Talk:Arnold Rimmer

message: Rimmer shouldn't be under Fictional English People.   The only mention of where he's from on the show is that he went to Io House for school, and the books have him being from Io.   So not English, just somewhere with a remarkably similar accent. 
76.189.99.150 07:36, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems to be left over from when it was part of the Red Dwarf characters page. Fixed. -asciic 08:48, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Rimmer shouldn't be under Fictional English People

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:Arnold Judas Rimmer BSc, SSc (Bronze Swimming Certificate, Silver Swimming Certificate), who sometimes goes by Arnold Jonathan Rimmer is played by Chris Barrie in the television series Red Dwarf.  He is instantly recognisable by both the permanent sneer on his lips and the "H" (hologram) symbol on his forehead.
To read:
:...who sometimes goes by Arnold Judas Rimmer...
Does anybody have a citation for his not being sometimes known as Arnold Jonathan Rimmer.
In episode "Justice" (3rd of 4th season) Kryten presents him at court as Arnold Judas Rimmer. There is canned laughter when he speaks the "Judas" part. I suspect that Kryten is playing here on the self loathing, suicidal personality of Rimmer (which is what gets him to prison in the penal colony on the first place); it is not his actual name, else there would have been no canned laughter either; we are to regard it as an in-context joke. Furthermore, Rimmer seems to disaprove of the name. Lucius Domitius 19:53, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: In The Inquisitor, Lister tries to persuade Rimmer that he (Lister) knows him (Rimmer) by saying something like "Your middle name's Judas, but you tell everyone it's Jonathan". He is referred to as "Arnold J. Rimmer" all the time. So it's definitely his middle name, although he does disapprove of it (he disapproves of most of what his parents did to him, his name being no exception). Mendor 00:00, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Interesting remark; but the fact is that "Justice" predates the "Inquisitor" and is still the first mention of the name "Judas", as a joke according to all evidence. The idea might have occured to the creators to make it into Rimmer's real name after the "Justice" episode. Lucius Domitius 13:37, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  The Series II episode "Better Than Life" predates both of these, where the Taxman clarifies his full name, a character created by Rimmer's twisted subconscious. Andymarczak 11:42, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

text:  "it is not his actual name, else there would have been no canned laughter either". I don't follow this reasoning? Judas is an odd and therefore humorous name to have, and seems particularly apt for Rimmer, hence the laughter. Judas is his real name. 86.130.250.216 (talk) 09:40, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: I was redirected here from The Rimmer Experience.  This article has one sentence which almost discusses the experience section of the episode, but doesn't tell us anything about the experience.  The page that was at "The Rimmer Experience" before it was deleted, has a large amount of, (if not usefull then interesting), information about this section of the episode. Is there any way of getting this page "undeleted", or at least merged into this page? JP Godfrey 21:52, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Have a read. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Rimmer Experience --Billpg 20:49, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have.  There was one vote for "Delete", one for "Keep or Merge" and four for "Merge" but in the end it was re-directed with "no content untrivial enough to be worth merging", so I have added it to the bottom of this article.  (It could probably use some re-writing and finding a better place for it in the article though.) JP Godfrey 22:19, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Rimmer Experience 

message: Was in it Judas? In episodes Only the Good...--Brown Shoes22 03:58, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  His middle name 

message: In the article it states that rimmer has only had sex with one woman (Yvonne Mcgruder) but in "Holoship" (series V)its shown (or at least heavily implied) that he had sex with Nirvanah Crane(the exact quote is something along the lines of "You make love like a chinese meal...")I'm not the best at editing articles and I didn't want to make such a huge change...so could someone whose more capable make the edit or explain to me why its not credited?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Agent452 (talk • contribs) 21:37, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes but Nirvanah only came along after he was dead so isn't relevant to his life. Timrollpickering 22:39, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rimmers sexual exploits 

message: I am a great fan of this show and A. J. Rimmer is my favourite character. Having say this I cannot remember a time in the series that he is refered to as "Arnold Jonathan Rimmer" All I can remember is him being called "Arnold J Rimmer, Arnold Judas Rimmer, A J Rimmer, or Smeghead. Maybe it should go, "Who sometimes goes by Smeg head, Smeg for Brains, Goalpost Head, Flared Nostrils.. ext" MattyC3350 (talk) 07:12, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Lister made a comment in "The Inquisitor" that Rimmer implies to people that his middle name is Jonathan. It's a one-off comment, hardly notable and shouldn't be mentioned. Nreive (talk) 08:40, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

text: Thanks for that :) I remember that one instance now. I agree I dont think it is really notable. Thanks :) MattyC3350 (talk) 10:16, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Who sometimes goes by Arnold Jonathan Rimmer" 

message: I have deleted the following passage because I am a big Red Dwarf fan, but I have not seen anything in the show to suggest that there is any basis for this information. The only evidence that exists is his fathers suggestion that he "had an alibi for his sperm that night" but that is just along the lines of deriding things that a lot of disappointed fathers say about underachieving children "He's no Son of mine" etc etc...Also, he does bear an uncany resemblance to his Brother Frank in the episode "Timeslides" (because he is also played by Chris Barrie!). Anyway, this is the passage I removed until someone can provide any other evidence to support it. "There is evidence scattered throughout the series that Rimmer may have a different father than his brothers — specifically, that he may be the only one of the four Rimmer children to be the biological child of both Mr. and Mrs. Rimmer.  He claimed that his father had an alibi for his sperm on the night of conception." magnius (talk) 09:16, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Father 

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message: Given the main image is of Rimmer on an alien Holoship, in a different uniform, with a different 'H' moniker on his forehead, it's perhaps not the best image to represent the article. Could we find a different one? 86.130.250.216 (talk) 09:38, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
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message: Why is Rimmer referred to as "First Officer Rimmer" in the season 7 episode, "Stoke me a Clipper?" In "Better Than Life", I'm assuming that the reference to Rimmer having actually passed a previous Astro-Navigation exam and thereby being promoted to Navigation Officer First Class, is discounted based on the fact that in the next scene an 'in-game' character appears and Lister exclaims, "We're still in the game!" So how can he be an officer? 60.240.5.113 (talk) 08:13, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't seen it but reading our article I would think it is linked to the alternative Rimmers that are part of the plot. Britmax (talk) 08:51, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
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