Recruiting by showing episodes

[nessaancalime.livejournal.com]

This is an interesting discussion which I can not remember seeing in this fandom before:
If you had to select just one episode to show to someone that would
a) convince them that this is a really good show, and
b) show them the Rimmer/Lister thingie (remembering they have not seen anything else),
Which would you pick?

Comments

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

Hem. I keep wanting to yell 'All of it!', but one episode...

I think, IMHO, either the first episode, or Bodyswap. Besides, once you draw them in, you can bring out the heavy slashy artillery.

roadstergal has a point, though. Tikka to Ride would be another good starting point.

[shaychana.livejournal.com]

hope no one minds my jumping in here, but why bodyswap? i love the episode, but i wouldn't rec it to a novice at all. to me, the humour/awesomeness of the ep relies very heavily on the meta element of us fans knowing how rimmer and lister normally are to begin with.

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

...*headdesk* You're right. I wasn't thinking. Erm. Move along, move along.