The Last Day

A message pod reaches Lister from Diva-Droid International, manufacturers of Kryten and the 4000 series of mechanoids. It announces that Kryten is outdated and should shut himself down, as his replacement will arrive the next day. Kryten resigns himself to his fate, telling Lister he's going to his reward in "Silicon Heaven". Lister tries to tell him there's no such place, to no avail. Lister then decides to throw a last-day party for Kryten. Kryten, waking the next morning with a hangover, realises that he has had fun for the first time, and decides not to go quietly after all. When the new mechanoid, Hudzen, proves to be dangerously insane and tries to kill everyone, Kryten shuts him down by telling him that silicon heaven doesn't exist.


Quotes

Hudzen: No such place as Silicon Heaven? Then where do all the calculators go?


Still on the subject of Silicon Heaven:

Kryten: Surely you believe that God is in all things? Aren't you a pantheist?

Lister: Yeah, but I just don't think it applies to kitchen utensils. I'm not a frying pantheist!


Then, a little further into the conversation:

Lister: Is Silicon Heaven the same place as Human Heaven?

Kryten: Human Heaven? Goodness me! Humans don't go to Heaven! Someone just made that up to prevent you from all going nuts.


Trivia
  • Robert Llewellyn made a brief, unmasked, appearance as Jim Reaper, the Diva-Droid executive.
  • The plot to this episode, as well as the title, is similar to the Jack Nicholson movie The Last Detail.


Plot Inconsistency
  • When sitting at the table, Kryten states that he doesn't eat and he doesn't drink. In Backwards, just a few episodes before, Kryten is shown drinking a glass of water and eating an egg. This can only be resolved if he meant he doesn't need to eat or drink.
  • After Kryten tells Hudzen that there is no Silicon Heaven, he states to Lister that he was lying. This is inconsistent because in the next episode Camille Kryten is first learning to lie (and having a hard time with it, too).
  • Kryten says to Lister Aren't you a pantheist? to which Lister gives a reply which confirms he is but every other time throughout the entire series Lister's religion is mentioned it says he's an atheist sometimes even the ultimate atheist, however this may just be to prove his point by saying that it doesn't apply to kitchen utensils 'I'm not a FRYING-pantheist!!'