I knew about the video game, but I decided to not include it since, technically, it follows a different plot.

The books and the original radio series diverge pretty wildly, too -- around Magrathea, if I remember right. I believe DNA once expressed some pride over the fact that every single adaptation had a different plot.

There's also a role-playing pubcrawl.

Oh, and I think there's a record in there somewhere before the TV show as well, that was a condensed version of the radio show. I could look it up but I'd have to, um, walk down a hallway. Past the bedroom. Where sleep is waiting to leap at me.

Hey Nova - thanks! I was able to view it through Quicktime at home before I saw your link. Bill Cosby is the executive producer btw.

...I decided to not include it since, technically, it follows a different plot.

But they almost all follow different plots. The radio series differs from the books, certainly. The tv series was largely based on the books, though of necessity condensed. No idea how the film will go.

Broadway Musical!

Oh great - now I'm envisioning Andrew Lloyd Webber's HITCHIKER'S GUIDE

We'll edit that "to the galaxy" right out of the title.

It has also been a text game, though I don't know how official that version was...

[eta: And clearly, if it is to be a Broadway Musical, it must be called Don't Panic!]

The Infocom game, Jessica?

You can play the HHGttG text adventure here: [link]

Yes, that's the one! I was completely pathetic at it.

[eta: And clearly, if it is to be a Broadway Musical, it must be called Don't Panic!]

Love it. Alternatively: Galaxy! (or is that too science-y?)

I finally saw The Big Lebowski and found it quite funny indeed. Not as hysterically funny as the people in the room who had clearly already seen it (as you say, it's a grower), but very funny. I like how the plot meanders but builds: the movie is well paced by virtue of each plot point's being a direct result of the previous plot point.