Line #11 ReferencedBy/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy


1	See also JustForFun.FortyTwo.
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3	[[AC:Audio Drama]]
4	* ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'':
5	** ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'':
6	*** In ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho016StormWarning Storm Warning]]'', the Doctor has a double-headed Altairian dollar.
7	*** In ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS2E2MaxWarp Max Warp]]'', one of the impressive-looking ships at the spaceship trade show is "a Lazlar Lyricon custom job". This is also how Ford describes an impressive-looking spaceship when he and Zaphod are looking for one to steal in the Milliways carpark.
8	** In the BBC Audio drama ''Hornets' Nest: The Sting in the Tale'', the Doctor makes a list of alien invaders that includes the Vogons.
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10	[[AC:Comic Strips]]
11	* The movie gets mentioned as part of a gag in a ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' strip; Jason goes to Marcus for help in writing his own ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'' strips, but Marcus ends up demonstrating that he's TheWhitestBlackGuy when he fails to recognize Music/MosDef for anything but his role as Ford Prefect.
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13	[[AC:Fan Works]]
14	* ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''
15	** Dr. Zarkendorf complains about their MasterComputer taking "seven and a half million years to do a simple mathematical calculation."
16	** Proton tries to get help against the cyborg uprising from SapientCetaceans. The response is indifferent: "So long, and thanks for all the fish!"
17	* In ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]] Special Edition Season 4'', the Xindi Council announces they've reduced Earth's status to 'mostly harmless'.
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19	[[AC:{{Film}} - Animated]]
20	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BPQPsZEjo8 A teaser]] for ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'' [[TrailerSpoof opens the same way as the teaser for the film version]]... until the screen falls back when it gets to the "Don't Panic" text, revealing "Panic". (Both were released under Disney, the ''Hitchhiker's Guide'' film by Creator/TouchstonePictures, ''Chicken Little'' by [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Walt Disney Animation Studios]]).
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22	[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
23	* ''Literature/CiaphasCain'': From ''The Greater Good'' one of the books that Inquisitor Vail admits to using while editing the Archives is [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Sekara's Travologue]] "Interesting places and tedious people" which has a single line entry "[[Literature/MostlyHarmless Dreary Beyond Belief]]" in reference to one of the planets Cain visits.
24	* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': In "B Is For Bigfoot" Irwin is reading ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' when Harry first sees him, triggering a prompt flurry of Vogon jokes and other references from Dresden.
25	* The ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'' novel ''False Value'' is set in a tech company called the Serious Cybernetics Corporation. All the departments, buildings and offices are also named as ''Hitchhikers'' references (security are the Vogon Enforcement Arm, HR are the Magrathean Ape-Descended-Lifeform Utilisation Service), and the words "Don't Panic" are written on the front of the building in large, friendly letters. The employees call themselves "mice", which sounds self-deprecating, but in this context is quite the opposite.
26	* The ''Franchise/StarTrek Encyclopedia'' entry for Earth ends with the words "Mostly harmless".
27	* ''Literature/TheExpanse'': ''Leviathan Wakes'' has a quick bit that goes, ''The food dispensers aboard ship can give you something that is not entirely unlike coffee.''
28	* ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'':
29	** In the short story "A Midsummer's Nightmare" in the ''Doctor Who [[TheChristmasAnnual Annual]] 1981'', Romana chooses to see the stage adaptation of ''Hitchhikers'' rather than ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream''.
30	** In the short story "Into the Nowhere" by Jenny T. Colgan, the TARIDS lands on a mysterious planet which neither the Doctor or the TARDIS databank recognises. When the Doctor is checking other sources, and getting the same result, he frustratedly throws "a hand-sized item covered in buttons, with the letters D and P just visible on the cover" the length of the console room.
31	** ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'':
32	*** In ''Damaged Goods'' by Creator/RussellTDavies, Chris finds a copy of the book in the TARDIS library, but isn't sure if it's fiction or not.
33	*** In ''Night of the Living Dad'' by Kate Orman, Joel's LongList of aliens stranded on Earth includes "Hitchers" and "buzzers"; in ''Hitchhikers'', "buzzing" is defined by Ford as "rich kids with nothing to do [...] They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul whom no one's ever going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennas on their head and making beep beep noises".
34	** ''Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations'':
35	*** In the novelisation of "The Christmas Invasion", also by Colgan, she expands on the Arthur Dent reference (below), saying the Doctor also knows Ford Prefect.
36	*** In the novelisation of ''Shada'', by Gareth Roberts, Professor Chronitis claims to have replaced ''The Worshipful Law of Gallifrey'' with "an Earth classic by one of the greatest writers in that planet's history". He remembers it's very funny, involves thumbing a lift, and has towels in it, but not the title.
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38	[[AC:LiveActionTelevision]]
39	* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': In "The 43 Peculiarity", Howard and Raj find a room where Sheldon goes every day in secret and find 43 written on a chalkboard.[[note]]It's the number of times Sheldon can play hackeysack without dropping it.[[/note]] Raj suggests it's "the meaning of life" from ''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''; Howard corrects him, saying that it's actually 42.
40	* ''Series/BurnNotice'': In "Last Rites" Nate and Sam are pretending to be CDC field agents when a subject walks in on Nate opening a phone receiver to bug it. The excuse to cover for this? Nate's handling the very bacteria the CDC was looking for -- in other words, he's [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy a phone sanitizer.]]
41	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
42	** In [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion "The Christmas Invasion"]] the newly regenerated Tenth Doctor saves the day wearing pyjamas, stating that it was "Very Arthur Dent. Now there was a nice man."
43	** Adams served as the show's script editor in its seventeenth season, and the Doctor reads and riffs on a book written by Oolon Colluphid in the season's opening serial, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E1DestinyOfTheDaleks "Destiny of the Daleks".]]
44	** Colluphid's ''Origins of the Universe'' also appears in a FreezeFrameBonus in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary Silence in the Library]]", next to ''Hitchhikers'' itself.
45	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn The Bells of Saint John]]", after establishing that neither he nor Clara can fly a plane, the Doctor says "Fine, we'll do it together". This is the same line Zaphod uses after discovering nobody knows how to pilot the ''Heart of Gold'' manually.
46	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E7TheRingsOfAkhaten The Rings of Akhaten]]" the aliens on Akhaten include a Hooloovoo, a species mentioned in the first ''Hitchhikers'' book as being "a superintelligent shade of the colour blue".
47	* ''{{Series/Legion\|2017}}'': In "Chapter 27", David Haller pulls out a fish from his ear, which is an allusion to the Babel Fish.
48	* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''
49	** In "Threshold", Tom Paris reaches Warp 10 and passes through all points of the universe simultaneously, causing ridiculous things to happen--which sounds a lot like the Infinite Improbability Drive.
50	** In "Renaissance Man", SpacePirates threaten to maroon the crew in a star system where the inhabitants are "mostly harmless".
51	* ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'': In "How Heavy Is the Water?", Alex mentions Zaphod Beeblebrox during a bit of banter about creatures with multiple heads.
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53	[[AC:Music]]
54	* Music/{{BTS}}: When j-hope is flying on his bed into space in the "Daydream" music video, he looks at his phone, which displays the message "DON'T PANIC!"
55	* The band Music/APerfectCircle using the dolphin's final message to mankind for the title of the song "So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish", a song depicting the end of the world. The song itself even uses the line, "All the dolphins have moved on."
56	* Music/{{Radiohead}} referenced the franchise three times with their album ''Music/OKComputer''. The name of the album comes from a line in the radio series where Zaphod says "okay, computer, I want full manual control now," while "Paranoid Android" takes its title from Marvin the Paranoid Android. A line in the song, "when I am king, you will be first against the wall," additionally nods to an anecdote about how the marketing department of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation were "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came." Both the song and the album regularly appear on best-of lists and many fans regard both as career-bests from the band.
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58	[[AC:Theatre]]
59	* WordOfGod says that Hitchhiker's Guide was one of the many influences on {{Theatre/Octet}}. One of the main characters in the show is named Marvin, and he mentions during the song "Little God" that one of his colleges is named Trillian.
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61	[[AC:VideoGames]]
62	* ''VideoGame/AntimatterDimensions'': One ticker message claims, "If you put infinity into your calculator, it will result in 42!"
63	* ''VideoGame/CivilizationBeyondEarth'':
64	** The achievement for razing 100 alien nests is "[[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Making Way for a Hyperspace Bypass]]".
65	** In this same vein, the achievement for researching every single tech in the game is simply "42".
66	* ''VideoGame/Covid99PaddleRoyale'': The second-lowest threat level is "Mostly Harmless".
67	* ''VideoGame/EverybodyEditsFlash'': The Deep Thought [[NonPlayerCharacter NPC]] appears as a regular PC desktop and monitor, once obtained through an EasterEgg by reaching [[ArcNumber 42 gold coins, 42 blue coins, and 42 deaths]]. Unlocking the NPC causes a message and sound clip saying "Don't Panic". Its FlavorText states that it's a computer of "infinite majesty and calm", the same way the book characterizes Deep Thought when revealing its [[TheMeaningOfLife Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything]].
68	* ''VideoGame/GoatSimulator'': Near the dam in Goat City Bay is a crashed spaceship. On the hotel balcony is a towel with the number "42" printed on it. Combine the latter with the former and you become Hitchhiker Goat, which has the power to summon whales from the sky.
69	* ''VideoGame/TheImpossibleQuiz'':
70	** In the first game, Question 42: "What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?" The answer, of course, is [[spoiler:the 42nd]] 42.
71	** The second chapter of the third game, ''The Impossible Quiz Book'', is called ''The Phlovomite's Guide to the Galaxy''.
72	** Question 55 of the aforementioned chapter asks "Define Earth" and one of the options is "Mostly Harmless". [[spoiler:It's correct.]]
73	** Hovering over Earth in Question 66 gives the description "Earth (Mostly Harmless)".
74	** Question 142 of the third game's third chapter also involves finding a 42, but here it's the [[spoiler:fourth in the bottom row]] 42.
75	* The title character of ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarryMagnaCumLaude'', at one point, is trying to seduce Morgan, a pretty college student who is known for being [[NerdsAreSexy rather nerdy]]. One of the "positive" lines he can say that endears him to her is that he's been idly perusing his "much dog-eared" copy of ''Hitchhiker's Guide''.
76	* ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'': In "Rise Robot Rise", Tycho says, "Don't sweat the details, little monkey. Leave the strategizing to those of us with planet-sized brains", a clear reference to ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', in which Marvin complained, "Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to take you to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't".
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78	[[AC: {{Webcomics}}]]
79	* In ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'', when Tip descends to the Annex-1 subbasements, filled with abandoned shadow government files, there's a [[http://skin-horse.com/comic/like-it/ just visible]] sign reading "BEWARE OF THE LEOPARD".
80	* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', when Faye's espresso dinosaur art project [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1978 rematerialises]] just as the gallery owner was asking about it, Raven claims this is "Adams' Law -- under certain circumstances, a super-improbably event can be MORE likely to happen than not. Basically, the universe has a sense of humor." The gallery owner asks if they can fix it before it turns into a sperm whale.
81	* A ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' strip showing [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2014/03/12/forgot-his-towel/ Falstaff hitchhiking]] is called "Forgot His Towel".
82	* A three part ''Webcomic/FullFrontalNerdity'' story, starting [[http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=494 here]], has the group play a d20 game set in the ''Hitchhiker's'' universe. Nelson takes advantage of Adams's ItRunsOnNonsensoleum to create a highly unfeasable star drive, the Donut D-Hop Drive, which creates wormholes from donuts, which Frank allows since it's very much in the spirit of the Infinite Improbability Drive and the Bistromathic Drive.
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84	[[AC: WebVideo]]
85	* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'':
86	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YKwjcnydDI The trailer]] for the audio drama ''The Doomsday Contract'', based on an unmade TV script by ''Hitchhikers'' producer John Lloyd, is done as a close pastiche of the Guide animations in the TV series.
87	** Arthur Dent and Zaphod Breeblebrox make a cameo as prisoners in suspended animation in the webcast version of Adams' unproduced ''Doctor Who'' serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada ''Shada''.]] There's also a Nutrimatic drinks machine at St Cedd's, and books about Zaphod Beeblebrox and hyperspace planning law in Chris's digs.
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89	[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
90	* ''WesternAnimation/ChipAndDaleRescueRangers'': The alien Fleeblebroxians are named in reference to the two-headed alien Zaphod Beeblebrox.
91	* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''
92	** Bloo plays a video game where the villain is named "Lord Beeblebrox".
93	** In "Bus the Two of Us", there's a hitchhiker wearing a bathrobe with a sign that reads "Magrathea".
94	** In "WesternAnimation/GoodWiltHunting", the two nerds that discovered Coco are named [[Creator/DouglasAdams Douglas and Adam]]; the latter has a blue shirt with 42 on it.
95	** In an especially obscure reference, the friends unite together to rescue a cat from a tree using what Frankie calls "Plan Z-Z-9-Plural Z-Alpha".
96	* ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'': In the episode "I'm Man-Arctica!", Chum Chum shouts, "42!" as one of the answers during Oz's game show.

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