- Rimmer: Leave this to me. As stand-in senior acting commanding officer of the J.M.C. Mining Ship Red Dwarf, and protected as I am under Space Corps directive 381 286 - Kryten shut up - I demand that you release us all immediately, or at least one of us as a gesture of good will, which I'd like to volunteer.
- Lister: But criticism can be good, right? It forces people to become better.
- Kryten: Not always, sir, take you.
- Lister: What about me?
- Kryten: Well, as a guitarist, you've been criticized, belittled, decried, vilified, panned and slammed your whole life.
- Lister: And your point is?
- Kryten: You still utterly suck, sir.