Favorite Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy moment

[Lidrial]

To celebrate my 42'nd post on the escapist (I don't post very much) I decided to make a thread about The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (for obvious reasons).

Here is my question to you: What is your favorite moment(s)?
It doesn't matter what version of hitchhikers is was from, book, mini-series, movie, other form, just tell us what your favorite moment/scene is.

My favorites are the sperm whale and pot of petunias from the 2005 Movie and the Dish of the Day at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe from the 1981 mini-series.

 

[PurpleSky]

Seriously people,this site is like the only place I hear of that book.What is the BIG deal, is it THAT briliantly written?

Are you all about fantasy sci-fi and you read it 20 times?Every book recomendation thread has this in many replies.

 

[The Geek Lord]

Seriously people,this site is like the only place I hear of that book.What is the BIG deal, is it THAT briliantly written?

Are you all about fantasy sci-fi and you read it 20 times?Every book recomendation thread has this in many replies.

It's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. If you haven't read/seen it, it's not intelligent to judge it.

(... Says the person who only played through the first two hours of FF7 and calls it a worthless piece of shit.)

On topic, I only remember the movie vaguely, sadly, but I have the book somewhere, so I might read it sooner or later. I do, however, remember the song.

So, so long so long so long, and thanks for all the fiiish!

 

[The Shade]

"Don't try to out-weird ME, kid - I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal."
- Zaphod

Also, the whole conversation between Zaphod and the Cricket robots when they parked their ship through his to steal the Improbability Drive.

"Imagine, for a moment, that I have a Kill-o-zap blaster in my hand."
"You DO have a Kill-o-zap blaster in your hand."
"Yeah, well... I didn't wanna overtax your imaginations."

Brilliance!

[All quotes are from memory, and exact wording may vary. Wildly.]

 

[PurpleSky]

Seriously people,this site is like the only place I hear of that book.What is the BIG deal, is it THAT briliantly written?

Are you all about fantasy sci-fi and you read it 20 times?Every book recomendation thread has this in many replies.

It's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. If you haven't read/seen it, it's not intelligent to judge it.

(... Says the person who only played through the first two hours of FF7 and calls it a worthless piece of shit.)

On topic, I only remember the movie vaguely, sadly, but I have the book somewhere, so I might read it sooner or later. I do, however, remember the song.

So, so long so long so long, and thanks for all the fiiish!

Stop flaming me god damnit I am just asking about it.

 

[Turing]

I'd have to say my favourite part of Hitchhikers is probably... the first book.
Or alternately, my favourite part is the part before the stupid movie was made.

 

[savageoblivi0n]

i like the conversation between arthur and the creature that keeps reincarnating.....cracks me up every time i read it

EDIT: and any scene with wowbagger carrying out his plan XD

 

[The Geek Lord]

Stop flaming me god damnit I am just asking about it.

I'm flaming you? Oh no, good sir, you haven't seen me flame people.

I just said it's not particularly smart to judge something without actually having seen/read/played/etc. it first. Trust me, I do completely retarded things all the time, and I apologize if my comment offended you.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

The scene where Arthur tells Thor to take their fight outside, and a drunken Thor promptly walks out of the floating bar and falls.

The scene where Arthur threw the scrabble rock into the bush, which killed the rabbit, which he made into a purse, the rabbit which the fox ate and died, and fell in a water hole that got infected, which killed the nice lady that Arthur was going out with months later.

Staying dead for Tax Evasion.

Good god, how do I pick one!?

 

[masher]

Ohoho~ -way- too many to re-count.

I'd have to say... either the one scene with the talking cow at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe or the one scene with the guy(dammit, I can't remember the name), driving while the book goes on all about how he hates rain even though, unknown to himself, he is a rain-god and the rain only follows him because it loves him.
--or of course the Telephone-booth-cleaners and how their story. Or that one guy Aurthur constantly accidentally killed even though he was constantly being reincarnated into being like ants, flies, etc.

LIKE I SAID, -way- too many to count. That was a -great- book...

 

[Lizardon]

Let's see,

<spoiler=The Whale and Petunias>The Whale: Ahhh! Woooh! What's happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Okay okay, calm down calm down get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my... well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Lets call it a... tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, what's this roaring sound, whooshing past what I'm suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It'll do. Yeah, this is really exciting. I'm dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There's an awful lot of that now isn't it? And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello Ground
Petunias: Oh no, Not again

<spoiler=Marvin and Frogstar Robot>Frogstar Robot: Out of my way little robot
Marvin: I'm afraid I've been left here to stop you.
Frogstar Robot: You? Stop me? Go on!
Marvin: No really I have.
Frogstar Robot: What are you armed with?
Marvin: Guess.
Frogstar Robot: Guess?
Marvin: Yes, go on, you'll never guess
Frogstar Robot: Erm... laser beam?
Marvin: No.
Frogstar Robot: No, no no no no, too obvious I suppose...Anti matter ray?
Marvin: Far too obvious.
Frogstar Robot: Yes... er, how about an electron ram?
Marvin: What's that?
Frogstar Robot: One of these.
Marvin: No, not one of those.
Frogstar Robot: Good though isn't it?
Marvin: Very good.
Frogstar Robot: I know, you must have one of those new Xanthic Re-Structtion Destabilised Zenon Emitters.
Marvin: Nice, aren't they?
Frogstar Robot: That what you got?
Marvin: No.
Frogstar Robot: Oh, then it must be one of those things with twirls... goes whoosh...
Marvin: You're thinking along the wrong lines you know, you're failing to take into account something very basic in the relationship between men and robots.
Frogstar Robot: I- I- I- I know it I know it, I've seen them. Quite big... er...
Marvin: Look, look, no, just think. They left me - an ordinary, menial robot - to stop you - a gigantic, heavy-duty battle machine - whilst they ran off to save themselves... What do you think they would leave me with?
Frogstar Robot: Well, er, something pretty damn devastating I would expect.
Marvin: Expect? Oh yes, expect. I'll tell you what they gave me to protect myself with, shall I?
Frogstar Robot: Yes all right.
Marvin: Nothing.
Frogstar Robot: What?
Marvin: Nothing at all. Not an electronic sausage.
Frogstar Robot: Well, doesn't that just take the biscuit!
Marvin: And me with this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side.
Frogstar Robot: Yeah? Oh that makes me angry, think I'll smash that wall down.
Marvin: That's very impressive.
Frogstar Robot: Oh you ain't seen nothing yet, I can take this floor out too... no trouble!
Frogstar Robot: Oh dear!
Frogstar Robot: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
Marvin: What a depressingly stupid machine.

<spoiler=God>Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:
`I refuse to prove that I exist, says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic."

But my all time favourite quote is from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
"In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Seriously people,this site is like the only place I hear of that book.What is the BIG deal, is it THAT briliantly written?

Are you all about fantasy sci-fi and you read it 20 times?Every book recomendation thread has this in many replies.

The novels are adapted from a radio tv series, and are infamous for their inconsistency between publishings. Basically, Earth blows up, and a guy in a bathrobe sees a ton of weird shit.

 

[grimsprice]

Arrrrrg.

I'm going to have to say it was the preface to one of the chapters in one of the books, it simply said.

Anyone who is capable of being elected should under no conditions be allowed to do the job.

Or maybe.... ARRRRRRG. to many...

 

[Burningsok]

Let's see,

<spoiler=The Whale and Petunias>The Whale: Ahhh! Woooh! What's happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Okay okay, calm down calm down get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my... well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Lets call it a... tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, what's this roaring sound, whooshing past what I'm suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It'll do. Yeah, this is really exciting. I'm dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There's an awful lot of that now isn't it? And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello Ground
Petunias: Oh no, Not again

<spoiler=Marvin and Frogstar Robot>Frogstar Robot: Out of my way little robot
Marvin: I'm afraid I've been left here to stop you.
Frogstar Robot: You? Stop me? Go on!
Marvin: No really I have.
Frogstar Robot: What are you armed with?
Marvin: Guess.
Frogstar Robot: Guess?
Marvin: Yes, go on, you'll never guess
Frogstar Robot: Erm... laser beam?
Marvin: No.
Frogstar Robot: No, no no no no, too obvious I suppose...Anti matter ray?
Marvin: Far too obvious.
Frogstar Robot: Yes... er, how about an electron ram?
Marvin: What's that?
Frogstar Robot: One of these.
Marvin: No, not one of those.
Frogstar Robot: Good though isn't it?
Marvin: Very good.
Frogstar Robot: I know, you must have one of those new Xanthic Re-Structtion Destabilised Zenon Emitters.
Marvin: Nice, aren't they?
Frogstar Robot: That what you got?
Marvin: No.
Frogstar Robot: Oh, then it must be one of those things with twirls... goes whoosh...
Marvin: You're thinking along the wrong lines you know, you're failing to take into account something very basic in the relationship between men and robots.
Frogstar Robot: I- I- I- I know it I know it, I've seen them. Quite big... er...
Marvin: Look, look, no, just think. They left me - an ordinary, menial robot - to stop you - a gigantic, heavy-duty battle machine - whilst they ran off to save themselves... What do you think they would leave me with?
Frogstar Robot: Well, er, something pretty damn devastating I would expect.
Marvin: Expect? Oh yes, expect. I'll tell you what they gave me to protect myself with, shall I?
Frogstar Robot: Yes all right.
Marvin: Nothing.
Frogstar Robot: What?
Marvin: Nothing at all. Not an electronic sausage.
Frogstar Robot: Well, doesn't that just take the biscuit!
Marvin: And me with this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side.
Frogstar Robot: Yeah? Oh that makes me angry, think I'll smash that wall down.
Marvin: That's very impressive.
Frogstar Robot: Oh you ain't seen nothing yet, I can take this floor out too... no trouble!
Frogstar Robot: Oh dear!
Frogstar Robot: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
Marvin: What a depressingly stupid machine.

<spoiler=God>Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:
`I refuse to prove that I exist, says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic."

But my all time favourite quote is from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
"In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

LOL the God one. I don't know what to call it... a logic paradox?! XD

 

[rabidmidget]

(one of the uses for a towel)
"It can be used to cover one's eyes to defend themselves against the ravenous bugbladder beast, possibly the dumbest creature in existence, in that it believes that if you can't see it, it can't see you.

 

[Feystar]

Seriously people,this site is like the only place I hear of that book.What is the BIG deal, is it THAT briliantly written?

Are you all about fantasy sci-fi and you read it 20 times?Every book recomendation thread has this in many replies.

Mostly for me it's because it's refreshingly nuts, I mean it really was the Alice in Wonderland of its day, it all sounds logically plausible while being completely barking mad. I'm sure I read/watched/heard an interview where Douglas Adams said that he intentionally wrote himself in to impossible situations then tried to figure a way out of them.

Anyway there are soooo many good things that I love in Hitchhikers but the one that has stuck with me since I read it was the line:

"Ford your turning in to a penguin. Stop it!"

 

[fenrizz]

Seriously people,this site is like the only place I hear of that book.What is the BIG deal, is it THAT briliantly written?

Yes, it really is that brilliant!

OT:
My favorite moment is when they reach a certain planet, and involves a sperm whale and a petunia.
And the planet where Arthur is the Sandwich master.

 

[Hexadecimal]

<spoiler=The Whale and Petunias>The Whale: Ahhh! Woooh! What's happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Okay okay, calm down calm down get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my... well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Lets call it a... tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, what's this roaring sound, whooshing past what I'm suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It'll do. Yeah, this is really exciting. I'm dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There's an awful lot of that now isn't it? And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello Ground
Petunias: Oh no, Not again

<spoiler=God>Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:
`I refuse to prove that I exist, says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic."

Those two are my all-time favorites, though I've only read the first book and watched the 2005 film.

 

[ethan22122]

My favourete part from the 2005 movie is when Arthur and Slartibartfast (the man who finds Arthur at the portals) are going through the planet factory floor.