RED HITCHHIKER...so to speak.....

[Flangepart]

I was listening to a a cd of The Eagles the other day...and as i listened to "Journey of the Sorcerer", naturaly, i started quoteing from "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy".
At some point...i visualised the gang...Arther Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Bebbelbrox, Trillian, and Marvin the Paranoid Android, walking down a hallway.
And going the other way, was the cast of Red Dwarf!
Dave Lister, Cat, Arther J. Rimmer, Kachansky, and Kryton.
Do you see the parallels here?

WHAT A CROSSOVER!

If the two groups ever had to share a ship together....say, The Dwarfers Star Bug runs into the Heart of Gold....Oh...My...God....Holly Vs. Eddie the shipboard computer!
Chain reaction!

You thought the Odd Couple was a blast!
Imagin...
Dave Lister : Zaphod Bebbelbrox.
Cat : Ford Perfect.
Kachansky : Trillian.
Arther Rimmer : Arther Dent.
Kryton : Marvin.
Holly : Eddie.

The resaulting disruption would cause galatic chaos!

Okey, you weirdos...tell me this could not be comedy gold...I dare ya!

[Yaddo42]

Or you could get a watered down version of both source materials, like in many crossovers.

Besides after the fifth "Hitchhiker" book I lost faith in Douglas Adams as a storyteller. He may have had his writer's block during the later part of his life for a reason.

Were alcohol or other......um, "substances" involved during this Eagles listening session? I'd like to see what you come up with while listening to some of the albums I have.

[Fearless Freep]

Sorry but I don't think it would work.  *most* of the characters are too narscistic and/or self centered to really care much about each other.  Lister and Zaphod?  What would they talk about?  They're each too self aborbed.  Honestly, the Hitchhiker crew sees things much stranger and more exotic then the Red Dwarf crew on a regular basis and the Red Dwarf set would just be happy to b e back in civilization.

The Hitchhiker humour is really based mre on 'the absurdity of life'; taking basic cultural ingrained premises out to an absurd degree.  Red Drawf humour s about a couple of interesting characters put into strange sci-fi settings and letting the personalities bounce of the environment.  It's hard to see how either would fit in the other's universe