transcript:
cat mum: what’s 6 times 7?
cat boy (making faces): 6 7!!!
cat mum: hilarious, as always. but actually …?
cat boy: 42
cat mum: 6 x 7 - 6 7 - is 42?!
cat boy: yeah … so?
cat mum (making faces): that means 6 7 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything!
cat boy: daddy! mommy’s being weird again!
cat dad: aww, you see son, - your mommy is just a huge dork!
cat mum: history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes!
I feel like watching film theory with Neville could have been the chosen one again. Wasn’t it revealed in one of the later books that that was the question all along?
No, IIRC Arthur was trying to rearrange letters to figure out the question, but the closest he got was something like “What is six times nine?” which is definitely not 42.