red dwarf

There's a time and place for crazy plots. Take, for example, the Red Dwarf episode "White Hole" (4.4). Here the crew must rescue themselves from a time-spewing "white hole" by closing it up with a planet. Perfectly mundane sci fi so far -- but wait: this planet must be knocked into the white hole according to the principles of a game of pool, as if a solar system and a pool table were equivalent physical entities, or as Lister (Craig Charles) explains to Rimmer (Chris Barrie):