Trivia
- Earlier in the episode it is explained that the paradox caused Starbug to grow substantially and have considerably more decks/rooms. yet Starbug itself did not change in size, indicating that the paradox created a Tardis like effect upon the ship.
- This episode features the first use of a flashback to a previous episode ("Out of Time").
- This episode was the second to have no studio audience. The first one, the third series episode "Bodyswap", was not done in front of an audience, as Craig Charles and Chris Barrie had to mouth their lines, so they could be synced in later.
- The title of this episode is a piece of word-play based on the name of the song "Ticket to Ride" by the Beatles, in accordance with the theme of curry on which the storyline focuses.
- Craig Charles only took one take to do the long monologue at the start of the episode.
- When the second shooter fires from the Grassy Knoll, Lister, Rimmer and Cat are dressed up as tramps. Three tramps are reported to have been found on the Grassy Knoll when the police searched it after the shooting, but nobody knows who they were or what happened to them afterwards.
- The Xtended version of the episode features a fuller, alternative ending. Lister is seen to discover that the curry supplies had been hidden by himself from the past to the aft section of Starbug, to prevent them from being destroyed in the flood. However, Rimmer's joke is only played out when he separates that section from the rest of Starbug.
Continuity
- This episode contains an unusually large number of continuity errors, some of which even contradict the previous episode. Two of the most glaring errors are the following:
- A big deal was made in "Out of Time" of the fact that the time-drive travels only in time, not in space. In this episode, the time-drive seems to function in both, and yet the crew at no point decide to use it to get them home, or to retrieve Red Dwarf, although the crew are determined to avoid time travel to prevent turning out like their future selves. The time-drive being able to function in space as well as time could be explained by the portable model's resemblance to the matter paddle from "Meltdown". Presumably, Kryten combined the two, for which there is a precedent, as Kryten tweaked the matter paddle to duplicate matter in "Demons and Angels", otherwise the teleporter could be used as this is already capable of travelling in space and time as seen in "Rimmerworld". Also, at the beginning of the episode, Lister says that things have 'Emerged from both timelines to cope with the paradox', and as their future selves obviously found a way to get back to Earth to sample the finest life can offer, the time drive found in this episode may be theirs.
- At the beginning of this episode it is explained that, when the crew from the future killed their past selves, the resulting paradox restored their past selves to life. However when Kennedy does the exact same thing at the end of the episode, his past self remains dead.
