Zaphod Beeblebrox - Cultural References

Cultural References

The head male meerkat on the Animal Planet television series Meerkat Manor was named after him.

In the punk band NOFX's song "food, sex and ewe" from their 1990 album Ribbed, lead singer Fat Mike mentions reading about Zaphod Beeblebrox to pass the day between gigs while they are touring.

In the Mac game Escape Velocity, there is a planet called Beeblebrox in the Zaphod system. On landing the planet has the description "Beeblebrox is a wild world, a world of wild parties and wild people. If you have two heads, three arms, and an ego problem, don’t travel to Beeblebrox; you will be laughed at and considered boring and unoriginal."

In the PC game The 7th Guest, the name "Zaphod Beeblebrox" is a cheat code which gives the player direct access to all the rooms and puzzles in the game.

A kind of dual head X setup, multiseat configuration, is referred to as Zaphod mode.

The logic behind one of Zaphod Beeblebrox's drinking accomplishments, in which he "sent in" multiple drinks to check on, give support to, or report back on previous drinks he had just drunk, has become memorialised as Beeblebrox's Gambit, as demonstrated in this instalment of the webcomic Questionable Content, for example.

A nightclub named Zaphod Beeblebrox exists in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, billed as "the nightclub at the edge of the universe."

A quest in World of Warcraft titled "Four Heads are Better than None", a player must collect four heads – "Za" "Phod" "Beeble" "Brox".

Species named after Zaphod are the viviparous brotula Bidenichthys beeblebroxi (described in 1995) and the fungus moth Erechthias beeblebroxi (named in 1993). They both have a remarkable color pattern resembling a second head, which presumably helps to confuse would-be predators.