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''Red Dwarf'' is particularly known for its creators' lax attitude towards continuity. As such, there are many facts and events that go contradicted (sometimes multiple times) from series to series. In the beginning, changing such things as the number of people on-board the ship, or the number of times Rimmer took his astronavigation exam, was a result of Grant and Naylor not bothering to check their facts because they assumed that no-one else would either. Once the show began to attract a quite large fan base, however, such errors began to be gleefully pointed out by fans the world over, to the extent that they became one of the series' most notable features. Most of the series' continuity errors are therefore now treated with a certain amount of tongue-in-cheek reverence, and cheerfully ignored (just as Grant and Naylor ignored them when writing the show). Nevertheless, highlights include:
*Probably the most famed example is of Lister having had his appendix out twice, as it is removed by Legion in Series VI, despite the fact that Rimmer 'remembers' having had it removed as part of the memories he is given by Lister in "Thanks For The Memory". [[Rob Grant]] covers this in an interview by stating that Lister regrew his appendix during the episode "DNA", while another explanation is found in [[Doug Naylor]]'s novel ''Last Human'', in which it is revealed that Lister was born with a double appendix. In the Smeg Ups Bloopers video, Kryten answered a fan letter stating that since Lister enjoyed the procedure so much, he did it again.
*In Series I, Lister has shared a total of 171 words with Kochanski (he had a better verbal relationship with his potted plant) and had never asked her out. By Series IV, they had dated for three months, before she dumped him for a catering officer named Tim.
*The number of people aboard the ship is 169 in Series I, rose to 1,169 in Series IV, and was implicitly reverted to 169 in "The Inquisitor". In the novels, meanwhile, the ship had had a complement of 11,169 prior to the radiation leak.
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