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But we already knew he wasn't the last human being alive, we'd encountered many of them throughout the shows run, so it didn't really matter

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ORIGINAL: Mr E

I thought it took a while to get going with the first couple of seasons IMO, but series 3,4,5 and 6 are masterpieces with all four main characters fully established. The last two series weren't as good although still enjoyable. Can't really pick a favourite character they're all great.

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ORIGINAL: Loxley

'His name was Arnold Arnold Arnold Rimmer, without him life would be much dimmer....'

I used to love watching this, and for some reason this song sticks in my head.  Can't remember the specifics of the episode, but he died or something.  There was a theme ride thing build for him which Lister Kryton and the Cat go on.  Something like little Rimmer robots dancing singing that song.

Or so I remember.....feel free to correct me. 

It's strange the things that stick.  [8|]

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ORIGINAL: mumblin sumpthin

I was never a big fan of Red Dwarf, although I thought the odd episode was quite funny and some of the writing was very clever and witty. There were two episodes that I remember being especially funny though, one was where Lister was trying to get Kryton to override his programming and call Rimmer a smeg head and the other was the one with the brilliant light bulb line....
 
Rimmer: Step up to red alert!
Kryten: Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb.

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ORIGINAL: TobiasFunke

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But we already knew he wasn't the last human being alive, we'd encountered many of them throughout the shows run, so it didn't really matter

I can't think of one episode until series 8 that invalidated lister being the last human being alive. They met dopplegangers, waxworks, holograms, reanimated corpses, simulants, parallel versions and past/future versions of themselves...but no human beings. Time travel doesnt count. That was probably the shows biggest rule, lister being the last human, apart from the 'no aliens' rule. Also, I stand by 7 being better than 8. 7 had so much character development and interesting storylines (the epideme virus, krytens origin, listers' parenthood, the kennedy assassination, the truth behind red dwarfs theft etc etc). 8 had long, drawn out story arcs (3 episodes to get them back on the ship), the terrible 2-parter with the dinosaur and the humour became crass, even  infantile.

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ORIGINAL: Sexual Harassment Panda

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ORIGINAL: TobiasFunke

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But we already knew he wasn't the last human being alive, we'd encountered many of them throughout the shows run, so it didn't really matter

I can't think of one episode until series 8 that invalidated lister being the last human being alive. They met dopplegangers, waxworks, holograms, reanimated corpses, simulants, parallel versions and past/future versions of themselves...but no human beings. Time travel doesnt count. That was probably the shows biggest rule, lister being the last human, apart from the 'no aliens' rule. Also, I stand by 7 being better than 8. 7 had so much character development and interesting storylines (the epideme virus, krytens origin, listers' parenthood, the kennedy assassination, the truth behind red dwarfs theft etc etc). 8 had long, drawn out story arcs (3 episodes to get them back on the ship), the terrible 2-parter with the dinosaur and the humour became crass, even  infantile.

What about the people from Nodnol? They were human, they just did everything backwards.

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There was also an episode where Kryten was made human, and Rimmer was as well in another, so Lister wasn't the only human then either

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Rimmer was made human because of mixing around with time travel, and was blown to bits seconds later, and Kryten was made human by a DNA altering device and changed back in the same episode. So technically Lister IS the last human being alive, as the others briefly became human through tampering with time and machinery, just as the crew in series 8 were duplicates created by the nanos.