Original artwork, not a still
Life, the Universe and Everything · 1982
"I'd love to stay and help you save the Galaxy," insisted Zaphod, rising himself up on to his shoulders, "but I have the mother and father of a pair of headaches, and I feel a lot of little headaches coming on."
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Zaphod declines helping to save the galaxy by giving headaches a whole family of their own. The extravagant headache description supplies a comic excuse without authenticating an illness or a later rescue.
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