Fridge Brilliance
- Honestly, it's a bit of a stretch, but remember the book that Arthur was reading at the end of chapter 11? The one where the protagonist had "done some work in his garden, played a great deal of netball, helped mend a road, fathered a child on his wife and then unexpectedly died of thirst just before the last chapter"? Now think back to all the previous books. Now think forward to the end of this book. Yes, Adams just summed up the entire pentalogy in less than a paragraph. Admittedly, omitting the part about the restaurant and the mice and such, but each event described can be compared to an event somewhere in the book.
- The way that work ends (abruptly at the 100,000th word) might be poking fun at the first Guide book in particular; according to legend, Adams was so far behind his deadline that the editor called him up one day and demanded that he finish the page he was on and turn in the manuscript, so the first novel just sort of ends.
- Why did Trillian suddenly decide to have a child, and then decide not to bother raising it? Simple. The Guide Mk. II made her do it, so it would have something (in this case, Random) that would bring all three remaining humans (the Vogons still think Ford is a human) back to Earth before it's destruction.
