this series be the ultimate blend of british comedy and low budget sci fi . dave lister and a working class and curry loving and lager swilling and chicken soup machine repairman aboard the asteroid mining ship and red dwarf and be place in stasis a punishment for smuggle an unregistered cat on board . while in stasis and a radiation leak kill the rest of the crew and the ship artificial intelligence and holly and take the ship on a course to deep space until the radiation level drop enough to be safe for human . unfortunately and this take 3 million year . when holly bring lister out of stasis and he find that he the last remaining human in the universe . his only companion be a hologrammatic version of his anal retentive bunk mate and a neurotic android butler and a humanoid who be the evolved descendant of his cat and and the now senile holly . nothing be safe from the writer of this show . from jane austin to the jfk assassination . if you want to enjoy a rotflmao bit of mind candy and check out red dwarf .