The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The Whale and the Bowl of Petunias
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2011
- My favorite clip from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. A whale and a bowl of petunias are spontaneously called into existence.
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When I watched this movie as a kid, I assumed the "Oh no not again," was because I kept watching the scene over and over, like the movie was that aware of its audience.
Now because this is probably the only book I've ever read more than 3 times (3 times more than three times, at least) I feel you might probably maybe be right.
Douglas Adams must have knew this book was something we would all re reread again and again.
@@omianain No, you will understand why it thought so in the third book
@@mrjohni400 I can never tell whether the third book is the fourth book of the the trilogy or the last book of the trilogy before the final book. These babel fish have bashed my brains worse than the gargle blaster ever could
@@omianain Where's your towell ?
@@tomf3150 yeah, I bet a towel could help with that
The bowl of petunias is like a big middle finger to the idea that "if you explain a joke it stops being funny"
Douglas Adams seemingly proved that an explanation can actually make it funnier so long as the explanation leaves you with more questions than you started with
@@alexandergreene461 I meant in the context of the books (specifically Life, the Universe, and Everything), when it's explained that bowl of petunias is actually being named Agrajag who has been reincarnated countless times only to be killed again and again by Arthur Dent, like a form of sisyphean torture.
Arthur willed him back into existence with the infinite improbability drive only to drop him from the stratosphere, his shortest life yet.
Hence, "oh no, not again."
Holy shit, this has exactly 42 likes, nice.
@@ionceateapinecone im having vague recollections of that. i knew straight away its a reference to reincarnation...
a petunia? meh. plants. just being back as a plant. thats enough. not this life again, lol. its pretty dull, just sitting around and growing. agrajag or not...
whereas a fully grown adult whale that had no infancy, no development, but just suddenly "appeared"... i think its sheer genius... yet it still falls far short. like all stories, its up to ones imagination.
imagine suddenly just existing with all your mental and physical attributes, but absolutely no experience of ANYTHING...
The question is how many times must a bowl of petunias fall in order for normality to be restored? That petunia has fallen more than once, and by the sounds of it more than twice...I'm guessing 42 times, maybe.
@@ionceateapinecone 422 now. Let's get you to 442 and then onwards to 4242
I love the whale's voice; it's pure innocence and wonder
Search Bill Bailey, or look at most QI programmes
Bill Bailey is my favourite stand up comedian
It reminds me of the old Milo and Otis voices lol
It sounds like Wheatley to time
Isn't it Geoffrey McGiven, the original Ford Prefect?
"Ground. That's it. Ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me. Hello, ground." Why does the universe have to be so indifferent towards innocent whales!?
The same reason Galactus is so indifferent towards eating planets.
The universe is indifferent to everything. Why should Whales be an exception?
@Parálisis demon Actually they just discovered that whale found a friend who understood him and talked back the same
“Hello ground” **dies**
why do whales have to be so indifferent about the universe?
or is it that the whale simply IS the universe?
After reading Life, the Universe, and Everything, I now know why the Petunias thought "Oh no, not again." And I must say, I feel that I do know a lot more about the nature of the universe than I did before.
Poor Agrajag
Why did the petunias say that?
Read it
Rasta Mon it was this guy that kept on getting killed by Arthur so tried to kill him
@@rastamon5403 Basically, reincarnation exists, and it turns out that despite all odds, throughout all of time and space, a soul named Agrajag kept getting reincarnated into bodies that were killed by Arthur Dent. He'd become an earthling, and die of a heart attack upon seeing Arthur materialize out of thin air near him due to unrelated antics. While stranded on prehistoric Earth, Arthur caught and ate rabbits that were him. He'd become a spontaneously created bowl of petunias, all thanks to Arthur activating the Improbability Drive, and immediately fall to his death. Et cetera, et cetera.
As for how this plot thread all gets resolved, that's in the book 🙃
I almost died laughing when the bowl of petunias said "oh no, not again!"
it didn't said anything
It did in the next life
Poor whoever his name was, keep being killed by arthur
In the books, the bowl of petunias is an entity that is continuously reincarnated as things that get inevitably killed by Arthur.
@@McJethroPovTee Agrajag
I remember how happy I was when I finally got to the part in the book series where it was explained why the bowl of petunias thought "oh no, not again"
That happy life ended several thousand feet lower in the wreckage of a whale, my soul brother. As I died I saw a flashy spaceship above and looking out the window of that spaceship, was a smug looking Arthur Dent.....COINCIDENCE!!??"
2:00 "At one point I decided to give up. Yes. I would not come back. I would stay in the netherworld. And what happens? I got yanked involuntarily back to the physical world. As a bowl of putunias!
first time i read that i laughed so hard
Poor whale. At least he died trying to make friends.
My favorite bit of this is actually the “normality” exchange. Captures all four of the characters at their core in such a quick dialogue- existential, homesick, and completely oblivious, all grounded by a bloke who just wants a cuppa tea.
This is my favorite part of my favorite book. It will remain in my heart until the coming of the great white handkerchief.
Logan Finn poor guy :P
as far as I know it's just stated as thousands, not a specific number
+Logan Finn Wait, what now?
Logan Finn Any idea how much that'd cost for all the books?
Justin Marlowe Well, Hitch-hikers Guide To The Galaxy is a book.
It’s widely believed that if we knew why the bowl of petunias felt that way we would have a significantly better understanding of the universe
I always thought the joke was that bowls of petunias and the like are always falling from things, its a fact of the universe that the bowl of petunias instinctively knew and was already tired of
@@CaptainPrincessIt says why in the book.
*"I'm Dizzy With Anticipation"*
Or is it the wind?
or maybe the rain is really to blame
Note to PETA no actual WHALES were harmed during the making of this scene!!
+pvtrichter88 it's the florists i'm concerned for
well they actually went through a half a dozen whales which is all the whale wrangler brought to the set but the director wasn't satisfied with any of the six shoots. So then they settled for a CGI whale. But that's hardly any whales harmed.
...I've seen you somewhere before.
So you are saying we should kill all the whales?
PETA would probably take the whales and kill them themselves.
Wonderful scene. The closer they stay to the book, the better the scenes are (in my oppinion).
a lot of the movie was far off from the books but i think douglas adams may have been involved in the screenplay version (not sure on that one though)
***** "The producers have stated that this film is not a literal translation of the books (just as the books were not a literal translation of the original radio show), but all of the new ideas and characters came from Douglas Adams himself. The hired writer simply came aboard to improve structure and make the screenplay more coherent."
"The script we shot was very much based on the last draft that Douglas wrote.... All the substantive new ideas in the movie ... are brand new Douglas ideas written especially for the movie by him.... Douglas was always up for reinventing HHGG in each of its different incarnations and he knew that working harder on some character development and some of the key relationships was an integral part of turning HHGG into a movie."
:-)
And, if someone DMCA's this out of existence, we can all say "Oh no, not again".
"Aaah! Whoa! Whats happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Okay, okay calm down now, get a grip. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my...well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Lets call it a...tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, what's this roaring sound, whooshing past what I'm suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It'll do. Yeah, this is really exciting, I'm dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There's an awful lot of that now isn't it? And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello, Ground!"
Curiously the only thing that was going through the mind of the bowl of petunias was "Oh no, not again."
+Tim Carney Many have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we should know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now."
+Jurassic King I think it's cause bowl of flowers (like this bowl of petunias) are use to falling and hitting hard surfaces and breaking. While an average sperm whale is not use to such things happening
In a sequel to "Hitch-hiker's Guide," Arthur runs into a being who's trying to kill him -- and when Arthur hit the button to create the bowl of petunias, it was this being having been called into existence, only to die at Arthur's hand (again).
@@michaelkappes8226 poor argrajag... The only being to reincarnate throughout all of time and space but only die at the hands of Arthur Dent every single time. I mean I think argrajag exists solely to be every single entity Arthur Dent kills while he's in the life known as Arthur Dent.
1:11 When Wailord uses Supersonic Skystrike.
For anyone who has not read the Hitchhikers trilogy I’d better explain what that bowl of petunias meant when it said “oh no, not again!”
The plant is one of the many reincarnations of an unfortunate soul who was ill fated to be killed by Arthur Dent in all of its incarnations (although Arthur is not aware of this). From house flies, ants, oysters, and even as a man who died from shock as Arthur and Ford suddenly rematerialised on a sofa during a cricket game at Lord’s Cricket ground, this soul not only became aware of its situation, but also developed an unhealthy though understandable hatred towards Arthur Dent, its perpetual murderer. So much so that after it had died as a bowl of petunias by crashing to the ground (upon which it saw Arthur Dent looking at it through the ship’s window), this soul decided enough was enough and fought with hundreds of other souls for its one last chance of reincarnation into a horrific bat monster. It succeeded in snatching up Arthur Dent from a teleportation stream (I think) into its underground liar, but unfortunately took him too soon as he was meant to be alive to witness the death of the soul’s previous reincarnation sometime in the future (its reincarnations seems to occur back and forth through time). And, despite the temporal impossibility it decided it was going to give it a bloody good try at killing Arthur Dent, only for the stupid sod to fall over its deformed feet and impaled itself on a stalagmite, thus being killed by Arthur Dent for the last time. However, it did not realise that it was finally free from the universe’s sick sense of humour afterwards, which it would have been happy about it if it did.
The film did not do the books justice, and I strongly suggest to anyone who is interested to read them. There’s a court witness that couldn’t stop telling about the terrifying secrets of frogs and the universe that the galactic federation had to seal up the entire building and wipe out all traces of its existence from public knowledge. There’s a planet whose entire economy depended upon selling shoes but collapsed. And, a man living in a shack with his cat that made a remarkable discovery of making a line with a pencil on a piece of paper.
Oh, and there’s a message that God had written to his creations before he buggered off somewhere in the cosmos too.
Thank you. I read the books but I don't think the movie went into detail.
@@Henpitts, I know that Douglas Adams only began working on the script before he passed away. But, I suspect that it was finished by someone who only had a rough understanding of the trilogy and thought he or she could do a better job of it. Take the Heart of Gold ship for instance, in the book it was described that it looked like a sleek and stylish tennis shoe, but in the film they turned into a sodding football instead. No one who has genuinely read the books would ever make a blunder like that.
Dont forget Marvin.
Somehow alive for eons upon eons, tortured by his big brain and perpetual misery, only to find peace upon seeing the Final Message.
Also Arthur becoming a plant.
@@pupp3tStudios, I don’t remember Arthur becoming a plant (it’s been a while since I read the books). But, Marvin had certainly lived long enough for it to witness the death of one universe and the birth of another at least.
"And there was that time on Stav Romulus Beta...."
"never been there.."
What do you mean you've never been there. You killed me there as everywhere else."
"I'm afraid I've never even heard of the place."
"You haven't been to Stav Romulus beta...yet?"
"No And I have no plans to go. Maybe I'll go there later?"
"Oh, You'll go there all right." Said Agrajag with a dawning logical horror. "You'll go there all right. I brought you here too soon."
Said Agrajag looking around his cathedral of hate. "I BROUGHT YOU HERE TOO SODDING SOON! I don't care! I'm going to kill you anyway! Even if it's a logical impossibility, I'm going to sodding well try!"
I'm quoting the book from memory, so this may not be 100% as written, but it's close to how their conversation went before Agrajag died and his bat hand/claw fell on the self destruct button for his Cathedral.
Poor Agrajag 💐, always getting a raw deal...
*COINCIDENCE?!*
"I wonder if it will be firends with me? Hello ground! "Cracks me up every time
When I read the book for the first time and read the line: "oh no, not again" I laughed five minutes straight.
I still laugh to this day when I remember it. :)
God, I love this movie. Nailed the feel of the books almost perfectly, if you ask me.
Have you read the books thoroughly?
.
Ben Shmuelof All 5. Most of them twice or more.
Yes I am really distraught by all of the faux fanboys who get mad at it for no apparent reason. And now we won't ever get a sequel to the most beautiful movie of the 2000's.
doltBmB Which doesn't even make any sense considering Adams wrote the initial screenplay and the cuts and rewrites were minimal. I'd love nothing more than sequels using the same cast (except, perhaps, with someone less infuriating than Zooey Deschanel as Trillian), but apparently that will never happen.
This movie needs a sequel.
Mr Nobody so that they can fuck up another classic?
DmanDdog Matter of opinion. It was different from the book in some ways, yes, but the differences all came from Douglas Adams before he passed away.
Mr Nobody It does'nt need a sequel unless there is one called THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE.
@@TuxKamen People are so amazingly ignorant about this. Adams approved the screenplay. It was never meant to be an exact copy of the books, TV, or radio series. It's like people have no idea what an adaptation is.
"What's normal?"
Even now, I can't tell. Reality, on the other hand, is always quite easy to apprehend : it's what happen when a whale and a bowl of petunias hit the ground from very high. Or when you wake up next day after a hangover.
Anyone else here after the starship test flight?
Me haha
i love how the whale's last words are "hello ground" and the way he says it
POV your here after seeing the pot of flowers on SpaceX’s stream
Due to there being infinite universes. A whale is falling from the sky right now with a bowl of petunias. It’s a fact.
I kinda wish they had the audio book guy do this part cause he was a lot move lively and it would've made this scene a little more funnier (like the "Hello Ground!" Part)
In the Italian dub the whale sounded hilariously excited towards the end, "CIAO, SUOLO!!!" with so much ecstasy before it splatters lol If I heard the original I would've felt a little sorry for the naive big guy.
Never ceases to make me laugh
the petunias gag gets so much funnier if you read the third book
Hitchhiker's Guide was Rick & Morty before it was cool to be Rick & Morty.
That's why I liked this movie so much. The closest comparison I could've made to was Futurama, then in 2013 I decided to read the books.
That oh no not again is SO top gear and I love it
It's a minor triumph for all involved that these episodes were this much fun and occasionally brilliant, and they'll likely impress fans of the book moreover than the 2005 movie did.😊
Now that in finally nearly through the book, I know why the bowl of petunias said, "not again"
Jessica Harris I never really got it....
+The Sword Heart if you read book 3 you will understand
TheHalbain Oh, I only read the first book, but I am planning on reading the rest
+The Sword Heart I got the ultimate guide. all the books in one. best book I've ever read.
Jessica Harris lol
The delivery on the "Oh no, not again!" makes me keep coming back to this scene.
this scene is oddly beautiful
Imagine if every living creature created by Giorno Giovanna's Gold Experience suffers the same kind of existential crisis in their brief existence
Maybe, maybe not. But what I know is that Diavolo basically became Agrajag at the end of Part 5.
Agrajag, is that you?
I'm only now realizing how horrific this was
I love having a headful of acid and watching this movie. One of my all time favorite scenes.
Best scene in the whole book and movie
Curiously the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was "Oh no not this again." That cracks me up every time!
i love this movie
For people who only ever watched the movie, they will never know why the bowl of petunias thought what it thought. What's great about this, is that it works on two levels. The final pay-off is smart and just as the book originally stated the first time through, we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe once we knew why the bowl of petunias thought what it thought.
Still better odds then winning the lottery
Exactly like in the book xD
That's some dream probability.
it turnes into a bowl of petunias........and a surprised looking whale
Oh no, not again...
Stephen Fry AND Martin Freeman? Permit me a quiet happy smile!
We are, all of us, the whale.
"Oh no, not again.."
"Oh no, not again."
Poor agrajag
because of air resistance, they aren't in a vacuum anymore
"The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" an example of what MAY happen, if you take an unknown amount, and variation of drugs, and start making a story.
The petunias are a reincarnation of a being that Arthur Dent keeps killing. Makes sense that it would think “not again” if it kept getting killed by Arthur, even though it does seem highly improbable.
That poor..................bowl of petunias.........
Not only did it break, it was pulled out of the nether world and it saw its worst enemy: Arthur Dent
"Hello ground!" THUD
Splat
Well, it happens
Also, how did the whale know enough English to come to grips with its existence?
"the mind of the bowl of petunias"- ok
If only they included Agrajag in the film..
Really adds to the scene
"Oh no not again"-bowl of petunias will be my senior quote
Bill Bailey, more like Bill Baleen *snort* (shakes head in disgust)
ooh, yeah, I need my physics refreshed asap. :)
guess this is the second time for the petunias
It says a message encoded in the structure
Hello ground!!
Since I never read the books, the laugh the bowl of pentunias got out of me the first time I saw the movie is because flowers are always used in slapstick comedy as a convenient item to drop on someone else's head. So having the pentunias be meta-aware of the gag seemed like a very funny idea to me.
if only you knew what it really ment
The voice of the whale could not be more perfectly cast. Bill Bailey is perfect for it!
'Ello ground!
"COINCIDENCE!??!"
I know the movie, read A book (don't know how many there are sadly enough, if someone knows please do tell?)
But Sl1pg8r - Minecraft, Mods, and MOAR! used the falling whale reference and made me want to watch it again.
Ah Bill Bailey
The bowl of petunias has had a hard life, i can tell.
It was the whale many reincarnations later.
oh no not again...
Hello Ground!!!
Hello Ground!
I consider this the ultimate expression of the not just the humor in Hitchhiker’s guide, but the philosophy of absurdism itself.
42 may be the most well known instance of it, but this scene showcases the point-a being struggles to find meaning in an inherently meaningless universe, and all it gets for its troubles is “THUD”. The bowl of petunias accepts the meaninglessness of the universe, even if it is begrudgingly.
Simply put, you can be born as either a whale or a bowl of petunias, but it doesn’t matter because you’re gonna die.
The whale and petunias are the same lifeform. The whale was one of its first lives, and the petunias one of its later lives having been accidentally killed by Arthur over and over. After this it becomes a horrific bat creature and tries to kill Arthur, but is killed trying to do so.
I didn't realise they used Peter Jones as narrator in the film also.. I know he narrated the TV series.. I don't know if he also voiced the original radio series
Boltzmann Brain in a nutshell.
I really think the bowl of petunias are a hive mind that actually is born to crash. As if its inevitable that it knows. Or the flora in it knows because the flora itself are clones? 🤷🏾♂️
....Great movie
There's an easter egg of this in Kerbal Space Program
Hello ground!
Hello ground!!!
Oh, no, not *again*...
What is normal?
What is home?
What are cows?
I lost it
The Witcher 3 - Blood And Wine be like
How the web was made
BOWL OF PETUNIAS: Oh No Not Again
ME: Wait This Happened To You Before??.
COMMENT 01
0:50 quote
*Oh no... Not again.*
MANNY!!!
@avmf8 If you mean the narrator, then yes, they are both done by Stephen Fry.
Hey he landed inside the amazon rainforest
Hello ground
This whale is better at finding purpose in life than Rick and Morty fans
I know why the bowl of petunias said "not again"!! :o