Arnold Rimmer’s character description

Arnold Rimmer was the hologram in the legendary British Red Dwarf science fiction show in the 1990s. I found myself reading his Wikipedia page for fun today, and got a chuckle from this: The creators of the series acknowledge that Rimmer’s surname comes from a snobby prefect with whom they attended school. They joke that only the boy’s name was used, and not his personality because “that would imply he had one”. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-08-27.