not a meant as a replica. Ken looked at it as if these were the same bus. Like the Starship Enterprise, it didn't matter how many ships were wrecked - only that the crew kept on traveling through space. The " Great Smithsonian Prank " was a prank on the media. The local TV station came to the farm where Kesey and friends were painting the new bus and later aired "Ken Kesey has restored the original Further and is taking it to the Smithsonian." The next morning, a variety of national media were asking to "come along on the trip to the Smithsonian." The media rode along on Further for about a week thinking it was the original bus and that it was going to be donated to the museum. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 1993, Kesey drove the second bus to California to speak at a private party hosted by Apple Computer . The producers who had invited him apparently had no knowledge of his history or politics, and once he started making drug references they removed him from the stage. They then wouldn't let him get the bus out of the parking lot, forcing him to hang around the event until it ended. [ 9 ] The activities of the Merry Pranksters and the success of Wolfe's book led to a number of psychedelic busses appearing in popular media over the next few years, including in the Beatles ' Magical Mystery Tour and the Partridge