The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

After being found un-welcome on a Vogon spaceship, Ford tries to conceive a plan of escape. Unfortunately, all of them rather involved being on the other side of the airlock door and the pair are ejected into space. They are rescued exactly 29 seconds later against highly improbable odds only to find that Ford is now a perfectly safe penguin and Arthur is rapidly running out of limbs. Following this, an encounter with a manically depressed robot leads to a series of highly improbable meetings...

After failing to please Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz on the matter of his poetry, Arthur and Ford are thrown out of the ship. However, they escape death when they are picked up a space ship fitted with the new Infinite Improbability Drive.

To add to the increasing levels of improbability, the ship in question, the Heart of Gold was stolen by Ford's semi-cousin and the Galactic President, Zaphod Beeblebrox. Also on board is Trillian (Tricia McMillan), a woman that Arthur once met at a party in Islington, but who ended up leaving the party with Zaphod, thus escaping Earth before it got demolished.