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I was watching my tapes of Red Dwarf yesterday. It's an excellent British science-fiction comedy second only to the radio version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in quality. No connection to "Agile" software development, except that you could say the show is about team-work. Extremely reluctant (and thus funny) team-work in the early seasons.

Seasons 6 and 7 were the least funny, perhaps because the team was working most efficiently then. However, the split of the original creative team of Grant and Naylor, and no longer filming in front a live audience, probably had a lot to do with the decline in quality in these seasons. Season 8 returned to hilarity levels that seemed normal in seasons 2 through 5.

One of the best bits of season 6 is this part of "Legion":

RIMMER: Go to blue alert.
LISTER: What for?  There's no-one to alert - we're all here.
RIMMER: I would just feel more comfortable if I know that we're all on
  our toes 'cos everyone's aware it's a blue-alert situation.
LISTER: We all are on our toes.
RIMMER: May I remind you all of Space Core Directive 34124?
KRYTEN: 34124.  "No officer with false teeth should attempt oral sex in
  zero gravity".
RIMMER: Damn you both, all the way to Hades!  I want to go to Blue Alert!
LISTER: Ok, ok.

LISTER presses a button.  The "Alert" box on the wall starts to flash
blue.

RIMMER: Thank you.  A bit of professionalism.
KRYTEN: Wait!  I've got something - I'm punching it up.

5 Model Shot.

We see a view of an orange, comet-like thing speeding through space

6 Int. Cockpit.

LISTER: Too small for a vessel... maybe some kind of missile.
KRYTEN: It's impossible to tell at this range.  Whatever it is, they
  clearly have a technology way in advance of our own!
LISTER: So do the Albanian State Washing Machine Company.
RIMMER: Step up to red alert!
KRYTEN: Sir, are you absolutely sure?  It does mean changing the bulb.
RIMMER: There's always some excuse, isn't there?