Oh, for Smeg's Sake

You don't know how excited we were when we heard that new Red Dwarf was coming out this year. The first episode of Red Dwarf: Back To Earth airs April 10th at 9 p.m. in the UK. "In the UK" being the operative phrase for us. Cause we're in the smegging US. Knowing teh Intarwebs, we'll find a version online before June, but if not, we have it on good authority (Robert Llewellyn's FAQ) that DVDs will be released for the viewing pleasure of those of us in the US then. So that's something. But still. An extra month! We're impatient. smeg.

According to Ian Symes's Smeg List, there are 227 unique occurrences of some combination of smeg on the show, which gives us 4.37 s/e (smegs per episode). This is even more impressive when you realize there is no smeg in Terrorform, Back To Reality ("Duane Dibbley?!?"), or Emohawk: Polymorph II. And for folks who are going to yell at us for printing this word on a shirt, the Grant Naylor (when it was a single being), denies that this word is based on "smegma." It was their "frak" for the late 80s - a generic futuristic curse word. Course, the sort of people who were going to yell at us for that are the same people who aren't fans of the show and won't read this far, so this whole bit was kinda pointless. smeg.

"smeg." printed in white on a charcoal grey, 100% cotton t-shirt.