Visible crew/equipment: When Ford runs past the caravan to chase the Vogons with a towel, you can see the cameraman, and about 4 other crew members reflecting in the caravan's surface.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
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Zaphod signed the order for the Earth to be destroyed. The mice try to capture Arthur to extract his brain, but he escapes and squashes them. The Vogons try to capture the crew, but Marvin defeats them by shooting them with a gun which forces them to see his point of view; thus they all instantly become incredibly depressed and collapse. Slartibartfast rebuilds the Earth Mark 2, but Arthur asks if he can go on exploring the universe with the crew instead of being part of it again, and they fly off together.
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Question: Anyone who's read 'Life, The Universe & Everything' will now why the bowl of petunias thought 'Oh no, not again' just before it plummeted towards Magrathea, but had Douglas Adams already conceived that backstory and just couldn't fit it in to the narrative at the time or was it something he only came up with when writing part 3?
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Chosen answer: Because it was a radio show originally, Douglas Adams would write broadcasts from show to show. He did not know where something would lead, which let the plot become random and funny. So ultimately it was originally created to be funny, then he found a way to link it back in later.