And had got as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off.

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8 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 4 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:05:31.766 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

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- Yes! Well, you see, every time they give me an order, I want to jump on a table and scream.

- Yes. Well, I could see that would be a problem.

- There are, of course, many problems connected with life, of which some of the most pressing are, why are people born? Why do they die? And, why do they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches? (BEEPING)

- Many millions of years ago, a race of hyper intelligent pan-dimensional beings, became so fed up with the constant bickering about the meaning of life that they decided to sit down and solve it once and for all.

- And to this end, they built themselves a stupendous supercomputer called Deep Thought, that was so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected up, it had started from first principles with: I think therefore I am.

- And had got as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off.

- Do not be alarmed.

- Only after Deep Thought has been programmed with all the knowledge in the Universe, do two men, selected of all their race, approach it.

- What is this great task for which I, Deep Thought, the second greatest computer in the Universe of Time and Space have been called into existence?

- Ahem. Your task, O Computer...

- No, wait a minute. Did he say, second greatest?

- O Deep Thought, are you not as we designed you to be, the greatest, the most powerful computer of all time?

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Top rated lines from this movie

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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