History Recap / RedDwarfSeasonXITwentica

Whilst exploring an uncharted area of Deep Space, the Dwarfers encounter a ship of Simulants, who want the Casket Of Chronos, which allegedly contains one of their brethren's spirit of, in return for Rimmer, who they briefly take to serve as their hostage. Afterward, Rimmer reveals that they were lying - they're actually Expanoids, and they intend to use the device as a TimeMachine to change the past. The Dwarfers thus pursue them by time-surfing on their slipstream.

Approaching Earth, Starbug (plus Kryten and Rimmer) is shut down by an {{EMP}} and crashlands. Lister manages to get everything rebooted, then he and the others make it to a township full of both people and technology which doesn't correspond to anything in Kryten's database. As it turns out, it's 1952, and the Expanoids have used the opportunity to ban technology so that they can enslave humanity. With the help of a dying man, they are led to the Lady Be Good Club with a strange device. There, with the help of a woman called Harmony de Gaultier, they find that the device is something called a capacitator, a device needed to destroy the Expanoids. However, she doesn't know how to put it together, so the Dwarfers go to find one of the few people who can do it - a man who they believe to be UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein. Unfortunately, it really is a random hobo called Bob. Oh, and everyone gets busted by the Expanoids. Luckily, Bob figures it out and Harmony sends the signal to wipe them all out. Lister is given an opportunity to stay on Earth, but as Lister is unwilling to lose Kryten (and Rimmer doesn't want to die), everyone returns to their original time and place. Lister concludes that humanity should not be as reliant on technology... whilst having Kryten clean him up.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Despite the fact he was selected as a case of mistaken identity, Bob the Bum manages to assemble the device needed to destroy the Exponoids and their anti-technology field.

* AnachronismStew: Justified since this is set in an AlternateTimeline, but it's mentioned that Edison is a drunk now. This is presumably UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, who in real life passed in 1931. It appears that the Exponoids arriving somehow prolonged his life, making him 105 years old in 1952.

* AlternateTimeline: The Exponoids create one where technology and science is prohibited during the 1950s. The Dwarfers are eventually able to defeat them though and get time back on track.

* NamesTheSame: They manage to get into the Lady be Good Club by utilizing Lister's name being the same as the scientist Joseph Lister.

* NamesTheSame: The Dwarfers aren't let into a secret hideout for scientists on the grounds they're not members. Cat makes up the name "Listerano" for Lister, thinking it's a Mafia place. The bouncer thinks on the name Listerano, thinking he [[HeroicLineage could be related]] to the scientist and doctor [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister Joseph Lister]]. Probably no relation at all, but Lister pounces on it, remembering "Uncle Joe." That gets them in.

After an encounter with a band of conquest-minded simulants, the Dwarfers are stranded on a 1950s earth where any technology greater than that of the 1920s is illegal.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: According to Lister, he was hot-wiring and stealing cars at the tender age of seven.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Despite the fact he was selected as a case of mistaken identity, Bob the Bum manages to assemble the device needed to destroy the Expandoids and their anti-technology field.
* AlternateTimeline: The Expanoids create one where technology and science is prohibited during the 1950s. The Dwarfers are eventually able to defeat them though and get time back on track.
* ClicheStorm: {{Lampshaded}} when a bunch of evil Expanoids use TimeTravel to [[ConquerorFromTheFuture conquer the Earth's past]], and Lister calls them horribly cliché. This continues later in the episode (paraphrased):
-->'''Expanoid:''' So, WeMeetAgain!\\

'''Expanoid:''' [[NotSoDifferentRemark I think we are not so different, you and I]].\\

* TaughtByExperience: The Dwarfers are determined to get back the {{McGuffin}} from the Expanoids, but not so they could use its time travel abilities themselves. They've learned the hard way of not messing with time travel, after all.

-->'''Expanoid:''' Well, well, WeMeetAgain!\\

* TaughtByExperience: The Dwarfers are determined to get back the {{McGuffin}} from the Expanoids, but not so they could use its time travel abilities themselves. They've learned the hard way of not messing with time travel, after all.

* MundaneUtility: The Dwarfers have been using the Casket of Chronos to prop up their pool table on [=StarBug=]. They intend to keep using it for that purpose even after they learn of the device's time travel capabilities.

'''Lister:''' Smeggin' hell, you boys really are walking cartoons, aren't you?\\
'''Expanoid:''' [[NotSoDifferentRemark I think we are not so different, you and I]].

* NotSoDifferent & WeMeetAgain are said by the expenoids, with Lister calling them "hackneyed old clichés"

* AlternateTimeline

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Doing science is outlawed, and it's played like 1920's alcohol ban in the US.

* NamesTheSame: The Dwarfers aren't let into a secret hideout for scientists on the grounds they're not members. Cat makes up the name "Listerano" for Lister, thinking it's a Mafia place. The bouncer thinks on the name Listerano, thinking he [[HeroicLineage could be related]] to the scientist and doctor [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister Joseph Lister]]. Probably no relation at all, but Lister pounces on it, remembering "Uncle Joe." That gets them in.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Doing science is outlawed, and it's played like 1920's alcohol ban in America.
* MistakenIdentity: The character that the Dwarfers believe is actually renowned astro-physicist Albert Einstein turns out to be just an ordinary crazy homeless guy called "Bob the Bum" who simply ''looks'' like Einstein.

* MistakenForSomebodyFamous: The character that the Dwarfers believe is actually renowned astro-physicist Albert Einstein turns out to be just an ordinary crazy homeless guy called "Bob the Bum" who simply ''looks'' like Einstein.