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* TheWikiRule: [[http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page The Hitchhiker's Wiki]] and [[http://hitchhikersguidetoearth.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Hitchhiker's Guide to Earth]].
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* TropeNamer:
** BitsOfMeKeepPassingOut
** DeconstructorFleet (pun on Vogon Constructor Fleet)
** FutureImperfect
** GargleBlaster
** InsignificantLittleBluePlanet
** LetsMeetTheMeat
** PuffOfLogic
** RealityIsOutToLunch
** SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear
** TwoOfYourEarthMinutes
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* ReferencedBy: ''VideoGame/SniperElite5:'' In the "Spy Academy" level, scanning one of the enemy infantry brings up the note "Lukas Steinhäusl: Has a terrible pain in all the nerves down his left side." Marvin the Paranoid Android has a terrible pain in all the diodes down his left side.
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** The fact that the guide itself is no longer technologically impressive as it’s basically a tablet that can only access Wikipedia. If another adaptation ever gets made, the guide would presumably now have to be an app.

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** The fact that the guide itself is no longer technologically impressive as it’s basically a tablet that can only access Wikipedia. If another adaptation ever gets made, the guide would presumably now have to be an app.
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* SelfAdaptation: Creator/DouglasAdams' level of involvement with each adaptation of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' varies, but the novels and computer game are the ones he had the biggest (or, in the case of the novel, only) hand in, and he delighted in completely reworking the story each time he tackled it. The TV version also had his input, and his last draft of the film script before he died was used as the final shooting script with minimal editing.

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* SelfAdaptation: Creator/DouglasAdams' level of involvement with each adaptation of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978'' varies, but the novels and computer game are the ones he had the biggest (or, in the case of the novel, only) hand in, and he delighted in completely reworking the story each time he tackled it. The TV version also had his input, and his last draft of the film script before he died was used as the final shooting script with minimal editing.
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* SelfAdaptation: Creator/DouglasAdams' level of involvement with each adaptation of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' varies, but the novels and computer game are the ones he had the biggest (or, in the case of the novel, only) hand in, and he delighted in completely reworking the story each time he tackled it. The TV version also had his input, and his last draft of the film before he died was used as the final one with minimal editing.

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* SelfAdaptation: Creator/DouglasAdams' level of involvement with each adaptation of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' varies, but the novels and computer game are the ones he had the biggest (or, in the case of the novel, only) hand in, and he delighted in completely reworking the story each time he tackled it. The TV version also had his input, and his last draft of the film script before he died was used as the final one shooting script with minimal editing.
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** DiedDuringProduction: Originally named AuthorExistenceFailure, which was derived from "total existence failure".

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!![[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy General franchise]] trivia:This page is for the entirety of ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. For trivia items that only pertain to specific adaptations, please see the subpages below:

* [[Trivia/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978 The original radio program]]
* [[Trivia/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy The book series]]
* [[Trivia/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981 The live-action series]]
* [[Trivia/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1984 The video game]]
* [[Trivia/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005 The 2005 film]]
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** AuthorExistenceFailure, partially (as mentioned below, derived from "total existence failure")



** DiedDuringProduction: Originally named AuthorExistenceFailure, which was derived from "total existence failure".




!![[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Novels]] trivia:
* AuthorExistenceFailure: TropeNamer, almost; the third book mentions a "total existence failure". Later, of course, succumbed to the trope when Adams died while working on the sixth book; his last published collection of pieces, ''The Salmon of Doubt'', contains an early draft of a ''Literature/DirkGently'' novel that Adams was hoping to rework into a Hitchhiker book.
* CreatorBreakdown: Regarding the DownerEnding of ''Mostly Harmless'' and the mixed-to-negative reaction from fans, Adams conceded, "I just had a thoroughly miserable year, and I was trying to write a book against that background." He intended a sixth book to give the series a better conclusion, but succumbed to AuthorExistenceFailure first.
* ExecutiveMeddling: In ''Life, the Universe and Everything'', the Silver Bail of Peace is the Rory Award for "Most Gratuitous Use of the Word 'Fuck' in a Serious Screenplay". US censors were offended, and Adams, bowing to their wishes, promptly changed the offending word to "Belgium". Fortunately, [[RuleOfFunny the resulting passage was much funnier]], as Adams modified the surrounding conversation to fit the change, as well.
--> '''Arthur''': "Have you ever been to Belgium in fact?"
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The book is centered around an electronic book. This book was a standalone one-purpose device that acted as a database for everything that was known about the galaxy. It would be supplanted by newer editions periodically making the version that Arthur and Ford traveled with obsolete very early in the series (Ford's version did not contain the update on Earth's entry). This indicated that the book was more like an old-style electronic dictionary. Today, such a device would be supplanted by a multipurpose device such as a smartphone or tablet with access to a galactic version of the internet. And the guide itself would either be an application software or better yet, a [[Website/{{H2G2}} website]]. By ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'' (1984), the Guide periodically updates itself over the [[SubspaceAnsible SubEtha]]. The idea that such a device would ''constantly'' update itself (ie, download the latest version of any entry once you wanted it) was still too futuristic for even Adams to realise, though.
** The book's very first line says that Earth was populated by ape-descendants "who still thought digital watches were a pretty neat idea". When the book was first published, they were pretty neat, but as of the new millennium, it sounds ridiculously dated. (The radio adaptation of the later books [2003-4] replace them with "novelty ringtones"...which is ''also'' a bit dated now. During discussions of the comic book adaptation [1993], Adams defended the original line on the grounds he felt digital watches were just fundamentally pointless, and the line worked as well as a description of an unnecessary technology we all take for granted as an exciting novelty.)

!![[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Movie]] trivia:
* AuthorExistenceFailure: Douglas Adams died two years before production on the film began, though after he'd finished his parts of the script.
* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Creator/TheBBC provided a content warning when the episode involving the air attack on the Guide offices (a giant H-shaped skyscraper) was aired shortly after 9/11 -- to their credit they didn't postpone the broadcast altogether.
* GodCreatedCanonForeigner: Many of the differences from previous versions were actually Adams creations, from his own pre-death versions of the script, including the POV Ray, the flyswatters, Humma Kavula, and the romantic elements.
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* InMemoriam: "For Douglas."
* PosthumousCredit: Despite dying two years ''before'' production officially began on the film, Douglas Adams is credited as the film's executive producer. He is also given co-credit for the screenplay, but given the film was based upon his novels and had been in DevelopmentHell, this is understandable.
* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: It took over twenty years to get made, by which point Creator/DouglasAdams had died.
* StillbornFranchise: While it wasn't an outright BoxOfficeBomb, taking $104 million on a $50 million budget, the film wasn't profitable enough to merit any sequels
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/DouglasAdams' first choice for Arthur Dent was Creator/HughGrant.
** Creator/JohnnyDepp, Creator/RobertDowneyJr and Creator/WillFerrell were considered for Zaphod Beeblebrox.
** Creator/JayRoach was once going to direct with Creator/HughLaurie as Arthur, Creator/JimCarrey as Zaphod and Creator/NigelHawthorne as Slartibartfast.
** The movie was first optioned in 1982 by producers Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck and Michael C. Gross. Adams wrote three drafts for them per his contract. During this time, Medjuck and Gross were considering Creator/BillMurray or Creator/DanAykroyd to play Ford Prefect, but then Aykroyd sent them his idea for ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'' and they did that movie instead.
** Around 1990, a then-unknown Creator/TimRoth was seriously considered to play Arthur Dent.
** The original scripted ending had Zaphod firing the POV gun at Questular.
--->'''Questular:''' What am I so pissed off about? I'm great! I'm zarking incredible! Everyone loves me! WHOOO HOOO!!!
** When 20th Century Fox got the rights to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, they hired Don Bluth and Fox Animation Studios to make an animated film of it. But production was canceled when problems happened at Fox Animation Studios.

!![[Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Radio]] trivia:
* EditedForSyndication: In the original broadcast of episode 4, Trillian sings two lines of "A Day in the Life". Paul [=McCartney=]'s lawyers promptly sued for royalties. So all subsequent releases have left the line out.
* InMemoriam: The first episode of the Hexagonal Phase is dedicated to Susan Sheridan, who had voiced Trillian in the previous radio series.
* MilestoneCelebration: The first episode of the Hexagonal Phase was broadcast on 8 March, 2018 -- exactly 40 years after the broadcast of the first episode of the Primary Phase.
* TheOtherDarrin:
** Between the Secondary and Tertiary Phases, Peter Jones (the Guide), Richard Vernon (Slartibartfast) and David Tate (Eddie) all passed away, leaving William Franklyn, Roger Gregg, and Richard Griffiths taking over their respective roles. For the Hexagonal Phase, the deceased William Franklyn was replaced with Douglas Adams' friend and co-author, John Lloyd.
** Bill Wallis, who played Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz and Mr. Prosser in the original two series, was replaced with Toby Longworth for the third, fourth, and sixth series due to being unavailable.
* RealSongThemeTune: The theme for the radio show was a snatch of the Music/{{Eagles}}' "Journey of the Sorceror", an instrumental from their 1975 album ''One of These Nights''. It would be re-orchestrated for the Radio [=LPs=], and that arrangement was later used for the TV series.
* SequelGap: There was a 24-year gap between the end of the Secondary Phase in 1980 and the beginning of the Tertiary Phase in 2004. After a brief flurry of activity, there was then a further gap of 13 years between the Quintessential Phase (2005) and the Hexagonal Phase (2018).
* TrollingCreator: Slartibartfast is not named for the majority of the episode he first appears in. WordOfGod explained that it was a joke at the expense of the woman who had to type the scripts -- that after she'd typed this name a dozen times he simply says, "My name is not important".
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Mobile phone ring tones are a pretty neat idea, huh? This might actually be more dated than the digital watches.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/MichaelPalin was the original choice to voice the Guide, but he turned it down.
** The seventh episode was originally considered to be a stand-alone Christmas special (owing to both episode six tying up many plot threads and the broadcast date, 24 December 1978) in which Marvin would have been both figuratively and literally the star (of Bethlehem), and by participating in a nativity scene would be cured of his depression. In the end, it was a normal episode devoted to untying enough plot threads for the series to continue.

!![[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy TV Show]] trivia:
* CreatorCouple: Sandra Dickinson's then-husband Creator/PeterDavison plays the Dish of the Day.
* TheOtherDarrin: The series retained almost all the cast from the radio series with two exceptions - David Dixon replaced Geoffrey [=McGivern=] as Ford because [=McGivern=] did not suit the role visually and Sandra Dickinson replaced Susan Sheridan as Trillian when she became unavailable.
* TheOtherMarty: Creator/DouglasAdams made a cameo as the man who walks naked into the ocean when the original actor called in sick.
* PropRecycling:
** The background characters in the restaurant at the end of the universe are equipped almost entirely with costumes recycled from earlier episodes, and in particular from the various Guide entries, thus helping justify the expense of items which otherwise would have appeared on screen for only a few seconds each.
** The leader of the G'Gugvuntt is a Foamasi costume from the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E1TheLeisureHive The Leisure Hive]]" reused.
* RecycledSet: The Vogon spaceship interiors were from ''Film/{{Alien}}''.
* ThrowItIn: The scene with Arthur and Slartibartfast in the pod-vehicle was shot in a tunnel with overhead lights that unavoidably reflected in the pod's windshield. Someone on the production crew had the brilliant idea of pairing a science-fictionish sound effect to each reflection as it slowly slid into view, perfectly disguising their mundane origin.
* TroubledProduction: Creator/DouglasAdams described the creation of the series as "not a happy production. There was a personality clash between myself and the director. And between the cast and the director. And between the tea lady and the director." Said director, Alan Bell, puts the blame on Douglas, claiming they used to make lists of his ridiculous unfilmable ideas, to which Adams would reply that Bell "cheerfully admits he will say what suits him rather than what happens to be the case. And therefore there's no point in arguing." John Lloyd, the producer and co-writer of the radio show, was annoyed that he was made "associate producer" (he felt that the fact his credit literally explodes in the ending credits was a comment on how meaningless it was) and thought Bell was too concerned with getting things done efficiently, rather than getting them done ''right''. The second series simply didn't happen: Adams wouldn't do it without Lloyd or Geoffrey Perkins; Bell wouldn't do it with them. It was suggested that Perkins could be script editor (since this would minimise his interaction with Bell), and he viewed the possibility of [[ScheduleSlip trying to wring scripts out of Adams]] under these conditions with horror. Adams then suggested replacing Bell with Pennant Roberts, who had directed several of his scripts on ''Series/DoctorWho'', but this was declined on the grounds that a writer having any say in the choice of director (or, for that matter, a drama director handling what was classed as a sitcom) simply wasn't done in those days. Nobody would back down, so...
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: At one point a second series was planned which would've been based on the unused Adams ''Series/DoctorWho'' story idea that later formed the basis of ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything''.

!![[VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Video Game]] trivia:
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Infocom planned to create a sequel, which would naturally have been based on the next book in the series. Douglas Adams lacked the time to be involved in making the game, so instead he recommended an author friend of his who he believed could fill the spot. Unfortunately, that did not work out. The game's designer on Infocom's side summed up why things fell apart as, "He's a good writer, but he can't wrap his head around how games work."
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* UnfortunateName: Slartibartfast. Adams wanted him to have an immense sadness, so gave him a terrible name. He started with [=FartyFuckBalls=], and mutated it until it sounded rude without actually being rude.
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** When 20th Century Fox got the rights to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams, they hired Don Bluth and Fox Animation Studios to make an animated film of it. But production was canceled when problems happened at Fox Animation Studios.

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* ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'':
** In regards to politics and general culture, it's a 1980s-masquerading-as-future novel.
** When Gibson describes actual technology in detail, it's more 1980s than 2030s. He does however manage to be vague enough to make many aspects of technology use sort of timeless, and as the last paragraph of the introduction on the work page notes, the language he uses to a large degree ''became'' the language of the future as writers and scientists adopted it.
** There's a scene in an airport where an entire bank of payphones starts ringing. Gibson even apologizes for it in his 25th anniversary edition forward.
** The book's famous first line, "The sky was the color of a television set tuned to a dead channel." This referred to analog [=TVs=] displaying grey static, evoking a dreary, overcast sky. Ironically, a TV turned to a dead channel these days displays a pure sky blue.


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* ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'':
** In regards to politics and general culture, it's a 1980s-masquerading-as-future novel.
** When Gibson describes actual technology in detail, it's more 1980s than 2030s. He does however manage to be vague enough to make many aspects of technology use sort of timeless, and as the last paragraph of the introduction on the work page notes, the language he uses to a large degree ''became'' the language of the future as writers and scientists adopted it.
** There's a scene in an airport where an entire bank of payphones starts ringing. Gibson even apologizes for it in his 25th anniversary edition forward.
** The book's famous first line, "The sky was the color of a television set tuned to a dead channel." This referred to analog [=TVs=] displaying grey static, evoking a dreary, overcast sky. Ironically, a TV turned to a dead channel these days displays a pure sky blue.

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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Digital watches sure are a neat idea, huh?[[note]]One should remember that when the radio series and first novels were written, digital watches had power-hungry LED displays that needed to be activated by the opposite hand for the wearer to tell time, and the displays were unreadable in direct sunlight.[[/note]] (In the later radio series, and the movie, they were replaced by mobile phones.)

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** Probably the only adaptations in which Adams was not involved are the comics. This goes to show because they follow the novels pretty faithfully.
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Digital watches sure are a neat idea, huh?[[note]]One should remember that when the radio series and first novels were written, digital watches had power-hungry LED displays that needed to be activated by the opposite hand for the wearer to tell time, and the displays were unreadable in direct sunlight.[[/note]] (In the later radio series, and the movie, they were replaced by mobile phones.)

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* CreatorCouple: Sandra Dickinson's then-husband Creator/PeterDavison plays the Dish of the Day.



** A badge from one of the Golgafrincham hats would in future be worn by [[Series/RedDwarf Arnold Rimmer]].
* RealLifeRelative: Sandra Dickinson's then-husband Creator/PeterDavison plays the Dish of the Day.

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** A badge from one The leader of the Golgafrincham hats would in future be worn by [[Series/RedDwarf Arnold Rimmer]].
* RealLifeRelative: Sandra Dickinson's then-husband Creator/PeterDavison plays
G'Gugvuntt is a Foamasi costume from the Dish of the Day.''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E1TheLeisureHive The Leisure Hive]]" reused.

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** The book is centered around an electronic book. This book was a standalone one-purpose device that acted as a database for everything that was known about the galaxy. It would be supplanted by newer editions periodically making the version that Arthur and Ford traveled with obsolete very early in the series (Ford's version did not contain the update on Earth's entry). This indicated that the book was more like an old-style electronic dictionary. Today, such a device would be supplanted by a multipurpose device such as a smartphone or tablet with access to a galactic version of the internet. And the guide itself would either be an application software or better yet, a [[Website/{{H2G2}} website]]. By ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'' (1984), the Guide periodically updates itself over the [[SubspaceAnsible SubEtha]]. The idea that such a device would ''constantly'' update itself (ie, download the latest version of any entry once you wanted it) was still too futuristic for even Adams to realise, though.
** The book's very first line says that Earth was populated by ape-descendants "who still thought digital watches were a pretty neat idea". When the book was first published, they were pretty neat, but as of the new millennium, it sounds ridiculously dated. (The radio adaptation of the later books [2003-4] replace them with "novelty ringtones"...which is ''also'' a bit dated now. During discussions of the comic book adaptation [1993], Adams defended the original line on the grounds he felt digital watches were just fundamentally pointless, and the line worked as well as a description of an unnecessary technology we all take for granted as an exciting novelty.)
* ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'':
** In regards to politics and general culture, it's a 1980s-masquerading-as-future novel.
** When Gibson describes actual technology in detail, it's more 1980s than 2030s. He does however manage to be vague enough to make many aspects of technology use sort of timeless, and as the last paragraph of the introduction on the work page notes, the language he uses to a large degree ''became'' the language of the future as writers and scientists adopted it.
** There's a scene in an airport where an entire bank of payphones starts ringing. Gibson even apologizes for it in his 25th anniversary edition forward.
** The book's famous first line, "The sky was the color of a television set tuned to a dead channel." This referred to analog [=TVs=] displaying grey static, evoking a dreary, overcast sky. Ironically, a TV turned to a dead channel these days displays a pure sky blue.

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* EditedForSyndication: In the original broadcast of episode 4, Trillian sings two lines of "A Day in the Life". Paul [=McCartney=]'s lawyers promptly sued for royalties. So all subsequent releases have left the line out.

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* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Creator/TheBBC provided a content warning when the episode involving the air attack on the Guide offices (a giant H-shaped skyscraper) was aired shortly after 9/11 -- to their credit they didn't postpone the broadcast altogether.



* TooSoon: Creator/TheBBC provided a content warning when the episode involving the air attack on the Guide offices (a giant H-shaped skyscraper) was aired shortly after 9/11 -- to their credit they didn't postpone the broadcast altogether.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Mobile phone ring tones are a pretty neat idea, huh? This might actually be more dated than the digital watches.
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* AdaptationalContextChange:
** Arthur remarks that he's already met Zaphod, but here it is not so improbable to the audience as the sequence of events are presented in chronological order.
** Deep Thought has spent time not only attempting to answer the question, but has also been watching cartoons.
** Deep Thought is shaped more like a computer monitor, with a structure resembling an arm to support its chin at the base of the monitor. In the book, Deep Thought is more of a straightforward super computer.
** Viltvodle VI is described as a culture of small blue beings in the book, but here it is visited by the crew and inhabited by multiple alien life forms, including an entire church inhabited by humanoids who follow the religion of the Great Green Arkleseizure. The crew visits their religious leader, Humma Kavula, who demands they find the Point-of-View gun.
** Frankie and Benjy the mice are the Deep Thought programmers Lunkwill and Fook in disguise, and are killed by Arthur. In the book, they are not related, have no ulterior motive, and do not attempt to lobotomize Arthur.
** Gag Halfrunt is quoted in the book. Here, he is shown on a monitor, acting a little different.
** Zaphod is the Galactic President in the book, but there is no Vice President Questular Rontok in the novel.
** The Point-of-View gun and toaster knife are exclusive to the movie. The scene with the point of view gun being used on Arthur, Zaphod and Trillian is not in the book.
** The restauarant at the end of the universe is at the end of the universe in terms of distance, not time.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Infocom planned to create a sequel, which would naturally have been based on the next book in the series. Douglas Adams lacked the time to be involved in making the game, so instead he recommended an author friend of his who he believed could fill the spot. Unfortunately, that did not work out. The game's designer on Infocom's side summed up how things fell apart as, "He's a good writer, but he can't wrap his head around how games work."

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Infocom planned to create a sequel, which would naturally have been based on the next book in the series. Douglas Adams lacked the time to be involved in making the game, so instead he recommended an author friend of his who he believed could fill the spot. Unfortunately, that did not work out. The game's designer on Infocom's side summed up how why things fell apart as, "He's a good writer, but he can't wrap his head around how games work."
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Infocom planned to create a sequel, which would naturally have been based on the next book in the series. Douglas Adams lacked the time to be involved in making the game, so instead he recommended an author friend of his who he believed could fill the spot. Unfortunately, that did not work out. The game's designer on Infocom's side summed up how things fell apart as, "He's a good writer, but he can't wrap his head around how games work."
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* InspirationForTheWork: Creator/DouglsAdams claimed that the title came from a 1971 incident while he was hitchhiking around Europe as a young man with a copy of ''the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe'' book: while lying drunk in a field near Innsbruck with a copy of the book and looking up at the stars, he thought it would be a good idea for someone to write a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy as well. However, he later claimed that he had forgotten the incident itself, and only knew of it because he'd told the story of it so many times. His friends are quoted as saying that Adams mentioned the idea of "hitch-hiking around the galaxy" to them while on holiday in Greece in 1973.

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* InspirationForTheWork: Creator/DouglsAdams Creator/DouglasAdams claimed that the title came from a 1971 incident while he was hitchhiking around Europe as a young man with a copy of ''the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe'' book: while lying drunk in a field near Innsbruck with a copy of the book and looking up at the stars, he thought it would be a good idea for someone to write a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy as well. However, he later claimed that he had forgotten the incident itself, and only knew of it because he'd told the story of it so many times. His friends are quoted as saying that Adams mentioned the idea of "hitch-hiking around the galaxy" to them while on holiday in Greece in 1973.
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* InspirationForTheWork: Creator/DouglsAdams claimed that the title came from a 1971 incident while he was hitchhiking around Europe as a young man with a copy of ''the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe'' book: while lying drunk in a field near Innsbruck with a copy of the book and looking up at the stars, he thought it would be a good idea for someone to write a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy as well. However, he later claimed that he had forgotten the incident itself, and only knew of it because he'd told the story of it so many times. His friends are quoted as saying that Adams mentioned the idea of "hitch-hiking around the galaxy" to them while on holiday in Greece in 1973.
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* AdaptationalContextChange:
** The sequence of Arthur and Zaphod having already met is shown to the audience in order, instead of as a flashback in the book, so the improbability of their having met each other comes as no surprise.
** Deep Thought has spent time not only attempting to answer the question, but has also been watching cartoons.
** Deep Thought is shaped more like a computer monitor, with a structure resembling an arm to support its chin at the base of the monitor. In the book, Deep Thought is more of a straightforward super computer.
** Viltvodle VI is described as a culture of small blue beings in the book, but here it is visited by the crew and inhabited by multiple alien life forms, including an entire church inhabited by humanoids who follow the religion of the Great Green Arkleseizure. The crew visits their religious leader, Humma Kavula, who demands they find the Point-of-View gun.
** Frankie and Benjy the mice are the Deep Thought programmers Lunkwill and Fook in disguise, and are killed by Arthur. In the book, they are not related, and do not attempt to lobotomize Arthur.
** Zaphod is the Galactic President in the book, but there is no Vice President Questular Rontok.
** The Point-of-View gun and toaster knife are exclusive to the movie. The scene with the point of view gun being used on Arthur, Zaphod and Trillian is not in the book.
** Milliway's is at the end of the universe in terms of time. In the movie, it is at the end of the universe in terms of distance.


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** Deep Thought has spent time not only attempting to answer the question, but has also been watching cartoons.
** Deep Thought is shaped more like a computer monitor, with a structure resembling an arm to support its chin at the base of the monitor. In the book, Deep Thought is more of a straightforward super computer.
** Viltvodle VI is described as a culture of small blue beings in the book, but here it is visited by the crew and inhabited by multiple alien life forms, including an entire church inhabited by humanoids who follow the religion of the Great Green Arkleseizure. The crew visits their religious leader, Humma Kavula, who demands they find the Point-of-View gun.
** Frankie and Benjy the mice are the Deep Thought programmers Lunkwill and Fook in disguise, and are killed by Arthur. In the book, they are not related, have no ulterior motive, and do not attempt to lobotomize Arthur.
** Gag Halfrunt is quoted in the book. Here, he is shown on a monitor, acting a little different.
** Zaphod is the Galactic President in the book, but there is no Vice President Questular Rontok in the novel.
** The Point-of-View gun and toaster knife are exclusive to the movie. The scene with the point of view gun being used on Arthur, Zaphod and Trillian is not in the book.
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** Frankie and Benjy the mice are the Deep Thought programmers Lunkwill and Fook in disguise, and are killed by Trillian. In the book, they are not related.

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** Frankie and Benjy the mice are the Deep Thought programmers Lunkwill and Fook in disguise, and are killed by Trillian. Arthur. In the book, they are not related.related, and do not attempt to lobotomize Arthur.
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* AdaptationalContextChange:
** The sequence of Arthur and Zaphod having already met is shown to the audience in order, instead of as a flashback in the book, so the improbability of their having met each other comes as no surprise.
** Deep Thought has spent time not only attempting to answer the question, but has also been watching cartoons.
** Deep Thought is shaped more like a computer monitor, with a structure resembling an arm to support its chin at the base of the monitor. In the book, Deep Thought is more of a straightforward super computer.
** Viltvodle VI is described as a culture of small blue beings in the book, but here it is visited by the crew and inhabited by multiple alien life forms, including an entire church inhabited by humanoids who follow the religion of the Great Green Arkleseizure. The crew visits their religious leader, Humma Kavula, who demands they find the Point-of-View gun.
** Frankie and Benjy the mice are the Deep Thought programmers Lunkwill and Fook in disguise, and are killed by Trillian. In the book, they are not related.
** Zaphod is the Galactic President in the book, but there is no Vice President Questular Rontok.
** The Point-of-View gun and toaster knife are exclusive to the movie. The scene with the point of view gun being used on Arthur, Zaphod and Trillian is not in the book.
** Milliway's is at the end of the universe in terms of time. In the movie, it is at the end of the universe in terms of distance.
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* RevivalByCommercialization: Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World," played at the conclusion of the first phase of the radio series, became popular again because of its use here. It was done again at the end of the TV series.

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