"Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea" is one of the most brilliant turns of phrase in the entire canon IMO. It's up there with the Vogon ships "which hung in the air exactly the same way that bricks don't."
@Spoomis
5 жыл бұрын
So, is it tea, or isn't it?😂
@NZBigfoot
5 жыл бұрын
its a little bit like tea.. but mostly not.
@wrybread
5 жыл бұрын
"More a sort of 'aprev vis'"
@artistwithouttalent
4 жыл бұрын
@@Spoomis Probably coffee.
@playerwon5660
4 жыл бұрын
“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.” my personal fav
@Danilego
6 жыл бұрын
The best part is when they start getting attacked by Vogon ships and the ship can’t react because all of it’s computing power was focused on the tea conundrum
@time4chai995
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@turtleanton6539
4 ай бұрын
Yeees🎉
@Sommer57
10 жыл бұрын
I wish the entire series could be animated this way! It's just the way I pictured it!
@jocelynhanna9395
9 жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh!! Me too!!!!!
@MKtheinstrumentalist
8 жыл бұрын
+Sommer57 We need to raise a kickstarter to pay this frood to actually make the whole thing. Like seriously, do it. Now. ;-D
@Sommer57
8 жыл бұрын
MKtheinstrumentalist Now there's a hoopy idea! You really know where your towel is!
@jrichardomg415
8 жыл бұрын
+Sommer57 k
@spunkyspaz
6 жыл бұрын
Well it is generally good but why does he have 5 o'clock shadow on the outside of his ears?
@owenlewis8006
9 жыл бұрын
MacDonalds were using the advertising slogan "share and enjoy" in the UK for a while. sirrius cybernetics should sue.
@paulstanton2852
4 жыл бұрын
If it related to any of their many loathsome product offerings then it was clearly 'post-ironic'
@larrychilders6599
4 жыл бұрын
But it's almost but certainly not food
@epiendless1128
6 жыл бұрын
It just struck me how similar this is to the 11th Doctor's explanation of the Chameleon Circuit: "Every time the TARDIS materializes in a new location, within the first nanosecond of landing, it analyzes its surroundings, calculates a twelve-dimensional data map of everything within a thousand mile radius, and determines which outer shell would blend in best with the environment. And then it disguises itself as a police telephone box from 1963." It's so long since I read the books that I didn't spot the homage until now.
@link_fd1729
5 жыл бұрын
It’s amazing how many sci fi stuff references hitchhiker’s
@lyokianhitchhiker
5 жыл бұрын
I heard a theory that the reason The Doctor’s attempts to fix the Chameleon Circuit always backfire is because the TARDIS likes the police box form.
@CodeAndGin
5 жыл бұрын
@@lyokianhitchhiker also because The Doctor likes the phone box. He can't find the keyhole on the normal disguises
@lyokianhitchhiker
5 жыл бұрын
CodeAndGin Never heard that 1. The general thing that I heard is that The Doctor's TARDIS - Bear in mind that it has been established numerous times that TARDISes are not only alive, but sapient - likes the “police box” form so much that she deliberately sabotages each of the Doctor’s attempts to fix her camouflage systems for the sake of getting him to revert said attempts so she stays in the police box form.
@CodeAndGin
5 жыл бұрын
@@lyokianhitchhiker He fixed it once in his 6th incarnation, and broke it again after a day because he didnt like it
@Rawrshuga
6 жыл бұрын
It's the Internet of Mildly Annoying Things.
@tea-sus8722
4 жыл бұрын
as a programming student, this pleases me greatly
@DavidHDennis
7 жыл бұрын
I am sorry to see the punch line left out, one of the best I've heard. In the end, once it analyzes every single piece of data given, using the shipboard computer in a way that almost gets them killed, the Nutrimatic Drink Machine provides a cup of tea perfect in every particular!
@Mnnvint
4 жыл бұрын
"Because he's a stupid monkey who doesn't know better", according to Zaphod Beeblebrox the fifth.
@NoahSpurrier
Жыл бұрын
With milk squirted out of a cow?
@ysplse
8 жыл бұрын
The Universal dilemma for us English where to get a cup of tea, exacerbated by the conundrum of drinks machines never ever being remotely capable of dispensing a beverage remotely resembling tea. Ah such is life.
@zoppie
10 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of a button I once pressed. Darn thing told me not to press it again.
@inactive2286
5 жыл бұрын
Hey, at least I got my towel with me.
@tomg5187
4 жыл бұрын
isa hahaha brilliant!
@Slopmaster
Жыл бұрын
Brought to you by The Pointless Button Corporation 🤪
@Nagrachlp
6 жыл бұрын
Why does this remind me of Windows 10?
@olorcain
5 жыл бұрын
Mac is worse
@Shadowkey392
4 жыл бұрын
It doesn’t. Your thinking windows 7 or vista.
@YoniIsrael
4 жыл бұрын
@@Shadowkey392 ah Windows Vista Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Operating System
@xaenon
4 жыл бұрын
Actually, it vaguely reminds me of getting petrol/gasoline. The damned pumps have video screens of music, news, sports, and of course ads. And there's no way to shut the damned things up. I just want to fill my tank, do I REALLY have to listen to all this noise?
@davidwuhrer6704
4 жыл бұрын
It is all technology that is marketed. It's not about what people want, and it is certainly not about what people need. It is about what sells, or rather, what the marketroids think will sell. Technology can - and has - made life much easier, safee, and more comfortable. But only technology that hasn't been marketed as being better than the competing comoany's identical.product. You get a Twonky that not only collects and categorises your music and television shows for you, and pre-records what it extrapolartes to be to your liking, but also cleans the floor and doss your dishes, when all you wanted was to know the weather report.
@kpgetchell
3 жыл бұрын
The inescapable result of the "internet of everything"
@calebfuller4713
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly what I was going to say. Adams somehow foresaw the end result of Alexa, Siri, Google watching our every move and the internet of things and warned us what it would be like. Spot on. I mean, let's face it, what marketing department ISN'T a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes?
@jimmyjenkins1907
4 жыл бұрын
“AI is going to take over the world!” AI:
@laurenharvey4746
10 жыл бұрын
It must be Lipton.
@artistwithouttalent
4 жыл бұрын
No, just coffee.
@huma474
4 жыл бұрын
Those smug doors!
@DrMustacho
Жыл бұрын
This should be immortalized in stone, though im not shure how you'd keep the cup suspended mid air
@Chuck-PK
4 жыл бұрын
1:09 plus 8 or 9 frames, and there you have Brontitall's 15-mile tall marble statue "Arthur Dent Throwing the Nutrimatic Cup" complete with aforementioned Nutrimatic Cup suspended in mid-air by naught but the Power of Art.
@aliens12341
4 жыл бұрын
This is incredible It would be amazing to see the entire series done like this
@Randomyoutuber-4831
4 жыл бұрын
I think the more important question is why EVERYTHING on the ship has it's own AI
@Slopmaster
Жыл бұрын
Because the marketing team at The Sirius Cybernetics are a bunch of mindless jerks.
@liamdell6319
5 жыл бұрын
This never gets any less funny.
@moonbeast32
10 жыл бұрын
Lol. its like the perfect parable for social media! I've always heard that Sci Fi writers were "ahead of their time," but Douglas Adams was ridiculous XD
@kingkaza
Жыл бұрын
Is not really social media but all tech with gimmicks which always try to pleasure humans but thing is Arthur just a simple man who wants the most basic He don't want a talking smart kettle he just wants a kettle that boils water
@Tia-Marie
5 жыл бұрын
Inventory: No Tea was the first existential crisis I had thanks to Adams and Apple II
@2manyIce
4 жыл бұрын
Well, good thing he didn't want any coffee. That would have been the end of the ship.
@jallenwa19
5 жыл бұрын
Well bloody made!
@thatonecommentor7758
6 жыл бұрын
This is such a wonderful contribution to the series, Douglas would be proud.
@theoneandonlyNick2
6 жыл бұрын
That One Commentor that's very kind of you to say. I hope it's true
@jocelynhanna9395
9 жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh!!!! This is hilarious and totally how I pictured the radio play in my head. PLEASE MAKE MORE!!!!
@theoneandonlyNick2
9 жыл бұрын
i'm working on more right now
@Silver6003
8 жыл бұрын
+Nick Page Fantastic Have you started From Page 1 book 1 ? This was a huge part of my Teenage years from 17 onwards
@richardmattocks
4 жыл бұрын
Brilliantly done!
@treyowen9213
6 ай бұрын
Love this series so much. Simon Jones is such a delightful badass in his own way.
@aukondk
10 жыл бұрын
These are wonderful! Every time I listen to h2g2 I always imagine how it would look animated and these are spot on! Thank you!
@femmefuntime
5 жыл бұрын
*SHARE AND ENJOY*
@JDLeonard74
4 жыл бұрын
"The ventilation system, you had a go at me yesterday." 🤣
@ShamrockParticle
4 жыл бұрын
Dent would vent at it, wouldn't he?🤣
@ArcturanMegadonkey
10 жыл бұрын
This is BRILLIANT! the way the series was created is exactly how I imagine the scene in real life and you've captured this so well, you HAVE to do more!!!
@MisterEvvvSymphoenix
Жыл бұрын
Why is this universe so relentlessly passive-aggressive?
@hobbified
6 жыл бұрын
Adams was ahead of the curve on this one.
@scottmantooth8785
9 жыл бұрын
these books and this series was and still is absolute genius
@gustavgnoettgen
4 жыл бұрын
"Almost, but not entirely, unlike tea": It's fluid and steaming, that's something
@DGneoseeker1
4 жыл бұрын
Ok but if you wait until winter so is diarrhoea.
@jimdavis1782
6 жыл бұрын
Outstanding! Finally the visual complement to the original radio series. Keep up the great work Nick. I hope you take it all the way.
@TheJabbate1
4 жыл бұрын
Is there anything here that isn’t a robot? *Table Lamp*: I’m not a robot.
@ratwood4279
10 жыл бұрын
You just plain can not do enough of these videos!
@Phaota
10 жыл бұрын
Ooooo, another perfect animation job. Love the combination of the art coupled with the classic radio series. Thanks for making it. Please do more. :)
@KlunkerRider
9 жыл бұрын
Share and Enjoy
@chap666ish
8 жыл бұрын
The genius that was Douglas N Adams.
@jamesmcgee7723
3 жыл бұрын
Douglas N Adams, sounds like a rapper hehe.
@KeriRautenkranz
Ай бұрын
A nice hot cup of Advanced Tea Substitute! Just the thing to suspend an Atomic Vector Plotter in!
@jamesmcgee7723
3 жыл бұрын
1:09 someone should make a statue of that.
@randompastahandle
2 жыл бұрын
at least the door didn't try to predict when you want to open it.
@richardsorgo8600
2 жыл бұрын
1:09 And that pose inspired a revolution and a 50 mile high statue with the cup being held in place by the power of art.
@joshuabessire9169
3 жыл бұрын
It's like autocorrect took over all the appliances (and floors).
@Waaagh40KRed
2 жыл бұрын
Nutrimatic Drink Dispenser: "If you have enjoyed the experience of this drink, why not share it with your friends." Arthur Dent: "Because I want to keep them."
@Swenglish
8 жыл бұрын
The Disney movie totally butchered this whole bit, especially with introducing the lightsaber-style toaster knife without having anyone point out that the toast would be cold on one side.
@STho205
6 жыл бұрын
Tasteful Tuna. I liked the film because it was different from the TV series which was different from the books which was different from the radio series. DA wanted each incarnation to be different but the same. Crazy enough to write for Tom Baker in the 70s when only 18.
@jacks1368
4 жыл бұрын
@@STho205 The movie didn't get the feel right. The only new things it did that did feel right turned out to be things that Doug himself left on the cutting room floor (the POV gun and the things on the Vogon planet that smack you for having original thoughts).
@MacTechG4
2 жыл бұрын
That would be fairly typical of a Sirius Cybernetics product, just count yourself lucky they didn’t stick a GPP in it… ;) Of course, it could be worse, it could have been a Crapola Inc. “Talkie Toaster” (Patent Applied For…) ;)
@Swenglish
2 жыл бұрын
@@MacTechG4 Exactly, it would be typical of a Sirius Cybernetics product to have some obvious fault with it because they're so obsessed with the idea of the technology that they don't bother to figure out how to implement it in a way that's actually useful. And the idea is right there. All it needed was for the characters to instead of basically going "wow that's amazing", complain about the obvious flaw in the product, as would be typical of both Douglas Adams's writing and Arthur Dent's overall personality. There's always some problem with the technology, and Arthur Dent always focuses on the negatives. But in the movie, in that moment, there's something that realistically *would* be a problem with that technology, and yet nobody complains, even though Arthur - the known complainer - is right there in the scene. Glaringly obvious missed opportunity.
@leighsaunderson9203
6 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! Can't believe I've never come across these before!
@druhu4590
4 жыл бұрын
The drink knows what it is because it knows what it isn't.
@sirdeadlock
4 жыл бұрын
And the answer was something like "because he's a stupid human and he doesn't know any better." Whether true or not, it was enough to satisfy the machines.
@MrDuneedon
9 жыл бұрын
Still better than Starbucks.
@YossiMH
11 жыл бұрын
This is wonderful. One of my favorite scenes in the radio series, now visual.
@TheTurnipKing
4 жыл бұрын
0:54 It's pretty clear WHY it does that. The engineers overbuilt the not-tea delivery system to serve the cheapest, nastiest sludge the management could obtain, and who then gave way too much money to the marketing department to sell it, and then fucked off with a huge bonus.
@ArcadeStunfisk
3 жыл бұрын
There’s a reason the Complaints department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation spans three planets
@TheTurnipKing
3 жыл бұрын
@@ArcadeStunfisk Share And Enjoy
@kevinjokipii4260
4 жыл бұрын
Arthur's wincing shrug at the very end is everything.
@NoirpoolSea
8 жыл бұрын
Your HHGTTG animations are amazing! This one is even better than the source material! Thank you.
@PrincessNinja007
2 жыл бұрын
The most terrifying part of this is that last line, and the implication that CFA still exists in the futurr
@tomg5187
4 жыл бұрын
This is AWESOME!
@MarsFKA
3 жыл бұрын
Glad to be of service.
@turbopokey
3 жыл бұрын
Well, at least one device performed its functionality fairly close to the operating parameters desired by the occupant. Even if it's verbal interaction was dripping with the smugness of self-satisfaction.
@julienandrus4169
2 жыл бұрын
They predicted smart homes lol
@CaptainHappy21
9 жыл бұрын
This is so great!!! I'm finding it hard to believe that nobody has done this before. Great job with the animation Mate! PLEASE keep up the great work!
@time4chai995
3 жыл бұрын
My favourite part!
@LoesserOf2Evils
3 жыл бұрын
"Service with a smile."
@kaidatong1704
5 жыл бұрын
When someone tells me to calm down and it doesn’t work
@Silverwind87
3 жыл бұрын
Arthur Dent gets bullied for three and a half minutes.
@docbrown7916
5 жыл бұрын
And then Arthur goes into the fuse room and starts pulling fuses.
@Problembeing
4 жыл бұрын
This is why Douglas Adams was better than anyone else.
@charjl96
6 жыл бұрын
This is my nightmare. Machines are here to do what we want without question. I have a hard enough time tolerating my computer freezing and not keeping up with my commands, or the dryer beeping at me the first time I push the button... as if it doesn't believe I want it to do the one thing it was made to do. I can only imagine how I'd handle this.... probably tear out all its wires and stuff searching for that A.I. so I can stomp on it in front of the others to show them what happens if they question me
@blinded6502
4 жыл бұрын
I've reported your ill behaviour to my superiors. Your machine servicability has been revoked.
@KuraIthys
4 жыл бұрын
One of the most frustrating things in computing in the past 30 years have been the features that try and 'predict' what you want to do and do it before you ask. Autocorrect being one of the worst by far because if you try and revert it's 'fix' you'll go round in circles.... if there's one thing that is consistently obnoxious, it's a computer trying to guess at what you want and doing things by itself without asking. The other frustrations are more understandable, since they're merely the result of demanding more than the hardware can cope with, or poorly written programs... But that predictive stuff? That's intentional. Because _somebody_ thought it would be a good idea... Compare and contrast; Automatic word underlining when the computer thinks you've spelled something incorrectly vs autocorrect which also thinks you've spelled something incorrectly, but unilaterally decides to 'fix' it for you without asking. The first is a useful aid, the second is an utter pain in the ass, yet they both accomplish approximately the same thing when they function as intended..
@blinded6502
4 жыл бұрын
@@KuraIthys This is because such systems are targetted at stupid humans, who can't pay attention to what they are doing.
@eternallylearning2811
4 жыл бұрын
Or not put AI into petty appliances in the first place let them have their own lives not ours
@blinded6502
4 жыл бұрын
@@eternallylearning2811 Then how will you assemble Smart oven (tm)?
@Vidar_Odinson
10 жыл бұрын
These are awesome, I hope you keep up the good work!
@trasegorsuch5140
11 ай бұрын
Advanced technology my tush.
@PaulfromChicago
5 жыл бұрын
So much like Lipton. Almost, but not entirely, unlike tea.
@Deuteromis
4 жыл бұрын
I bet this is Steve Job's personal hell.
@AgentXXSmith
7 жыл бұрын
Great job on this!
@stevenofford495
4 жыл бұрын
"Boiled leaves" who programed that !
@davidwuhrer6704
4 жыл бұрын
With milk that squirts out of a cow.
@Rawrshuga
6 жыл бұрын
Shared and enjoyed.
@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882
4 жыл бұрын
Before there was Homer Simpson there was Arthur Dent. *DOH!*
@drugsnugs
10 жыл бұрын
real frudy man. love it.
@F5ss
9 ай бұрын
This is gold
@LarkManEXE
7 жыл бұрын
Share and Enjoy!
@FlammieLL
9 күн бұрын
Isn't this the paradox of "Enjoying a cup of tea" ? If you get all these positive feelings from having a cup of tea, but the moment is interrupted while you're drinking your tea and get irate about it, then you do not infact enjoy the cup of tea?
@thatcookiecat
6 жыл бұрын
Take this cup back! (misses)
@MaisieSqueak
9 жыл бұрын
This is one of the best, happy tears lol ^^ Have you ever considered doing the "Teach" and "Life-form" sketch?
@tssteelx
3 жыл бұрын
It was coffee.
@spyrofan9681
Жыл бұрын
I worry that this particular vision of AI grows more and more prescient by the day.
@robertdagata6647
6 жыл бұрын
When I first read this part of the book I laughed for about 20 minutes straight! ... sadly, that was the last time I laughed so hard. :/
@imlate-official3714
7 жыл бұрын
lol, like that Adi!
@tomeunbound945
7 жыл бұрын
Cher and enjoy!
@TerryOnTuesday
3 жыл бұрын
Hi @Nick, I've been loving these animations for years. what percentage of the original HHGG story would you say you've animated so far?
@zeliardforty-two4692
Жыл бұрын
The idea that everything being designed like that seems like a good idea, but imagine everything talking! Not really with you but at you. All designed to make your life better but all you really want is a simple cup of tea! Darn engineers over-engineering things!
@taurnguard
Жыл бұрын
The Almost Tea company's ads on Facebook brought me here.
@paulelliott3220
8 жыл бұрын
42 comments Genius animation and going to devour these Eddie - brilliant
@blairshort1098
Ай бұрын
Quality control, not the Sirrius Cybernetics Corporations strongest department.
@KlunkerRider
10 жыл бұрын
1:09 Share and Enjoy, do we get to see the 2 mile high statue of Arthur throwing the cup at the Nutrimatic machine that sparked a planetary revolution and eventual evolution of a race of technology hating bird people ???
@eng3d
4 жыл бұрын
Broccoli in a nutshell
@chrisamies2141
Жыл бұрын
This needs to be narrated by James Hoffmann. Or Hames Joffmann.
@TheCyborgLord
4 ай бұрын
This is how it feels every time Microsoft makes a new version of Windows.
@MichaelSHartman
4 жыл бұрын
The actual smart home of the future. Humanity, always taking a good thing too far will inevitably create an impertinent teenage minded artificial intelligent autonomous car that argues who gets to drive, and when it needs to be home to which it replies whatever. The Jetsons, and Douglas Adams may be better forecasters than Arthur C. Clark.
@davidwuhrer6704
4 жыл бұрын
The greatest inventions of all time were not the ones that added something, but those that left things out.
@hereticpariah6_66
5 жыл бұрын
IT'S NASTEA!! (nestea)
@Bobsheaux
11 жыл бұрын
Someone help me out here. How is it that tea is such an unobtainable, alien substance whenever Arthur tries to get a cup, when finite improbability drives are FUELED by tea?
@bunkerdown8494
7 жыл бұрын
Because it is like going to starbucks and asking for a cup of oil
@jamesmcgee7723
3 жыл бұрын
It doesn't have to be a good hot cup of tea, any strong Brownian motion producer will do.
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