The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - The Whale

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  • @davidkeenan5642
    @davidkeenan5642 9 років тому +738

    The deepest couple of minutes in the movie.

    • @KnightGlint
      @KnightGlint 7 років тому +22

      David Keenan The deepest part being the bowl of flowers.

    • @bonmotleybeaucoup9140
      @bonmotleybeaucoup9140 4 роки тому +9

      the deepest part being the crater the whale left in the landscape

    • @bmx28kenilworth
      @bmx28kenilworth 4 роки тому +4

      @@KnightGlint honestly tho ... in a metaphorical sense. Man I miss this movie. It’s one of the only movies I’d pay to see again. This movie made such a deep impact on my entire childhood to who I am today and what I think about. Seeing this again and realizing the metaphor of the bowl of petunias is insane.

    • @hannibalshade3084
      @hannibalshade3084 4 роки тому

      if you think that, you dont get the movie...

    • @davidkeenan5642
      @davidkeenan5642 4 роки тому +8

      @@hannibalshade3084
      Oh I get it. I first listened to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on BBC Radio 4 in the late 1970s. Then I watched the TV adaptation in the early 1980s. (Then I read the book. I'm odd like that, I only read Pride and Prejudice after seeing one of the movie adaptations. I fecking loved the book, it's so easy to read.)
      So when it comes to this movie adaptation, I knew the story really well, but I really like Zoe and Martin, so I watched it with few expectations. But the whale's wonder of existing, questioning everything, and the not being alive never really struck when I listened to the radio or read the book.
      This scene is a vastly compressed version of what most thinking humans go through in their developing years. Self awareness, questions, wonder and an ignorance of the inevitable death.
      Oh to have that whale's death. I've lived too long, I know too much, or maybe I think too much, but that's the hand fate dealt me. As I approach the end, I have no fear of being dead. That's because I'm an agnostic atheist. For such as me, being dead holds no fears, how we die, how I'll die scares the shit out of me. But for a brief period I really lived, I procreated, 3 kids, 2 grandkids so far.
      I will depart this world with regrets and hopes. In the meantime I'm just going to do what I've always done, Strive to harm nobody, promote what I feel is right, hope I'll get laid one more time, (It won't happen).
      But this is life. We didn't asked to be born. I'm glad I was, and I'm prepared to pay the price, my death.

  • @ShaunKeefe
    @ShaunKeefe 3 роки тому +157

    Sam Rockwell is brilliant in this movie.
    "What're cows?" The expression and truly unknowing of Zaphod brought to life through this masterful performance.

  • @makoent2231
    @makoent2231 2 роки тому +196

    I love the set up tot he Petunias joke.
    "8 million chance probability this would happen"
    "Oh no, not again"

  • @hughmorris7557
    @hughmorris7557 7 років тому +480

    I love how the only thing that's changed, other than the missiles being turned into flowers and a whale, is the fact that Zaphod now has a box of cereal.

    • @Liberator130
      @Liberator130 5 років тому +24

      The cereal was sliding around on the ground with him when they were trying to evade the missiles.

    • @mikekazz5353
      @mikekazz5353 2 роки тому +1

      @listen2meokidoki it was a mixed drink the audio book is on UA-cam and it's also read by the author.

  • @Shakes-Off-Fear
    @Shakes-Off-Fear Рік тому +108

    The whale monologue was copied almost verbatim from the book, but the “Hello ground!” at the end was added on, which was a cherry on top for me and always makes me laugh 😂

    • @UncensoredScion
      @UncensoredScion 5 місяців тому +2

      yeah shame they added all the waxing about what is normal for some stupid reason before it so that they had to make the scene faster and have the exploration of sentience given less time to have a serious laugh at though.

  • @buddyltd
    @buddyltd 7 років тому +146

    Bill Bailey... Such a great actor. And musician. And comedian. You know what, Bill Bailey is just awesome. As is the Hitchhiker's Guide.

    • @emw1994
      @emw1994 7 років тому +2

      buddyltd I knew I knew that voice.

    • @theawecabinet
      @theawecabinet 7 років тому +4

      In another timeline Bill Bailey is the new Doctor Who. Gutting isn't it.

    • @pedrodepaca57
      @pedrodepaca57 Рік тому

      And Stephen Fry, as the narrator, was a great move....

  • @johnwax9606
    @johnwax9606 7 років тому +289

    That bowl of petunias has seen some shit

  • @ryanjackson1143
    @ryanjackson1143 Рік тому +53

    In hindsight the ground was perfectly willing to get along with the whale if it wasn't moving too fast and coming on a little strong

  • @cipher88101
    @cipher88101 7 років тому +91

    I can't stop laughing @ that mushroom cloud...."Maybe it'll be friends with me...hello ground!" ((BOOM))

  • @mrhouse4479
    @mrhouse4479 2 роки тому +47

    I started busting up laughing at this scene, it just caught me off guard so bad 🤣

    • @joecolman1968
      @joecolman1968 2 роки тому +2

      'Hello ground!' *thud, mushroom cloud

  • @Electricshrock
    @Electricshrock 4 роки тому +110

    The 3 things this film got right:
    Alan Rickman as Marvin
    Bill Bailey as The Whale
    Stephen Fry as The Narrator

  • @tylergamingshark8497
    @tylergamingshark8497 Рік тому +7

    So that’s where Goat Simulator gets the Idea of the Hitchhiker Goat

  • @C.Sharpe
    @C.Sharpe 4 роки тому +40

    I just read this part in the book and thought I should come back here to relive it in all of its comedic glory

    • @careless3241
      @careless3241 2 роки тому +3

      Same. Listening to this part of the audio book and had to come see it again lol

    • @maxgustafsson7802
      @maxgustafsson7802 Рік тому +1

      Same here!

  • @theLOSTranger234
    @theLOSTranger234 3 роки тому +33

    whenever I hear that line "oh no, not again..." I hear it in John Hurt's voice... RIP

    • @CaptainRetroStation
      @CaptainRetroStation 3 роки тому +4

      🎵”Hello, my baby! Hello, my honey! Hello, my ragtime gal!”🎶 😁

  • @KlaraL-_-
    @KlaraL-_- 3 місяці тому +2

    I wish they had made more than one movie, I really love this one!

  • @GalacticAstroparticles
    @GalacticAstroparticles 7 років тому +47

    I just realized Bill Bailey voiced the whale. Spot on!

  • @MrHartApart
    @MrHartApart 9 років тому +100

    yay this is really exciting! ..im dizzy with anticipation!

    • @adambesley4455
      @adambesley4455 7 років тому +4

      or is it the wind?

    • @MrHartApart
      @MrHartApart 7 років тому +3

      theres an awful lot of that now isnt there?

    • @nocosttoogreat
      @nocosttoogreat 6 років тому

      And what’s this thing coming towards me very fast?

  • @mhadman427
    @mhadman427 2 роки тому +9

    This series of books is one one the only to make me laugh out loud.
    I was probably drunk more often than not while reading it, back in the eighties.

  • @bravos1076
    @bravos1076 7 років тому +20

    Ha ha my favorite scene in the movie makes me laugh every time. "I wonder if it will be friends with me. Hello ground."

  • @gjbro92
    @gjbro92 5 років тому +59

    Somehow I laughed harder at 2:14 than I did when the whale hit the ground

  • @tafadzwanashenaisonchingom4919
    @tafadzwanashenaisonchingom4919 10 місяців тому +2

    I was todays year old when starships lauch brought me to this video

  • @TheeBohemian
    @TheeBohemian 7 років тому +322

    So...bowls of petunias experience re-incarnation? Sounds incredibly boring.

    • @zoroearc2582
      @zoroearc2582 7 років тому +18

      Do you want me to tell you why, or do you want to find out for yourself? (Read the third book for the answer)

    • @brandonweaver1543
      @brandonweaver1543 5 років тому +3

      Eternally boring, but I wouldn't mind just popping into existence in some unknown world and falling towards the ground and smashing some poor unexpected alienes brains out.

    • @tommynorthwood
      @tommynorthwood 5 років тому +2

      Have u ever breathed through your skin? Its exhilarating.

    • @94oddy
      @94oddy 5 років тому +2

      Its boring till someone decides to decapitate you and your friends to "pretty up" their house

    • @rich1051414
      @rich1051414 4 роки тому +1

      Assuming you are right, why would the petunias already have experienced this before? Perhaps if you commit suicide, you are reincarnated as petunias? If that's the case, the petunia's thoughts make perfect sense.

  • @simple-commentator-not-rea7345
    @simple-commentator-not-rea7345 6 років тому +42

    This is hilariously referenced in Fallout 2

    • @TheBabitat
      @TheBabitat 4 роки тому +2

      Is there a whale in the desert or something?

    • @simple-commentator-not-rea7345
      @simple-commentator-not-rea7345 4 роки тому +13

      @@TheBabitat Yeah, apperently a random encounter includes you finding the splattered carcass of a whale. You also find Daisies around it

    • @U39I
      @U39I 3 роки тому +2

      @@simple-commentator-not-rea7345 also in Fallout NV: Old World Blues - when you splice a lobotomite with a robot in X-8. Resulting robobrain does the similar monologue with similar voice before getting blown up.

    • @reclusiarchgrimaldus1269
      @reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 3 роки тому

      + 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 🙏!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @noobbot05
    @noobbot05 4 роки тому +8

    I like how it's giving names to things in real time but it's allready using words

  • @SergeantDoorknob13
    @SergeantDoorknob13 2 роки тому +2

    "I Wonder If It'll Be Friends With Me, HELLO GROUND!"

  • @Kokoloco666
    @Kokoloco666 Рік тому +1

    I love this book. I love that everything everywhere all at once seems to be based off this clip 😂

  • @RayMoore-wj4nk
    @RayMoore-wj4nk 29 днів тому

    Not many truer words have ever been spoken. Wiseass.😁🤣😂

  • @kimbok101
    @kimbok101 9 років тому +25

    scene that made me cry

  • @scrubillionaire
    @scrubillionaire 2 роки тому +11

    What does a cockroach in Arthur's house, a bowl of petunias spawned into existence in front of Arthur and a very pissed off giant spiderlike creature hellbent on unaliving Arthur have in common...?
    Arthur, reincarnation and revenge.

  • @lundylow
    @lundylow 2 місяці тому

    This movie had so much going for it. I wish it was better than just a handful of scenes I remember.

  • @nahbirdie4773
    @nahbirdie4773 2 роки тому +5

    1:13 for whale thoughts

  • @williamrosen3179
    @williamrosen3179 4 роки тому +23

    Starship SN8 Flight 2020

    • @ScottWalde
      @ScottWalde 4 роки тому +6

      Funny. That's exactly why I came here.

  • @spindletopcenter
    @spindletopcenter 3 роки тому +2

    The whale's commentary is the ringtone that signals that my husband is calling

  • @aslkdfjhg
    @aslkdfjhg 3 роки тому +8

    Stephen Fry is a fantastic narrator.

    • @CalderaXII
      @CalderaXII Рік тому

      And also the reader of the audiobook 😊 can highly recommend it

  • @tomtomkingbenito5998
    @tomtomkingbenito5998 3 роки тому +2

    *"HELLO GROUND!"* ☠️

  • @mtrps_
    @mtrps_ 7 років тому +119

    what are cows?

    • @Rohal90
      @Rohal90 7 років тому +4

      I want to like this, but then you would have 43 likes :(

    • @firedragon7456
      @firedragon7456 4 роки тому

      Your mom

    • @mtrps_
      @mtrps_ 4 роки тому

      @@firedragon7456 or so the Germans would have us believe!

  • @mar504
    @mar504 2 роки тому +5

    "Curiously, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias, as it fell, was, "Oh no, not again!" Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly *why* the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now."
    I think the petunias are in cahoots with the mice.

  • @patrik9328
    @patrik9328 3 роки тому +12

    Whale: Hello ground!
    Ground: Hi, whale
    *Whale falls to the ground*
    Ground: Oh no! Damnit, gravity
    Gravity: Lol

  • @JesterBandito
    @JesterBandito 4 місяці тому

    "Many have speculated, if we knew WHY the Bowl of Petunias thought had THAT" (Crash) "We should know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do, now"

  • @battybatakin
    @battybatakin 5 років тому +3

    ... basically most human beings in this timeline.
    KASPLAT!

  • @ravioliguy7113
    @ravioliguy7113 3 роки тому +2

    "Hello ground!"

  • @that_objectguy
    @that_objectguy 6 місяців тому +1

    The whale reminds me of Wheatley from Portal 2.

  • @andersgale9544
    @andersgale9544 3 роки тому +2

    *I first learned about the hitchhiker guide through galaxy during a random encounter in fallout 2.*

  • @apollofell3925
    @apollofell3925 3 місяці тому

    Once you recognize it's Wheatley from Portal 2, you can't unhear it. My headcannon is that Wheatley somehow ended up in some missile guidance software and was transfered into the whale.

  • @matiascooke1452
    @matiascooke1452 Рік тому

    I've just read that part in the book and couldn't help but rewatch the scene. It's almost exactly as it is written in the book, that's crazy

  • @gayraccoon353
    @gayraccoon353 Рік тому

    DUDE IVE BEEN TRYNNA FIND THIS MOVIE FOR YEARS I STARTED THINKING IT WAS JUST A FEVER DREAM FROM WHEN I WAS LITTLE

  • @TheAudience388
    @TheAudience388 3 роки тому +1

    2:06 Poor Agrajag

  • @Roblade143
    @Roblade143 3 роки тому +12

    This scene is actually more depressing now that I'm looking at it form the perspective of an adult...

  • @AnneRavenStar
    @AnneRavenStar 6 днів тому

    "Ouch!"
    "Round!"
    "GROUND!"

  • @SusannaSaunders
    @SusannaSaunders 3 роки тому

    Legendary! Truly Epic and Legendary!

  • @javierowo
    @javierowo 7 років тому +2

    Bowl of Petunias: Oh no, not again...

  • @leewolf6434
    @leewolf6434 2 роки тому +3

    I really do want to know why the flowers thought “oh no,not again”

  • @raphaelsoniii8298
    @raphaelsoniii8298 2 роки тому

    It is important to note,, that this clip should have more likes 🙂🤙🏽

  • @CraigPremium
    @CraigPremium 3 роки тому +7

    Curiously the only thing that went trough the mind of a bowl of petunias as it fell was "Oh no not again"

  • @jamesl9362
    @jamesl9362 3 роки тому +2

    My entire philosophy in life

  • @rt6692
    @rt6692 5 років тому +9

    I’m guessing the relationship between the ground didn’t work out.

    • @Xolivas1
      @Xolivas1 4 роки тому +3

      I think it was a more "grounded" meeting than a relationship.

    • @Yallan
      @Yallan 4 роки тому

      @@Xolivas1 🥁

  • @Silverspoon74
    @Silverspoon74 4 роки тому +4

    OMG its SN08!!!!

  • @teawrecks1243
    @teawrecks1243 5 років тому +1

    Wailord using Supersonic Skystrike

  • @infinityzer054
    @infinityzer054 2 роки тому

    Unwritten leviathan:”poor, poor, poor little man

  • @laurend.statham1742
    @laurend.statham1742 6 років тому +5

    ....I relate a little to hard to that whale

    • @SatansFire
      @SatansFire 6 років тому +1

      You're 90% fat and have the mind of a child?

    • @caseykendall5506
      @caseykendall5506 4 роки тому

      @@CS-sj9kr Hello, Marvin. Surfing the web? Have you tried cat videos? They might help...

  • @starktime3476
    @starktime3476 4 роки тому

    Finally got this movie

  • @jamesedwards6589
    @jamesedwards6589 7 років тому +6

    They should have made the rest of the book's

  • @battymanchickenfilla180bol8
    @battymanchickenfilla180bol8 2 роки тому +1

    I don't think the ground wanted to be friends

  • @Steel-101
    @Steel-101 Рік тому

    I came here because of Fallout 2 lol 😂. This clip is glorious.

  • @KlaraL-_-
    @KlaraL-_- 3 місяці тому

    Zaphod is so stupid, I love him.

  • @jessicaturner7714
    @jessicaturner7714 Рік тому

    Still the best line in the movie

  • @Supermartu64
    @Supermartu64 2 роки тому

    I relate to the bowl of petunias

  • @jorenthar9186
    @jorenthar9186 4 дні тому

    "Hello ground"

  • @Erekose2023
    @Erekose2023 7 років тому +3

    Compared to the style and delivery of the original .. (and the imagery of the TV)...... this is what being in the Total Perspective Vortex must be like...
    It is an invisible dot... on an invisible dot.... infinitely small...

  • @cagedlemp5184
    @cagedlemp5184 5 років тому

    Bloody great.

  • @Yabuturtle
    @Yabuturtle 4 місяці тому +1

    Why was this movie panned? I thought it was hilarious and still pretty faithful to the book.

  • @ManMountainManX
    @ManMountainManX 2 роки тому

    TY.

  • @unchosenzombie5144
    @unchosenzombie5144 5 років тому

    See, the whale has eyes to see.

  • @user7127p
    @user7127p 4 роки тому

    I had just found a reference to this in Fallout 2

  • @RBEO22
    @RBEO22 5 років тому +1

    Normal is a matter of opinion.

  • @liberatusblair
    @liberatusblair 7 років тому +41

    Wait, the petunia thought "oh no, not again", so I'm wondering about what happened to the petunia before ?

    • @zaphod732
      @zaphod732 7 років тому +20

      This has been resolved in the third book I believe. Should I spoil it for you, or do you wanna find out by yourself?

    • @liberatusblair
      @liberatusblair 7 років тому +8

      Zaphod If it's a part of one the books, I'll figure it out myself.
      But thank you anyway.^^

    • @zaphod732
      @zaphod732 7 років тому +4

      Liberatus Blair np ^^

    • @MrSpankdamonkey117
      @MrSpankdamonkey117 7 років тому +4

      +Zaphod I've read the third one, but that detail escapes me, can you give a hint?

    • @hughmorris7557
      @hughmorris7557 7 років тому +11

      Let's just say that this isn't the first time the petunias have been alive, nor the first time that they've seen Arthur Dent.

  • @guyknifes3223
    @guyknifes3223 2 роки тому

    I love bill bailey

  • @rasmym8534
    @rasmym8534 3 роки тому +1

    what did Perseverance think when it was about to hit martian ground?

  • @MrRetlav
    @MrRetlav 7 років тому +2

    Poor whale :(

  • @ThatMarvelNerd
    @ThatMarvelNerd 5 років тому +2

    *W H A T ' R E C O W S ? ?*

  • @lunaracc914
    @lunaracc914 8 років тому +5

    oh no, not again

  • @SkyEcho7
    @SkyEcho7 5 років тому +2

    😔 whale 😢

  • @ザウーガ狂
    @ザウーガ狂 Рік тому

    Hello GROUND !

  • @1withthelion
    @1withthelion Рік тому

    All I can hear is the Stanley Parable narrator

  • @MerchantIvoryfilms
    @MerchantIvoryfilms 6 років тому +4

    Hello ground!
    *Thud*

  • @OGimouse1
    @OGimouse1 3 роки тому

    Volume is so low--can barely hear it =(

  • @shortfatbigfoot
    @shortfatbigfoot 7 місяців тому

    Sounds like Simon Pegg.

  • @kathykathleenk5710
    @kathykathleenk5710 6 років тому +1

    MAGHATHEA? I GUESS I DONT GIVE UP.
    0010110. 43

  • @reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemastere1004
    @reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemastere1004 5 років тому +1

    *HELLO GROUND*

  • @nikoterangiita9571
    @nikoterangiita9571 7 років тому

    "Oh No Not Again"

  • @yungrafacruz
    @yungrafacruz Рік тому

    How is it there

  • @LeftistGamer
    @LeftistGamer 2 місяці тому

    wtf i forgot Mos Def is in this

  • @BackwardAssassin
    @BackwardAssassin 3 роки тому

    It just occurred to me, wouldn’t a whale have more air resistance than a bowl of petunias, and therefore be the 2nd of the 2 to hit the ground?

    • @Kain1805
      @Kain1805 Рік тому

      I'm also pretty sure the whale would've started burning while falling, it's just a movie after all

  • @natying35
    @natying35 4 роки тому

    Your mammal and you live in the sea🌊🌊🌊🌊

  • @yungrafacruz
    @yungrafacruz Рік тому

    The whale

  • @averymartin1327
    @averymartin1327 6 років тому

    I want a helmet like that

  • @francescomichetti9846
    @francescomichetti9846 4 місяці тому

    print("hello ground!");

  • @benhislop1458
    @benhislop1458 4 роки тому +1

    What is normal?

  • @Fearoq
    @Fearoq 6 років тому +2

    Damn they should really explore on the story of that bowl. Its funny and sad

    • @Pyxis10
      @Pyxis10 5 років тому

      They have, in the third book.

  • @prodotal21
    @prodotal21 Рік тому

    Hello ground