Vogon Poetry (the Books)

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) Douglas Adams

"Oh freddled gruntbuggly..." he began. Spasms wracked Ford's body--this was worse than even he'd been prepared for.

"?...thy micturations are to me/As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee."

"Aaaaaaarggggghhhhhh!" went Ford Prefect, wrenching his head back as lumps of pain thumped through it. He could dimly see beside him Arthur lolling and rolling in his seat. He clenched his teeth.

"Groop I implore thee," continued the merciless Vogon, "my foonting turlingdromes."

His voice was rising to a horrible pitch of impassioned stridency. "And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,/ Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!" (Adams, pg. 59)

Vogon Poetry (TV series)

McLuhan's Tetrad.

Vogon Poetry in TV Series

What is most remembered about the television series version is the animation. Rumored to be an early example of computer technology, the animation was actually created frame by frame, like a cartoon. (pg. 198, Webb)

Another example:

Babble Fish

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Criticism of cost of TV series:

[For the original radio series] There were no imaginative or budgetary constraints...such freedom does not apply to a visual medium. So Douglas couldn't just adapt the radio scripts; he had to re-imagine the whole adventure visually. (Webb, pg. 191)

Vogon Poetry (BBC version)

Here the cast of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) record a scene for the original radio series.

Vogon Poetry

Vogon Poetry is the third worst poetry in the universe. Here the Book (played by Peter Jones) details the top three worst poetry and narrates the predicament that the heroes of the tale, Ford Prefect (Geoffrey McGivern) and Arthur Dent (Simon Jones) have found themselves in: either get shot out the airlock into space or tell the Vogon what they thought of his poetry.