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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Overview

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio sitcom broadcast over two series on BBC Radio 4 between 1978 and 1980, it was soon adapted to other formats, including both novels and comic books, a 1981 BBC television series, a 1984 text adventure game, stage shows and a 2005 feature film.

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Notable quotes

“"Amazing-looking ship though. Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow."”
— Ford Prefect
“There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads, He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End.”
— "What you think is the happy ending is actually a brief respite before the serial killer that you thought was dead gets back up and butchers everyone except the girl with the biggest boobs, who dies first in the sequel the following year."—Rollit Klet, the Dentrassis independent-film-director-cum-chef
“The other Shaltanac's joopleberry shrub is always a more mauvy shade of pinky-russet.”
— The Shaltanac equivalent of "the other man's grass is always greener"

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