"There's a certain roughness about your touch that really hits the spot."
The Boyz from the Dwarf have to deal with the little consequences of meddling with the Time Wand - namely, an angry T-rex currently stomping around the cargo hold.
This episode contains examples of:
- Big Eater: Pete the dinosaur consumes a vindaloo made in an inflatable pool containing a whole cow, followed by 2 1/2 tons of mint-choc ice-cream, 400 crates of orange ice-pops and 2000 gallons of Coca-Cola.
- Delayed Reaction: When Kill-Crazy and Baxter zap Lister & Rimmer with the Time Wand and then try to beat them up, the physical effects of being punched, shoved and otherwise manhandled don't affect the duo until they are in Hollister's office later.
- Dung Fu: Hollister recounts that, after Pete threw up from her over-indulgences, she then... "ejected" a fifteen foot high tidal wave of T-rex dung.
- Fartillery: Pete's over-eating induced belch evidently hurled an entire platoon of Red Dwarf guards some 20 feet away.
- Hollywood Evolution: Baxter and Kill-Crazy accidentally regress themselves with the Time Wand, turning into a pair of gorillas.
- Lethal Chef: Lister feeds a T. rex a giant bowl of "cow vindaloo". It takes two tastes of it then ran for a drink. The other results were unfit to show on television. Though in that case, it was more or less what he was trying to do as earlier it had eaten a time-manipulation device and they needed it back.
- Masochist's Meal: The "cow vindaloo with added roughage" that the Boyz cook up to coax Pete the T-rex to expel Bob the Skutter and the Time Wand.
- Mr. Exposition: Gloriously averted and lampshaded when Kochanski asks Kryten how long it would normally take Pete to "pass" the Time Wand, and Kryten reports that dinosaur bowel frequency movement tables are not in his database.
- Right Behind Me: Rimmer insults Hollister.Lister: He is a good Captain, though, Captain Hollister, isn't he, eh? On the ball. Quick.Rimmmer: Quick? The only time he's quick is when he's passing a salad bar.Lister: You do admire him though, don't you?Rimmer: Admire him? A man who has his own cinema pick-and-mix factory in his quarters? A man who has a walk-in fridge? Who lists as his hobbies 'chewing' and 'swallowing'?Lister: You did tell me once before, though, you do respect *him*, don't ya?Rimmer: Respect him? A man who's family crest is made up of two cream buns and a profitarole? A man who's idea of a light snack — He's standing behind me, isn't he?Hollister: Yes, he is.
- Overly Long Gag: Hollister's recounting of Pete's behavior after being driven off by the cow vindaloo.
- Sanity Slippage: Captain Hollister becomes increasingly traumatized over the events of this episode and the previous one. This culminates in him losing his voice due to sheer horror.
- Skewed Priorities: As the Dwarfers are preparing the cow vindaloo to try and coax Pete into excreting the Time Wand, Lister shouts at the others not to add the bran and other roughage intended to assist in that process to the mix, complaining that they'll "spoil the taste".
- Stress Vomit: The devouring of, in short succession, cow vindaloo, 2 1/2 tons of mint-choc ice-cream, 400 crates of orange ice-pops and 2000 gallons of Coca-Cola causes Pete to first belch with enormous volume, then to puke, and then finally to suffer a diarrhea attack.
- Take That!:Rimmer: A seven-ton Theropod is not going to eat Indian food. They like flesh. Preferably living, liberally coated in blood with a side-order of intestines, and an extra portion of blood. A bit like the French in that respect.
- Toilet Humor: Pete's suffering stress/overeating-induced vomit & diarrhea attacks is played for laughs, as Hollister recounts five men nearly drowning in dino-puke, two being concussed by "pieces of carrot the size of tree trunks", and the second platoon being washed away by a literal tidal wave of diarrhea.
- Too Dumb to Live: Kill-Crazy and Baxter want to have a fist-fight with Pete the T-Rex, ambushing Rimmer & Lister and stealing the Time Wand so they can get it.
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: At the episode's end, Hollister decides to imprison himself in the Hole for a year just to get away from Lister and Rimmer.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Invoked. Hollister mentions his favorite foods include mint-choc ice-cream, orange ice-pops, and Coca-Cola, with Pete having devoured every last scrap of them all to try and wash the flavor of the vindaloo out of her mouth.
- Trauma Conga Line: Over the course of this two-part episode, Hollister undergoes: spending 7 hours with an unrelenting erection, losing all of his hair to a programmable virus, being washed away by a tidal wave of T-rex poop, having a skutter fall on his head after being ejected out of a T-rex's anus at high velocity, and then finally being licked by a T-rex hatchling as he lies naked and vulnerable on a massage table.
- Understatement: "The rules regarding dinosaurs aboard JMC vessels are very clear: No pets."
- Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: It turns out that Pete is female when Rimmer & Lister discover she laid an egg as a T-rex.
