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* FTLTravelSickness: The sensation of entering hyperspace is described as feeling like getting turned inside out at the navel. The experimental Infinite Improbability Drive has even more esoteric effects, such as temporarily turning the passengers into penguins.
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* FTLTravelSickness: The sensation of entering hyperspace is described as feeling like getting turned inside out at the navel. The experimental Infinite Improbability Drive has even more esoteric effects, such as [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext temporarily turning the passengers into penguins.penguins]].
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* AwkwardPoetryReading: Arthur and Ford are subjected to the horrendously bad poetry of the Vogon Captain, who then offers them a choice; get tossed out of the airlock, or tell him how much they liked his poem. Arthur tries to [[BlatantLies baldface]] his way out of it by trying to claim he rather enjoyed it[[note]]or possibly being the first and only creature to actually enjoy it[[/note]].
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* AwkwardPoetryReading: Arthur and Ford are subjected to the horrendously bad poetry {{poetry}} of the Vogon Captain, who then offers them a choice; get tossed out of the airlock, or tell him how much they liked his poem. Arthur tries to [[BlatantLies baldface]] his way out of it by trying to claim he rather enjoyed it[[note]]or possibly being the first and only creature to actually enjoy it[[/note]].
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology A likely unintentional example: the introduction to the first book calls humans "ape-descended life forms." We didn't descend from apes; we and apes share a common ancestor.
** PlayedForLaughs when it comes to the Vogons.
--> He was that way because billions of years ago...it was as if the forces of evolution had simply given up on them there and then, had turned aside in disgust and written them off as an ugly and unfortunate mistake. They never evolved again: they should never have survived.
--> The fact that they did is some kind of tribute to the thick-willed slug-brained stubbornness of these creatures...and what nature refused to do for them [[BeyondTheImpossible they simply did without]] until such time as they were able to rectify the gross anatomical inconveniences with surgery.
--> Meanwhile, the natural forces on the planet Vogsphere had been working overtime to make up for their earlier blunder. They brought forth scintillating jeweled scuttling crabs, which the Vogons ate...tall aspiring trees of breathtaking slenderness and color which the Vogons cut down and burned the crabmeat with; elegant gazellelike creatures with silken coats and dewy eyes which the Vogons would catch and sit on. They were no use as transport because [[CrossesTheLineTwice their backs would snap instantly,]] but the Vogons sat on them anyway.
** And later on, in ''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:''
--> Anatomical analysis of the Vogon reveals that its brain was originally a badly deformed, misplaced, and dyspeptic liver.
** PlayedForLaughs when it comes to the Vogons.
--> He was that way because billions of years ago...it was as if the forces of evolution had simply given up on them there and then, had turned aside in disgust and written them off as an ugly and unfortunate mistake. They never evolved again: they should never have survived.
--> The fact that they did is some kind of tribute to the thick-willed slug-brained stubbornness of these creatures...and what nature refused to do for them [[BeyondTheImpossible they simply did without]] until such time as they were able to rectify the gross anatomical inconveniences with surgery.
--> Meanwhile, the natural forces on the planet Vogsphere had been working overtime to make up for their earlier blunder. They brought forth scintillating jeweled scuttling crabs, which the Vogons ate...tall aspiring trees of breathtaking slenderness and color which the Vogons cut down and burned the crabmeat with; elegant gazellelike creatures with silken coats and dewy eyes which the Vogons would catch and sit on. They were no use as transport because [[CrossesTheLineTwice their backs would snap instantly,]] but the Vogons sat on them anyway.
** And later on, in ''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:''
--> Anatomical analysis of the Vogon reveals that its brain was originally a badly deformed, misplaced, and dyspeptic liver.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology A likely unintentional example: the ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** The introduction to the first book calls humans "ape-descended life forms." We didn't descend from apes; we and apes share a common ancestor.
** PlayedForLaughs when it comes to the Vogons. \n--> He was The first book states that way because billions they stopped evolving millions of years ago...it was as if ago because the forces of evolution had simply given up on them there and then, had turned aside in disgust and written "written them off as an ugly and unfortunate mistake. They never evolved again: mistake" and managed to survive as long as they should never have survived.
--> The fact that they did is some kind of tribute to the thick-willed slug-brainedthrough sheer stubbornness of these creatures...and what nature refused to do for them [[BeyondTheImpossible they simply did without]] until such time as they were able to rectify the gross surgically bypass their anatomical inconveniences with surgery.
--> Meanwhile, the natural forces on the planet Vogsphere had been working overtime to make up for their earlier blunder. They brought forth scintillating jeweled scuttling crabs, which the Vogons ate...tall aspiring trees of breathtaking slenderness and color which the Vogons cut down and burned the crabmeat with; elegant gazellelike creatures with silken coats and dewy eyes which the Vogons would catch and sit on. They were no use as transport because [[CrossesTheLineTwice their backs would snap instantly,]] but the Vogons sat on them anyway.
** And later on, inflaws, while ''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:''
--> Anatomical analysis ofUniverse'' claims that the brain of a Vogon reveals that its brain was originally a originated as "a badly deformed, misplaced, and dyspeptic liver. liver."
** The introduction to the first book calls humans "ape-descended life forms." We didn't descend from apes; we and apes share a common ancestor.
** PlayedForLaughs when it comes to the Vogons.
--> The fact that they did is some kind of tribute to the thick-willed slug-brained
--> Meanwhile, the natural forces on the planet Vogsphere had been working overtime to make up for their earlier blunder. They brought forth scintillating jeweled scuttling crabs, which the Vogons ate...tall aspiring trees of breathtaking slenderness and color which the Vogons cut down and burned the crabmeat with; elegant gazellelike creatures with silken coats and dewy eyes which the Vogons would catch and sit on. They were no use as transport because [[CrossesTheLineTwice their backs would snap instantly,]] but the Vogons sat on them anyway.
** And later on, in
--> Anatomical analysis of
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** The Cutaway Gag sequence about the Vl'Hurg-G'Gugvuntt fleet that attempted to invade the Earth, only to be accidentally swallowed by a small dog in its entirety "due to a terrible miscalculation of scale".
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** The Cutaway Gag CutawayGag sequence about the Vl'Hurg-G'Gugvuntt fleet that attempted to invade the Earth, only to be accidentally swallowed by a small dog in its entirety "due to a terrible miscalculation of scale".
