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* NonIndicativeName: Marvin is referred to as "the Paranoid Android" but he's mechanically depressed, not paranoid.
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* NonIndicativeName: Marvin is referred to as "the Paranoid Android" but he's mechanically severely depressed, not paranoid.paranoid. (That said, Adams was hardly the first creator to use "paranoid" as a synonym for "depressed", that confusion famously being the basis of Music/BlackSabbath's song "Paranoid".)
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* 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).
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* 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 {{continuity announce|ment}}r isn't sure).
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** Similarly, the "worst poetry in the universe" gag was directly inspired by a real-life associate of Douglas Adams, though the poet's name eventually had to be fictionalized.
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* SignedUpForTheDental: The Vogon spaceship guard, when prompted to think about it, admits that overall his job is pretty lousy, but he does get to shout "Resistance Is Useless!!" a lot! So he's still gonna stuff Arthur and Ford into that airlock...
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* ActuallyAGoodIdea: The Tertiary Phase adds a moment where after Judiciary Prag gives his suggestion on what to do with the people of Krikkit, it's noted to be such a good idea it raised so doubts as to whether it really was his idea.
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* YouDidntAsk: Twice in the same sequence. The foursome are aboard a stolen spacecraft when Marvin reveals that the Question to the Ultimate Answer is imprinted in Arthur's brainwaves. Trillian asks why Marvin didn't tell them before and Marvin replies "You didn't ask." Moments later Marvin tells them they stole the ship of the space fleet Admiral and gives the same response when Zaphod asks why he didn't tell them.
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* YouDidntAsk: Twice in the same sequence. The foursome are aboard a stolen spacecraft when Marvin reveals that the Question to the Ultimate Answer is imprinted in Arthur's brainwaves. Trillian asks why Marvin didn't tell them before and Marvin replies "You didn't ask." Moments later Marvin tells them they stole the ship of the space fleet Admiral and gives the same response when Zaphod asks why he didn't tell them.
them prior.
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-->'''Arthur:''' It's not so much snd afterlife...more like an ''apres vie.''
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-->'''Arthur:''' It's not so much snd an afterlife...more like an ''apres vie.''
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** When a computer explosion sends Arthur, Ford, Zaphod and Trillian to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe:
-->'''Arthur:''' It's not so much snd afterlife...more like an ''apres vie.''
-->'''Arthur:''' It's not so much snd afterlife...more like an ''apres vie.''
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* YouDidntAsk: Twice in the same sequence. The foursome are aboard a stolen spacecraft when Marvin reveals that the Question to the Ultimate Answer is imprinted in Arthur's brainwaves. Trillian asks why Marvin didn't tell them before and Marvin replies "You didn't ask." Moments later Marvin tells them they stole the ship of the space fleet Admiral and gives the same response when Zaphod asks why he didn't tell them.
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* ProfoundByPopSong: Ford Prefect suggested that the mice consider a lucrative career of making up plausible-sounding Questions and debating them in exchange for vast sums of cash in their Home Dimension. He suggests the following as a possibility:
-->''[[Music/BobDylan How many roads must a man walk down?]]''
-->''[[Music/BobDylan How many roads must a man walk down?]]''
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* TheCameo: Joanna Lumley appears as The Woman with the Sydney Opera House Head in the Tertiary Phase.
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* TheCameo: TheCameo:
** Joanna Lumley appears as The Woman with the Sydney Opera House Head in the Tertiary Phase.
** Miriam Margoyles plays the Smelly Photocopier Woman in the Quintessential Phase.
** Joanna Lumley appears as The Woman with the Sydney Opera House Head in the Tertiary Phase.
** Miriam Margoyles plays the Smelly Photocopier Woman in the Quintessential Phase.
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* MetaCasting: The producers searched for a “Peter Jonesy kind of voice” for the narrator, and were pleasantly surprised to find that Jones was available.
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The cast was fairly consistent across the board, with only Peter Jones and Richard Vernon being replaced between the second and third series due to their deaths in the interim. Even death didn't stop Creator/DouglasAdams from putting in an appearance in the Tertiary and Quintessential Phases, despite the fact that he ''wasn't'' reprising a previous character.
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The cast was fairly consistent across the board, with only Peter Jones Creator/PeterJones and Richard Vernon being replaced between the second and third series due to their deaths in the interim. Even death didn't stop Creator/DouglasAdams from putting in an appearance in the Tertiary and Quintessential Phases, despite the fact that he ''wasn't'' reprising a previous character.
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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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* 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"."filthy rotten stinking samelings".
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The Quintessential Phase undoes the DownerEnding of ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'' by revealing that [[spoiler: the Babel Fish has a hitherto unmentioned ability to teleport its user away from certain death. Even setting aside that the characters have faced ''near'' certain death before without this coming up, if the Babel Fish ''did'' have such an ability then, by the logic of this story, the Guide Mark II would have gone back in time and set things up so they were no longer present.]]
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** Creator/StephenFry, the [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy film's]] Guide, cameos in the third episode of the Quandary Phase as Murray Bost Henson.
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** Creator/StephenFry, the [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005 film's]] Guide, cameos in the third episode of the Quandary Phase as Murray Bost Henson.
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** The narrator/Guide mentions in passing that Arthur's only brother was somehow nibbled to death by an [[SeldomSeenSpecies Okapi]].
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** The narrator/Guide mentions in passing that Arthur's only brother was somehow nibbled to death by an [[SeldomSeenSpecies Okapi]].Okapi.
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** When Max Quordlepleen welcomes the party of "Young Conservatives from Sirius B", they're represented as a pack of dogs.
