NO JOKES please (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The)

Member Name: Andrew1911

Product:	Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The
Date:	16/08/01 (17 review reads)
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Advantages: Wacky , Groovy, 42

Disadvantages: Main character name, My name

You can't tell from my user name, but I share the last name of a certain character from this series of books (hint : it's not Slartibartfast).
Consequently, throughout my time at school, university and indeed, at work, people have -upon meeting me for the first time - uttered the immortal phrase..."isn't that the name of the guy from Hitch..?"

They tend to stop at this point to pick themselves up from the ground, following my swift jab to the throat and/or groin.

Despite the mental scarring resulting from being linked to this programme, I still like Hitch-hikers. I first saw it when I was about 8, and enjoyed the unusual slant on science-fiction (and comedy in general).
It suffers from the curse of the BBC's budget (in terms of attempting to make a man wearing silver painted cardboard boxes resemble a robot), but more than makes up for it in energy.

I enjoy it less today than when I first saw it on TV, because it really hasn't aged at all well. Humour as moved on to different realms, and poor old HHGTTG has been left behind..

The plot (if you can call it that) swoops around in time, space and the Universe following my hapless namesake around the Galaxy encountering amongst other things, hyper-intelligent mice, towels, depressed robots (but rarely tea). By the way, if these mice are hyper-intelligent, is that by mouse standards or human? Isn't a hyper-intelligent mouse about at our level ?

Anyway....

Although my opinion is slightly skewed, I'd recommend you check out this series at least once. The plot defies logical explanantion, so I haven't really attempted - suffice it to say it's far out, man.

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