The Most Intelligent Beings on Earth | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | BBC Studios
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- Left stranded above ground by the other guys, Arthur Dent and Marvin meet an eccentric planet designer by the name of Slartibartfast. With formalities out the way Arthur is taken deep into the heart of Magrathea and has his mind blown with a shocking revelation.
Taken From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
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"The dolphins believed that they were more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons." That's amazing, Douglas Adams was an absolute genius.
And thankyou for the fish.
Reminds me of this Tolkien quote: If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
@@sbraypaynt Yeah, chav dolphins are a big problem. We get 'em going through our bins at work regularly. And the 3 litre empty cider bottles they leave lying around is disgraceful.
Douglas Adams was probably a dolphin.
@@sbraypaynt Damned inventive ‘lil buggers
I've been to Norway, my compliments on Slateribartfast's work! :)
To be fair he just repeated what he had done at the Magellan strait
JellizLloydz!
Lovely crinkly edges
Yeah! Especially the fjords!
Jokes aside, when you take the ferry from DK to NO you sail to Oslo via the most beatufil fjord. I've taken that trip several times, stood up early in the morning just to watch the scenery while aproaching Oslo. When you take the feey back, it's daylight and you can see all these details in the woods.. it's amazing!
@@rolfedrengen would that be the Hardangerfjord?
Clearly the best of all possible television series in any possible universe.
No. This is only the first season of the best of all possible series'. The best would have included all the books
@@Mark73it didn’t?? So the looping ending wasn’t the actual ending?
@@rfurthegamer3412 You should definitely read the books.
@@Mark73 i was… then I moved. Now I don’t know where they are lol. Imma look for them now tho
0:09 - 1:53
I really love the synth score here! I wish the BBC would release the musical score for this series on CD. It’s that good!
At the very beginning when they were in the pod, it was filmed in a tunnel, called Pinnock tunnel, that connects Par and Fowey docks in South Cornwall. I drove through there many times when I worked for the company that owned it. It's over a km in length. Just a little trivia for you!
That's pretty intresting.
Damn, I cycled through there on a charity event about 8 years ago
I once heard that the BBC asked to have the lights in the tunnel shut off in order to film the sequence. However, it was determined that should the bulbs blow when power was restored, the cost (charge to the Beeb, of course) to replace them would vastly outweigh the incongruity of having the tubes reflect in the pod's canopy.
@@aqacefan That's really interesting. Thanks.
"Listen. Would it save you all this trouble if I just gave up and went mad now?"
destroyed five minutes before the purpose for which it was commissioned was complete
Eek... said the mice.
Actually, more likely 'oh well'. They strike me as SERIOUSLY cynical.
I mean if we found out what would we do next?
"Shocking cock-up. The mice were furious." I bet the Vogons have got some serious explaining to do.
The Question would still have been "6×9="-the program to determine the Question was corrupted by the arrival of the Golgafrinchan B Ark.
The "Professional Thinkers" that didn't want the question revealed included psychiatrists. It was the Vogon captain's psychiatrist that urged him to destroy the Earth.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. . they animated the 'computer' sequences on glass.
stevolution666 What do you mean by that, exactly?
The animation sequences that show the actual "Hitchhiker's Guide" in the form a computer screen with graphics and flowing text, were produced frame-by-frame, by hand.
Luke Pellen by hand... On glass instead of paper?
They were animated. No computer was used in their making.
stevolution666 .
1:03 You know this is an old TV show when the USSR is shown as still existing.
30 years isn't that old.
@@Firmus777 yeah it is for gen z
@@Firmus777 1981, so almost 39 years! :)
@@noob94884 you're so hip and cool and hip and so cool. How can I be so hip and cool?
@@PuppetierMaster well it helps if you were born in 1955, with cool liberated parents..:)
But Slartibartfast’s name is actually VERY important. After Arthur and Ford crash on an unknown planet after ending up on a Golgafrinchian colony ship, they explore the planet only to discover Slartibartfast’s signature on a Norwegian fjord, thereby confirming that they were not only on Earth, but had travelled back in time as well ...all exactly as planned by the supercomputer known as the Earth.
well it could be the Golgafrinchians ruined the program??
bob m I thought so initially as well, but the Earth had to factor in everything in the Universe, including the Golgafrinchians and every possible action they may take. As a matter of fact, I believe the Earth deliberately arranged for the Golgafrinchians to crash onto itself in a deliberate attempt to altar its own programming. The “ultimate question” here is, “why?” A friend of mine speculated that for any one person to ask the initial ultimate question and to receive an answer they could actually comprehend, would result in the end of existence. But the Earth needed to complete its assigned task and most likely didn’t want to be a doomsday machine, therefore it sabotaged itself. If the series had ever gone on, I believe Arthur was going to be the one to both ask the question AND receive an answer without destroying existence. Sadly, Douglas Adams’ passing made that very difficult.
+ Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." Amen 🙏!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The man in Luke 16:24 cries: ". . .I am tormented in this FLAME."
In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."
In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting FIRE,. . ."
Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE." And please repent of all of your sins and be baptized by the Holy Spirit before it is too late, you will never know when the time will come 🙏!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amen 🙏!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 bruh shut up
@@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 But the Babel Fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It proves you exist, and so, therefore, you don't. QED.
first saw this miniseries on its first broadcast way back in 1981 when i was 10, broken down into 5 or 6 weekly episodes during the summer, each week i looked forward to every episode until the end. It took forever but i finally found a copy of it on DVD a few years ago by accident in a secondhand pawn shop and I've held onto it ever since.
It was on Monday nights .I was 10 as well a week was along time back then to wait for the next episode.
so thankful a documentarian captured this footage.
thank you.
Just realised 0:56 is a picture of the animator animating one of the guide entries and 0:59 is Douglas Adams.
Me too :) God knows how often I have seen that episode since it was on the air . :)
Well spotted! 👀🎄👍
Adams is in a bunch of the animated Guide segments. He's also the one counting money as he's walking during the "Small green pieces of paper" bit.
I so love that the illustrator and Douglas Adams himself are part of the presentation.
It still scares the willies out of me!
Pure genius, simple as that.
The animated sequences from The Guide remind me of the old BBC school programmes we were made to watch in class. 😃
That actually started a year later...
The best series to have ever been on the telly box , shame his other books weren't turned into a dramatisation also. Still never mind we have this timeless cult classic.
You will be pleased to know that Dirk Gently's Holostic Detective Agency exists as a 2 season TV serial, although it merely makes reference to the books, rather than following them exactly.
"telly box" is probably the most british term I have heard in my entire life
I do miss fun comedic scifi.
Thanks for sharing.
so long... and thanks for all the fish 💙
"So long and thanks for all the fish!
So sad that it should come to this!
We tried to warn you all but oh dear?"
"You may not share our intellect,
Which might explain your disrespect,
For all the natural wonders that,
Grow around you!"
"So long, so long and thanks!
For all the fish!"
I must reread the books. It has been years.
"The Vogon ships hung in the air, much like the way that bricks don't."
You must learn to use the hyphen.
It is a great series - I’ve read all six books of the trilogy. Many favourite scenes but I think for the best for me is the confrontation of Marvin and the robot Battle tank.
You can listen to the audiobooks on RUclips
I re-read these once every so often... always skip the 4th book though.
Willing to believe that all of humanity is descended from the people shot onto the void on the Golgafrinchan B Ark...
So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish.
I always thought the effects shot at 03:06 was unusually good for a BBC production of the early 1980s.
Got to love them though.Rather cheesy.That's what made the show i reacon.
Good, well-shot models will always beat CGI
Is that meant to be Douglas himself at 1:00?
yes and before that Phil Lord doing the dolphin's animation on his board.
Yes, and he also appears live action a the man who commits suicide by walking into the sea at the start of episode 2.
get 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Special Edition [Blu-ray]' it shows he is in it **loads** of times!! :D :D
@@noob94884 Also him as 'The first to the wall when the revolution comes'
I have a funny idea for a joke.
Character 1: gets arm ripped off
Character 2: oh god!
Character 1: screams in agony
Character 3: what’s wrong?
Character 2: wdym what’s wrong? His arms come off!
Character 1: you guys are concerned about my arm?!
Character 2: well yea what else should I be concerned about?
Character 1: well.. my bloody foot itches!
Character 2: well that’s not as bad as getting your arm ripped off
Character 1: well I have another arm so It’s not a big deal. It’s my foot we need to worry about.
Character 2: bloody hell, your arms been ripped off aren’t you in terrible pain?
Character 1: yes but my foot itches.
Character 2: your foot should be the least of your concerns! we need to stop you from bleeding out! someone get me medical supplies
Character 1: forget my arm! I don’t need you to treat my wound! I need you to scratch my foot!
Character 2: if I don’t stop the bleeding you’ll die.
Character 1: Ill die of annoyance if you dont listen to me an itch my foot.
Character 2: if it’s such a big deal why don’t you itch your foot with your other arm?
Character 1: well I’m to lazy to do that.
"I told you it wasn't important."
Love this show 📼
What’s it called
@@clarissadavila4381hitchhikers guide to the galaxy from 1981😊
“Crinkly edges”
This version is alot more trippy
the subtitles are bonkers!
At 50 seconds there is an animation of Arnold Schwazenegger, in the middle of the 3 bodybuilders. On the right, I think, is Bill Pearl and on the left it could be Franco Columbo. And if you have ever watched the documentary 'Pumping Iron', you will know that Mike Katz definitely didn't know where his towel was!
Or was it his T shirt?
So long and thanks for all the fish
Slartibartfast:
I must warn you, we're going to pass through, well, a sort of gateway thing.
Arthur Dent:
What?
Slartibartfast:
It may disturb you. It scares the willies out of me.
Fascinating.
Man as funny as this is it also really has some interesting ways of thinking outside the box about the universe. I doubt that things actually work like they do in this series but there really could be so much in the universe weve never considered. I mean theres no way of knowing that earth isnt an experiment or something run by beings that can see and think in more dimensions than a human
@Corsham Viton Ugh go away. Doug Adams was a vocal atheist. The bible is a simple set of allegorical stories with questionable morality; a tool to control populations... how does it have nothing to do with man-made religion?
Anyway I came here to say to the OP that you're pretty much describing the simulation hypothesis.
"We do the expierment and get the cheese and Pavlov the expierments we need done as the test studies." - the mice
Love this mini series it's so funny👻
0:56 is that Rod Lord?
Douglas Adams was the greatest Philosopher who ever lived.
Seek out the original Radio Series...
Seek out the original book.
IIRC it went: Radio series. Book, Record (vinyl. Re-recorded to remove the bits of Pink Floyd and have "Journey of the Sorcerer[1]" performed by a non-Eagles ensemble (which included Douglas Adams on rhythm guitar)), series 2. Second book. Second record. Not very good TV series. Very long gap. Other books. (We're up to about 1984 here. Do keep up). Extremely long gap. DNA dies. Very bad movie. Radio adaptation of last three books. Heat death of the Universe.
1) If you have found your way here you are a complete strag. The theme tune.
This is not only the most complete account of the evolution of the Hitchhiker's Guide that I have ever seen, but the first youtube comment I have ever read with a footnote. Treat yourself to a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster on me. And while the whole phenomenon shows the richness and fecundity of Adams's brilliance, I have to say that for me the original radio series is the Real Thing.
The radio programmes were better because so much more could be done with sound effects, the original cast (Steven Moore as Marvin was an accidental but serendipitous choice) and the listener's imagination than could be achieved - or at least afforded - by the cash-strapped BBC TV production.
@@omiklI thought you wrote "Douglas Adams dies (very bad move)" for a minute
Not sure if the Dolphins whistled the Star Spangled Banner or an old Betelgeusian death anthem 😜
Just think if the Earth really is a organic computer for the quest to answer the Great Question, it would be very funny. I'll never put another mouse trap down again !
Brilliant
They must have filmed the animation. I wonder whether the original film is still archived somewhere and could be scanned in HD today.
the series plus lots of extras is available on bluray WORTH IT!!
It is BBC, who tend to throw stuff away!! even Dr Who! (they had to ask a a fan for a VHS copy when they needed it!!! :O )
@@noob94884 😯 So what's on the Blu Ray? Actual re-scanned film material? Or just digitally upscaled video?
@@OolTube02 they did not have the finances that DrWho had.. but the BluRay special edition has a lot, it's on amazon.. :)
@@noob94884There was no VHS when the lost Doctor Who serials were broadcast! Ones that have been recovered tend to turn up as 8mm film canisters in the lost-and-found room of a Nigerian train station, and suchlike.
I don't remembering seeing this on the news.
I had a Blaster once, but it was an enema.
Pause at 1:00 . The true fans would laugh at that one.
HGTTG is possibly a documentary
I love the part
interesting perspective
I dont recall ordering a planet o.o
what is this? I want more!
twitte0king The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
HAPPY 42ND ANNIVERSARY! :)
i like this scene more on the TV show rather than the 2005 movie, and i (kinda?) like the 2005 movie.
It's like being drunk you just gotta look lol
Would the original blue prints be pangae!
No because Earth isn't actually that old in the HHGttG universe. It's only about 10M years old and is an artificial world built to be a chassis for the largest supercomputer ever devised. Everything about the planet, including continental drift and the backward extrapolation of it created by various human geologists are aspects in a huge non-linear self-modifying computer program intended to quantify what the 'ultimate question of life, the universe and everything' actually is. (The answer to said question, just for completeness, is '42' but that actually matters less than you might think.)
Dolphins have equal intelligence. And quite frankly I think that they had more sense than we did.
This is like the tutorials for lbp
This explains the mice in the SPACEX rocket.
LOLOLOL :)
This scene is done way better in the movie.
As a big fan of the original, I wish they hadn't messed it about so much... changed the 'vortex' into a gun, hid Zaphod's head, etc..
great idea, but douglas adams got it wrong. it's not the dolphins, or the mice. it's the cats.
A comic strip, Polandball
My English friend sent this in a gc at 4 am... Katie you alright, fam?
That's it! Stop everything! This is getting too silly! 😜
Deep Thought said that the Earth project would take 10 million years. Then why does the manual indicate 4.5 billion years in the TV series?
It might be an important fact, but it's not always very popular.
Huh, only ever having seen the movie I'm actually surprised and impressed that they kept some of the kept tidbits from what I assume was in the original book. Such as explaining the gateway and scaring the willies out of the guide.
the proper one is the BBC series... amazon has a lot!! :D
Now?...To meet with Mice?
So long....
Thanks for all the fish!
Only two things are infinite. Space and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about space: Albert Einstein.
And have you noticed the word man
Ohh dear God, those poor bloated pixels!
and exhausted guys animating it!
I just got here what is this🤣 im so confused
Mice…?!! 😂😂😂❤
Such a brilliantly ridiculous idea.
The special effects aren't quite as good as the movie, are they
They're good considering the BBC works (now, but also then) on a very restricted budget.
Given the 25 year difference or so, you say that like it's surprising.
u dissected the booksz o;/
Hmmm... 2020 was the 42nd anniversary of the Guide and also the year of the rat in the zodiac.
Ironic omicron might save us because of...mice.
why is everybody doing this again
🕊
Damn
I mean humans are the only species that has to pay to live so…..
O:53 Putin playing soccer
The movie version is horrible and not witty at all.
The books are great. The bbc series is great. Didn't much care for the radio adaptation. The movie? 🤮 Thanks for all the fish, Doug.
Thanks for KILLING all the fish.
Not sure if the British realize that New York City and the nuke, were made by the USA. The brits are not the dolphins in this case....
In this very British production, New York gets nuked by its own nukes so, yeah, they knew.
You need to look up ‘Tube Alloys’, Xz36. That’s the name the British and Canadians gave to their atom bomb project before the Manhattan Project even existed. It did the key research, including the discovery of the uranium chain reaction which made the bomb possible. Because British researchers were within attacking distance of the Germans, the Brits and Americans cut a deal for it all to move to New Mexico with both teams sharing all they had. (The Brits shared their knowledge and the Americans lied and didn’t, which pretty much summed up their respective attitudes towards saving the world from tyranny.)
This is what Posadists Actually Believe.
If Dolphins were more intelligent than humans, how is it that they never figured out an effective means of communication with them? Lots of animals can figure that out with enough training.
It's a joke.
They just don't really want to talk to us.
you NEED to watch the series... they tried very hard to communicate, but humans thought it was acrobatics, not language...
R/wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopooooooooooooooooioiooooooooooooooooooosh
Just think communicating with a dolphin would be way way way easier than communicating with a Alien.
Mice extraterrestrial command /Christ/Church intelligent mankind codename the smallest to the very largest like everything else in the universe.
I heard the part of the dolphin like 3 to 4 times but I still don't understand this, so the fish knew about the progress of human civilization? Meaning sports? And about an alien invasion? Was that the ship? Dolphins tried to warn human from the ship that will demolish them? And no dolphin is left? From where? And how did the narrator know if this if people stopped interpreting the dolphins singing? That's complitely science fiction, how can you take that as facts, vogans is from a very old comic book
meh...
Ah, the days of quality TV from the BBC, before they became a radical left wing political lunatic asylum lol
Hi BBC.
Can we PLEASE have this entire series back on ABC? (Australia)
This little blurb is just a tease...
M 🦘🏏😎