What's missing: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, The Universe, and Everything, So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish, and Mostly Harmless?
"studio recording of their cover of AC/DC's song ""Dog Eat Dog"". The song's name comes from the name of the fourth book in Douglas Adams's ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" series, ""So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"", though the song's lyrics touches more on the subject of the deaths of celebrities. The song makes allusions to many celebrity deaths in 2016, including Gene Wilder (known for his role as Willy Wonka), David Bowie, Muhammad Ali, Prince, and Carrie Fisher. In writing the lyrics, Keenan stated that he was inspired by the sarcastic nature of the R.E.M. song"
"after — at least until the following — and final — novel, ""Mostly Harmless"". By the end of this fifth novel, Earth and all of its possible permutations and alternate versions are destroyed once and for all, and everybody dies, at least as far as the novel ""Mostly Harmless"" goes. However it is subtly hinted that Arthur, his friends, and a few Earths might have survived. In the Quintessential Phase of the radio series, there are multiple alternative endings after the final destruction of all possible Earths. The final ending here consists of the Babel fish carried by Arthur, Trillian,"
"Fifth at Milliways), and also Mr. Prosser, from Fit the First. None of these characters appear in the book version of ""Mostly Harmless"". The start of some of the plot threads from ""Mostly Harmless"" were introduced in the Quandary Phase (though they did not appear in ""So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"")—notably the Vogons discovering that Earth had re-appeared and resolving to destroy all versions of it, Arthur having sold his DNA, a mention that Trillian now has a child and is now a reporter. Also the final episode saw the introduction of an alternate version of Trillian,"
"major characters are carrying Babel fish in their ears, which rescue them at the moment of Earth's destruction by transporting them to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. The characters are reunited with Marvin, and it is revealed that beyond the Restaurant (and beyond the car park in which Marvin works) lies an endless series of blue lagoons — the final destination of the dolphins. The series ends with Arthur asking Fenchurch, ""Will you come flying with me?"", and her reply, ""Always."" The version released on CD contains an even longer set of alternate endings, including one set"
"reveals that Arthur Dent and company are seated at Table ""42"", almost without a doubt an allusion to The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. At the end of there is a gag about ""The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"" not being at the temporal end, but at the ""other end"" in terms of location. In , a similar venue is referenced that does exist at the beginning of the universe called ""The Big Bang Burger Bar"". According to ""The Salmon of Doubt"", Douglas Adams came up with the idea while listening to Procol Harum's ""Grand Hotel."""
"galaxy itself). After lengthy research over fifteen years (intended only to be a week), Ford Prefect expanded the entry immensely, though his editor trimmed the new description to """"mostly harmless"""". The original entry authored by Ford was later reinstated in ""So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"". Five minutes before the program was to finish running, Earth was destroyed by the Vogons, allegedly to make way for a hyperspace bypass but in fact to prevent the Ultimate Question being discovered, as it was seen as a threat to the psychiatric industry. It was subsequently replaced by an exact duplicate"
"comparison to the second novel. Because many events from the radio series were omitted from the second novel, and those that did occur happened in a different order, the two series split in completely different directions. The last two adaptations vary somewhat—some events in ""Mostly Harmless"" are now foreshadowed in the adaptation of ""So Long and Thanks For All The Fish"", while both include some additional material that builds on incidents in the third series to tie all five (and their divergent plotlines) together, most especially including the character Zaphod more prominently in the final chapters and addressing his altered"
"on pre-historic Earth, end the book, and their rescue in Fit the Seventh is deleted), and most of the Brontitall incident was omitted, instead of the Haggunenon sequence, co-written by John Loyd, the Disaster Area stunt ship was substituted—this having first been introduced in the LP version. Adams himself considered ""Restaurant"" to be his best novel of the five. In ""Life, the Universe and Everything"" (published in 1982), Ford and Arthur travel through the space-time continuum from prehistoric Earth to Lord's Cricket Ground. There they run into Slartibartfast, who enlists their aid in preventing galactic war. Long ago, the people"
"to his home on the reconstituted Earth in ""So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish"". The village has a small hotel with a saloon bar named the Horse and Groom. In ""So Long and Thanks For All the Fish"", Ford Prefect's re-introduced article on Earth in the Hitchhiker's Guide advises any alien visitor to New York to get a job as a cab driver, as it does not require a human appearance, knowledge of the English language or indeed of the local laws of physics. It won't matter where you land your ship, as no one will notice. The"
"was not entirely happy with the book, which includes several jarring authorial intrusions, which fellow author and Adams' biographer Neil Gaiman described as ""patronising and unfair"". The book also reflects a significant shift in Adams's view of computers. In the previous books, computers had been portrayed quite negatively, reflecting Adams' views on the subject at the time. However, between the writing of ""Life, the Universe and Everything"" and ""So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"", his attitude toward technology changed considerably. Having been taken along to a computer fair, he became enamored of the first model of the Macintosh,"
"of fire, the computer bank they are hiding behind explodes, and the episode ends. Music: ""A Rainbow in Curved Air"" by Terry Riley; ""Moon City"" from ""In Search of Ancient Gods"" by Absolute Elsewhere; ""Mikrophonie I"" by Stockhausen. Cast The episode begins where previous episode ended, with the computer bank exploding. Arthur, Ford, Trillian and Zaphod wake up in a strange place, and assume it must be the afterlife. It becomes apparent however that in fact it is Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, which is located in the far future at the moment that the universe"
"two novels in the five-book ""trilogy"". As with the movie, this project was realised only after Adams's death. The third series, ""The Tertiary Phase"", was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2004 and was subsequently released on audio CD. With the aid of a recording of his reading of ""Life, the Universe and Everything"" and editing, Adams can be heard playing the part of Agrajag posthumously. ""So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"" and ""Mostly Harmless"" made up the fourth and fifth radio series, respectively (on radio they were titled ""The Quandary Phase"" and ""The Quintessential Phase"") and"
"Adams said, ""A lot of the stuff which was originally in ""The Salmon of Doubt"" really wasn't working."" Adams had planned on ""salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework... and for old time's sake I may call it ""The Salmon of Doubt""."" However, Adams died in 2001 without having written the sixth book. ""And Another Thing..."" starts where ""Mostly Harmless"" ends, with Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian, and Arthur and Trillian's daughter Random standing inside Club Beta, while the Earth is about to be destroyed"
"universe as ""Kappa Mikey"", but none of the principal cast proper has ever appeared at all, and instead takes place in a café similar to the rival restaurant featured in the episode ""Mikey's Place"". Salmon - A piece of salmon sushi. The leader of the group, Salmon is not above causing trouble. Larry - A shrimp sushi wrapped in seaweed and rice. Larry is the most excitable of the group, and is occasionally dim. He is named after company CEO Larry Schwarz. Roro - Fish eggs wrapped in seaweed, Roro is the weakest, most impressionable, and most childlike. Meep -"
"first theory) and that it may have already happened (as described in the second). Though the question is never found, 42 is the table number at which Arthur and his friends sit when they arrive at Milliways at the end of the radio series. Likewise, ""Mostly Harmless"" ends when Arthur stops at a street address identified by his cry of, ""There, number 42!"" and enters the club Beta, owned by Stavro Mueller (Stavromula Beta). Shortly after, the Earth is destroyed in all existing incarnations. Douglas Adams was asked many times why he chose the number 42. Many theories were proposed,"
"of ""So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"", where it appears in the following passage: After writing five ""Hitchhiker"" books, Adams had felt the need to continue the story: ""I suspect at some point in the future I will write a sixth ""Hitchhiker"" book..."", and ""People have said, quite rightly, that ""Mostly Harmless"" is a very bleak book. I would love to finish ""Hitchhiker"" on a slightly more upbeat note, so five seems to be a wrong kind of number; six is a better kind of number."" In referring to the ""Dirk Gently"" book he was then working on,"
"infinity is zero, or as near to it as makes no odds), or sex (""well, there is an awful lot of this, largely because of the total lack of money, trade, banks, art or anything else that might keep the non-existent people of the universe occupied""). From ""The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"". The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash (WSOGMM) is mentioned in ""Mostly Harmless"". The ""Guide"" describes the WSOGMM as a way of understanding the sum of parallel universes in creation (in this context, ""creation"" is best described to a casual observer as space–time). The theory"
"the start of a long love affair with the brand (he claimed to have bought two of the first three Macs in the UK — the other was bought by his friend Stephen Fry). In ""So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"", Arthur Dent purchases an Apple computer for the purpose of star mapping in order to pinpoint the location of the cave he lived in on prehistoric Earth, and although Adams briefly mocks Arthur's methodology (noting that Arthur really has no idea how to go about such a task), the computer itself is not disparaged, and even somehow"
"Grebulons. Ford almost sees him, but searches for a drink and misses him being vaporized. Arthur dies in the fifth installment of the book series, ""Mostly Harmless"", in a club called Beta (owned by Stavro Mueller) when the Earth and all its duplicates are seemingly destroyed by the Grebulons. Adams frequently expressed his disdain for this ending in retrospect, claiming that it was too depressing and came about as the result of him having a bad year. In the radio series, Arthur is saved by the Babel Fish, which can teleport itself, along with its carrier, out of danger. Arthur"
"Arthur on the alternative Earth in ""So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"". In an interview reprinted in ""The Salmon of Doubt"", Adams expressed dissatisfaction with the tone of this book, which he blamed on personal problems, saying ""for all sorts of personal reasons I don't want to go into, I just had a thoroughly miserable year, and I was trying to write a book against that background. And, guess what, it was a rather bleak book!"" Arthur Dent plans to sightsee across the Galaxy with his girlfriend Fenchurch, but she disappears during a hyperspace jump, a result of"
"the alternate ending, after the destruction of Earth, the description of the Babel fish from the earlier series is replayed with an additional section, which states that dolphins and Babel fish are acquainted, and that the dolphins' ability to travel through possibility space (first mentioned in ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" and elaborated on in ""So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"") is shared by the Babel fish as well. During the ending, Ford explains that the dolphins got taught this skill from the Babel fish in exchange for knowing a good place to have parties. All the"
"was ""a bit of an earworm, as by the end of the track I found myself singing the hook"". ""Louder Sound"" named the song one of the 10 Key songs done by Keenan and Howerdel throughout their careers, just one day after the song's release. Credits adapted from CD liner notes. Band Production So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (A Perfect Circle song) ""So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"" is a song by American rock band A Perfect Circle. It was released on April 15, 2018, as their fourth single off their album ""Eat the Elephant""."
"the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Table 42. While Zaphod discovers Marvin is still under warranty and continues to park cars, albeit with a promotion, Arthur discovers the waitress serving their table is Fenchurch, who has been at Milliways waiting for him to turn up. As Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged arrives to insult the Great Prophet Zarquon, making his perennial appearance on the Milliways stage, his immortality is rescinded, and he dies. Elsewhere in the universe, Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, having finally destroyed the Earth after all this time, is able to tick the box on his orders and"
"radio dramatisation, his last words are ""Goodbye, Arthur."" Marvin's 'death' prompts Arthur to say, ""Miserable git!"" and then, to his own obvious astonishment, to add, ""I'll ""miss"" him."") However, in the 2005 radio adaptation of the fifth novel in the series, ""Mostly Harmless"", in which Marvin did not originally appear, he has a cameo at the end of the last episode alive and well. He explains that it turned out he was still covered by his warranty agreement, and is back to parking cars at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Stephen Moore released two pop singles—""Marvin/Metal"
"it was adapted for radio as the Tertiary Phase of the radio series. In ""So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"" (published in 1984), Arthur returns home to Earth, rather surprisingly since it was destroyed when he left. He meets and falls in love with a girl named Fenchurch, and discovers this Earth is a replacement provided by the dolphins in their Save the Humans campaign. Eventually, he rejoins Ford, who claims to have saved the Universe in the meantime, to hitch-hike one last time and see God's Final Message to His Creation. Along the way, they are joined"
"are teleported directly from Magrathea into the future to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe to find that, in fact, they haven't travelled an inch. The Restaurant was constructed on the ruins of the planet they had just left, and, while there, they find Marvin, who had been waiting patiently for their return for 576,000,003,579 years (he counted them). According to Marvin, ""The first ten million years were the worst, and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of"
"Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"", he is stunned to see his entire original work restored during a database update, even though he saw the planet being demolished by the Vogons. The change turns out to be necessary because another Earth has been pulled into existence from a parallel universe by dolphins in order to prevent humans from becoming extinct. The ""Guide"" can receive updates to its data base via Sub-Etha. Field researchers (like Ford Prefect) can also use the Guide to edit entries and transmit these back to the publisher. At the start of the series, the Guide"
"produces the correct result. In a later essay, Adams noted that some people had accused him of being a ""turncoat"" because of this change in his attitudes. In 1993, ""Library Journal"" said that ""So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish"" was ""filled with loopy humor and pretzel logic that makes Adams' writing so delightful"". Betsy Shorb, reviewing for ""School Library Journal"", said that ""the humor is still off-the-wall but more gentle than the other books. The plot is more straight forward and slightly less bizarre than its predecessors"". A Perfect Circle released a song of the same title, seemingly"
"on a lunch break than working, ""most of the actual work got done by any passing stranger who happened to wander into the empty offices of an afternoon and saw something worth doing."" This has led to the ""Guide"" being patchy in its coverage, cobbled together (for example: the entry on ""The Universe"" was copied from the back of a packet of breakfast cereal) and often riddled with errors. Although Ford puts together a lengthy and detailed entry on Earth during the 15 years he is stranded there, the editors cut it down to two words: ""Mostly harmless."" In ""So"
"the public to enjoy and use the building. While the house functioned as a hotel, Douglas Adams stayed for ten weeks in the summer of 1984 to work on his book ""So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish""; the fourth book in his ""trilogy"", ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"". In M. J. Simpson's biography of Adams, he notes that no progress was made towards the novel and instead focuses on his drinking of wine. Steve Meretzky, who accompanied Adams to develop a ""Hitchhiker's"" video game, also said they were both behind schedule and admitted to ""sipping expensive wines"""
"of the Golgafrinchans and is then ruined completely, five minutes prior to completion, when the Earth is destroyed by the Vogons to make way for a new Hyperspace Bypass. In ""The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"", this is revealed to have been a ruse: the Vogons had been hired to destroy the Earth by a consortium of psychiatrists, led by Gag Halfrunt, who feared for the loss of their careers when the ultimate question became known. Lacking a real question, the mice decide not to go through the whole thing again and settle for the out-of-thin-air suggestion ""How"
"and the others who died in the books are instead teleported by their Babel Fish to somewhere safer than Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha. This is also used in Trillian's dream sequence, as the reason for their escape. In ""And Another Thing..."", written by Eoin Colfer, Arthur was put into a dream sequence (presumably referring to the epilogue of the radio series) and then frozen in time by the ""Guide"" Mk.2. The ""Guide""'s batteries soon run out, however, so all the main characters are re-awakened on the exploding Earth, at the exact point where ""Mostly Harmless"" left off. Zaphod then"
"of the universe. They are in Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, which was built on the ruins of Magrathea. So, as Arthur says, they have travelled through time but not through space. Waiting for them is Marvin the depressed robot, whom they left on Magrathea 40 million years ago. He's now an attendant at the car park, and still depressed. Just before the universe ends, Zaphod and Ford get Marvin to help them steal a supercool all-black spaceship, which turns out to be the property of a very loud rock band called Disaster Area. The episode"