# What did you bring with you to the Hitchhikers Guide movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 4, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414 "2005-05-04T18:20:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/1 "2005-05-04T18:20:15Z")
On the first viewing, i forgot my towel (left it in the car, but at least i knew where it was…) the second viewing, i brought some HHGTTG-approved snacks with me… a bottle of tea some Swedish Candy Fish (So long and Thanks…) and a Heath Toffee candy bar this time, i’m tempted to smuggle in some Sushi, but it’s not really _british_ per-se… ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/2 "2005-05-04T18:21:32Z")
I went in my pajamas and bathrobe. I was applauded (although my wife was mortified :)). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/3 "2005-05-04T18:23:52Z")
I haven’t seen it yet, but thanks for the ideas. I read the book in 1982. Shortly after that, I had some iron-on letters put onto a white towel: **DON’T PANIC** I still have it, of course; and I know where it is. Maybe I should bring it with me? ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/4 "2005-05-04T18:39:47Z")
No towel, but I took **OhFace** with me. ---
**Author:** ![EmeraldGrue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dc4da7/32.png) [@EmeraldGrue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmeraldGrue)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/5 "2005-05-04T18:42:49Z")
Towel, displayed prominently. My friends and I seemed to be the only ones in the theatre who brought them, though…☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/6 "2005-05-04T18:44:25Z")
When I go to HHGTTG, hopefully next week, I will bring a towel and think of you all kindly. 😉 Don’t panic! ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/7 "2005-05-04T18:58:48Z")
Brought a white towel, with various bits dyed to look like Roosta’s, as detailed in _The Restaurant at the End of the Universe_. > [@](#): > > `Here, suck this,'' said Roosta, offering Zaphod his towel. Zaphod stared at him as if he expected a cuckoo to leap out of his forehead on a small spring. `It’s soaked in nutrients,’’ explained Roosta. > `What are you, a messy eater or something?'' said Zaphod. `The yellow stripes are high in protein, the green ones have vitamin B and C complexes, the little pink flowers contain wheatgerm extracts.’’ > > Zaphod took and looked at it in amazement. > ‘What are the brown stains?’’ he asked. > `Bar-B-Q sauce,'' said Roosta, `for when I get sick of wheatgerm.’’ > > Zaphod sniffed it doubtfully. > > Even more doubtfully, he sucked a corner. He spat it out again. > `Ugh,'' he stated. `Yes,’’ said Roosta, `when I've had to suck that end I usually need to suck the other end a bit too.'' `Why,’’ asked Zaphod suspiciously, `what's in that?'' `Anti-depressants,’’ said Roosta. Couldn’t pull off pink flowers, so I just made pink splotches. ---
**Author:** ![Vevila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@Vevila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vevila)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/8 "2005-05-04T20:07:06Z")
I brought a towel, displayed prominently around my neck. A nice gentleman in the lobby - also with a towel - offered me a Babel fish (swedish candy fish) when he saw me with the towel 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/9 "2005-05-04T20:40:38Z")
I brought a towel with me when I saw it for the second time at midnight in Orlando. I suppose about a dozen other people had towels as well, and one guy was dressed in a bath robe. ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/10 "2005-05-04T20:48:35Z")
Why do I get the feeling that this is going to go down as another Rocky Horror-type phenomenon? ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/11 "2005-05-04T20:57:08Z")
I took my black bath towel with me. A friend of mine then demonstrated one of the reasons why it is so useful to have a towel with you wherever you go - the restroom has no paper towels, so after he washed his hands he used my towel. I was the _only person_ at the theater I went to that had a towel. I got many strange looks. Sad, I tell you. ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/12 "2005-05-04T21:03:20Z")
I haven’t had a change to see HHG yet (got finals and stuff to worry about). When I go, I will definitely bring a towel. Maybe I’ll also bring my mom’s TI-92 graphing calculator–it always looked like the Guide to me. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/13 "2005-05-04T21:14:02Z")
Dried fish. 😃 So long!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mycroft\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_H)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/14 "2005-05-04T21:25:22Z")
I brought my copy of the original paperback _Hitchhikers Guide_ that I bought in York in 1979. I thought it deserved to be there. (Was it first released in England in paperback, or in hardcover? I can’t find hardcover listed on ABE Books.) I wish I had thought of Swedish Fish. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/15 "2005-05-04T21:28:40Z")
I brought my girlfriend, she brought her daughter who came with her boyfriend. Amusingly, her daughter had a dose of the cold and was wrapped up in a loose knit coat then forgot to change out of her slippers so she inadvertantly came appropriately dressed 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/16 "2005-05-04T22:30:13Z")
I didn’t bring anything. However, I did go away with a copy of _The Deeper Meaning of Liff_ I won in a trivia contest, two flat yellow foam Babelfish, and a ticket that they forgot to rip. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/17 "2005-05-04T23:24:26Z")
I just took Ardred, but there were only ten other people in the theater, so I definitely would’ve felt silly with a towel. Two of the ten left about halfway through, apparently disgusted. I was disgusted by the guy sitting in the chair behind me and to the left who took his shoes off and put his feet on the back of the chair next to me. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/18 "2005-05-04T23:41:57Z")
😕 Is there somewhere that will explain what the hell all of you are talking about? Towel? Swedish fish? Bathrobe? In a movie theater? 😃 [/\*Hitchiker’s Guide \* virgin] ---
**Author:** ![Atheist\_Princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Atheist\_Princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atheist_Princess)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/19 "2005-05-05T00:22:04Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > 😕 > Is there somewhere that will explain what the hell all of you are talking about? > > Towel? Swedish fish? Bathrobe? In a movie theater? > > 😃 [/\*Hitchiker’s Guide \* virgin] I second this notion…☹ ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414/20 "2005-05-05T00:31:03Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > 😕 > Is there somewhere that will explain what the hell all of you are talking about? > > Towel? Swedish fish? Bathrobe? In a movie theater? > > 😃 [/\*Hitchiker’s Guide \* virgin] Yes, I believe you can buy a Guide book… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-bring-with-you-to-the-hitchhikers-guide-movie/302414.md?page=2)