A leather collar with a small speaker disc on a mossy log and an orange squirrel cutout behind.

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Arnold Rimmer

So Lister what are you telling us? You're a closet squirrel? Behind closed doors you parade up and down with a strap-on bushy tail, calling yourself Nutkin?

— Red Dwarf • 1988

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker mockingly exaggerates a supposed secret, picturing Lister in private wearing a bushy strap-on tail and calling himself Nutkin. The rapid-fire questions ridicule the idea with theatrical disbelief, treating the imagined squirrel persona as both absurd and faintly scandalous.

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