National Directors as Vogons...

The Book: Vogons. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious, and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the ravenous Bug-Blatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, lost, found again, subjected to public inquiry, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighter. On no account should you allow a Vogon to read poetry to you.

 The proof of the non-existence of God, caused by the Babel fish: http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_fish

(wikipedia.org article)

    * The Hitchikers' Guide to the Galaxy, pg 52