History YMMV / TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy

** Wait, wait, are you saying there was a ''book'' version of Film/TheTenCommandments before there was a movie??

* AwesomeEgo: Zaphod in all versions except the movie. It's how he survives the Total Perspective Vortex.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN9GCCwuxHQ The main theme]].

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ImiqaXBMkM This]] pretty much sums it up.

* {{Moe}}: Marvin's diminuitive bobble-headed design ended up making him absolutely ''adorable''.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Slartibartfest, thanks to Bill Nighy's performance.

-->'''Questular:''' ''(jealous)'' She's lying. She's skinny, and she's pretty, and she's lying!

* HilariousInHindsight: The team appearing as [[LittleBigPlanet knitted figures]] before achieving normality, seeing as [[StephenFry Stephen Fry]] is the guide to both universes...

* OlderThanTheyThink: Some people think that the movie ripped off the name "Babel Fish" from the [[http://babelfish.altavista.com/ website]]. Completely forgetting of course, that it is based on [[TheBible the biblical story of the "Tower of Babel"]].

** To say nothing of the fact that anyone could wander in and write a paragraph.

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Marvin's death. He's finally happy, for the first time in his entire life (which in case you forget, is 37 times older than the universe), and now he's dead.]]
* TheWoobie: Awwwww! Poor Marvin!

** Not quite: the fact that [[spoiler: he is is an artificial alternate universe created for his ends]] at the time mean he literally is the most important thing in the universe and so the Total Perspective Vortex does nothing but boost his already humungous ego.

* MisBlamed: Many people actually cry AdaptationDecay or TheyChangedItNowItSucks to the various adaptation(s) because they're "not like the book". This is despite that Adams actually approves them himself (and is pretty much involved in the production of them all, see in the movie section.) and he's stated, numerous times, that he ''wanted'' them to be different.
** And it overlooks the fact that the books themselves were an adaptation. And that Hitchhiker's Guide has always changed drastically between incarnations.

* TearJerker: [[Spoiler: Marvin's death. He's finally happy, for the first time in his entire life (which in case you forget, is 37 times older than the universe), and now he's dead.]]

* MisBlamed: Many people actually cry AdaptationDecay or TheyChangedItNowItSucks to the various adaptation(s) because they're "not like the book". This is despite that Adams actually approves them himself (and is pretty much involved in the production of them all, see in the movie section.) and he's stated, numerous times, that he ''wanted'' them to be different.

* MisBlamed: Many people actually cry AdaptationDecay or TheyChangedItNowItSucks to the various adaptation(s) because they're "not like the book". This is despite that Adams actually approves them himself (and is pretty much involved in the production of them all) and he's stated, numerous times, that he ''wanted'' them to be different.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks

* [[FetishFuel High Octane Fetish Fuel Unleaded]]: ''Not only'' do they get ZooeyDeschanel to play Trillian, but her whole ''outfit'', hair included, in her first main story scene in TheFilmOfTheBook seemed scientifically designed to drive [[NerdsAreSexy nerds]] [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer of both sexes]] crazy.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4JhOC6QwJc&feature=related The main theme]].

* [[YMMV/{{Ptitlex7dt39fg}} Life, the Universe and Everything]]

* LoveItOrHateIt