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'''Questular:''' Don't worry, baby. We'll sort it out.
* Another meta-example: Creator/AlanRickman downplayed his voice over role as Marvin, and gave Creator/WarwickDavis the major credit for Marvin (similar to how Creator/DavidHydePierce demurred in taking credit for the role as Abe Sapien in ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}''.)

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'''Questular:''' Don't worry, baby. We'll sort it out.
* Another meta-example: Creator/AlanRickman downplayed his voice over role as Marvin, and gave Creator/WarwickDavis the major credit for Marvin (similar to how Creator/DavidHydePierce demurred in taking credit for the role as Abe Sapien in ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}''.)
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* The entire book is a CMOH. Arthur returns home, meets a nice girl, and basically has the life he's been longing for for the past eight years. It's got plenty of Adamsian wit but is sprinkled with a lot of very sweet (and fittingly off-kilter) moments. Of particular note, at least to [[{{Tropers/Wackd}} me]], is Ford and Arthur watching ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' together. It was the last thing Ford was doing the night before the Earth got destroyed, and his little way of showing that, for all the sarcasm, he actually quite likes humanity. (So much, in fact, that when he helped Arthur and Fenchurch hitch a lift on the spacecraft, the only possessions Ford brought with them were two large boxes of videocassettes of movies.) In fact, there's the fact that he came back at all and that the first thing he did was find Arthur, as well as his joy (and subsequent confusion) at having all of his hard work on the ''Guide'' entry on Earth recognized and put in place of "Mostly harmless."

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* The entire book is a CMOH. Arthur returns home, meets a nice girl, and basically has the life he's been longing for for the past eight years. It's got plenty of Adamsian wit but is sprinkled with a lot of very sweet (and fittingly off-kilter) moments. Of particular note, at least to [[{{Tropers/Wackd}} me]], note is Ford and Arthur watching ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' together. It was the last thing Ford was doing the night before the Earth got destroyed, and his little way of showing that, for all the sarcasm, he actually quite likes humanity. (So much, in fact, that when he helped Arthur and Fenchurch hitch a lift on the spacecraft, the only possessions Ford brought with them were two large boxes of videocassettes of movies.) In fact, there's the fact that he came back at all and that the first thing he did was find Arthur, as well as his joy (and subsequent confusion) at having all of his hard work on the ''Guide'' entry on Earth recognized and put in place of "Mostly harmless."
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** After years of Arthur's life being total hell, to seem finally get a happy ending, will undoubtedly bring a tear to your eye.


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** After years of Arthur's life being total hell, to seem see him finally get a happy ending, will undoubtedly bring a tear to your eye.

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After years of Arthur's life being total hell, to seem finally get a happy ending, will undoubtedly bring a tear to your eye.


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After **After years of Arthur's life being total hell, to seem finally get a happy ending, will undoubtedly bring a tear to your eye.

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---> Arthur: ...oh... (Nearly breaking down from happiness) that's nice...

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---> Arthur: ...oh... (Nearly breaking down from happiness) that's nice...nice.
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[[spoiler: Fenchruch:]] Oh Arthur, you're back!
Arthur: [[spoiler: F-Fenchurch.]]
[[spoiler: Fenchurch]]: [[spoiler: I was just filling out the planning application. You're home just in time for tea!]]
Arthur: ...oh... (Nearly breaking down from happiness) that's nice...

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---> [[spoiler: Fenchruch:]] Oh Arthur, you're back!
---> Arthur: [[spoiler: F-Fenchurch.]]
---> [[spoiler: Fenchurch]]: [[spoiler: I was just filling out the planning application. You're home just in time for tea!]]
---> Arthur: ...oh... (Nearly breaking down from happiness) that's nice...

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!!Specific to the radio series
* The end of the Hexagonal Phase, the final Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio show that started it all. it initially seems like it's going to be a downer ending when Arthur [[spoiler: successfully sees Fenchurch during a hyperspace jump, before loosing her again.]] He seems depressed, and even after finding his [[spoiler: shack from the Guide Mk. 2's simulation, along with Marvin being rebuilt, he's informed by him that the vogans will be destroying the planet due to a lack of filed paperwork...]] and he's accepted it, fully ok with dying at this point... then the door to his [[spoiler: shack]] opens.
[[spoiler: Fenchruch:]] Oh Arthur, you're back!
Arthur: [[spoiler: F-Fenchurch.]]
[[spoiler: Fenchurch]]: [[spoiler: I was just filling out the planning application. You're home just in time for tea!]]
Arthur: ...oh... (Nearly breaking down from happiness) that's nice...
After years of Arthur's life being total hell, to seem finally get a happy ending, will undoubtedly bring a tear to your eye.

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** Arthur alone with Fenchurch for the first time:
---> For Arthur, who could usually contrive to feel self-­‐conscious if left alone for long enough with a Swiss Cheese plant, the moment was one of sustained revelation. He felt on the sudden like a cramped and zoo-­‐born animal who awakes one morning to find the door to his cage hanging quietly open and the savannah stretching grey and pink to the distant rising sun, while all around new sounds are waking.
---> He wondered what the new sounds were as he gazed at her openly wondering face and her eyes that smiled with a shared surprise.
---> He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers to the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones till it now said something it had never said to him before,which was "Yes".
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* It says something about how Ford sees his and and Arthur's friendship that he risked being destroyed along with the Earth to save him and him alone, and saw to his comfort after teleporting by buying booze and peanuts to help with the aftereffects.

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* It says something about how Ford sees his and and Arthur's friendship that he risked being destroyed along with the Earth to save him and him alone, and saw to his comfort after teleporting by spending precious time beforehand buying booze and peanuts to help with the aftereffects.
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* It says something about how Ford sees his and and Arthur's friendship that he risked being destroyed along with the Earth to save him and him alone, and saw to his comfort after teleporting by buying peanuts to help with the aftereffects.

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* It says something about how Ford sees his and and Arthur's friendship that he risked being destroyed along with the Earth to save him and him alone, and saw to his comfort after teleporting by buying booze and peanuts to help with the aftereffects.
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* It says something about how Ford sees his and and Arthur's friendship that he risked being destroyed along with the Earth to save him and him alone, and saw to his comfort after teleporting by buying peanuts to help with the aftereffects.

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--> '''Arthur''': Fine. Fine, take it! Because my head is filled with questions and I can assure you no answer to any one of them has ever brought me one iota of happiness! Except for one. The one. The only question I've ever wanted an answer to, is she the one? The answer bloody well isn't forty-two, it's yes. Undoubtedly, unequivocally, unabashedly yes. And for one week, one week in my sad little blip of an existence, it made me happy.

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--> '''Arthur''': Fine. Fine, take it! Because my head is filled with questions and I can assure you no answer to any one of them has ever brought me one iota of happiness! Except for one. The one. The only question I've ever wanted an answer to, is she the one? The answer bloody well isn't forty-two, it's yes. Undoubtedly, unequivocally, unabashedly yes. And for one week, one week in my sad little blip of an existence, it made me happy.\\
'''Trillian:''' ''(mumbling in a deep haze)'' That's a good answer.
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* Another meta-example: Creator/AlanRickman downplayed his voice over role as Marvin, and gave Creator/WarwickDavis the major credit for Marvin (similar to how Creator/DavidHydePierce demurred in taking credit for the role as Abe Sapien in ''Film/{{Hellboy}}''.)

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* Another meta-example: Creator/AlanRickman downplayed his voice over role as Marvin, and gave Creator/WarwickDavis the major credit for Marvin (similar to how Creator/DavidHydePierce demurred in taking credit for the role as Abe Sapien in ''Film/{{Hellboy}}''.''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}''.)
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* Arthur leading Ford, Zaphod and Marvin in a charge to save Trillian ([[ImprobableWeaponUser using Marvin's arm as a weapon no less]]}, who'd been captured by Vogons is both this and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]]. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Even if they got the wrong building...]]

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* Arthur leading Ford, Zaphod and Marvin in a charge to save Trillian ([[ImprobableWeaponUser using Marvin's arm as a weapon no less]]}, who'd been captured by Vogons is both this and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]]. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Even if they got the wrong building...]]
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'''Questular:''' Don't worry, we'll figure it out, babe.

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'''Questular:''' Don't worry, we'll figure baby. We'll sort it out, babe.out.
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* Arthur having chosen that he'd rather travel the universe with Ford and Trillian, the former recommending [[MythlogyGag a restaurant at the end of the Universe]] and the latter saying she's a bit peckish. They've become TrueCompanions (along with BetaCouple Questular and Zaphod.)

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* Arthur having chosen that he'd rather travel the universe with Ford and Trillian, the former recommending [[MythlogyGag [[MythologyGag a restaurant at the end of the Universe]] and the latter saying she's a bit peckish. They've become TrueCompanions (along with BetaCouple Questular and Zaphod.)

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