History YMMV / TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy

* CantUnhearIt: The cast of the radio/television series. The film cast as well, to a lesser extent.

* MisBlamed: Many people actually cry TheyChangedItNowItSucks to the various adaptation(s) because they're "not like the book". Adams ''wanted'' the various formats to diverge as soon as possible, and succeeded.

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The series mostly suffers from terrible special effects, except for the sequences where we see the guide itself. All these shots were actually hand drawn replicas of typical computer graphics of the time, and even today you'd swear they were actually done on a computer.

* ''YMMV/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse''

* YMMV/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything
* YMMV/MostlyHarmless
* YMMV/AndAnotherThing

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The game is generally agreed to be good, though obstinate.

* NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The game is generally agreed to be good, though obstinate.

** José María del Río, a famous Spaniard TV narrator who voiced the Guide in the Spanish dub (see Woolseyism below), would later went to lend his voice to the legendary mystery show ''Cuarto Milenio'', which has both ufology and astronautics/space exploration between its many themes.

* EarWorm: The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation anthem, which is kind of impressive given it's ''intentionally'' sung off-key and out of tune.

* EarWorm: "[[RealSongThemeTune Journey of the Sorcerer]]". Every version with audio has got some arrangement of it.
** The 6" single of the TV theme music had a rather catchy song on the B-side called "Only The End Of The World Again", credited to Disaster Area.[[note]]According to [[http://h2g2.com/approved_entry/A32873899 h2g2]], Douglas Adams played guitar on it.[[/note]]

* EarWorm: "So long and thanks for all the fish, so sad that it had come to this, we tried to warn you all but oh dear..."

* CantUnHearIt: The cast of the radio/television series. The film cast as well, to a lesser extent.

** The film version of Trillian doesn't even find out until late in the story thanks to Zaphod. When she find out, she goes ''ballistic''.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: To "Tunnel of Love" by Dire Straits, in the radio adaptation of [=SLaTfAtF=].

** Also, Humma Kavula's vicious "Don't Vote for Stupid" campaign against Zaphod Beeblebrox. [[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywgxqb/america-is-being-run-by-zaphod-beeblebrox Hello]], President Creator/DonaldTrump...
*** Better yet, in 2005 a "Don't Vote For Stupid" campaign was a fun one-second gag. In 2017, that was pretty much what Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign boiled down to -- and voters realized that in a two-party system, it basically means "If you don't vote for me, ''you're'' stupid." Hence why it failed miserably.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN9GCCwuxHQ "Finale"]].

** Also, Humma Kavula's vicious "Don't Vote for Stupid" campaign against Zaphod Beeblebrox. [[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywgxqb/america-is-being-run-by-zaphod-beeblebrox Hello]], President Creator/DonaldTrump...

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

* InternetBackdraft: When it was first announced that Mos Def would play Ford Prefect, there was a lot of racist comments made about him. Most of it [[AbilityOverAppearance subsided by the time the film came out]].

* RomanticPlotTumor: This very movie features a fairly obvious example of this trope, between Arthur and Trillian. The "original" source materials (book, TV and radio series) all handled their past differently, but agreed that Arthur had been briefly interested in Trillian during a single superficial encounter in the past; when he re-encounters her during the story, he displays jealousy at a few points, but not much more than that. By comparison, the movie version features an Arthur who is desperately pining over Trillian, who could have been his one true love had he not been afraid to pursue her, and he spends most of the movie time thinking about, worrying about or focusing on her. This was deliberately inserted by Douglas Adams when drafting the movie, before his death, to increase studio interest and audience acceptance of the movie.
** Actually, he tried to work it into the television adaptation, but the chemistry wasn't there between the actors.

* WTHCastingAgency: Music/MosDef as Ford Prefect. [[SarcasmMode Oh, yes we totally buy that he's from Guilford]].
** Which is kind of the joke. Ford Prefect's half-arsed attempts to blend in and the total failure of British humanity to notice anything incongruous about him has always been a part of Ford's story (just look at his name) and one the movie merely played up a bit more.

** Slartibartfast, thanks to Bill Nighy's performance.

* FreezeFrameBonus: All over the place in the animations.

* SoBadItsGood: The eighth or ninth time you die, you'd swear this was the most terrible game you've ever played. By the fifty-eighth or fifty-ninth time, [[GottaCatchEmAll you're playing to see how else you'll die.]] Winning is almost a letdown.