A small metal robot head with round eyes and a blank brass plate rests on a purple cushion.

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Lister

"To the lease holder of Kryten 2X4B 523P." That's your full name?

— Red Dwarf • 1988

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker reads out an official-sounding address to a leaseholder and asks, in disbelief, whether that string of letters and numbers is really the other person's full name. The joke is how absurdly mechanical the name is, more like a serial number than something anyone would be called.

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