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* SwallowedWhole: Lister punishes Rimmer at the end by swallowing the capsule containing his light form and deciding to let it [[AnuscapePlan pass through him.]]
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* BlindIdiotTranslation: In the Czech dub, Rimmer's stories about playing ''TabletopGame/{{Risk}}'' became... stories about playing ''dice''. Naturally, the war references make no sense in the dubbed scene.
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* VariationsOnAThemeSong: The closing theme is sung by Elvis.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Pythagoras is utterly ''obsessed'' with triangles and believes they are the solution to the Wax War.

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* VariationsOnAThemeSong: The closing theme is sung by Elvis.
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WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Pythagoras is utterly ''obsessed'' with triangles and believes they are the solution to the Wax War.
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-->"That's something no-one should ever have to see!"
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* FiringSquad: Lister wishes he hadn't watched ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' refuse the blindfold.

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* FiringSquad: Lister wishes he hadn't watched ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' Franchise/WinnieThePooh refuse the blindfold.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: PlayedForLaughs, but Lister is under the belief that Goering is a cocaine addict and a transvestite. Goering was addicted to ''morphine'' following a gunshot wound to the leg, and there is no evidence whatsoever about him having ever been a transvestite, and Goering prided himself on being a military man.
-->'''Lister:''' The sad thing is, if things had worked out differently, he had the makings of a major movie star.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: Winnie The Pooh refuses a blindfold before his death by firing squad.
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* GeneralFailure: When given the chance to act out his fantasies by leading an army of wax robots based on historical figures to victory against a faction of evil wax-droids, Rimmer winds up killing three of his own soldiers from overexertion during training exercises, sacrifices all but one of his army as a distraction, and [[KillEmAll commits genocide on the entire wax-droid population]], achieving victory in a technical sense but one that horrifies the rest of the Boys from the Dwarf.

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* GeneralFailure: When given the chance to act out his fantasies by leading an army of wax robots based on historical figures to victory against a faction of evil wax-droids, Rimmer winds up killing three of his own soldiers from overexertion during training exercises, sacrifices all but one of his army as a distraction, and [[KillEmAll commits genocide on the entire wax-droid population]], population, achieving victory in a technical sense but one that horrifies the rest of the Boys from the Dwarf.



* HostileAnimatronics: The crew find a planet built as a theme park, occupied by "wax droids" of historical figures. Over the millennia, the droids have broken their programming and are now engaged in a planetwide war between the good and evil characters. One side somehow ends up enlisting ''Rimmer'' as their new military leader in order to break the stalemate. [[spoiler: He... [[KillEmAll technically succeeds]].]]

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* HostileAnimatronics: The crew find a planet built as a theme park, occupied by "wax droids" of historical figures. Over the millennia, the droids have broken their programming and are now engaged in a planetwide war between the good and evil characters. One side somehow ends up enlisting ''Rimmer'' as their new military leader in order to break the stalemate. [[spoiler: He... [[KillEmAll technically succeeds]].succeeds.]]
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* ResizedVocals: Rimmer's hologram body is temporarily deactivated, leaving him as nothing but the miniscule light bee that normally projects him. He can still speak in this state - allowing him to express horror at Lister cheekily mock-eating the light bee and spitting it out - but his voice sounds tinny and helium-pitched.
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* NotSoDire: The episode opens with Rimmer telling a story about how he was in a dangerous situation and needed to use all his skills to survive. He then listed the sequence of dice rolls that enabled him to win that game of ''TabletopGame/{{Risk}}''.
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-->'''Lister:''' Yeah, Rimmer, right, absolutely. Now all those corpses out there littering that battlefield can rest easy, knowing they snuffed it under a flag of peace and can now happily decompose in a land of freedom... [[YouBastard you smeghead]].

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-->'''Lister:''' Yeah, Rimmer, right, absolutely. Now all those corpses out there littering that battlefield can rest easy, knowing they snuffed it under a flag of peace and can now happily decompose in a land of freedom... [[YouBastard [[WhatTheHellHero you smeghead]].
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Back with Kryten and Rimmer, they find themselves brought into an armed bunker and presented with several famous figures; {{Pythagoras}}, UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein, [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel]], Creator/NoelCoward, Creator/MarilynMonroe... They promptly ask who Kryten and Rimmer could be, recognizing that they aren't waxdroids like they are. It's explained that this planet is an abandoned waxdroid-populated themepark, the residents of which slowly broke their programming over eons of neglect and have achieved full sentience. However, the villainous character waxdroids launched war on their more peaceful counterparts, and have almost conquered the planet; all of the heroic war-leaders like Creator/JohnWayne, [[KingArthur Sir Lancelot]], UsefulNotes/HoratioNelson, UsefulNotes/TheDukeOfWellington, UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc and Creator/DorisDay have already been wiped out. Elated by this discovery, Rimmer immediately sets out to take charge of the survivors as their new general, discovering his remaining subordinates also include Jean-Paul Sartre, Santa Claus, Saint Francis of Assisi, UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi, Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama and UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria.

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Back with Kryten and Rimmer, they find themselves brought into an armed bunker and presented with several famous figures; {{Pythagoras}}, UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein, [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel]], Creator/NoelCoward, Creator/MarilynMonroe... They promptly ask who Kryten and Rimmer could be, recognizing that they aren't waxdroids like they are. It's explained that this planet is an abandoned waxdroid-populated themepark, the residents of which slowly broke their programming over eons of neglect and have achieved full sentience. However, the villainous character waxdroids launched war on their more peaceful counterparts, and have almost conquered the planet; all of the heroic war-leaders like Creator/JohnWayne, [[KingArthur [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Sir Lancelot]], UsefulNotes/HoratioNelson, UsefulNotes/TheDukeOfWellington, UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc and Creator/DorisDay have already been wiped out. Elated by this discovery, Rimmer immediately sets out to take charge of the survivors as their new general, discovering his remaining subordinates also include Jean-Paul Sartre, Santa Claus, Saint Francis of Assisi, UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi, Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama and UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria.
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* MisappliedPhlebotinum: They never considering using the Matter Paddle to teleport back to Earth though we don't know how far from Earth they actually are. The novel continuity specifies they're in the Andromeda galaxy so would be out of range.

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* MisappliedPhlebotinum: They The crew never considering considers using the Matter Paddle to teleport back to Earth Earth, though we don't know it's never specified just how far from Earth they actually are. The novel continuity specifies they're in the Andromeda galaxy so galaxy, which would be out of put them outside the Paddle's range.
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* NotWhereTheyThought: Lister assumes that he and the Cat have time travelled and ended up in Nazi Germany. They are in fact on a planet populated by waxdroids, in their own time.
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* ForgottenPhlebotinum;
** The Matter Paddle only appears again in ''[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVDemonsAndAngels Demons & Angels]]'' where it isn't even used as a teleporter.
** Noddy asks why they don't use it alongside a ContinuityCavalcade of other phlebotinum in ''[[Recap/RedDwarfBackToEarth Back To Earth]]'' but the guy's say it's back on the ship.


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* TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay: The Matter Paddle can teleport you anywhere within 500,000 lightyears meaning it could take you anywhere within a given galaxy.
* MisappliedPhlebotinum: They never considering using the Matter Paddle to teleport back to Earth though we don't know how far from Earth they actually are. The novel continuity specifies they're in the Andromeda galaxy so would be out of range.
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* GeneralFailure: When given the chance to act out his fantasies by leading an army of wax robots based on historical figures to victory against a faction of evil wax-droids, Rimmer winds up killing three of his own soldiers from overexertion during training exercises, sacrifices all but one of his army as a distraction, and [[KillEmAll commits genocide on the entire wax-droid population]], achieving victory in a technical sense but one that horrifies the rest of the Boys from the Dwarf.



* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Pythagoras is utterly ''obsessed'' with triangles and believes they are the solution to the Wax War.

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* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Pythagoras is utterly ''obsessed'' with triangles and believes they are the solution to the Wax War.War.
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* VariationsOnAThemeSong: The closing theme is sung by Elvis.

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* VariationsOnAThemeSong: The closing theme is sung by Elvis.Elvis.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Pythagoras is utterly ''obsessed'' with triangles and believes they are the solution to the Wax War.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Rasputin, bring in the bucket of soapy frogs and remove his trousers.]]


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* FiringSquad: Lister wishes he hadn't watched ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' refuse the blindfold.

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