Author's Note: My first fanfiction, though I've read a lot of it. Please read and review, because you, and only you, can make my day brighter.
Ford Prefect gobbled popcorn. When other movie theater patrons shushed him, he chewed louder. They shushed him louder, and so on and so forth, culminating in an escalation of hostilities not seen since the Cold War. Fearing a third World War, or at least a third Movie Theater War, Arthur took the popcorn.
Deprived of his entertainment, Ford said, "We traveled across the entire spacetime continuum; lost our spaceship, minds, and towels; braved the Ravenous Bugbear Beast of Traal, Vogons wielding orders in triplicate, and the combined forces of Marvin and Eddie-for this?"
"It looked better in the previews."