Along with their strange companions from Betelgeuse, who are currently singing a Betelgeuse death anthem on the very sensible ground that they are about to die.

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10 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 5 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:02:39.126 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

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- And so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was.

- And this computer, which was called the Earth, was so large that it was frequently mistaken for a planet, particularly by the strange, ape-like beings who roamed its surface, totally unaware that they were simply part of a gigantic computer program.

- And this is very odd, because without that fairly simple and obvious piece of knowledge, nothing that ever happened on Earth could possibly make the slightest bit of sense.

- However, at the critical moment of read-out, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass...

- And the only native Earth people to survive the demolition are now being shot at behind a computer bank on the lost planet of Magrathea...

- Along with their strange companions from Betelgeuse, who are currently singing a Betelgeuse death anthem on the very sensible ground that they are about to die.

- This is what the computer bank is about to do. (Explosion)

- And the time at which it is going to do it is 4.2 seconds from now.

- Good evening, madam, gentlemen. Do you have a reservation?

- Do you need a reservation for the afterlife?

- The afterlife?

- Is this the afterlife?

- Yeah. I mean, yeah. Well, I think so. There's no way we could've survived that blast in there.

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And lots of the people were mean and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Drink up. The world's about to end.

Ancient computers, ranged in the long caves, deep in the bowels of the planet, tick away the dark millennia, and the ages hang heavy on their dusty data banks.

What we demand is solid facts. -No, we don't. That is precisely what we don't demand. -We don't demand solid facts. What we demand is a total absence of solid facts.

By law, the quest for ultimate truth is the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. And if the machine actually goes and finds it, we're straight out of a job, aren't we?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sound Clip

The funniest lines and quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1981 TV Series, with sound clips.

Actors: Simon Jones (Arthur Dent), David Dixon (Ford Prefect), David Learner (Marvin the Paranoid Android), Peter Jones (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Book), Sandra Dickinson (Trillian Astra), Mark Wing-Davey (Zaphod Beeblebrox), David Tate (Eddie the Computer), Martin Benson (Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz), Richard Evelyn Vernon (Slartibartfast), Valentine Dyall (Deep Thought)

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