the US being traumatised by Kennedy's impeachment) To fix this, the team must figure out how to re-assassinate John F. Kennedy!

 

Their first attempt was to get Lee Harvey Oswald to the 6th floor to prevent their earlier selves from knocking him off, but that results in the same effect, but a different cause, so Lister got the John F. Kennedy from July 1965 to assassinate himself from the grazzy knoll.

In the extended version, it is revealed that the curry supplies were taken by Lister to prevent them from being destroyed in the flood.

[edit] Notes

The episode title is clearly a play on the Beatles song "Ticket to Ride".

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