a two-part very special episode, "The Hitchhikers" 1999 – SpongeBob SquarePants – "Pizza Delivery" 2000 – "The Hitch-hiker", an episode of Tales of the Unexpected 2003 – Cold Case episode 1.10, "Hitchhiker", addresses similar murders of hitchhikers in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey 2004 – The L Word episode "Losing It" 2006 - Lost episode "Further Instructions" 2006 – The Masters of Horror episode "Pick Me Up" 2007 – Peking Express, a Dutch/Flemish reality game show that follows a series of couples as they hitchhike to or from Beijing (in seasons 1–3) and South America (in seasons 4 and 5) Fictional hitchhikers Augustin l'auto-stoppeur (by Belgian sculptor Gigi Warny) Hitchhiker – a hitchhiking lunatic killer played by actor Edwin Neal in the original film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Phineas, Ezra and Gus the Hitchhiking Ghosts – considered the mascots of the Haunted Mansion attraction, who also appear in other media, such as Disney's House of Mouse, The Haunted Mansion movie, and official merchandise Ford Prefect – a space-hitchhiking travel writer in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Hitcher – a green cockney man who was featured in The Mighty Boosh Jack Reacher - a character of the Lee Child novels See also Murders of Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb and Barbara Mayo – two unsolved murders of hitchhikers in England in 1970 Carpool Flexible carpooling – hitchhiking formalized via designated meeting points Freighthopping Hitchwiki Ridesharing company Slugging – hitchhiking motivated by HOV lanes in several urban areas References Bibliography Brunvand, Harold (1981). The Vanishing Hitchhiker. American Urban Legends and Their Meaning. New York NY: Norton & Company. Griffin, John H. (1961). Black Like Me. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Hawks, Tony (1996). Round Ireland with a Fridge. London: Ebury. Laviolette, Patrick (2016). Why did the anthropologist cross the road? Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. 81(3): 379–401. Nwanna, Gladson I. (2004). Americans Traveling Abroad: What You Should Know Before You Go, Frontier Publishers, . Packer, Jeremy (2008). Hitching the highway to hell: Media hysterics and the politics of youth mobility. Mobility Without Mayhem: Safety, Cars, and Citizenship. Chapel Hill: Duke Univ. Press (77–110). Reid, Jack. (2020) Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation. Chapel Hill: Univ, of North Carolina Press. Smith, David H. & Frauke Zeller (2017). The death and lives of hitchBOT: the design and implementation of a hitchhiking robot. Leonardo. 50(1): 77–8. Sykes, Simon & Tom Sykes