Rodney Trotter and was born from a one line joke in the very first episode, "Big Brother". This became a long-standing joke throughout the entire series. It is revealed in numerous episodes such as "Big Brother", "The Long Legs of the Law", and "A Royal Flush" that Rodney is embarrassed about Del's antics, including lying to girls they want to date. In "Yuppy Love", he lied to a new girlfriend, Cassandra, that he lived in the posh King’s Avenue in order to impress her; however, she later found out where he lived when she phoned Nelson Mandela House. Del often asks Rodney
Cassandra (Red Dwarf) five. Doug Naylor claimed this episode was to play into the fans' beliefs that Rimmer was going to die and come back as a hologram. Mac McDonald appeared as Captain Hollister, Graham McTavish as Governor Ackerman, Geraldine McEwan as Cassandra, Jake Wood as Kill Crazy, Ian Soundy as Guard. In the DVD commentary to this episode, Danny John-Jules claims the name and appearance of Cassandra were homaged in the ""Doctor Who"" episode "The End of the World", as a joke. Cassandra herself is named after the figure from Greek mythology who could see the future and predicted her own death.