Red Dwarf is SUCH an acquired taste.  I got introduced to it at the 1990 Comic-Con, and was thankfully drunk enough to appreciate it. Since then, I've inflicted it on numerous friends, and discovered that it ain't for everyone.

On parallel universes (universi?), I don't know that they can be proven/disproven with what we currently possess as far as instrumentation goes, but I'd like to believe that somewhere there's a version of me that's rich and has all his hair...