I liked the ending (which the Tivo only caught after the hour-mark, since it’s still stuck on the old Daylight Savings) better when it was on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
ARTHUR: That’s it. Six by nine…forty-two! I always said there was something fundamentally wrong about the universe!
FORD: Hmmm.
ARTHUR: So what do we do now?
FORD: I guess we just swallow our pride and go and join the human race.
ARTHUR: Yes.
CAVEMAN: [Grunts]
FORD: Right.
CAVEMAN: [Grunts]
ARTHUR: It’s sad though, just at the moment it’s a very beautiful planet.
FORD: It is. It is indeed. The rich primal greens… the river snaking off into the distance… the burning trees…
ARTHUR: And in two million years: bang! It gets destroyed by the Vogons. What a life for a young planet to look forward to!
FORD: Well – better than some. I read of one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of Intergalactic Bar Billards. Got putted straight into a black hole, killed ten-billion people.
ARTHUR: Hmm. Total madness.
FORD: Yeah! Only scored thirty points too.
ARTHUR: Where did you read that?
FORD: Hmm, a book.
ARTHUR: Which book was that?
FORD: ’The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’…
ARTHUR: Oh that thing….
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