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Holly's user interface appears on ship screens as a disembodied human head on a black background, and can also be downloaded into a watch worn by Lister. As a male he appeared as around 50 years old with receding brown hair (completely bald on top as of series 8), and as a female she appears as a woman of ambiguous age but probably 30-ish with long blond hair. In series 1 he was pixelated but this idea was dropped in series 2.

Holly is the ship's Tenth Generation AI hologrammatic computer with an IQ of 6000. After releasing Dave Lister from stasis, Holly tells him that the crew have been wiped out by a radiation leak and has spent three million years in stasis.

Holly's first love was a Sinclair ZX-61 but she wouldn't load (well for him anyway). After meeting his female counterpart Hilly, he was so in love and based his new face on hers. He has a mate called Gordon, who has an IQ of 8000 and is an Eleventh Generation AI hologrammatic computer.

Holly prides himself on the fact he had an IQ of 6000 but after three million years by himself, he has become computer senile. He claims that 6000 is not that great, saying it's the same IQ as 6000 PE teachers. Later, with the help of the toast obsessed Talkie Toaster, her IQ expands to 12,368 but her life expectency is reduced to three and a half minutes (luckily this timeline was erased and she went back to being senile).

The crew often ridicule Holly on his senility but Holly often comes out on tops. One of his finest practical jokes was when a backup computer, Queeg 500 claims that Holly's IQ is only 6, "a poor IQ for a glass of water" and takes over the ship. Queeg makes the crew's lives hell. Then Holly challenges Queeg to a game of chess and the loser gets deleted. Holly loses the game and supposedly says farewell to everyone. It turns out that Queeg was in fact Holly, who was playing the "jape of the decade". He also fooled Lister that Norweb were after him and wanted £18billion (Lister supposedly owned 98% of the Earth's wealth and left a half eaten sausage in his kitchen, which now covered 7/8s of the Earth's surface). He is often cruel to Rimmer. After being called a "stupid ugly goit" by Rimmer (who had Petersen's arm), Holly allowed the arm to beat Rimmer up. He gave Rimmer a haircut that made him look like Helen Shiparo. He also gave Rimmer a massive boil on the back of his neck after being called immature.

Holly runs most of Red Dwarf's systems despite now suffering from computer senility. Among Holly's systems are the service droids known as skutterThe skutters are service robots in the science fiction television series Red Dwarf''. They have bodies similar to K9 from Doctor Who and a single limb extending from this. The limb ends in a three-clawed hand with an elecronic eye. The duties of the skutts that clean, perform engineering tasks and function as RimmerArnold Judas Rimmer who sometimes goes by Arnold Jonathon Rimmer is a fictional character in the British science fiction comedy series Red Dwarf''. He is played by Chris Barrie. The creators of the series acknowledge that Rimmer's surname comes from a sno's hands since he cannot touch anything non- holographic.

While on his own for three million years, Holly invented Hol RockHol Rock is a fictional decialmised version of music on the comedy Red Dwarf. Whilst on his own for three million years, Red Dwarf's computer, Holly, decided to entertain himself by inventing Hol Rock. The notes he invented were 'H' and 'J' and was convin, where he decimalised musicMusic often an art/ entertainment, is a total social fact whose definitions vary according to era and culture," according to Jean Molino. 1 It is often contrasted with noise. According to musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez: "The border between music and no (having ten noteThis article is about music. For information about money, see banknote. In music, a note is either a unit of fixed pitch that has been given a name, or the graphic representation of that pitch in a notation system, and sometimes its duration, or a specifis instead of eight), an A-Z guide of the Universe and claims that he has a collection of singing potatoes to keep him sane. He discovered that there were six main Universes, one of which ran backwards. He believed Kevin KeeganJoseph) Kevin Keegan MBE (born 14 February, 1951) is an English football (soccer) coach and former player. He was born in Armthorpe, Yorkshire. A former England international player, he is currently working for FA Premier League football club Manchester C wrote the worst book ever (Football, It's a Funny Old Game). He is proud of the fact that he can do moon impressions just by lowering his face on the screen. He often greets Lister with "Alright dudes!" He hates being a watch, especially on Lister's wrist. One of the more worrying aspects of Holly's senility is that he has developed a blindspot for the number 7. When he invented the Holly Hop DriveThe Holly Hop Drive was an invention by Holly in the comedy Red Dwarf. Holly claimed that his invention could get the crew to Earth in a matter of seconds, exciting Lister. It turns out to be a box with two buttons, one for start and one for stop. Holly w he claimed that one mistake in his 13 trillion calculations and they would be blown up. He then missed out the seven in his countdown.

Holly was lost for some time along with the ship, which had been stolen by Kryten's nanobots. He was found on a planet made of junk from Red Dwarf, having reverted to his male form, and was downloaded into Lister's Holly-watch. When the nanos rebuilt the ship, there were two Hollys, the original, who generally remains in the watch, and a rebuilt version which has not suffered the effects of three million years alone. The non-senile version only appeared in one episode, "Back In the Red, Part III", and was distinguished by having a head shaped like an egg.