Series 6: the show's peak?!?!

I'm very surprised so many consider 6 the show's peak, it was SO reliant on formulas! The sheer volume of Blackadder 4 simile gags is ridiculous: just compare a character's behavior or a situation to ANYTHING silly (often a long, wordy ramble) and the actor's delivery will make it worth a damn. Especially lazy are the Kryten head comparisons:

"An amusing ice cube"
"A genetically flawed lumpfish"
"An inexplicably popular fishing float"
"A freak formation of mashed potato" (the only one I thought clever)

Then there's the space core directives: just have Kryten say something too silly to be an actual rule.

Quite a few of the plots are refurbished: "Rimmerworld" is just a slight spin on "Terraform" whilst "Polymorph" is retreaded by both "Psirens" and "Emohawk" (the latter also clumsily dragging back Ace and Dwayne, who wasn't even actually a character when he first appears!)

Also, although I think the series may have my favorite dynamic (just the four guys, at times ALMOST chummy and cozy!) it irks me just how much Kryten has taken over by this point: he has almost all the exposition AND the most gags! Lister is also reduced to very little more than a feed man for the most part.

Much as 6 still makes me laugh and isn't completely absent of creativity I don't like giving it too much credit, it's just too chockablock with laziness and it's popularity sorta does the prior 5 series a disservice: beaten by formulas.