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''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'' is the second book in the [[Trilogy Creep|increasingly inaccurately-named]] ''[[The
Following directly after the events of ''[[The
Instead, our heroes go out to lunch at "the nearest place to eat" -- which turns out to be the luxurious Milliways, the titular restaurant, where diners can enjoy witnessing the destruction of all creation while being treated by [[Let's Meet the Meat|food that literally begs to be eaten]] and entertained by the stylings of stand-up comedian Max Quordlepleen. Following an incident involving a dead rock star's high-class stunt spaceship and a rather large sun, Arthur and Ford end up teleported onto a massive space ark full of telephone sanitation engineers (among other middlebrow professions) two million years into the past... while Zaphod and Trillian end up right back where they started.
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In the end, Zarniwoop drags Zaphod and Trillian along with him to meet the man who rules the universe... and gets an unpleasant shock when he finds out what they're like. And Arthur and Ford find themselves stranded on a prehistoric Earth, where the true and shocking origins of the human species -- and the final outcome of the program to find the Ultimate Question -- are gradually revealed to them.
Preceded by ''[[The
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* [[Begone Bribe]]: There's a violinist in Milliways who Zaphod and Ford get rid of like this. He leaves and goes over to bother Arthur and Trillian.
* [[Boggles the Mind]]: [[Invoked Trope]] by Arthur, when he pulls out Scrabble tiles at random in an attempt to reveal the Ultimate Question from his subconscious, and reveals "{{spoiler|WHATDOYOUGETIFYOUMULTIPLYSIXBYNINE}}".
* [[Conditioned to Accept Horror]]: The sentient food at the titular restaurant.
* [[Cool Starship]]: The Milliways' parking lot is ''packed'' with them. Naturally, our heroes pick the one that's got a date with a ''[[Hurl It Into the Sun|solar flare]]''...
* [[Epic Fail]]: Arthurs attemept to get the drink replicator to make a decent cup of tea causes the ship to shut itself down just to figure it out, nearly getting the crew killed.
* [[Hurl It Into the Sun]] - The fate our motley crew is threatened with after space-jacking Desiato's ship.
* [[It's All About Me]] - The Total Perspective Vortex confirms Zaphod's narcissism... because he's inside a virtual universe that does, in fact, center around him.
* [[Let's Meet the Meat]] - [[Trope Namer]]. A genetically-engineered bovine alien at the titular restaurant offers itself as food for Milliways's patrons.
* [[Literal
* [[Meanwhile in
* [[Norse Mythology]] - A group of small Asgardian deities dines at Milliways, marking the start of the Adams-verse's flirtation with ancient Scandinavia.
* [[Only Mostly Dead]] - Hotblack Desiato.
* [[Planning
* [[Put Off Their Food]]: During the dinner at Milliways, Arthur initially orders a steak, changes to a salad when he finds out what the steak comes from, and eventually settles for a glass of water.
* [[The Slow Path]]: Marvin, who parks cars on Frogstar B for 567,000,000,000 years.
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