Airport Codes
Headed to the Big Apple? May I suggest LGA, also known as this airport?
LaGuardia Airport
Adams and Fry both traveled to Indonesia to see this, the world’s largest lizard.
Komodo Dragon
The Duck
University of Oregon
Springfield, Springfield County
The Simpsons
One of the most popular arcade games of all time, it features its eponymous hero collecting dots in a maze while avoiding a quartet of colorful ghosts.
Pac-Man
This is the largest (and busiest) airport servicing London, LHR for short.
London Heathrow Airport
After seeing the Amazonian species of this aquatic mammal, Adams likens it to a floating eggplant.
Manatee
Uga
University of Georgia
Hawkins, Indiana
Stranger Things
Considered the first fixed-shooter video game, it revolves around the player defeating waves of descending aliens with a horizontally moving laser.
Space Invaders
BOS is the code for Logan International Airport, servicing this city.
Boston
In 1988, Douglas Adams traveled to China to see a freshwater dolphin native to this river, but Steven Fry was unable to replicate this in 2009 because the species had since become functionally extinct.
Yangtze River
Bevo
University of Texas at Austin
Pawnee, Indiana
Parks and Recreation
This platforming game developed by Nintendo features Jumpman, a character that would eventually evolve into Mario.
Donkey Kong
HND, or the Haneda Airport, is the primary airport for this popular Asian tourist city.
Tokyo
Douglas Adams began his journey by traveling to Madagascar to track down this endangered, nocturnal lemur species, known for using its incredibly long fingers to dig bugs out of trees.
Aye-Aye
Sparty
Michigan State
Stars Hollow, Connecticut
Gilmore Girls
Namco heavily advertised this popular arcade game as a “strategic digging game.”
Dig Dug
DXB is the code for the busiest, non-American airport in the world, located in this Middle Eastern city.
Dubai
Steven Fry travels to New Zealand and meets Sirocco, a member of this critically endangered flightless parrot species who tries to mate with his cameraman's head.
Kakapo
Sebastian the Ibis
University of Miami
Quahog, Rhode Island
Family Guy
In this game, the player must change every cube in a pyramid to a specific color by directing the eponymous character to jump on them.
Q*Bert