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Your Daily Simpson

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Today's Simpson is sleep dancing. Do not wake today's Simpson.
 
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Arthur Dent
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115 Points, 5 Lists, #3 Kirin ​
Source: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Traveler-Type: Explorer (reluctant), Whisked Away
Method of Transport: I really don’t remember. I think The Heart of Gold maybe time travels sometimes?

Arthur Dent was a normal, very milquetoast human on the way he discovered to his horror that his house was about to be bulldozed. Then he discovered his planet was to be bulldozed. And at the last minute of his planet’s destruction, he is saved by his best friend Ford Prefect, who reveals he is actually an alien writer for the travel book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. From then on, Arthur finds himself in strange cosmic adventures armed only with his towel (considered one of the most useful items in the universe. He ends up finds himself falling in with Trillian (the other last human) and her boyfriend Zaphod Beeblebrox, the most famous person in the universe.


Though witty, Arthur Dent is the hapless grounding force within the Hitchhiker’s Guide series. He’s our lead for the most part but also the point of view character to introduce us into the strange world of the series. His first scene really sets up who things are going to happen in the rest of the series; things happen to him. Though he certainly wants things (mostly a cup of tea), he rarely has time to be the hero seeking a goal specifically and must deal with whatever new situation arises, like a character who hates him so much he’s developed a giant effigy that makes him look as insultingly ugly as possible.

Time travel happens a lot in the series, including several instances of returning to Earth before it’s destruction. The series actually ends on a pretty bleak note where the Earth is destroyed again with Arthur on it, a fact that even writer Douglas Adams wasn’t happy about in retrospect, attributing it to writing it during a very hard time in his life. The other notable period he goes to is the end of the universe, Milliways, where a restaurant attached from reality allows you to see the end of the world during a lovely meal. The dinner and a show is terribly convoluted though; technically the restaurant can only exist for around that period (no one wasn’t to see a prerecording of the end of all things, so a lot of time bending madness is introduced for the sake of the business.


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Today's Simpson wants you to speak up, he's wearing a towel.
 
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I don't recall the exact context of that Simpson appearing, but I grew up "poor enough" that the spare TV in the spare watching area was black and white until, like... Apparently 1991.

I remember we finally switched TVs when Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin for Sega Genesis was fairly new (a rental), so basing my math on its release date.
 
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