Editing Zaphod Beeblebrox (section)

== Cultural references ==
There are many references to the character in video games and other media, some of the more notable examples are: <!--PLEASE DO NOT ADD EVERY SINGLE REFERENCE EVER ANYWHERE TO THIS CHARACTER. PLEASE PROVIDE A RELIABLE SOURCE FOR ANY NEW ADDITIONS. IF IN DOUBT, PLEASE DISCUSS ON THE TALK PAGE. thanks -->

The head male meerkat on the [[Animal Planet]] television series ''[[Meerkat Manor]]'' was named after him.<ref>[http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/meerkat/meet/meet.html Animal Planet] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060721171442/http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/meerkat/meet/meet.html |date=July 21, 2006 }} "Meet the Whiskers" page.</ref>

In the [[Macintosh computers|Mac]] game ''[[Escape Velocity (video game)|Escape Velocity]]'', there is a planet called Beeblebrox in the Zaphod system. Upon 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."

A nightclub named [[Zaphod Beeblebrox (nightclub)|Zaphod Beeblebrox]] existed in [[Ottawa, Ontario]], Canada, billed as "the nightclub at the edge of the universe." Opened in the early 1990s, it hosted an assortment of artists including [[Jewel (singer)|Jewel]], [[The Sheepdogs]] and [[Alanis Morissette]], who previewed ''[[Jagged Little Pill]]'' with a concert there. [[The Rolling Stones]] shot part of their video for the song "Streets of Love" in the club in 2005. The venue closed on 14 May 2017.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/zaphod-beeblebrox-closing-ottawa-bar-1.4097494| title = Zaphod Beeblebrox, landmark Ottawa music venue, closing May 14 {{!}} CBC News}}</ref>

[[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 [[predator]]s.<!-- {{doi|10.2307/3981700}} -->

Mathematician Andrew Granville published a paper titled [http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~andrew/PDF/beeb.pdf "Zaphod Beeblebrox's Brain and the Fifty-ninth Row of Pascal's Triangle]" in The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol.  99, (1992), pp.&nbsp;318–331.

In 2016, during [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series) (season 4)|season 4]] of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', the group travels to a Cantina in outer space belonging to someone named Zaphod.<ref>{{cite episode |series=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |title=Journey to the Center of Mikey's Mind |number=84 |date=17 January 2016 |author=Michelangelo |author-link=Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) |minutes=0 |quote=Dudes, Zaphod's Cantina is bumping! I bet their food is out of this world.}}</ref>

[[Sun Microsystems]] manuals published in the 1980s named the computers in their network diagrams Zaphod, Beeble and Brox.