It's worth pointing out the origin story of HHGG, which is profoundly dark and nihilistic - Adams even said that if he'd been able to make the series when he first got the idea rather than years later it would've been even darker
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That he really was a broke recent college grad backpacking through Austria with a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe And after a really frustrating shitty day of being unable to get a room and yelled at everywhere he went he passed out drunk in a field looking at the stars
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"If they made a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy I'd be off like a shot"
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The kind of person he was at the time, the kind of person who stereotypically goes backpacking through Europe Someone intentionally homeless, rootless, faceless For whom being the sole survivor of a dead planet is a wish fulfillment fantasy
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Because you'd rather put yourself through the misery of having nothing and being nobody and not even speaking the language or knowing where the hell you are than go back home You've decided whatever you're running from is worse than any random possible destination
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That feeling of alienation is all over HHGG, although it becomes most explicitly and harshly stated in the very depressing final book And it's obviously also what Rick and Morty is about
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R&M escalates it, it's even worse because Rick HAS come back home to be part of a family, it just doesn't stick
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It combines with then-recent trends in British comedy of people showing hilariously understated reactions to even the most horrifying or world-shattering events (something Monty Python also draws a lot of its humour from). It might have been really funny to a Brit in 1976, but...
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Pretty much. "Making a fuss" is among the worst social faux-pas you can commit in England. (I'm saying "England" because I think even the Scottish and Welsh see this at least a bit differently, never mind the Irish.)
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Right, the joke in HHGG is Arthur thinks of himself as a decent, tolerant guy in his very English way and the plot just repeatedly shoves him into situations that completely break him
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