Heh. Only problem with this story was it was too short.

Oh, wonderful! Does Xander get to keep the Guide?

It could use some fleshing out, but other than that, not bad.

Oh, and there was a HHGttG movie, released in '81...quite frankly, it kinda sucked.

10 for the complete ingenuity of this story! I'm glad you wrote this, as I had no idea they had made it into a movie. I know you mentioned the old series, but have you read the books based on the original radio series? there are five or six of them in the trilogy.

I can just see the improbability drive adding to the chaos of the already interesting night, and Spike getting a babble fish stuck in his ear! Would you mind terribly if I used this as inspiration for a... well not really story, but a few of my own unofficial entries into tHGTtG?

From what I understand, the tv show was a duplicate of the script from the radio... as for the books, I read them.. Did you know, however, that Douglas Adams never wanted to be a book writer? All he wanted to do was perform in front of people. The dvd had a documentary on him.

Feel free to use it as an inspiration. I don't know yet if I'll ever add a chapter two... but then again, I didn't think I would after finishing chapter 1 of "forces of Nature" story either.

You captured the flippant tone and spirit of the books/mini-series very well. I like Spike's comment about Ford's accent and Willow's that Xander should have dressed as a soldier. A great fic.

Thanks. *grin*

TV series? Some of us Brits are old enough to remember hearing it on the radio in the seventies...

Nice, shame he didn't dress up as Zaphod though.

I actually caught some of the radio version from a radio station in California once. As for Zaphod, I couldn't figure out how to write him.