The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Difference between revisions

** An odd example of this trope. While the Earth is important to the mices' plans, what ''are'' those plans? To go on the talk show circuit and get rich. The only version of the Ultimate Question we learn is nonsense. When another character learned universal Truth by another method, it [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|drives some people mad]], but has more to do with frogs than universal epiphanies and isn't mentioned again in any of the following books. There is a Ruler of the Universe, and he doesn't live on Earth. All things considered, Earth is more important to the universe in this series than it seems in [[Real Life]], but it's still an absurd, farcical, nearly [[Crapsack World|crapsack]] universe full of [[Shaggy Dog Story|Shaggy Dog Stories]], so nothing is all that important.