#ruby wax

SHOCK TREATMENT (1981)

(or, a Monty Python fan watches the Red Dwarf episode “Timeslides” for the first time)

Recently watched the Red Dwarf S3 Ep5 episode “Timeslides” for the first time, and I really liked and enjoyed it fr! It was very funny tbh, and ngl I fr relate with Lister’s existential dread with lounging about with nothing to do and wishing things went differently. I would absolutely love a Tension Sheet fr, I think it’d help me with my anxiety tbh

Kryten & Cat are so cool I absolutely love them both <33

Holly is a Sarcastic Queen fr 💅👑✨

Ruby Wax as Blaise (/Blaize) Falconburger was also pretty funny too, I really enjoyed her performance in the episode!

Ok the reason I did watch this episode was partly (actually no, not “partly”, it’s was “entirely” really lol) because of the fact that Monty Python member Graham Chapman was originally gonna play the role of Blaise(/Blaize) Falconburger, but he unfortunately passed away before rehearsals and filming began, and so the role was given to Ruby Wax at the last minute.

Idk why, but if in some AU where Graham never had cancer (or, at the very least in an AU where Graham’s cancer wasn’t as rapid and he was still well enough to at least appear in cameos or smth idk), this scene truly would’ve hit different at the time as it probably would’ve been, like, his final final acting role or smth, ya’know what I mean?

Like the episode is about people entering into photographs, like MOVING photographs, and so if Graham appeared in this episode as was originally planned, his performance really would’ve really given the episode a whole new meaning to it. Like the episode is about people going into the past via photographs from the past, and trying to change the timeline so they could have a different future compared to the one they currently have, so they could have a better AU life than the one they currently have, an AU life where they are happy and content compared to the mundane monotony and lack of excitement in their original life. Graham’s would-be performance had he not died would’ve (imo) represented this heightened sense of longing to be in a AU where everything is alright and good and happy and the world was ok for once (like for example, Graham Chapman not having cancer and is still alive and well and happy), as well as being really emotional too 🥺🥺😭😭❤️❤️.

Anyway, those are my thoughts and I apologise for making everyone sad now.

To cheer myself and y’all, the Red Dwarf theme song absolutely slaps fr 💯💯💯

Girls on Top - ITV - October 23, 1985 - December 11, 1986

Sitcom (13 Episodes)

Running Time: 30 minutes

Stars:

Dawn French as Amanda Ripley

Jennifer Saunders as Jennifer Marsh

Ruby Wax as Shelley DuPont

Tracey Ullman as Candice Valentine

Saunders, who plays PR boss Edina “Eddie” Monsoon on the show, and Dame Joanna, known for portraying her alcoholic friend Patsy Stone, will appear alongside Julia Sawalha (Saffron Monsoon) and Jane Horrocks (Bubble), as well as a roster of famous faces.