The Golgafrinchams - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - BBC
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- After landing on prehistoric Earth, Ford meets the Golgafrinchams and discovers much to his chagrin, the secrets of human evolution - Management Consultants, Hairdressers and Phone Booth Hygienists.
Taken From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Episode 6
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"Two million years!"
Well, after watching them for four minutes, you wonder how they will stay alive for the next two days...
More like 200,000 years. I'm pretty sure there were no homo sapiens 2 million years ago. Of course I am talking about the "cavemen" that they were trying to teach Scrabble.
The Golgafrincham will be the human race.
@@Slopmaster : I know. And I wonder how the human race managed to stay alive, too. But well, we work on it...
Dumb luck.
@@Slopmaster wow, that is extremely depressing.
After reading his books for 30+years, I'm often still amazed by how he manages to be really very light and silly and yet at the same time really quite profound.
As a kid, I thought this scene was silly and ridiculous.
The older I get, the more depressingly plausible it sounds. Especially the deforestation part.
Yeah I'm a slow reader too.
@@chippysteve4524 Yay! Blackadder references win the internet.
Douglas Adams was the greatest Philosopher who ever lived.
I sometimes think Douglas Adams could see into the future. Share and Enjoy.
"If you're so clever, tell us what colour it should be!" :D That cracks me up every time. I may use it when I next deal with the tax office.
I was going to 'like' your comment, but it currently stands at 42 likes, and I don't want to mess with the meaning of LTU&E!
I thought this was bitter satire watching it as a teenager. 25 years in the workplace and voting in elections have proved it was a documentary. Its so accurate I now believe Ford Prefect's prognosis and am trying to build an electronic thumb to hitchhike off the planet.
@Dominic Keefe - Do you plan to market it? ^_^
Very true, the marketing girls are usually cute though. Also got that right!
Love it 😂
"I've been trying to teach the cavemen how to play Scrabble but it's very hard work. The only word they know is "grunt" and they can't spell it."
Man I loved that part from the book. Their home planet sent their useless people, like hair dressers and phone sanitizers, in a ship promising the leaders and workers would be following on their own ships to colonize a new world. They obviously never followed and lived rich and fulfilling lives until they were killed by a plague started by a dirty telephone.
I love how they also killed off the native intelligent life and evolved into modern humans, really great satire
@@pluspens2134 No that isn't what happened. They failed and the native life flourished but it screwed up the results on the question of the life the universe and everything.
@@olstar18 Hey! Is the show Avenue 5 not ripping this book off?
@@badcad641 Never heard of avenue 5.
@@olstar18 new show with a bunch of twits in space. Seems alright, Douglas has been a huge inspiration for a lot of people
Amazing how the whole point of showing these people is asserting how necessary they are to society, despite how useless they seem, given how their society collapsed as soon as they were gone.
Point is why consider a Phone Sanitizer as useless as a Marketer?
Suspect the "productive" part of the home planet weren't nearly as smart as they considered themselves (as stupid as the banished). Basically it's a watered down Thanos approach.
It's at once relatable yet impartial. We all feel those sorts of positions seem rather useless or unimportant in the grand scheme of things, and it pokes fun at that, but at the same time acknowledges of course they do have importance, because without them, the rest of society fell apart.
People who could not clean their own phones...
Perhaps they didn't send enough
God, imagine if Adams had known about the “stars” of TikTok, Instagram, UA-cam and reality TV!
In comparison, management consultants and phone booth hygienists start to look positively invaluable!
Phone booth hygienists WERE invaluable, not recognizing that is why the rest of the Golgafrinchans died off.
@@SpeckleKen You missed the part where they all died from a disease contracted from a dirty telephone.
@@kerryedavis During the COVID pandemic, they would have been immensely invaluable!
@@david2869apparently they would have done no good at all. That virus is aerosolized respiratory and not transmitted easily by contact. Hand sanitizing, lysoling groceries, wearing the same cheap disposable mask repeatedly did absolutely nothing.
The NHS, CDC, WHO were the telephone sanitizers of the early 2020s and NIH, Wuhan and EcoAlliance were burning down the forests to increase the apparent value of nothing.
DA essentially predicted the smartphone accessing Wikipedia via Google. Who's to say that he didn't also know about the rise of the social media influencer?
How can you have money, if none of you actually produces anything?
.....Ah the eternal mystery of the urban sophisticate.
Has anyone else noticed how the wealthiest are the ones who physically produce the least?
@@wcsxwcsx Do you define productivity purely as tangible?
@Ima Pseudonym but that is still beyond the skill of hairdressers, advertising executives and phone sanitizers.
@@DaveDexterMusic I pretty much do.
I love the dignified economic discussion of the fiscal situation of the "leaf" as legal tender. Bit of an inflation problem, so we're going to burn down all the forests.
Douglas Adams made The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy into the most original SF-comedy of its time. Especially by proving that SF-comedies too, like all our SF genres, can always have many vital messages.
T McKenna stated that Scifi was a Gateway drug. This one has had me thinking and laughing since 1978. Thanks Douglas and the BBC.
The living computer was actually thrown off by the introduction of these people. It turned out that what we thought we evolved from was totally wrong.
They were basically a virus that corrupted the whole thing.
Which is why when Arthur tries to get the meaning of 42 from the Scrabble letters, it is "What is 6 x 9?" Total nonsense, because the program had been running with these idiots by mistake.
Who’s watching this during 2020 & the COVID-19 pandemic ... and wondering if we’ve sent off all the telephone sanitizers?
2021 actually. We could have done with some telephone sanitizers these last 1 1/2 years.
We need more management executives and health experts!
Now at the end of 2022, it is apparent that we had.
No, the the telephone sanitisers were put in charge of public health
Bat lab sanitisers.
What I love about Douglas Adams is that the works are all good in their entirety, but they also contain little gems like these, some portions are just humorous and philosophical genius.
He wasn't above criticising the British Shoe Corporation (a Government monopoly, to all intents and purposes) which had decided feet come in standard sizes so bought up most of Oxford Street to sell exactly the same cardboard in different coloured boxes. If (like him) you didn't have standard feet, you'd had it, so he went completely over the top portraying the economic wasteland resulting, for an entire episode The actual outcome was they were all bought out by American candy stores laundering drug money. I'm pretty sure that was the finest example yet of life imitating art.
I turn to this more often in these days as an example of where we are going
When I was reading this part in the book I always liked to imagine Patrick Stewart as the captain of the spaceship just sitting in the bubble bath
"afterall, one's never alone with a rubber duck"... imagining Patrick Stewart saying that in a bath is stuff of legend.
"Make it soapy".
Engage... the bubble machine.
Why do I get the feeling William Shanter would be even funnier in that role?
@@jpjude68 Passs US Another GIN NUMBER 1 ...LOL🏆😂🐨
Finnish radio theather made a play based on these books/radio show back in the day. This was always my favorite part. Ford is so frustrated and angry and these Golgafrinchans are so obnoxous. That and how narrator explains who Golgafrinchans and great poets of arium are lol
And the more evidence I see, the more I am convinced that the entire human race, regardless of ethnicity, is descended from the Golgafrinchans!
@@Roy-gi5ul True, story about golgafrinchans was not an exaggeration
My God it's happened.
We should all do well to remember how much of a joke we all are
Know thyself and laugh out loud.
I read the books first, and it's honestly creepy how similar Ford is to how I imagined him. Like when it describes his almost mad grin... The actor does it perfectly and it's honestly my favourite part of any given episode. Apart from Marvin of course
SO much better than that movie...
@@kerryedavis 10000%
That's because the books came out second, after the original radio series, and the tv show came out very shortly after that. This mini-series in the early 80s is a lot closer to Douglas Adams' vision than the later movie.
@@UnchainedEruption I know (I’ve read around Douglas Adams’ works endlessly) but it’s hard for actors to properly enact the vision of the writers & directors even if they’re there on set with them. I was just commenting on the actor’s ability to both interpret and enact the character in the same way that Douglas Adams envisioned
This is actual footage of the Meetings taking place in Brussels today.
Although its a satirical take on disaster, it is honestly a very poignant ending in terms of story.
I much prefer the original version here rather than the recent (ish) film. The film tried too hard.
The film didn't try at all.
@@stephen300o6 Yeah - i would agree, to me it;s as if they cut out most of the jokes, especially annoyed they cut out the one in the airlock about listening to his mother. Not esp funny but i liked it
The film was a huge disappointment to me. They should have followed the TV series style with updated tech but they changed pretty well everything.
I can enjoy the film but they tried to water it down for mass appeal and it's just not that kind of story.
@@AlmostEthical - Gee, I wonder who wrote the script? Hmmmm? Anyone we know?
these are basically the segment whom we today call "the professional managerial class"
the best sketch I've seen about Brexit so far
exactly what I was thinking
@@zandorius know nothing
that's brilliant :)
It's on a grander scale than that, dear boy.
I had never seen this, I did hear it as a radio play too many decades ago to recall. But always remembered the Telephone Sanitizer and the Ding Kidneys quote.
Wow you heard the original radio broadcast? That was back in the late 70s.
David Dixon would have made a superb Doctor Who and Beth Porter (the Marketing Girl in this clip) would have been promising as a TARDIS companion.
I thought so too! It so obvious a choice, I was surprised it didn't happen. He would have made a better "McCoy" doctor!
NZ TV fgg
NZ TV bhj
NZ TV y+
YES! Yesyesyesyesyes
Did you know the captain is Mr. Deltoid from A Clockwork Orange.
And in the radio play he was voiced by the actor who played the Government Minister, Frederick.
Shit I noticed that. and i've watched both of these for years.
Malcolm Mcdowell at least should have played Slartibartfast in the dreaded 2005 film if they were that desperate to get a big veteran actor.
Yes. The first time I saw A Clockwork Orange, I immediately recognized him. RIP Aubrey Morris.
Aubrey Morris.
“Thank you. Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich. [...]
"But we have also," continued the management consultant, "run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying on ship's peanut." [...]
"So in order to obviate this problem," he continued, "and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and...er, burn down all the forests. I think you'll all agree that's a sensible move under the circumstances.”
The thing is what the management consultant was describing was not fiscal policy, which involves taxation and spending; rather it involves monetary policy, which involves the size of the money supply.
And we
descended from those people. Explains why we are so obsessed with money and why we detroy our
environment for that reason.
Every issue of The Economist in a nutshell.
The best book to live by
I hate to be 'that guy', but it's 'Golgafrinchans'. The planet they come from is Golgafrincham. The species is Golgafrinchan.
Johannes Morgaine Thanks for letting me know. I’ve edited my entry to reflect this.
@@collegeman1988 That's the kind of blooper you'll make when you rely on the Encyclopedia Galactica inside of the Guide....
All those Golgafrinchans out there who are deeply offended...
@@anonUK Aren't we all Golgafrinchans?
I mean that literally, not figuratively.
I don’t think you hate to be that guy, I think you probably enjoy it
Great Dustbunnies of Galaxathon 6! They're us. They're the human race, and we get wiped out by Vogons. Man, that's nuts.
You mean some of us could very well be descendants of these half brained idiots?!
+Daniel waugh
Worse. ALL OF US. Oh well, at some of us learned some sense over 2 million years. Isn't that right, President Trump?
_That's a big, yuu-ge YES!_
Oooh, god! I feel like I'm going to faint.
I highly recommend reading the book, because it doesn't play out quite like you think.
excellent documentary.
You know, I always thought the Ford from the radio show sounded much better than the one from this tv show, but here his reactions I quite like. Maybe it's because his somewhat tired voice really fits the situation well.
(this Ford) was always my favourite Ford. The show seems to hang around his weird, slightly off-key combination of enthusiasm, tired cynicism and nonplussed disbelief.
@@philledwith8307 the radio show ford is way better as an actor. dixon is very flat. he has the perfect looks for ford but not the intonation.
also Douglas was very unhappy they didn't cast Geffrey Perkins
@@zarni000 Geoffrey McGivern. Later the insane director in Toast of London and currently the obnoxious neighbour in Ghosts.
@@zacmumblethunder7466 right
I was at work one day and a man from a specialist company came in and started cleaning my keyboard and phone. I started laughing and had to walk away. When he had finished he said I get that a lot
I love this clip but you really need Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" to really send it home.
Ha! She got Ford there on what colour the "wheel" should be.
Yeah, but they can't even get the shape right lol
Well, what colour SHOULD it be?! 😅
I like the captain from the radio version. The legend David Jason :)
Yep a real star.
I learned the other day that Beth Porter, who plays the Marketing Lady here, passed away last year. RIP
She was lovely.
What an amazing film, far ahead of it's time. One of my all time favourites.
The film was rubbish! The books and the BBC serials (television AND radio) were brilliant
It’s like Douglas Adams knew what the best AI’s were going to say !
I’ve just seen a bit of the new Syfy series “The Ark” and it made me think of this. The characters on “The Ark” make this lot look like geniuses.
Sci-fi always tells us more about the time it was written in than the future. In this episode, the hippie crashes into the 80s.
I used to laugh at this.. Right now.. I do not know if I should feel uneasy that Douglas was so right about mankind there.
Say what you want, but this is exactly how it happened.
Shame to cut the scene there - the captain adds:
"Well, just got time for another bath...."
First the whole silliness while they were still on the way, totally believing the 'very good reasons' for them being sent first, and this proves that was a good move (apart from the people staying behing dying from infected phone earpieces)
While I missed these in television, I clearly remember them from the book.
That's pretty generous actually, if mankind has 2 million years. We have only been around for a few tens of thousands so far.
The BBC in those days was renowned for its cheap productions - the audio original gave us better pictures. That was broadcast at Easter 1978, when I was deep in undergrad finals revision, at a very scientific university - where the professor of laser was trying to hologram an X-wing fighter for George Lucas. You can imagine how work stopped!
I assume the smart humans are descendants of the cavemen.
Smart humans?
This is my all time favourite show
This explains much.
3:11 two guys in the background trying and failing to invent the wheel.
Hi, hi, hi, Mr. Deltoid! Funny surprise seeing you here...
BBC recounting past glories by uploading past glories to UA-cam. Oh, how far it is fallen!
Huge fan of the books and original BBC series. Why hasn’t this been rebooted!? great source material as long as you keep the idiots that destroyed Doctor Who away from it....
@PlanetDisco - Nobody "destroyed" "Doctor Who". Don't be a "Who" luddite!
Well, that's exactly who'll get a hold of it. All the great insults will be removed, either Ford or Arthur or both will be women, and the diversity boxes must be checked. And they'll get writers who'll think they're funnier and smarter than Adams to change it unrecognizably. Look at what happened to Blandings
Let it be. It's a thing of its era. Creators today wouldn't get it. They would, as you said, assuredly screw it up. They didn't even quite get it in the early 2000s with the movie. In the era of woke? Yeah...best leave it out of their hands.
@@UnchainedEruption sigh. Thanks for reminding me. I so wanted the movie to be good. It’s like they sat down and deliberately removed everything funny from the books, and they couldn’t even get Zaphods heads right ffs
We have found how the real original human beings arrived not evolved or created.
we had a good run
I would like to think this is a joke.....but the reality of the truth of what we are negates the humor
The Golgafrinchams may have become extinct but their ideas have survived in today's Capitalism, but in a far less cosy form. For their society is mirrored in our present one uncannily.
(Posted by Rick Pickell) Not sure if this was a movie scene or a current events documentary??
Beth Porter, the Marketing Girl died in August 2023.
So sad. Before this, I remember her in the 'Rock Follies of 77' series.
How is this not the whole of the "Don't Look Up" movie?
This is the bitcoin situation btw.
The fiscal guy is mister Cholmondeley Warner.
Jon Glover. One of the most beautiful voices ever to be broadcast
2 million years from then, earthlings will had formed the Roman empire.
It isn't easy being a cop.
Was the cop related to Michael Mckeon who played Lenny on Laverne and Shirley
The other one always reminds me of William Daniels (St. Elsewhere, the car voice on Knight Rider...).
When the dvd first came out they released all the outtakes and rated the dvd all ages/g. They forgot to check the outtakes, full of bad language :P
In the book they were "Golgafrinchans". No 'm' at the end.
Deep thought wasn’t so smart. Why didn’t it anticipate the arrival of the Golgafrinches?
is that Stanis Baraleon??
This video should have been titled, "The Liberal Party of Canada: Behind The Scenes".
Starlords weapon.
Wow, Duncan from Babylon 5
1:14 - That's who Jacob Rees-Mogg reminds me of. Even sounds exactly like him.
ua-cam.com/video/DF3OQkWEyZA/v-deo.html
Never knew Jacob Greasy-Smug was in this (1:10)
this is what sending all the lefties off to colonize mars would be like .
@Travis Eastough - Don't forget that old political saying, "If you want to live like a Republican, then vote for a Democrat." As true today as when it was fist coined.
My own mental image of Ford Prefect looks like David Dixon but sounds like Geoffrey McGivern - I thought they were both wonderful in the role. HHGTTG is absolutely in my DNA but I must register my incredible distaste for the "new" one... As if DA hadn't made his intentions to kill off the characters once and for all crystal clear (spoiler: they were all lasered to death by the Grebulons).
And their species went extinct because they got rid of janitorial workers.
David Dixon sounds like Anthony Sher.
Sounds like Kier Starmer's government.
"i have declared war on the next continent"
wait what?
The miniseries ended when the computer got shot up by the guards
what is this!?!?!
@crucicade - This is from "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", the second book of the "Hitchhiker..." series. If you liked the 1st book, read them all; I bet you will enjoy them. (Be aware that every iteration of the stories differs from each other - books, radio, TV, movie - Adams continued to change things every time.)
This, right here, is why I prefer the 2005 movie. These Golgafrinchams are insufferable, and this ending is such a downer.
2:15 - is crypto currency summed up....lol
Still burning the trees, and the coal, and the oil. Really sound fiscal policy but probably not so clever for the long term survival of the human species. To end on a positive we can take satisfaction in the knowledge we will take most other species with us, with the possible exception of perhaps some reptiles and the cockroaches.
@Yendorl1 - And tardigrades and COVID-19
i read all 5 books
We watched this recently & some of the dialogue polarized us with inner meanings.
_"Well have I got news for you.. it doesn't matter a feted Dingo's Kidneys what you from now on; burn down the forests. Anything. It won't make a scrap of difference. because, you see.. I've seen your future. 2 million years is all you've got. And that is it. At the end of that time your race shall be _*_DEAD_*_ .. _*_GONE._*_ And good riddance. Remember that - 2 million years."_
I was literally fighting back tears during the last episode & as a climate Scientist I see that we have been reflecting this feeling of inevitability through art for years.
Devastating dialogue that has so greater meaning now. Adams was a genius. Thank you for uploading this. It is a warning in the disguise of fiction.
As a climate 'scientist' you would definitely be on this ark.
@@LTPottenger Your slander is of no interest to me. The 6th great extinction event is no laughing matter. But I get that you would rather hide away from it in insults, derision & bot-like trolling.
@@calderarecords A 'scientist' who never took a math class in his phoney nonsense degree lol
@@LTPottenger that comment implicates that according to a math class you took in your sensical degree climate change isn't happenin. Or is happening but isn't human's fault. Or is human's fault but there's no viable solution. Or there's a viable solution but the faster the polar bears die the better.
so, they landed in what became america, obviously.
The ending there is just perfect after 4 minutes of nothing but truth about how stupid humans are.
The biggest joke Is the comment section.
God, you are like golgafrinchans xddd conservatives throwing shit to liberals, liberals to conservatives, to snowflakes, to modern society
Jokes on you, you got this joke to another level, you Made this a metarefference
It's no like thats gonna end the climatic change or something
Oh mighty Zawkwan. Can someone help me spell that last bit and tell me who it is?
@daro2096 ...although he does appear a little confused when he pops up at the Restaurant at the end of the Universe...
I think it's Zarquan
read the books.
@@eveltyler7688 I have read all the books, but it's been a long time.
@@pschroeter1 ...May the holy prophet Zarquon (who finally returned 30 seconds before the end of the universe in the middle of Max Quordlepleen's show) forgive you and never tell you to 'Zark Off' like those vulgarian Vogns would...
At least they aren't half Cylon.
This is a parody of Starmer and Rayner.
So. La. T. Don't panic
.. New Zealand after five+ years of the Labour Party government.
They sound very much like “renewable energy” advocates.
Not in the least. Adams was very much aware of ecological problems and issues. Renewable energy is essential to halt or slow global warming. His serious efforts were directed to animal conservation
No such thing as man made global warming. No valid physics to underpin the Greenhouse Effect that it’s based upon. Worse, so called renewable energy is worse for the environment than “fossil” fuels and doesn’t do diddly squat for “Carbon emissions”. Which is good because Carbon Dioxide emissions are the most beneficial side effect of using fossil fuels that anyone could ever imagine. If you want to save the planet, rid the planet of your ignorance.
@@stephenwells1559 Can you please explain a little bit further how is fossil fuel the best out of every other kind of energy source because of CO2 emissions?
that's still to long to Idiots about
Jimmy mink
Strange chap.