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* ImposedHandicapTraining: Lintilla has a pseudofracture (all the pain, discomfort, and swelling of a broken arm without the trouble of it actually being broken) and a 'crisis inducer' which place her under extreme pressure and thus push her to work harder/faster.
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* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: Lampshaded.
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* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: Lampshaded.When Arthur and Ford are on the ''Heart of Gold''.
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* BackForTheFinale: The ending sequence of the final episode of the Quintessential Phase (and the final episode of the radio series altogether) has the return of Fenchurch and Marvin, as well as Max Quordlepleen, the Great Prophet Zarquon, Wowbagger, Lintilla, Prosser, and a few other bit players.
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* BackForTheFinale: The ending sequence of the final episode of the Quintessential Phase (and the final episode of the radio series altogether) has the return of Fenchurch and Marvin, as well as Max Quordlepleen, the Great Prophet Zarquon, Wowbagger, Lintilla, Prosser, and a few other bit players.
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* {{Bowdlerization}}: Due to being broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the Quandary Phase eliminates the PrecisionFStrike present in ''So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish''.
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* {{Bowdlerization}}: Due to being broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the Quandary Phase eliminates the PrecisionFStrike present in ''So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish''. Likewise, Arthur's own in ''Mostly Harmless'', though his following line about "badger sputum" remains.
** Back in the first series, Arthur mentions on hearing about the Vogons how he wished he had a daughter so he could forbid her to marry one. When he's introduced to Random, he remembers this, and does indeed forbid her to marry a Vogon.
* DeusExMachina: Done blatantly in order to avert the SuddenDownerEnding of "Mostly Harmless". Turns out that in addition to their translation abilities, the Babel Fish also has the hitherto unmentioned ability to teleport themselves to safety at the last picosecond before certain death, along with anyone who happens to have one in their ear. Arthur, naturally, asks why this has never come up before in all those other instances, but Ford just handwaves it away that he wasn't actually facing death.
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* {{Retcon}}: The entire Secondary Phase is AllJustADream Zaphod had, to cover for the Tertiary Phase opening with Ford and Arthur still being stranded on prehistoric Earth. [[spoiler: Subverted when Zaphod discoverss it ''did'' all happen. Inside Zarniwoop's office. [[MindScrew Meaning the time in the Secondary Phase spent in Zarniwoop's office was inside Zarniwoop's office.]]]]
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* {{Retcon}}: The entire Secondary Phase is AllJustADream Zaphod had, to cover for the Tertiary Phase opening with Ford and Arthur still being stranded on prehistoric Earth. [[spoiler: Subverted when Zaphod discoverss discovers it ''did'' all happen. Inside Zarniwoop's office. [[MindScrew Meaning the time in the Secondary Phase spent in Zarniwoop's office was inside Zarniwoop's office.]]]]
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* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Episode 2 of the first series, "...will be repeated through a time-warp on the Home Service in 1951."
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The Haggunenons.
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* AndIMustScream: In the Quintessential Phase, Zaphod winds up trapped in the Guide office's virtual universe. By the time Ford finds him, he's been stuck with the recreation of the Ruler of the Universe and his cat, and he ''really'' wants a drink.
* ArcWelding: The Quintessential Phase ties together the events of the previous two series, with Van Harl somehow being behind the Krikket robots, and tied to the Vogons (since he is a Vogon).
* ColdHam: Vann Harl gets very worked up talking about his plans, even going as far as drooling, but never rises above a CreepyMonotone.
* {{Handwave}}: Van Harl is Zarniwoop. Why did Zaphod and Ford not comment on this before? Well, he's had plastic surgery. And he's got a tan. And a suit. Also, it's Zaphod and Ford, who don't generally pay attention anyway.
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* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: The Krikket Robots say "beep" as they move.
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* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: The Krikket Krikkit Robots say "beep" as they move.
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* {{Bowdlerization}}: Due to being broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the Quandary Phase eliminates the PrecisionFStrike present in ''So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish''.
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* MythologyGag: The discussion on TimeTravelTenseTrouble, from the book version of ''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'', shows up in the final episode of the Tertiary Phase.
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* MythologyGag: The discussion on TimeTravelTenseTrouble, from the book version of ''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'', shows up in the final episode of the Tertiary Phase.Phase, albeit greatly abbreviated.
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** Played straight when the episode featuring the destruction of the Guide offices was broadcast on [[Creator/TheBBC Radio 4]] [[TooSoon shortly after 9/11]].
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** Played straight when the episode featuring the destruction of the Guide offices was broadcast on [[Creator/TheBBC Radio 4]] [[TooSoon shortly after 9/11]].9/11.
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* BrickJoke: It is said that God's Final Message to His Creations, when seen, makes those who see it feel good. Sure enough, when Marvin sees the message, [[spoiler:which is "we apologise for the inconvenience", his response? "I think I feel good about it."]]
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** Right at the beginning of episode five of the Tertiary Phase, someone can be heard munching on crisps. Once the narration on the Silastic Armourfiends ends, it turns out to be Trillian, who's eating while reading the Guide.
** It is said that God's Final Message to His Creations, when seen, makes those who see it feel good. Sure enough, when Marvin sees the message, [[spoiler:which is "we apologise for the inconvenience", his response? "I think I feel good about it."]]"]]
* TheCameo: Joanna Lumley appears as The Woman with the Sydney Opera House Head in the Tertiary Phase.
** Right at the beginning of episode five of the Tertiary Phase, someone can be heard munching on crisps. Once the narration on the Silastic Armourfiends ends, it turns out to be Trillian, who's eating while reading the Guide.
** It is said that God's Final Message to His Creations, when seen, makes those who see it feel good. Sure enough, when Marvin sees the message, [[spoiler:which is "we apologise for the inconvenience", his response? "I think I feel good about it.
* TheCameo: Joanna Lumley appears as The Woman with the Sydney Opera House Head in the Tertiary Phase.
* DisneyOwnsThisTrope: "The sound of a thousand people saying "wop" is used with the permission of the Krikket-Kola Corporation."
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Zaphod sneaks into the Krikket warship, the annoying announcer voice welcomes him to the Starship ''Striterax'', the name of the planet the previously mentioned Silastic Armourfiends came from. In the next episode, Trillian recognises there's a connection between the two.
* MythologyGag: The discussion on TimeTravelTenseTrouble, from the book version of ''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'', shows up in the final episode of the Tertiary Phase.
* MythologyGag: The discussion on TimeTravelTenseTrouble, from the book version of ''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'', shows up in the final episode of the Tertiary Phase.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: The Krikket Robots say "beep" as they move.
* ShoutOut: The fifth episode of the Tertiary Phase is [[Series/SesameStreet brought to you]] by a series of letters (as to which ones, the continuity announcer isn't sure).
* SimpletonVoice: The Silastic Armourfiends of Striterax, though they're not exactly stupid, just immensely violent and easily bored.
* ShoutOut: The fifth episode of the Tertiary Phase is [[Series/SesameStreet brought to you]] by a series of letters (as to which ones, the continuity announcer isn't sure).
* SimpletonVoice: The Silastic Armourfiends of Striterax, though they're not exactly stupid, just immensely violent and easily bored.
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* SoundEffectBleep: Fit the Sixteenth from the Tertiary Phase. The book ''Life, The Universe And Everything'' on which the Phase was based featured an award for "The Most Gratuitous Use of the Word Fuck in a Serious Screenplay"; since it was scheduled to be broadcast at 6.30 pm the word was still uttered by the actor but completely masked by the sound of a starship engine.
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* SoundEffectBleep: Fit the Sixteenth from the Tertiary Phase. The book ''Life, The Universe And Everything'' on which the Phase was based featured an award for "The Most Gratuitous Use of the Word Fuck in a Serious Screenplay"; since it was scheduled to be broadcast at 6.30 pm the word was still uttered by the actor but completely masked by the a sound of a starship engine.effect, including in places where there shouldn't be sound at all.
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* PerpetuallyProtean: The Haggunenons, an alien race whose bodies are in a state of constant and barely-controlled evolutionary flux as a result of having "The most impatient chromosomes of any lifeform in the galaxy". This instability has rendered them extremely resentful of all non-shapeshifter lifeforms and not above launching unprovoked military strikes on the "samelings.
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* PantyShot: Implied with the Infinite Improbability Generator being used to break the ice at parties by moving the hostesses' undergarments one foot to the left (based on laws of indeterminacy).
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: As Zaphod, Trillian and Marvin are being eaten by the ravenous Bug Blatter Beast Of Traal:
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: As Zaphod, Trillian and Marvin are being eaten by the ravenous Bug Blatter Bugblatter Beast Of Traal:
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* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Marvin the Paranoid Android was a prototype for robots fitted with Genuine People Personalities. He's never forgiven the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (who defines a robot as "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with") for it.
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* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Marvin the Paranoid Android was a prototype for robots fitted with Genuine People Personalities. He's never forgiven the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (who (which defines a robot as "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with") for it.
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* CompositeCharacter: In the ''Quintessential Stage'', Van Harl, the Vogon who's taken over the Guide in Mostly Harmless, is combined with Zarniwoop, who was the editor-in-chief in the ''Secondary Phase'' and ''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe''. This does not appear to have been done to simplify the story (it doesn't); they simply liked Jonathan Pryce's portrayal of Zarniwoop and wanted him back.
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* CompositeCharacter: In the ''Quintessential Stage'', Van Harl, the Vogon who's taken over the Guide in Mostly Harmless, is combined with Zarniwoop, who was the editor-in-chief in the ''Secondary Phase'' and ''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe''. This does not appear to have been done to simplify the story (it doesn't); they simply liked Jonathan Pryce's portrayal of Zarniwoop and wanted him back.
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* CosmicFlaw: Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent find themselves two million years in the past of Planet Earth - which is a massive supercomputer devised, at mind-boggling-cost, to figure out the Question to the Answer of the existence of lifekind. Arthur realises they are at that point on the program where discovering The Answer is imminent. The Answer is of course Forty-Two. By a feat of lateral thinking, they discover the Question.
--> What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
--> Six by nine. Forty two?
--> That's it. That's all there is.
--> I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe.
--> What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
--> Six by nine. Forty two?
--> That's it. That's all there is.
--> I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe.
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* RevivalByCommercialization: Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World," played at the conclusion of the first phase, became popular again because of its use here.
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* RevivalByCommercialization: Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World," played at the conclusion of the first phase, became popular again because of its use here.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Of a non-organic type. The towel being a useful psychological tool which first was used in the first "fit" of the second series, would be used in the first "fit" of the TV series.
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* CastingGag: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases had a lot of cameos by actors who had featured in non-radio versions of the story:
** Chris Langham, Arthur Dent from the 1979 Institute of Contemporary Arts stage production of ''Hitchhiker's'', pops up as Prak in the finale of the Tertiary Phase.
** David Dixon, the TV Ford Prefect, had a cameo in the second episode of the Quandary Phase, getting pissed off at Arthur for trying to donate to save the dolphins when he should know they've all vanished. (This case is lampshaded, as Arthur -- still played by Simon Jones, who acted alongside Dixon in the TV series -- asks if they've met before.)
** Creator/StephenFry, the [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy film's]] Guide, cameos in the third episode of the Quandary Phase as Murray Bost Henson.
** The Quintessential Phase series had Sandra Dickinson, Trillian in [[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy the TV version]], voice Tricia [=McMillan=] (Trillian's alternate universe counterpart). She reprises her TV role as Trillian herself in the Hexagonal Phase since [[spoiler:she and Tricia merged at the end of the Quintessential Phase]]. [[AuthorExistenceFailure Susan Sheridan's death in 2015]] probably also factored into things.
** In a non-remake-related example, Geoffrey Perkins, Douglas Adams's boss at the BBC, plays Arthur Dent's boss at the BBC in the second episode of the Quandary Phase.
* ChekhovsGun: Arthur mentions in Fit The Fifth he has a travel Scrabble game on him. [[spoiler:He and Ford use this to find out the question hidden in his brain waves in the next fit.]]
* CompositeCharacter: The ''Quintessential Phase'' merges Zarniwoop and Vann Harl.
** Chris Langham, Arthur Dent from the 1979 Institute of Contemporary Arts stage production of ''Hitchhiker's'', pops up as Prak in the finale of the Tertiary Phase.
** David Dixon, the TV Ford Prefect, had a cameo in the second episode of the Quandary Phase, getting pissed off at Arthur for trying to donate to save the dolphins when he should know they've all vanished. (This case is lampshaded, as Arthur -- still played by Simon Jones, who acted alongside Dixon in the TV series -- asks if they've met before.)
** Creator/StephenFry, the [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy film's]] Guide, cameos in the third episode of the Quandary Phase as Murray Bost Henson.
** The Quintessential Phase series had Sandra Dickinson, Trillian in [[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy the TV version]], voice Tricia [=McMillan=] (Trillian's alternate universe counterpart). She reprises her TV role as Trillian herself in the Hexagonal Phase since [[spoiler:she and Tricia merged at the end of the Quintessential Phase]]. [[AuthorExistenceFailure Susan Sheridan's death in 2015]] probably also factored into things.
** In a non-remake-related example, Geoffrey Perkins, Douglas Adams's boss at the BBC, plays Arthur Dent's boss at the BBC in the second episode of the Quandary Phase.
* ChekhovsGun: Arthur mentions in Fit The Fifth he has a travel Scrabble game on him. [[spoiler:He and Ford use this to find out the question hidden in his brain waves in the next fit.]]
* CompositeCharacter: The ''Quintessential Phase'' merges Zarniwoop and Vann Harl.
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* CastingGag: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases had a lot of cameos by actors who had featured in non-radio versions of the story:
** Chris Langham, Arthur Dent from the 1979 Institute of Contemporary Arts stage production of ''Hitchhiker's'', pops up as Prak in the finale of the Tertiary Phase.
** David Dixon, the TV Ford Prefect, had a cameo in the second episode of the Quandary Phase, getting pissed off at Arthur for trying to donate to save the dolphins when he should know they've all vanished. (This case is lampshaded, as Arthur -- still played by Simon Jones, who acted alongside Dixon in the TV series -- asks if they've met before.)
** Creator/StephenFry, the [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy film's]] Guide, cameos in the third episode of the Quandary Phase as Murray Bost Henson.
** The Quintessential Phase series had Sandra Dickinson, Trillian in [[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy the TV version]], voice Tricia [=McMillan=] (Trillian's alternate universe counterpart). She reprises her TV role as Trillian herself in the Hexagonal Phase since [[spoiler:she and Tricia merged at the end of the Quintessential Phase]]. [[AuthorExistenceFailure Susan Sheridan's death in 2015]] probably also factored into things.
** In a non-remake-related example, Geoffrey Perkins, Douglas Adams's boss at the BBC, plays Arthur Dent's boss at the BBC in the second episode of the Quandary Phase.
* ChekhovsGun: Arthur mentions in Fit The Fifth he has a travel Scrabble game on him. [[spoiler:He and Ford use this to find out the question hidden in his brain waves in the next fit.]]
* CompositeCharacter: The ''Quintessential Phase'' merges Zarniwoop and Vann Harl.
** Chris Langham, Arthur Dent from the 1979 Institute of Contemporary Arts stage production of ''Hitchhiker's'', pops up as Prak in the finale of the Tertiary Phase.
** David Dixon, the TV Ford Prefect, had a cameo in the second episode of the Quandary Phase, getting pissed off at Arthur for trying to donate to save the dolphins when he should know they've all vanished. (This case is lampshaded, as Arthur -- still played by Simon Jones, who acted alongside Dixon in the TV series -- asks if they've met before.)
** Creator/StephenFry, the [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy film's]] Guide, cameos in the third episode of the Quandary Phase as Murray Bost Henson.
** The Quintessential Phase series had Sandra Dickinson, Trillian in [[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy the TV version]], voice Tricia [=McMillan=] (Trillian's alternate universe counterpart). She reprises her TV role as Trillian herself in the Hexagonal Phase since [[spoiler:she and Tricia merged at the end of the Quintessential Phase]]. [[AuthorExistenceFailure Susan Sheridan's death in 2015]] probably also factored into things.
** In a non-remake-related example, Geoffrey Perkins, Douglas Adams's boss at the BBC, plays Arthur Dent's boss at the BBC in the second episode of the Quandary Phase.
* ChekhovsGun: Arthur mentions in Fit The Fifth he has a travel Scrabble game on him. [[spoiler:He and Ford use this to find out the question hidden in his brain waves in the next fit.]]
* CompositeCharacter: The ''Quintessential Phase'' merges Zarniwoop and Vann Harl.
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* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: One stinger explains that the Ameglian Major Cows (the species that the Dish of the Day belongs to) ''refused'' to have their scenes overseen by an animal welfare officer.
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** Arthur's casual comment "I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle," having been accidentally sent through a wormhole, was the instigator of multi-thousand year war between the Vl'hurgs and the G'Gugvants, until they found it was a terrible mistake.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Of a non-organic type. The towel being a useful psychological tool which first was used in the first "fit" of the second series, would be used in the first "fit" of the TV series.
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* RobotBuddy: The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation says a robot is "your plastic pal who's fun to be with." Marvin, a Sirius product who was the prototype for their "genuine people personality" program, subverts this as he is barely tolerated by the others.
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* HijackedByGanon: The adaptation of the fifths book gave Vann Harl the first name"Zarniwoop" and made him a Vogon. In the books they were two different characters whose race wasn't specified.
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* CanonDiscontinuity: The third series adapts ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'' and ignores season 2.
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* BurpOfFinality: What the Haggunennon lets out after eating Zaphod, Trillian and Marvin.
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* CastingGag: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases had a lot of cameos by actors who had featured in non-radio versions of the story:
** Chris Langham, Arthur Dent from the 1979 Institute of Contemporary Arts stage production of ''Hitchhiker's'', pops up as Prak in the finale of the Tertiary Phase.
** David Dixon, the TV Ford Prefect, had a cameo in the second episode of the Quandary Phase, getting pissed off at Arthur for trying to donate to save the dolphins when he should know they've all vanished. (This case is lampshaded, as Arthur -- still played by Simon Jones, who acted alongside Dixon in the TV series -- asks if they've met before.)
** Creator/StephenFry, the [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy film's]] Guide, cameos in the third episode of the Quandary Phase as Murray Bost Henson.
** The Quintessential Phase series had Sandra Dickinson, Trillian in [[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy the TV version]], voice Tricia [=McMillan=] (Trillian's alternate universe counterpart). She reprises her TV role as Trillian herself in the Hexagonal Phase since [[spoiler:she and Tricia merged at the end of the Quintessential Phase]]. [[AuthorExistenceFailure Susan Sheridan's death in 2015]] probably also factored into things.
** In a non-remake-related example, Geoffrey Perkins, Douglas Adams's boss at the BBC, plays Arthur Dent's boss at the BBC in the second episode of the Quandary Phase.
** Chris Langham, Arthur Dent from the 1979 Institute of Contemporary Arts stage production of ''Hitchhiker's'', pops up as Prak in the finale of the Tertiary Phase.
** David Dixon, the TV Ford Prefect, had a cameo in the second episode of the Quandary Phase, getting pissed off at Arthur for trying to donate to save the dolphins when he should know they've all vanished. (This case is lampshaded, as Arthur -- still played by Simon Jones, who acted alongside Dixon in the TV series -- asks if they've met before.)
** Creator/StephenFry, the [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy film's]] Guide, cameos in the third episode of the Quandary Phase as Murray Bost Henson.
** The Quintessential Phase series had Sandra Dickinson, Trillian in [[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy the TV version]], voice Tricia [=McMillan=] (Trillian's alternate universe counterpart). She reprises her TV role as Trillian herself in the Hexagonal Phase since [[spoiler:she and Tricia merged at the end of the Quintessential Phase]]. [[AuthorExistenceFailure Susan Sheridan's death in 2015]] probably also factored into things.
** In a non-remake-related example, Geoffrey Perkins, Douglas Adams's boss at the BBC, plays Arthur Dent's boss at the BBC in the second episode of the Quandary Phase.
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* BadBoss: A Vogon. Any Vogon. But Jeltz goes into a fit of mania and violence provoked by a crewman responding to him, which snowballs into him order half his crew to wipe one another out.
* BrokenRecord: The auto-pilot of the Brontital space-liner insists Zaphod and Ford return to their seats, even though they're not passengers, and more importantly, civilization on the planet has been and gone. It gets increasingly pushy and loud, until it's screaming it at them.
* BrokenRecord: The auto-pilot of the Brontital space-liner insists Zaphod and Ford return to their seats, even though they're not passengers, and more importantly, civilization on the planet has been and gone. It gets increasingly pushy and loud, until it's screaming it at them.
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* ChekhovsGun: Arthur mentions in Fit The Fifth he has a travel Scrabble game on him. [[spoiler: He and Ford use this to find out the question hidden in his brain waves in the next fit.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Arthur mentions in Fit The Fifth he has a travel Scrabble game on him. [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He and Ford use this to find out the question hidden in his brain waves in the next fit.]]
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* CorruptCorporateExecutives: Hig Hurtenflurst only happens to be one for a ''shoe'' company, who try zapping people with rays to make them buy more and more uncomfortable shoes. Which, as it turns out, is pointless, since people do this ''anyway''. The giant ray guns and jobs are just there to make the executives feel important.
* CreditGag: Frequent. The first episode of the second series mentions where a person could buy a copy of Playbeing, for example, and Hig Hurtenflurst's actor only happens to borrow his verbal tic.
* CreditGag: Frequent. The first episode of the second series mentions where a person could buy a copy of Playbeing, for example, and Hig Hurtenflurst's actor only happens to borrow his verbal tic.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutives: CorruptCorporateExecutive: Hig Hurtenflurst only happens to be one for a ''shoe'' company, who try zapping people with rays to make them buy more and more uncomfortable shoes. Which, as it turns out, is pointless, since people do this ''anyway''. The giant ray guns and jobs are just there to make the executives feel important.
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* DontAskJustRun: The Guide's advice on what to do if you ever find yourself near a Haggunennon.
* DownerEnding: Both series.
** The first ends with Zaphod, Trillian and Marvin getting eaten by a Haggunennon, while Arthur and Ford wind up stuck on prehistoric Earth with the Golgafrinchians, who despite being a load of useless idiots are going to inherit the Earth, and gum up the attempt to solve The Question.
** The second has Arthur learn Zaphod signed off on the destruction of Earth, and storms off in ''The Heart of Gold'' with Marvin, leaving Zaphod and Ford stuck with the Ruler of the Universe.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Subverted with Prostechnic Vogon Jeltz. The first time we hear him, as he addresses mankind, his voice is clear and authoritative. Then, when Ford and Arthur are on his ship, it turns out to be much more nasal and high-strung, befitting a member of a race that is "not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious, and callous".
* DownerEnding: Both series.
** The first ends with Zaphod, Trillian and Marvin getting eaten by a Haggunennon, while Arthur and Ford wind up stuck on prehistoric Earth with the Golgafrinchians, who despite being a load of useless idiots are going to inherit the Earth, and gum up the attempt to solve The Question.
** The second has Arthur learn Zaphod signed off on the destruction of Earth, and storms off in ''The Heart of Gold'' with Marvin, leaving Zaphod and Ford stuck with the Ruler of the Universe.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Subverted with Prostechnic Vogon Jeltz. The first time we hear him, as he addresses mankind, his voice is clear and authoritative. Then, when Ford and Arthur are on his ship, it turns out to be much more nasal and high-strung, befitting a member of a race that is "not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious, and callous".
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Zarniwoop's attempts to explain what's going on to Zaphod are spoiled by Ford getting merrily pissed in the background, and his subsequent drunken singing over Zarniwoop.
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: When it's established that (due to the effects of the Infinite Improbability Drive) Ford and Trillian are the only two members of the core cast who haven't coincidentally met before:
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** When it's established that (due to the effects of the Infinite Improbability Drive) Ford and Trillian are the only two members of the core cast who haven't coincidentally met before:
** When it's established that (due to the effects of the Infinite Improbability Drive) Ford and Trillian are the only two members of the core cast who haven't coincidentally met before:
** At the beginning of series 2, we see what Arthur and Ford have been up to since getting stranded on pre-historic Earth: Stuck with the Golgafrinchians for the last two years, they're getting drunk.
* MindScrew: The last episode of series 2 reveals that everything's been taking place inside Zarniwoop's office, including the events on Brontital. Working out how that works is anyone's guess, but apparently Lintilla is real.
* MortonsFork: A profoundly irritated Jeltz tells his crew that if anyone speaks up again, they'll all get it in the neck. The understandably terrified Vogons don't respond, and he demands they answer...
* MortonsFork: A profoundly irritated Jeltz tells his crew that if anyone speaks up again, they'll all get it in the neck. The understandably terrified Vogons don't respond, and he demands they answer...
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* NoodleIncident: The narrator/Guide mentions in passing that Arthur's only brother was somehow nibbled to death by an [[SeldomSeenSpecies Okapi]].
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* NoodleIncident: NoodleIncident:
** The narrator/Guide mentions in passing that Arthur's only brother was somehow nibbled to death by an [[SeldomSeenSpeciesOkapi]].Okapi]].
** Marvin survives being eaten by a Haggunennon and makes his way to the publishers of the Guide via means he apparently was never able to satisfactorily explain, but which he almost assuredly finds depressing.
* PardonMyKlingon: Discussed in the second series, with an explanation that a lot of phrases formerly banned in polite society (with reactions ranging from being shunned to being shot) are now seen as the sign of a healthy, non-[bleep]ed up mind, except the most heinous of all phrases, only one planet of which uses in cold blood: [[spoiler:"Belgium"]]
** The narrator/Guide mentions in passing that Arthur's only brother was somehow nibbled to death by an [[SeldomSeenSpecies
** Marvin survives being eaten by a Haggunennon and makes his way to the publishers of the Guide via means he apparently was never able to satisfactorily explain, but which he almost assuredly finds depressing.
* PardonMyKlingon: Discussed in the second series, with an explanation that a lot of phrases formerly banned in polite society (with reactions ranging from being shunned to being shot) are now seen as the sign of a healthy, non-[bleep]ed up mind, except the most heinous of all phrases, only one planet of which uses in cold blood: [[spoiler:"Belgium"]]
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* CardCarryingVillain: The Frogstar Prisoner Relations office takes a malicious glee in being one of the most evil beings in the galaxy.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Arthur and Marvin punish Hig Hurtenflurst by making him listen to Marvin's autobiography. ''Damn.''
* CorruptCorporateExecutives: Hig Hurtenflurst only happens to be one for a ''shoe'' company, who try zapping people with rays to make them buy more and more uncomfortable shoes. Which, as it turns out, is pointless, since people do this ''anyway''. The giant ray guns and jobs are just there to make the executives feel important.
* CreditGag: Frequent. The first episode of the second series mentions where a person could buy a copy of Playbeing, for example, and Hig Hurtenflurst's actor only happens to borrow his verbal tic.
* CorruptCorporateExecutives: Hig Hurtenflurst only happens to be one for a ''shoe'' company, who try zapping people with rays to make them buy more and more uncomfortable shoes. Which, as it turns out, is pointless, since people do this ''anyway''. The giant ray guns and jobs are just there to make the executives feel important.
* CreditGag: Frequent. The first episode of the second series mentions where a person could buy a copy of Playbeing, for example, and Hig Hurtenflurst's actor only happens to borrow his verbal tic.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ford mentions in Fit The Fifth that drunk-time traveling earns getting dumped on a prehistoric planet and being told to a evolve into a more responsible life form. [[spoiler: Fit The Sixth ends with him and Arthur stuck on a prehistoric Earth.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ford mentions in Fit The Fifth that drunk-time traveling earns getting dumped on a prehistoric planet and being told to a evolve into a more responsible life form. [[spoiler: Fit [[spoiler:Fit The Sixth ends with him and Arthur stuck on a prehistoric Earth.]]
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* TakeThat: Shooty and Bang Bang, the two trigger-happy but sensitive cops who go after our heroes on Magrathea, are a cruel parody of Series/StarskyAndHutch.
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* TakeThat: TakeThat:
** Shooty and Bang Bang, the two trigger-happy but sensitive cops who go after our heroes on Magrathea, are a cruel parody ofSeries/StarskyAndHutch.Series/StarskyAndHutch.
** The most hideous word in the galaxy, used only by the most loose-tongued people in times of extreme stress, is... ''Belgium''.
** Shooty and Bang Bang, the two trigger-happy but sensitive cops who go after our heroes on Magrathea, are a cruel parody of
** The most hideous word in the galaxy, used only by the most loose-tongued people in times of extreme stress, is... ''Belgium''.
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* BrickJoke: It is said that God's Final Message to His Creations, when seen, makes those who see it feel good. Sure enough, when Marvin sees the message, [[spoiler:which is "we apologise for the inconvenience", his response? "I think I feel good about it."]]
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* BackFromTheDead: Though Marvin remained dead in ''And Another Thing...'', he appears outside Arthur's shack in Episode 1 (the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation took his personality and put it in another body). Subverted when it turns out to only exist in [[LotusEaterMachine the Guide Mark II]], [[spoiler:then double-subverted in Episode 6 when Arthur finds him in the same place in reality]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The ending of ''Literature/AndAnotherThing'' plays out mostly as it originally does, with nearly everyone getting some sort of happy ending, but [[spoiler:Fenchurch is present at the shack (to Arthur's surprise), having filled out the permit that staves off the Vogons]]. After everything he's been through, [[spoiler:Arthur finally gets a happy ending. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Oh, and Marvin lives, too]]]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The ending of ''Literature/AndAnotherThing'' plays out mostly as it originally does, with nearly everyone getting some sort of happy ending, but [[spoiler:Fenchurch is present at the shack (to Arthur's surprise), having filled out the permit that staves off the Vogons]]. After everything he's been through, [[spoiler:Arthur finally gets a happy ending. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Oh, and Marvin lives, too]]]].
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* OddlyNamedSequel: The original two series and the later adaptation of "Life, the Universe and Everything" were released as the Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Phases. The adaptations of the last two books became the Quandary and Quintessential Phases.
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* OddlyNamedSequel: The original two series and the later adaptation of "Life, the Universe and Everything" were released as the Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Phases. The adaptations of the last two books became the Quandary and Quintessential Phases -- more accurate titles would be the Quaternary and Quinary Phases.
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!!The sixth season contains examples of:
* HappyEndingOverride: It turns out that the ending of the Quintessential Phase was little more than [[LotusEaterMachine a virtual reality created by the Guide Mark II]], as a means of persuading the cast to return to Earth before its destruction -- which, by the by, is still moments away from occuring.
* OddlyNamedSequel: Just like the Quandary and Quintessential Phases, this series is the Hexagonal Phase, and not the "Senary Phase".
* SpecialGuest: The late Creator/StephenHawking provides the voice of the Guide Mark II in Episode 1. Random even [[LampshadeHanging mentions it sounds like him]], but is cut off before she says his name. The Guide Mark II even implies that in other timelines, it was the man himself.
!!The sixth season contains examples of:
* HappyEndingOverride: It turns out that the ending of the Quintessential Phase was little more than [[LotusEaterMachine a virtual reality created by the Guide Mark II]], as a means of persuading the cast to return to Earth before its destruction -- which, by the by, is still moments away from occuring.
* OddlyNamedSequel: Just like the Quandary and Quintessential Phases, this series is the Hexagonal Phase, and not the "Senary Phase".
* SpecialGuest: The late Creator/StephenHawking provides the voice of the Guide Mark II in Episode 1. Random even [[LampshadeHanging mentions it sounds like him]], but is cut off before she says his name. The Guide Mark II even implies that in other timelines, it was the man himself.
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It started with only two seasons in 1978-1980. It was later mixed-and-matched into the first two novels. It was later revived in 2003 and spawned three more seasons based on the last three books by Creator/DouglasAdams; a new 2018 series will adapt Eoin Colfer's entry in the series, ''And Another Thing...''.
The cast was fairly consistent across the board, with only Peter Jones and Richard Vernon being replaced in the last three seasons due to their deaths in the interim. Even death didn't stop Creator/DouglasAdams from putting in an appearance in Seasons 3 and 5, despite the fact that he ''wasn't'' reprising a previous character.
The cast was fairly consistent across the board, with only Peter Jones and Richard Vernon being replaced in the last three seasons due to their deaths in the interim. Even death didn't stop Creator/DouglasAdams from putting in an appearance in Seasons 3 and 5, despite the fact that he ''wasn't'' reprising a previous character.
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It started with only two seasons series (or "Phases") in 1978-1980. It was later mixed-and-matched into the first two novels. It was later revived in 2003 and spawned three more seasons Phases based on the last three books by Creator/DouglasAdams; a new 2018 series will adapt Eoin Colfer's Creator/DouglasAdams. Another revival in 2018, the Hexagonal Phase, adapted Creator/EoinColfer's entry in the series, ''And Another Thing...''.
''Literature/AndAnotherThing''.
The cast was fairly consistent across the board, with only Peter Jones and Richard Vernon being replacedin between the last three seasons second and third series due to their deaths in the interim. Even death didn't stop Creator/DouglasAdams from putting in an appearance in Seasons 3 the Tertiary and 5, Quintessential Phases, despite the fact that he ''wasn't'' reprising a previous character.
The cast was fairly consistent across the board, with only Peter Jones and Richard Vernon being replaced
