Product Details

• Actors: Robert Addie, Charles Augins, Chris Barrie, Jacqui Boatswain, Angela Bruce
• Directors: Ed Bye
• Writers: Doug Naylor, Robert Llewellyn
• Producers: Ed Bye, Doug Naylor
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English, Esperanto
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: August 18, 1998
• Run Time: 51 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305076189
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #332,187 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Second One, February 8, 1999

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Joel Kathrens (Spokane, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Dwarf - Smeg Outs [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you're reading this, you know that Red Dwarf is the best comedy of all time. If you've seen the show, you can imagine some of the outtakes they might have. This is the second tape of outtakes, but it also includes some clips of a Red Dwarf convention with a comedy routine by Norman Lovett. The first one, 'The Smeg UPS', is actually quite a bit funnier than this one though. Buy them both.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Red Dwarf bloopers video form...oh bleep, April 6, 2004

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Daniel J. Hamlow (Narita, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Dwarf - Smeg Outs [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Robert Llewelyn (Kryten) hosts the second bloopers tape, containing bloopers from Seasons 1, 2, and 3 of Red Dwarf, with a few included from Season 4 and 5 later on. He divides the smegouts into animals, inanimate objects, and humanoids. On the first, he has a very funny comment: "we've had chickens that wouldn't fly, rabbits that wouldn't hop...thank heavens we never actually hired that constipated elephant." Actually, that would've been a laugh had one been hired.

Of the actors, Christopher Barry (Rimmer) mostly does fluffs and freezes. The first is basically getting his lines tingue-toed, I mean tongue-tied, saying "chitley" instead of "chutney" in "Thanks For The Memory." The second is when he says a line, then freezes when he forgets the following one. Or unexpected things happen, like the hologram "H" on his forehead falling off. Llewelyn says of Rimmer as someone who "engages in failing to articulate the predetermined sequential order of previously absorbed notations from an earlier inbuilt set of clearly defined collection of verbalizations." Translation: "he shags it up right and proper."

Presented in split segments is the "Tongue Tied" song Danny John-Jules (the Cat) sang in the last episode of Season 2, "Parallel Universe," and he's got an interesting voice with an unfamiliar range, as Craig Charles (Lister) says at the 1995 RD convention. And there's the complete, continuously shown smegmix of that song, meaning there is some claymation shots of the Cat mixed in, substituting for Norman Lovett's scenes.

Some scenes from the 1995 Red Dwarf conventions, held after Season 6, are included, where Craig Charles does a darned good poem on the spot, and Llewelyn recounts a funny anecdote involving Charles on a horse on "Gunmen Of The Apocalypse" episode.

For the Cat, there's a repeated loop of him fluffing a line from "White Hole" where he's telling Lister, "...conserve your energy. Stan and Ollie will be back with the supplies..."

Norman Lovett (Holly the computer) is a good standup comedian at the RD convention, affecting that laconic deadpan voice of his, talking about his Cavalier King Charles dog, which has bulging eyes and has a penchant for Marty Feldman videos. In the segments where he flubs his lines, he cusses the most, from "Oh bu--er" to the eff word, bleeped over, of course. At one point, he says "Sorry, I'm not usually rude." Yeah, right!

Other tidbits include the original opening sequence not used from Season 2's "Marooned," the most popular scene in the series, from "Polymorph" no less, and 10-most asked questions from RD, most of which involve continuity errors.

Lotsa fun for the RD fan.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smegging hilarious, April 3, 2000

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This review is from: Red Dwarf - Smeg Outs [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Smeg Outs is fantastic, it is made up of Smeg Outs from the first three series. It also includes the full smegmix version of the Cats " Tongue Tied" video. So funny you will laugh until you cry :o) I thought this one was a bit funnier than Smeg Ups but they are both fantastic Enjoy