Line #99 YMMV/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy


1	This page is for the entirety of ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. For YMMV items that only pertain to specific adaptations, please see the subpages below:
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3	* [[YMMV/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978 The original radio program]]
4	* [[YMMV/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981 The live-action series]]
5	* [[YMMV/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1984 The video game]]
6	* [[YMMV/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005 The 2005 film]]
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8	* AdaptationDisplacement: Most people are familiar with the series as either a five or six book "{{trilogy\|Creep}}", unaware that it was first a radio program. To be absolutely clear:
9	** 1. It was a radio series...
10	** 2. That got adapted into a book series...
11	** 3. And a newly recorded audio series, released as an album...
12	** 4. Which had a TV show made of it...
13	** 5. That had a text-based computer game made of it...
14	** 6. And a comic book version...
15	** 7. Which, many, many years later, had a movie made of it...
16	** 8. And we can only assume it will eventually be available in [[FoodPills pill form]] at some point.
17	** 9. Don't forget, there's already a towel.
18	* AngstWhatAngst: Trillian barely notices when her home planet is blown up and billions are killed. Dent has the decency to be shocked for a few minutes, though once he realizes that he can't quite wrap his head around the magnitude of the loss he starts going into shock.
19	** The film version of Trillian doesn't even find out until late in the story thanks to Zaphod. When she finds out, she goes ''ballistic''.
20	--->'''Trillian:''' '''''Love and kisses?!?!'''''
21	* AwesomeEgo: Zaphod in all versions.
22	* CantUnHearIt: The cast of the radio/television series. This was intentional on the part of Creator/DouglasAdams, especially with Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, as Adams specifically wrote the character with Simon in mind.
23	* CommonKnowledge: 42 is not "The Meaning of Life", it's "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything." The reason it seems so random and nonsensical is because it's only an ''Answer'', and no one actually knows what the ''Question'' is.
24	* DiscreditedMeme: Like ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', the jokes in this franchise have been referenced to death.
25	** Website/{{Wikipedia}} is REALLY tired of people changing the entire article for Earth to say "Mostly Harmless".
26	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Marvin is quite popular among the fans.
27	* GeniusBonus: "Frood" is slang for "really-together person", and the Old English "frōd" meant "wise" or "experienced". Uncertain if this was intentional or not.
28	* HilariousInHindsight:
29	** ''Website/{{Wikipedia}}''. "While it has many errors and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it is slightly cheaper."
30	*** To say nothing of the fact that anyone could wander in and write a paragraph.
31	*** The Wikimedia project also has a travel guide.
32	*** Wikipedia's article on the series itself even mentions the Guide's similarities to Wikipedia.
33	** You can probably compare the shoddiness of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's products to your least favorite tech company.
34	** Speaking of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, their motto for GPP's ("Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!") could just as easily apply to [[https://www.sphero.com Sphero.]]
35	** There's a throwaway line early in the series (books and radio) about Arthur wishing he had a daughter so he could forbid her to marry a Vogon. Towards the end of the series, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor he ends up getting one, Random.]] [[BrickJoke Who he then forbids from marrying a Vogon.]]
36	** It's amazing how much the titular guide book resembles the Kindle.
37	** As [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASoz_NuIvP0 this]] WebVideo/{{Numberphile}} video shows, 42 is the only (eligible) number under 100 that hasn't been represented as the sum of three cubes, making it an answer without a question.
38	* ItWasHisSled: 42 is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything.
39	* MemeticMutation:
40	** "42"
41	** "Zaphod's just this guy, you know?"
42	** "DON'T PANIC"
43	** "Ten out of ten for style [or X], but minus several million for good thinking, huh?"
44	* MisBlamed: Many people actually cry TheyChangedItNowItSucks to the various adaptation(s) because they're "not like the book" (which was ''itself'' an adaptation of the radio series). Adams ''wanted'' the various formats to diverge as much as possible, and succeeded.
45	* PopCultureHoliday: May 25th is known as "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day Towel Day]]" and celebrates the work of Creator/DouglasAdams. Fans carry around a towel due to a passage in ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' (and an earlier reference in the preceding radio series) that praises the versatility of towels for interstellar hitchhikers. May 25th doesn't have any particular meaning in the fandom, the anniversary of the death of Douglas Adams is a few weeks earlier and it took time to set up the first Towel Day.
46	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: To "Tunnel of Love" by Dire Straits, in the radio adaptation of ''So Long and Thanks for All the Fish''.
47	* TheWoobie: Arthur's the CosmicPlaything. Marvin's TheEeyore.

Context YMMV / TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy