Zaphod Beeblebrox

A lot of people really liked that book.

But anyway, the character's name was Zaphod Beeblebrox.

I had to write that down.

And if you don't remember the book or never read it, he became president of the galaxy.

Doesn't that sound fantastic? As opposed to being run like a dictatorship...

Jenny tweets, help us, Zaphod.

Yeah, what have you got to say for yourself, Zaphod?

So obviously, but I know suddenly, but obviously...

I couldn't have said it better myself.

I've been like, that's the twin thing, but I don't know how.

Is it like Siamese twins? Is it Zaphod Beeblebrox? What are we doing? Two-headed is apparently the form of twin-edness that we're going with for that guy.

Those guys.

And they didn't start out that way.

And from there, the cast just spirals into total chaos.

You have Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed president of the galaxy.

You have Trillian.

You have Slartibartfast, the guy who literally designed the fjords of Norway.

Let's talk about the romance mandate, the superfluous love triangle, because the book handles this so differently.

In the book, Arthur chats up Trillian at a party on Earth, but the alien Zaphod Beeblebrox swoops in and takes her away to space.

And it's never mentioned again.

Mm-hmm.

It's like cramming a square peg into a round hole.

Hollywood demands a romance even if it's totally dead on arrival.

Zaphod is rewritten from a chaotic force of nature into just a possessive, jealous jerk.

And it makes Arthur wonder if Trillian is the one instead of, you know, pondering the deep philosophical questions of the universe while his planet was just destroyed.

Ford is the Doctor.

Zaphod is, you know, it's the kind of smart-ass foil and on and on it goes.

It felt like it lived in the same place.

It isn't Doctor Who, but it is Doctor Who.

You'll probably remember better.

And there was a brilliant plot point in there that they dropped.

It was an earlier draft, which I really liked, which was, it explained what Zaphod was doing on Earth at the party.

And in that script, The DJ suddenly goes, some bastards nicked all my records.

Ford Prefect gets a slightly more urgent tilt.

Zaphod Beeblebrox gets a slicker, more arrogant tilt.

And then there is Marvin, the paranoid android.

Marvin is so incredibly easy to get wrong in audio.

I don't think it's dirty pool to make the connection that, you know, pick the Democrat.

Kathy Hochul is endorsed by, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or certainly, give me the names of the congresspeople from New York City that Zaphod mad money.

endorsed, all these socialists, Abdul El-Sayed.

Where are the ads saying, Abdul El-Sayed, endorsed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who hangs people in town square for speaking out against the government? It's in the news stories and more we're learning about this Dubai air situation.