American Reacts to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy episode 2
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- American Reacts to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy episode 2
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There isn’t (wasn’t) anyone else whose mind worked in quite the same way as Douglas Adams’. He knew so much about how language, mathematics, physics and philosophy worked, but also had a keen sense of how so much of Human society and behaviour is completely ridiculous!
Your mind is boggled 2 episodes in, but just wait until you see the rest of it!
He's in for a treat, I love watching people watch it for the first time
@@IDTV66 Who else have you seen watch this series?
So overjoyed to see your enjoyment of one of my absolute favourite authors, Douglas Adams.
American actress Sandra Dickinson's (Trillian) second husband was Peter Davison (Fifth Doctor), with whom she had a daughter Georgia Moffat who is now married to David Tennant (Tenth Doctor).
and Peter Davidson pops up later in the series under a lot of makeup.
I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Douglas Adams was one of the funniest writers to actively hate writing. His two Dirk Gently novels were also comedy gold. So glad you're enjoying this cracking piece of my childhood (the tv series got me hooked young).
The infinite probability drive works on a similar principle to the buttered-cat anti gravity device. If you've not heard of this marvel the theory goes like this:
Cats always land on their feet. Toast always lands buttered side down. So what would happen if you buttered a cat's back?
Because it would be trying to land both on it's feet and on it's back at the same time it would instead spin continuously a few inches from the ground and never actually land .
Hey presto one anti-gravity device!🤔😁
There was another experiment done on the sly where they grafted four cats paws onto buttered toast. No results were recorded though, as when dropped it acted rather like a flying squirrel and glided out of the lab window never to be seen again.
@@jimb9063that’s sounds like something Douglas would write. 🤣
I dropped my toast - it landed butter side up !!! Being an '''optimist''' I thought I must have buttered the wrong side !!!!!!?!!!!!!!?!!
When Douglas Adams was trying to think of how to solve the problem of them having been thrown into space he realised that the problem was that any solution he could think of was very improbable, and that's how he got the idea of the infinite improbability drive.
Hitch Hikers Guide has always been up there for me, the genre and the humour were a perfect mix, first listened to the BBC Radio 4 series in about '78
The sense of humour in this is brilliant and the word play is completely unique. I love the line "its rather unpleasantly like being drunk, whats so unpleaant about being drunk? Ask a glass of water"
I refuse to believe that Douglas Adans books are anything less than philosophy. Marvin the paranoid android was marvellous
I love a 'oh fucking hell' in the intro!
I won’t spoil anything by telling you about the golgofrincham ark B as the bbc did cover it in this series but the books tells of a better engine than the infinite improbability drive on the starship bistro math ,
in: Technology
Bistromathics
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Bistromathics is the most powerful computational force known to parascience. A major step up from the Infinite Improbability Drive, Bistromathics is a way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement through space, so it was realised that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.
Nonabsoluteness
The first nonabsolute number is the number of people for whom the table is reserved. This will vary during the course of the first three telephone calls to the restaurant, and then bear no apparent relation to the number of people who actually turn up, or to the number of people who subsequently join them after the show/match/party/gig, or to the number of people who leave when they see who else has turned up.
The second nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of those most bizarre of mathematical concepts, a recipriversexclusion, a number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself. In other words, the given time of arrival is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the party will arrive. Recipriversexclusions now play a vital part in many branches of maths, including statistics and accountancy and also form the basic equations used to engineer the Somebody Else's Problem field.
The third and most mysterious piece of nonabsoluteness of all lies in the relationship between the number of items on the bill, the cost of each item, the number of people at the table and what they are each prepared to pay for. (The number of people who have actually brought any money is only a subphenomenon in this field.)
Numbers written on restaurant checks within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the universe.
Marvin the paranoid Android: such a great character.
Douglas Adams wrote some scripts for Dr Who..
Hitchhikers gets better with more unusual characters appearing.
Wait until you meet the Bistromatic spaceship in series 2.
I believe some of his ideas for the Dr Who story, Shada,turned up in Hitch Hikers Guide and were also used in the book "Dirk Gentlies Holistic Detective Agency".
Actually that is the third radio series . The second featuring the Shoe event horizon and the Frogstar isn't a book as far as I know and was dismissed as one of Zaphods fantasies .
I can't remember if I said this for your reaction to part one (and me, most definitely not with a brain the size of a planet) but the original radio play is wonderful. And all the books. So long, and thanks for all the fish!
"What was the guy on when he wrote this?"
As Douglas Adams himself has said, he was very very drunk, and lay down in a field for a nap while on holiday, and found himself staring up at the stars, thinking there should be some kind of guide for it all.
Zaphod's second head, hokey though it seems to us today, was shown off as a technical marvel at the time. It made appearances on several kid's science shows, demonstrating how it worked.
HI EB, Thank you for showing one of my favourite books,, Radio and TV programmes from the 70/80s. It was fabulous stuff and just magnificently portrayed. Among others,
I loved Stephen Moore (RIP) as Marvin, and Mark Wing Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox. The imagination in the book is just stunning. Pease keep it up this is just wonderful !
I think I said it last time - but the theme song… by The Eagles of all bands. Because Douglas Adam’s felt the intro needed banjos.
Wait till you hear aboot the ship that uses bad news as fuel, because bad news travels faster than the speed of light.
Video'd this series when it first showed on tv when I was a kid and I think I wore the damn tape out watching it so many times lol
I remember reading the book on a long train journey and everyone thought I was mad because I really could n't stop giggling at the insanity of Douglas Adams's brain . Apparently he got the inspiration after being blind drunk , lying on his back on a Spanish beach looking at the stars . If you stick with the story you'll discover the answer to Life , the Universe and Everything and how to book your reservation in the Hotel at the end of the Universe - it's a wild journey .
Nobodys ever understood the plot like you: WOW !! well done buddy!
I thoroughly enjoyed watching episode 2 with you. You’re right the logic is all there. Things that don’t make sense get explained later on. How was it to have your brain tickled? Glad you like Marvin. Something he said in one of the books nearly had me asphyxiate with laughter. I was apoplectic through laughter. I can’t wait for the next one.
8:40 - I am straight up laughing so hard, I disturbed the cat that was on my lap! But wait until you hear how the infinite improbability drive came into existence....
12:55 - Marvin... the "Paranoid Android", as he's called in the novels. Who ever would have thought an AI based machine would get a mental illness? ;)
16:45 - Also, I don't know about you, but I grew up with British humour. Benny Hill, Monty Python, etc... so I was already well primed for Douglas Adams. That style of humour actually helped shape my own sense of humour. When I got my hands on the books initially, I loved them. To be fair, though, even I wasn't quite prepared for the insanity of this series, but I tell you what..... I absolutely LOVED it the first time I saw it.
Also: "I wonder what will happen if I press this button?" ... "Don't..." .... "A sign lit up saying, 'please do not press this button again!'" cracks me up EVERY damned time I hear it!
Absolutely loved this show when it was originally aired in 81. I remember impatiently waiting for the next episode the week later.
I just thought, I wonder if it's available on dvd on ebay? So I just looked and bought a copy for 4 quid. I now find myself waiting impatiently for my copy of the dvd to arrive, just like the good old days.... 😂
wait until the series gets all metaphysically funny when you meet slartibartfast for the first time who is one of the aliens what makes and manufactures planets and who helped make earth.
the 2 minute 52 second song/video ''Marvin, the Paranoid Android - A Side: Marvin.'' by Zeta Zeta plus the 6.32 video ''Douglass Adams on David Letterman (14th Febuary 1985),'' by DJ Solid Snail
You get most of the radio cast in the TV version. Simon Jones is Arthur in both, so are Peter Jones (voice of the book), Stephen Moore (Marvin voice), Mark-Wing Davey (Zaphod). David Dixon takes over the role of Ford, it was Geoffrey McGivern on radio, Sandra Dickinson takes on Trillian, Susan Sheridan played her originally. I hope you give the radio series a go, perfect for those late nights when there's nothing on TV or you want something to listen to. In some ways, its funnier on radio, the TV version was fun at the time but did suffer a bit from wonky FX and budget limitations although it was considered to be lavish back in 1981. Plus, listening to it on radio meant the entire audience would have a different mental picture so creating it visually meant it now is seen as the producers vision and may not compare with your own. Plus, Adams highlighted in an interview the difficulty of converting it to TV. Two pages of dialog would describe something on the radio but you can show it visually in 10 seconds on TV. Without visuals, you have to imagine it all...I enjoy doing that when I binge on the CD box set, its different on audio, your own vision. Radio series 2 is even wilder, but sadly never reached TV, the books truncate it and take the story elsewhere. Still, its just as whacky in that wonderful Douglas Adams way.
BTW, the HHGTTG is based probably, on a real book, The Hitch Hikers Guide to Europe by Ken Welsh (last published in 1985). Story goes that Adams was drunk lying in a field near Innsbruck while hitch hiking around Austria with a copy of the guide in about 1970-71 when he had the initial idea.
The radio show was written largely on-the-fly, one episode being so late for broadcast, the producer was literally sticking it together in the back of a taxi cross town on his way from the recording studio in London to the radio station, the BBC, in another location.
. Douglas Adams was a genius and I love them all , but the second radio series is my all time favourite .
Glad you're enjoying this - it continues in much the same vein. Brings back great childhood memories for me. And appreciate the effort in getting it past the copyright demons.
Don't forget this was first broadcast in 1981 (radio)
1978.
Regarding the design of Marvin, Douglas Adams wanted a man painted silver, but the producer vetoed it, his reasoning was that what's funny about Marvin is that he's an robot who's depressed, and it's not as funny if it looks like a man.
Great stuff. If you're struggling to see the funny side of the human condition, read Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.
The animated Guide parts of this series are the most well known, unfortunately for uploading, but are perfectly done. I think my favourite about the most intelligent species on earth is in the next episode.
Ah, my fave robot!
I loved Marvin in this . He looks just like the battery powered tin robots of my childhood . Not sure if it's Stephen Moore in this tv version but the depressed voice is just right . The movie had a pretty stellar cast and it's good points but you can't beat the original . I'm really glad you like it and I hope you try the radio show .
@@DavidSmith-cx8dg If you watch the film version of this with Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent there’s one point where the scene has a crowd of different characters in a kind of administration office and the group has the Marvin android from this tv version sat in the middle of the room .
A nice touch .
It's worth noting that all the "computer" graphics were painstakingly hand made, letter by letter
There's a good "making of" on the DVD (and probably on TH-cam)
Marvin the Paranoid Android is/was one of my favourite characters in virtually all sci-fi shows... I'd be hard pushed to name another android with his peculiarities. His programmer must have been British!
The whole show is so cleverly written, as was the radio show and the theatre production.
Not just fueled by fuel. But fueled by, Tea
l went to school with Zahpod Bebblebrox, he was a good friend of mine, but back then he only had one head. He was a good actor even then, writing many of our school plays...
I always thought that they didn't give Marvin a depressive personality but a "normal" one, but having the brain the size of a planet very quickly computed his insignificance in the universe. 😔
Ah the Brits sense of logic is on a level that no one else is on. Adams is the best writer of SF and the only one to write a 4 book trilogy; there's that Brit logic again.
@@kennethfarrand-collins6405 5 book trilogy. I remember buying Mostly Harmless and it had the tag line - “the fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named trilogy…”.
There was also the 6th book, based on his drafts.
He also wrote the Dirk Gently’s Holistic Investigation Agency book and a second book with the same characters but the name of it escapes me at the moment. He also wrote several other scripts for assorted BBC programmes including a few Doctor WHO episodes and a few Blake’s Seven episodes too. When he was working at the BBC he was one of a team of staff writers employed to submit one or two page synopsis of scripts for a range of different subjects and then the senior writers and editors would have a regular meeting to discuss each one to see if they believed that they were worth developing any further, at which point the scripts were distributed back to the writers who did not always receive their own stories to further develop but sometimes they did get their own ideas back to work on but they did allow the writers to keep anything that they had rejected to let them work on their scripts at home if they thought they were of some merit. Sometimes the writers would rewrite a story and offer it up either to the BBC or another production company or film company and they became top stories while others would get offered to many producers with no success.
Eventually became a 6 book trilogy 😂😂
@@andrewcoates6641 It was called The long dark teatime of the soul.
@@slainesaxe thank you blood warrior.
fun fact, the worst poet in the universe, Nancy MIllstone Jennings is a real person Adams had a beef with, and that WAS her adress. She was not impressed lol
Not quite true. Douglas Adams went to school & uni with an English student/poet called Paul Neil Milne Johnstone which was changed to Paula Nancy Millstone Johnstone in the books (I think his real name was used on the radio though).
@@hexkid6351yes and his real address was also used on the radio show. So after he complained they changed his name for the book and this TV show.
Love this . First read the books when I was 18. Friend used to go on about it from listening to the radio. But I didn’t have the access . TV PRODUCTION was good less the film version around 2005. But I just remember reading the books and almost rereading each chapter to fulling understand loved them. And from tv so much I don’t want to spoil for your channel going forward. But Sandra Dickinson was a major crush for me
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Just rewatched the whole series. Totally forgot a Doctor (Peter Davidson) and Darth Vader (David Prowse). Both appear in the same episode.
And also Roll Tide. Wife went there.
Sadly, Douglas Adams didn't have the savvy to avoid trying to get fit at a gym which led to his fatal heart attack. Some gentle walks to start off with might have been better for his health. A late friend of mine met Douglas at a convention. As tall as a wardrobe and had a biro that had leaked blue ink over his shirt's breast pocket.
What was he on when he wrote it ? Well an exotic mix of boredom and genius mostly. . . possibly a fair amount of beer. One of my favourite writers amongst the group that definitely died way too soon. Marvin is one of the greatest sci fi inventions of all time. I'd say you need to read all the books, there are differences all through as he was constantly rewriting his stuff as he always had new ideas coming through. So the books, radio shows, TV series and film are all different while maintaining the surreal edge (the film probably being the weakest even though it was his script they still tinkered with it).
I love Marvin: "Don't try to engage my enthusiasm because I haven't got one."
Words to live by!😁
I much prefer this version to the more recent film in which they don't even attempt the second head.
Oh thankyou again - am laughing all the way with you - roll on No.3 :-))
Well done so far, you've now met my personal favorite character, Marvin, the paranoid android. NOW, wait until you find out the Earth's back story......
First broadcast on radio 1981, 4 years after Star Wars.
Elon Musk said in the interview with Jordan Peterstone that this book made him want to go to space, keep watching, and all will become clear. Thank you for watching this 🙂🏴
If you want to get from A to B in C time, the odds of it happening are X:1
So the engine finds or makes something of that level of improbability occur and uses that to show the universe whose really in charge and that the ship really should be where it said it was in the first place.
Similar to the missile, that calculates where it is, by knowing where it is not. 😅
@@tehs3raph1msomething a poor whale didn't have time to get round to...
Something about a number if I remember correctly... Hope y'all are doing ok and as always PEACE!!!!
Would be very improbable to have Dr Who and Darth Vader in the same scene, stay tuned.
Oh EB...it's not meant to be logical & make sense...it's from the mind of a man who's brain worked in ways most of us can;t simply begin to comprehend
I'm surprised you got away with the F's at the beginning 😮. I listened to the original Radio and was not looking forward to the TV adaptation, but was happily surprised. H2G2 like Red Dwarf were so memorable even all these years later I remember a lot of the plots and dialogue
Great reaction as always, saw this on tv when I was about 8 in the 1980s in Scotland. So fascinating compared to other sci fi. I know it’s not the best but hopefully you can watch the movie version when you complete these episodes to compare as it is enjoyable too.
You wait until you get onto Bistromathics! It's not in this series but is in the book Life, the Universe and Everything.
Marvin was designed to look retro - even by 1980s standards.
I absolutely love hhgttg and have since since it first aired. Read the books as they are a must or listen to Mr Adams read them. Watch the movie and listen to the radio show and even play the text game. Do the lot, you won't regret it.
Douglas Adams was ahead of his time and sadly taken from us too early in his life.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams
Zaphod beeblebrox second head was so problematic. It constantly broke down. It’s why in some scenes t does almost nothing. Such an innovative idea for alien species though.
The audiobooks read by Stephen Fry are well worth a listen
I've not seen this for years, although I do like the film with Sam Rockwell and Bill Nighy.
Folks, I think we have a convert.
Douglas was brilliant would do anything to not write he was a master of the throw-away line that comes back lines from this series would be titles of later books.
The sub-etha net pre dates the internet by a few years the book pre dates ebooks and a reference to it being updated by anyone could be similar to Wikipedia.
This is the best incarnation, but before it was a radio show and before that a book.
Radio series was first...and for me..the best
@@paulliversage4479 I assumed the book predated the radio show, I wasn't aware the novel came out of the radio show. Thank you.
@@daveofyorkshire301 no problem
Still think this is more enjoyable to watch then anything modern may be my age or it could be there are no writers with imagination anymore or it could be happy memories
Me again. If you can get hold of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (actually 6 books, a hexology), it's a superb read and totally absorbing. The books are better than the TV series because the scenery is much MUCH BIGGER!
This is just brilliant👌
Your background looks straight out of Knightmare!
The mind boggles
you want to read Isaac Asimov's robot series, I think there was a robot toy like Marvin the depressed robot in the shops at the time
What do you think of the mock American accents in this, btw? Some of them from newscasters and so on are "send ups", but I think Zaphod's isn't bad.
I try not to be an old curmudgeon, but watching this again just reinforces how creatively bankrupt most TV is these days. Originality seems to be a sin now.
I always like to think whoever came up with the Borg in Star Trek was a hitch hiker fan...resistance is useless 😆 🤣 😂
Sandra Dickinson! Hubba! 🤪
Does any one else have the radio series on audio cassette ?
I used to, all recorded off BBC Radio 4 in the 80s. Then I got the CDs and the tapes were soon discarded.
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Please read the books 😊
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Hitchhiker's started out as a radio show,then came the books and then this. The newest film with better special effects is awful!
You've just got disjointed clips. The episodes are half an hour.
It's edited because otherwise, TH-cam blocks it, so you see the disjointed clips unfortunately.
@@TheEclecticBeard I'm just recalling a scene from a Douglas Adams written episode of Doctor Who in which there was an invisible spaceship in a meadow that the Doctor said would be confusing the cows.
A book first, and very much worth reading..Then TV that is this , The film is not so good in my opinion ,
Book first then a BBC. Radio series
The radio series came first then the book
Radio series first (while Addams was editing a season of Dr. Who and writing episodes (which is why Shada gets recycled into Dirk Gently)). Then a book, then more radio, then more books, then BBC, then more books. Eventually a Hollywood movie. I quite like the movie, especially Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy, Zoe Deschanel,, and the Vogon planet of bureaucrats, where independent thought is punished. But it's different, and if you want a slavish adaptation, it's not.