Favorite Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy moment

[Keppler]

For the book(s) I have to go with the stereotypical whale choice, but not the monologue where he's naming things on his way to meet his new friend Ground. The description of the crater afterward had me laughing so hard the first time I read it I could hardly stand it. Of course I was about 11 at the time.

For the movie, it was hands down the first interaction with the infinite improbability drive.

Arthur: "Ford..."
Ford : "...yes..."
Arthur: "I think I'm a sofa."
Ford : "...I know how you feel."
Arthur and Ford: "........AHHHHH!!"

 

[Ymbirtt]

There's still something about the Ratchet Screwdriver plant and the Mattress Tree that amuse me no end.

 

[Fallen-Angel Risen-Demon]

I've only seen the movie but...
Anyday.

 

[Lacsapix]

Nutrimatic drinks dispenser creates a liquid that is "almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea"
that made my brain hurt.
Also...

Too many.

Still...

"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."

That holds a spot as one of my favourite quotes of all time.

its genius (and kinda true).

 

[Lisolet]

Lidrial - congrats on your 42nd post and thanks for a great topic that has made me smile warmly after the end of a really long and rough day.

For me, anyone who wins an award for their fjords is a prince in my book. And if his name is Slartibartfast and he wins awards for his fjords (that's fun to say - try it), then that man is a king.

I always have an honest answer when someone asks me what I think of their poetry - "Wow, this is so .... Vogon isn't it?"

 

[NeutralDrow]

I have two, off the top of my head. The first is when Arthur is stranded on prehistoric earth, and realizes after three years what his next plan should be.

Arthur: *declaring* "I shall go mad!"
Ford: "Splendid idea. I went mad for a while. Did me no end of good."
Arthur: *double-takes* "Ford?! I thought you were dead!"
Ford: "So did I, for a while. Then I thought I was a lemon. I spent weeks throwing myself in and out of a gin and tonic."
Arthur: "Where did you find a gin and tonic?"
Ford: "I didn't. I found a lake and through myself in and out of that."

And then, there's the joke that literally took me years to understand...

"[Going into hyperspace] is rather unpleasantly like being drunk."
"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"Ask a glass of water."

 

[soilent]

the scene that reveals why the Petunias said "oh no, not again."

 

[Guffe]

When the emo Robot (marvin was his name?) beats the shit out of that hyper destruction robot with every weapon in the galaxy just by messing around by talking a lot of BS!!! ^^ laughed out Loud at that one.
Also a small piece of a pie (can't remember which small cake) keeps the whole universe together, damn those books have a lot of crazy imagination in them.

 

[Sir Broccoli]

"The first thing they saw was a coffin. The next four thousand nine hundred and ninety nine things they saw were also coffins."
I love those books (although the last two parts really went downhil.)

 

[Willwillwritehiswill]

Not the book, or the movie, or the brilliant 80s series, but i was playing the infocom game on my phone the other day and this really made me smile. Even the game is fantastically written.

 

[Nimzar]

The entirety of the tenth episode of the radio series.


Zaphod: We could really, you know... be in this cave.
Arthur: We are in this cave.
Zaphod: And what a wild cave to be in.


Zaphod: Hey, this rock...
Ford: Marble...
Zaphod: Marble..
Ford: Ice-covered marble...
Zaphod: Rights... it's as slippery as... as... What's the slipperiest thing you can think of?
Ford: At this moment? This marble.
Zaphod: Right. This marble is as slippery as this marble.



...you know I just realized (as I was going through the book of radio scripts) that if I were to quote all my favorite bits from this episode, I'd quote about 90% of the damn thing.

So I'll just list the rest.

Zaphod on no ground
Guide on the definition of life
Arthur, the bird and the statue.
Guide on the unspeakable

 

[Dr.Susse]

Marvins conversation with the mattres made me giggle and the whole of the 'Life the universe and everything' Was pure gold.

 

[Rhymenoceros]

42

It had to be said by Someone.

 

[Sproingy]

There's still something about the Ratchet Screwdriver plant and the Mattress Tree that amuse me no end.

The description of the mattresses Falumping cracks me up every time

I also love the way the game of Cricket is treated in the books

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

"And as he drove on, the rain clouds dragged down the sky after him for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him and to water him."

 

[Sproingy]

"And as he drove on, the rain clouds dragged down the sky after him for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him and to water him."

Hahaha I forgot about the rain God...

 

[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 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.

Thank you, finally I have an ideea of all the random stuff people are saying.

 

[Trogdor1138]

My favorite moment would be when I read the "original novel" in the part where the aliens are announcing to Earth that they will begin demolition, just the whole sequence made me laugh and was captured so perfectly, I think in every other medium the scene hasn't been as nicely done.