h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*glares at ferret for not attacking EC*

*Blinks*

I'm not the violent type...

He thwarts me, not kills me. If he killed me there would be no sequels.

Breakin' the fourth wall, he's breaking the fourth wall

My goal in life is to break the fourth AND fifth wall.

What walls?

andit's the one on the left ya gotta worry about...

There's a fifth?

Of course. And as soon as me and Dan figure out what it is, I can break it.

What are the walls.
Explain.

andit's the one on the left ya gotta worry about...

Dan?

yes Dan...do you Knot Know of this......Dakn...?

I don't think so, oh Leader of the Way of the Jacket.

Dan? Walls?

I think i should pay more attention...

Dan = friend o mine. Hootoo name Danigaaz.

The fourth wall is the illusion of reality in a book, comic, movie, play, comic, tv show, or comic. Its broken when the charecters do something that shows they are aware they are in a . Just like in the Lion King when the warthog was about to say "fart" and the ... small animal thing said "not in front of the kids" and then looked at the screen.

Ahhh... It all becomes clear. Where does the fifth wal come into it?

Thats the mystery. And I will find an answer.

Quickly, I'm desperate to know

These things take time. Me and Dan have mused deeply on the subject but we are not nearly as close to it as physicists are close to discovering the fifth dimension.

oh great. I get no respect.
ferret had to ask about the wall before you answered.
I asked first and you ignored me.

andit's the one on the left ya gotta worry about...

'tis quite simple really...the fourth wall refers to the invisible wall between actor and audiance...so if the stage were a pentagon then there would be five walls...thusly you'd break down both the fourth and fifth walls on a pentagonal stage in the same manner as one would break the fourth wall on a rectagonal stage...a pick-axe...