Fuchal

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Fuchal is the Cat race's version of Heaven in the BBC series Red Dwarf, episodes The End and Waiting For God in the first series.

Fuchal was supposed to be a hot dog and doughnut stand on a farm Lister planned to open once he got to Fiji. After 3 million years (the Cat race evolved while Lister was in suspended animation and left his pet cat Frankenstein on board the ship) the name of the place got mixed up, as did Lister's name, their god now written as 'Cloister' and depicted as having a golden doughnut crown and sausage.

There were five sacred laws, one of them involving sheep. Lister himself has broken four of them, and would have broken the fifth but there were no sheep onboard. There were also the sacred gravy marks and the sacred custard stain the Cats had to wear, and they had to renounce coolness for a life of slobbiness.

The faithful Cats were to wear sacred cardboard hats with humorous arrows stuck through them. There was a holy war in which two factions of Cats fought over whether the hats were supposed to have been blue or red. Lister announces that they were actually supposed to be green as Holly reads his translation of the Cats' Holy Book to him.

Eventually, a truce was called between the two factions and two arks were built in order for the Cats to find Fuchal, using Lister's laundry list he'd lined Frankenstein's bed with as a star chart. The first ark set off and flew into an asteroid and the next departed believing they were the true blessed ones.

The sick and the lame had been left on the ship when the two arks left. Cat (played by Danny John-Jules) was born to the cripple and the idiot (his father chewed his own feet off).

The one Cat left besides Cat was a blind priest who lost his faith on his deathbed. Just before he dies, Lister comes in wearing the golden doughnut and sausage, posing as Cloister, and tells him not to be worried because, though his faith had been tested and he renounced it, he'd actually passed. He hands the priest back the sacred hat Cat had been supposed to burn, and then the priest dies rejoicing the fact that he's just been told by Cloister that he's going to Fuchal.